According
to the Chicago Record-Herald it is estimated that the Christian Scientists in that city have increased fully twenty per cent in numbers during 1903, and we believe that this would be a conservative estimate of the increase in the country at large, certainly there has not been a period of greater activity in the progress of the Cause, nor a time when the public has manifested greater interest.
In
accounting for the fact that not a few Christian Scientists were once identified with other churches, the editor of a leading denominational weekly has recently said, —
The world of scientific research has frequently been called upon to readjust its theories about matter and a material universe, but scarcely ever to such an extent as must follow the acceptance of Professor Ramsey's discovery that the elements can be changed one into another.
Chief
among the religious problems which have given rise to almost endless questionings is one the thought of which has made many a heedless sinner pause, and, in some instances, threatened to turn remorse for sin into despair.
We
have before us a clipping from a newspaper published in one of the cities of the Middle West which reports the action taken at a recent regular monthly meeting of the local Ministerial Association.
The
hope of humanity resides in the fact that Truth brings conviction and content of mind through the highest sense which honest inquiry may have at command, though that sense may as yet be very imperfect.
In
the book of Habakkuk, that old Hebrew classic which challenges the admiration of modern poets with its sublime imagery, we find the petition, "O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years.
A Few days ago we received a letter from a friend in another city saying that he had just been informed—and his informant claimed to have good authority for the statement—that the entire amount required to complete the Mother Church Building Fund had been paid in, consequently further payments or subscriptions were not desired.
