We
take great pleasure in publishing the following official communication from the Unitarian Church, which has so kindly opened its doors to our Concord brethren during the construction of the edifice presented to them by our Leader.
That
wonderful Scripture, the 91st Psalm, is held in regard by Christian Scientists, not only on account of their Leader's special references to it, but also because of the help and comfort they receive from its inspired declarations.
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.
