Editorials

A well-known judge has recently said, "I do not believe in putting people to death for any crime.
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.
The building committee of the Y.
It is surely most fitting that between the ebbing and the flowing tides of each year, humanity should pause and think upon that great event which wrought such changes in the history of the race,—the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
Physicians who have been inveighing against spiritual healing because of its faith element, and who have declared that this renders its claim to be scientific "wholly ridiculous," have been vigorously called to order by the editor of a leading news journal who ventures to remind them that this faith element enters very largely into all "orthodox doctoring.

Relief for the Macedonians

Legitimate appeals in behalf of destitute and suffering humanity have always proved ready passports to the hearts and purses of Christian Scientists, therefore it is to be expected that a generous and loving response will be made to the call for contributions in aid of the unfortunate people of Macedonia, issued by a committee of which Mayor Low of New York is the head.
Some years ago a very frank admission was made by a prominent member of the medical profession, to the effect that too much time was devoted to the study of pathology and morbid conditions, and too little to the investigation of the "life-forces.
In the introduction to his work on "The Early Days of Christianity," Canon Farrar presents a picture of the seething tumult of the Roman world in the first century, which would furnish a fitting counterpart to Dante's Inferno.