Editorials

The following sections of the Church By-laws have been amended to read as follows:—
Jacob's dream gave the world an abiding and suggestive symbol of the means by which it may attain to spiritual heights.
A clear conviction of truth is sure to beget entire independence of human opinion, however time-honored, and it does not need the support either of tradition or present authorities.
Some one wisely said, "Let yourself, and not your words, preach for you," and this is good counsel for Christian Scientists as well as for others.

Question Answered

I reply to the following question from unknown questioners: "Are the students whom we have taught obliged to take both Primary and Normal class instruction at the Board of Education in order to become teachers of Primary classes?

The Concordance

The Concordance comes to me, as a mine of unfathomed treasures.

Giving and Gain

Much is said nowadays by religious writers respecting an alleged decline of spiritual earnestness and activity, and not a few facts, such as the passing of revival movements, the indifference to Sabbath observance, the falling off in church attendance, the free and frequent criticism of creeds and dogmas, etc.
None will deny that all men should pay their debts, but someone may deny the application of this moral requirement on the ground that he does not owe any one.
We frequently hear the statement, "I do not see why Christian Scientists talk so much about the healing of disease, and lay such great stress upon it.
Without meaning the slightest disrespect to any of the other bodies of Christian worshipers by the assertion, we confess we do not think that there is a denomination that can truthfully boast of having a more intelligent, industrious, honest, moral, God-fearing membership than the Christian Scientists.
Labor Day has come and gone, and whose heart has not been touched by its appeal?
It is rather astonishing, as one comes to think of it, that we should find those who, for years, perchance, have been praying and laboring for the overcoming of evil, but who nevertheless cling persistently to the assertion of its necessity in the formation of character and the education of the race.