Editorials

Mrs. Eddy Expresses Sympathy

In response to the following letter from the editor of the Concord Evening Monitor, Mrs.
The artist is always unobtrusive.
If it were always possible for the children to have right standards given them, the results actually attained in after years would be so very different from ordinary experience as to contradict the popular expectation awakened; but it is sadly true that in youth, even in childhood, the acquirement of wealth and position is continually held before thought as the goal of endeavor.
A Distinct impression conveyed by those who attended our recent Communion and Annual Meeting was that they were actuated by a deeply religious sentiment which was manifest on all occasions, yet the evident happiness of each individual comprising this great throng was so marked as to cause comment in the newspapers.
A REBUKE for our narrowness of concept, our paucity of faith, and our meagerness of expectation of good, is often conveyed to us in the richness of Love's undeserved bestowals.
The Communion, the Annual Meeting, and the great gathering at the home of our Leader are over, and as an experience, has passed into the religious history of the world.
It is quite probable that the event of Communion week which appealed most strongly to those who are not Christian Scientists was the Wednesday evening meeting.
The following have been elected Editors of The Christian Science Journal, Christian Science Sentinel, and Der Christian Science Herold:—
When Christian Science breaks the fetters that bound us to a thousand erroneous theories and practices, and we begin to see that many of our pet schemes and actuating motives are the expressions of human will and misdirected effort, we are disposed to discard them all and at once.
To many people "my country" means little more than a tremendously big "me," with the accredited disposition and ability to say, "Stand off" to the other fellow; and they are likely to hurrah the loudest when they are reminded of the time that this national giant asserted himself vigorously, and made his point.
We feel sure that our readers will be satisfied to wait until another issue for any extended editorial comment upon the events of the past few days,—the Communion, with its three immense congregations of quiet, earnest, reverential people; the letter from our Leader; the joyful acceptance of her invitation to visit her at Pleasant View; the hastily planned but successful trip to Concord; Mrs.

The Letter of the Pastor Emeritus

The following letter read at the Communion services, was worthily supplemented by the brief address which Mrs.