Editorials

A Complete Concordance to Science and Health

We are pleased to announce that some time ago Mrs.
Before this issue of the Sentinel will have reached all our readers, thousands of Christian Scientists will be assembled in Boston for the Communion in the Mother Church and for the Annual Meeting.
The saying of the old German poet that "The mills of God grind slowly," is often repeated, and this thought has no doubt helped some of us, now and then, to practise a kind of enforced patience which accepts a situation we have seemed too stupid or too ignorant to handle; nevertheless, it is competent to convey, and is constantly encouraging a subtle and pronounced error.
If , when traveling in the darkness, a man should lose his sense of direction, or, as we say, be "turned round," and as the night wanes, should keep his back toward the dawning light, his eye steadily fixed on the western horizon, because, forsooth, he wishes and expects the sun to rise in that direction, he would be a fair representative of that state of human consciousness which often appeals to Christian Science and desires and expects the healing to follow in the order of its prescription.

Mrs. Eddy Explains

"My recent reply to the reprint of a scandal in the Literary Digest was not a question of 'Who shall be greatest?
A pleasant incident in connection with the new church building in Concord was the receipt by Mrs.
Who has been the guest of the day?
The law that like begets like, on which Christian Science bases its declaration that man, the offspring of Spirit, is wholly spiritual, is attended by another law of kindred deep import; namely, that only like can apprehend like.
In commenting upon the recent refusal in Pennsylvania to grant a charter for a Christian Science Church, The Universalist Leader has the following to say, "As an organized form of religion, with particular beliefs and its multitude of believers all over the country, it stands in the same relation to the general public as do other churches, and is equally with them entitled to protection and all the privileges granted to other bodies of believers.
John Ruskin paints "The Way of Life" in these exquisite words: "I pray you with all earnestness to prove, and know within your hearts, that all things lovely and righteous are possible for those who believe in their possibility, and who determine that for their part they will make every day's work contribute to them.
PREPARATION means opportunity.
OUR readers cannot fail to find increasing interest as they become familiar with the life and educational work of Booker T.