Much
of the work on the Sentinel and the other official publications of our denomination has been done with a view of making them available and effective agencies in overcoming the many misunderstandings and prejudices engendered by ignorant and malicious criticism of Christian Science and of our Leader, and we are greatly encouraged to believe that much has been accomplished in this direction.
Arrangements
have been, or are being made with all the principal railroads in the United States and Canada for reduced rates to Boston for the Communion Service and Annual Meeting, June I4–I7, I903.
The
growing disposition among Christian believers, to forget the petty particulars that have separated them, and join hands in a united effort for a common cause, is but one of many encouraging things which may be traced to the passing of the theory of verbal inspiration, for it is apparent that as attention is more and more centered upon the spiritual significance of the Scriptures, the dogmas and beliefs which have found their beginnings in an over-emphasis of literal statement, and which have led to so much of denominational cleavage and dissension, must be relegated to the realm of the unimportant.
That
the most popular misconceptions of Christian Science, its teachings and practice, have given place to more general understanding and greater sympathy, must be apparent to even casual readers of the daily press, and it is no less true that, as a whole, public misrepresentation of our Cause and its Leader has steadily decreased within the past few years.
The Lord knoweth whether I shall ever see your faces more; but whether the Lord hath appointed that or not, I charge you before God and His holy angels to follow me no further than I have followed Christ.
The
many commendatory and appreciative letters received since the first number of Der Christian Science Herold was issued prove that this addition to our literature was well timed to meet the needs of our Cause, and that our estimate of the desire for an official publication in the German language was correct.
