WE
are pleased to report in this issue of the Sentinel the defeat of another attempt at class legislation, having for its purpose he prohibition of the practice of Christian Science.
We
are assured that the change of date of the communion service and annual meeting will not interfere with arrangements now being made with the railroads for reduced rates, and that the same liberal terms will be granted for the new date, June 28 to July 1, as were promised for June 14-17.
Two very prominent ministers in this country, representatives of the same church, but of the most conflicting philosophies, have recently taken occasion to make public reference to Christian Science in language that seems very surprising.
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.