Editorials

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.
In a late address before the Homœopathic Medical Society of Chicago, Dr.
Faithfulness to one's highest light is a necessary condition of growth.
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.

Significant Questions

Who shall be greatest?
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.
The first lecture delivered in Mexico, on Christian Science, a report of which appeared in the Sentinel of April 11, dated an important era, we are sure, in the spiritual life of that country.
All are familiar with Holman Hunt's great picture lesson, "The Light of the World.
The very large attendance at the semi-annual lecture of the Mother Church given in Symphony Hall, Boston, when several hundred persons, probably a thousand, were turned away for lack of room, indicates that suffering and disheartened humanity is still seeking a practical means of escape from pain, sin, sickness, and sorrow, and that the means heretofore employed for relief from these relentless task-masters, have been largely unavailing.
LEGISLATORS with misguided zeal have introduced in various state legislatures bills prohibiting the practice of healing by Christian Science.