Editorials

Whether prompted by the love of literature, the spirit of criticism, or the impulse of that simple faith which
IN last week's issue of the Sentinel we published the testimony of Mr.
THE grateful recognition of the character and labors of John Wesley, expressed upon the occasion of the late bicentennial anniversary, is worthy of the great body of earnest Christian believers constituting the church of his founding.
Human belief would not only encumber us with the errors and failures of the past, but it would dim the future with dread and doubt.
WE are devoting considerable space in this issue of the Sentinel to the defeat in the North Carolina Legislature of a bill, ostensibly for the regulation of the practice of medicine, but in fact for the prevention of the practice of Christian Science.
A late editorial in the Portland Oregonian which, while relatively courteous and kind, discloses the greatest misapprehension of the teachings of Christian Science, ends with the following lines which speak well for the impression that Christian Scientists are making upon the general public.
Only the ingrate would fail to acknowledge the blessings that are ours from the toil and talent, the heroism and self-sacrifice, of past generations.
THE oneness of Truth and the harmony existing between all its varied expressions is constantly suggested in the unconscious revelations of our inner life.
ONE of the most striking proofs of the progressive spirit of the twentieth century is the recent decree of Czar Nicholas of Russia.

The German Monthly

Publication of Der Christian Science Herold will commence on April first, and subscriptions for Volume I.
That was a fine, brave word from a professor in a Baptist theological school when he said recently,—
In an age when things great and small, high and low, are being subjected to microscopic analysis, it is very natural that the question, What is the essential of religion?