Editorials

Our very full account of the recent legislative battle and well-won victory in Texas will be of interest to our readers, as showing that in the matter of ministering to the sick another state has declared in favor of individual liberty and against class legislation.

Communion in the Mother Church

We have received a number of inquires regarding the date of the Communion in the Mother Church, and in order to remove all possible misunderstanding, we quote the following from the twenty-eighth edition of the Manual of the Mother Church:—
All subscribes to the Sentinel have had opportunity ere this to see a copy of our German periodical, Der Christian Science Herold, and we are sure that those especially who have been able to read it, will unite in witnessing to the fair promise of this initial number and to the great and good work it is destined to accomplish in advancing the knowledge of Christian Science among the German people of this and other countries.
"Let's talk it over.
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.