Often
when forced to admit unsatisfactory results, imperfect work, we have said, "Well, I did the best I could," and so indifferently dismissed the matter.
Under
the guise of bills "to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery" efforts efforts have been made in different states, from year to year, to secure legislation opposed to Christian Scientists, but it is worthy of note that these bills have not been introduced in response to demands from the general public, and that they have not received the active support of leading and representative physicians, although as a rule their passage has been urged by the medical profession.
OF
the many encouraging signs above our political horizon, none is more promising than the part the editorial laity are taking in proclaiming the Gospel in its application to communal affairs.
THE
painter who, though gifted with the skill of a Titian in the handling of brilliant colors, yet slights his sober grays and browns, sacrifices complete effects, fails of results.
WHEN
the beginnings of Christian Science shall have found their true perspective, and the unprejudiced historian of the future addresses himself to the critical and comparative study of this epoch-making movement, he will not fail to note that inoffensiveness was one of its distinctive features.
THE
following extract from a recent editorial in a daily paper, commenting upon the break-down from overwork of a prominent business man, is quite interesting:—
SOME
of us will recall the keen and sympathetic interest with which we looked at the painting called "Breaking Home Ties," by Thomas Hovenden, which was exhibited at the World's Fair.
Some
time ago, so the story runs, a gentleman who was greatly astonished at the number of Christian Scientists whom he saw upon an occasion, asked, "Where have they come from?