Editorials

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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.

"Put Up Thy Sword"

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 Business Man's Needs

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:—
1492—and the old world was complacently resting in the established certainty of some things: The earth was flat.
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?

A Fallow Field

Rich , well-watered fields stretched away in all directions, fair and fruitful.
At a time when his disciples were bewildered with doubts and fears Jesus said to them, "Let not your hearts be troubled:.
In these days of social unrest, of sharp and almost merciless competition for personal supremacy in all lines of human endeavor,—commercial, political, and religious,—the world can listen to no better counsel than that of Paul to the Ephesians: "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

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A representative of a Christian communion may not fairly reflect its thought, but if his utterances are heard without protest there is a strong probability that kindred opinions are entertained by some of his confreres.