Editorials

A WRITER has recently well said that the weight of one's character must be about a hundred times that of his word, in order to make his appeal effective.
As Christian Scientists we hold a peculiarly sacred relation to our fellows, and it has been truly said that ours is an holy calling.
The repository for the worldly sense of happiness is a to-morrow which can never become to-day, and being thus infinitely removed its possessions are wholly unattainable though perennially sought.
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
We are sometimes asked what is the duty of Christian Scientists regarding politics, and how much part should they take as individuals in national, state, and municipal elections.
In commenting upon the ethical value of Biblical stories like that of Abraham's offering of Isaac, the editor of The Outlook has recently referred to the potency of the.

In speaking of the efforts being made to settle our...

In speaking of the efforts being made to settle our economic problems, one of our contemporaries has recently and well said that : —

A Word to the Children

When Jesus gathered the little ones into his loving embrace and said to the grown folk round about him: "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God;" and added: "Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein;" did he mean you?

Unto Whomsoever Much is Given

It is said of a late Englishman, that while a man of unusual breadth of learning, even among England's legions of the erudite, he was strikingly unlike most scholarly men in what may be termed the wasteful hoarding of his knowledge, a lifelong habit of reserve in expression having made him a somewhat remarkable example of the "reticence of learning.
The announcement that the anthracite coal strike has practically been settled is cause for general thanksgiving, and the fact that it will be settled without final resort to brute force or starvation is something upon which the operators and miners on one hand, and the general public on the other are to be congratulated.
A special Lesson Sermon for the Thanksgiving Day service to be held in the Mother Church and the Branch Churches is being prepared, and will be published in due time.

Timely Caution

From time to time, there have been exploited by various papers and magazines, voting contests for the most popular, the wittiest, and so on; the person receiving the greatest number of votes to be awarded a prize.