Three hundred Harvard students are said to have recently listened for an hour with eager attention, as a professor read, without comment, portions of the English Bible.
We
desire on behalf of the cause and our Leader to return renewed thanks to the Branch churches for the resolutions of love and appreciation which have been received; and they are many.
We
have referred in recent issues to the methods of the Publishing Society in the sale and distribution of Christian Science literature, and shown the purpose and motive controlling the same.
Under
the above heading the Washingtion News Letter republishes our correction of the falsehood published in the New York World, and follows it with the following editorial note:—
That
many of the objections made against the price of Christian Science literature are honestly made by the immediate objector, we do not doubt; but, on the other hand, we are aware that these objections have their origin among those who are bitterly opposed to Christian Science, and who, by every means in their power, both audibly and mentally, keep up the argument of exorbitant prices.
Without
entering at all upon a consideration of the relative right involved in the war between Great Britain and the Boers, we cannot but express our deep regrets that so soon after the Peace Conference at The Hague, in which England bore so conspicuous a part, this unfortunate and bloody conflict should have ensued.