Editorials

"Peace, be still!"

"Peace, be still!" our Father is at the helm.
THE following are two cases of death in hospitals, resulting from the blunders of attendants in administering powerful poisons instead of the drugs that were prescribed.
A RECENT number of the Interior, a leading publication of the Presbyterian Church, published in Chicago, contains a very interesting article entitled "One Cause of the Church Depletion.

Per Contra

By no means, however, have all the British newspapers taken sides against us.
Since we last wrote upon the Harold Frederic case we have received from London a great stack of press clippings, covering, we suppose, what every newspaper of any consequence in the British Islands had to say of this case.
September first, 1898, the Weekly made its first bow to the Field.
The following extract from a private letter recently received by a Scientist here from a Scientist in London, will be read with much interest:—
We were in error in saying, in the Weekly of November 17, that the old Robert Collyer church edifice at Dearborn Avenue and Walton Place, Chicago, had been purchased by Christian Scientists.
"I do not want this class to be an affair of money at all.
The historic church located at Dearborn Avenue and Walton Place on the North Side, Chicago, has been purchased by Christian Scientists, and will be occupied by the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, of Chicago.
Colonel Ingersoll, in his recent lecture in Boston on the subject of Superstition, among many other brilliant things, said: "Superstition is to believe without evidence, to explain one mystery with another, to disregard the real relation between cause and effect, to believe that matter was created by mind, to trust in miracles, charms, and dreams.
At a recent medical convention held at New York City, Dr.