At
the annual meeting of The Mother Church, held this week, it was stated by the clerk, in his report, that the number of persons admitted to membership in the church during the year just closed was greater than ever before in any year of its history; also, that the number admitted at the semiannual admission of members on May 30 of this year was the largest number received at any one time since the church was formed.
Will
our readers kindly bear in mind that the work at headquarters is necessarily divided into departments, and that correspondence properly addressed will avoid delay.
The
greatest word of prophecy was not the forecast of future events, not the commendation or condemnation of conduct, but the disclosure of the nature and ministry of man as God's image and representative.
It
is somewhat surprising that after two thousand years of Christianity the admission should be made by professed Christians that fear practically dominates the human race.
The
story of Naaman, as told in the fifth chapter of II Kings, is of absorbing interest from any point of view, so full is it of movement, of events, of well-drawn characters, and of local color.
Editor
with contributions from W. H. Howard, James M. Cox, Archibald McLellan
Almost
immediately after news came of the recent floods in Ohio and Indiana, and of the needs of those who were passing through the ordeals of wreck and famine, there appeared in many newspapers throughout the country editorials which were based upon prepared editorials sent out in bulletin form from the headquarters of the American Medical Association, as a part of the campaign of that organization to secure the establishment of a federal department of health, with a representative of the American Medical Association as a member of the President's cabinet.
A profound
utterance by our revered Leader may be read on page 247 of Science and Health where she says, "Beauty, as well as truth, is eternal;" but she adds that "the beauty of material things passes away, fading and fleeting as mortal belief.