Editorials

NO BASIS FOR FEAR

A physician in a recent letter to a New York newspaper calls attention to the varied and groundless fears which he alleges govern mortals from their earliest to their latest experience, and, speaking doubtless from experience of the effect which indulgence of these fears procures in the way of physical and mental disorders, he makes an earnest plea for their overcoming.

THE ONE MIND

THERE is no part of the teaching of Christian Science which is of such vital importance as its steady insistence that in reality there is but one Mind, and that God, infinite Love.

PRECEPT AND PRACTICE

IT seems strange indeed that the part of Jesus' ministry to which public attention was chiefly directed, for we read that wherever he went the multitude thronged about him, eager to share in the blessings so freely bestowed, and that part on which the most stress was laid by the Gospel writers, namely, the healing of the sick, should have gradually passed into decadence and been put aside by later generations as impossible, impracticable, or obsolete.
PRACTITIONERS AND PATIENTS.

INSTRUCTION BY MRS. EDDY

We  are glad to have the privilege of publishing an extract from a letter to Mrs.

THE REFLECTION OF JOY

How pleasant, in one's rambles, to come upon the little wild flowers, here and there, and receive their chaste and gentle greeting.

THE CALL OF DUTY

The press of England and America has devoted many columns in the last week to giving heartfelt expressions of love and reverence for Florence Nightingale, the noble Englishwoman whose earthly career has so recently closed.
The frequency with which books on certain subjects are borrowed from the public libraries may be taken as fairly indicative of the degree of interest which these subjects have for the people at large.

SELF-CORRECTION

The imperative command of the great Teacher, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," was given by one who had tested the possibilities of humanity, and who in consequence "knew what was in man," as we read in John's Gospel.
He who has not climbed the Gorner Grat has yet to experience a great event.

"A CUP OF COLD WATER."

How best to dispose of accumulating copies of the Sentinel and Journal, is a question that sometimes perplexes Christian Scientists who would like to pass along their "good things" to' others, but are in doubt as to the most effective method of accomplishing their purpose.
"Is the Christianity they teach adequate?