Editorials

HEALTHFUL READING

There is no denying that people in general—children and adults alike—have a keen appetite for mental nutriment as well as for physical food.
Certain occasions, considered collectively, individually, and observed properly, tend to give the activity of man infinite scope; but mere merry making or needless gift giving is not that wherein human capacities find the most appropriate and proper exercise.

A LETTER BY MRS. EDDY

Brookline.

MENTAL DIGESTION

Will those beloved students whose growth is taking in the Ten Commandments and scaling the steep ascent of Christ's Sermon in the Mount, accept profound thanks for their swift messages of rejoicing over the Twentieth Century Church Manual?
One of the doctrines of physical science which seems to find support in natural history is that which declares for the survival of the fittest, and which is often taken to mean the survival of the strongest.

SILENT EFFECTIVENESS

One of the most lasting impressions gained from a visit to any great industrial mart is that of the racket and roar which characterizes human mechanism and movement, even at its best.

AN IMPORTANT WORK

Some of the good work that is being done by the committee on publication is in the line of correcting misstatements of fact which have gone out over the wires as news, and on this basis have found space in the newspapers of the country.

A RELIGION OF DOING

Some young Christian Scientists—as well as some who are old enough to know better—seem to entertain the belief that because God is good, they have nothing to do in shaping their human lives but to sit back and state this fact in a sort of automatic way; or, in other words, they expect to reap a harvest without having done the preliminary planting and watering which are as necessary as the sunshine to produce satisfactory fruitage.

A LETTER BY MRS. EDDY

Brookline, Mass.
A complaint against Mrs.

CHASTITY

In the Christian Science text-book we read: "Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress.
Much of our Lord's ministry was a voluntary burden-bearing for the accomplishment of a gracious end, viz.