It
is the hope, we might almost say the ambition, of every Christian Scientist, no matter what his business or official duties may be, at some time to devote his entire time and energies to the practice of the healing work which our Master commended to his followers, and those who are able to realize this hope are indeed fortunate.
If
the recognition and confession of one's own faults is a preliminary of progress, then Protestant ministers as a whole are at the dawn of better things, for the freedom with which they are criticizing their own equipment and efficiency is quite remarkable.
Other
things being equal, mankind's most effective helper is he who is best able to discern the signs and possibilities of good, and who does not allow any show of stupidity or false sense to disturb his hold upon the promise of better things in those to whom he would minister.
In
reading the Old Testament, one cannot help being impressed by the emphasis laid upon the necessity for obedience to divine law, and no less upon the need of understanding it.
When
the contemplated publication of The Christian Science Monitor was announced in the Sentinel last October, it was promised for the paper that its mission would be "to publish the real news of the world in a clean, wholesome manner;" and a proof that this promise has been kept is the large number of letters received at this office which express commendation of the Monitor as a clean newspaper.
There
has ever been a feeling, no less universal than instinctive, that being is life, and the normality as well as the ideality of death has been denied in every impulse and assertion of that desire for immortality, the defeat of death, which has moved men from the beginning.
We
are pleased to announce that the fund for the enlarging of the publishing house, to meet the immediate requirements of The Christian Science Monitor, has been subscribed.
