Editorials

"WHY WILL YE DIE?"

The Bible offers no instance of loving and prophetic appeal which is more argumentative and more telling than that recorded in the 18th chapter of Ezekiel, and summarized in the words: "Cast away from you all your transgressions,.

A MISTAKE CORRECTED

An important part of the work done by the Committee on Publications is disclosed in the following letter, which appeared in the Columbus.

POLITICS

Mrs.

SOWING AND REAPING

The possibilities of good attaching to the present number and variety of means for the dissemination of thought can be exceeded only by their possibilities of ill.

THE ONWARD MARCH

Christian Scientists often think of their experiences as a repetition of those of the Israelites, in that they, too, have escaped from bondage,—the bondage of material belief, which is no less oppressive than that of Egypt.
Carroll, Ia.

THE PLEA FOR JUSTICE

As one looks out upon earth's millions to-day, he finds nothing in the whole list of wrongs that makes stronger appeal to his sympathy and sense of right than the condition of those who, through no fault of their own, are brought into subjection to ceaseless pain and misery, the vast army of those who are branded, and perchance at their birth, with that blighting word "incurable," and committed by medial authority to the prison-house of disease and despair, surely nothing could be more moving than these pictures of an unjust fate.

IMMORTALITY

Job's mournful question, "If a man die, shall he live again?

"COURAGE AND RESOURCES"

The witty paragrapher of the Boston Herald has paid his respects to The Christian Science Monitor in a characteristic and hearty way which pleases us, notwithstanding the rather gruesome ending of his words of welcome to our newspaper.
The semiannual lecture on Christian Science in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.

THE DISPLAY OF DISEASE

THE desire to know about things is a very spontaneous and fundamental impulse of human nature, and when it is educated into a lively interest in everything that is good and beautiful, it becomes a pilot of discovery, a prophet of growth.

WHICH IS THE REAL?

A NUMBER of years ago, a distinguished philosopher, Sir William Hamilton, discussed at some length the assertion that pain is possibly the real, and peace and pleasure merely negative, —its absence.