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
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.
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.
The
word discipline is very generally taken to mean punishment, or is at least closely associated with it, though the dictionaries give this word as a secondary definition, the first being "systematic training or subjection to authority; especially the training of the mental, moral, and physical power by instruction and exercise.
A good
many Christian Scientists appear to be at a loss to decide what is their duty in regard to politics,—what they should do and how much they should do as individuals in the way of taking part in national, state, and municipal elections; but it would seem that these questions should not be difficult of answer.
There
is no grander idea than that expressed in the word endurance, which is defined as "the ability to bear and continue under destructive forces; patient fortitude," etc.
The
story of the three Hebrews who were cast into the "burning fiery furnace" gives us a tragic picture of the enmity of material sense toward every manifestation of Spirit, its self-disclosing, self-defeating endeavor to destroy all that is not amenable to its attempted rule.
The
wise saying of a century, that "imitation is the sincerest flattery," is often cited, and when the New York Evening Sun says editorially that "indirect testimony to the extraordinary success of Mrs.
