In
reading the Scriptures and striving to gain their spiritual sense, we are sometimes startled to see how great a hold traditional belief has upon us.
The
approach of the Communion season naturally turns the thoughts of Christian Scientists toward that "joyful meeting" of our Lord with his disciples "on the shore of the Galilean Sea".
Quite
recently the newspapers have given many detailed accounts of the tragic experience of a gentleman in New York city, whose death was said to be due to hydrophobia.
During
the past five or six years the American public has had an opportunity to learn a great deal about the extent to which the desire of the few to obtain special privileges over the many has been gratified, through paternalistic legislation, unlawful combinations of capital or labor, and other means for subordinating public good to the selfish interests of some particular class.
The
slight changes which have been made in the design of the seal on the cover of Science and Health and our Leader's other books, as well as on the Journal, Der Herold, and the Quarterly, have given rise to some speculation and inquiry, and the following extract from one of the many letters which have been received at this office indicates the nature of this speculation:—
