By
a strange perversity of the human mind, the tender invitation of Christ Jesus, — "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven," — has generally been taken to mean that the children must die in order to go to Christ and the kingdom of heaven.
Our
Leader has requested us to say that no letters of inquiry are to be addressed to her touching upon questions that should properly come before the Clerk or other officers of The Mother Church, The Christian Science Publishing Society, or the publisher of her books.
It
was the midnight hour, and to a sense of wakeful weariness there was added the deeper trouble of lone-wrestling with a most perplexing problem, through which human sense had brought about a rehearsal of Job's experience when he said, "I am full of tossings to and from unto the dawning of the day.
with contributions from Alfred Farlow, G. W. Barrett
At a public hearing held March 3 before the Committee on Public Health of the Massachusetts Legislature, the petitioner for certain proposed restrictive legislation called attention to a statement made by Mr.
An
editorial in The Ladies' Home Journal for March discloses the existence of a prejudice which is not creditable to such generally intelligent people as are the millions of readers of this great magazine, and we are not surprised that the editor, in his own "personal page," has felt called upon to rebuke the narrowness and bigotry of his self-appointed critics.
"We
are now compelled to regard our conceptions of matter as symbolic of a Power which is essentially unknowable, and the existence of which we can recognize only in its manifestations.
The
teaching of Christian Science is clearly distinguished from many of the theories with which it has been mistakenly associated in uninformed opinion, by its steady insistence upon the scientific sense of identity and individuality.
Some
years ago there was published in the Sentinel an editorial which touched upon the form and subject-matter of testimonies given at the Wednesday evening meetings, and subsequently a By-law on the subject was adopted by The Mother Church and published in the Manual.
