CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 257, 29 July 1942, Page 2

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Annual Meeting In Boston

“The great task now confronting a liberated America, •which more than three-quarters of a century ago fought a four-years’ war to free the slaves, is to aid in working out the freedom of the whole world from slavery,” the Christian Science board of directors told several thousand Christian Scientists gathered in annual meeting in Boston on June 8. The directors emphasized the world-wide emergency as presaging a more universal turning to spiritual enlightenment as the pathway to future world peace. “This welding together of the two great democracies, under the impact of an international crisis,” said the lecture hoard, “is the consummation, of the fond hopes of all Christian Scientists,” and it quoted the poem written by Mary Baker Eddy, which reads in part as follows: —

“Brave Britain, blest America! Unite your battle-plan; Victorious, all who live it— The love for God and man.” i The directors announced the election of Mrs. Elizabeth F. Norwood, of Brookline, Mass., as president of The Mother Church for the ensuing year. The report of the board of lectureship, read by Mr. Gavin W. Allan, referred to the recent statement of Mr. Churchill, I-’rime Minister of Great Britain, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,” as a perfect phrasing. But lifting this phrasing out of th< setting of war it could apply aptly to Mrs. Eddy and her small group of followers who, half a century or more ago, worked for the establishment, of a vision that sought to bless all mankind. Mr. Arthur W. Eckman, manager of committees on publication, reported that service in the armed forces was bringing many young men closer to Christian Science because of its adaptability to their immediate problems. It was announced by the trustees of the Christian Science Publishing Society that the sales of Bibles this year “are the largest in the history of the society. The society’s literature is still going to many parts of the world, sometimes delayed, but nevertheless reaching Switzerland, unoc- : cupied France, Spain, Portugal, all parts of Africa, Australia, the British Isles, South America, New Zealand, India and. Ceylon. . xl _ „ , The report of the treasurer for the fiscal •/ear ended April 30, 1942, showed that the finances of the Mother Church were in sound condition, that aside from current bills and accrued taxes there was no indebtedness. •