CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1941, Page 6

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS

ANNUAL MEETING AT BOSTON. DEFENCE OF DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM. Some 6,000 Christian Scientists from many parts of the world, gathered in annual meeting at Boston on June 2, were called upon by the Christian Science board of directors to consecrate themselves to the defence of the democratic system of government as the best human instrument for preserving the basic rights of mankind to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The directors announced the election of John Randall Dunn, of Boston, as president of The Mother Church for the ensuing year. Mr Dunn has served this movement many years in various positions including that of Christian Science lecturer, when he carried the message of Christian Science into all parts of the world. He visited New Zealand in 1926 lecturing in the principal centres.

Despite the troublous times in Europe reports presented to the meeting conveyed the interesting fact that church services are being conducted generally without interruption in the countries abroad, including Germanoccupied territories. Evidence of spiritual growth was found in the establishment of 37 new branches of the Mother Church; seven of them in England, one each in Switzerland, Africa, British Guiana and the West Indies.

The report of the trustees under the will of Mary Baker Eddy announced that since the trust was established in 1913 more than 6,000.000 dollars have been expended by it towards Christian Science church activities throughout the world.

Reporting on war relief work, the clerk of the Mother Church said that the Boston War Relief Committee began its work in September, 1940. Today over 1.000 committees serving as a recognised activity of the branch churches are shipping war relief material to official depots.