CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1943, Page 4

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS

ANNUAL MEETING HELD IN BOSTON. BOSTON (Mass.), June 7. The Christian Science Board of Directors today placed “prayer” at the top of the list of defensive and offensive weapons that free-thinking peoples are counting upon to win the global war against oppression and suppression. “A praying people can never suffer defeat,” summarised the directors’ remarks to several thousand Christian Scientists assembled in the Mother Church. The directors announced the election of Mrs Daisette D. S. McKenzie, of Cambridge, Mass., as president of the Mother Church for the ensuing year. The new president first became interested in Christian Science in 1887, during the very early days of the movement. In 1898 both Mr and Mrs McKenzie, were called by Mrs Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, to become members of her last class in November of that year. A. Warren Norton, manager of the Christian Science Publishing Society, reported an increase in the circulation of all Christian Science publications, including the “Christian Science Monitor.” The circulation of the “Christian Science Sentinel,” reduced to pocket size, was reported at the highest in its history. Arthur W. Eckman, manager of committees on publication, stated: “There are now fourteen chaplains of our denominations in the Armed Forces of the United Stales, and fifteen vacancies remain to be filled.” An announcement was also made that the sales of Mrs Eddy’s works, including “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” had more than doubled in the last two years.

The Christian Science Board of Lectureship found that the purpose of its new regional system of allocating lecturers to serve the churches more acceptably and to reduce the need for travel had been fulfilled in gratifying measure.