Article June 20, 1908 Issue

ANNUAL COMMUNION IN THE MOTHER CHURCH

William B. Johnson

Boston Globe

About ten thousand Christian Scientists attended the two Communion services held yesterday [June 14] in The First Church of Christ, Scientist; about six thousand were at the forenoon service, and four thousand in the afternoon. At both services Judge Septimus J. Hanna read an address to Mrs. Eddy, which was approved by a rising vote of the congregation. A Committee took this address to Mrs. Eddy at her home at Chestnut Hill.

There is no doubt that many more Christian Scientists would have been present at the services had it not been decided some time ago to hold a triennial Communion service for the benefit of those members of The Mother Church who live at points distant from Boston. These triennial services will be the big events of The Mother Church in the future, and will attract Christian Scientists from all over the world. However, a great number of Christian Scientists came from far-distant places to attend the services yesterday.

The services were impressive and included, besides the reading of the address to Mrs. Eddy in the forenoon and the address and her Message in the afternoon, one other important feature. On entering the great auditorium of the new edifice, people were rather pleasantly surprised to see the front of the platform draped with a large American flag. This was the first time anybody had seen any attempt at decoration of this kind in the church. The significance of the decoration was explained by the First Reader, William D. McCrackan, who said,—

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