Article June 20, 1908 Issue

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MOTHER CHURCH

William B. Johnson

Boston Globe

At the annual business meeting of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, The Mother Church of the Christian Science denomination, yesterday afternoon [June 16], in the church edifice, the names of the newly elected officers and Readers were announced as follows: Commander John Blish, U.S.N. (retired), of Boston. President; William B. Johnson of Boston, Clerk; Stephen A. Chase of Fall River, Treasurer; Judge Clifford P. Smith of Mason City, Ia., First Reader; Mrs. Carol Hoyt Powers of Brookline, Second Reader. Commander Blish succeeds Eugene N. Greene of Providence; Judge Smith succeeds William D. McCrackan, A.M., C.S.B., and Mrs. Powers succeeds Mrs. Laura Carey Conant. The Clerk Treasurer are reelected. Retiring President Greene presided during the first part of the meeting and Commander Blish during the latter part. About four thousand members were present. The program in cluded congregational singing, reading from the Bible and from the Christian Science text-book, silent prayer, and the repetition in concert of the Lord's Prayer.

One of the principal features was a letter, read by Judge Smith, which was adopted by a unanimous rising vote, to be sent to Mrs. Eddy, the Leader of the Christian Science movement. This communication was as follows:—

To Our Revered and Beloved Leader, Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy:— We have learned through your teaching that the brightness of the Bethlehem star of Christianity lies in its boundless promise of redemption. The glory of Christian salvation is in its boundless efficacy. The utility of Christian Science is in the discovery that the unlimited scope and power of Christianity is actually equal to the mastery of every evil that infests the race, and is of the same redemptive avail to the one who is sick or destitute as to the one who is wicked. In consequence of these Christian verities, and of this discovery and its avail, our denomination exists as the inevitable fruition, in part, of all the Christian promises and in justification of the Christian hope.

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