Article June 14, 1913 Issue

NOTES OF THE ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING OF THE MOTHER CHURCH

In fulfilment of the promise made in these columns last week we are presenting to our readers a more complete report of the annual meeting than was possible in the time at our disposal for the issue of June 7.

Following the opening exercises, the retiring president, Bliss Knapp, C.S.B., read the list of officers for the ensuing year, as follows: Frederick Dixon, C.S.B., of London, president; John V. Dittemore, C.S.B., of Brookline, clerk; Adam H. Dickey, C.S.D., of Brookline, treasurer. In presenting the new president Mr. Knapp spoke briefly, saying that one whose work had so thoroughly identified him with the cause as had Mr. Dixon's, needed no words from him in coming before so cosmopolitan a gathering as is included in the membership of The Mother Church. Mr. Dixon's response follows.

It is impossible to stand on this platform without a sense of deep gratitude for being permitted to fill the office of president of The Mother Church for the coming year. Never since the foundation of this church, by our Leader, has it stood more squarely to the four winds than today, and this is due, in no small degree, to the wisdom and faithfulness of the Board of Directors, supported by the loyalty of the members. It was Mrs. Eddy who taught us all what true loyalty means, and so the loyalty of the movement is devited not to persons, but to Principle, in unswerving obedience to the form of church government laid down, with such surpassing foresight, in the Manual of The Mother Church. In the exact proportion in which we individually reflect this loyalty and obedience, shall we do our part in holding up the hands of those who are occupying positions of responsibility and difficulty.

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