Article June 4, 1932 Issue

The Giving That Is Rewarded

GEORGE H. READ

When The Christian Science Board of Directors announced their plan to start building the new Christian Science Publishing House, they presented to individual Christian Scientists everywhere an opportunity to nullify the claims of loss, lack, and limitation which had been alarming people all over the world for many months.

Almost simultaneously with the response to an invitation given in a letter from the Directors, dated October 14, 1931, to "each branch church and society to call a special meeting of its respective membership for the purpose of determining the total amount it would be able to contribute over a period of eighteen months," the fruits of obedience began to appear. In the case of one branch church, the meeting of the membership, called in answer to this announcement, was later spoken of by many members as the best meeting they had attended in many months.

At that meeting it was unanimously voted to devote one collection every month for eighteen months to the new Publishing House Building Fund and to guarantee for that fund, each of those months, a minimum amount which substantially exceeded the average collection which that church had been receiving for special fund purposes. In addition, it was also unanimously voted not to discontinue other charitable funds for which collections had for many years been taken regularly. It was therefore decided that the collection taken on the last Sunday in every month containing five Sundays would be donated alternately to the Building Fund of other Christian Science churches and to one or another of The Mother Church activities.

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