Editorial June 4, 1979 Issue

Our annual report to ourselves

Naomi Price

When The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, holds its Annual Meeting at the beginning of June, in accordance with Church By-Laws members hear reports from its Clerk, Treasurer, and Committees. There is also provision in the Church Manual for reports from the Field (see Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy, Art. XIII, Sect. 1).

Only the officers of the Church are required to be present, but some members from all over the world can usually be seen in Boston at this season. Various languages are heard, and it is evident that these members from out of town gain much inspiration from occasionally attending the meeting. They may not always know it, but they also bring valuable inspiration to those who live in Boston. Their joy in the truth, their evident devotion to Christian Science, and their often unspoken but nevertheless spiritually tangible "reports from the Field"—all contribute to the feeling of universal, purposeful activity and of the triumphant progress of scientific thought in the world today.

Just before the Annual Meeting of 1899, Mrs. Eddy wrote in a special communion message: "Brethren, our annual meeting is a grave guardian. It requires you to report progress, to refresh memory, to rejuvenate the branches and to vivify the buds, to bend upward the tendrils and to incline the vine towards the parent trunk. You come from feeding your flocks, big with promise; and you come with the sling of Israel's chosen one to meet the Goliaths."The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 125;

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