Update on legal case

On January 7, the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts took up the question of court intervention in internal church affairs. It's an issue raised by a suit brought by two church members against current and former officials of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. The seven justices of the Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments and questioned attorneys about the appeal to end the case.

We report on a meeting at which church employees were informed about the hearing. It was held in the Original Mother Church Edifice.

Virginia S. Harris, Chairman of The Christian Science Board of Directors, who had attended the court hearing, welcomed the employees to the meeting and expressed gratitude to everyone who had been "praying, and supporting, and really striving in [their] own hearts to gain a clear understanding of Church and of Mary Baker Eddy's vision for her Church." She continued: "We are really touched by that sense of prayer and by its evidence throughout the world: by employees, officers of the Church, church members in the Field, by friends of this Church—who are not members—including eighteen other religious denominations and religious liberty organizations that have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of The Mother Church."

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