The
dedication of the Church in Concord, our Leader's splendid gift to the Christian Scientists of her home city, is an accomplished fact, and this building will stand as an enduring testimonial to the re-establishment of spiritual healing as a practical, demonstrable, and necessary feature of our Master's complete and saving gospel; but more substantial, more enduring even than this granite pile is the Dedicatory Address which Mrs.
On
last Sunday all the branch churches of our denomination were observing the Communion, at which service new members are received after having promised fealty to the tenets of the Mother Church.
So long as war continues no one can claim that the moral and intellectual faculties of the race are greatly in the ascendancey, or that the animal does not dominate mortal man.
It
is not unusual for those coming to Christian Science to make very large demands upon it in the way of insistence that their every problem, physical and metaphysical, shall be promptly solved.
In recent years quite a number of educational institutions have been established which have been referred to or advertised as "Christian Science schools," and because of this designation the impression has gone out that they are in some manner a part of our denominational institutions.
With
the return of this country's natal day we are led to think of the nations which have come upon the world's stage with what seemed a promise of perpetual greatness, and are reminded of the lines,—
In
another column of this issue we give a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Building Fund as reported by the Treasurer at the Annual Meeting of the Mother Church.
Editor
with contributions from William B. Johnson, Mary B. G. Eddy
The
following letters disclose another happy incident in connection with the building of the Concord church, and they give further evidence of the loving regard for our Leader, and appreciation of her work, which animate the Field.