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.
"Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
The
Century Dictionary defines a leader as one who is first, or most prominent in any relation; one who takes precedence by virtue of superior qualification, and in this sense the title, Leader, which has been bestowed upon Mrs.
The
world's noblest leadership has ever effected a chief good in that ministry to which Emerson refers when he says, "That is always best which gives me to myself.
[The
following letter from our Leader appeared in the Concord paper of Wednesday last, and we know that all who experienced the hospitality of the citizens of Concord will thank her for having expressed the sentiments which all felt so deeply.
It
is an aphorism of the business world that it pays to follow the line of least restistance, and the practical wisdom of the proposition strongly commends it.