Beloved Students:—The By-law of the Mother Church, stipulating three years as the term for its Readers, neither binds nor compels the branch churches to follow suit.
To the members of the Mother Church:—I am bankrupt in thanks to you, my beloved brethren, who at our last Annual Meeting pledged yourselves with startling grace to contribute any part of two millions of dollars towards the purchase of more land for its site, and to enlarge our church edifice in Boston.
We
have already warned Christian Scientists to be on their guard, when appealed to by a dark-eyed man who is somewhat lame and who claims to be a loyal Scientist in distress.
We
are sure our readers will enjoy another chapter of excerpts from the bright and interesting reports of the Annual Meeting by "Rhea" to the New Haven Leader.
The
following letter is in line with much that might be said respecting the very unneighborly and unauthorized way many of our contemporaries are accustomed to trace all ills to our door.
The
enlarged freedom and general trend of Christian thought in the field of Biblical interpretation, is revealed with unusual definiteness in a sermon by the late F.
Reference
was made in a late Sentinel to some marked indications of the growth of a broader thought among the Wesleyans of England, and now comes even more emphatic evidence of a corresponding advance among their brother Methodists in this country.
Those
who have worked in the smaller churches will recognize the fact that the work there differs much from that of large churches in the great cities.
We
are confident that with a greater perspective the Annual Meeting of 1902 will be generally recognized as marking an epoch in the history of our Cause.
The
erring material senses with their lying estimate of what is true, rebel against saying, "I am well," while still to mortal sense they are holding the field with a false, physical claim of sickness.
