The Mayor of Tokyo, Japan, recently addressed a letter to the Christian Science Church in Boston, and evidently to other agencies which sent relief to the distressed residents of Tokyo following the earthquake disaster of September, 1923.
The Christian Science Church park fronting The Mother Church edifices which, during the past several months, has been under reconstruction, is now completed.
The efforts being made by the Directors of The Mother Church to have all Christian Scientists fully informed of the hospitality offered by the Christian Science Benevolent Association Sanatoriums are disclosing the need of greater knowledge about these charitable institutions.
Christian Scientists who are friends of The Christian Science Monitor are sometimes troubled over advertisements which appear in its pages; and occasionally they may be led to feel that the standard has fallen because of the effort to obtain advertising revenue.
Our readers will be interested to know that when the application of the President's National Industrial Recovery Act was considered in relation to the hours of employment in The Mother Church administrative offices, it was found possible to adopt a five-day week, and this was put into effect August first.
The Hall of Religion at the Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, contains an exhibit sponsored by The Christian Science Board of Directors, and arranged by the Executive Committee of Christian Science Churches and Societies of Illinois for Christian Science Activities at A Century of Progress.
On the evening of May 25 members of The Christian Science Monitor staff and others watched interestedly as the first press that was removed to the new Publishing House ran off the first papers printed there.
A question which is occupying the thought of Christian Science churches in some of the larger cities today deals with the maintenance and the extent of the usefulness and activities of the Reading Rooms which they jointly operate.
As has been the custom for several years past, the original Mother Church auditorium and vestry will be in readiness at the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church for those who wish to occupy seats there.
