Forty years ago, that is, in 1893, at the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, a notable meeting of Christian Scientists and a recognition of the religion founded by Mrs.
On October 14, 1931, The Christian Science Board of Directors issued a letter to all Christian Science churches and societies describing the plans for financing and erecting the much needed new Publishing House.
Except for the work on the garden wall of the new Publishing House and the laying of the gypsum block foundation for the roof tile on the penthouse of the tower, one must enter the new Publishing House to see the work that is being done.
In the daily mail of The Christian Science Board of Directors arrive not only appeals for aid of various kinds, but inquiries from individuals and branch churches to whom solicitations have been sent, as to the worthiness and best way of handling the appeals.
Questions asked the Directors of The Mother Church from time to time in regard to the conduct of The Mother Church Reading Rooms furnish a reason for the following statement of procedure in the three Reading Rooms of The Mother Church, in Boston.
The temporary roofing which was to have been placed for a few months on the tower of Section "A" of the new Publishing House, as announced in this column a few weeks ago, was never erected.
For the benefit of superintendents in Christian Science Sunday Schools, it may be of interest to state that the revised Christian Science Hymnal includes one hundred and thirty-one tunes retained from the former edition.
