With the majesty of meekness, and clothed in the beauty of holiness, our consecrated Leader stood before nearly three thousand of her rescued ones, at the Annual Meeting, June 6, and declared that God's promised blessing was in that hour bestowed upon His children. Standing in "the watch tower in the wilderness" (2 Chronicles, 20 : 24), she saw the destruction of the enemy before her followers realized that God had gone before.

Our Leader said, "The divine Law hath said to us, 'Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and, prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.' There is with us at this hour this great, great blessing."

How great that blessing is we are just beginning to see. The news—the health-giving news—first of the Communion service and the Gospel Message, then of the visit of our Leader to Boston and her address, then of the magnificent choral testimony for Truth at Tremont Temple—all this news of peace and health on earth and good will toward men, flooded the press of Boston, and was sent reverberating over telegraph wires to the uttermost parts of the earth through the instrumentality of the Associated Press. This was the best news the daily press of the world ever published, for it went forth from the Great Heart of Love fraught with power to heal the sick.

The daily newspapers have in times past championed many a good cause, and nations have been saved from calamities through their fearless exposure of the evil machinations of selfish public servants, but now they enter a field of higher usefulness. What a glorious mission for the newspapers is opening! To be publishing words of love that will heal the sick and redeem the sinner !

Some of the reporters who wrote the accounts of the different meetings for the Boston papers, had never attended Christian Science meetings before, and yet they were so imbued with the Truth that they unconsciously wrote from the spiritual point of view. God has poured out His blessing to all the world through the newspapers.

For a week before Communion, the newspapers of Boston contained advance accounts of the event, telling of the crowds that were coming and of the character of the services to be held. The Associated Press also sent out advance reports. The day following Communion, the Boston papers had excellent accounts of it, three of them publishing the Message of our Leader in full, accurately following her method of capitalization and punctuation. All the papers treated our cause respectfully and fairly. The Associated Press sent out to nearly all the daily papers in the United States and Canada, the full text of the Message with a good account of the day's proceedings.

Again, after the Tuesday meeting at which our Leader was present, the Boston papers gave much space to reports of the meeting giving her impromptu address word for word. The Associated Press also sent out a full report to the newspapers of the world. Many representatives of the press were present at the meeting and they both heard and saw Mrs. Eddy, and their testimony through their papers having an aggregate circulation of nearly a million in New England, and the testimony that went out to the world through the Associated Press, reaching many millions of people, in one day sweeps away the accumulated falsehoods of years about our beloved Teacher.

The great Wednesday evening meeting at Tremont Temple constituted another falsehood-destroying tidal wave. Newspaper men were again present and saw and heard for themselves, and they wrote about it with minds inspired by the same Spirit which brooded over the meeting.

The editorial comment so far has also been very favorable. Newspapers that are daily arriving from all parts of the country contain accounts of our Communion, varying from two hundred words to four columns. In the succeeding pages will be found press extracts showing the general attitude of the newspapers of Boston and elsewhere in reporting the recent events in connection with the Mother Church and its Pastor Emeritus.