money and food in the world isn't sufficient to eliminate poverty permanently. Pollution will never disappear until the mental attitudes that cause it change. With all these situations we know we're dealing with states of human consciousness rather than material conditions. The present state of our world-no matter how much it appears to be objectified out there -is really but the evidence of the present state of human thinking. We dwell in a universe of thought, not in a universe of objectified materiality. So, if we would change the external conditions conditions of poverty, crime, pollution, war, irrelevant education-if we would effectively answer the great questions of youth, we must begin with the transformation of human thought. The Science of the Christ points the way, the only way. Mankind's greatest need always is for the spiritual enlightenment of human thinking. This was the great mission of the Founder of Christianity, Christ Jesus. Think of the impact this one individual life had on all humanity! Jesus lifted men's thought above the plane of materialism into the realm of the spiritual. The transforming agency is the Christ, so clearly exemplified by him. And as revealed in its completeness as the Christ, Truth, by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. It is the Christ, Truth, illumining consciousness, that is the solver of human problems. Through spiritual enlightenment alone can consciousness be transformed from a material to a spiritual sense of what is really true from the standpoint of infinite Spirit or the divine Mind. Mrs. Eddy tells us that "Jesus healed sickness and sin by one and the same metaphysical process."2 This metaphysical process, which Christian Science makes plain, is the basis from which we too can solve our individual and our community problems. All of us can't go to the uttermost parts of the earth, but we can all do a better job of letting our light shine right where we humanly are-in our homes, in our businesses, in our social and community activities, and in our churches. Is your Sunday School and church attendance dwindling? Then reach out to those within your community, within the radius of your branch church. Let them know that they're warmly invited to attend the services and that their young people are more than welcome in the Sunday School. And let's have the kind of inspired church services that will illumine the LessonSermon so that those who come will grasp and understand it. Let's have the kind of Sunday School teaching that will have meaning for our young people. Let it be the kind of teaching that will show them how to live Christian Science-that it's a way of life, and not just a substitute for material methods of healing. Many of us have come to Christian Science because there was an individual who loved enough to reach out and present it to us in our hour of need. Do we love enough to actively share the truth with others? Are we truly reaching out with Christly compassion to help those in our community whose need is great? Are we laying enough emphasis on the Christian while prayerfully working with Science in our approach to the problems which confront us? Are we just Scientists, or are we Christian Scientists? It's well to remember Mrs. Eddy tells us, "The burden of proof that Christian Science is Science rests on Christian Scientists." 8 Healing is the answer that rebukes the claim of mortal mind that Christian Science is a beautiful but impractical theory. Christian Science is a living thing! It's obviously practical-it heals! And healing is still today the answer to individual and collective needs, just as it was in Jesus' time! And the opportunities to bring healing are as close to us today as they were then. Jesus and his disciples healed by the wayside, in the synagogue, wherever there was a receptive thought willing to accept healing presence, the touch of the healing ment will indeed move-under divine imChrist. pulsion, healing our churches, our communities, and our world. And when the disciples of John came to Jesus asking whether or not he was the Christ, he simply showed them his healing works. This was the importance he placed on healing. And this is why the office of practitioner is so honored a position in our movement. But whether or not we're practitioners listed in The Christian Science Journal, it's the privilege and duty of every one of us who names the name of Christian Science to in some measure share in its healing ministry. And so we call upon every Christian Scientist to rise up in thought, to love mankind enough to work for it metaphysically every day, to treat the problems of our time as the false beliefs they are, and to take an active and positive interest in the affairs of humanity by utilizing the spiritual ways and means our Leader has provided us with as working Christian Scientists. If we do this consistently and persistently, the progress and healing our world so urgently needs will be realized. Mrs. Eddy writes, "Every step of progress is a step more spiritual." Doesn't this mean that as spiritual thinkers, as Christian metaphysicians, we're at the center of human progress? Certainly we have the needed spiritual tools. If each one of us will pray fervently, effectually, healing will come. Solutions will unfold. Our communities will be blessed. We shall be blessed. And our churches and Sunday Schools will prosper because they're making a practical contribution to their communities. One final word. We urge you to turn to the divine Mind for inspiration, direction, and demonstration rather than to this mythical thing sometimes referred to as "Boston." Look more to God and less to The Mother Church for guidance. Mrs. Eddy gives explicit instruction on this point: we are to be sure that God directs our path see Miscellaneous Writings, p. 117). Then as we follow God's unerring direction and our Leader as she follows Christ, our move 1 James 5:16; 2 Science and Health, p. 210; 3 The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Mis cellany, p. 158; 4 The People's Idea of God, p. 1. The meeting closed with the singing of the Doxology. NEW PRESIDENT OF THE MOTHER CHURCH Clem W. Collins, C. S., of Boston, Massachusetts, has been elected President of The Mother Church for the year 1970-71. He succeeds Miss L. Ivimy Gwalter, of Boston. Mr. Collins is Publishers' Agent, Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy, a position he has held since May 1, 1963. A native of Denver, Colorado, he attended the Sunday School of Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist, Denver, from early childhood and joined that branch and The Mother Church in 1940. During World War II he served in the United States Navy as a lieutenant commander in the South Pacific and in the Bureau of Ordnance in Washington, District of Columbia. He entered sales work, but was recalled to Washington during the Korean conflict. Following his Navy service in 1953, he entered the full-time public practice of Christian Science. He was active in branch churches, served as a Christian Science Minister for Armed Services Personnel, and resided in Los Altos, California, before coming to Boston in 1963. Bryan-Jones, Noel D., C. S., Worthing, Sussex, Campbell, Gordon F., C. S. B., Santa Monica, Carr, Charles M., C. S. B., New York, New York Curtis, Grace Bemis, Miss, C. S. B., Pittsburgh, Erickson, Paul A., C. S. B., Chicago, Illinois Minnesota Heafer, Martin N., C. S. B., Houston, Texas Linnig, Roy J., C. S., Chicago, Illinois Little, Col. William C. S. B., Washington, D. C. Smith, Alaister G., C. S. B., San Francisco, Smith, Harry S., C. S. B., Atlanta, Georgia Spencer, James, C. S., Detroit, Michigan Tyc, Eugene Depold, C. S., San Diego, California Wyndham, John H., C. S. B., Los Angeles, As previously announced, William Milford Correll and Mrs. Florence C. Southwell are returning to The Christian Science Board of Lectureship after several years of service to The Mother Church in other positions. As also announced, Mrs. Naomi Price has resigned from the Board of Lectureship to succeed Mr. Correll as an Associate Editor of the Christian Science periodicals. It is customary for members of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship who have served continuously for a number of years to take time off for a period and Carver, Josephine H., Mrs., C. S. B., Boston, Cern, Jules, C. S., Scarsdale, New York Mrs. Georgina Tennant of London, England, has signified her desire to retire from membership on the Board of Lectureship so that she may devote all of her time to the teaching and practice of Christian Science. NEW MEMBERS OF THE CHRISTIAN Mrs. Catherine H. Anwandter, C. S. B., a native of Antofagasta, Chile, now lives in Santiago, Chile, where she is a teacher and practitioner of Christian Science. Mrs. Anwandter became interested in Christian Science through an outstanding healing she experienced when a young woman. She joined The Mother Church thereafter in 1932. Mrs. Anwandter attended schools in Santiago and Valparaiso, Chile, but her education mostly was at home with private tutors. She studied art, painting and drawing, French and Spanish, and later German. She speaks four languages fluently. At an early age she taught English in private schools and also organized a school of her own. She has traveled extensively in Europe and South America and has visited the United States many times. For more than thirty years Mrs. Anwandter has devoted herself to the study and practice of Christian Science and to the organizing of the movement in Chile. In 1939, she received Primary class instruction and entered the public practice of Christian Science in 1948. A member of the Normal class of 1961, she became the first teacher of Christian Science in South America and the first to teach in the Spanish language. She is a long-time member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Santiago, and has served as First and Second Reader in English and Spanish, as president, clerk, executive board member, superintendent and teacher in the Sunday School, and as a member of numerous committees. John Richard C. Kenyon, C. S. B., of London, England, became interested in Christian Science at the age of twelve because "the logic of it made an instant appeal." A native of Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England, he was educated at Stow School, Buckingham, and was graduated from Queen's College, Cambridge University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Mr. Kenyon served in the British Army for six years during World War II, attaining the rank of major. He commanded a mortar company in Western Europe and was awarded the Military Cross for distinguished service. An Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, he was a senior executive in a large group of investment trusts before entering the public practice of Christian Science in 1950. Mr. Kenyon joined The Mother Church in 1933 and had Primary class instruction in 1939. He has been active in branch churches, holding positions of First Reader, president, executive board member. From 1952 to 1957 he was Assistant to the District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland. He became a teacher of Christian Science in 1958. Alaister G. Smith, C. S. B., left the business field in 1954 to enter the public practice of Christian Science. He became a teacher of Christian Science in 1961 and teaches in San Francisco, California. A native of Portland, Oregon, Mr. Smith was educated in the public schools of that city and was graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. During World War II, he served for four years as an enlisted man and as an officer, lieutenant junior grade, in the United States Navy, having tours of duty in the Atlantic and Pacific areas. Following the war, he worked for some years as a sales representative for several national organizations. Mr. Smith's interest in Christian Science began in childhood when his parents enrolled him in the Sunday School, which he attended until the age of twenty. He joined The Mother Church in 1941 and received Primary class instruction in 1946. He has been active in branch church work in both Portland and San Francisco, holding many posts including those of First Reader and executive board member. From 1956 to 1961 he was a Christian Science Minister for Armed Services Personnel, assigned to the San Francisco Bay area. The Church-Humanity's Servant LENORE D. HANKS Social service as the world knows it is big business today. In a number of countries government has become a mammoth social agency in its attempt to meet people's needs. For example, President Nixon has pointed out that in the last five years the United States government alone has spent over two hundred and fifty billion dollars on social programs but still meets with great frustration and no vast success. We find that churches, too, are turning in increasing degree to social welfare programs in order to serve humanity. One Protestant denomination is pledged to raise twenty million dollars for this purpose within five years. Yet in spite of such efforts poverty increases, wars continue, racial tensions build, and serious crime in the United States has nearly doubled in a nineyear period. Where are we failing? No one questions the necessity of alleviating social ills or that human footsteps must be taken. Certainly definite programs are a part of government's role. But isn't something more expected of the church? According to a poll sponsored by the National Council of Churches, the majority of American adults disapprove of church involvement in social issues. Just what degree of social involvement is permissible for a church may be debatable, but if churches become so involved in welfare programs that the spiritual basis of their service to the world is overshadowed, they are not being true to their primary mission, and the results will not be successful. The church as a human institution is here to serve humanity, and there need be no speculation as to how this service is to be rendered. Its role is far more than social welfare. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states it clearly and concisely. The church is to serve by elevating the race spiritually. The method is to awaken humanity, to help people grasp their spiritual potential, to turn them from their limiting material beliefs, to heal the sick and destroy evil. Never does Mrs. Eddy imply that this service is only for the benefit of church members. Rather does she stress that the world, humanity, the whole human race, is the recipient. So we need to be alert to two errors that would try to enter into our premise that the purpose of the church is to serve humanity. The first error would suggest that it is enough for the church to serve through a human sense of goodness alone. Such goodness is necessary and desirable; but it cannot substitute for spiritual understanding. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "Prayer, watching, and working, combined with self-immolation, are God's gracious means for accomplishing whatever has been successfully done for the Christianization and health of mankind." 1 The church, then, must foster greater reliance on prayer-the mental work that refuses to accept suggestions that lack, disease, hatred, or evil in any form can be a part of man's real nature. The church must promote the watching that is alert to the needs of the community and understand as well as prove God's ability to meet those needs. In other words, human efforts alone are not enough. The second error we need to guard against accepting into our premise is that our main purpose is to promote Christian Science in a denominational or sectarian sense-increase our membership, sell our literature, build more church edifices. It is not. Mrs. Eddy points out: "A special privilege is vested in the ministry. How shall it be used? Sacredly, in the interests of humanity, not of sect." 2 |