The 1986 Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., was held in Boston on Monday, June 2. The reports on the following pages show how each member around the world can help to bring healing to nations and neighbors by participating in the meeting's theme, "Fulfilling our mission of Christ-healing." Mary Baker Eddy declares in The People's Idea of God (p. 14): "O Christian Scientist, thou of the church of the new-born; awake to a higher and holier love for God and man; put on the whole armor of Truth; rejoice in hope; be patient in tribulation,—that ye may go to the bed of anguish, and look upon this dream of life in matter, girt with a higher sense of omnipotence; and behold once again the power of divine Life and Love to heal and reinstate man in God's own image and likeness, having 'one Lord, one faith, one baptism.'"
A detailed account of the meeting follows.
The members sang Hymn No. 208 from the Christian Science Hymnal.
