The regular monthly meeting was held at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, President Eddy in the chair. The attendance was very large. An unusual number of applications for membership were voted upon, some of them coming from persons holding prominent positions as clergymen. California and other distant States were well represented.
After the regular business had been finished, it was moved, and unanimously voted, that the thanks of the Association be tendered to Mr. J. Henry Wiggin, for the excellence and extreme justice of his treatise called Christian Science and the Bible; and that the Association highly appreciates the valuable aid it affords in making clear the theology of Christian Healing, and its conformity with the Scriptures.
The President then spoke of that roll-call of duty and honor upon which the Scientists have enrolled their names, bidding each one respond with words of good cheer. The first to answer was Rev. Wm. I. Gill, of Lawrence. He spoke briefly, but to the point, as follows:—
