There was a crowded attendance at the meeting, Friday afternoon, May 31, at 7 Temple Street, Boston, as at the previous meetings of the Dispensary Association. After the dispatch of business, reports were made by several ladies who have commenced the work of visiting from house to house for the purpose of talking Christian Science to the inmates, and inviting them to come to the Bible class and other meetings at the Dispensary rooms, and for physical healing. Five ladies who reported, said that they were received in a friendly way and in some instances with great warmth. Most that were talked to showed interest in Christian Science, and many promised attendance at the meetings. These visits are to be continued and additional visitors will enter on the work as fast as it can be organized.
A visitor is assigned to each street, every house is visited, and a written report of the result is made. The visitors take with them numbers of the Christian Science Series and give away or sell them, according to circumstances. These visits are to be pursued until every house in the entire section of the city taken up has been visited. In houses where the greatest interest is manifested, each visitor will follow up and care for those he or she has commenced with. Each one will thus have a parish, a part of God's vineyard, for which she will be responsible.
As fast as persons who come to the rooms of the Dispensary are sufficiently interested and instructed, they will be brought into the Church and Sunday school, and by the beginning of Fall results will be apparent. The great object of the Christian Science Dispensary Association is spiritual healing. Physical healing in its programme holds—as presented in Science and Health—a secondary and merely incidental place.
