The morning of May 27, in the beautiful Lyceum Hall, Madison Avenue, at corner of 59th Street, New York, the fifth annual meeting of the Association was convened. From eight hundred to one thousand faces of Scientists, gathered from all parts of the United States and Canada, expressing gladness and expectancy, greeted the President's, call to order. At the "roll call" of officers, "present" came from every one.
The devotional exercises were followed by the Treasurer's report and reports of committees. That of the Treasurer showed cash received, $518.58; cash paid out, $224.24; balance on hand, $294.84. The Committee on Church Organization and Dispensaries made partial reports, showing three churches of from forty to fifty members each, organized in Kansas, during the past year; four in New York State; one at Toronto, Canada, with sixty-five members; one in Colorado, and one in Peoria; also, dispensaries at several of the places where churches have been organized. A more complete statement of the work of organization as shown by the Journal record is as follows: eleven incorporated churches, and eighty-five unincorporated places of worship, and thirty dispensaries have been opened during the year. But this record must be regarded as incomplete. The movement of organization is entirely spontaneous and without direction, so that an exact statement of its condition at a given moment cannot be made .
The Chairman of the Executive Committee stated that this Committee had had several meetings with the Publication Committee, but the details of their action would possess no interest. The committee had also prepared—no inconsiderable work—the proceedings and program for these meetings. Personality had been grown out of in this work, as far as seen practicable, and in the future, he trusted, it could be grown out of a good deal more. The Committee on Revision of the Constitution asked more time which was granted.
