The following article is an extract from an address made by Rev. D. A. Eastern, pastor of the First Church of Christ Scientist, Easter Sunday, April 2nd, after the reading of a long list of names of applicants who had been received into the membership of the church.
IS the significance and importance of joining the Mother church at Boston fully understood and appreciated by either the church or the applicants for membership? Every communion Sunday at the Mother church, a large portion of the time devoted to the service is occupied in reading a long list of names of applicants.
These applications are from all parts of the United States and Canada, and represent many nationalities. The names are strange and personally they are unknown to most of the members of the church.
