Beloved Brethren:—
Until recently I was not aware that the contribution box was presented at your Friday evening meetings.
I specially desire that you collect no monied contributions from the people present on that occasion.
Let the invitation to this sweet converse be in the words of the prophet Isaiah: "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price."
Invite all cordially and freely to this banquet of Christian Science, this feast and flow of Soul. Ask them to bring what they possess of love and light to help leaven your loaf, and replenish your scanty store. Then when presenting your various offerings, and one after another opens his lips to discourse and distribute what God has given him of hope, faith, and understanding, be careful to gather up the fragments, and to count the baskets full of accessions to your love, and see that nothing be lost.
Yours lovingly,
Pleasant View, Concord, N. H., Oct. 1st.
Copyrighted, 1895, by National Christian Scientists Association.
