The Board of Education, acting under the auspices of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, held its sessions according to announcement, commencing June 13, 1900. The maximum number of thirty-three students attended the general class in Christian Science, and there were in addition several who sat in the class by special invitation, but who, with two exceptions, were not applicants to teach.
There were in the Obstetric class a large number of students. Both classes contained representatives from all parts of this country and from some parts of Europe and the Canadas.
The course of instruction in each class was comprehensive and thorough, touching the essentials of Christian Science in their practical phases and application to the healing of sin and sickness. Of the significance of these classes, as well to the students as to the Cause, we shall now undertake to speak only in a general way. The ways and means for this important work were provided by the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy through Church By-laws duly adopted by the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., and they have had the practical effect of establishing, on a broad and firm basis, an educational system, which if well and faithfully carried out by those to whom it has been, and may entrusted, will redound in incalculable benefit to our movement.
