IT is a pleasure to announce to our subscribers and readers that this number of the Journal is issued from the new building of The Christian Science Publishing Society, a building which has been erected through the contributions of Christian Scientists all over the world, and of which they with us may justly be proud. We feel sure it will be a source of gratification to these friends to learn that through their generosity adequate accommodations have at last been secured for the publication of Science and Health and the other writings of Mrs. Eddy, as well as for our denominational periodicals and other distinctively Christian Science literature. The Publishing Society has been, at all times since its inception, an efficient missionary agent, and with the increased permanency and stability which this new building gives to its work, the usefulness of the Society can but be greatly enlarged.
It may be difficult for all who are at a distance from headquarters to appreciate fully the importance of the work done by them in supplying this need of the Publishing Society, but suffice it to say that probably no other concern has ever struggled so successfully and so uncomplainingly with inadequate and inconvenient accommodations as has this Society. It is only fair to state, however, that this inadequacy and inconvenience has been due to the temporary character of these accommodations, which could not be readjusted to keep pace with the constantly growing demands of the work.
Now that they will work under so much better conditions,—an improvement which they thoroughly appreciate,—the officers and employes of the Society desire to extend their grateful thanks to the friends who, in contributing to the erection of the new publishing house, have made all this possible. Even more gratefully would they express their thanks to the Leader who has guided every step in the progress of the Cause which she has established,—to the one who, in bringing Christian Science to the world, has bestowed an unspeakable gift upon humanity.
