On page 501 of this issue will be found a notice which recently appeared in The Christian Science Monitor and other newspapers announcing that work has begun on The Christian Science Pleasant View Home at Concord, New Hampshire, on the beautiful site once chosen by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for her own home, where she spent many of the momentous years of her busy life. It seems fitting that this location be chosen for the home of those deserving Christian Scientists who have years of creditable endeavor and achievement behind them and are entitled to continue to prove the truth of Christian Science amid surroundings conducive to spiritual growth and further usefulness.
It may come as a surprise to some to know that in many large centers there are elderly Christian Scientists living amid surroundings that are obstructive to comfort, activity, or clear thinking. Some are in actual want. Others live in lodgings to which the word "home" can hardly be made to apply. Still others, and they are not few, live in institutions supported by the charity of compassionate men and women who have given liberally of their means to care for their less fortunate brethren of all religious beliefs. Is it strange, then, when any of our people turn to such institutions to find a peaceful home, that they are sometimes met with the question, "Why does not your own church care for its elderly people?"
The time is at hand when the world is to be shown that our church does care for its own, and that our religion is not without profit in the sense that the apostle uses the word when he says, "If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?"
