THE Directors of The Mother Church have recently received inquiries from several sources as to the permissibility of class-taught pupils attending one or more association meetings annually, if invited to do so. The Directors, therefore, call attention to a communication from them published in the Christian Science Sentinel of April 22, 1922, from which the following is quoted:
"The privilege which the Manual extends to teachers, of inviting students of other teachers into their association meetings, has been conservatively exercised with good results. In response to various inquiries; it is well to state the conditions under which both teacher and pupil may profitably avail themselves of this loving provision of our Leader.
"Experience has shown that wise discrimination should be exercised by the teacher who invites. An unsympathetic or hypercritical visitor, or one whose instruction has been at variance with that of the inviting teacher, may prove a discordant intrusion in what otherwise would be a harmonious and beneficial meeting. Such a possibility cannot always be foreseen, and to safeguard their meetings many teachers confine their gatherings exclusively to their own pupils. Others draw the lines very closely, restricting outside attendance to a very few, who are well known to the teacher.
