In this issue of the Journal will be found reports covering most of the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church on June 3 of this year. This occasion, as in the past, proved to be a joyous one, for it afforded opportunity to set on record the progress of our redemptive movement in the year just ended. There were reports of trials and triumphs, of heartening instances of healing, of expanding avenues of service for the Church of Christ, Scientist. When the last notes of the glorious Doxology had faded away and the vast throng of happy Christian Scientists started to leave their Mother Church, the noble verse of Kipling, written at the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, came to mind:
The tumult and the shouting dies;
The Captains and the Kings depart:
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
At the time of the dedication of the Extension of The Mother Church edifice, a portion of this stirring poem was quoted in an outstanding editorial in the Journal. This editorial appears under the caption "Foreword" on pages v, vi, and vii of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," and all Christian Scientists may profit by an occasional review of this vital tribute to the forever Leader of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy.
