The 1985 Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, was held in Boston on Monday, June 3. Through the following pages of reports, each member may unite with all members in fulfilling Mary Baker Eddy's expectations for this yearly event. Her words are perennially fresh: "Brethren, our annual meeting is a grave guardian. It requires you to report progress, to refresh memory, to rejuvenate the branches and to vivify the buds, to bend upward the tendrils and to incline the vine towards the parent trunk. You come from feeding your flocks, big with promise; and you come with the sling of Israel's chosen one to meet the Goliaths" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 125).
A detailed account of the meeting follows.
The members sang Hymn No. 300 from the Christian Science Hymnal.
