Announcements

From the Treasurer of The Mother Church Per Capita Tax, as provided in the Church Manual, Article VIII, Section 13, is due annually from "every member of The Mother Church," and "shall be forwarded each year to the Church Treasurer. " Payments may be sent during the year at any time between January I and December 31.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTITIONERS AND SOCIAL SECURITY Under a new federal law, effective January 1, 1955, Christian Science practitioners in the United States (and those practitioners abroad who are citizens of the United States) may have Social Security coverage on a voluntary, individual-choice basis as self-employed taxpayers. Whether or not a practitioner elects to have coverage is a matter for each practitioner to decide.

From the Treasurer Of The Mother Church Per Capita Tax, as provided in the Church Manual, Article VIII, Section 13, is due annually from "every member of The Mother Church," and "shall be forwarded each year to the Church Treasurer. " Payments may be sent during the year at any time between January I and December 31.

FROM THE DIRECTORS The attention of members of The Mother Church and others is called to Article VIII, Section 22 , of the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy, the first paragraph of which reads: "Members of this Church shall hold in sacred confidence all private communications made to them by their patients; also such information as may come to them by reason of their relation of practitioner to patient. A failure to do this shall subject the offender to Church discipline.

From the Treasurer of The Mother Church Per Capita Tax, as provided in the Church Manual, Article VIII, Section 13 , is due annually from "every member of The Mother Church," and "shall be forwarded each year to the Church Treasurer. " Payments may be sent during the year at any time between January 1 and December 31.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS Officers of branch churches and individuals who have occasion to correspond with The. Christian Science Board of Directors, with the Clerk and the Treasurer of The Mother Church, and with the heads of departments of The Mother Church Offices are requested always to place their addresses on their letters and to write their signatures plainly.

From the Treasurer of The Mother Church Per Capita Tax, as provided in the Church Manual, Article VIII, Section 13, is due annually from "every member of The Mother Church. " and "shall be forwarded each year to the Church Treasurer.

FROM THE DIRECTORS [As published in the Christian Science Sentinel of February 19, 1949 ] Occasionally Christian Scientists in the United States and abroad are appealed to by strangers for financial advances. Various means of obtaining money fraudulently are employed by unscrupulous persons.

From the Treasurer of The Mother Church Per Capita Tax, as provided in the Church Manual, Article VIII, Section 13, is due annually from "every member of The Mother Church," and "shall be forwarded each year to the Church Treasurer. " Payments may be sent during the year at any time between January 1 and December 31.

FROM THE DIRECTORS READERS IN BRANCH CHURCHES TERM OF OFFICE In the articles "Words for the Wise" and "Afterglow" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 250, 251 ), our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, commends the adoption of a three-year term for Readers in branch churches.