Announcements

The Mother Church Wartime Fund is being drawn upon more and more heavily as the Christian Science Camp Welfare Activities increase with the development of the war effort. The Wartime Fund is used to make available the services of Christian Science Wartime Ministers and other similar civilian workers, to promote the spiritual welfare of Christian Scientists and others serving in the forces of the United States and its allies.

Are the lectures on Christian Science being attended by a good percentage of people who have not heard many such lectures? Are the members of each branch church, under whose auspices a lecture is given, inviting their neighbors and friends to attend and sometimes helping them to do so? Is the public generally, including the strangers in the community, being informed of the time and place of the lecture and invited to attend it? If so, this is as it should be. A Christian Science lecture is designed primarily for giving information concerning this religion.

Chaplains Among the chaplains in the United States Army there are at present twelve Christian Scientists. They have been certified by The Christian Science Board of Directors as qualified, and commissioned by the War Department, within the past two years, and they are now in active service with the military forces of the United States.

Another opportunity to unite with The Mother Church and with some one of its local branches is at hand, and the occasion deserves the loving attention and prayerful thought of every Christian Scientist. The growth and maintenance of The Mother Church, the health and vigor of the branch churches—these are matters of vital concern to us as individuals and to the world about us; they form a basis for the spread of the teaching of Christ Jesus as explained and corroborated by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy.

The Mother Church Wartime Fund is being drawn upon more and more heavily as the Christian Science Camp Welfare Activities increase with the development of the war effort. The Wartime Fund is used to make available the services of Christian Science Wartime Ministers and other similar civilian workers, to promote the spiritual welfare of Christian Scientists and others serving in the forces of the United States and its allies.

From time to time the question is asked. What procedure should be followed with regard to announcing the book, and the name of the author, when quotations are read from the works of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in Christian Science church services? The By-Law, Article XV, Section 1, of the Manual of The Mother Church provides that when passages from Mrs.

Beginning May 1, 1943, per capita tax statements will be mailed each year to all members of The Mother Church, as a reminder of the provisions of Article VIII, Section 13, of the Church Manual covering the payment of a per capita tax "of not less than one dollar" annually. The present custom of issuing receipts will be discontinued after January 1, 1943.

The Mother Church Wartime Fund is being drawn upon more and more heavily as the Christian Science Camp Welfare Activities increase with the development of the war effort. The Wartime Fund is used to make available the services of Christian Science Wartime Ministers and other similar civilian workers, to promote the spiritual welfare of Christian Scientists and others serving in the forces of the United States and its allies.

From the Clerk of The Mother Church tenets of the mother church Because the Tenets of The Mother Church are copyrighted, branch organizations may not have them printed for their own use. The Tenets are printed in two sizes.

Christian Scientists rejoice in the prosperity of The Mother Church. One interesting waymark of progress is the steady growth in the membership of the Church.