Announcements

Applications for admission to membership in The Mother Church may be sent to the Clerk at any time throughout the year. It is desirable that applications should be forwarded in ample time so that they may receive the essential preliminary attention before the date of election.

The questions are sometimes asked, Should duties and offices in a branch church be entrusted to those members only who have had class instruction in Christian Science? Need Sunday school teachers, without exception, be class-taught? May a pupil of the Sunday school who has reached the age of twenty be appointed a worker in the Sunday school, perhaps as secretary or a teacher? It is, of course, necessary that those who hold positions of trust shall have the status of experienced, working Christian Scientists who are demonstrating Mrs. Eddy's teachings.

Applications for admission to membership in The Mother Church may be sent to the Clerk at any time throughout the year. It is desirable that applications should be forwarded in ample time so that they may receive the essential preliminary attention before the date of election.

The question is sometimes asked whether a practitioner who has a card in the directory of The Christian Science Journal may also be a librarian of a Christian Science Reading Room. This question is asked, no doubt, because of the By-Law ( Art.

Church Membership The term "church membership" denotes some of the tenderest ties of human experience. The true Church has touched countless lives with a light that is healing and spiritual.

The plan arranged by The Christian Science Board of Directors whereby the members of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship may have a year free from lecture work after serving three or more years, will enable the following lecturers to take for practice and study the year beginning July 1, 1936: William E. Brown Paul A.

We are happy to announce to the Field of Christian Science that sufficient funds are in hand so that the Reconstruction and Furnishing Fund is now closed. The purposes for which the fund was established —the reconstruction of the former Publishing House for the Administration Building, furnishing it, and helping to furnish the new Publishing House, the rebuilding of the Church Park fronting the Church edifice, and other essential work—have been completed satisfactorily.

NOTICE [As published in the Christian Science Sentinel, March 28, 1936] In the course of applying its policies concerning foreign exchange and balance of trade, the German Government is limiting the importation of Christian Science literature. Even the quantity of our books and periodicals that can be sent to Germany as gifts is restricted.

With the consent of Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy, we are happy to announce that excerpts from her letters are to be published regularly in the Christian Science periodicals. Brief gems of thought found in letters from the beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science will begin to appear in the next issues of the Journal, Sentinel, and Herald.

The questions are sometimes asked regarding the list of subjects for the Lesson-Sermons in the  Christian Science Quarterly , Why did not Mrs. Eddy give a subject for each Sunday during the year, instead of for each Sunday in a six months' period? and, What do you do when there are fifty-three Sundays in a year? Answering the last question first, it can be said that when the year includes fifty-three Sundays, the Lesson-Sermon Committee repeats one of the subjects, often that of "Christian Science," for the additional Lesson-Sermon.