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PRACTITIONER MEETINGS! At this year's Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, members were encouraged to think together about the Sermon on the Mount, especially in relation to the question, "what does it take to be a healer?" As all of us think more deeply about our role as healers and what it means to the world, The Mother Church would like to offer the opportunity for branches to invite the President of The Mother Church, Mark Swinney, C. S.

At this year's Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, members were encouraged to think together about the Sermon on the Mount, especially in relation to the question, "What does it take to be a healer?" As all of us think more deeply about our role as healers and what it means to the world, The Mother Church would like to offer the opportunity for branches to invite the President of The Mother Church, Mark Swinney, C. S.

Dear Fellow Members, Sometimes the theme of Annual Meeting comes as a definite statement. Like last year: "We are a church of healers!" But other times Annual Meeting can best be stated as a question.

THE AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, Mary Baker Eddy, informs us in the preface of that textbook that in 1881 she opened the Massachusetts Metaphysical College in Boston under the seal of the Commonwealth. In 1889, at the height of its prosperity, she saw the need to close it in order to dedicate her entire time to the revision of the textbook.

This June's Annual Meeting will invite members and friends of The Mother Church to join together in asking, "What does it take to be a healer?" Mary Baker Eddy's stirring words in her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 offer a wonderful starting point for praying about this quesion. She writes: To my sense the Sermon on the Mount, read each Sunday without comment and obeyed throughout the week, would be enough for Christian practice.

The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts, announced on September 11, 2006, an agreement to sell a home formerly occupied by its Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, to the Longyear Foundation of Brookline, Massachusetts. The home—at 12 Broad Street, in Lynn—was occupied by Mrs.

MARIAN C. ENGLISH, C.

"The Committee on Sunday School Lessons cannot give too much time and attention to their task, and should spare no research in the preparation of the Quarterly as an educational branch" ( Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896, p. 114).

During their visits to churches in the Field, The Christian Science Board of Directors has sometimes received questions regarding issues relating to Christian Science teachers, associations, and relationships between teachers and pupils. They have also been asked questions about teachers on probation and how Article XII, Section 1 ("Probation") of the Manual of The Mother Church is implemented in such cases.

Chaplains representing the Church of Christ, Scientist, must be members in good standing of The Mother Church and a branch church or society, should be loyal to the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy and be distinctly Christian in their expression and practice of their faith. They should be students of the Bible and of the published writings of Mrs.