Announcements

CLERK OF THE MOTHER CHURCH. Correspondence relating to membership with the Mother Church and requests for blank applications for membership, should be addressed to William B.

CLERK OF THE MOTHER CHURCH Correspondence relating to membership with the Mother Church and requests for blank applications for membership, should be addressed to William B. Johnson, C.

The Christian Science Board of Directors shall elect annually, subject to the approval or the disapproval of the Pastor Emeritus, a "Committee on Debate," consisting of not less than four members. A member of this Church shall not debate on Christian Science in public debating assemblies, who is not a member of this Committee.

Applications for membership with the Mother Church to be presented at the June meeting for the admission of applicants, must be in the hands of the Clerk on or before May 20, 1901. Inviters of applicants to membership with the Mother Church will confer a favor on the Clerk and save disappointment to the applicants if they will withhold, until after the semi-annual meetings, all applications that have been sent to them for their signature too late to reach the Clerk before the date set for the closing of the entries for admission, and also notify the applicants that their applications have been retained.

The annual term of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College will open, with the Board of Education, on the first Monday of June, 1901, at 10 o'clock a. m.

I have the pleasure of announcing to our readers, by consent of Judge Joseph R. Clarkson of Omaha, Neb.

The services of the Mother Church shall be continued twelve months each year. A Christian Scientist is not fatigued by prayer, by reading the Scriptures, or the Christian Science text-book.

The report that I prefer to have a male, rather than a female, for First Reader in the Church of Christ, Scientist, I desire to correct. My preference lies with the individual best fitted to perform this important function.

To the donors of the certificate of one thousand shares in stock of Acme Smelting and Refining Co. , Phœnix, Arizona, accompanied by a kind letter, I beg to say: Accept this public, as well as my private acknowledgment of your liberal gift, the certificate whereof, I returned with my thanks on April 24, 1900.

The May number of the Granite Monthly, published at Concord, N. H.