Announcements

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.

Will our contributors, in sending in articles, be careful to send with their article, their full name and address. If they have a street number be sure to give it.

The By-laws relating to the Board of Lectureship have been amended by striking out of section I, Article XXXIV. , the words "consisting of not less than three, nor more than twelve members.

This is the title of a well-executed etching from an original drawing by Rufus H. Baker.