Announcements

A Normal class will be held by the Board of Education in December 1985, in accordance with the provision in Article XXVI, Section 4, of the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy. Practitioners meeting the qualifications of Article XXIX, Section 2, of the Church Manual who wish to apply for this class should request an application from: The First Church of Christ, Scientist Board of Education, A-235 Christian Science Center Boston, MA, U.

Regarding secular organizations Since the beginning of the Church of Christ, Scientist, many Christian Scientists have thoughtfully pondered the distinction between the activities of this Church and activities organized outside the auspices of church, by and for Christian Scientists. Often members write to The Mother Church asking if they should support or participate in such activities.

A Normal class will be held by the Board of Education in December 1985, in accordance with the provision in Article XXVI, Section 4, of the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy. Practitioners meeting the qualifications of Article XXIX, Section 2, of the Church Manual who wish to apply for this class should request an application from: The First Church of Christ, Scientist Board of Education, A-235 Christian Science Center Boston, MA, U.

In the early days of our movement, class instruction in Christian Science was considered the most natural step in the world! And of course that's exactly what it still is. What could be more natural than learning more about Christian Science healing for oneself and others? A receptive heart filled with humility, honesty, and goodness is ready at least to consider this step.

New appointments to the Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society We are pleased to announce our approval of recent steps taken by the Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society. At different periods in the history of the Publishing Society, the role of the Board of Trustees has taken on different emphasis depending on the needs of the times.

An important statement on the Bible Lessons On November 7, 1901, our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, returned to the Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society correspondence regarding a printout of the Bible references from the Lesson-Sermon being published by a Chicago firm. Attached to it, in the handwriting of one of Mrs.

An important decision and a continuing need The action of a Detroit judge in dismissing all charges of neglect and misrepresentation against The Mother Church and two Christian Science practitioners—charges brought by a former Michigan couple—stands as a vital recognition, by the law, of the religious nature of Christian Science practice and of the constitutional freedoms that protect it. A further blessing from the whole experience has been a newly awakened sense of spiritual unity among Christian Scientists worldwide.

FROM THE DIRECTORS New appointments We are pleased to announce that Earl W. Foell, a lifelong Christian Scientist, has been appointed Editor in Chief of The Christian Science Monitor.

[Reprinted from the Christian Science Sentinel of August 8, 1983] The Chancery Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey ruled on June 17, 1983, that a church group in Plainfield, New Jersey, from which branch church recognition was withdrawn on June 14, 1977, must stop • using the name Independent Christian Science Church; • using the terms "Christian Science" and "Church of Christ, Scientist" to identify their organization. From 1907 to 1977 the Plainfield group had functioned under the name First Church of Christ, Scientist, Plainfield, as a branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

When Allison W. Phinney, C.