hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.’ (1 Corinthians, 2 : 16.)”
[Mrs. Eddy has only abolished the disappointment of communicants who come long distances and then find no seats in The Mother Church. — Editor Sentinel.]
Mrs. Eddy's Reply
Judge Clifford P. Smith, LL.B., C.S.B.,
- First Reader, The Mother Church, Boston, Mass.
Beloved Christian Scientist: — Accept my thanks for your approval of abolishing the communion season of The Mother Church. I sought God's guidance in doing it, but the most important events are criticized.
The Mother Church communion season was literally a communion of branch church communicants which might in time lose its sacredness and merge into a meeting for greetings. My beloved brethren may some time learn this and rejoice with me, as they so often have done, over a step higher in their passage from sense to Soul.
Most truly yours,
| Box G, Brookline, Mass., | |
| June 24, 1908. |
The Christian Science Board of Directors
Beloved Students: — I thank you for your kind invitation to be present at the annual meeting of The Mother Church on June 7, 1909. I will attend the
