Religion: Refuge from Storms

To Boston last week went 7,000 Chris tian Scientists from all over the world They went at the call of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, for its annual meeting. Mother Church smoothed her skirts, patted her grey head, said she was feeling fine. Her funds "were in a sound, healthy condition," and "at no time in the history of the movement has the healing work been carried on with greater success. . . ." The one U. S. State which had fenced out Christian Science practitioners—Texas—had relented during the year.

Year and a half ago the German press sounded off against Christian Science ("all sorts of nonsense"); Government forbade the Church to sell pamphlets. Mother Church got around that by sending pamphlets free to the German branch. Said a report last week, "lectures were given to many eager audiences in Germany, without Government interference of any kind."

The Church rode out the New England hurricane last autumn. Said a report on Christian Science sanatoriums: "The place of these institutions as a refuge from the storms of material sense was illustrated . . . when damage to trees caused by the high winds was noticeably less at the Benevolent Association Sanatorium in Chestnut Hill, Brookline, and at the Pleasant View Home than on neighboring estates." At the Home, "the elm trees transplanted by our dear Leader [Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy] were unharmed."