Better & Better

Crowding the domed Mother Church of the Christian Scientists in Boston's Back Bay and overflowing into the square-towered "Original Mother Church" next door, the cavernous Sunday School room and a rented movie theater, 7,500 cheerful Christian Scientists from all over the world gathered this week for three days of meetings. They were observing their annual get-together and the 75th anniversary of Founder Mary Baker Eddy's key work, Science and Health.

Elected by the permanent five-man board of directors as president for the next year was Walter S. Cross, 69, of Fitchburg, Mass., who became a Christian Science Dractitioner two years after he graduated from Yale in 1904. Elected for three-year terms as First Reader and Second Reader of the Mother Church were Texas Lecturer James Harry McReynolds and Boston's Helen Appleton.

The assembled Scientists heard that everything about their faith was getting better & better. Pointing out that Founder Eddy had forbidden "public numbering" of the membership, the board of director annual message noted that "in every year since 1902 [when the church reported gain of 2,784 members], the net gain in . . . membership has been greater than in that year . . . The number of branches of the Mother Church has continued to increase, there having been a gain of 38 in the last year . . .

"And--what is more important . . . it is apparent that the healing work of Christian Science, always the best barometer of the growth of the movement, was never of better quality or on a larger scale . . ."

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