The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-04
SRCONDREADER MISS HOOPER
OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF
 CHRIST, SCIENTISTS,
Tenders Her ResIgnatIon-OmeiaI Ap- precIatiOn of Her seFviees-MrS. sImonsen Appointed.

simonsen Appointed.
 In the Christian Science Sentinel. a weekly periodical of this denomination, the following note appeared from the pen of Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science.
 "Words to the Wise"
 "The mother church bylaw relative to a three years term for church read CTS was entitled to, and has received profound attention. Rotation of office promotes wisdom, quiets mad ambi- ton, satisfies justice and crowns hon. est endeavors.
 The best Christian Scientists will be the first to adopt said bylaws in their churches, and the readers to retire eX- officio after three years of acceptable service as church readers to higher use- fulness in this vast vineyard of our Lord.
 The churches who adopt the aforesaid bylaws please send to the editor of our periodicals due notice thereof.
 Pleasant View. Concord. N.. H.
 Mary Baker G. Eddy. July 18th. 1902. Acting on the suggestion herein stated Miss Mary Louise Hooper, c. S.. the second readar of the First church of Christ, Scientist, New Haven, Conn.,, rendered her resignation to the official board of directors of said church, July 27, 1902.
 Miss Hooper has served as reader for the past four years. She was first reader until last February, when she resigned said position because 1t was evident to her and the church that the demands of the cause she served had grown to such proportions that gen. tleman first reader could better fill the present needs of this society, and Rev Severin F. Simonsen, c. s. R., ot Brooklyn, N. Y. was invited, and ac- cepted the call to that position.
 The board of directors in session "wednesday, July 30, 1902, accepted the resignation of Miss Hooper with deer appreciation of her long. faithful. eff cient and successful service in the desk and as practitioner in Christian Science healing. They also gratefully recognize her obedience to this onward movement afforded the branch churche: of the mother church in Boston, Mass. It was on motion made by Miss Hoop CT that Mrs. Mary E. Simonsen, c. S. the wife of the first reader, was elected second reader to take immediate effect At a special meeting of the churcf last Saturday evening it was moved ant seconded that the constitution and by laws of this body be changed so far al necessary to conform to this new by law of the mother church. This wa unanimously carried.
 The action Of the board relative t. Miss Hooper's resignation and the ap pointment of Mrs. Sin1onson was rati fled by the church.
 The following resolutions were req and accepted:
 Resolved: That an expression of grat itude be made that this church so fav bred in this hour that their call to MI Sinonsen last winter should provid them with one whose election to tn desk is so fitted in all ways. MT: simonsen, who has stood with her bus band as one with him, in his convictio Of the truth of Christian science. sh has borne with invincible integrity tn test of stepping out from her old churc faith and position as the wife of clergyman of standing in their denom nation.
 The sacred privilege to stand by ht husbands side in the position of hont conferred as that of reader in the Chri tan science ranks has only been ma