The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-06-08
ANNUAL MEETING,
MOTHER CHURCH,
SCIENTISTS, HELD
George Shaw Cook Named
President, Succeeding
Ralph H. Knapp

BOSTON. Mass, June 8.-Thou-
sands of Christian Scientists, meet
ing in this city, challenged a troub-
led world to change its perspective
from a material to spiritual basis
in its search for release from press
ing economic and political prob
lens.
The occasion for the great influx
of the followers of Mary Baker
Eddy was the annual meeting of
The Mother Church, The First
Church of Christ, Scientist, in Bos-
ton, Massachusetts, which was
filled right up to the center bal
cony under the very dome of the
great edifice Through an entire
afternoons round of addresses and
reports from the field, the power
of Christ, Truth, to lift individuals
above the ills of human sense was
acknowledged and this same spiri-
/ tual power was recommended for
the healing of the nations and the
establishment of permanent world
peace.
Looking beneath the surface rip
pies of troubled international rela-
tionships apparent in the world
today, The Christian Science Board
of Directors saw the deep-running
currents of spiritual progress
keeping alive the vital realization
of spiritual truth which Christian
Scientists must always nurture,
whether their work be along the
specific line of healing or in the
important channels connected with
home, church, bushes, and gov
eminent"
Church Progress Reported
Various reports cited specific in
stances of spiritual enlightenment
actively at work among the nations
today. One revealed that Europe,
seething center of turbulent poll
teal upheavals, is also fertile field
for spiritual growth, indicated in
the formation of 81 new branch
church organizations abroad, IL of
them being in England.
Similar progress was reported in
North America where rs new branch
organizations were launched. Africa
and Australia, it was stated, have
formed one new organization each,
while 80 societies were found rails
ing their status to that of churches
during the last IL months In edu-
cational fields, nine new university
organizations became recognized
units of the Christian Science move
ment.
Summarizing these distinct evil
dences of continued reaching out
for Truth, the Directors stated:
I'VE are in position to know, and
are glad to report, that at no time
in the history of the Christian
Science movement has the healing
work been carried on with greater
success or along broader lines than
it is today"
Benefit to World Sought
Continuing, the Directors said:
Surely in this period of unsettled
world conditions our prayers are
most essential, and each one of us
should ask himself if he is doing
all that he can to meet the agrees
sive suggestions of error, which
would try constantly to intrude, and
if he is working to help spiritualize
thought, thereby correcting the gen.
orally accepted material beliefs"
Announcement of new officers
constituted the main business of
the meeting. George Shaw Cook,
C.S.B., of Brooklir1e, Mass, was
named President for the ensuing
year to succeed Ralph H. Knapp of
Needham. Edward l.. Ripley of
Brookline and Ezra w. Palmer of
Marshfield were reelected Treas
urer and Clerk, respectively. The
President is elected by The Chris
tan Science Board of Directors for
a one-year term, his chief duty
being to serve as presiding officer
at the Annual Meeting.
Mr.. Cook is a native of Iowa, NOV