The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-09

great TASK no" GUILT OllulS a llb1
Grated America, w h / C h more
than three quarters Of a century
ago fought a four-yearS war to
free the slaves, is TO aid in work
ing out the freedom of the whole
world from slavery. The Chris
tian Science Board of Directors
told several thousand Christian
Scientists gathered in annual
meeting in Boston today.
Declaring that this would be
the sentiment expressed by the
N a I MS martyred President,
Abraham Lincoln, were he here
today, the Directors pointed out
that through the ages tyrants
have endeavored to govern and
on tro | men by engendering
fear and quoting from Mary
B a ker Eddy's work, "Miscel-
lany" (p. 1919, they further say,
Persecution is the weakness of
tyrantS engendered by their fear,
and love will cast it out"
The Directors statement was
the high light of the Annual
Meeting of The Mother Church.
The First Church of Christ, Sci
enlist, in Boston, Massachusetts,
which annually draws thousands
of visitors TO the Hub City from
all parts of the world. This year,
however, the audience was more
localized due to unprecedented
world conditions that keynoted
most of the reports to the meet
ing, The Directors emphasized
the worldwide emergency as
preSaging a more universal turn
ing to spiritual enlightenment as
the pathway to future world
peace.
NJ ting in their Mother
Church under the world-envel-
oping shadow of what is proba-
bly, the gravest threat to political
and religious freedom since the
advent of Christianity, the visi-
tors were reminded in a report
by The Christian Science Board
of Lectureship that the union of
Britain and America was fore
seen forty-four years ago by
Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer
and Founder of Christian Sci
ence, as the instrument through
which the rights of free peoples
everywhere might be perman-
emily established and protected.
This welding together of the
two great democracies, under
the impact of an international
crisis, said the Lecture Board, is
the consummation of the fond
hopes of all Christian Scientists.
The Board alluded specifically
TO a poem written in 1898 by the
Leader of this worldwide re-
ligious movement, Mrs. Eddy,
which reads in part as follow:
Brave Britain, blest America!
Unite your battle-plan:
Victorious, all who live it,
The love of God and man"
Other prophetic statements of
Mrs. Eddy foretelling the trou-.
blOus times of today and giving
assurance that the forces of right
would inevitably win the day
we're cited by the Board of Di-
rectors. Particularly pertinent OF
the times was this one:
The voic1 of God in behalf Of
the African slave was still echo
ing in our land, when the voice
of the herald of this new cru
SADIE sounded the keynote of uni
VerSal freedom, asking fuller
acknowledgment Of the rights
of man as a Son of God, demand
ing that the letters of sin, sick
ness, and death be stricken from
the human mind and that its
freedom be won, not through hu-
man Warefare, not with bayOnet
and blood, but through Christ'S
divine Science.
God has built higher plat
form of human rights, and He
has built it on diviner claims.
These c ! a i m are not made
through code or creed, but in
demonstration Of on earth peace.
goodwill toward men (Sci-
ence and Health with Key to the
Scriptures, p. 226).
The Directors also announced
the election Of Mrs. Elizabeth F.
Norwood Of Brookline, Mass, as
President Of The Mother Church
for the ensuing year. The chief
duty of the President is TO pre-
side at the Annual Meeting.
The new Presi dent is the
of Isaac Paul Gragg,
who served throughout the CT
vii War and was given the rank
Of Captain by Brevet for gallant
and meritoriouS services. Her