The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-06-24
Annual Meeting Of The First Church
Of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass.

Boston, Mass.-The Christian
Science Board of Directors today
placed prayer" at the top of the
list of defensive and offensive
weapons that free-thirking peo-
pies are counting upon to win the
global war against oppression and
suppression.
In a statement to the annual
meeting of The Mother Church,
The First Church of Christ, Sci
enlist, in Boston, Massachusetts,
June 7, 1943, the Directors first
emphasized the word prayer"
then followed with the term mir
acle of deliverance" which is to
be accepted, they said, as the log
ical answer to righteous prayer.
Thus, deliverance from the hand
of the oppressor was seen by the
Directors to be no miracle at all,
but rather a simple witnessing to
the fact that power springs from
the prayer of understanding.
"A praying people can never
suffer defeat" summarized the
Directors remarks to several
thousand Christian Scientists as
sembled in The Mother Church.
BATTLES are not won," the Di-
rectors said, through trust alone,
but through intelligent, scientific
preparation and skillful execution.
AS we reach out to God through
understanding prayer, the human
footsteps to bring our deliverance
from this cruel warfare and all
evil will be revealed"
eyes, the demands of the hour
are crucial" the statement said,
they are imperative; they call
upon us as Christian Scientists to
be instant in pr:yer-not just
prayer of affirmation and expec-
fancy, but prayer that demands,
through spiritual understanding,
that the might of right prevail
now"
The Directors also announced
the election of Mrs. Daisette D. S.
Mckenzie of Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, as President of The
Mother Church for the ensuing
year, succeeding Mrs. Elizabeth F.
Norwood, of Brookline, Massachu-
sets.
The new President first became
interested in Christian Science in
1887 during the very early days
of the movement. Hence, Mrs.
Mckenzie became instrumental
in the pioneering of this religion
in the city of Cleveland. She
served ultimately as Reader in
First Church of Christ, Scientist,
Cleveland, and as a member of its
board of directors. In 1898 both
MI. and Mrs. Mckenzie were
called by Mrs. Eddy, the Discov-
erer and Founder of Christian
Science, to become members of
her last class taught in November
of that year.
Unity of purpose and action
which is the common goal of all
nations in this war, said the in
coming President, has been at
tanned in the Christian Science
movement under Mrs. Eddy, who
the new President described as a
master in the art of spiritual STRAIT
egy. "She leads us, not through
self-assertion, but by spiritual
animus and example. On this
point we have her own words:
The little that I have accom-
plished has all been done through
love,-self-forgetful, patient, un-
faltering tenderness" (Miscel-
lany, p. 247..)
The retiring President pointed
out that it is not people who are
waging the present world conflict,
but forces of evil working
through people to destroy the very
foundation of true Christianity"
This form of human domination,
she said, would attempt to force
upon mankind a goddess system
in which "there is no Christliness.