● ● ●  the household to receive this message,” and this she did. As these students came into the room, she repeated what she had said to me and again read the verse mentioned. Looking very earnestly and lovingly at all of us, she added, “You can each of you, I am sure, say this for yourselves, that you believe, not because of what I have told you, but because you have proved for yourselves that Christian Science is indeed ‘the Christ, the Saviour of the world.’”

Instructive criticism

The Board of Directors and the Editors were summoned by telegram to meet Mrs. Eddy at Pleasant View at two o’clock in the afternoon of October 5, 1905. On our arrival we were shown to her study and took our seats in a semicircle in front of the chair where she usually sat in the corner of the room. There were present Messrs. Chase, Johnson, Armstrong, Knapp, McLellan, Willis, and myself. After greeting us, Mrs. Eddy addressed the Directors individually by name and asked each one if he read carefully the Journal and Sentinel. Each one in turn said he did but perhaps not so carefully as he ought to do. She then said quite gravely that she wanted them to read the periodicals with the utmost care and to assist her in guarding them from any erroneous or misleading statements which might escape the notice of the Editors.

She then took up from her desk a copy of theChristian Science Sentinel of September 30, 1905, and read these words from an article: “a diseased body is not acceptable to God.” She read them without indicating in any way whether she approved or disapproved of them and then asked each of us if we considered that statement scientific. I happened to be  ● ● ●