. Vital issues in Christian Science : a record of unsettled questions which arose in the year of 1909, between the Directors of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts and First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City, eight of its nine trustees and sixteen of its practitioners . Concord N H. Oct. 35,1908 frs. A. E. Stetson, My beloved Student I did not get your i-trJ letter in time to reply b,efore you left K,Y,-^ to your question on selling my bocks donn town in your city. That movement would be unwise in many ways and would not propper, abandon suc


. Vital issues in Christian Science : a record of unsettled questions which arose in the year of 1909, between the Directors of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts and First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City, eight of its nine trustees and sixteen of its practitioners . Concord N H. Oct. 35,1908 frs. A. E. Stetson, My beloved Student I did not get your i-trJ letter in time to reply b,efore you left K,Y,-^ to your question on selling my bocks donn town in your city. That movement would be unwise in many ways and would not propper, abandon such a thougbi. You have fulfilled the By-law in our Church relation to a Reading Boom; and it only remains for you to carry on your Eeading Room ^ • Facsimile letter from Mrs. Eddy to Mrs. Stetson. and for tlie down towners to unite and have a Reading Room that is centrally located* Thie h what must be down. I hope the Teachers Associa tion will be harmonious and my rules for their best interest will be unitedly adopted and foil Secret of a Great Church Work 107 The presence of a body of such spiritually mindedpractitioners in the application of Truth to the over-coming of evil was regarded as a most essen-tial element of strength in the influence of minded prac-this church upon the community at large. titioners a ? ^ o great power This type of individual attainment wasconfined to a group of regular practitioners of probablyforty or more persons, the majority of whom prac-tised healing work during the day at the ReadingRoom, while others met their patients regularly attheir homes or offices elsewhere. But the entire groupwas properly regarded as a imit in the effort to dealwith the difficult problems of sin, disease, and deathwhich were constantly presented. For the handling of their cases effectively, confer-ence and counsel came to be a regularly establishedpart of the daily routine of the ReadingRoom practitioners. From this arose the on healingnecessity of practitio


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