FOOTNOTES:
[1] This communion was originally observed once each quarter and then twice a year. Since 1899 it has been observed but once a year, on the second Sunday in June. No "material" emblems, such as bread and wine, are offered, and the communion is one of silent thought. On Monday the directors meet and transact the business of the year, and on Tuesday the officers' reports are read. As most members of the branch churches are also members of the Mother Church, thousands of Christian Scientists from all over the United States visit Boston at this time.
[2] At the 1898 communion there was no invitation from Mrs. Eddy, but a number of communicants went up to Concord to see her house and to see her start out upon her daily drive. In June, 1899, Mrs. Eddy came to Boston and briefly addressed the annual business meeting of the church. In 1902 and 1903 there were no formal pilgrimages, although hundreds of Christian Scientists went to Concord to catch a glimpse of Mrs. Eddy upon her drive.
[3] February, 1899.
[4] Calvin Frye.
[5] In a notice to the churches, 1897, Mrs. Eddy says:
"The Bible and the Christian Science text-book are our only preachers. We shall now read scriptural texts and their co-relative passages from our text-book—these comprise our sermon. The canonical writings, together with the word of our text-book, corroborating and explaining the Bible texts in their denominational, spiritual import and application to all ages, past, present and future, constitute a sermon undivorced from truth, uncontaminated or fettered by human hypotheses and authorized by Christ."
[6] For the text of these by-laws see Christian Science Manual (1904), Articles IV and XXIII.
[7] Mrs. Eddy stated in regard to this ruling that it was to have immediate effect only in the Mother Church, adding: "Doubtless the churches adopting this by-law will discriminate its adaptability to their conditions. But if now is not the time the branch churches can wait for the favored moment to act on this subject."
[8] Church Manual (11th ed.), Article XXXII.
[9] Ibid. (3d ed.), Article VIII, Sec. 5.
[10] Church Manual (43d ed.), Article I, Sec. 5.
[11] Ibid. (43d ed.), Article I, Sec. 2.
[12] Ibid. (43d ed.), Article I, Sec. 4. Ibid. (11th ed.), Article XXIII, Sec. 2.
[13] Ibid. (43d ed.), Article I, Sec. 3.
[14] Formerly the Executive Members were permitted to fix the salaries of the Readers, but in the last edition of the Manual this privilege seems to have been withdrawn.
[15] Church Manual (43d ed.), Article VI.
[16] Church Manual (43d ed.), Article XXVIII.
[17] Ibid. (11th ed.), Article XXIII.
[18] Ibid. (43d ed.), Article IV.
[19] Ibid. (43d ed.), Article XXXIV, Sec. 1.
[20] Ibid. (43d ed.), Article XXXIV, Sec. 2.
[21] Ibid. (43d ed.), Article XXXIV, Sec. 4.
[22] Church Manual (11th ed.). Article XV.
[23] Ibid. (43d ed.), Article XXVI.
[24] Church Manual (43d ed.), Article XXII, Sec. 4.
[25] "Christian Science History," by Mary B. G. Eddy (1st ed.), page 16.
[26] In June, 1907, there were 3,515 authorized Christian Science "healers" in the world; 3,268 of these are practising in the United States, 1 in Alaska, 63 in the Dominion of Canada, 5 in Mexico, 1 in Cuba, 1 in South Africa, 18 in Australia, 1 in China, 105 in England, 5 in Ireland, 9 in Scotland, 7 in France, 15 in Germany, 4 in Holland, 1 in India, 1 in Italy, 1 in the Philippine Islands, 1 in Russia, 1 in South America, 7 in Switzerland.
IN CHARGE OF TRUSTY
BY LUCY PRATT
ILLUSTRATIONS BY FREDERIC DORR STEELE
There was a dramatic arrival at the Whittier School one Monday morning.
The children were gathered in their class-rooms, looking particularly good and hopeful just after their morning exercises, and Miss Doane was on the platform in the Assembly Room, when she became aware of a slight confusion in the outside hall. But, since visitors of distinction always came in from that particular hall, Miss Doane merely waited for whatever special form of distinction this might be. There was a thump on the door, and then, after some slight parleying and continued confusion on the other side, it opened and two visitors made their entrance. One was a very large and rather ancient-looking colored man, the other was a very small colored boy. They both looked somewhat spent and breathless, and when the man had deposited the boy before him, with a threatening wave of the stick, he took out a large bandana and wiped the sweat of honest toil from his brow. Miss Doane, somewhat uneasy, approached her visitor.
"Yer see, Miss," he explained, with a gesture of triumph toward the small heap on the floor, "he's ser bad, I'se jes 'blige whup 'im all de way ter school ter git 'im yere fer sho!"
Miss Doane made some response to the effect that it certainly was an unusual way of making sure that a child came to school, to which he joined in:
"Ya-as, Miss, ya-as, Miss! Cert'nly is so! Jes 'blige drap all my wuk 'n' run 'im clean yere. Now, ain't yer 'shame, boy, fer de lady ter see yer ser bad 'n' hard-haided?"
He was not too ashamed to grumble out an unintelligible answer; but he looked quite disgusted with life in general, and twisted his head around in all sorts of directions, and sniffed, and rubbed his coat-sleeve across his face, and appeared generally ill at ease.
"What is his name?" questioned Miss Doane.
"Trusty—Trusty 'is name," explained the parent. "Trusty Miles. W'y doan't yer speak up, boy, an' tell de lady yer name?"
Trusty grunted.
"He doesn't seem very glad to be here," suggested Miss Doane mildly.
"No, Miss, dat's de trufe," agreed the parent cordially, "dat's de trufe! Yer see, he ain't r'ally used ter w'ite folks' school, 'counten allays gwine ter Miss Pauline Smiff's. Yas'm. He ain't r'ally used ter w'ite folks, an' he jes seem ter natchelly balk at de idea fum de fus."
"I see," returned Miss Doane modestly, producing a reader by way of tactful diversion.
Miss Pauline Smith's ex-pupil looked at it a bit askance, and Miss Doane proceeded in a somewhat harrowing attempt to discover and lay bare anything in the least suggestive of knowledge—as such.
"I see," she concluded finally, when there was positively nothing more left to discover; "I see. Will you follow me, please?"
With unexpected docility, Trusty turned and, with his eyes fixed on a closed door toward which Miss Doane led the way, followed, he knew not where.
"Miss North," began Miss Doane, when the door had opened and closed again, "Miss North, I have a new pupil for you."
Miss North tried to look as if this were the most unexpected bit of good fortune which could possibly come to her, and glanced around for an appropriate seat. The children looked pleased at the slight diversion, and Ezekiel, sitting in a corner seat of the front row, looked both pleased and intelligent.
"Dat's Trusty," he began smilingly in a low voice to Miss North, "dat's Trusty Miles, Miss No'th"; and, feeling the cheerful superiority of former acquaintance, he beamed delightedly on Trusty.
"Yes; and I think you may sit right here," explained Miss North, after brief consideration.
In lack of anything else to do, Trusty accepted the offered seat.
"And now," continued Miss North, when the children had once more settled themselves and Miss Doane had gone back to her waiting visitor, "we will go on with the lesson. Yes, we had just decided that we all had bodies."
Ezekiel glanced at the new pupil, who seemed to be somewhat taken by surprise at this unexpected development, and was looking curiously around the room with evident hope of disputing the statement.
"Yes, that is true, is it not, that we all have bodies?"
They all looked around rather doubtfully, as if they did not feel quite so sure on this point; but, as no disembodied spirit spoke up in denial of the assertion, it was gradually accepted.
"Yes; and these bodies have a great many different parts, haven't they?"
"Yas'm," came, rather faintly.
"Why, yes, indeed," went on Miss North, quite gaily, "a great many different parts. Now, what are some of these parts, children? Who can think?"
There was a moment of tremendous concentration, and then a dozen hands went up.
"Well, Alphonso Jones—and make a nice sentence, Alphonso."
"Yer haid is part uv yer body," stated Alphonso, as though he were not in the habit of being contradicted.
"Yes, very true. Your head is part of your body. And now, as different parts of the head, we have—" putting her fingers suggestively to her ears——
"Ears!" shouted a tremendous chorus.
