0.0 – Christian Science – 16 Books by Mary Baker Eddy – Bk 6 – Retrospection and Introspection – Chpt 20 – General Associations and Our Magazine

                       GENERAL ASSOCIATIONS,
  	                  AND OUR MAGAZINE 

 1	    For many successive years I have endeavored to find
  	new ways and means for the promotion and expan-
 3	sion of scientific Mind-healing, seeking to broaden its
  	channels and, if possible, to build a hedge round about
  	it that should shelter its perfections from the contaminat-
 6	ing influences of those who have a small portion of its
  	letter and less of its spirit. At the same time I have
  	worked to provide a home for every true seeker and honest
 9	worker in this vineyard of Truth. 
  	    To meet the broader wants of humanity, and provide
  	folds for the sheep that were without shepherds, I sug-
12	gested to my students, in 1886, the propriety of forming
  	a National Christian Scientist Association. This was
  	immediately done, and delegations from the Christian
15	Scientist Association of the Massachusetts Metaphysical
  	College,  and from branch associations in other States,
  	met in general convention at New York City, February
18	11, 1886. 
  	    The first official organ of the Christian Scientist Asso-
  	ciation was called Journal of Christian Science. I started
21	it, April, 1883, as editor and publisher. 
  	    To the National Christian Scientist Association, at its
  	meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, June, 1889, I sent a letter,
 

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 1	presenting to its loyal members The Christian Science
  	Journal, as it was now called, and the funds belonging
 3	thereto. This monthly magazine had been made success-
  	ful and prosperous under difficult circumstances, and was
  	designed to bear aloft the standard of genuine Christian
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