furtherance and unfolding of Truth, and that my necessity is not
necessarily theirs; but it was the Father's opportunity for furnishing a
new rule of order in divine Science, and the blessings which arose
therefrom. Students are not environed with such obstacles as were
encountered in the beginning of pioneer work.

In December, 1889, I gave a lot of land in Boston to my student, Mr. Ira O.
Knapp of Roslindale,--valued in 1892 at about twenty thousand dollars, and
rising in value,--to be appropriated for the erection, and building on the
premises thereby conveyed, of a church edifice to be used as a temple for
Christian Science worship.




GENERAL ASSOCIATIONS, AND OUR MAGAZINE


For many successive years I have endeavored to find new ways and means for
the promotion and expansion 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 contaminating 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 worker in
this vineyard of Truth.

To meet the broader wants of humanity, and provide folds for the sheep that
were without shepherds, I suggested to my students, in 1886, the propriety
of forming a National Christian Scientist Association. This was immediately
done, and delegations from the Christian Scientist Association of the