Pulpit and Press

by Mary Baker Eddy



Table of Contents


Clippings from Newspapers




Preface

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1 THIS volume contains scintillations from press and
 pulpit — utterances which epitomize the story of the
3 birth of Christian Science, in 1866, and its progress
 during the ensuing thirty years. Three quarters of a
 century hence, when the children of to-day are the elders
6 of the twentieth century, it will be interesting to have
 not only a record of the inclination given their own
 thoughts in the latter half of the nineteenth century,
9 but also a registry of the rise of the mercury in the glass
 of the world's opinion.

 It will then be instructive to turn backward the tele-
12 scope of that advanced age, with its lenses of more
 spiritual mentality, indicating the gain of intellectual
 momentum, on the early footsteps of Christian Science
15 as planted in the pathway of this generation; to note
 the impetus thereby given to Christianity; to con the
 facts surrounding the cradle of this grand verity — that
18 the sick are healed and sinners saved, not by matter, but
 by Mind; and to scan further the features of the vast
 problem of eternal life, as expressed in the absolute
21 power of Truth and the actual bliss of man's existence
 in Science.

 Mary Baker Eddy
 February, 1895



Dedicatory Sermon

Delivered January 6, 1895

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1 TEXT: They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy

 house; and Thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy pleasures.

3 — PSALMS xxxvi. 8.

 A NEW year is a nursling, a babe of time, a prophecy
 and promise clad in white raiment, kissed — and
6 encumbered with greetings — redolent with grief and
 gratitude.

 An old year is time's adult, and 1893 was a distinguished
9 character, notable for good and evil. Time past and time
 present, both, may pain us, but time improved is elo-
 quent in God's praise. For due refreshment garner the
12 memory of 1894; for if wiser by reason of its large lessons,
 and records deeply engraven, great is the value thereof.

 Pass on, returnless year!

15 The path behind thee is with glory crowned;
 This spot whereon thou troddest was holy ground;
 Pass proudly to thy bier!

18 To-day, being with you in spirit, what need that I should
 be present in propria persona? Were I present, methinks


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1 I should be much like the Queen of Sheba, when she saw
 the house Solomon had erected. In the expressive language
3 of Holy Writ, "There was no more spirit in her;" and
 she said, "Behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom
 and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard." Both
6 without and within, the spirit of beauty dominates The
 Mother Church, from its mosaic flooring to the soft shim-
 mer of its starlit dome.

9 Nevertheless, there is a thought higher and deeper than
 the edifice. Material light and shade are temporal, not
 eternal. Turning the attention from sublunary views,
12 however enchanting, think for a moment with me of the
 house wherewith "they shall be abundantly satisfied," —
 even the "house not made with hands, eternal in the
15 heavens." With the mind's eye glance at the direful
 scenes of the war between China and Japan. Imagine
 yourselves in a poorly barricaded fort, fiercely besieged
18 by the enemy. Would you rush forth single-handed to
 combat the foe? Nay, would you not rather strengthen
 your citadel by every means in your power, and remain
21 within the walls for its defense? Likewise should we do
 as metaphysicians and Christian Scientists. The real
 house in which "we live, and move, and have our being"
24 is Spirit, God, the eternal harmony of infinite Soul. The
 enemy we confront would overthrow this sublime fortress,
 and it behooves us to defend our heritage.

27 How can we do this Christianly scientific work? By
 intrenching ourselves in the knowledge that our true
 temple is no human fabrication, but the superstructure
30 of Truth, reared on the foundation of Love, and pinnacled


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1 in Life. Such being its nature, how can our godly temple
 possibly be demolished, or even disturbed? Can eternity
3 end? Can Life die? Can Truth be uncertain? Can
 Love be less than boundless? Referring to this temple,
 our Master said: "Destroy this temple, and in three days
6 I will raise it up." He also said: "The kingdom of God
 is within you." Know, then, that you possess sovereign
 power to think and act rightly, and that nothing can dis-
9 possess you of this heritage and trespass on Love. If you
 maintain this position, who or what can cause you to sin
 or suffer? Our surety is in our confidence that we are
12 indeed dwellers in Truth and Love, man's eternal mansion.

 Such a heavenly assurance ends all warfare, and bids tu-
 mult cease, for the good fight we have waged is over, and
15 divine Love gives us the true sense of victory. "They
 shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house;
 and Thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy
18 pleasures." No longer are we of the church militant, but
 of the church triumphant; and with Job of old we ex-
 claim, "Yet in my flesh shall I see God." The river of
21 His pleasures is a tributary of divine Love, whose living
 waters have their source in God, and flow into everlasting
 Life. We drink of this river when all human desires are
24 quenched, satisfied with what is pleasing to the divine
 Mind.

 Perchance some one of you may say, "The evidence of
27 spiritual verity in me is so small that I am afraid. I feel
 so far from victory over the flesh that to reach out for a
 present realization of my hope savors of temerity. Be-
30 cause of my own unfitness for such a spiritual animus my


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1 strength is naught and my faith fails." O thou "weak
 and infirm of purpose." Jesus said, "Be not afraid"!

3 "What if the little rain should say,
 'So small a drop as I

 Can ne'er refresh a drooping earth,
6 I'll tarry in the sky.' "
 Is not a man metaphysically and mathematically num-
 ber one, a unit, and therefore whole number, governed
9 and protected by his divine Principle, God? You have
 simply to preserve a scientific, positive sense of unity with
 your divine source, and daily demonstrate this. Then you
12 will find that one is as important a factor as duodecillions
 in being and doing right, and thus demonstrating deific
 Principle. A dewdrop reflects the sun. Each of Christ's
15 little ones reflects the infinite One, and therefore is the
 seer's declaration true, that "one on God's side is a
 majority.

18 A single drop of water may help to hide the stars, or
 crown the tree with blossoms.

 Who lives in good, lives also in God, — lives in all Life,
21 through all space. His is an individual kingdom, his dia-
 dem a crown of crowns. His existence is deathless, for-
 ever unfolding its eternal Principle. Wait patiently on
24 illimitable Love, the lord and giver of Life. Reflect this
 Life, and with it cometh the full power of being. "They
 shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy
27 house.

 In 1893 the World's Parliament of Religions, held in
 Chicago, used, in all its public sessions, my form of prayer


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1 since 1866; and one of the very clergymen who had pub-
 licly proclaimed me "the prayerless Mrs. Eddy," offered
3 his audible adoration in the words I use, besides listening
 to an address on Christian Science from my pen, read by
 Judge S. J. Hanna, in that unique assembly.

6 When the light of one friendship after another passes
 from earth to heaven, we kindle in place thereof the glow
 of some deathless reality. Memory, faithful to goodness,
9 holds in her secret chambers those characters of holiest
 sort, bravest to endure, firmest to suffer, soonest to re-
 nounce. Such was the founder of the Concord School of
12 Philosophy — the late A. Bronson Alcott.

 After the publication of "Science and Health with Key
 to the Scriptures," his athletic mind, scholarly and serene,
15 was the first to bedew my hope with a drop of humanity.

 When the press and pulpit cannonaded this book, he
 introduced himself to its author by saying, "I have come
18 to comfort you." Then eloquently paraphrasing it, and
 prophesying its prosperity, his conversation with a beauty
 all its own reassured me. That prophecy is fulfilled.

21 This book, in 1895, is in its ninety-first edition of one
 thousand copies. It is in the public libraries of the prin-
 cipal cities, colleges, and universities of America; also
24 the same in Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia,
 Italy, Greece, Japan, India, and China; in the Oxford
 University and the Victoria Institute, England; in the
27 Academy of Greece, and the Vatican at Rome.

 This book is the leaven fermenting religion; it is
 palpably working in the sermons, Sunday Schools, and
30 literature of our and other lands. This spiritual chemi-


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1 calization is the upheaval produced when Truth is neutral-
 izing error and impurities are passing off. And it will
3 continue till the antithesis of Christianity, engendering the
 limited forms of a national or tyrannical religion, yields to
 the church established by the Nazarene Prophet and main-
6 tained on the spiritual foundation of Christ's healing.

 Good, the Anglo-Saxon term for God, unites Science to
 Christianity. It presents to the understanding, not matter,
9 but Mind; not the deified drug, but the goodness of God —
 healing and saving mankind.

 The author of "Marriage of the Lamb," who made the
12 mistake of thinking she caught her notions from my book,
 wrote to me in 1894, "Six months ago your book, Science
 and Health, was put into my hands. I had not read three
15 pages before I realized I had found that for which I had
 hungered since girlhood, and was healed instantaneously
 of an ailment of seven years' standing. I cast from me the
18 false remedy I had vainly used, and turned to the 'great
 Physician.' I went with my husband, a missionary to
 China, in 1884. He went out under the auspices of the
21 Methodist Episcopal Church. I feel the truth is leading
 us to return to Japan.

 Another brilliant enunciator, seeker, and servant of
24 Truth, the Rev. William R. Alger of Boston, signalled
 me kindly as my lone bark rose and fell and rode the rough
 sea. At a conversazione in Boston, he said, "You may
27 find in Mrs. Eddy's metaphysical teachings more than is
 dreamt of in your philosophy.

 Also that renowned apostle of anti-slavery, Wendell
30 Phillips, the native course of whose mind never swerved


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1 from the chariot-paths of justice, speaking of my work,
 said: "Had I young blood in my veins, I would help that
3 woman.

 I love Boston, and especially the laws of the State where-
 of this city is the capital. To-day, as of yore, her laws
6 have befriended progress.

 Yet when I recall the past, — how the gospel of healing
 was simultaneously praised and persecuted in Boston, —
9 and remember also that God is just, I wonder whether,
 were our dear Master in our New England metropolis at
 this hour, he would not weep over it, as he wept over
12 Jerusalem! O ye tears! Not in vain did ye flow. Those
 sacred drops were but enshrined for future use, and God
 has now unsealed their receptacle with His outstretched
15 arm. Those crystal globes made morals for mankind.

 They will rise with joy, and with power to wash away, in
 floods of forgiveness, every crime, even when mistakenly
18 committed in the name of religion.

 An unjust, unmerciful, and oppressive priesthood must
 perish, for false prophets in the present as in the past
21 stumble onward to their doom; while their tabernacles
 crumble with dry rot. "God is not mocked," and "the
 word of the Lord endureth forever.

24 I have ordained the Bible and the Christian Science
 textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,"
 as pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
27 Boston, — so long as this church is satisfied with this
 pastor. This is my first ordination. "They shall be
 abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house; and
30 Thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy pleasures. "


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1 All praise to the press of America's Athens, — and
 throughout our land the press has spoken out historically,
3 impartially. Like the winds telling tales through the
 leaves of an ancient oak, unfallen, may our church chimes
 repeat my thanks to the press.

6 Notwithstanding the perplexed condition of our na-
 tion's finances, the want and woe with millions of dollars
 unemployed in our money centres, the Christian Scientists,
9 within fourteen months, responded to the call for this
 church with $191,012. Not a mortgage was given nor a
 loan solicited, and the donors all touchingly told their
12 privileged joy at helping to build The Mother Church.

 There was no urging, begging, or borrowing; only the
 need made known, and forth came the money, or dia-
15 monds, which served to erect this "miracle in stone.

 Even the children vied with their parents to meet the
 demand. Little hands, never before devoted to menial
18 services, shoveled snow, and babes gave kisses to earn a
 few pence toward this consummation. Some of these
 lambs my prayers had christened, but Christ will rechristen
21 them with his own new name. "Out of the mouths of
 babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected praise." The
 resident youthful workers were called "Busy Bees."
24 Sweet society, precious children, your loving hearts and
 deft fingers distilled the nectar and painted the finest
 flowers in the fabric of this history, — even its centre-piece,
27 — Mother's Room in The First Church of Christ, Sci-
 entist, in Boston. The children are destined to witness
 results which will eclipse Oriental dreams. They belong
30 to the twentieth century. By juvenile aid, into the build-


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1 ing fund have come $4,460.(1) Ah, children, you are the
 bulwarks of freedom, the cement of society, the hope of
3 our race!

 Brothers of the Christian Science Board of Directors,
 when your tireless tasks are done — well done — no Del-
6 phian Iyre could break the full chords of such a rest. May
 the altar you have built never be shattered in our hearts,
 but justice, mercy, and love kindle perpetually its fires.

9 It was well that the brother whose appliances warm
 this house, warmed also our perishless hope, and nerved
 its grand fulfilment. Woman, true to her instinct, came
12 to the rescue as sunshine from the clouds; so, when man
 quibbled over an architectural exigency, a woman climbed
 with feet and hands to the top of the tower, and helped
15 settle the subject.

 After the loss of our late lamented pastor, Rev. D. A.

 Easton, the church services were maintained by excellent
18 sermons from the editor of The Christian Science Journal
 (who, with his better half, is a very whole man), together
 with the Sunday School giving this flock "drink from the
21 river of His pleasures." O glorious hope and blessed as-
 surance, "it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the
 kingdom." Christians rejoice in secret, they have a bounty
24 hidden from the world. Self-forgetfulness, purity, and
 love are treasures untold — constant prayers, prophecies,
 and anointings. Practice, not profession, — goodness, not
27 doctrines, — spiritual understanding, not mere belief,
 gain the ear and right hand of omnipotence, and call down
 blessings infinite. "Faith without works is dead." The
30 foundation of enlightened faith is Christ's teachings and
 (1)This sum was increased to $5,568.51 by contributions which reached the Treas-
 urer after the Dedicatory Services.


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1 practice. It was our Master's self-immolation, his life-
 giving love, healing both mind and body, that raised the
3 deadened conscience, paralyzed by inactive faith, to a
 quickened sense of mortal's necessities, — and God's
 power and purpose to supply them. It was, in the words
6 of the Psalmist, He "who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
 who healeth all thy diseases.

 Rome's fallen fanes and silent Aventine is glory's tomb;
9 her pomp and power lie low in dust. Our land, more
 favored, had its Pilgrim Fathers. On shores of solitude,
 at Plymouth Rock, they planted a nation's heart, — the
12 rights of conscience, imperishable glory. No dream of
 avarice or ambition broke their exalted purpose, theirs
 was the wish to reign in hope's reality — the realm of
15 Love.

 Christian Scientists, you have planted your standard
 on the rock of Christ, the true, the spiritual idea, — the
18 chief corner-stone in the house of our God. And our
 Master said: "The stone which the builders rejected, the
 same is become the head of the corner." If you are less
21 appreciated to-day than your forefathers, wait — for if
 you are as devout as they, and more scientific, as progress
 certainly demands, your plant is immortal. Let us rejoice
24 that chill vicissitudes have not withheld the timely shelter
 of this house, which descended like day-spring from on
 high.

27 Divine presence, breathe Thou Thy blessing on every
 heart in this house. Speak out, O soul! This is the new-
 born of Spirit, this is His redeemed; this, His beloved.

30 May the kingdom of God within you, — with you alway, —


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1 reascending, bear you outward, upward, heavenward.

 May the sweet song of silver-throated singers, making
3 melody more real, and the organ's voice, as the sound of
 many waters, and the Word spoken in this sacred temple
 dedicated to the ever-present God — mingle with the joy
6 of angels and rehearse your hearts' holy intents. May all
 whose means, energies, and prayers helped erect The
 Mother Church, find within it home, and heaven.



Christian Science Textbook

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1 The following selections from "Science and Health
 with Key to the Scriptures," pages 568-571, were read
3 from the platform. The impressive stillness of the audi-
 ence indicated close attention.

 Revelation xii. 10-12. And I heard a loud voice saying in
6 heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the king-
 dom of our God, and the power of His Christ: for the accuser
 of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our
9 God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood
 of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they
 loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye
12 heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters
 of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto
 you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath
15 but a short time.

 For victory over a single sin, we give thanks and mag-
 nify the Lord of Hosts. What shall we say of the mighty
18 conquest over all sin? A louder song, sweeter than has
 ever before reached high heaven, now rises clearer and
 nearer to the great heart of Christ; for the accuser is not
21 there, and Love sends forth her primal and everlasting
 strain. Self-abnegation, by which we lay down all for
 Truth, or Christ, in our warfare against error, is a rule in
24 Christian Science. This rule clearly interprets God as


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1 divine Principle, — as Life, represented by the Father;
 as Truth, represented by the Son; as Love, represented
3 by the Mother. Every mortal at some period, here or here-
 after, must grapple with and overcome the mortal belief
 in a power opposed to God.

6 The Scripture, "Thou hast been faithful over a few
 things, I will make thee ruler over many," is literally ful-
 filled, when we are conscious of the supremacy of Truth,
9 by which the nothingness of error is seen; and we know
 that the nothingness of error is in proportion to its wicked-
 ness. He that touches the hem of Christ's robe and masters
12 his mortal beliefs, animality, and hate, rejoices in the proof
 of healing, — in a sweet and certain sense that God is
 Love. Alas for those who break faith with divine Science
15 and fail to strangle the serpent of sin as well as of sickness!

 They are dwellers still in the deep darkness of belief.

 They are in the surging sea of error, not struggling to lift
18 their heads above the drowning wave.

 What must the end be? They must eventually expiate
 their sin through suffering. The sin, which one has made
21 his bosom companion, comes back to him at last with
 accelerated force, for the devil knoweth his time is short.

 Here the Scriptures declare that evil is temporal, not
24 eternal. The dragon is at last stung to death by his own
 malice; but how many periods of torture it may take to
 remove all sin, must depend upon sin's obduracy.

27 Revelation xii. 13. And when the dragon saw that he was
 cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought
 forth the man child.


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1 The march of mind and of honest investigation will
 bring the hour when the people will chain, with fetters of
3 some sort, the growing occultism of this period. The
 present apathy as to the tendency of certain active yet un-
 seen mental agencies will finally be shocked into another
6 extreme mortal mood, — into human indignation; for
 one extreme follows another.

 Revelation xii. 15, 16. And the serpent cast out of his
9 mouth water as a flood, after the woman, that he might
 cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth
 helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and
12 swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his
 mouth.

 Millions of unprejudiced minds — simple seekers for
15 Truth, weary wanderers, athirst in the desert — are wait-
 ing and watching for rest and drink. Give them a cup of
 cold water in Christ's name, and never fear the conse-
18 quences. What if the old dragon should send forth a new
 flood to drown the Christ-idea? He can neither drown
 your voice with its roar, nor again sink the world into the
21 deep waters of chaos and old night. In this age the earth
 will help the woman; the spiritual idea will be understood.

 Those ready for the blessing you impart will give thanks.

24 The waters will be pacified, and Christ will command the
 wave.

 When God heals the sick or the sinning, they should
27 know the great benefit which Mind has wrought. They
 should also know the great delusion of mortal mind, when
 it makes them sick or sinful. Many are willing to open


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1 the eyes of the people to the power of good resident in
 divine Mind, but they are not so willing to point out the
3 evil in human thought, and expose evil's hidden mental
 ways of accomplishing iniquity.

 Why this backwardness, since exposure is necessary to
6 ensure the avoidance of the evil? Because people like
 you better when you tell them their virtues than when you
 tell them their vices. It requires the spirit of our blessed
9 Master to tell a man his faults, and so risk human dis-
 pleasure for the sake of doing right and benefiting our
 race. Who is telling mankind of the foe in ambush? Is
12 the informer one who sees the foe? If so, listen and be
 wise. Escape from evil, and designate those as unfaithful
 stewards who have seen the danger and yet have given
15 no warning.

 At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil
 with good. Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom
18 and the occasion for a victory over evil. Clad in the
 panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. The
 cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the
21 one divinity.



Hymns

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1 [Set to the Church Chimes and Sung on This Occasion]

 LAYING THE CORNER-STONE

3 Laus Deo, it is done!

 Rolled away from loving heart
     Is a stone.

6 Joyous, risen, we depart
     Having one.

 Laus Deo, — on this rock
9 (Heaven chiselled squarely good)

     Stands His church, —
 God is Love, and understood
12     By His flock.

 Laus Deo, night starlit
 Slumbers not in God's embrace;
15     Then, O man!

 Like this stone, be in thy place;
     Stand, not sit.

18 Cold, silent, stately stone,
 Dirge and song and shoutings low,
     In thy heart
21 Dwell serene, — and sorrow? No,
 It has none,
     Laus Deo!


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 "FEED MY SHEEP"
 Shepherd, show me how to go
3  O'er the hillside steep,
 How to gather, how to sow, —
     How to feed Thy sheep;
6 I will listen for Thy voice,
     Lest my footsteps stray;
 I will follow and rejoice
9  All the rugged way.

 Thou wilt bind the stubborn will,
     Wound the callous breast,
12 Make self-righteousness be still,
     Break earth's stupid rest.

 Strangers on a barren shore,
15     Lab'ring long and lone —
 We would enter by the door,
     And Thou know'st Thine own.

18 So, when day grows dark and cold,
     Tear or triumph harms,
 Lead Thy lambkins to the fold,
21     Take them in Thine arms;
 Feed the hungry, heal the heart,
     Till the morning's beam;
24 White as wool, ere they depart —
     Shepherd, wash them clean.


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 CHRIST MY REFUGE

 O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind
3  There sweeps a strain,
 Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind
     The power of pain.

6 And wake a white-winged angel throng
     Of thoughts, illumed
 By faith, and breathed in raptured song,
9  With love perfumed.

 Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show
     Life's burdens light.

12 I kiss the cross, and wake to know
     A world more bright.

 And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea
15     I see Christ walk,
 And come to me, and tenderly,
     Divinely talk.

18 Thus Truth engrounds me on the rock,
     Upon Life's shore;
 'Gainst which the winds and waves can shock,
21     Oh, nevermore !

 From tired joy and grief afar,
     And nearer Thee, —
24 Father, where Thine own children are,
     I love to be.


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1 My prayer, some daily good to do
     To Thine, for Thee;
3 An offering pure of Love, whereto
     God leadeth me.



Note

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1 The land whereon stands The First Church of Christ,
 Scientist, in Boston, was first purchased by the church
3 and society. Owing to a heavy loss, they were unable to
 pay the mortgage; therefore I paid it, and through trustees
 gave back the land to the church.

6 In 1892 I had to recover the land from the trustees, re-
 organize the church, and reobtain its charter — not, how-
 ever, through the State Commissioner, who refused to
9 grant it, but by means of a statute of the State, and through
 Directors regive the land to the church. In 1895 I recon-
 structed my original system of ministry and church gov-
12 ernment. Thus committed to the providence of God, the
 prosperity of this church is unsurpassed.

 From first to last The Mother Church seemed type and
15 shadow of the warfare between the flesh and Spirit, even
 that shadow whose substance is the divine Spirit, im-
 peratively propelling the greatest moral, physical, civil,
18 and religious reform ever known on earth. In the words
 of the prophet: "The shadow of a great rock in a weary
 land.

21 This church was dedicated on January 6, anciently one
 of the many dates selected and observed in the East as the
 day of the birth and baptism of our master Metaphysician,
24 Jesus of Nazareth.


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1 Christian Scientists, their children and grandchildren
 to the latest generations, inevitably love one another with
3 that love wherewith Christ loveth us; a love unselfish,
 unambitious, impartial, universal, — that loves only be-
 cause it is Love. Moreover, they love their enemies, even
6 those that hate them. This we all must do to be Christian
 Scientists in spirit and in truth. I long, and live, to see
 this love demonstrated. I am seeking and praying for it
9 to inhabit my own heart and to be made manifest in my
 life. Who will unite with me in this pure purpose, and
 faithfully struggle till it be accomplished? Let this be our
12 Christian endeavor society, which Christ organizes and
 blesses.

 While we entertain due respect and fellowship for what
15 is good and doing good in all denominations of religion,
 and shun whatever would isolate us from a true sense of
 goodness in others, we cannot serve mammon.

18 Christian Scientists are really united to only that which
 is Christlike, but they are not indifferent to the welfare of
 any one. To perpetuate a cold distance between our de-
21 nomination and other sects, and close the door on church
 or individuals — however much this is done to us — is
 not Christian Science. Go not into the way of the un-
24 christly, but wheresoever you recognize a clear expression
 of God's likeness, there abide in confidence and hope.

 Our unity with churches of other denominations must
27 rest on the spirit of Christ calling us together. It cannot
 come from any other source. Popularity, self-aggrandize-
 ment, aught that can darken in any degree our spirituality,
30 must be set aside. Only what feeds and fills the sentiment


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1 with unworldliness, can give peace and good will towards
 men.

3 All Christian churches have one bond of unity, one
 nucleus or point of convergence, one prayer, — the Lord's
 Prayer. It is matter for rejoicing that we unite in love,
6 and in this sacred petition with every praying assembly
 on earth, — "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in
 earth, as it is in heaven.

9 If the lives of Christian Scientists attest their fidelity
 to Truth, I predict that in the twentieth century every
 Christian church in our land, and a few in far-off lands,
12 will approximate the understanding of Christian Science
 sufficiently to heal the sick in his name. Christ will give
 to Christianity his new name, and Christendom will be
15 classified as Christian Scientists.

 When the doctrinal barriers between the churches are
 broken, and the bonds of peace are cemented by spiritual
18 understanding and Love, there will be unity of spirit, and
 the healing power of Christ will prevail. Then shall Zion
 have put on her most beautiful garments, and her waste
21 places budded and blossomed as the rose.



Chicago Inter-Ocean

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 [Daily Inter-Ocean, Chicago, December 31, 1894]

 MARY BAKER EDDY

 COMPLETION OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, BOSTON

 — "OUR PRAYER IN STONE” — DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST

 UNIQUE STRUCTURE IN ANY CITY — A BEAUTIFUL TEMPLE

 AND ITS FURNISHINGS — MRS. EDDY'S WORK AND HER INFLUENCE

 Boston, Mass., December 28. — Special Correspond-
9 ence. — The "great awakening" of the time of Jonathan
 Edwards has been paralleled during the last decade by a
 wave of idealism that has swept over the country, manif-
12 esting itself under several different aspects and under
 various names, but each having the common identity of
 spiritual demand. This movement, under the guise of
15 Christian Science, and ingenuously calling out a closer
 inquiry into Oriental philosophy, prefigures itself to us
 as one of the most potent factors in the social evolution
18 of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. History
 shows the curious fact that the closing years of every cen-
 tury are years of more intense life, manifested in unrest
21 or in aspiration, and scholars of special research, like
 Prof. Max Muller, assert that the end of a cycle, as is the
 latter part of the present century, is marked by peculiar
24 intimations of man's immortal life.


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1 The completion of the first Christian Science church
 erected in Boston strikes a keynote of definite attention.

3 This church is in the fashionable Back Bay, between
 Commonwealth and Huntington Avenues. It is one of
 the most beautiful, and is certainly the most unique struc-
6 ture in any city. The First Church of Christ, Scientist,
 as it is officially called, is termed by its Founder, "Our
 prayer in stone." It is located at the intersection of Nor-
9 way and Falmouth Streets, on a triangular plot of ground,
 the design a Romanesque tower with a circular front and
 an octagonal form, accented by stone porticos and turreted
12 corners. On the front is a marble tablet, with the follow-
 ing inscription carved in bold relief: —
 "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, erected Anno
15 Domini 1894. A testimonial to our beloved teacher,
 the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder
 of Christian Science; author of "Science and Health
18 with Key to the Scriptures;" president of the Massa-
 chusetts Metaphysical College, and the first pastor of
 this denomination.

21 THE CHURCH EDIFICE

 The church is built of Concord granite in light gray,
 with trimmings of the pink granite of New Hampshire,
24 Mrs. Eddy's native State. The architecture is Romanesque
 throughout. The tower is one hundred and twenty feet in
 height and twenty-one and one half feet square. The en-
27 trances are of marble, with doors of antique oak richly
 carved. The windows of stained glass are very rich in


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1 pictorial effect. The lighting and cooling of the church —
 for cooling is a recognized feature as well as heating —
3 are done by electricity, and the heat generated by two
 large boilers in the basement is distributed by the four
 systems with motor electric power. The partitions are
6 of iron; the floors of marble in mosaic work, and the
 edifice is therefore as literally fire-proof as is conceivable.

 The principal features are the auditorium, seating eleven
9 hundred people and capable of holding fifteen hundred;
 the "Mother's Room," designed for the exclusive use of
 Mrs. Eddy; the "directors' room," and the vestry. The
12 girders are all of iron, the roof is of terra cotta tiles, the
 galleries are in plaster relief, the window frames are of
 iron, coated with plaster; the staircases are of iron, with
15 marble stairs of rose pink, and marble approaches.

 The vestibule is a fitting entrance to this magnificent
 temple. In the ceiling is a sunburst with a seven-pointed
18 star, which illuminates it. From this are the entrances
 leading to the auditorium, the "Mother's Room," and
 the directors' room.

21 The auditorium is seated with pews of curly birch, up-
 holstered in old rose plush. The floor is in white Italian
 mosaic, with frieze of the old rose, and the wainscoting
24 repeats the same tints. The base and cap are of pink
 Tennessee marble. On the walls are bracketed oxidized
 silver lamps of Roman design, and there are frequent
27 illuminated texts from the Bible and from Mrs. Eddy's
 "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" im-
 panelled. A sunburst in the centre of the ceiling takes
30 the place of chandeliers. There is a disc of cut glass in


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1 decorative designs, covering one hundred and forty-four
 electric lights in the form of a star, which is twenty-one
3 inches from point to point, the centre being of pure white
 light, and each ray under prisms which reflect the rainbow
 tints. The galleries are richly panelled in relief work.

6 The organ and choir gallery is spacious and rich beyond
 the power of words to depict. The platform — corre-
 sponding to the chancel of an Episcopal church — is a
9 mosaic work, with richly carved seats following the sweep
 of its curve, with a lamp stand of the Renaissance period
 on either end, bearing six richly wrought oxidized silver
12 lamps, eight feet in height. The great organ comes from
 Detroit. It is one of vast compass, with AEolian attach-
 ment, and cost eleven thousand dollars. It is the gift of
15 a single individual — a votive offering of gratitude for the
 healing of the wife of the donor.

 The chime of bells includes fifteen, of fine range and
18 perfect tone.

 THE “MOTHER’S ROOM”

 The "Mother's Room" is approached by an entrance of
21 Italian marble, and over the door, in large golden letters on
 a marble tablet, is the word "Love." In this room the
 mosaic marble floor of white has a Romanesque border and
24 is decorated with sprays of fig leaves bearing fruit. The
 room is toned in pale green with relief in old rose. The
 mantel is of onyx and gold. Before the great bay window
27 hangs an Athenian lamp over two hundred years old,
 which will be kept always burning day and night.(1) Lead-
     (1) At Mrs. Eddy's request the lamp was not kept burning.


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1 ing off the "Mother's Room" are toilet apartments, with
 full-length French mirrors and every convenience.

3 The directors' room is very beautiful in marble ap-
 proaches and rich carving, and off this is a vault for the
 safe preservation of papers.

6 The vestry seats eight hundred people, and opening from
 it are three large class-rooms and the pastor's study.

 The windows are a remarkable feature of this temple.

9 There are no "memorial" windows; the entire church is a
 testimonial, not a memorial — a point that the members
 strongly insist upon.

12 In the auditorium are two rose windows — one repre-
 senting the heavenly city which "cometh down from God
 out of heaven," with six small windows beneath, emblem-
15 atic of the six water-pots referred to in John ii. 6. The
 other rose window represents the raising of the daughter
 of Jairus. Beneath are two small windows bearing palms
18 of victory, and others with lamps, typical of Science and
 Health.

 Another great window tells its pictorial story of the four
21 Marys — the mother of Jesus, Mary anointing the head of
 Jesus, Mary washing the feet of Jesus, Mary at the resur-
 rection; and the woman spoken of in the Apocalypse,
24 chapter 12, God-crowned.

 One more window in the auditorium represents the
 raising of Lazarus.

27 In the gallery are windows representing John on the
 Isle of Patmos, and others of pictorial significance. In
 the "Mother's Room" the windows are of still more unique
30 interest. A large bay window, composed of three separate


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1 panels, is designed to be wholly typical of the work of Mrs.

 Eddy. The central panel represents her in solitude and
3 meditation, searching the Scriptures by the light of a single
 candle, while the star of Bethlehem shines down from above.

 Above this is a panel containing the Christian Science seal,
6 and other panels are decorated with emblematic designs,
 with the legends, "Heal the Sick," "Raise the Dead,"
 "Cleanse the Lepers," and "Cast out Demons.

9 The cross and the crown and the star are presented in
 appropriate decorative effect. The cost of this church is
 two hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars, exclusive
12 of the land — a gift from Mrs. Eddy — which is valued
 at some forty thousand dollars.

 THE ORDER OF SERVICE

15 The order of service in the Christian Science Church
 does not differ widely from that of any other sect, save that
 its service includes the use of Mrs. Eddy's book, entitled
18 "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in per-
 haps equal measure to its use of the Bible. The reading
 is from the two alternately; the singing is from a compila-
21 tion called the "Christian Science Hymnal," but its songs
 are for the most part those devotional hymns from Herbert,
 Faber, Robertson, Wesley, Bowring, and other recog-
24 nized devotional poets, with selections from Whittier and
 Lowell, as are found in the hymn-books of the Unitarian
 churches. For the past year or two Judge Hanna, for-
27 merly of Chicago, has filled the office of pastor to the
 church in this city, which held its meetings in Chickering


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1 Hall, and later in Copley Hall, in the new Grundmann
 Studio Building on Copley Square. Preceding Judge
3 Hanna were Rev. D. A. Easton and Rev. L. P. Norcross,
 both of whom had formerly been Congregational clergy-
 men. The organizer and first pastor of the church here
6 was Mrs. Eddy herself, of whose work I shall venture to
 speak, a little later, in this article.

 Last Sunday I gave myself the pleasure of attending the
9 service held in Copley Hall. The spacious apartment was
 thronged with a congregation whose remarkable earnest-
 ness impressed the observer. There was no straggling
12 of late-comers. Before the appointed hour every seat in the
 hall was filled and a large number of chairs pressed into
 service for the overflowing throng. The music was spirited,
15 and the selections from the Bible and from Science and
 Health were finely read by Judge Hanna. Then came his
 sermon, which dealt directly with the command of Christ
18 to "heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast
 out demons." In his admirable discourse Judge Hanna
 said that while all these injunctions could, under certain
21 conditions, be interpreted and fulfilled literally, the
 special lesson was to be taken spiritually — to cleanse the
 leprosy of sin, to cast out the demons of evil thought.

24 The discourse was able, and helpful in its suggestive
 interpretation.

 THE CHURCH MEMBERS

27 Later I was told that almost the entire congregation was
 composed of persons who had either been themselves, or


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1 had seen members of their own families, healed by Chris-
 tian Science treatment; and I was further told that once
3 when a Boston clergyman remonstrated with Judge Hanna
 for enticing a separate congregation rather than offering
 their strength to unite with churches already established —
6 I was told he replied that the Christian Science Church did
 not recruit itself from other churches, but from the grave-
 yards! The church numbers now four thousand members;
9 but this estimate, as I understand, is not limited to the
 Boston adherents, but includes those all over the country.

 The ceremonial of uniting is to sign a brief "confession of
12 faith," written by Mrs. Eddy, and to unite in communion,
 which is not celebrated by outward symbols of bread and
 wine, but by uniting in silent prayer.

15 The "confession of faith" includes the declaration that
 the Scriptures are the guide to eternal Life; that there is a
 Supreme Being, and His Son, and the Holy Ghost, and
18 that man is made in His image. It affirms the atonement;
 it recognizes Jesus as the teacher and guide to salvation;
 the forgiveness of sin by God, and affirms the power of
21 Truth over error, and the need of living faith at the
 moment to realize the possibilities of the divine Life.

 The entire membership of Christian Scientists throughout
24 the world now exceeds two hundred thousand people. The
 church in Boston was organized by Mrs. Eddy, and the
 first meeting held on April 12, 1879. It opened with
27 twenty-six members, and within fifteen years it has grown
 to its present impressive proportions, and has now its own
 magnificent church building, costing over two hundred
30 housand dollars, and entirely paid for when its consecra-


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1 tion service on January 6 shall be celebrated. This is
 certainly a very remarkable retrospect.

3 Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of this denomina-
 tion and Discoverer of Christian Science, as they term her
 work in affirming the present application of the principles
6 asserted by Jesus, is a most interesting personality. At
 the risk of colloquialism, I am tempted to "begin at the
 beginning" of my own knowledge of Mrs. Eddy, and take,
9 as the point of departure, my first meeting with her and
 the subsequent development of some degree of familiarity
 with the work of her life which that meeting inaugurated
12 for me.

 MRS. EDDY

 It was during some year in the early '80's that I became
15 aware — from that close contact with public feeling result-
 ing from editorial work in daily journalism — that the
 Boston atmosphere was largely thrilled and pervaded by a
18 new and increasing interest in the dominance of mind over
 matter, and that the central figure in all this agitation was
 Mrs. Eddy. To a note which I wrote her, begging the
21 favor of an interview for press use, she most kindly replied,
 naming an evening on which she would receive me. At
 the hour named I rang the bell at a spacious house on
24 Columbus Avenue, and I was hardly more than seated be-
 fore Mrs. Eddy entered the room. She impressed me as
 singularly graceful and winning in bearing and manner,
27 and with great claim to personal beauty. Her figure was
 tall, slender, and as flexible in movement as that of a Del-


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1 sarte disciple; her face, framed in dark hair and lighted
 by luminous blue eyes, had the transparency and rose-flush
3 of tint so often seen in New England, and she was magnetic,
 earnest, impassioned. No photographs can do the least
 justice to Mrs. Eddy, as her beautiful complexion and
6 changeful expression cannot thus be reproduced. At once
 one would perceive that she had the temperament to domi-
 nate, to lead, to control, not by any crude self-assertion, but
9 a spiritual animus. Of course such a personality, with the
 wonderful tumult in the air that her large and enthusiastic
 following excited, fascinated the imagination. What had
12 she originated? I mentally questioned this modern St.

 Catherine, who was dominating her followers like any ab-
 bess of old. She told me the story of her life, so far as out-
15 ward events may translate those inner experiences which
 alone are significant.

 Mary Baker was the daughter of Mark and Abigail
18 (Ambrose) Baker, and was born in Concord, N. H., some-
 where in the early decade of 1820-'30. At the time I met
 her she must have been some sixty years of age, yet she had
21 the coloring and the elastic bearing of a woman of thirty,
 and this, she told me, was due to the principles of Chris-
 tian Science. On her father's side Mrs. Eddy came from
24 Scotch and English ancestry, and Hannah More was a
 relative of her grandmother. Deacon Ambrose, her mater-
 nal grandfather, was known as a "godly man," and her
27 mother was a religious enthusiast, a saintly and consecrated
 character. One of her brothers, Albert Baker, graduated
 at Dartmouth and achieved eminence as a lawyer.


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1 MRS. EDDY AS A CHILD

 As a child Mary Baker saw visions and dreamed dreams.

3 When eight years of age she began, like Jeanne d'Arc, to
 hear "voices," and for a year she heard her name called
 distinctly, and would often run to her mother questioning
6 if she were wanted. One night the mother related to her
 the story of Samuel, and bade her, if she heard the voice
 again to reply as he did: "Speak, Lord, for Thy servant
9 heareth." The call came, but the little maid was afraid
 and did not reply. This caused her tears of remorse and
 she prayed for forgiveness, and promised to reply if the call
12 came again. It came, and she answered as her mother had
 bidden her, and after that it ceased.

 These experiences, of which Catholic biographies are
15 full, and which history not infrequently emphasizes, cer-
 tainly offer food for meditation. Theodore Parker related
 that when he was a lad, at work in a field one day on his
18 father's farm at Lexington, an old man with a snowy beard
 suddenly appeared at his side, and walked with him as he
 worked, giving him high counsel and serious thought. All
21 inquiry in the neighborhood as to whence the stranger
 came or whither he went was fruitless; no one else had
 seen him, and Mr. Parker always believed, so a friend has
24 told me, that his visitor was a spiritual form from another
 world. It is certainly true that many and many persons,
 whose life has been destined to more than ordinary achieve-
27 ment, have had experiences of voices or visions in their
 early youth.


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1 At an early age Miss Baker was married to Colonel
 Glover, of Charleston, S. C., who lived only a year. She
3 returned to her father's home — in 1844 — and from that
 time until 1866 no special record is to be made.

 In 1866, while living in Lynn, Mass., Mrs. Eddy
6 met with a severe accident, and her case was pro-
 nounced hopeless by the physicians. There came a
 Sunday morning when her pastor came to bid her good-
9 by before proceeding to his morning service, as there was
 no probability that she would be alive at its close. During
 this time she suddenly became aware of a divine illumina-
12 tion and ministration. She requested those with her to
 withdraw, and reluctantly they did so, believing her de-
 lirious. Soon, to their bewilderment and fright, she walked
15 into the adjoining room, "and they thought I had died,
 and that it was my apparition," she said.

 THE PRINCIPLE OF DIVINE HEALING

18 From that hour dated her conviction of the Principle of
 divine healing, and that it is as true to-day as it was in the
 days when Jesus of Nazareth walked the earth. "I felt
21 that the divine Spirit had wrought a miracle," she said, in
 reference to this experience. "How, I could not tell, but
 later I found it to be in perfect scientific accord with the
24 divine law." From 1866-'69 Mrs. Eddy withdrew from the
 world to meditate, to pray, to search the Scriptures.

 "During this time," she said, in reply to my questions,
27 "the Bible was my only textbook. It answered my ques-
 tions as to the process by which I was restored to health;


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1 it came to me with a new meaning, and suddenly I appre-
 hended the spiritual meaning of the teaching of Jesus and
3 the Principle and the law involved in spiritual Science
 and metaphysical healing — in a word — Christian
 Science.

6 Mrs. Eddy came to perceive that Christ's healing was not
 miraculous, but was simply a natural fulfilment of divine
 law — a law as operative in the world to-day as it was
9 nineteen hundred years ago. "Divine Science is begotten
 of spirituality," she says, "since only the 'pure in heart'

 can see God.

12 In writing of this experience, Mrs. Eddy has said: —
 "I had learned that thought must be spiritualized in
 order to apprehend Spirit. It must become honest, un-
15 selfish, and pure, in order to have the least understanding
 of God in divine Science. The first must become last.

 Our reliance upon material things must be transferred to
18 a perception of and dependence on spiritual things. For
 Spirit to be supreme in demonstration, it must be supreme
 in our affections, and we must be clad with divine power.

21 I had learned that Mind reconstructed the body, and that
 nothing else could. All Science is a revelation.

 Through homoeopathy, too, Mrs. Eddy became con-
24 vinced of the Principle of Mind-healing, discovering that
 the more attenuated the drug, the more potent was its
 effects.

27 In 1877 Mrs. Glover married Dr. Asa Gilbert Eddy, of
 Londonderry, Vermont, a physician who had come into
 sympathy with her own views, and who was the first to
30 place "Christian Scientist" on the sign at his door. Dr.


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1 Eddy died in 1882, a year after her founding of the Meta-
 physical College in Boston, in which he taught.

3 The work in the Metaphysical College lasted nine years,
 and it was closed (in 1889) in the very zenith of its pros-
 perity, as Mrs. Eddy felt it essential to the deeper founda-
6 tion of her religious work to retire from active contact with
 the world. To this College came hundreds and hundreds
 of students, from Europe as well as this country. I was
9 present at the class lectures now and then, by Mrs. Eddy's
 kind invitation, and such earnestness of attention as was
 given to her morning talks by the men and women present
12 I never saw equalled.

 MRS. EDDY’S PERSONALITY

 On the evening that I first met Mrs. Eddy by her hos-
15 pitable courtesy, I went to her peculiarly fatigued. I came
 away in a state of exhilaration and energy that made me
 feel I could have walked any conceivable distance. I have
18 met Mrs. Eddy many times since then, and always with
 this experience repeated.

 Several years ago Mrs. Eddy removed from Columbus
21 to Commonwealth Avenue, where, just beyond Massa-
 chusetts Avenue, at the entrance to the Back Bay Park,
 she bought one of the most beautiful residences in Boston.

24 The interior is one of the utmost taste and luxury, and the
 house is now occupied by Judge and Mrs. Hanna, who are
 the editors of The Christian Science Journal, a monthly
27 publication, and to whose courtesy I am much indebted
 for some of the data of this paper. "It is a pleasure to


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1 give any information for The Inter-Ocean," remarked
 Mrs. Hanna, "for it is the great daily that is so fair and so
3 just in its attitude toward all questions.

 The increasing demands of the public on Mrs. Eddy
 have been, it may be, one factor in her removal to Concord,
6 N. H., where she has a beautiful residence, called Pleasant
 View. Her health is excellent, and although her hair is
 white, she retains in a great degree her energy and power;
9 she takes a daily walk and drives in the afternoon. She
 personally attends to a vast correspondence; superin-
 tends the church in Boston, and is engaged on further
12 writings on Christian Science. In every sense she is the
 recognized head of the Christian Science Church. At the
 same time it is her most earnest aim to eliminate the ele-
15 ment of personality from the faith. "On this point, Mrs.

 Eddy feels very strongly," said a gentleman to me on
 Christmas eve, as I sat in the beautiful drawing-room,
18 where Judge and Mrs. Hanna, Miss Elsie Lincoln, the
 soprano for the choir of the new church, and one or two
 other friends were gathered.

21 "Mother feels very strongly," he continued, "the danger
 and the misfortune of a church depending on any one
 personality. It is difficult not to centre too closely around
24 a highly gifted personality.

 THE FIRST ASSOCIATION

 The first Christian Scientist Association was organized
27 on July 4, 1876, by seven persons, including Mrs. Eddy.

 In April, 1879, the church was founded with twenty-six


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1 members, and its charter obtained the following June.(1)

 Mrs. Eddy had preached in other parishes for five years
3 before being ordained in this church, which ceremony
 took place in 1881.

 The first edition of Mrs. Eddy's book, Science and
6 Health, was issued in 1875. During these succeeding
 twenty years it has been greatly revised and enlarged, and
 it is now in its ninety-first edition. It consists of fourteen
9 chapters, whose titles are as follows: "Science, Theology,
 Medicine," "Physiology," "Footsteps of Truth," "Crea-
 tion," "Science of Being," "Christian Science and Spirit-
12 ualism," "Marriage," "Animal Magnetism," "Some
 Objections Answered," "Prayer," "Atonement and Eu-
 charist," "Christian Science Practice," "Teaching Chris-
15 tian Science," "Recapitulation." Key to the Scriptures,
 Genesis, Apocalypse, and Glossary.

 The Christian Scientists do not accept the belief we call
18 spiritualism. They believe those who have passed the
 change of death are in so entirely different a plane of con-
 sciousness that between the embodied and disembodied
21 there is no possibility of communication.

 They are diametrically opposed to the philosophy of
 Karma and of reincarnation, which are the tenets of
24 theosophy. They hold with strict fidelity to what they
 believe to be the literal teachings of Christ.

 Yet each and all these movements, however they may
27 differ among themselves, are phases of idealism and mani-
 festations of a higher spirituality seeking expression.

 It is good that each and all shall prosper, serving those
30 who find in one form of belief or another their best aid
 (1) Steps were taken to promote the Church of Christ, Scientist, in April, May,
 and June; formal organization was accomplished and the charter obtained in
 August, 1879.


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1 and guidance, and that all meet on common ground in the
 great essentials of love to God and love to man as a signal
3 proof of the divine origin of humanity which finds no rest
 until it finds the peace of the Lord in spirituality. They
 all teach that one great truth, that
6 God's greatness flows around our incompleteness,
 Round our restlessness, His rest.

 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

 ——————
9 I add on the following page a little poem that I con-
 sider superbly sweet — from my friend, Miss Whiting,
 the talented author of "The World Beautiful." — M. B.

12 EDDY

 AT THE WINDOW

 [Written for the Traveller]

15     The sunset, burning low,
 Throws o'er the Charles its flood of golden light.

     Dimly, as in a dream, I watch the flow
18 Of waves of light.

     The splendor of the sky
 Repeats its glory in the river's flow;
21     And sculptured angels, on the gray church tower,
 Gaze on the world below.

     Dimly, as in a dream,
24 I see the hurrying throng before me pass,
     But 'mid them all I only see one face,
 Under the meadow grass.


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1 Ah, love! I only know
 How thoughts of you forever cling to me:

3 I wonder how the seasons come and go
 Beyond the sapphire sea?

 LILIAN WHITING

6 April 15, 1888



Boston Herald

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     [Boston Herald, January 7, 1895]

 [Extract]

     A TEMPLE GIVEN TO GOD — DEDICATION OF THE

 MOTHER CHURCH OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

 NOVEL METHOD OF ENABLING SIX THOUSAND BELIEVERS TO

 ATTEND THE EXERCISES — THE SERVICE REPEATED FOUR

 TIMES — SERMON BY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY, FOUNDER OF

 THE DENOMINATION — BEAUTIFUL ROOM WHICH THE CHILDREN

 BUILT

 With simple ceremonies, four times repeated, in the
 presence of four different congregations, aggregating
18 nearly six thousand persons, the unique and costly edifice
 erected in Boston at Norway and Falmouth Streets as a
 home for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and a
21 testimonial to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian
 Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, was yesterday dedicated
 to the worship of God.


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1 The structure came forth from the hands of the artisans
 with every stone paid for — with an appeal, not for more
3 money, but for a cessation of the tide of contributions
 which continued to flow in after the full amount needed
 was received. From every State in the Union, and from
6 many lands, the love-offerings of the disciples of Christian
 Science came to help erect this beautiful structure, and
 more than four thousand of these contributors came to
9 Boston, from the far-off Pacific coast and the Gulf States
 and all the territory that lies between, to view the new-
 built temple and to listen to the Message sent them by
12 the teacher they revere.

 From all New England the members of the denomina-
 tion gathered; New York sent its hundreds, and even
15 from the distant States came parties of forty and fifty.

 The large auditorium, with its capacity for holding from
 fourteen hundred to fifteen hundred persons, was hopelessly
18 incapable of receiving this vast throng, to say nothing of
 nearly a thousand local believers. Hence the service was
 repeated until all who wished had heard and seen; and
21 each of the four vast congregations filled the church to
 repletion.

 At 7 :30 a. m. the chimes in the great stone tower, which
24 rises one hundred and twenty-six feet above the earth,
 rung out their message of "On earth peace, good will
 toward men.

27 Old familiar hymns — "All hail the power of Jesus'

 name," and others such — were chimed until the hour for
 the dedication service had come.

30 At 9 a. m. the first congregation gathered. Before this


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1 service had closed the large vestry room and the spacious
 lobbies and the sidewalks around the church were all
3 filled with a waiting multitude. At l0:30 o'clock another
 service began, and at noon still another. Then there was
 an intermission, and at 3 p. m. the service was repeated
6 for the last time.

 There was scarcely even a minor variation in the exer-
 cises at any one of these services. At 10:30 a. m., how-
9 ever, the scene was rendered particularly interesting by
 the presence of several hundred children in the central
 pews. These were the little contributors to the building
12 fund, whose money was devoted to the "Mother's Room,"
 a superb apartment intended for the sole use of Mrs. Eddy.

 These children are known in the church as the "Busy
15 Bees," and each of them wore a white satin badge with a
 golden beehive stamped upon it, and beneath the beehive
 the words, "Mother's Room," in gilt letters.

18 The pulpit end of the auditorium was rich with the
 adornment of flowers. On the wall of the choir gallery
 above the platform, where the organ is to be hereafter
21 placed, a huge seven-pointed star was hung — a star of
 lilies resting on palms, with a centre of white immortelles,
 upon which in letters of red were the words: "Love-
24 Children's Offering — 1894.

 In the choir and the steps of the platform were potted
 palms and ferns and Easter lilies. The desk was wreathed
27 with ferns and pure white roses fastened with a broad
 ribbon bow. On its right was a large basket of white
 carnations resting on a mat of palms, and on its left a vase
30 filled with beautiful pink roses.


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1 Two combined choirs — that of First Church of Christ,
 Scientist, of New York, and the choir of the home church,
3 numbering thirty-five singers in all — led the singing,
 under the direction, respectively, of Mr. Henry Lincoln
 Case and Miss Elsie Lincoln.

6 Judge S. J. Hanna, editor of The Christian Science
 Journal, presided over the exercises. On the platform
 with him were Messrs. Ira O. Knapp, Joseph Armstrong,
9 Stephen A. Chase, and William B. Johnson, who compose
 the Board of Directors, and Mrs. Henrietta Clark Bemis,
 a distinguished elocutionist, and a native of Concord, New
12 Hampshire.

 The utmost simplicity marked the exercises. After an
 organ voluntary, the hymn, "Laus Deo, it is done!"
15 written by Mrs. Eddy for the corner-stone laying last
 spring, was sung by the congregation. Selections from the
 Scriptures and from "Science and Health with Key to the
18 Scriptures," were read by Judge Hanna and Dr. Eddy.

 A few minutes of silent prayer came next, followed by
 the recitation of the Lord's Prayer, with its spiritual inter-
21 pretation as given in the Christian Science textbook.

 The sermon prepared for the occasion by Mrs. Eddy,
 which was looked forward to as the chief feature of the
24 dedication, was then read by Mrs. Bemis. Mrs. Eddy
 remained at her home in Concord, N. H., during the day,
 because, as heretofore stated in The Herald, it is her
27 custom to discourage among her followers that sort of
 personal worship which religious teachers so often receive.

 Before presenting the sermon, Mrs. Bemis read the fol-
30 lowing letter from a former pastor of the church: —


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1 "To Rev. Mary Baker Eddy
 "Dear Teacher, Leader, Guide: — 'Laus Deo, it is done!'

3 At last you begin to see the fruition of that you have worked,
 toiled, prayed for. The 'prayer in stone' is accomplished.

 Across two thousand miles of space, as mortal sense puts
6 it, I send my hearty congratulations. You are fully occu-
 pied, but I thought you would willingly pause for an
 instant to receive this brief message of congratulation.

9 Surely it marks an era in the blessed onward work of
 Christian Science. It is a most auspicious hour in your
 eventful career. While we all rejoice, yet the mother in
12 Israel, alone of us all, comprehends its full significance.

     "Yours lovingly,
 "LANSON P. NORCROSS"



Boston Sunday Globe

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15 [Boston Sunday Globe, January 6, 1895]

     [Extract]

 STATELY HOME FOR BELIEVERS IN GOSPEL HEALING —
18 A WOMAN OF WEALTH WHO DEVOTES ALL TO HER

 CHURCH WORK

 Christian Science has shown its power over its students,
21 as they are called, by building a church by voluntary con-
 tributions, the first of its kind; a church which will be
 dedicated to-day with a quarter of a million dollars ex-
24 pended and free of debt.

 The money has flowed in from all parts of the United
 States and Canada without any special appeal, and it kept
27 coming until the custodian of funds cried "enough" and
 refused to accept any further checks by mail or otherwise.


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1 Men, women, and children lent a helping hand, some
 giving a mite and some substantial sums. Sacrifices were
3 made in many an instance which will never be known in
 this world.

 Christian Scientists not only say that they can effect
6 cures of disease and erect churches, but add that they can
 get their buildings finished on time, even when the feat
 seems impossible to mortal senses. Read the following,
9 from a publication of the new denomination: —
 "One of the grandest and most helpful features of this
 glorious consummation is this: that one month before the
12 close of the year every evidence of material sense declared
 that the church's completion within the year 1894 tran-
 scended human possibility. The predictions of workman
15 and onlooker alike were that it could not be completed
 before April or May of 1895. Much was the ridicule
 heaped upon the hopeful, trustful ones, who declared and
18 repeatedly asseverated to the contrary. This is indeed,
 then, a scientific demonstration. It has proved, in most
 striking manner, the oft-repeated declarations of our
21 textbooks, that the evidence of the mortal senses is
 unreliable.

 A week ago Judge Hanna withdrew from the pastorate
24 of the church, saying he gladly laid down his responsibili-
 ties to be succeeded by the grandest of ministers — the
 Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-
27 tures." This action, it appears, was the result of rules
 made by Mrs. Eddy. The sermons hereafter will consist
 of passages read from the two books by Readers, who will
30 be elected each year by the congregation.


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1 A story has been abroad that Judge Hanna was so elo-
 quent and magnetic that he was attracting listeners who
3 came to hear him preach, rather than in search of the
 truth as taught. Consequently the new rules were formu-
 lated. But at Christian Science headquarters this is denied;
6 Mrs. Eddy says the words of the judge speak to the point,
 and that no such inference is to be drawn therefrom.

 In Mrs. Eddy's personal reminiscences, which are pub-
9 lished under the title of "Retrospection and Introspection,"
 much is told of herself in detail that can only be touched
 upon in this brief sketch.

12 Aristocratic to the backbone, Mrs. Eddy takes delight
 in going back to the ancestral tree and in tracing those
 branches which are identified with good and great names
15 both in Scotland and England.

 Her family came to this country not long before the
 Revolution. Among the many souvenirs that Mrs. Eddy
18 remembers as belonging to her grandparents was a heavy
 sword, encased in a brass scabbard, upon which had been
 inscribed the name of the kinsman upon whom the sword
21 had been bestowed by Sir William Wallace of mighty
 Scottish fame.

 Mrs. Eddy applied herself, like other girls, to her studies,
24 though perhaps with an unusual zest, delighting in philos-
 ophy, logic, and moral science, as well as looking into the
 ancient languages, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.

27 Her last marriage was in the spring of 1877, when, at
 Lynn, Mass., she became the wife of Asa Gilbert Eddy.

 He was the first organizer of a Christian Science Sunday
30 School, of which he was the superintendent, and later he


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1 attracted the attention of many clergymen of other de-
 nominations by his able lectures upon Scriptural topics.

3 He died in 1882.

 Mrs. Eddy is known to her circle of pupils and admirers
 as the editor and publisher of the first official organ of this
6 sect. It was called the Journal of Christian Science, and
 has had great circulation with the members of this fast-
 increasing faith.

9 In recounting her experiences as the pioneer of Chris-
 tian Science, she states that she sought knowledge concern-
 ing the physical side in this research through the different
12 schools of allopathy, homoeopathy, and so forth, without
 receiving any real satisfaction. No ancient or modern
 philosophy gave her any distinct statement of the Science
15 of Mind-healing. She claims that no human reason has
 been equal to the question. And she also defines care-
 fully the difference in the theories between faith-cure and
18 Christian Science, dwelling particularly upon the terms
 belief and understanding, which are the key words respec-
 tively used in the definitions of these two healing arts.

21 Besides her Boston home, Mrs. Eddy has a delightful
 country home one mile from the State House of New
 Hampshire's quiet capital, an easy driving distance for
24 her when she wishes to catch a glimpse of the world. But
 for the most part she lives very much retired, driving rather
 into the country, which is so picturesque all about Con-
27 cord and its surrounding villages.

 The big house, so delightfully remodelled and modern-
 ized from a primitive homestead that nothing is left ex-
30 cepting the angles and pitch of the roof, is remarkably


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1 well placed upon a terrace that slopes behind the build-
 ings, while they themselves are in the midst of green
3 stretches of lawns, dotted with beds of flowering shrubs,
 with here and there a fountain or summer-house.

 Mrs. Eddy took the writer straight to her beloved "look-
6 out" — a broad piazza on the south side of the second
 story of the house, where she can sit in her swinging chair,
 revelling in the lights and shades of spring and summer
9 greenness. Or, as just then, in the gorgeous October
 coloring of the whole landscape that lies below, across the
 farm, which stretches on through an intervale of beautiful
12 meadows and pastures to the woods that skirt the valley
 of the little truant river, as it wanders eastward.

 It pleased her to point out her own birthplace. Straight
15 as the crow flies, from her piazza, does it lie on the brow
 of Bow hill, and then she paused and reminded the reporter
 that Congressman Baker from New Hampshire, her cousin,
18 was born and bred in that same neighborhood. The
 photograph of Hon. Hoke Smith, another distinguished
 relative, adorned the mantel.

21 Then my eye caught her family coat of arms and the
 diploma given her by the Society of the Daughters of the
 Revolution.

24 The natural and lawful pride that comes with a tincture
 of blue and brave blood, is perhaps one of her characteris-
 tics, as is many another well-born woman's. She had a
27 long list of worthy ancestors in Colonial and Revolutionary
 days, and the McNeils and General Knox figure largely in
 her genealogy, as well as the hero who killed the ill-starred
30 Paugus.


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1 This big, sunny room which Mrs. Eddy calls her den —
 or sometimes "Mother's room," when speaking of her
3 many followers who consider her their spiritual Leader —
 has the air of hospitality that marks its hostess herself.

 Mrs. Eddy has hung its walls with reproductions of some
6 of Europe's masterpieces, a few of which had been the
 gifts of her loving pupils.

 Looking down from the windows upon the tree-tops
9 on the lower terrace, the reporter exclaimed: "You have
 lived here only four years, and yet from a barren waste
 of most unpromising ground has come forth all this
12 beauty!"
 "Four years!" she ejaculated; "two and a half, only
 two and a half years." Then, touching my sleeve and
15 pointing, she continued: "Look at those big elms! I had
 them brought here in warm weather, almost as big as they
 are now, and not one died.

18 Mrs. Eddy talked earnestly of her friendships . . . .

 She told something of her domestic arrangements, of how
 she had long wished to get away from her busy career in
21 Boston, and return to her native granite hills, there to
 build a substantial home that should do honor to that
 precinct of Concord.

24 She chose the stubbly old farm on the road from Con-
 cord, within one mile of the "Eton of America," St. Paul's
 School. Once bought, the will of the woman set at work,
27 and to-day a strikingly well-kept estate is the first impres-
 sion given to the visitor as he approaches Pleasant View.

 She employs a number of men to keep the grounds and
30 farm in perfect order, and it was pleasing to learn that this


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1 rich woman is using her money to promote the welfare of
 industrious workmen, in whom she takes a vital interest.

3 Mrs. Eddy believes that "the laborer is worthy of his
 hire," and, moreover, that he deserves to have a home and
 family of his own. Indeed, one of her motives in buying
6 so large an estate was that she might do something for the
 toilers, and thus add her influence toward the advancement
 of better home life and citizenship.



Boston Transcript

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9  [Boston Transcript, December 31, 1894]

 [Extract]

 The growth of Christian Science is properly marked by
12 the erection of a visible house of worship in this city, which
 will be dedicated to-morrow. It has cost two hundred
 thousand dollars, and no additional sums outside of the
15 subscriptions are asked for. This particular phase of
 religious belief has impressed itself upon a large and in-
 creasing number of Christian people, who have been
18 tempted to examine its principles, and doubtless have been
 comforted and strengthened by them. Any new move-
 ment will awaken some sort of interest. There are many
21 who have worn off the novelty and are thoroughly carried
 away with the requirements, simple and direct as they are,
 of Christian Science. The opposition against it from the
24 so-called orthodox religious bodies keeps up a while, but
 after a little skirmishing, finally subsides. No one religious
 body holds the whole of truth, and whatever is likely to
27 show even some one side of it will gain followers and live
 down any attempted repression.


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1 Christian Science does not strike all as a system of truth.

 If it did, it would be a prodigy. Neither does the Christian
3 faith produce the same impressions upon all. Freedom to
 believe or to dissent is a great privilege in these days. So
 when a number of conscientious followers apply themselves
6 to a matter like Christian Science, they are enjoying that
 liberty which is their inherent right as human beings, and
 though they cannot escape censure, yet they are to be
9 numbered among the many pioneers who are searching
 after religious truth. There is really nothing settled.

 Every truth is more or less in a state of agitation. The
12 many who have worked in the mine of knowledge are glad
 to welcome others who have different methods, and with
 them bring different ideas.

15 It is too early to predict where this movement will go,
 and how greatly it will affect the well-established methods.

 That it has produced a sensation in religious circles, and
18 called forth the implements of theological warfare, is very
 well known. While it has done this, it may, on the other
 hand, have brought a benefit. Ere this many a new project
21 in religious belief has stirred up feeling, but as time has
 gone on, compromises have been welcomed.

 The erection of this temple will doubtless help on the
24 growth of its principles. Pilgrims from everywhere will go
 there in search of truth, and some may be satisfied and some
 will not. Christian Science cannot absorb the world's
27 thought. It may get the share of attention it deserves, but
 it can only aspire to take its place alongside other great
 demonstrations of religious belief which have done some-
30 thing good for the sake of humanity.


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1 Wonders will never cease. Here is a church whose
 treasurer has to send out word that no sums except those
3 already subscribed can be received! The Christian
 Scientists have a faith of the mustard-seed variety.

 What a pity some of our practical Christian folk have not a
6 faith approximate to that of these "impractical" Christian
 Scientists.



Jackson Patriot

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     [Jackson Patriot, Jackson, Mich., January 20, 1895]

9 [Extract]

 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

 The erection of a massive temple in Boston by Christian
12 Scientists, at a cost of over two hundred thousand dollars,
 love-offerings of the disciples of Mary Baker Eddy, reviver
 of the ancient faith and author of the textbook from which,
15 with the New Testament at the foundation, believers
 receive light, health, and strength, is evidence of the rapid
 growth of the new movement. We call it new. It is not.

18 The name Christian Science alone is new. At the begin-
 ning of Christianity it was taught and practised by Jesus
 and his disciples. The Master was the great healer. But
21 the wave of materialism and bigotry that swept over the
 world for fifteen centuries, covering it with the blackness
 of the Dark Ages, nearly obliterated all vital belief in his
24 teachings. The Bible was a sealed book. Recently a
 revived belief in what he taught is manifest, and Christian
 Science is one result. No new doctrine is proclaimed, but


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1 here is the fresh development of a Principle that was put
 into practice by the Founder of Christianity nineteen hun-
3 dred years ago, though practised in other countries at an
 earlier date. "The thing that hath been, it is that which
 shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be
6 done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

 The condition which Jesus of Nazareth, on various
 occasions during the three years of his ministry on earth,
9 declared to be essential, in the mind of both healer and
 patient, is contained in the one word — faith. Can drugs
 suddenly cure leprosy? When the ten lepers were cleansed
12 and one returned to give thanks in Oriental phrase, Jesus
 said to him: "Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee
 whole." That was Christian Science. In his "Law of
15 Psychic Phenomena" Hudson says: "That word, more
 than any other, expresses the whole law of human felicity
 and power in this world, and of salvation in the world to
18 come. It is that attribute of mind which elevates man
 above the level of the brute, and gives dominion over the
 physical world. It is the essential element of success in
21 every field of human endeavor. It constitutes the power
 of the human soul. When Jesus of Nazareth proclaimed
 its potency from the hilltops of Palestine, he gave to man-
24 kind the key to health and heaven, and earned the title
 of Saviour of the World." Whittier, grandest of mystic
 poets, saw the truth: —
27 That healing gift he lends to them
 Who use it in his name;
 The power that filled his garment's hem
30 Is evermore the same.


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1 Again, in a poem entitled "The Master," he wrote: —
 The healing of his seamless dress
3 Is by our beds of pain;
 We touch him in life's throng and press,
 And we are whole again.(1)

6 That Jesus operated in perfect harmony with natural
 law, not in defiance, suppression, or violation of it, we can-
 not doubt. The perfectly natural is the perfectly spiritual.

9 Jesus enunciated and exemplified the Principle; and,
 obviously, the conditions requisite in psychic healing
 to-day are the same as were necessary in apostolic times.

12 We accept the statement of Hudson: "There was no law
 of nature violated or transcended. On the contrary, the
 whole transaction was in perfect obedience to the laws of
15 nature. He understood the law perfectly, as no one before
 him understood it; and in the plenitude of his power he
 applied it where the greatest good could be accomplished.

18 A careful reading of the accounts of his healings, in the
 light of modern science, shows that he observed, in his
 practice of mental therapeutics, the conditions of environ-
21 ment and harmonious influence that are essential to success.

 In the case of Jairus' daughter they are fully set forth.

 He kept the unbelievers away, "put them all out," and
24 permitting only the father and mother, with his closest
 friends and followers, Peter, James, and John, in the
 chamber with him, and having thus the most perfect
27 obtainable environment, he raised the daughter to life.

 (1) NOTE: — About 1868, the author of Science and Health healed
 Mr. Whittier with one visit, at his home in Amesbury, of incipient
30 pulmonary consumption. — M. B. EDDY


Page 55 1 "Not in blind caprice of will,
     Not in cunning sleight of skill.

3  Not for show of power, was wrought
     Nature's marvel in thy thought.

 In a previous article we have referred to cyclic changes
6 that came during the last quarter of preceding centuries.

 Of our remarkable nineteenth century not the least event-
 ful circumstance is the advent of Christian Science.

9 That it should be the work of a woman is the natural out-
 come of a period notable for her emancipation from many
 of the thraldoms, prejudices, and oppressions of the past.

12 We do not, therefore, regard it as a mere coincidence that
 the first edition of Mrs. Eddy's Science and Health should
 have been published in 1875. Since then she has revised
15 it many times, and the ninety-first edition is announced.

 Her discovery was first called, "The Science of Divine
 Metaphysical Healing." Afterward she selected the name
18 Christian Science. It is based upon what is held to be
 scientific certainty, namely, — that all causation is of
 Mind, every effect has its origin in desire and thought.

21 The theology — if we may use the word — of Christian
 Science is contained in the volume entitled "Science and
 Health with Key to the Scriptures.

24 The present Boston congregation was organized
 April 12, 1879, and has now over four thousand members.

 It is regarded as the parent organization, all others being
27 branches, though each is entirely independent in the
 management of its own affairs. Truth is the sole recognized
 authority. Of actual members of different congregations
30 there are between one hundred thousand and two hundred


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1 thousand. One or more organized societies have sprung
 up in New York, Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincin-
3 nati, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toledo, Milwaukee, Madison,
 Scranton, Peoria, Atlanta, Toronto, and nearly every other
 centre of population, besides a large and growing number
6 of receivers of the faith among the members of all the
 churches and non-church-going people. In some churches
 a majority of the members are Christian Scientists, and, as
9 a rule, are the most intelligent.

 Space does not admit of an elaborate presentation on the
 occasion of the erection of the temple, in Boston, the
12 dedication taking place on the 6th of January, of one of
 the most remarkable, helpful, and powerful movements
 of the last quarter of the century. Christian Science
15 has brought hope and comfort to many weary souls. It
 makes people better and happier. Welding Christianity
 and Science, hitherto divorced because dogma and truth
18 could not unite, was a happy inspiration.

     "And still we love the evil cause,
     And of the just effect complain;
21     We tread upon life's broken laws,
     And mourn our self-inflicted pain."



Outlook

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     [The Outlook, New York, January 19, 1895]

24     A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH

 A great Christian Science church was dedicated in Bos-
 ton on Sunday, the 6th inst. It is located at Norway and
27 Falmouth Streets, and is intended to be a testimonial to


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1 the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, the
 Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. The building is fire-proof, and
3 cost over two hundred thousand dollars. It is entirely
 paid for, and contributions for its erection came from every
 State in the Union, and from many lands. The auditorium
6 is said to seat between fourteen and fifteen hundred, and
 was thronged at the four services on the day of dedication.

 The sermon, prepared by Mrs. Eddy, was read by Mrs.

9 Bemis. It rehearsed the significance of the building, and
 reenunciated the truths which will find emphasis there.

 From the description we judge that it is one of the most
12 beautiful buildings in Boston, and, indeed, in all New
 England. Whatever may be thought of the peculiar tenets
 of the Christian Scientists, and whatever difference of
15 opinion there may be concerning the organization of such
 a church, there can be no question but that the adherents
 of this church have proved their faith by their works.



American Art Journal

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18 [American Art Journal, New York, January 26, 1895]

 "OUR PRAYER IN STONE"
 Such is the excellent name given to a new Boston church.

21 Few people outside its own circles realize how extensive is
 the belief in Christian Science. There are several sects of

 mental healers, but this new edifice on Back Bay, just off
24 Huntington Avenue, not far from the big Mechanics
 Building and the proposed site of the new Music Hall,

 belongs to the followers of Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy,

27 a lady born of an old New Hampshire family, who, after


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1 many vicissitudes, found herself in Lynn, Mass., healed by
 the power of divine Mind, and thereupon devoted herself
3 to imparting this faith to her fellow-beings. Coming to
 Boston about 1880, she began teaching, gathered an
 association of students, and organized a church. For
6 several years past she has lived in Concord, N. H., near
 her birthplace, owning a beautiful estate called Pleasant
 View; but thousands of believers throughout this country
9 have joined The Mother Church in Boston, and have now
 erected this edifice at a cost of over two hundred thousand
 dollars, every bill being paid.

12 Its appearance is shown in the pictures we are permitted
 to publish. In the belfry is a set of tubular chimes. Inside
 is a basement room, capable of division into seven excellent
15 class-rooms, by the use of movable partitions. The main
 auditorium has wide galleries, and will seat over a thousand
 in its exceedingly comfortable pews. Scarcely any wood-
18 work is to be found. The floors are all mosaic, the steps
 marble, and the walls stone. It is rather dark, often too
 much so for comfortable reading, as all the windows are of
21 colored glass, with pictures symbolic of the tenets of the
 organization. In the ceiling is a beautiful sunburst window.

 Adjoining the chancel is a pastor's study; but for an
24 indefinite time their prime instructor has ordained that the
 only pastor shall be the Bible, with her book, called
 "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." In the
27 tower is a room devoted to her, and called "Mother's
 Room," furnished with all conveniences for living, should
 she wish to make it a home by day or night. Therein is
30 a portrait of her in stained glass; and an electric light,


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1 behind an antique lamp, kept perpetually burning (1) in her
 honor; though she has not yet visited her temple, which
3 was dedicated on New Year's Sunday in a somewhat novel
 way.

 There was no special sentence or prayer of consecration,
6 but continuous services were held from nine to four o'clock,
 every hour and a half, so long as there were attendants;
 and some people heard these exercises four times repeated.

9 The printed program was for some reason not followed,
 certain hymns and psalms being omitted. There was sing-
 ing by a choir and congregation. The Pater Noster was
12 repeated in the way peculiar to Christian Scientists, the
 congregation repeating one sentence and the leader re-
 sponding with its parallel interpretation by Mrs. Eddy.

15 Antiphonal paragraphs were read from the book of
 Revelation and her work respectively. The sermon,
 prepared by Mrs. Eddy, was well adapted for its purpose,
18 and read by a professional elocutionist, not an adherent of
 the order, Mrs. Henrietta Clark Bemis, in a clear emphatic
 style. The solo singer, however, was a Scientist, Miss Elsie
21 Lincoln; and on the platform sat Joseph Armstrong,
 formerly of Kansas, and now the business manager of the
 Publishing Society, with the other members of the Christian
24 Science Board of Directors — Ira O. Knapp, Edward P.

 Bates, Stephen A. Chase, — gentlemen officially connected
 with the movement. The children of believing families
27 collected the money for the Mother's Room, and seats were
 especially set apart for them at the second dedicatory
 service. Before one service was over and the auditors left
30 by the rear doors, the front vestibule and street (despite
 (1) At Mrs. Eddy's request the lamp was not kept burning.


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1 the snowstorm) were crowded with others, waiting for
 admission.

3 On the next Sunday the new order of service went
 into operation. There was no address of any sort, no
 notices, no explanation of Bible or their textbook. Judge
6 Hanna, who was a Colorado lawyer before coming into
 this work, presided, reading in clear, manly, and intelli-
 gent tones, the Quarterly Bible Lesson, which happened
9 that day to be on Jesus' miracle of loaves and fishes.

 Each paragraph he supplemented first with illustrative
 Scripture parallels, as set down for him, and then by pas-
12 sages selected for him from Mrs. Eddy's book. The place
 was again crowded, many having remained over a week
 from among the thousands of adherents who had come
15 to Boston for this auspicious occasion from all parts of
 the country. The organ, made by Farrand & Votey in
 Detroit, at a cost of eleven thousand dollars, is the gift of
18 a wealthy Universalist gentleman, but was not ready for
 the opening. It is to fill the recess behind the spacious
 platform, and is described as containing pneumatic wind-
21 chests throughout, and having an AEolian attachment.

 It is of three-manual compass, C. C. C. to C. 4, 61 notes;
 and pedal compass, C. C. C. to F. 30. The great organ
24 has double open diapason (stopped bass), open diapason,
 dulciana, viola di gamba, doppel flute, hohl flute, octave,
 octave quint, superoctave, and trumpet, — 61 pipes each.

27 The swell organ has bourdon, open diapason, salicional,
 aeoline, stopped diapason, gemshorn, flute harmonique,
 flageolet, cornet — 3 ranks, 183, — cornopean, oboe, vox
30 humana — 61 pipes each. The choir organ, enclosed in


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1 separate swell-box, has geigen principal, dolce, concert
 flute, quintadena, fugara, flute d'amour, piccolo harmo-
3 nique, clarinet, — 61 pipes each. The pedal organ has
 open diapason, bourdon, lieblich gedeckt (from stop 10),
 violoncello-wood, — 30 pipes each. Couplers: swell to
6 great; choir to great; swell to choir; swell to great oc-
 taves, swell to great sub-octaves; choir to great sub-
 octaves; swell octaves; swell to pedal; great to pedal;
9 choir to pedal. Mechanical accessories: swell tremulant,
 choir tremulant, bellows signal; wind indicator. Pedal
 movements: three affecting great and pedal stops, three
12 affecting swell and pedal stops; great to pedal reversing
 pedal; crescendo and full organ pedal; balanced great
 and choir pedal; balanced swell pedal.

15 Beautiful suggestions greet you in every part of this
 unique church, which is practical as well as poetic, and
 justifies the name given by Mrs. Eddy, which stands at
18 the head of this sketch. J. H. W.



Boston Journal

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 [Boston Journal, January 7, 1895]

 CHIMES RANG SWEETLY

21 Much admiration was expressed by all those fortunate
 enough to listen to the first peal of the chimes in the tower
 of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, corner of Fal-
24 mouth and Norway Streets, dedicated yesterday. The
 sweet, musical tones attracted quite a throng of people,
 who listened with delight.

27 The chimes were made by the United States Tubular


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1 Bell Company, of Methuen, Mass., and are something
 of a novelty in this country, though for some time well
3 and favorably known in the Old Country, especially in
 England.

 They are a substitution of tubes of drawn brass for the
6 heavy cast bells of old-fashioned chimes. They have the
 advantage of great economy of space, as well as of cost, a
 chime of fifteen bells occupying a space not more than
9 five by eight feet.

 Where the old-fashioned chimes required a strong man
 to ring them, these can be rung from an electric keyboard,
12 and even when rung by hand require but little muscular
 power to manipulate them and call forth all the purity
 and sweetness of their tones. The quality of tone is some-
15 thing superb, being rich and mellow. The tubes are care-
 fully tuned, so that the harmony is perfect. They have
 all the beauties of a great cathedral chime, with infinitely
18 less expense.

 There is practically no limit to the uses to which these
 bells may be put. They can be called into requisition in
21 theatres, concert halls, and public buildings, as they range
 in all sizes, from those described down to little sets of
 silver bells that might be placed on a small centre table.



Republic

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     [The Republic, Washington, D. C., February 2, 1895]

 [Extract]

3 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

 MARY BAKER EDDY THE “MOTHER” OF THE IDEA — SHE HAS AN

 IMMENSE FOLLOWING THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, AND

6 A CHURCH COSTING $250,000 WAS RECENTLY BUILT IN HER

 HONOR AT BOSTON

 "My faith has the strength to nourish trees as well as
9 souls," was the remark Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, the
 "Mother" of Christian Science, made recently as she
 pointed to a number of large elms that shade her delight-
12 ful country home in Concord, N. H. "I had them brought
 here in warm weather, almost as big as they are now, and
 not one died." This is a remarkable statement, but it is
15 made by a remarkable woman, who has originated a new
 phase of religious belief, and who numbers over one hun-
 dred thousand intelligent people among her devoted
18 followers.

 The great hold she has upon this army was demon-
 strated in a very tangible and material manner recently,
21 when "The First Church of Christ, Scientist," erected at
 a cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, was
 dedicated in Boston. This handsome edifice was paid
24 for before it was begun, by the voluntary contributions of
 Christian Scientists all over the country, and a tablet im-
 bedded in its wall declares that it was built as "a testi-
27 monial to our beloved teacher, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy,


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1 Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, author of
 its textbook, 'Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-
3 tures,' president of the Massachusetts Metaphysical Col-
 lege, and the first pastor of this denomination.

 There is usually considerable difficulty in securing suffi-
6 cient funds for the building of a new church, but such was
 not the experience of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. Money
 came freely from all parts of the United States. Men,
9 women, and children contributed, some giving a pittance,
 others donating large sums. When the necessary amount
 was raised, the custodian of the funds was compelled to
12 refuse further contributions, in order to stop the continued
 inflow of money from enthusiastic Christian Scientists.

 Mrs. Eddy says she discovered Christian Science in
15 1866. She studied the Scriptures and the sciences, she
 declares, in a search for the great curative Principle. She
 investigated allopathy, homoeopathy, and electricity, with-
18 out finding a clew; and modern philosophy gave her no
 distinct statement of the Science of Mind-healing. After
 careful study she became convinced that the curative
21 Principle was the Deity.



New York Tribune

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 [New York Tribune, February 7, 1895]

 [Extract]

24 Boston has just dedicated the first church of the Chris-
 tian Scientists, in commemoration of the Founder of that
 sect, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, drawing together six
27 thousand people to participate in the ceremonies, showing


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1 that belief in that curious creed is not confined to its
 original apostles and promulgators, but that it has pene-
3 trated what is called the New England mind to an un-
 looked-for extent. In inviting the Eastern churches and
 the Anglican fold to unity with Rome, the Holy Father
6 should not overlook the Boston sect of Christian Scientists,
 which is rather small and new, to be sure, but is undoubt-
 edly an interesting faith and may have a future before it,
9 whatever attitude Rome may assume toward it.



Kansas City Journal

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 [Journal, Kansas City, Mo., January 10, 1895]

 [Extract]

12 GROWTH OF A FAITH

 Attention is directed to the progress which has been
 made by what is called Christian Science by the dedication
15 at Boston of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist.

 It is a most beautiful structure of gray granite, and its
 builders call it their "prayer in stone," which suggests
18 to recollection the story of the cathedral of Amiens, whose
 architectural construction and arrangement of statuary
 and paintings made it to be called the Bible of that city.

21 The Frankish church was reared upon the spot where, in
 pagan times, one bitter winter day, a Roman soldier parted
 his mantle with his sword and gave half of the garment to
24 a naked beggar; and so was memorialized in art and
 stone what was called the divine spirit of giving, whose un-
 believing exemplar afterward became a saint. The Boston
27 church similarly expresses the faith of those who believe


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1 in what they term the divine art of healing, which, to their
 minds, exists as much to-day as it did when Christ healed
3 the sick.

 The first church organization of this faith was founded
 fifteen years ago with a membership of only twenty-six,
6 and since then the number of believers has grown with
 remarkable rapidity, until now there are societies in every
 part of the country. This growth, it is said, proceeds
9 more from the graveyards than from conversions from
 other churches, for most of those who embrace the faith
 claim to have been rescued from death miraculously under
12 the injunction to "heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise
 the dead, cast out demons." They hold with strict fidelity
 to what they conceive to be the literal teachings of the
15 Bible as expressed in its poetical and highly figurative
 language.

 Altogether the belief and service are well suited to
18 satisfy a taste for the mystical which, along many lines, has
 shown an uncommon development in this country during
 the last decade, and which is largely Oriental in its choice.

21 Such a rapid departure from long respected views as is
 marked by the dedication of this church, and others of
 kindred meaning, may reasonably excite wonder as to
24 how radical is to be this encroachment upon prevailing
 faiths, and whether some of the pre-Christian ideas of
 the Asiatics are eventually to supplant those in company
27 with which our civilization has developed.



Montreal Herald

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1  [Montreal Daily Herald, Saturday, February 2, 1895]

 [Extract]

3 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

 SKETCH OF ITS ORIGIN AND GROWTH — THE MONTREAL BRANCH

 "If you would found a new faith, go to Boston," has
6 been said by a great American writer. This is no idle
 word, but a fact borne out by circumstances. Boston can
 fairly claim to be the hub of the logical universe, and an
9 accurate census of the religious faiths which are to be
 found there to-day would probably show a greater number
 of them than even Max O'Rell's famous enumeration of
12 John Bull's creeds.

 Christian Science, or the Principle of divine healing,
 is one of those movements which seek to give expression
15 to a higher spirituality. Founded twenty-five years ago,
 it was still practically unknown a decade since, but to-day
 it numbers over a quarter of a million of believers, the
18 majority of whom are in the United States, and is rapidly
 growing. In Canada, also, there is a large number of
 members. Toronto and Montreal have strong churches,
21 comparatively, while in many towns and villages single
 believers or little knots of them are to be found.

 It was exactly one hundred years from the date of the
24 Declaration of Independence, when on July 4, 1876, the
 first Christian Scientist Association was organized by
 seven persons, of whom the foremost was Mrs. Eddy.

27 The church was founded in April, 1879, with twenty-six
 members, and a charter was obtained two months later.


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1 Mrs. Eddy assumed the pastorship of the church during
 its early years, and in 1881 was ordained, being now known
3 as the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.

 The Massachusetts Metaphysical College was founded
 by Mrs. Eddy in 1881, and here she taught the principles
6 of the faith for nine years. Students came to it in hun-
 dreds from all parts of the world, and many are now pastors
 or in practice. The college was closed in 1889, as Mrs.

9 Eddy felt it necessary for the interests of her religious work
 to retire from active contact with the world. She now
 lives in a beautiful country residence in her native State.



Baltimore American

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12     [The American, Baltimore, Md., January 14, 1895]

 [Extract]

 MRS. EDDY'S DISCIPLES

15 It is not generally known that a Christian Science con-
 gregation was organized in this city about a year ago. It
 now holds regular services in the parlor of the residence
18 of the pastor, at 1414 Linden Avenue. The dedication in
 Boston last Sunday of the Christian Science church, called
 The Mother Church, which cost over two hundred thou-
21 sand dollars, adds interest to the Baltimore organization.

 There are many other church edifices in the United States
 owned by Christian Scientists. Christian Science was
24 founded by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy. The Baltimore con-
 gregation was organized at a meeting held at the present
 location on February 27, 1894.


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1 Dr. Hammond, the pastor, came to Baltimore about
 three years ago to organize this movement. Miss Cross
3 came from Syracuse, N. Y., about eighteen months ago.

 Both were under the instruction of Mrs. Mary Baker
 Eddy, the Founder of the movement.

6 Dr. Hammond says he was converted to Christian Sci-
 ence by being cured by Mrs. Eddy of a physical ailment
 some twelve years ago, after several doctors had pronounced
9 his case incurable. He says they use no medicines, but
 rely on Mind for cure, believing that disease comes from
 evil and sick-producing thoughts, and that, if they can so
12 fill the mind with good thoughts as to leave no room there
 for the bad, they can work a cure. He distinguishes Chris-
 tian Science from the faith-cure, and added: "This Chris-
15 tian Science really is a return to the ideas of primitive
 Christianity. It would take a small book to explain fully
 all about it, but I may say that the fundamental idea is that
18 God is Mind, and we interpret the Scriptures wholly from
 the spiritual or metaphysical standpoint. We find in this
 view of the Bible the power fully developed to heal the
21 sick. It is not faith-cure, but it is an acknowledgment of
 certain Christian and scientific laws, and to work a cure the
 practitioner must understand these laws aright. The
24 patient may gain a better understanding than the Church
 has had in the past. All churches have prayed for the cure
 of disease, but they have not done so in an intelligent man-
27 ner, understanding and demonstrating the Christ-healing."



Reporter (Lebanon, Ind.)

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1  [The Reporter, Lebanon, Ind., January 18, 1895]

 [Extract]

3  DISCOVERED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

 REMARKABLE CAREER OF REV. MARY BAKER EDDY, WHO HAS

     OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FOLLOWERS

6 Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of
 Christian Science, author of its textbook, "Science and
 Health with Key to the Scriptures," president of the Mas-
9 sachusetts Metaphysical College, and first pastor of the
 Christian Science denomination, is without doubt one of
 the most remarkable women in America. She has within a
12 few years founded a sect that has over one hundred thou-
 sand converts, and very recently saw completed in Boston,
 as a testimonial to her labors, a handsome fire-proof church
15 that cost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and was
 paid for by Christian Scientists all over the country.

 Mrs. Eddy asserts that in 1866 she became certain that
18 "all causation was Mind, and every effect a mental phe-
 nomenon." Taking her text from the Bible, she endeav-
 ored in vain to find the great curative Principle — the Deity
21 — in philosophy and schools of medicine, and she con-
 cluded that the way of salvation demonstrated by Jesus
 was the power of Truth over all error, sin, sickness, and
24 death. Thus originated the divine or spiritual Science of
 Mind-healing, which she termed Christian Science. She
 has a palatial home in Boston and a country-seat in
27 Concord, N. H. The Christian Science Church has a


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1 membership of four thousand, and eight hundred of the
 members are Bostonians.



New York Commercial Advertiser

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3  [N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, January 9, 1895]

 The idea that Christian Science has declined in popu-
 larity is not borne out by the voluntary contribution of a
6 quarter of a million dollars for a memorial church for Mrs.

 Eddy, the inventor of this cure. The money comes from
 Christian Science believers exclusively.



Syracuse Post

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9  [The Post, Syracuse, New York, February 1, 1895]

     DO NOT BELIEVE SHE WAS DEIFIED

 CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS OF SYRACUSE SURPRISED AT THE NEWS

12 ABOUT MRS. MARY BAKER EDDY, FOUNDER OF THE FAITH

 Christian Scientists in this city, and in fact all over the
 country, have been startled and greatly discomfited over
15 the announcements in New York papers that Mrs. Mary
 Baker G. Eddy, the acknowledged Christian Science
 Leader, has been exalted by various dignitaries of the
18 faith. . . .

 It is well known that Mrs. Eddy has resigned herself
 completely to the study and foundation of the faith to which
21 many thousands throughout the United States are now so
 entirely devoted. By her followers and cobelievers she is
 unquestionably looked upon as having a divine mission to


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1 fulfil, and as though inspired in her great task by super-
 natural power.

3 For the purpose of learning the feeling of Scientists in this
 city toward the reported deification of Mrs. Eddy, a Post
 reporter called upon a few of the leading members of the
6 faith yesterday and had a number of very interesting con-
 versations upon the subject.

 Mrs. D. W. Copeland of University Avenue was one of
9 the first to be seen. Mrs. Copeland is a very pleasant and
 agreeable lady, ready to converse, and evidently very much
 absorbed in the work to which she has given so much of
12 her attention. Mrs. Copeland claims to have been healed
 a number of years ago by Christian Scientists, after she
 had practically been given up by a number of well-known
15 physicians.

 "And for the past eleven years," said Mrs. Copeland,
 "I have not taken any medicine or drugs of any kind, and
18 yet have been perfectly well.

 In regard to Mrs. Eddy, Mrs. Copeland said that she
 was the Founder of the faith, but that she had never
21 claimed, nor did she believe that Mrs. Lathrop had, that
 Mrs. Eddy had any power other than that which came
 from God and through faith in Him and His teachings.

24 "The power of Christ has been dormant in mankind for
 ages," added the speaker, "and it was Mrs. Eddy's mission
 to revive it. In our labors we take Christ as an example,
27 going about doing good and healing the sick. Christ has
 told us to do his work, naming as one great essential that
 we have faith in him.

30 "Did you ever hear of Jesus' taking medicine himself, or


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1 giving it to others?" inquired the speaker. "Then why
 should we worry ourselves about sickness and disease?

3 If we become sick, God will care for us, and will send to
 us those who have faith, who believe in His unlimited and
 divine power. Mrs. Eddy was strictly an ardent follower
6 after God. She had faith in Him, and she cured herself of
 a deathly disease through the mediation of her God. Then
 she secluded herself from the world for three years and
9 studied and meditated over His divine Word. She delved
 deep into the Biblical passages, and at the end of the period
 came from her seclusion one of the greatest Biblical schol-
12 ars of the age. Her mission was then the mission of a
 Christian, to do good and heal the sick, and this duty she
 faithfully performed. She of herself had no power. But
15 God has fulfilled His promises to her and to the world.

 If you have faith, you can move mountains.

 Mrs. Henrietta N. Cole is also a very prominent member
18 of the church. When seen yesterday she emphasized her-
 self as being of the same theory as Mrs. Copeland. Mrs.

 Cole has made a careful and searching study in the beliefs
21 of Scientists, and is perfectly versed in all their beliefs and
 doctrines. She stated that man of himself has no power,
 but that all comes from God. She placed no credit what-
24 ever in the reports from New York that Mrs. Eddy has
 been accredited as having been deified. She referred the
 reporter to the large volume which Mrs. Eddy had herself
27 written, and said that no more complete and yet concise
 idea of her belief could be obtained than by a perusal of it.



New York Herald

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1 [New York Herald, February 6, 1895]

 MRS. EDDY SHOCKED

3 [By Telegraph to the Herald]

 Concord, N. H., February 4, 1895. — The article pub-
 lished in the Herald on January 29, regarding a statement
6 made by Mrs. Laura Lathrop, pastor of the Christian Sci-
 ence congregation that meets every Sunday in Hodgson
 Hall, New York, was shown to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy,
9 the Christian Science "Discoverer," to-day.

 Mrs. Eddy preferred to prepare a written answer to the
 interrogatory, which she did in this letter, addressed to the
12 editor of the Herald: —
 "A despatch is given me, calling for an interview to an-
 swer for myself, ‘Am I the second Christ?'

15 "Even the question shocks me. What I am is for God
 to declare in His infinite mercy. As it is, I claim nothing
 more than what I am, the Discoverer and Founder of
18 Christian Science, and the blessing it has been to mankind
 which eternity enfolds.

 "I think Mrs. Lathrop was not understood. If she said
21 aught with intention to be thus understood, it is not what
 I have taught her, and not at all as I have heard her talk.

 "My books and teachings maintain but one conclusion
24 and statement of the Christ and the deification of mortals.

 "Christ is individual, and one with God, in the sense
 of divine Love and its compound divine ideal.

27 "There was, is, and never can be but one God, one


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1 Christ, one Jesus of Nazareth. Whoever in any age ex-
 presses most of the spirit of Truth and Love, the Principle
3 of God's idea, has most of the spirit of Christ, of that Mind
 which was in Christ Jesus.

 "If Christian Scientists find in my writings, teachings,
6 and example a greater degree of this spirit than in others,
 they can justly declare it. But to think or speak of me in
 any manner as a Christ, is sacrilegious. Such a statement
9 would not only be false, but the absolute antipode of Chris-
 tian Science, and would savor more of heathenism than of
 my doctrines.

12 "MARY BAKER EDDY"



Toronto Globe

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 [The Globe, Toronto, Canada, January 12, 1895]

 [Extract]

15 CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS

 DEDICATION TO THE FOUNDER OF THE ORDER OF A BEAUTIFUL

 CHURCH AT BOSTON — MANY TORONTO SCIENTISTS PRESENT

18 The Christian Scientists of Toronto, to the number of
 thirty, took part in the ceremonies at Boston last Sunday
 and for the day or two following, by which the members
21 of that faith all over North America celebrated the dedica-
 tion of the church constructed in the great New England
 capital as a testimonial to the Discoverer and Founder of
24 Christian Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.

 The temple is believed to be the most nearly fire-proof
 church structure on the continent, the only combustible


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1 material used in its construction being that used in the
 doors and pews. A striking feature of the church is a
3 beautiful apartment known as the "Mother's Room,"
 which is approached through a superb archway of Italian
 marble set in the wall. The furnishing of the "Mother's
6 Room" is described as "particularly beautiful, and blends
 harmoniously with the pale green and gold decoration of the
 walls. The floor is of mosaic in elegant designs, and two
9 alcoves are separated from the apartment by rich hangings
 of deep green plush, which in certain lights has a shimmer
 of silver. The furniture frames are of white mahogany
12 in special designs, elaborately carved, and the upholstery
 is in white and gold tapestry. A superb mantel of Mexican
 onyx with gold decoration adorns the south wall, and before
15 the hearth is a large rug composed entirely of skins of the
 eider-dawn duck, brought from the Arctic regions. Pic-
 tures and bric-a-brac everywhere suggest the tribute of
18 loving friends. One of the two alcoves is a retiring-room
 and the other a lavatory in which the plumbing is all
 heavily plated with gold."



Concord Monitor

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21 [Evening Monitor, Concord, N. H., February 27, 1895]

 AN ELEGANT SOUVENIR

 REV. MARY BAKER EDDY MEMORIALIZED BY A CHRISTIAN

24 SCIENCE CHURCH

 Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer of Christian Science,
 has received from the members of The First Church of
27 Christ, Scientist, Boston, an invitation formally to accept


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1 the magnificent new edifice of worship which the church
 has just erected.

3 The invitation itself is one of the most chastely elegant
 memorials ever prepared, and is a scroll of solid gold,
 suitably engraved, and encased in a handsome plush
6 casket with white silk linings. Attached to the scroll is a
 golden key of the church structure.

 The inscription reads thus: —
9 "Dear Mother: — During the year eighteen hundred and
 ninety-four a church edifice was erected at the intersection
 of Falmouth and Norway Streets, in the city of Boston,
12 by the loving hands of four thousand members. This
 edifice is built as a testimonial to Truth, as revealed by
 divine Love through you to this age. You are hereby
15 most lovingly invited to visit and formally accept this
 testimonial on the twentieth day of February, eighteen
 hundred and ninety-five, at high noon.

18 "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass.

 "BY EDWARD P. BATES,
 "CAROLINE S. BATES

21 "To the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy,
 "Boston, January 6th, 1895"



People and Patriot

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 [People and Patriot, Concord, N. H., February 27, 1895]

24 MAGNIFICENT TESTIMONIAL

 Members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at
 Boston, have forwarded to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy of


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1 this city, the Founder of Christian Science, a testimonial
 which is probably one of the most magnificent examples
3 of the goldsmith's art ever wrought in this country. It is
 in the form of a gold scroll, twenty-six inches long, nine
 inches wide, and an eighth of an inch thick.

6 It bears upon its face the following inscription, cut in
 script letters: —
 "Dear Mother: — During the year 1894 a church edi-
9 fice was erected at the intersection of Falmouth and Nor-
 way Streets, in the city of Boston, by the loving hands of
 four thousand members. This edifice is built as a testi-
12 monial to Truth, as revealed by divine Love through you
 to this age. You are hereby most lovingly invited to visit
 and formally accept this testimonial on the 20th day of
15 February, 1895, at high noon.

 "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass.

 "BY EDWARD P. BATES,
18 "CAROLINE S. BATES

 "To the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy,
 "Boston, January 6, 1895"
21 Attached by a white ribbon to the scroll is a gold key
 to the church door.

 The testimonial is encased in a white satin-lined box
24 of rich green velvet.

 The scroll is on exhibition in the window of J. C.

 Derby's jewelry store.



Union Signal

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1 [The Union Signal, Chicago]

 [Extract]

3  THE NEW WOMAN AND THE NEW CHURCH

 The dedication, in Boston, of a Christian Science temple
 costing over two hundred thousand dollars, and for which
6 the money was all paid in so that no debt had to be taken
 care of on dedication day, is a notable event. While we
 are not, and never have been, devotees of Christian Science,
9 it becomes us as students of public questions not to ignore
 a movement which, starting fifteen years ago, has already
 gained to itself adherents in every part of the civilized
12 world, for it is a significant fact that one cannot take up
 a daily paper in town or village — to say nothing of cities —
 without seeing notices of Christian Science meetings, and
15 in most instances they are held at "headquarters.

 We believe there are two reasons for this remarkable
 development, which has shown a vitality so unexpected.

18 The first is that a revolt was inevitable from the crass
 materialism of the cruder science that had taken posses-
 sion of men's minds, for as a wicked but witty writer has
21 said, "If there were no God, we should be obliged to in-
 vent one." There is something in the constitution of
 man that requires the religious sentiment as much as his
24 lungs call for breath; indeed, the breath of his soul is a
 belief in God.

 But when Christian Science arose, the thought of the
27 world's scientific leaders had become materialistically
 "lopsided," and this condition can never long continue.


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1 There must be a righting-up of the mind as surely as of a
 ship when under stress of storm it is ready to capsize. The
3 pendulum that has swung to one extreme will surely find
 the other. The religious sentiment in women is so strong
 that the revolt was headed by them; this was inevitable
6 in the nature of the case. It began in the most intellectual
 city of the freest country in the world — that is to say,
 it sought the line of least resistance. Boston is emphati-
9 cally the women's paradise, — numerically, socially, in-
 deed every way. Here they have the largest individuality,
 the most recognition, the widest outlook. Mrs. Eddy we
12 have never seen; her book has many a time been sent
 us by interested friends, and out of respect to them we
 have fairly broken our mental teeth over its granitic peb-
15 bles. That we could not understand it might be rather
 to the credit of the book than otherwise. On this subject
 we have no opinion to pronounce, but simply state the
18 fact.

 We do not, therefore, speak of the system it sets forth,
 either to praise or blame, but this much is true: the spirit
21 of Christian Science ideas has caused an army of well-mean-
 ing people to believe in God and the power of faith, who
 did not believe in them before. It has made a myriad of
24 women more thoughtful and devout; it has brought a
 hopeful spirit into the homes of unnumbered invalids.

 The belief that "thoughts are things," that the invisible
27 is the only real world, that we are here to be trained into
 harmony with the laws of God, and that what we are here
 determines where we shall be hereafter — all these ideas
30 are Christian.


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1 The chimes on the Christian Science temple in Boston
 played "All hail the power of Jesus' name," on the morn-
3 ing of the dedication. We did not attend, but we learn
 that the name of Christ is nowhere spoken with more
 reverence than it was during those services, and that he
6 is set forth as the power of God for righteousness and the
 express image of God for love.



New Century

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     [The New Century, Boston, February, 1895]

9 ONE POINT OF VIEW — THE NEW WOMAN

 We all know her — she is simply the woman of the past
 with an added grace — a newer charm. Some of her
12 dearest ones call her "selfish" because she thinks so much
 of herself she spends her whole time helping others. She
 represents the composite beauty, sweetness, and nobility
15 of all those who scorn self for the sake of love and her
 handmaiden duty — of all those who seek the brightness
 of truth not as the moth to be destroyed thereby, but as
18 the lark who soars and sings to the great sun. She is of
 those who have so much to give they want no time to take,
 and their name is legion. She is as full of beautiful possi-
21 bilities as a perfect harp, and she realizes that all the har-
 monies of the universe are in herself, while her own soul
 plays upon magic strings the unwritten anthems of love.

24 She is the apostle of the true, the beautiful, the good, com-
 missioned to complete all that the twelve have left undone.

 Hers is the mission of missions — the highest of all — to


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1 make the body not the prison, but the palace of the soul,
 with the brain for its great white throne.

3 When she comes like the south wind into the cold haunts
 of sin and sorrow, her words are smiles and her smiles are
 the sunlight which heals the stricken soul. Her hand is
6 tender — but steel tempered with holy resolve, and as
 one whom her love had glorified once said — she is soft
 and gentle, but you could no more turn her from her
9 course than winter could stop the coming of spring. She
 has long learned with patience, and to-day she knows
 many things dear to the soul far better than her teachers.

12 In olden times the Jews claimed to be the conservators
 of the world's morals — they treated woman as a chattel,
 and said that because she was created after man, she was
15 created solely for man. Too many still are Jews who
 never called Abraham "Father," while the Jews them-
 selves have long acknowledged woman as man's proper
18 helpmeet. In those days women had few lawful claims
 and no one to urge them. True, there were Miriam and
 Esther, but they sang and sacrificed for their people, not
21 for their sex.

 To-day there are ten thousand Esthers, and Miriams
 by the million, who sing best by singing most for their
24 own sex. They are demanding the right to help make
 the laws, or at least to help enforce the laws upon
 which depends the welfare of their husbands, their chil-
27 dren, and themselves. Why should our selfish self longer
 remain deaf to their cry? The date is no longer B. C.

 Might no longer makes right, and in this fair land at least
30 fear has ceased to kiss the iron heel of wrong. Why then


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1 should we continue to demand woman's love and woman's
 help while we recklessly promise as lover and candidate
3 what we never fulfil as husband and office-holder? In
 our secret heart our better self is shamed and dishonored,
 and appeals from Philip drunk to Philip sober, but has
6 not yet the moral strength and courage to prosecute the
 appeal. But the east is rosy, and the sunlight cannot long
 be delayed. Woman must not and will not be disheart-
9 ened by a thousand denials or a million of broken pledges.

 With the assurance of faith she prays, with the certainty
 of inspiration she works, and with the patience of genius
12 she waits. At last she is becoming "as fair as the morn,
 as bright as the sun, and as terrible as an army with ban-
 ners" to those who march under the black flag of oppres-
15 sion and wield the ruthless sword of injustice.

 In olden times it was the Amazons who conquered the
 invincibles, and we must look now to their daughters to
18 overcome our own allied armies of evil and to save us from
 ourselves. She must and will succeed, for as David sang
 — "God shall help her, and that right early." When we
21 try to praise her later works it is as if we would pour
 incense upon the rose. It is the proudest boast of many
 of us that we are "bound to her by bonds dearer than free-
24 dom," and that we live in the reflected royalty which
 shines from her brow. We rejoice with her that at last
 we begin to know what John on Patmos meant — "And
27 there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed
 with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her
 head a crown of twelve stars." She brought to warring
30 men the Prince of Peace, and he, departing, left his scepter


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1 not in her hand, but in her soul. "The time of times"
 is near when "the new woman" shall subdue the whole
3 earth with the weapons of peace. Then shall wrong be
 robbed of her bitterness and ingratitude of her sting,
 revenge shall clasp hands with pity, and love shall dwell
6 in the tents of hate; while side by side, equal partners in
 all that is worth living for, shall stand the new man with
 the new woman.



The Christian Science Journal

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9  [The Christian Science Journal, January, 1895]

 [Extract]

 THE MOTHER CHURCH

12 The Mother Church edifice — The First Church of
 Christ, Scientist, in Boston, is erected. The close of the
 year, Anno Domini 1894, witnessed the completion of
15 "our prayer in stone," all predictions and prognostications
 to the contrary notwithstanding.

 Of the significance of this achievement we shall not
18 undertake to speak in this article. It can be better felt
 than expressed. All who are awake thereto have some
 measure of understanding of what it means. But only
21 the future will tell the story of its mighty meaning or un-
 fold it to the comprehension of mankind. It is enough for
 us now to know that all obstacles to its completion have
24 been met and overcome, and that our temple is completed
 as God intended it should be.

 This achievement is the result of long years of untiring,
27 unselfish, and zealous effort on the part of our beloved
 teacher and Leader, the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy,
 the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, who


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1 nearly thirty years ago began to lay the foundation of
 this temple, and whose devotion and consecration to God
3 and humanity during the intervening years have made
 its erection possible.

 Those who now, in part, understand her mission, turn
6 their hearts in gratitude to her for her great work, and
 those who do not understand it will, in the fulness of time,
 see and acknowledge it. In the measure in which she has
9 unfolded and demonstrated divine Love, and built up in
 human consciousness a better and higher conception of
 God as Life, Truth, and Love, — as the divine Principle
12 of all things which really exist, — and in the degree in
 which she has demonstrated the system of healing of Jesus
 and the apostles, surely she, as the one chosen of God to
15 this end, is entitled to the gratitude and love of all who
 desire a better and grander humanity, and who believe
 it to be possible to establish the kingdom of heaven upon
18 earth in accordance with the prayer and teachings of
 Jesus Christ.



Concord Monitor

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     [Concord Evening Monitor, March 23, 1895]

21 TESTIMONIAL AND GIFT

 TO REV. MARY BAKER EDDY, FROM THE FIRST CHURCH OF

 CHRIST, SCIENTIST, IN BOSTON

24 Rev. Mary Baker Eddy received Friday, from the Chris-
 tian Science Board of Directors, Boston, a beautiful and
 unique testimonial of the appreciation of her labors and
27 loving generosity in the Cause of their common faith. It
 was a facsimile of the corner-stone of the new church of


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1 the Christian Scientists, just completed, being of granite,
 about six inches in each dimension, and contains a solid
3 gold box, upon the cover of which is this inscription: —
 "To our Beloved Teacher, the Reverend Mary Baker
 Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, from
6 her affectionate Students, the Christian Science Board of
 Directors.

 On the under side of the cover are the facsimile sig-
9 natures of the Directors, — Ira O. Knapp, William B.

 Johnson, Joseph Armstrong, and Stephen A. Chase,
 with the date, "1895." The beautiful souvenir is en-
12 cased in an elegant plush box.

 Accompanying the stone testimonial was the following
 address from the Board of Directors: —
15     Boston, March 20, 1895

 To the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, our Beloved
 Teacher and Leader: — We are happy to announce to you
18 the completion of The First Church of Christ, Scientist,
 in Boston.

 In behalf of your loving students and all contributors
21 wherever they may be, we hereby present this church to
 you as a testimonial of love and gratitude for your labors
 and loving sacrifice, as the Discoverer and Founder of
24 Christian Science, and the author of its textbook, "Sci-
 ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

 We therefore respectfully extend to you the invitation
27 to become the permanent pastor of this church, in con-
 nection with the Bible and the book alluded to above,
 which you have already ordained as our pastor. And we


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1 most cordially invite you to be present and take charge
 of any services that may be held therein. We especially
3 desire you to be present on the twenty-fourth day of March,
 eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to accept this offering,
 with our humble benediction.

6 Lovingly yours,
 IRA O. KNAPP, JOSEPH ARMSTRONG,
 WILLIAM B. JOHNSON, STEPHEN A. CHASE,
9 The Christian Science Board of Directors
 REV. MRS. EDDY’S REPLY

 Beloved Directors and Brethren: — For your costly offer-
12 ing, and kind call to the pastorate of "The First Church
 of Christ, Scientist," in Boston — accept my profound
 thanks. But permit me, respectfully, to decline their ac-
15 ceptance, while I fully appreciate your kind intentions.

 If it will comfort you in the least, make me your Pastor
 Emeritus, nominally. Through my book, your textbook,
18 I already speak to you each Sunday. You ask too much
 when asking me to accept your grand church edifice. I

 have more of earth now, than I desire, and less of heaven;
21 so pardon my refusal of that as a material offering. More
 effectual than the forum are our states of mind, to bless
 mankind. This wish stops not with my pen — God give
24 you grace. As our church's tall tower detains the sun,
 so may luminous lines from your lives linger, a legacy to
 our race.

27 MARY BAKER EDDY

 March 25, 1895


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1 LIST OF LEADING NEWSPAPERS WHOSE ARTICLES

 ARE OMITTED

3 From Canada to New Orleans, and from the Atlantic
 to the Pacific ocean, the author has received leading news-
 papers with uniformly kind and interesting articles on
6 the dedication of The Mother Church. They were, how-
 ever, too voluminous for these pages. To those which are
 copied she can append only a few of the names of other
9 prominent newspapers whose articles are reluctantly
 omitted.

 EASTERN STATES

12 Advertiser, Calais, Me.

 Advertiser, Boston, Mass.

 Farmer, Bridgeport, Conn.

15 Independent, Rockland, Mass.

 Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Me.

 News, New Haven, Conn.

18 News, Newport, R. I.

 Post, Boston, Mass.

 Post, Hartford, Conn.

21 Republican, Springfield, Mass.

 Sentinel, Eastport, Me.

 Sun, Attleboro, Mass.

24 MIDDLE STATES

 Advertiser, New York City.

 Bulletin, Auburn, N. Y.

27 Daily, York, Pa.

 Evening Reporter, Lebanon, Pa.

 Farmer, Bridgeport, N. Y.

30 Herald, Rochester, N. Y.

 Independent, Harrisburg, Pa.

 Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pa.


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1 Independent, New York City.

 Journal, Lockport, N. Y.

3 Knickerbocker, Albany, N. Y.

 News, Buffalo, N. Y.

 News, Newark, N. J.

6 Once A Week, New York City.

 Post, Pittsburgh, Pa.

 Press, Albany, N. Y.

9 Press, New York City.

 Press, Philadelphia, Pa.

 Saratogian, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.

12 Sun, New York City.

 Telegram, Philadelphia, Pa.

 Telegram, Troy, N. Y.

15 Times, Trenton, N. J.

 SOUTHERN STATES

 Commercial, Louisville, Ky.

18 Journal, Atlanta, Ga.

 Post, Washington, D. C.

 Telegram, New Orleans, La.

21 Times, New Orleans, La.

 Times-Herald, Dallas, Tex.

 WESTERN STATES

24 Bee, Omaha, Neb.

 Bulletin, San Francisco, Cal.

 Chronicle, San Francisco, Cal.

27 Elite, Chicago, Ill.

 Enquirer, Oakland, Cal.

 Free Press, Detroit, Mich.

30 Gazette, Burlington, Iowa.

 Herald, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 Herald, St. Joseph, Mo.

33 Gazette, Burlington, Iowa.

Journal, Columbus, Ohio.

 Journal, Topeka, Kans.

 Leader, Bloomington, Ill.

36 Gazette, Burlington, Iowa.

Leader, Cleveland, Ohio.

 News, St. Joseph, Mo.


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1 News-Tribune, Duluth, Minn.

 Pioneer-Press, St. Paul, Minn.

3 Post-lntelligencer, Seattle, Wash.

 Salt Lake Herald, Salt Lake City, Utah.

 Sentinel, Indianapolis, Ind.

6 Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wis.

 Star, Kansas City, Mo.

 Telegram, Portland, Ore.

9 Times, Chicago, Ill.

 Times, Minneapolis, Minn.

 Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn.

12 Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah.

 Free Press, London, Can.