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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Pulpit and Press (6th Edition), by Mary Baker
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+Title: Pulpit and Press (6th Edition)
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+Author: Mary Baker Eddy
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+Release Date: December 11, 2003  [eBook #10437]
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PULPIT AND PRESS (6TH EDITION)***
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+E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Tom Allen, Josephine Paolucci
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+Transcriber's Note: The spelling "diapson" occurs in our print copy
+                    in the article from the _American Art Journal_.
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+PULPIT AND PRESS.
+
+Sixth Edition.
+
+BY
+
+REVEREND MARY BAKER EDDY,
+
+DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
+
+1897.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+  DEDICATORY SERMON
+  CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK
+  HYMN--_Laying the Corner Stone_
+    _Feed My Sheep_
+    _Christ My Refuge_
+  NOTE
+
+  CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS
+
+  CHICAGO INTER-OCEAN
+  BOSTON HERALD
+  BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
+  BOSTON TRANSCRIPT
+  JACKSON PATRIOT
+  OUTLOOK
+  AMERICAN ART JOURNAL
+  BOSTON JOURNAL
+  REPUBLIC, (WASHINGTON, D.C.)
+  NEW YORK TRIBUNE
+  KANSAS CITY JOURNAL
+  MONTREAL HERALD
+  BALTIMORE AMERICAN
+  REPORTER, (LEBANON, IND.)
+  NEW YORK COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER
+  SYRACUSE POST
+  NEW YORK HERALD
+  TORONTO GLOBE
+  CONCORD MONITOR
+  PEOPLE AND PATRIOT
+  UNION SIGNAL
+  NEW CENTURY
+  CHRISTIAN SCIENCE JOURNAL
+  CONCORD MONITOR
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+This volume contains scintillations from press and pulpit--utterances
+which epitomize the story of the 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 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, 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 telescope of that
+advanced age, with its lenses of more spiritual mentality, indicating
+the gain of intellectual momentum, on the early footsteps of Christian
+Science 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 the sick are healed and sinners saved,
+not by matter, but by Mind; and to further scan the features of the vast
+problem of eternal life, as expressed in the absolute power of Truth,
+and the actual bliss of man's existence in Science.
+
+MARY BAKER EDDY.
+
+February, 1895.
+
+
+
+
+TO
+
+The dear two thousand and six hundred Children,
+
+WHOSE CONTRIBUTIONS
+
+_Of $4,460 were devoted to the Mother's Room in The First Church of
+Christ, Scientist, Boston_,
+
+THIS UNIQUE BOOK IS TENDERLY DEDICATED BY
+
+MARY BAKER EDDY.
+
+
+
+
+DEDICATORY SERMON.
+
+BY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY,
+
+First pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass.,
+Delivered Jan. 6, 1895.
+
+
+TEXT--Psalms xxxvi, 8. "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the
+fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy
+pleasures."
+
+A new year is a nursling, a babe of time, a prophecy and promise clad in
+white raiment, kissed--and encumbered with greetings--redolent with
+grief and gratitude.
+
+An old year is time's adult, and 1893 was a distinguished character,
+notable for good and evil. Time past and time present, both, may pain
+us, but time IMPROVED is eloquent in God's praise. For due refreshment
+garner the 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!
+  The path behind thee is with glory crowned;
+  This spot whereon thou troddest was holy ground;
+          Pass proudly to thy bier!
+
+To-day being with you in spirit, what need that I should be present _in
+propria persona_? Were I present, methinks I should be much like the
+Queen of Sheba, when she saw the house Solomon had erected. In the
+expressive language 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 without and within, the spirit
+of beauty dominates the Mother Church, from its mosaic flooring to the
+soft shimmer of its starlit dome.
+
+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, 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 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
+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 within the walls for its defense? Likewise should we
+do as metaphysicians and Christian Scientists. The real house in which
+"we live, move, and have our being" 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.
+
+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 of Truth, reared on the foundation of Love, and pinnacled
+in Life. Such being its nature, how can our godly temple possibly be
+demolished, or even disturbed? Can eternity 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 I will
+raise it up." He also said: "The kingdom of God is already within you."
+Know then that you possess sovereign power to think and act
+rightly,--and that nothing can dispossess 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 indeed
+dwellers in Truth and Love, man's eternal mansion. Such a heavenly
+assurance ends all warfare, and bids tumult cease, for the good fight we
+have waged is over, and 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 pleasures." No longer are
+we of the church militant, but of the church triumphant; and with Job of
+old we exclaim: "Yet in my flesh shall I see God." The river of 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 quenched, satisfied with what is pleasing to
+the divine Mind.
+
+Perchance some one of you may say, "The evidence of 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. Because of my own unfitness for such a spiritual animus my
+strength is naught, and my faith fails." O thou "weak and infirm of
+purpose." Jesus said, "Be not afraid."
+
+  "What if the little rain should say,
+    'So small a drop as I
+  Can ne'er refresh a drooping earth,
+    I'll tarry in the sky.'"
+
+Is not a man metaphysically and mathematically number one, a unit, and
+therefore whole number, governed 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 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 little ones reflects the infinite One, and
+therefore is the seer's declaration true, that "one with God is a
+majority."
+
+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, through all
+space. His is an individual kingdom, his diadem a crown of crowns. His
+existence is deathless, forever unfolding its eternal Principle. Wait
+patiently on 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 house."
+
+In 1893 the World's Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago, used, in
+all its public sessions, my form of prayer since 1866; and one of the
+very clergymen who had publicly proclaimed me "the prayerless Mrs.
+Eddy," offered 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.
+
+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, holds in her secret chambers those
+characters of holiest sort, bravest to endure, firmest to suffer,
+soonest to renounce. Such was the founder of the Concord School of
+Philosophy--the late A. Bronson Alcott.
+
+After the publication of SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES,
+his athletic mind, scholarly and serene, 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 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_.
+
+This book, in 1895, is in its ninety-first edition of one thousand
+copies. It is in the public libraries of the principal cities, colleges,
+and Universities of America; also 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 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 literature of our and other lands. This
+spiritual chemicalization is the upheaval produced when Truth is
+neutralizing error, and impurities are passing off. And it will 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 maintained 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, 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 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 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 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 Methodist
+Episcopal church. I feel the truth is leading us to return to Japan."
+
+Another brilliant enunciator, seeker, and servant of 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 find in Mrs. Eddy's metaphysical teachings, more than is dreamt of
+in your philosophy."
+
+Also that renowned apostle of anti-slavery, Wendell Phillips, the native
+course of whose mind never swerved from the chariot-paths of justice,
+speaking of my work, said: "Had I young blood in my veins I would help
+that woman."
+
+I love Boston, and especially the laws of the state whereof this city is
+the capital. To-day, as of yore, her laws have befriended progress.
+
+Yet when I recall the past,--how the gospel of healing was
+simultaneously praised and persecuted in Boston,--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
+Jerusalem! Oh, 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 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 committed in
+the name of religion.
+
+An unjust, unmerciful, and oppressive priesthood must perish, for false
+prophets in the present as in the past stumble onward to their doom;
+while their tabernacles crumble with dry rot. "God is not mocked," and
+"the word of our God abideth forever."
+
+I have ordained the Bible and the Christian Science text-book, SCIENCE
+AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, as pastor of The First Church of
+Christ, Scientist, in 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 thou shalt make them drink
+of the river of thy pleasures."
+
+All praise to the press of America's Athens,--and throughout our land,
+the press has spoken out historically, impartially. Like the winds
+telling tales through the leaves of an ancient oak, unfallen, may our
+church chimes repeat my thanks to the press.
+
+Notwithstanding the perplexed condition of our nation's finances, the
+want and woe, with millions of dollars unemployed in our money centres,
+the Christian Scientists, 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 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
+diamonds, 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 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 them with
+his own new name. "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast Thou
+perfected praise." The resident youthful workers were called BUSY BEES.
+
+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--Mother's Room in The First Church
+of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. The children are destined to witness
+results which will eclipse oriental dreams. They belong to the twentieth
+century. By juvenile aid, into the building fund have come $4,460. Ah,
+children, you are the bulwarks of freedom, the cement of society, the
+hope of our race!
+
+Brothers of the Christian Science Board of Directors, when your tireless
+tasks are done--well done--no Delphian lyre 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.
+
+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 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 settle the subject.
+
+After the loss of our late lamented pastor, Rev. D.A. Easton, the
+church services were maintained by excellent 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 river of His pleasures." Oh, glorious hope, and
+blessed assurance, "it is the Father's good pleasure to give you the
+Kingdom." Christians rejoice in secret, they have a bounty hidden from
+the world. Self-forgetfulness, purity, and love are treasures
+untold--constant prayers, prophecies, and anointings. Practice, not
+profession,--goodness, not 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 foundation of
+enlightened faith is Christ's teachings and _practice_. It was our
+Master's self-immolation, his life-giving love, healing both mind and
+body, that raised the 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 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; 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 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 Love.
+
+Christian Scientists, you have planted your standard on the Rock of
+Christ, the true, the spiritual idea,--the 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
+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 that chill vicissitudes have not withheld
+the timely shelter of this house, which descended like day spring from
+on high.
+
+Divine Presence, breathe Thou thy blessing on every heart in this house.
+Speak out, oh, soul! This is the new-born of Spirit, this is His
+redeemed, this, His beloved. May the Kingdom of God within you--with you
+alway--re-ascending, bear you outward, upward, Heavenward. May the sweet
+song of silver-throated singers, making 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 of
+angels and rehearse your heart's holy intents. May all whose means,
+energies, and prayers helped erect the Mother Church, find within it
+home, and _Heaven_.
+
+
+
+
+CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK.
+
+The following selections from SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE
+SCRIPTURES, pages 560-563, were read from the platform. The impressive
+stillness of the audience indicated close attention.
+
+
+_Revelation_ xii, 10-12. And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven: Now
+is come salvation, and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the
+power of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which
+accused them before our 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 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 but a short time.
+
+For victory over a single sin we give thanks, and magnify the Lord of
+Hosts. Then what shall we say of the mighty 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
+there, and Love sends forth her primal and everlasting strain.
+Self-abnegation--by which we lay down all for Christ, Truth, in our
+warfare against error--is a rule in Christian Science. This rule clearly
+interprets God as divine Principle,--as Life, represented by the Father;
+as Truth, represented by the Son; as Love, represented by the mother.
+Every mortal, at some period, here or hereafter, must grapple with and
+overcome the mortal belief in a power opposed to God.
+
+The Scripture, "Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make
+thee ruler over many," is literally fulfilled, when we are conscious of
+the supremacy of Truth, whereby the nothingness of error is seen, and we
+know that its nothingness is in proportion to its wickedness. He that
+touches the hem of Christ's robe, and masters his mortal belief,
+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, 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 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 his bosom companion, comes back to
+him at last with accelerated force; for the evil knoweth its time is
+short. Here the Scriptures declare that evil is temporal, not eternal.
+The dragon is at last stung to death by his own malice; but how many
+periods of self-torture it may take to remove all sin and its effects,
+must depend upon its obduracy.
+
+  _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.
+
+The march of mind and honest investigation will bring the hour when the
+people will chain, with fetters of some sort, the growing occultism of
+this period. The present apathy as to the tendency of certain active yet
+unseen mental agencies will finally be shocked into another extreme
+mortal mood,--into human indignation; for one extreme follows another.
+
+  _Revelation_ xii, 15, 16. And the serpent
+  cast out of his 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 swallowed up the
+  flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
+
+Millions of unprejudiced minds--simple seekers for Truth, weary
+wanderers, athirst in the desert--are waiting and watching for rest and
+drink. Give them a cup of cold water in Christ's name, and never fear
+the consequences. What if the old dragon sends 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 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.
+The waters will be pacified, and Christ will command the wave.
+
+When God heals the sick or the sinful, they should know the great
+benefit 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
+the eyes of the people to the power of good resident in divine Mind; but
+they are not as willing to point out the evil in human thought, and
+expose its hidden mental ways of accomplishing iniquity.
+
+Why this backwardness, since exposure is necessary, to 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 great Master to tell a man his faults, and so risk human
+displeasure, for the sake of doing right and benefiting our race. Who is
+telling mankind of their foe in ambush? Is 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 no
+warning.
+
+At all times, and under all circumstances, overcome evil with Good. Know
+thyself, and God will supply the wisdom 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 one
+Divinity.
+
+
+
+
+HYMNS.
+
+BY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY.
+
+(Set to the Church chimes and sung on this occasion.)
+
+
+LAYING THE CORNER STONE.
+
+  _Laus Deo_, it is done.
+  Rolled away from loving heart
+  Is a stone,--
+  Joyous, risen, we depart
+  Having one.
+
+  _Laus Deo_,--on this rock
+  (Heaven chiseled squarely good)
+  Stands His Church--
+  God is Love and understood
+  By His flock.
+
+  _Laus Deo_, night starlit
+  Slumbers not in God's embrace;
+  Then oh, man!
+  Like this stone be in thy place;
+  Stand, not sit.
+
+  Cold, silent, stately stone,
+  Dirge and song and shoutings low,
+  In thy heart
+  Dwell serene,--and sorrow? No,
+  It has none,
+  _Laus Deo_!
+
+
+FEED MY SHEEP.
+
+  Shepherd, show me how to go
+  O'er the hillside steep,
+  How to gather, how to sow,
+  How to feed Thy sheep;
+  I will listen for Thy voice,
+  Lest my footsteps stray,
+  I will follow and rejoice
+  All the rugged way.
+
+  Thou wilt bind the stubborn will,
+  Wound the callous breast,
+  Make self righteousness be still,
+  Break earth's stupid rest;
+  Strangers on a barren shore
+  Lab'ring long and lone--
+  We would enter by the door,
+  And Thou know'st Thine own.
+
+  So when day grows dark and cold,
+  Tear or triumph harms,
+  Lead Thy lambkins to the fold,
+  Take them in Thine arms;
+  Feed the hungry, heal the heart,
+  Till the morning's beam;
+  White as wool, ere they depart--
+  Shepherd, wash them clean.
+
+
+CHRIST MY REFUGE.
+
+  O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind
+    There sweeps a strain,
+  Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind
+    The power of pain
+
+  And wake a white-winged angel throng
+    Of thoughts, illumed
+  By faith, and breathed in raptured song,
+    With love perfumed.
+
+  Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show
+    Life's burdens light.
+  We kiss the cross, and wait to know
+    A world more bright.
+
+  And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea
+    We see Christ walk,
+  And come to us, and tenderly,
+    Divinely talk.
+
+  Thus Truth engrounds me on the Rock
+    Upon Life's shore;
+  'Gainst which the winds and waves can shock,
+    Oh, nevermore!
+
+  From tired joy and grief afar,
+    And nearer Thee,--
+  Father, where Thine own children are,
+    I love to be.
+
+  My prayer, some daily good to do
+    To Thine, for Thee,--
+  Some offering pure of Love, whereto
+    God leadeth me.
+
+
+
+
+NOTE.--The land whereon stands The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
+Boston, was first purchased by the church 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.
+
+In 1892 I had to recover the land from the trustees, reorganize the
+church, and reobtain its charter--not, however, through the state
+commissioner, who refused to grant it, but by means of a statute of the
+state, and through Directors regive the land to the church. In 1895 I
+reconstructed my original system of ministry and church government. Thus
+committed to the providence of God, the prosperity of this church is
+unsurpassed.
+
+From first to last the Mother church seemed type and shadow of the
+warfare between the flesh and Spirit, even that shadow, whose substance
+is the divine Spirit, imperatively propelling the greatest moral,
+physical, civil, and religious reform ever known on earth. In the words
+of the Prophet: "The shadow of a great Rock in a weary land."
+
+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, Jesus of Nazareth.
+
+Christian Scientists, their children, and grandchildren to the latest
+generations, inevitably love one another with that love wherewith Christ
+loveth us. A love unselfish, unambitious, impartial, universal,--that
+loves only because it _is_ Love. Moreover, they love their enemies, even
+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 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 Christian
+endeavor society which Christ organizes and blesses.
+
+While we entertain due respect and fellowship for what 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.
+
+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 denomination 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 unchristly, 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 rest on the spirit
+of Christ calling us together. It cannot come from any other source.
+Popularity, self aggrandizement, aught that can darken in any degree our
+spirituality, must be set aside. Only what feeds and fills the sentiment
+with unworldliness, can give peace and good will towards men.
+
+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, and in this sacred petition with every praying
+assembly on earth,--"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as in
+Heaven."
+
+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, 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 classified as
+Christian Scientists.
+
+When the doctrinal barriers between the churches are broken, and the
+bonds of peace are cemented by spiritual 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
+places budded and blossomed as the rose.
+
+
+
+
+CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS.
+
+
+
+
+(_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 Correspondence_.--The "great
+awakening" of the time of Jonathan Edwards has been paralleled daring
+the last decade by a wave of idealism that has swept over the country,
+manifesting itself under several different aspects and under various
+names, but each having the common identity of spiritual demand. This
+movement, under the guise of 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 of the last
+quarter of the nineteenth century. History shows the curious fact that
+the closing years of every century are years of more intense life
+manifested in unrest, or in aspiration, and scholars of special
+research, like Professor Max Muller, assert that the end of a cycle, as
+is the latter part of the present century, is marked by peculiar
+intimations of man's immortal life.
+
+The completion of the first Christian Science church erected in Boston
+strikes a keynote of definite attention. 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 structure in
+any city. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, as it is officially
+called, is termed by its founders "our prayer in stone." It is located
+at the intersection of Norway and Falmouth streets on a plot of
+triangular ground, the design a Romanesque tower with a circular front
+and an octagonal form accented by stone porticos and turreted corners.
+On the front is a marble tablet with the following inscription carved in
+bold relief:
+
+  The First Church of Christ, Scientist, erected
+  Anno Domini, 1894. A testimonial to our beloved
+  teacher, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and
+  Founder of Christian Science; author of "Science
+  And Health, with Key to the Scriptures;" President
+  of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, and the
+  first Pastor of this denomination.
+
+
+THE CHURCH EDIFICE.
+
+The church is built of Concord granite in light gray, with trimmings of
+the pink granite of New Hampshire, Mrs. Eddy's native State. The
+architecture is Romanesque throughout. The tower is 120 feet in height
+and 21-1/2 feet square. The entrances are of marble, with doors of
+antique oak richly carved. The windows of stained glass are very rich in
+pictorial effect. The lighting and cooling of the church--for cooling is
+a recognized feature as well as heating--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 of
+iron; the floors of marble in mosaic work, and the edifice is therefore
+as literally fireproof as is conceivable. The principal features are the
+auditorium, seating 1,100 people and capable of holding 1,500; the
+"Mother's room," designed for the exclusive use of Mrs. Eddy; the
+"directors' room," and the vestry. The 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 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 star, which illuminates it.
+From this are the entrances leading to the auditorium, the "Mother's
+room," and the directors' room.
+
+The auditorium is seated with pews of curly birch, upholstered in old
+rose plush. The floor is in white Italian mosaic, with frieze of the old
+rose, and the wainscoting 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 illuminated texts from the
+Bible and from Mrs. Eddy's SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES
+impaneled. A sunburst in the centre of the ceiling takes the place of
+chandeliers. There is a disc of cut glass in decorative designs covering
+144 electric lights in the form of a star, which is twenty-one 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
+paneled in relief work. The organ and choir gallery is spacious and rich
+beyond the power of words to depict. The platform--corresponding to the
+chancel of an Episcopal church--is a mosaic work, with richly carved
+seats following the sweep of its curve, with a lamp stand of the
+rennaissance period on either end, bearing six richly wrought oxidized
+silver lamps, eight feet in height. The great organ comes from Detroit.
+It is one of vast compass, with æolian attachment, and cost $11,000. It
+is the gift of 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 perfect tone.
+
+
+THE "MOTHER'S ROOM."
+
+The "Mother's room" is approached by an entrance of 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 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 hangs an Athenian lamp over
+two hundred years old, which will be kept always burning day and night.
+Leading off the "Mother's room" are toilet apartments, with full length
+French mirrors and every convenience.
+
+The directors' room is very beautiful in marble approaches and rich
+carving, and off this is a vault for the safe preservation of papers.
+
+The vestry seats 800 people, and opening from it are three large class
+rooms and the pastor's study.
+
+The windows are a remarkable feature of this temple. There are no
+"memorial" windows: the entire church is a Testimonial, not a
+memorial--a point that the members strongly insist upon.
+
+In the auditorium are two rose windows--one representing the heavenly
+city which "cometh down from God out of Heaven," with six small windows
+beneath, emblematic of the six water pots referred to in John xi:6. The
+other rose window represents the raising of the daughter of Jairus.
+Beneath are two small windows bearing palms of victory and others with
+lamps typical of Science and Health.
+
+Another great window tells its pictorial story of the four Marys--the
+mother of Jesus, Mary anointing the head of Jesus, Mary washing the feet
+of Jesus, Mary at the resurrection; and the woman spoken of in the
+Apocalypse, chapter 12, God-crowned.
+
+One more window in the auditorium represents the raising of Lazarus.
+
+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 interest. A large bay window composed of three
+separate panels is designed to be wholly typical of the work of Mrs.
+Eddy. The central panel represents her in solitude and 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, and other panels are decorated with
+emblematic designs with the legends, "Heal the Sick," "Raise the Dead,"
+"Cleanse the Lepers," and "Cast Out Demons."
+
+The cross and the crown and the star are presented in appropriate
+decorative effect. The cost of this church is $221,000, exclusive of the
+land--a gift from Mrs. Eddy--which is valued at some $40,000.
+
+
+THE ORDER OF SERVICE.
+
+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 SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE
+SCRIPTURES in perhaps equal measure to its use of the Bible--The reading
+is from the two alternately; the singing is from a compilation called
+the "Christian Science Hymnal," but its songs are for the most part
+those devotional hymns from Herbert, Faber, Robertson, Wesley, Browning,
+and other recognized 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, formerly of Chicago, has filled the
+office of pastor to the church in this city, which held its meetings in
+Chickering hall, and later in Copley hall, in the new Grundmann Studio
+building on Copley square. Preceding Judge Hanna were Rev. D.A. Easton
+and Rev. L.P. Norcross, both of whom had formerly been Congregational
+clergymen. The organizer and first pastor of the church here 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 service held in
+Copley hall. The spacious apartment was thronged with a congregation
+whose remarkable earnestness impressed the observer. There was no
+straggling 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, 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 to
+"Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leper, cast out demons." In
+his admirable discourse, Judge Hanna said that while all these
+injunctions could, under certain 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. The
+discourse was able, and helpful in its suggestive interpretation.
+
+
+THE CHURCH MEMBERS.
+
+Later I was told that almost the entire congregation was composed of
+persons who had either been themselves, or had seen members of their own
+families, healed by Christian Science treatment; and I was further told
+that once when a Boston clergyman remonstrated with Judge Hanna for
+enticing a separate congregation rather than offering their strength to
+unite with churches already established--I was told he replied that the
+Christian Science church did not recruit itself from other churches, but
+from the graveyards! The church numbers now 4,000 members, 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 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.
+
+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 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 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 the world now exceeds 200,000 people. The church
+in Boston was organized by Mrs. Eddy, and the first meeting held on
+April 19, 1879. It opened with 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 $200,000, and entirely
+paid for when its consecration service on January 6 shall be celebrated.
+This is certainly a very remarkable retrospect.
+
+Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of this denomination and discoverer of
+Christian Science, as they term her work in affirming the present
+application of the principles 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, 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 for me.
+
+
+MRS. EDDY.
+
+It was during some year in the early '80's that I became aware--from
+that close contact with public feeling resulting from editorial work in
+daily journalism--that the Boston atmosphere was largely thrilled and
+pervaded by a 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 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
+Columbus avenue, and I was hardly more than seated before Mrs. Eddy
+entered the room. She impressed me as singularly graceful and winning in
+bearing and manner, and with great claim to personal beauty. Her figure
+was tall, slender, and as flexible in movement as that of a Delsarte
+disciple; her face, framed in dark hair and lighted by luminous blue
+eyes, had the transparency and rose-flush 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
+changeful expression cannot thus be reproduced. At once one would
+perceive that she had the temperament to dominate, to lead, to control,
+not by any crude self-assertion, but 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 she
+originated? I mentally questioned this modern St. Catherine who was
+dominating her followers like any abbess of old. She told me the story
+of her life, so far as outward events may translate those inner
+experiences which alone are significant.
+
+Mary Baker was the daughter of Mark and Abigail (Ambrose) Baker, and was
+born in Concord, N.H., somewhere 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
+the coloring and the elastic bearing of a woman of thirty, and this, she
+told me, was due to the principles of Christian Science. On her father's
+side Mrs. Eddy came from Scotch and English ancestry, and Hannah Moore
+was a relative of her grandmother. Deacon Ambrose, her maternal
+grandfather, was known as a "godly man," and her 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.
+
+
+MRS. EDDY AS A CHILD.
+
+As a child Mary Baker saw visions and dreamed dreams. 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 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 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 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 full, and which
+history not unfrequently emphasizes, certainly offer food for
+meditation. Theodore Parker related that when he was a lad at work in a
+field one day on his 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 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 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 achievement, have had experiences of
+voices or visions in their early youth.
+
+At an early age Miss Baker was married to Colonel Glover, of Charleston,
+S.C., who lived only a year. She 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 (then Mrs. Glover) met
+with a severe accident and her case was pronounced hopeless by the
+physicians. There came a Sunday morning when her pastor came to bid her
+good-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 illumination and ministration. She
+requested those with her to withdraw, and reluctantly they did so,
+believing her delirious. Soon, to their bewilderment and fright, she
+walked into the adjoining room, "and they thought I had died, and that
+it was my apparition," she said.
+
+
+THE PRINCIPLE OF DIVINE HEALING.
+
+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 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
+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, "the Bible was
+my only text-book. It answered my questions as to the process by which I
+was restored to health; it came to me with a new meaning, and suddenly I
+apprehended the spiritual meaning of the teaching of Jesus and the
+principle and the law involved in spiritual science and metaphysical
+healing--in a word--Christian science."
+
+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 nineteen hundred years ago. "Divine science is
+begotten of spirituality," she says, "since only the 'pure in heart' can
+see God."
+
+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 unselfish, 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 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. I had learned that mind reconstructed the
+  body and that nothing else could. All science is a
+  revelation.
+
+Through homeopathy, too, Mrs. Eddy became convinced of the principle of
+mind healing, discovering that the more attenuated the drug, the more
+potent was its effects.
+
+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 place "Christian Scientist," on the sign at his
+door. Dr. Eddy died in 1882, a year after her founding of the
+"Metaphysical College" in Boston, in which he taught.
+
+The work in the Metaphysical College lasted nine years, and it was
+closed (in 1889) in the very zenith of its prosperity as Mrs. Eddy felt
+it essential to the deeper foundation 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 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 I never saw equalled.
+
+
+MRS. EDDY'S PERSONALITY.
+
+On the evening that I first met Mrs. Eddy by her hospitable 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 met Mrs. Eddy many times since then, and always with
+this experience repeated.
+
+Several years ago Mrs. Eddy removed from Columbus to Commonwealth
+avenue, where, just beyond Massachusetts avenue, at the entrance to the
+Back Bay Park, she bought one of the most beautiful residences in
+Boston. 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 publication, and to whose
+courtesy I am much indebted for some of the data of this paper. "It is a
+pleasure to give any information for _The Inter-Ocean_," remarked Mrs.
+Hanna, "for it is the great daily that is so fair and so 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, 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;
+she takes a daily walk and drives in the afternoon. She personally
+attends to a vast correspondence; superintends the church in Boston, and
+is engaged on further 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 element 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, 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.
+
+"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 a highly gifted personality."
+
+
+THE FIRST ASSOCIATION.
+
+The first Christian Scientist Association was organized on July 4, 1876,
+by seven persons, including Mrs. Eddy. In April, 1879, the church was
+founded with twenty-six members, and its charter obtained the following
+June. Mrs. Eddy had preached in other parishes for five years before
+being ordained in this church, which ceremony took place in 1881.
+
+The first edition of Mrs. Eddy's book, SCIENCE AND 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 chapters, whose titles are as follows: "Science, Theology,
+Medicine," "Physiology," "Footsteps of Truth," "Creation," "Science of
+Being," "Christian Science and Spiritualism," "Marriage," "Animal
+Magnetism," "Some Objections Answered," "Prayer," "Atonement and
+Eucharist," "Christian Science Practice," "Teaching Christian Science,"
+"Recapitulation." Key to the Scriptures, Genesis, Apocalypse, and
+Glossary.
+
+The Christian Scientists do not accept the belief we call spiritualism.
+They believe those who have passed the change of death are in so
+entirely different a plane of consciousness that between the embodied
+and disembodied there is no possibility of communication.
+
+They are diametrically opposed to the philosophy of Karma and of
+reincarnation, which are the tenets of 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 differ among
+themselves, are phases of idealism and manifestations of a higher
+spirituality seeking expression.
+
+It is good that each and all shall prosper, serving those who find in
+one form of belief or another their best aid and guidance, and that all
+meet on common ground in the great essentials of love to God and love to
+man as a signal 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:
+
+  God's greatness flows around our incompleteness,
+  Round our restlessness, his rest.
+                       ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.
+
+I add on the following page a little poem that I consider superbly
+sweet--from my friend, Miss Whiting, the talented author of "THE WORLD
+BEAUTIFUL."--M.B. EDDY.
+
+
+AT THE WINDOW.
+
+[_Written for the Traveller_.]
+
+  The sunset, burning low,
+    Throws o'er the Charles its flood of golden light.
+  Dimly, as in a dream, I watch the flow
+    Of waves of light.
+
+  The splendor of the sky
+    Repeats its glory in the river's flow;
+  And sculptured angels, on the gray church tower,
+    Gaze on the world below.
+
+  Dimly, as in a dream,
+    I see the hurrying throng before me pass,
+  But 'mid them all I only see _one_ face
+    Under the meadow grass.
+
+  Ah, love! I only know
+    How thoughts of you forever cling to me:
+  I wonder how the seasons come and go
+    Beyond the sapphire sea?
+
+LILLIAN WHITING.
+
+April 15, 1888.
+
+
+
+
+(_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 nearly 6,000 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 testimonial to the
+discoverer and founder of Christian Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, was
+yesterday dedicated to the worship of God.
+
+The structure came forth from the hands of the artisans with every stone
+paid for--with an appeal, not for more 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 many lands,
+the love offerings of the disciples of Christian Science came to help
+erect this beautiful structure, and more than 4,000 of these
+contributors came to 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 the teacher they
+revere.
+
+From all New England the members of the denomination gathered; New York
+sent its hundreds, and even from the distant states came parties of 40
+and 50. The large auditorium, with its capacity for holding 1,400 or
+1,500 persons, was hopelessly incapable of receiving this vast throng,
+to say nothing of the nearly 1,000 local believers. Hence the service
+was repeated until all who wished had heard and seen; and each of the
+four vast congregations filled the church to repletion.
+
+At 7:30 a.m. the chimes in the great stone tower, which rises 126 feet
+above the earth, rung out their message of "Peace on earth and good will
+to men."
+
+Old familiar hymns--"All Hail the Power of Jesus's Name," and others
+such--were chimed until the hour for the dedication service had come.
+
+At 9 a.m. the first congregation gathered. Before this service had
+closed the large vestry room and the spacious lobbies and the sidewalks
+around the church were all filled with a waiting multitude. At 10:30
+o'clock another service began, and at noon still another. Then there was
+an intermission, and at 3 p.m. the service was repeated for the last
+time.
+
+There was scarcely even a minor variation in the exercises at any one of
+these services. At 10:30 a.m., however, 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
+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 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.
+
+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 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-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 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
+filled with beautiful pink roses.
+
+Two combined choirs--that of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of
+New York, and the choir of the home church, numbering thirty-five
+singers in all--led the singing, under the direction, respectively, of
+Mr. Henry Lincoln Case, and Miss Elsie Lincoln.
+
+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, 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 Hampshire.
+
+The utmost simplicity marked the exercises. After an organ voluntary,
+the hymn, "Laus Deo, It Is Done," 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 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 interpretation as given in the
+Christian Science text-book.
+
+The sermon prepared for the occasion by Mrs. Eddy, which was looked
+forward to as the chief feature of the 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 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 following letter from
+a former pastor of the church:
+
+  _Rev. Mary Baker Eddy_--Dear Teacher, Leader,
+  Guide: Laus Deo. It is done. At last you begin to
+  see the fruition of that you have worked, toiled,
+  prayed for. The prayer in stone is accomplished.
+
+  Across 2,000 miles of space, as mortal sense puts
+  it, I send my hearty congratulations. You are
+  fully occupied, but I thought you would willingly
+  pause for an instant to receive this brief message
+  of congratulation. 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 Israel,
+  alone of us all, comprehends its full significance.
+  Yours lovingly,
+
+  LANSON P. NORCROSS.
+
+
+
+
+(_Boston Sunday Globe_, January 6, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+Stately Home for Believers in Gospel Healing.--A Woman of Wealth Who
+Devotes All to Her Church Work.
+
+
+Christian Science has shown its power over its students, as they are
+called, by building a church by voluntary contribution, the first of its
+kind, a church which will be dedicated to-day, with a quarter of a
+million dollars expended 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 coming until the custodian of
+funds cried "enough" and refused to accept any further checks by mail or
+otherwise. Men, women, and children lent a helping hand, some giving a
+mite and some substantial sums. Sacrifices were made in many an instance
+which will never be known in this world.
+
+Christian Scientists not only say that they can effect 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 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 close of the year every evidence of
+  material sense declared that the church's completion
+  within the year 1894 transcended human possibility.
+  The predictions of workman 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 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 text-books, that the
+evidence of the mortal senses is unreliable.
+
+A week ago Judge Hanna withdrew from the pastorate of the church, saying
+he gladly laid down his responsibilities to be succeeded by the grandest
+of ministers--the Bible and "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE
+SCRIPTURES." 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 be elected each year by the congregation.
+
+A story has been abroad that Judge Hanna was so eloquent and magnetic
+that he was attracting listeners who came to hear him preach rather than
+in search of the truth as taught. Consequently the new rules were
+formulated.
+
+But at Christian Science headquarters this is denied; 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 published under the
+title of "Retrospection and Introspection," much is told of herself in
+detail that can only be touched upon in this brief sketch.
+
+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 both in Scotland and England.
+
+Her family came to this country not long before the Revolution. Among
+the many souvenirs that Mrs. Eddy 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 had been
+bestowed by Sir William Wallace of mighty Scottish fame.
+
+Mrs. Eddy applied herself, like other girls, to her studies, though
+perhaps with an unusual zest, delighting in philosophy, logic, and moral
+science, as well as looking into the ancient languages, Hebrew, Greek,
+and Latin.
+
+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-School, of which he was the superintendent, and
+later he attracted the attention of many clergymen of other denominations
+by his able lectures upon scriptural topics. 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 sect. It was called
+the _Journal of Christian Science_, and has had great circulation with
+the members of this fast-increasing faith.
+
+In recounting her experiences as the pioneer of Christian Science, she
+states that she sought knowledge concerning the physical side in this
+research through the different schools of allopathy, homeopathy, and so
+forth, without receiving any real satisfaction. No ancient or modern
+philosophy gave her any distinct statement of the science of mind
+healing. She claims that no human reason has been equal to the question.
+
+And she also defines carefully the difference in the theories between
+faith cure and Christian Science, dwelling particularly upon the terms
+belief and understanding, which are the key words respectively used in
+the definitions of these two healing arts.
+
+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 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 Concord and its
+surrounding villages.
+
+The big house, so delightfully remodeled and modernized from a primitive
+homestead, that nothing is left excepting the angles and pitch of the
+roof, is remarkably well placed upon a terrace that slopes behind the
+buildings, while they themselves are in the midst of green 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 "lookout"--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 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 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 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, was born and bred in that same neighborhood. The
+photograph of Hon. Hoke Smith, another distinguished relative, adorned
+the mantel.
+
+Then my eye caught her family coat of arms and the diploma given her by
+the Society of the Daughters of the Revolution.
+
+The natural and lawful pride that comes with a tincture of blue and
+brave blood, is perhaps one of her characteristics, as is many another
+well born woman's. She had a 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
+Paugus.
+
+This big, sunny room which Mrs. Eddy calls her den--or sometimes
+"mother's room," when speaking of her 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
+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 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
+beauty!"
+
+"Four years!" she ejaculated; "two and a half, only two and a half
+years." Then, touching my sleeve and 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."
+
+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 Boston, and return to her native granite hills,
+there to build a substantial home that should do honor to that precinct
+of Concord.
+
+She chose the stubbly, old farm on the road from Concord within one mile
+of the "Eton of America," St. Paul's school. Once bought, the will of
+the woman set at work, and to-day a strikingly well kept estate is the
+first impression given to the visitor as he approaches Pleasant View.
+
+She employs a number of men to keep the grounds and farm in perfect
+order, and it was pleasing to learn that this rich woman is using her
+money to promote the welfare of industrious workmen in whom she takes a
+vital interest.
+
+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 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_, December 31, 1894.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+
+The growth of Christian Science is properly marked by the erection of a
+visible house of worship in this city, which will be dedicated tomorrow.
+It has cost $200,000, and no additional sums outside of the
+subscriptions are asked for. This particular phase of religious belief
+has impressed itself upon a large and increasing number of Christian
+people, who have been tempted to examine its principles, and doubtless
+have been comforted and strengthened by them. Any new movement will
+awaken some sort of interest. There are many 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 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 show even some one side of it
+will gain followers and live down any attempted repression.
+
+Christian Science does not strike all as a system of truth. If it did,
+it would be a prodigy. Neither does the Christian 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 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 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 many who have worked in the mine of knowledge are glad to welcome
+others who have different methods, and with them bring different ideas.
+
+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 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
+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 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 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 something good for
+the sake of humanity.
+
+Wonders will never cease. Here is a church whose treasurer has to send
+out word that no sums except those 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 faith approximate
+to that of these "impractical" Christian Scientists.
+
+
+
+
+(_Jackson Patriot_, Jackson, Mich. January 20, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
+
+
+The erection of a massive temple in Boston by Christian Scientists, at a
+cost of over $200,000, love offerings of the disciples of MARY BAKER
+EDDY, reviver of the ancient faith and author of the text-book from
+which, 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. The name Christian Science alone is
+new. At the beginning of Christianity it was taught and practiced by
+Jesus and his disciples. The Master was the great healer. But 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 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
+there is the fresh development of a principle that was put into practice
+by the founder of Christianity nineteen hundred years ago, though
+practiced in other countries at any earlier date. "The thing that hath
+been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which
+shall be 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, 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 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 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 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 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 mankind the key to health and heaven, and earned
+the title of "Savior of the World." Whittier, grandest of mystic poets,
+saw the truth:
+
+  "That healing gift He lends to them
+    Who use it in His name;
+  The power that filled his garment's hem
+    Is evermore the same."
+
+Again, in a poem entitled "The Master," he wrote:
+
+  "The healing of his seamless dress
+    Is by our beds of pain;
+  We touch Him in life's throng and press,
+    And we are whole again."
+
+[Footnote: About 1868, the author of SCIENCE AND HEALTH healed
+Mr. Whittier with one visit, at his home in Amesbury, of incipient
+pulmonary consumption.--M.B. EDDY.]
+
+That Jesus operated in perfect harmony with natural law, not in
+defiance, suppression, or violation of it, we cannot doubt. The
+perfectly natural is the perfectly spiritual. 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. 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 nature. He understood the law
+perfectly, as no one before him understood it; and in the plentitude of
+his power he applied it where the greatest good could be accomplished."
+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 environment 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
+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 obtainable environment, he raised the daughter to
+life.
+
+  "Not in blind caprice of will,
+  Not in cunning sleight of skill,
+  Not for show of power, was wrought
+  Nature's marvel in Thy thought."
+
+In a previous article we have referred to cyclic changes that came
+during the last quarter of preceding centuries. Of our remarkable
+nineteenth century not the least eventful circumstance is the advent of
+Christian Science. That it should be the work of a woman is the natural
+outcome of a period notable for her emancipation from many of the
+thraldoms, prejudices, and oppressions of the past. 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 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 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. 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."
+
+The present Boston congregation was organized April 19, 1879, and has
+now over 4,000 members. It is regarded as the parent organization, all
+others being 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 there are between 100,000
+and 200,000. One or more organized societies have sprung up in New York,
+Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toledo,
+Milwaukee, Madison, Scranton, Peoria, Atlanta, Toronto, and nearly every
+other centre of population, besides a large and growing number 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 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 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 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 could not unite, was a happy inspiration.
+
+  "And still we love the evil cause,
+    And of the just effect complain;
+  We tread upon life's broken laws,
+    And mourn our self-inflicted pain."
+
+
+
+
+(_The Outlook_, New York, January 19, 1895.)
+
+A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH.
+
+
+A great Christian Science Church was dedicated in Boston on Sunday, the
+6th inst. It is located at Norway and Falmouth streets, and is intended
+to be a testimonial to the discoverer and founder of Christian Science,
+the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. The building is fireproof, and cost over
+$200,000. It is entirely paid for, and contributions for its erection
+came from every state in the Union, and from many lands. The auditorium
+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. Bemis. It rehearsed the significance of the
+building, and reënunciated the truths which will find emphasis there.
+From the description we judge that it is one of the most 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 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_, New York, January 26, 1895.)
+
+"OUR PRAYER IN STONE."
+
+
+Such is the excellent name given to a new Boston church. 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 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, a lady born of
+an old New Hampshire family, who, after many vicissitudes, found herself
+in Lynn, Mass., healed by the power of Divine Mind, and thereupon
+devoted herself 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 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 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.
+
+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 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
+woodwork 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 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 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 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 a portrait of her
+in stained glass; and an electric light, behind an antique lamp, kept
+perpetually burning in her honor; though she has not yet visited her
+temple, which was dedicated on New Year's Sunday, in a somewhat novel
+way.
+
+There was no special sentence or prayer of consecration; 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. The printed program was for some reason not
+followed, certain hymns and psalms being omitted. There was singing by a
+choir and congregation. The _pater noster_ was repeated in the way
+peculiar to Christian Scientists, the congregation repeating one
+sentence and the leader responding with its parallel interpretation by
+Mrs. Eddy. 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, 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 Lincoln;
+and on the platform sat Joseph Armstrong, formerly of Kansas, and now
+the business manager of the publication society, with the other members
+of the Christian Science Board of Directors--Ira C. Knapp, Edward P.
+Bates, Stephen A. Chase,--gentlemen officially connected with the
+movement. The children of believing families collected the money for the
+Mother Room, and seats were especially set apart for them at the second
+dedicatory service. Before one service was over and the auditors left by
+the rear doors, the front vestibule and street (despite the snowstorm)
+were crowded with others, waiting admission.
+
+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
+text-book. Judge Hanna, who was a Colorado lawyer before coming into
+this work, presided, reading in clear, manly, and intelligent tones, the
+quarterly Bible lesson, which happened 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
+passages 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 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 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
+windchests throughout, and having an æolian 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 has double open diapason (stopped bass),
+open diapason, dulciana, viola di gambi, doppel flute, hohl flute,
+octave, octave quint, superoctave, and trumpet,--65 pipes each. The
+swell organ has bourdon, open diapason, salicional, æoline, stopped
+diapason, gemshorn, flute harmonique, flageolet, cornet--3 ranks,
+183,--cornopean, oboe, vox humana--61 pipes each. The choir organ,
+enclosed in separate swell-box, has geigen principal, dolce, concert
+flute, quintadena, fugara, flute d'amour, piccolo harmonique,
+clarinet,--61 pipes each. The pedal organ has open diapson, bourden,
+lieblich gedeckt (from stop 10), violoncello-wood,--30 pipes each.
+Couplers: swell to great; choir to great; swell to choir; swell to great
+octaves, swell to great sub-octaves; choir to great sub-octaves; swell
+octaves; swell to pedal; great to pedal; choir to pedal. Mechanical
+accessories: swell tremulant, choir tremulant, bellows signal; wind
+indicator. Pedal movements: three affecting great and pedal stops, three
+affecting swell and pedal stops; great to pedal reversing pedal;
+crescendo and full organ pedal; balanced great and choir pedal; balanced
+swell pedal.
+
+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 the head of this sketch. J.H.W.
+
+
+
+
+(_Boston Journal_, January 7, 1895.)
+
+CHIMES RANG SWEETLY.
+
+
+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 Falmouth and Norway streets, dedicated yesterday.
+The sweet, musical tones attracted quite a throng of people, who
+listened with delight.
+
+The chimes were made by the United States Tubular Bell Company, of
+Methuen, Mass., and are something of a novelty in this country, though
+for some time well and favorably known in the Old Country, especially in
+England.
+
+They are a substitution of tubes of drawn brass for the 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 not occupying a
+space of more than five by eight feet.
+
+Where the old-fashioned chimes required a strong man to ring them, these
+can be rung from an electric key board, 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
+something superb, being rich and mellow. The tubes are carefully tuned,
+so that the harmony is perfect. They have all the beauties of a great
+Cathedral chime, with infinitely less expense.
+
+There is practically no limit to the uses to which these bells may be
+put. They can be called into requisition in 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.
+
+
+
+
+(_The Republic_, Washington, D.C., February 2, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
+
+Mary Baker Eddy the "Mother" of the Idea.--She Has an Immense Following
+Throughout the United States, and a Church Costing $250,000 Was Recently
+Built in Her Honor at Boston.
+
+
+"My faith has the strength to nourish trees as well as 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
+delightful 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 made by a remarkable woman, who has
+originated a new phase of religious belief, and who numbers over 100,000
+intelligent people among her devoted followers.
+
+The great hold she has upon this army was demonstrated in a very
+tangible and material manner recently when "The First Church of Christ,
+Scientist," erected at a cost of $250,000, was dedicated in Boston. This
+handsome edifice was paid for before it was begun, by the voluntary
+contributions of Christian Scientists all over the country, and a tablet
+imbedded in its wall declares that it was built as "a testimonial to our
+beloved teacher, 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 Massachusetts Metaphysical college
+and the first pastor of this denomination."
+
+There is usually considerable difficulty in securing sufficient 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, 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 refuse further contributions in
+order to stop the continued inflow of money from enthusiastic Christian
+Scientists.
+
+Mrs. Eddy says she discovered Christian Science in 1866. She studied the
+Scriptures and the sciences, she declares, in a search for the great
+curative principle. She investigated allopathy, homeopathy, and
+electricity, without 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 principle was the Deity.
+
+
+
+
+(_New York Tribune_, February 7, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+
+Boston has just dedicated the first church of the Christian Scientists
+in commemoration of the founder of that sect, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy,
+drawing together 6,000 people to participate in the ceremonies, showing
+that belief in that curious creed is not confined to its original
+apostles and promulgators, but that it has penetrated what is called the
+New England mind to an unlooked-for extent, in inviting the Eastern
+churches and the Anglican fold to unity with Rome, the Holy Father
+should not overlook the Boston sect of Christian Scientists, which is
+rather small and new, to be sure, but is undoubtedly an interesting
+faith and may have a future before it, whatever attitude Rome may assume
+toward it.
+
+
+
+
+(_Journal_, Kansas City, Mo., January 10, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+GROWTH OF A FAITH.
+
+
+Attention is directed to the progress which has been made by what is
+called Christian Science by the dedication 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 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. 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 a naked beggar; and so was memorialized in art and stone what
+was called the divine spirit of giving, whose unbelieving exemplar
+afterward became a saint. The Boston church similarly expresses the
+faith of those who believe in what they term the divine art of healing,
+which, to their minds, exists as much to-day as it did when Christ
+healed the sick.
+
+The first church organization of this faith was founded fifteen years
+ago with a membership of only twenty-six, 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 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 the injunction to "heal the sick,
+raise the dead, cleanse the leper, and cast out demons." They hold with
+strict fidelity to what they conceive to be the literal teachings of the
+Bible as expressed in its poetical and highly figurative language.
+
+Altogether the belief and service are well suited to 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. 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 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 with which our civilization has developed.
+
+
+
+
+(_Montreal Daily Herald_ Saturday, February 2, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
+
+Sketch of Its Origin and Growth--The Montreal Branch.
+
+
+"If you would found a new faith, go to Boston," has 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 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'Rells famous enumeration of John Bull's creeds.
+
+Christian Science, or the principle of divine healing, is one of those
+movements which seek to give expression 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 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, comparatively, while in many towns and
+villages single believers or little knots of them are to be found.
+
+It was exactly 100 years from the date of the 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. The church was founded in April. 1879, with twenty-six
+members, and a charter was obtained two months later. Mrs. Eddy assumed
+the pastorship of the church during its early years, and in 1881 was
+ordained, being now known as the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.
+
+The Massachusetts Metaphysical College was founded by Mrs. Eddy in 1881,
+and here she taught the principles of the faith for nine years. Students
+came to it in hundreds from all parts of the world, and many are now
+pastors or in practice. The college was closed in 1889, as Mrs. 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.
+
+
+
+
+(_The American_, Baltimore, Md., January 14, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+MRS. EDDY'S DISCIPLES.
+
+
+It is not generally known that a Christian Science congregation was
+organized in this city about a year ago. It now holds regular services
+in the parlor of the residence 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 $200,000, adds interest to the
+Baltimore organization. There are many other church edifices in the
+United States owned by Christian Scientists. Christian Science was
+founded by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy. The Baltimore congregation was
+organized at a meeting held at the present location on February 27,
+1894.
+
+Dr. Hammond, the pastor, came to Baltimore about three years ago to
+organize this movement. Miss Cross came from Syracuse, N.Y., about
+eighteen months ago. Both were under the instruction of Mrs. Mary Baker
+Eddy, the founder of the movement.
+
+Dr. Hammond says he was converted to Christian Science by being cured by
+Mrs. Eddy of a physical ailment some twelve years ago, after several
+doctors had pronounced 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 fill the mind
+with good thoughts as to leave no room there for the bad, they can work
+a cure. He distinguishes Christian Science from the faith cure and
+added: "This Christian 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 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 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 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 manner, understanding and demonstrating the
+Christ-healing."
+
+
+
+
+(_The Reporter_, Lebanon, Ind., January 18, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+DISCOVERED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
+
+Remarkable Career of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Who Has Over 100,000
+Followers.
+
+
+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 Massachusetts 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 few years founded a sect
+that has over 100,000 converts, and very recently saw completed in
+Boston as a testimonial to her labors, a handsome fire proof church that
+cost $250,000, and was paid for by Christian Scientists all over the
+country.
+
+Mrs. Eddy asserts that in 1866 she became certain that "all causation
+was mind and every effect a mental phenomenon." Taking her text from the
+Bible, she endeavored in vain to find the great curative principle--the
+Deity--in philosophy and schools of medicine, and she concluded that the
+way of salvation demonstrated by Jesus was the power of truth over all
+error, sin, sickness, and 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 Concord, N.H. The
+Christian Science church has a membership of 4,000, and 800 of the
+members are Bostonians.
+
+
+
+
+(_N.Y. Commercial Advertiser_, January 9, 1895.)
+
+
+The idea that Christian Science has declined in popularity is not borne
+out by the voluntary contribution of a 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.
+
+
+
+
+(_The Post_, Syracuse, New York, February 1, 1895.)
+
+DO NOT BELIEVE SHE WAS DEIFIED.
+
+Christian Scientists of Syracuse Surprised at the News 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 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
+faith....
+
+It is well known that Mrs. Eddy has resigned herself completely to the
+study and foundation of the faith to which many thousands throughout the
+United States are now so entirely devoted. By her followers and
+co-believers she is unquestionably looked upon as having a divine
+mission to fulfill, and as though inspired in her great task by
+supernatural power.
+
+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 faith yesterday and had a
+number of very interesting conversations upon the subject.
+
+Mrs. D.W. Copeland of University avenue was one of 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 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 physicians.
+
+"And for the past eleven years," said Mrs. Copeland, "I have not taken
+any medicine or drugs of any kind, and 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 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.
+
+"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, 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.
+
+"Did you ever hear of Jesus' taking medicine Himself, or giving it to
+others?" inquired the speaker. "Then why should we worry ourselves about
+sickness and disease? 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 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 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 scholars 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 God
+has fulfilled His promises to her and to the world. "If ye have faith ye
+can move mountains."
+
+Mrs. Henrietta N. Cole is also a very prominent member of the church.
+When seen yesterday she emphasized herself as being of the same theory
+as Mrs. Copeland. Mrs. Cole has made a careful and searching study in
+the beliefs 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 whatever 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
+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_, February 1, 1895.)
+
+MRS. EDDY SHOCKED.
+
+[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.]
+
+
+CONCORD, N.H., February 4, 1895.--The article published in the HERALD on
+January 29, regarding a statement made by Mrs. Laura Lathrop, pastor of
+the Christian Science congregation, that meets every Sunday in Hodgson
+Hall, New York, was shown to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, 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 editor of the HERALD:
+
+"A despatch is given me, calling for an interview to answer for myself,
+'Am I the second Christ?'
+
+"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 Christian Science, and the blessing it has
+been to mankind which eternity enfolds.
+
+"I think Mrs. Lathrop was not understood. If she said 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 and statement of the
+Christ and the deification of mortals.
+
+"Christ is individual, and one with God, in the sense of Divine
+Principle and its compound divine idea.
+
+"There was, is and never can be but one God, one Christ, one Jesus of
+Nazareth. Whoever in any age expresses most of the spirit of Truth and
+Love, the Principle 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, 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 would not only be false, but the absolute
+antipode of Christian Science, and would savor more of heathenism, than
+of my doctrines.
+
+"MARY BAKER EDDY."
+
+
+
+
+(_The Globe_, Toronto, Canada, January 12, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS.
+
+Dedication to the Founder of the Order of a Beautiful Church at
+Boston.--Many Toronto Scientists Present.
+
+
+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 of that faith all over North America celebrated the
+dedication of the church constructed in the great New England capital as
+a Testimonial to the discoverer and founder of 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 material used in its construction
+being that used in the doors and pews. A striking feature of the church
+is a 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 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 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 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 the hearth is a large rug composed entirely of skins of the
+eider-down duck, brought from the Arctic regions. Pictures and
+bric-a-brac everywhere suggest the tribute of 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."
+
+
+
+
+(_Evening Monitor_, Concord, N.H., February 27, 1895.)
+
+AN ELEGANT SOUVENIR.
+
+Rev. Mary Baker Eddy Memorialized by a Christian Science Church.
+
+
+Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, discoverer of Christian Science, has received from
+the members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, an
+invitation to formally accept the magnificent new edifice of worship
+which the church has just erected.
+
+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 casket with white silk linings. Attached to the
+scroll is a golden key of the church structure.
+
+The inscription reads thus:
+
+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, 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 most lovingly invited to visit and formally accept this
+Testimonial on the twentieth day of February, eighteen hundred and
+ninety-five at high noon.
+
+The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass.
+
+By EDWARD P. BATES, CAROLINE S. BATES.
+
+To the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, Boston, January 6th, 1895.
+
+
+
+
+(_People and Patriot_, Concord, N.H., February 27, 1895.)
+
+MAGNIFICENT TESTIMONIAL.
+
+
+Members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston have
+forwarded to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy of this city, the founder of Christian
+Science, a Testimonial which is probably one of the most magnificent
+examples 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.
+
+It bears upon its face the following inscription cut in script letters:
+
+"Dear Mother,
+
+"During the year 1894, a church edifice was erected at the intersection
+of Falmouth and Norway streets in the city of Boston 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 most lovingly invited to visit and formally accept this
+testimonial on the 20th day of February, 1895, at high noon.
+
+"The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass.
+
+"To the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.
+
+"By Edward P. Bates
+
+"Caroline S. Bates.
+
+"Boston, January 6, 1895."
+
+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 of rich green
+velvet.
+
+The scroll is on exhibition in the window of J.C. Derby's jewelry
+store.
+
+
+
+
+(_The Union Signal_, Chicago.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+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 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, 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 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 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. The first is that a revolt was
+inevitable from the crass materialism of the cruder science that had
+taken possession of men's minds, for as a wicked but witty writer has
+said, "If there were no God we should be obliged to invent one." There
+is something in the constitution of man that requires the religious
+sentiment as much as his lungs call for breath; indeed, the breath of
+his soul is a belief in God.
+
+But when Christian Science arose, the thought of the world's scientific
+leaders had become materialistically "lopsided," and this condition can
+never long continue. 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
+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 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 emphatically the
+women's paradise, numerically, socially, indeed, every way. Here they
+have the largest individuality, the most recognition, the widest
+outlook. Mrs. Eddy we have never seen; her book has many a time been
+sent to us by interested friends and out of respect to them we have
+fairly broken our mental teeth over its granitic pebbles. 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 fact.
+
+We do not, therefore, speak of the system it sets forth, either to
+praise or blame, but this much is true; the spirit of Christian Science
+ideas has caused an army of well meaning people to believe in God and
+the power of faith, who did not believe in them before. It has made a
+myriad of 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 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 are
+Christian.
+
+The chimes on the Christian Science temple in Boston played "All hail
+the power of Jesus' name," on the morning 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 is set forth as
+the power of God for righteousness and the express image of God for
+love.
+
+
+
+
+(_The New Century_, Boston, February, 1885.)
+
+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 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 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 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 possibilities as a
+perfect harp, and she realizes that all the harmonies of the universe
+are in herself, while her own soul plays upon magic strings the
+unwritten anthems of love. She is the apostle of the true, the
+beautiful, the good, commissioned to complete all that the twelve have
+left undone. Hers is the mission of missions--the highest of all--to
+make the body not the prison, but the palace of the soul, with the brain
+for its great white throne.
+
+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 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 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. 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 created solely for man. Too many
+still are Jews who never called Abraham "Father," while the Jews
+themselves have long acknowledged woman as man's proper 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 for their sex. To-day there are ten thousand Esthers, and
+Miriams by the million, who sing best by singing most for their 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
+children, 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 fear has ceased to kiss the iron heel of
+wrong. Why then should we continue to demand woman's love and woman's
+help while we recklessly promise as lover and candidate what we never
+fulfill 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 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 disheartened 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
+she waits. At last she is becoming "as fair as the morn, as bright as
+the sun, and as terrible as an army with banners" to those who march
+under the black flag of oppression 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 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 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 freedom," 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 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 men the
+Prince of Peace, and He, departing, left His scepter not in her hand,
+but in her soul. "The time of times" is near when "the new woman" shall
+subdue the whole 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 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.
+
+
+
+
+(_Christian Science Journal_, January, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+THE MOTHER CHURCH.
+
+
+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 "our Prayer in Stone," all predictions and
+prognostications to the contrary notwithstanding.
+
+Of the significance of this achievement we shall not 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
+the future will tell the story of its mighty meaning or unfold it to the
+comprehension of mankind. It is enough for us now to know that all
+obstacles to its completion have 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, 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 nearly thirty years ago began to lay the foundation of this
+temple, and whose devotion and consecration to God and humanity during
+the intervening years have made its erection possible.
+
+Those who now, in part, understand her mission, turn 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 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 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 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 earth in accordance with the prayer
+and teachings of Jesus Christ.
+
+
+
+
+(_Concord Evening Monitor_, March 23, 1895.)
+
+TESTIMONIAL AND GIFT.
+
+To Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, from The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
+Boston.
+
+
+Rev. Mary Baker Eddy received Friday, from the Christian Science board
+of directors, Boston, a beautiful and unique testimonial of the
+appreciation of her labors and loving generosity in the cause of their
+common faith. It was a facsimile of the corner-stone of the new church
+of the Christian Scientists, just completed, being of granite, about six
+inches in each dimension, and contains a solid 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 her affectionate Students, the
+Christian Science Board of Directors." On the under side of the cover
+are the facsimile signatures of the directors, Ira O. Knapp, William B.
+Johnson, Joseph Armstrong, and Stephen A. Chase, with the date, "1895."
+The beautiful souvenir is encased in an elegant plush box.
+
+Accompanying the stone testimonial was the following address from the
+board of directors:
+
+BOSTON, March 20, 1895.
+
+To the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, our beloved teacher and leader:
+
+We are happy to announce to you the completion of The First Church of
+Christ, Scientist, in Boston.
+
+In behalf of your loving students and all contributors 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 Christian Science, and the author of its text-book, "SCIENCE
+AND HEALTH WITH KEY To THE SCRIPTURES."
+
+We therefore respectfully extend to you the invitation to become the
+permanent pastor of this church, in connection with the Bible, and the
+Book alluded to above, which you have already ordained as our pastor.
+And we most cordially invite you to be present and take charge of any
+services that may be held therein. We especially 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.
+
+Lovingly yours,
+
+  IRA O. KNAPP,
+  WILLIAM B. JOHNSON,
+  JOSEPH ARMSTRONG,
+  STEPHEN A. CHASE,
+  _The Christian Science Board of Directors_.
+
+
+REV. MRS. EDDY'S REPLY.
+
+BELOVED DIRECTORS AND BRETHREN:--
+
+For your costly offering, 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 acceptance, 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
+text-book, 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; 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 you grace.
+As our Church's tall tower detains the sun, so, may luminous lines from
+your lives, linger, a legacy to our race.
+
+MARY BAKER EDDY.
+
+March 25, 1895.
+
+
+
+
+From Canada to New Orleans, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean,
+the author has received leading newspapers with uniformly kind and
+interesting articles on the dedication of the Mother church. They were,
+however, too voluminous for these pages. Those were copied, and she
+could append only a few of the names of other prominent newspapers whose
+articles were reluctantly omitted.
+
+LIST OF LEADING NEWSPAPERS WHOSE ARTICLES ARE OMITTED.
+
+EASTERN STATES.
+
+  _Advertiser_, Calais, Me.
+  _Advertiser_, Boston, Mass.
+  _Farmer_, Bridgeport, Conn.
+  _Independent_, Rockland, Mass.
+  _Kennebec Journal_, Augusta, Me.
+  _News_, New Haven, Conn.
+  _News_, Newport, R.I.
+  _Post_, Boston, Mass.
+  _Post_, Hartford, Conn.
+  _Republican_, Springfield, Mass.
+  _Sentinel_, Eastport, Me.
+  _Sun_, Attleboro, Mass.
+
+MIDDLE STATES.
+
+  _Advertiser_, New York City.
+  _Bulletin_, Auburn, N.Y.
+  _Daily_, York, Pa.
+  _Enquirer_, Philadelphia, Pa.
+  _Evening Reporter_, Lebanon, Pa.
+  _Farmer_, Bridgeport, N.Y.
+  _Herald_, Rochester, N.Y.
+  _Independent_, Harrisburg, Pa.
+  _Independent_, New York City.
+  _Journal_, Lockport, N.Y.
+  _Knickerbocker_, Albany, N.Y.
+  _News_, Buffalo, N.Y.
+  _News_, Newark, N.J.
+  _Once A Week_, New York City.
+  _Post_, Pittsburg, Pa.
+  _Press_, Albany, N.Y.
+  _Press_, New York City.
+  _Press_, Philadelphia, Pa.
+  _Saratogian_, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
+  _Sun_, New York City.
+  _Telegram_, Philadelphia, Pa.
+  _Telegram_, Troy, N.Y.
+  _Times_, Trenton, N.J.
+
+SOUTHERN STATES.
+
+  _Commercial_, Louisville, Ky.
+  _Journal_, Atlanta, Ga.
+  _Post_, Washington, D.C.
+  _Telegram_, New Orleans, La.
+  _Times_, New Orleans, La.
+  _Times-Herald,_ Dallas, Tex.
+
+WESTERN STATES.
+
+  _Bee_, Omaha, Neb.
+  _Bulletin_, San Francisco, Cal.
+  _Chronicle_, San Francisco, Cal.
+  _Mite_, Chicago, Ill.
+  _Enquirer_, Oakland, Cal.
+  _Free Press_, Detroit, Mich.
+  _Gazette_, Burlington, Iowa.
+  _Herald_, Grand Rapids, Mich.
+  _Herald_, St. Joseph, Mo.
+  _Journal_, Columbus, Ohio.
+  _Journal_, Topeka, Kans.
+  _Leader_, Bloomington, Ill.
+  _Leader_, Cleveland, Ohio.
+  _News_, St. Joseph, Mo.
+  _News-Tribune,_ Duluth, Minn.
+  _Pioneer-Press,_ St. Paul, Minn.
+  _Post-Intelligencer,_ Seattle, Wash.
+  _Salt Lake Herald_, Salt Lake City, Utah.
+  _Sentinel_, Indianapolis, Ind.
+  _Sentinel_, Milwaukee, Wis.
+  _Star_, Kansas City, Mo.
+  _Telegram_, Portland, Ore.
+  _Times_, Chicago, Ill.
+  _Times_, Minneapolis, Minn.
+  _Tribune_, Minneapolis, Minn.
+  _Tribune_, Salt Lake City, Utah.
+  _Free Press_, London, Can.
+
+
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+Title: Pulpit and Press (6th Edition)
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+Author: Mary Baker Eddy
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PULPIT AND PRESS (6TH EDITION)***
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+and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
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+Transcriber's Note: The spelling "diapson" occurs in our print copy
+                    in the article from the _American Art Journal_.
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+PULPIT AND PRESS.
+
+Sixth Edition.
+
+BY
+
+REVEREND MARY BAKER EDDY,
+
+DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
+
+1897.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+  DEDICATORY SERMON
+  CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK
+  HYMN--_Laying the Corner Stone_
+    _Feed My Sheep_
+    _Christ My Refuge_
+  NOTE
+
+  CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS
+
+  CHICAGO INTER-OCEAN
+  BOSTON HERALD
+  BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
+  BOSTON TRANSCRIPT
+  JACKSON PATRIOT
+  OUTLOOK
+  AMERICAN ART JOURNAL
+  BOSTON JOURNAL
+  REPUBLIC, (WASHINGTON, D.C.)
+  NEW YORK TRIBUNE
+  KANSAS CITY JOURNAL
+  MONTREAL HERALD
+  BALTIMORE AMERICAN
+  REPORTER, (LEBANON, IND.)
+  NEW YORK COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER
+  SYRACUSE POST
+  NEW YORK HERALD
+  TORONTO GLOBE
+  CONCORD MONITOR
+  PEOPLE AND PATRIOT
+  UNION SIGNAL
+  NEW CENTURY
+  CHRISTIAN SCIENCE JOURNAL
+  CONCORD MONITOR
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+This volume contains scintillations from press and pulpit--utterances
+which epitomize the story of the 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 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, 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 telescope of that
+advanced age, with its lenses of more spiritual mentality, indicating
+the gain of intellectual momentum, on the early footsteps of Christian
+Science 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 the sick are healed and sinners saved,
+not by matter, but by Mind; and to further scan the features of the vast
+problem of eternal life, as expressed in the absolute power of Truth,
+and the actual bliss of man's existence in Science.
+
+MARY BAKER EDDY.
+
+February, 1895.
+
+
+
+
+TO
+
+The dear two thousand and six hundred Children,
+
+WHOSE CONTRIBUTIONS
+
+_Of $4,460 were devoted to the Mother's Room in The First Church of
+Christ, Scientist, Boston_,
+
+THIS UNIQUE BOOK IS TENDERLY DEDICATED BY
+
+MARY BAKER EDDY.
+
+
+
+
+DEDICATORY SERMON.
+
+BY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY,
+
+First pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass.,
+Delivered Jan. 6, 1895.
+
+
+TEXT--Psalms xxxvi, 8. "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the
+fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy
+pleasures."
+
+A new year is a nursling, a babe of time, a prophecy and promise clad in
+white raiment, kissed--and encumbered with greetings--redolent with
+grief and gratitude.
+
+An old year is time's adult, and 1893 was a distinguished character,
+notable for good and evil. Time past and time present, both, may pain
+us, but time IMPROVED is eloquent in God's praise. For due refreshment
+garner the 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!
+  The path behind thee is with glory crowned;
+  This spot whereon thou troddest was holy ground;
+          Pass proudly to thy bier!
+
+To-day being with you in spirit, what need that I should be present _in
+propria persona_? Were I present, methinks I should be much like the
+Queen of Sheba, when she saw the house Solomon had erected. In the
+expressive language 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 without and within, the spirit
+of beauty dominates the Mother Church, from its mosaic flooring to the
+soft shimmer of its starlit dome.
+
+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, 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 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
+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 within the walls for its defense? Likewise should we
+do as metaphysicians and Christian Scientists. The real house in which
+"we live, move, and have our being" 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.
+
+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 of Truth, reared on the foundation of Love, and pinnacled
+in Life. Such being its nature, how can our godly temple possibly be
+demolished, or even disturbed? Can eternity 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 I will
+raise it up." He also said: "The kingdom of God is already within you."
+Know then that you possess sovereign power to think and act
+rightly,--and that nothing can dispossess 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 indeed
+dwellers in Truth and Love, man's eternal mansion. Such a heavenly
+assurance ends all warfare, and bids tumult cease, for the good fight we
+have waged is over, and 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 pleasures." No longer are
+we of the church militant, but of the church triumphant; and with Job of
+old we exclaim: "Yet in my flesh shall I see God." The river of 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 quenched, satisfied with what is pleasing to
+the divine Mind.
+
+Perchance some one of you may say, "The evidence of 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. Because of my own unfitness for such a spiritual animus my
+strength is naught, and my faith fails." O thou "weak and infirm of
+purpose." Jesus said, "Be not afraid."
+
+  "What if the little rain should say,
+    'So small a drop as I
+  Can ne'er refresh a drooping earth,
+    I'll tarry in the sky.'"
+
+Is not a man metaphysically and mathematically number one, a unit, and
+therefore whole number, governed 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 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 little ones reflects the infinite One, and
+therefore is the seer's declaration true, that "one with God is a
+majority."
+
+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, through all
+space. His is an individual kingdom, his diadem a crown of crowns. His
+existence is deathless, forever unfolding its eternal Principle. Wait
+patiently on 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 house."
+
+In 1893 the World's Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago, used, in
+all its public sessions, my form of prayer since 1866; and one of the
+very clergymen who had publicly proclaimed me "the prayerless Mrs.
+Eddy," offered 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.
+
+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, holds in her secret chambers those
+characters of holiest sort, bravest to endure, firmest to suffer,
+soonest to renounce. Such was the founder of the Concord School of
+Philosophy--the late A. Bronson Alcott.
+
+After the publication of SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES,
+his athletic mind, scholarly and serene, 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 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_.
+
+This book, in 1895, is in its ninety-first edition of one thousand
+copies. It is in the public libraries of the principal cities, colleges,
+and Universities of America; also 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 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 literature of our and other lands. This
+spiritual chemicalization is the upheaval produced when Truth is
+neutralizing error, and impurities are passing off. And it will 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 maintained 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, 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 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 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 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 Methodist
+Episcopal church. I feel the truth is leading us to return to Japan."
+
+Another brilliant enunciator, seeker, and servant of 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 find in Mrs. Eddy's metaphysical teachings, more than is dreamt of
+in your philosophy."
+
+Also that renowned apostle of anti-slavery, Wendell Phillips, the native
+course of whose mind never swerved from the chariot-paths of justice,
+speaking of my work, said: "Had I young blood in my veins I would help
+that woman."
+
+I love Boston, and especially the laws of the state whereof this city is
+the capital. To-day, as of yore, her laws have befriended progress.
+
+Yet when I recall the past,--how the gospel of healing was
+simultaneously praised and persecuted in Boston,--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
+Jerusalem! Oh, 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 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 committed in
+the name of religion.
+
+An unjust, unmerciful, and oppressive priesthood must perish, for false
+prophets in the present as in the past stumble onward to their doom;
+while their tabernacles crumble with dry rot. "God is not mocked," and
+"the word of our God abideth forever."
+
+I have ordained the Bible and the Christian Science text-book, SCIENCE
+AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, as pastor of The First Church of
+Christ, Scientist, in 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 thou shalt make them drink
+of the river of thy pleasures."
+
+All praise to the press of America's Athens,--and throughout our land,
+the press has spoken out historically, impartially. Like the winds
+telling tales through the leaves of an ancient oak, unfallen, may our
+church chimes repeat my thanks to the press.
+
+Notwithstanding the perplexed condition of our nation's finances, the
+want and woe, with millions of dollars unemployed in our money centres,
+the Christian Scientists, 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 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
+diamonds, 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 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 them with
+his own new name. "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast Thou
+perfected praise." The resident youthful workers were called BUSY BEES.
+
+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--Mother's Room in The First Church
+of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. The children are destined to witness
+results which will eclipse oriental dreams. They belong to the twentieth
+century. By juvenile aid, into the building fund have come $4,460. Ah,
+children, you are the bulwarks of freedom, the cement of society, the
+hope of our race!
+
+Brothers of the Christian Science Board of Directors, when your tireless
+tasks are done--well done--no Delphian lyre 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.
+
+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 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 settle the subject.
+
+After the loss of our late lamented pastor, Rev. D.A. Easton, the
+church services were maintained by excellent 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 river of His pleasures." Oh, glorious hope, and
+blessed assurance, "it is the Father's good pleasure to give you the
+Kingdom." Christians rejoice in secret, they have a bounty hidden from
+the world. Self-forgetfulness, purity, and love are treasures
+untold--constant prayers, prophecies, and anointings. Practice, not
+profession,--goodness, not 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 foundation of
+enlightened faith is Christ's teachings and _practice_. It was our
+Master's self-immolation, his life-giving love, healing both mind and
+body, that raised the 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 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; 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 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 Love.
+
+Christian Scientists, you have planted your standard on the Rock of
+Christ, the true, the spiritual idea,--the 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
+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 that chill vicissitudes have not withheld
+the timely shelter of this house, which descended like day spring from
+on high.
+
+Divine Presence, breathe Thou thy blessing on every heart in this house.
+Speak out, oh, soul! This is the new-born of Spirit, this is His
+redeemed, this, His beloved. May the Kingdom of God within you--with you
+alway--re-ascending, bear you outward, upward, Heavenward. May the sweet
+song of silver-throated singers, making 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 of
+angels and rehearse your heart's holy intents. May all whose means,
+energies, and prayers helped erect the Mother Church, find within it
+home, and _Heaven_.
+
+
+
+
+CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK.
+
+The following selections from SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE
+SCRIPTURES, pages 560-563, were read from the platform. The impressive
+stillness of the audience indicated close attention.
+
+
+_Revelation_ xii, 10-12. And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven: Now
+is come salvation, and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the
+power of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which
+accused them before our 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 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 but a short time.
+
+For victory over a single sin we give thanks, and magnify the Lord of
+Hosts. Then what shall we say of the mighty 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
+there, and Love sends forth her primal and everlasting strain.
+Self-abnegation--by which we lay down all for Christ, Truth, in our
+warfare against error--is a rule in Christian Science. This rule clearly
+interprets God as divine Principle,--as Life, represented by the Father;
+as Truth, represented by the Son; as Love, represented by the mother.
+Every mortal, at some period, here or hereafter, must grapple with and
+overcome the mortal belief in a power opposed to God.
+
+The Scripture, "Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make
+thee ruler over many," is literally fulfilled, when we are conscious of
+the supremacy of Truth, whereby the nothingness of error is seen, and we
+know that its nothingness is in proportion to its wickedness. He that
+touches the hem of Christ's robe, and masters his mortal belief,
+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, 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 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 his bosom companion, comes back to
+him at last with accelerated force; for the evil knoweth its time is
+short. Here the Scriptures declare that evil is temporal, not eternal.
+The dragon is at last stung to death by his own malice; but how many
+periods of self-torture it may take to remove all sin and its effects,
+must depend upon its obduracy.
+
+  _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.
+
+The march of mind and honest investigation will bring the hour when the
+people will chain, with fetters of some sort, the growing occultism of
+this period. The present apathy as to the tendency of certain active yet
+unseen mental agencies will finally be shocked into another extreme
+mortal mood,--into human indignation; for one extreme follows another.
+
+  _Revelation_ xii, 15, 16. And the serpent
+  cast out of his 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 swallowed up the
+  flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
+
+Millions of unprejudiced minds--simple seekers for Truth, weary
+wanderers, athirst in the desert--are waiting and watching for rest and
+drink. Give them a cup of cold water in Christ's name, and never fear
+the consequences. What if the old dragon sends 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 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.
+The waters will be pacified, and Christ will command the wave.
+
+When God heals the sick or the sinful, they should know the great
+benefit 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
+the eyes of the people to the power of good resident in divine Mind; but
+they are not as willing to point out the evil in human thought, and
+expose its hidden mental ways of accomplishing iniquity.
+
+Why this backwardness, since exposure is necessary, to 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 great Master to tell a man his faults, and so risk human
+displeasure, for the sake of doing right and benefiting our race. Who is
+telling mankind of their foe in ambush? Is 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 no
+warning.
+
+At all times, and under all circumstances, overcome evil with Good. Know
+thyself, and God will supply the wisdom 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 one
+Divinity.
+
+
+
+
+HYMNS.
+
+BY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY.
+
+(Set to the Church chimes and sung on this occasion.)
+
+
+LAYING THE CORNER STONE.
+
+  _Laus Deo_, it is done.
+  Rolled away from loving heart
+  Is a stone,--
+  Joyous, risen, we depart
+  Having one.
+
+  _Laus Deo_,--on this rock
+  (Heaven chiseled squarely good)
+  Stands His Church--
+  God is Love and understood
+  By His flock.
+
+  _Laus Deo_, night starlit
+  Slumbers not in God's embrace;
+  Then oh, man!
+  Like this stone be in thy place;
+  Stand, not sit.
+
+  Cold, silent, stately stone,
+  Dirge and song and shoutings low,
+  In thy heart
+  Dwell serene,--and sorrow? No,
+  It has none,
+  _Laus Deo_!
+
+
+FEED MY SHEEP.
+
+  Shepherd, show me how to go
+  O'er the hillside steep,
+  How to gather, how to sow,
+  How to feed Thy sheep;
+  I will listen for Thy voice,
+  Lest my footsteps stray,
+  I will follow and rejoice
+  All the rugged way.
+
+  Thou wilt bind the stubborn will,
+  Wound the callous breast,
+  Make self righteousness be still,
+  Break earth's stupid rest;
+  Strangers on a barren shore
+  Lab'ring long and lone--
+  We would enter by the door,
+  And Thou know'st Thine own.
+
+  So when day grows dark and cold,
+  Tear or triumph harms,
+  Lead Thy lambkins to the fold,
+  Take them in Thine arms;
+  Feed the hungry, heal the heart,
+  Till the morning's beam;
+  White as wool, ere they depart--
+  Shepherd, wash them clean.
+
+
+CHRIST MY REFUGE.
+
+  O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind
+    There sweeps a strain,
+  Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind
+    The power of pain
+
+  And wake a white-winged angel throng
+    Of thoughts, illumed
+  By faith, and breathed in raptured song,
+    With love perfumed.
+
+  Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show
+    Life's burdens light.
+  We kiss the cross, and wait to know
+    A world more bright.
+
+  And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea
+    We see Christ walk,
+  And come to us, and tenderly,
+    Divinely talk.
+
+  Thus Truth engrounds me on the Rock
+    Upon Life's shore;
+  'Gainst which the winds and waves can shock,
+    Oh, nevermore!
+
+  From tired joy and grief afar,
+    And nearer Thee,--
+  Father, where Thine own children are,
+    I love to be.
+
+  My prayer, some daily good to do
+    To Thine, for Thee,--
+  Some offering pure of Love, whereto
+    God leadeth me.
+
+
+
+
+NOTE.--The land whereon stands The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
+Boston, was first purchased by the church 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.
+
+In 1892 I had to recover the land from the trustees, reorganize the
+church, and reobtain its charter--not, however, through the state
+commissioner, who refused to grant it, but by means of a statute of the
+state, and through Directors regive the land to the church. In 1895 I
+reconstructed my original system of ministry and church government. Thus
+committed to the providence of God, the prosperity of this church is
+unsurpassed.
+
+From first to last the Mother church seemed type and shadow of the
+warfare between the flesh and Spirit, even that shadow, whose substance
+is the divine Spirit, imperatively propelling the greatest moral,
+physical, civil, and religious reform ever known on earth. In the words
+of the Prophet: "The shadow of a great Rock in a weary land."
+
+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, Jesus of Nazareth.
+
+Christian Scientists, their children, and grandchildren to the latest
+generations, inevitably love one another with that love wherewith Christ
+loveth us. A love unselfish, unambitious, impartial, universal,--that
+loves only because it _is_ Love. Moreover, they love their enemies, even
+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 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 Christian
+endeavor society which Christ organizes and blesses.
+
+While we entertain due respect and fellowship for what 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.
+
+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 denomination 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 unchristly, 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 rest on the spirit
+of Christ calling us together. It cannot come from any other source.
+Popularity, self aggrandizement, aught that can darken in any degree our
+spirituality, must be set aside. Only what feeds and fills the sentiment
+with unworldliness, can give peace and good will towards men.
+
+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, and in this sacred petition with every praying
+assembly on earth,--"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as in
+Heaven."
+
+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, 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 classified as
+Christian Scientists.
+
+When the doctrinal barriers between the churches are broken, and the
+bonds of peace are cemented by spiritual 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
+places budded and blossomed as the rose.
+
+
+
+
+CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS.
+
+
+
+
+(_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 Correspondence_.--The "great
+awakening" of the time of Jonathan Edwards has been paralleled daring
+the last decade by a wave of idealism that has swept over the country,
+manifesting itself under several different aspects and under various
+names, but each having the common identity of spiritual demand. This
+movement, under the guise of 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 of the last
+quarter of the nineteenth century. History shows the curious fact that
+the closing years of every century are years of more intense life
+manifested in unrest, or in aspiration, and scholars of special
+research, like Professor Max Muller, assert that the end of a cycle, as
+is the latter part of the present century, is marked by peculiar
+intimations of man's immortal life.
+
+The completion of the first Christian Science church erected in Boston
+strikes a keynote of definite attention. 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 structure in
+any city. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, as it is officially
+called, is termed by its founders "our prayer in stone." It is located
+at the intersection of Norway and Falmouth streets on a plot of
+triangular ground, the design a Romanesque tower with a circular front
+and an octagonal form accented by stone porticos and turreted corners.
+On the front is a marble tablet with the following inscription carved in
+bold relief:
+
+  The First Church of Christ, Scientist, erected
+  Anno Domini, 1894. A testimonial to our beloved
+  teacher, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and
+  Founder of Christian Science; author of "Science
+  And Health, with Key to the Scriptures;" President
+  of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, and the
+  first Pastor of this denomination.
+
+
+THE CHURCH EDIFICE.
+
+The church is built of Concord granite in light gray, with trimmings of
+the pink granite of New Hampshire, Mrs. Eddy's native State. The
+architecture is Romanesque throughout. The tower is 120 feet in height
+and 21-1/2 feet square. The entrances are of marble, with doors of
+antique oak richly carved. The windows of stained glass are very rich in
+pictorial effect. The lighting and cooling of the church--for cooling is
+a recognized feature as well as heating--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 of
+iron; the floors of marble in mosaic work, and the edifice is therefore
+as literally fireproof as is conceivable. The principal features are the
+auditorium, seating 1,100 people and capable of holding 1,500; the
+"Mother's room," designed for the exclusive use of Mrs. Eddy; the
+"directors' room," and the vestry. The 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 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 star, which illuminates it.
+From this are the entrances leading to the auditorium, the "Mother's
+room," and the directors' room.
+
+The auditorium is seated with pews of curly birch, upholstered in old
+rose plush. The floor is in white Italian mosaic, with frieze of the old
+rose, and the wainscoting 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 illuminated texts from the
+Bible and from Mrs. Eddy's SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES
+impaneled. A sunburst in the centre of the ceiling takes the place of
+chandeliers. There is a disc of cut glass in decorative designs covering
+144 electric lights in the form of a star, which is twenty-one 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
+paneled in relief work. The organ and choir gallery is spacious and rich
+beyond the power of words to depict. The platform--corresponding to the
+chancel of an Episcopal church--is a mosaic work, with richly carved
+seats following the sweep of its curve, with a lamp stand of the
+rennaissance period on either end, bearing six richly wrought oxidized
+silver lamps, eight feet in height. The great organ comes from Detroit.
+It is one of vast compass, with aeolian attachment, and cost $11,000. It
+is the gift of 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 perfect tone.
+
+
+THE "MOTHER'S ROOM."
+
+The "Mother's room" is approached by an entrance of 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 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 hangs an Athenian lamp over
+two hundred years old, which will be kept always burning day and night.
+Leading off the "Mother's room" are toilet apartments, with full length
+French mirrors and every convenience.
+
+The directors' room is very beautiful in marble approaches and rich
+carving, and off this is a vault for the safe preservation of papers.
+
+The vestry seats 800 people, and opening from it are three large class
+rooms and the pastor's study.
+
+The windows are a remarkable feature of this temple. There are no
+"memorial" windows: the entire church is a Testimonial, not a
+memorial--a point that the members strongly insist upon.
+
+In the auditorium are two rose windows--one representing the heavenly
+city which "cometh down from God out of Heaven," with six small windows
+beneath, emblematic of the six water pots referred to in John xi:6. The
+other rose window represents the raising of the daughter of Jairus.
+Beneath are two small windows bearing palms of victory and others with
+lamps typical of Science and Health.
+
+Another great window tells its pictorial story of the four Marys--the
+mother of Jesus, Mary anointing the head of Jesus, Mary washing the feet
+of Jesus, Mary at the resurrection; and the woman spoken of in the
+Apocalypse, chapter 12, God-crowned.
+
+One more window in the auditorium represents the raising of Lazarus.
+
+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 interest. A large bay window composed of three
+separate panels is designed to be wholly typical of the work of Mrs.
+Eddy. The central panel represents her in solitude and 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, and other panels are decorated with
+emblematic designs with the legends, "Heal the Sick," "Raise the Dead,"
+"Cleanse the Lepers," and "Cast Out Demons."
+
+The cross and the crown and the star are presented in appropriate
+decorative effect. The cost of this church is $221,000, exclusive of the
+land--a gift from Mrs. Eddy--which is valued at some $40,000.
+
+
+THE ORDER OF SERVICE.
+
+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 SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE
+SCRIPTURES in perhaps equal measure to its use of the Bible--The reading
+is from the two alternately; the singing is from a compilation called
+the "Christian Science Hymnal," but its songs are for the most part
+those devotional hymns from Herbert, Faber, Robertson, Wesley, Browning,
+and other recognized 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, formerly of Chicago, has filled the
+office of pastor to the church in this city, which held its meetings in
+Chickering hall, and later in Copley hall, in the new Grundmann Studio
+building on Copley square. Preceding Judge Hanna were Rev. D.A. Easton
+and Rev. L.P. Norcross, both of whom had formerly been Congregational
+clergymen. The organizer and first pastor of the church here 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 service held in
+Copley hall. The spacious apartment was thronged with a congregation
+whose remarkable earnestness impressed the observer. There was no
+straggling 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, 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 to
+"Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leper, cast out demons." In
+his admirable discourse, Judge Hanna said that while all these
+injunctions could, under certain 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. The
+discourse was able, and helpful in its suggestive interpretation.
+
+
+THE CHURCH MEMBERS.
+
+Later I was told that almost the entire congregation was composed of
+persons who had either been themselves, or had seen members of their own
+families, healed by Christian Science treatment; and I was further told
+that once when a Boston clergyman remonstrated with Judge Hanna for
+enticing a separate congregation rather than offering their strength to
+unite with churches already established--I was told he replied that the
+Christian Science church did not recruit itself from other churches, but
+from the graveyards! The church numbers now 4,000 members, 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 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.
+
+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 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 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 the world now exceeds 200,000 people. The church
+in Boston was organized by Mrs. Eddy, and the first meeting held on
+April 19, 1879. It opened with 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 $200,000, and entirely
+paid for when its consecration service on January 6 shall be celebrated.
+This is certainly a very remarkable retrospect.
+
+Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of this denomination and discoverer of
+Christian Science, as they term her work in affirming the present
+application of the principles 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, 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 for me.
+
+
+MRS. EDDY.
+
+It was during some year in the early '80's that I became aware--from
+that close contact with public feeling resulting from editorial work in
+daily journalism--that the Boston atmosphere was largely thrilled and
+pervaded by a 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 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
+Columbus avenue, and I was hardly more than seated before Mrs. Eddy
+entered the room. She impressed me as singularly graceful and winning in
+bearing and manner, and with great claim to personal beauty. Her figure
+was tall, slender, and as flexible in movement as that of a Delsarte
+disciple; her face, framed in dark hair and lighted by luminous blue
+eyes, had the transparency and rose-flush 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
+changeful expression cannot thus be reproduced. At once one would
+perceive that she had the temperament to dominate, to lead, to control,
+not by any crude self-assertion, but 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 she
+originated? I mentally questioned this modern St. Catherine who was
+dominating her followers like any abbess of old. She told me the story
+of her life, so far as outward events may translate those inner
+experiences which alone are significant.
+
+Mary Baker was the daughter of Mark and Abigail (Ambrose) Baker, and was
+born in Concord, N.H., somewhere 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
+the coloring and the elastic bearing of a woman of thirty, and this, she
+told me, was due to the principles of Christian Science. On her father's
+side Mrs. Eddy came from Scotch and English ancestry, and Hannah Moore
+was a relative of her grandmother. Deacon Ambrose, her maternal
+grandfather, was known as a "godly man," and her 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.
+
+
+MRS. EDDY AS A CHILD.
+
+As a child Mary Baker saw visions and dreamed dreams. 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 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 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 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 full, and which
+history not unfrequently emphasizes, certainly offer food for
+meditation. Theodore Parker related that when he was a lad at work in a
+field one day on his 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 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 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 achievement, have had experiences of
+voices or visions in their early youth.
+
+At an early age Miss Baker was married to Colonel Glover, of Charleston,
+S.C., who lived only a year. She 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 (then Mrs. Glover) met
+with a severe accident and her case was pronounced hopeless by the
+physicians. There came a Sunday morning when her pastor came to bid her
+good-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 illumination and ministration. She
+requested those with her to withdraw, and reluctantly they did so,
+believing her delirious. Soon, to their bewilderment and fright, she
+walked into the adjoining room, "and they thought I had died, and that
+it was my apparition," she said.
+
+
+THE PRINCIPLE OF DIVINE HEALING.
+
+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 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
+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, "the Bible was
+my only text-book. It answered my questions as to the process by which I
+was restored to health; it came to me with a new meaning, and suddenly I
+apprehended the spiritual meaning of the teaching of Jesus and the
+principle and the law involved in spiritual science and metaphysical
+healing--in a word--Christian science."
+
+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 nineteen hundred years ago. "Divine science is
+begotten of spirituality," she says, "since only the 'pure in heart' can
+see God."
+
+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 unselfish, 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 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. I had learned that mind reconstructed the
+  body and that nothing else could. All science is a
+  revelation.
+
+Through homeopathy, too, Mrs. Eddy became convinced of the principle of
+mind healing, discovering that the more attenuated the drug, the more
+potent was its effects.
+
+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 place "Christian Scientist," on the sign at his
+door. Dr. Eddy died in 1882, a year after her founding of the
+"Metaphysical College" in Boston, in which he taught.
+
+The work in the Metaphysical College lasted nine years, and it was
+closed (in 1889) in the very zenith of its prosperity as Mrs. Eddy felt
+it essential to the deeper foundation 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 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 I never saw equalled.
+
+
+MRS. EDDY'S PERSONALITY.
+
+On the evening that I first met Mrs. Eddy by her hospitable 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 met Mrs. Eddy many times since then, and always with
+this experience repeated.
+
+Several years ago Mrs. Eddy removed from Columbus to Commonwealth
+avenue, where, just beyond Massachusetts avenue, at the entrance to the
+Back Bay Park, she bought one of the most beautiful residences in
+Boston. 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 publication, and to whose
+courtesy I am much indebted for some of the data of this paper. "It is a
+pleasure to give any information for _The Inter-Ocean_," remarked Mrs.
+Hanna, "for it is the great daily that is so fair and so 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, 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;
+she takes a daily walk and drives in the afternoon. She personally
+attends to a vast correspondence; superintends the church in Boston, and
+is engaged on further 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 element 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, 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.
+
+"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 a highly gifted personality."
+
+
+THE FIRST ASSOCIATION.
+
+The first Christian Scientist Association was organized on July 4, 1876,
+by seven persons, including Mrs. Eddy. In April, 1879, the church was
+founded with twenty-six members, and its charter obtained the following
+June. Mrs. Eddy had preached in other parishes for five years before
+being ordained in this church, which ceremony took place in 1881.
+
+The first edition of Mrs. Eddy's book, SCIENCE AND 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 chapters, whose titles are as follows: "Science, Theology,
+Medicine," "Physiology," "Footsteps of Truth," "Creation," "Science of
+Being," "Christian Science and Spiritualism," "Marriage," "Animal
+Magnetism," "Some Objections Answered," "Prayer," "Atonement and
+Eucharist," "Christian Science Practice," "Teaching Christian Science,"
+"Recapitulation." Key to the Scriptures, Genesis, Apocalypse, and
+Glossary.
+
+The Christian Scientists do not accept the belief we call spiritualism.
+They believe those who have passed the change of death are in so
+entirely different a plane of consciousness that between the embodied
+and disembodied there is no possibility of communication.
+
+They are diametrically opposed to the philosophy of Karma and of
+reincarnation, which are the tenets of 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 differ among
+themselves, are phases of idealism and manifestations of a higher
+spirituality seeking expression.
+
+It is good that each and all shall prosper, serving those who find in
+one form of belief or another their best aid and guidance, and that all
+meet on common ground in the great essentials of love to God and love to
+man as a signal 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:
+
+  God's greatness flows around our incompleteness,
+  Round our restlessness, his rest.
+                       ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.
+
+I add on the following page a little poem that I consider superbly
+sweet--from my friend, Miss Whiting, the talented author of "THE WORLD
+BEAUTIFUL."--M.B. EDDY.
+
+
+AT THE WINDOW.
+
+[_Written for the Traveller_.]
+
+  The sunset, burning low,
+    Throws o'er the Charles its flood of golden light.
+  Dimly, as in a dream, I watch the flow
+    Of waves of light.
+
+  The splendor of the sky
+    Repeats its glory in the river's flow;
+  And sculptured angels, on the gray church tower,
+    Gaze on the world below.
+
+  Dimly, as in a dream,
+    I see the hurrying throng before me pass,
+  But 'mid them all I only see _one_ face
+    Under the meadow grass.
+
+  Ah, love! I only know
+    How thoughts of you forever cling to me:
+  I wonder how the seasons come and go
+    Beyond the sapphire sea?
+
+LILLIAN WHITING.
+
+April 15, 1888.
+
+
+
+
+(_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 nearly 6,000 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 testimonial to the
+discoverer and founder of Christian Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, was
+yesterday dedicated to the worship of God.
+
+The structure came forth from the hands of the artisans with every stone
+paid for--with an appeal, not for more 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 many lands,
+the love offerings of the disciples of Christian Science came to help
+erect this beautiful structure, and more than 4,000 of these
+contributors came to 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 the teacher they
+revere.
+
+From all New England the members of the denomination gathered; New York
+sent its hundreds, and even from the distant states came parties of 40
+and 50. The large auditorium, with its capacity for holding 1,400 or
+1,500 persons, was hopelessly incapable of receiving this vast throng,
+to say nothing of the nearly 1,000 local believers. Hence the service
+was repeated until all who wished had heard and seen; and each of the
+four vast congregations filled the church to repletion.
+
+At 7:30 a.m. the chimes in the great stone tower, which rises 126 feet
+above the earth, rung out their message of "Peace on earth and good will
+to men."
+
+Old familiar hymns--"All Hail the Power of Jesus's Name," and others
+such--were chimed until the hour for the dedication service had come.
+
+At 9 a.m. the first congregation gathered. Before this service had
+closed the large vestry room and the spacious lobbies and the sidewalks
+around the church were all filled with a waiting multitude. At 10:30
+o'clock another service began, and at noon still another. Then there was
+an intermission, and at 3 p.m. the service was repeated for the last
+time.
+
+There was scarcely even a minor variation in the exercises at any one of
+these services. At 10:30 a.m., however, 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
+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 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.
+
+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 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-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 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
+filled with beautiful pink roses.
+
+Two combined choirs--that of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of
+New York, and the choir of the home church, numbering thirty-five
+singers in all--led the singing, under the direction, respectively, of
+Mr. Henry Lincoln Case, and Miss Elsie Lincoln.
+
+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, 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 Hampshire.
+
+The utmost simplicity marked the exercises. After an organ voluntary,
+the hymn, "Laus Deo, It Is Done," 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 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 interpretation as given in the
+Christian Science text-book.
+
+The sermon prepared for the occasion by Mrs. Eddy, which was looked
+forward to as the chief feature of the 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 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 following letter from
+a former pastor of the church:
+
+  _Rev. Mary Baker Eddy_--Dear Teacher, Leader,
+  Guide: Laus Deo. It is done. At last you begin to
+  see the fruition of that you have worked, toiled,
+  prayed for. The prayer in stone is accomplished.
+
+  Across 2,000 miles of space, as mortal sense puts
+  it, I send my hearty congratulations. You are
+  fully occupied, but I thought you would willingly
+  pause for an instant to receive this brief message
+  of congratulation. 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 Israel,
+  alone of us all, comprehends its full significance.
+  Yours lovingly,
+
+  LANSON P. NORCROSS.
+
+
+
+
+(_Boston Sunday Globe_, January 6, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+Stately Home for Believers in Gospel Healing.--A Woman of Wealth Who
+Devotes All to Her Church Work.
+
+
+Christian Science has shown its power over its students, as they are
+called, by building a church by voluntary contribution, the first of its
+kind, a church which will be dedicated to-day, with a quarter of a
+million dollars expended 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 coming until the custodian of
+funds cried "enough" and refused to accept any further checks by mail or
+otherwise. Men, women, and children lent a helping hand, some giving a
+mite and some substantial sums. Sacrifices were made in many an instance
+which will never be known in this world.
+
+Christian Scientists not only say that they can effect 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 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 close of the year every evidence of
+  material sense declared that the church's completion
+  within the year 1894 transcended human possibility.
+  The predictions of workman 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 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 text-books, that the
+evidence of the mortal senses is unreliable.
+
+A week ago Judge Hanna withdrew from the pastorate of the church, saying
+he gladly laid down his responsibilities to be succeeded by the grandest
+of ministers--the Bible and "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE
+SCRIPTURES." 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 be elected each year by the congregation.
+
+A story has been abroad that Judge Hanna was so eloquent and magnetic
+that he was attracting listeners who came to hear him preach rather than
+in search of the truth as taught. Consequently the new rules were
+formulated.
+
+But at Christian Science headquarters this is denied; 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 published under the
+title of "Retrospection and Introspection," much is told of herself in
+detail that can only be touched upon in this brief sketch.
+
+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 both in Scotland and England.
+
+Her family came to this country not long before the Revolution. Among
+the many souvenirs that Mrs. Eddy 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 had been
+bestowed by Sir William Wallace of mighty Scottish fame.
+
+Mrs. Eddy applied herself, like other girls, to her studies, though
+perhaps with an unusual zest, delighting in philosophy, logic, and moral
+science, as well as looking into the ancient languages, Hebrew, Greek,
+and Latin.
+
+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-School, of which he was the superintendent, and
+later he attracted the attention of many clergymen of other denominations
+by his able lectures upon scriptural topics. 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 sect. It was called
+the _Journal of Christian Science_, and has had great circulation with
+the members of this fast-increasing faith.
+
+In recounting her experiences as the pioneer of Christian Science, she
+states that she sought knowledge concerning the physical side in this
+research through the different schools of allopathy, homeopathy, and so
+forth, without receiving any real satisfaction. No ancient or modern
+philosophy gave her any distinct statement of the science of mind
+healing. She claims that no human reason has been equal to the question.
+
+And she also defines carefully the difference in the theories between
+faith cure and Christian Science, dwelling particularly upon the terms
+belief and understanding, which are the key words respectively used in
+the definitions of these two healing arts.
+
+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 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 Concord and its
+surrounding villages.
+
+The big house, so delightfully remodeled and modernized from a primitive
+homestead, that nothing is left excepting the angles and pitch of the
+roof, is remarkably well placed upon a terrace that slopes behind the
+buildings, while they themselves are in the midst of green 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 "lookout"--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 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 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 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, was born and bred in that same neighborhood. The
+photograph of Hon. Hoke Smith, another distinguished relative, adorned
+the mantel.
+
+Then my eye caught her family coat of arms and the diploma given her by
+the Society of the Daughters of the Revolution.
+
+The natural and lawful pride that comes with a tincture of blue and
+brave blood, is perhaps one of her characteristics, as is many another
+well born woman's. She had a 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
+Paugus.
+
+This big, sunny room which Mrs. Eddy calls her den--or sometimes
+"mother's room," when speaking of her 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
+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 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
+beauty!"
+
+"Four years!" she ejaculated; "two and a half, only two and a half
+years." Then, touching my sleeve and 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."
+
+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 Boston, and return to her native granite hills,
+there to build a substantial home that should do honor to that precinct
+of Concord.
+
+She chose the stubbly, old farm on the road from Concord within one mile
+of the "Eton of America," St. Paul's school. Once bought, the will of
+the woman set at work, and to-day a strikingly well kept estate is the
+first impression given to the visitor as he approaches Pleasant View.
+
+She employs a number of men to keep the grounds and farm in perfect
+order, and it was pleasing to learn that this rich woman is using her
+money to promote the welfare of industrious workmen in whom she takes a
+vital interest.
+
+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 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_, December 31, 1894.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+
+The growth of Christian Science is properly marked by the erection of a
+visible house of worship in this city, which will be dedicated tomorrow.
+It has cost $200,000, and no additional sums outside of the
+subscriptions are asked for. This particular phase of religious belief
+has impressed itself upon a large and increasing number of Christian
+people, who have been tempted to examine its principles, and doubtless
+have been comforted and strengthened by them. Any new movement will
+awaken some sort of interest. There are many 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 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 show even some one side of it
+will gain followers and live down any attempted repression.
+
+Christian Science does not strike all as a system of truth. If it did,
+it would be a prodigy. Neither does the Christian 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 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 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 many who have worked in the mine of knowledge are glad to welcome
+others who have different methods, and with them bring different ideas.
+
+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 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
+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 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 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 something good for
+the sake of humanity.
+
+Wonders will never cease. Here is a church whose treasurer has to send
+out word that no sums except those 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 faith approximate
+to that of these "impractical" Christian Scientists.
+
+
+
+
+(_Jackson Patriot_, Jackson, Mich. January 20, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
+
+
+The erection of a massive temple in Boston by Christian Scientists, at a
+cost of over $200,000, love offerings of the disciples of MARY BAKER
+EDDY, reviver of the ancient faith and author of the text-book from
+which, 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. The name Christian Science alone is
+new. At the beginning of Christianity it was taught and practiced by
+Jesus and his disciples. The Master was the great healer. But 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 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
+there is the fresh development of a principle that was put into practice
+by the founder of Christianity nineteen hundred years ago, though
+practiced in other countries at any earlier date. "The thing that hath
+been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which
+shall be 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, 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 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 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 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 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 mankind the key to health and heaven, and earned
+the title of "Savior of the World." Whittier, grandest of mystic poets,
+saw the truth:
+
+  "That healing gift He lends to them
+    Who use it in His name;
+  The power that filled his garment's hem
+    Is evermore the same."
+
+Again, in a poem entitled "The Master," he wrote:
+
+  "The healing of his seamless dress
+    Is by our beds of pain;
+  We touch Him in life's throng and press,
+    And we are whole again."
+
+[Footnote: About 1868, the author of SCIENCE AND HEALTH healed
+Mr. Whittier with one visit, at his home in Amesbury, of incipient
+pulmonary consumption.--M.B. EDDY.]
+
+That Jesus operated in perfect harmony with natural law, not in
+defiance, suppression, or violation of it, we cannot doubt. The
+perfectly natural is the perfectly spiritual. 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. 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 nature. He understood the law
+perfectly, as no one before him understood it; and in the plentitude of
+his power he applied it where the greatest good could be accomplished."
+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 environment 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
+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 obtainable environment, he raised the daughter to
+life.
+
+  "Not in blind caprice of will,
+  Not in cunning sleight of skill,
+  Not for show of power, was wrought
+  Nature's marvel in Thy thought."
+
+In a previous article we have referred to cyclic changes that came
+during the last quarter of preceding centuries. Of our remarkable
+nineteenth century not the least eventful circumstance is the advent of
+Christian Science. That it should be the work of a woman is the natural
+outcome of a period notable for her emancipation from many of the
+thraldoms, prejudices, and oppressions of the past. 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 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 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. 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."
+
+The present Boston congregation was organized April 19, 1879, and has
+now over 4,000 members. It is regarded as the parent organization, all
+others being 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 there are between 100,000
+and 200,000. One or more organized societies have sprung up in New York,
+Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toledo,
+Milwaukee, Madison, Scranton, Peoria, Atlanta, Toronto, and nearly every
+other centre of population, besides a large and growing number 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 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 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 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 could not unite, was a happy inspiration.
+
+  "And still we love the evil cause,
+    And of the just effect complain;
+  We tread upon life's broken laws,
+    And mourn our self-inflicted pain."
+
+
+
+
+(_The Outlook_, New York, January 19, 1895.)
+
+A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH.
+
+
+A great Christian Science Church was dedicated in Boston on Sunday, the
+6th inst. It is located at Norway and Falmouth streets, and is intended
+to be a testimonial to the discoverer and founder of Christian Science,
+the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. The building is fireproof, and cost over
+$200,000. It is entirely paid for, and contributions for its erection
+came from every state in the Union, and from many lands. The auditorium
+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. 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 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 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_, New York, January 26, 1895.)
+
+"OUR PRAYER IN STONE."
+
+
+Such is the excellent name given to a new Boston church. 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 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, a lady born of
+an old New Hampshire family, who, after many vicissitudes, found herself
+in Lynn, Mass., healed by the power of Divine Mind, and thereupon
+devoted herself 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 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 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.
+
+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 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
+woodwork 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 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 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 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 a portrait of her
+in stained glass; and an electric light, behind an antique lamp, kept
+perpetually burning in her honor; though she has not yet visited her
+temple, which was dedicated on New Year's Sunday, in a somewhat novel
+way.
+
+There was no special sentence or prayer of consecration; 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. The printed program was for some reason not
+followed, certain hymns and psalms being omitted. There was singing by a
+choir and congregation. The _pater noster_ was repeated in the way
+peculiar to Christian Scientists, the congregation repeating one
+sentence and the leader responding with its parallel interpretation by
+Mrs. Eddy. 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, 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 Lincoln;
+and on the platform sat Joseph Armstrong, formerly of Kansas, and now
+the business manager of the publication society, with the other members
+of the Christian Science Board of Directors--Ira C. Knapp, Edward P.
+Bates, Stephen A. Chase,--gentlemen officially connected with the
+movement. The children of believing families collected the money for the
+Mother Room, and seats were especially set apart for them at the second
+dedicatory service. Before one service was over and the auditors left by
+the rear doors, the front vestibule and street (despite the snowstorm)
+were crowded with others, waiting admission.
+
+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
+text-book. Judge Hanna, who was a Colorado lawyer before coming into
+this work, presided, reading in clear, manly, and intelligent tones, the
+quarterly Bible lesson, which happened 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
+passages 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 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 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
+windchests 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 has double open diapason (stopped bass),
+open diapason, dulciana, viola di gambi, doppel flute, hohl flute,
+octave, octave quint, superoctave, and trumpet,--65 pipes each. The
+swell organ has bourdon, open diapason, salicional, aeoline, stopped
+diapason, gemshorn, flute harmonique, flageolet, cornet--3 ranks,
+183,--cornopean, oboe, vox humana--61 pipes each. The choir organ,
+enclosed in separate swell-box, has geigen principal, dolce, concert
+flute, quintadena, fugara, flute d'amour, piccolo harmonique,
+clarinet,--61 pipes each. The pedal organ has open diapson, bourden,
+lieblich gedeckt (from stop 10), violoncello-wood,--30 pipes each.
+Couplers: swell to great; choir to great; swell to choir; swell to great
+octaves, swell to great sub-octaves; choir to great sub-octaves; swell
+octaves; swell to pedal; great to pedal; choir to pedal. Mechanical
+accessories: swell tremulant, choir tremulant, bellows signal; wind
+indicator. Pedal movements: three affecting great and pedal stops, three
+affecting swell and pedal stops; great to pedal reversing pedal;
+crescendo and full organ pedal; balanced great and choir pedal; balanced
+swell pedal.
+
+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 the head of this sketch. J.H.W.
+
+
+
+
+(_Boston Journal_, January 7, 1895.)
+
+CHIMES RANG SWEETLY.
+
+
+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 Falmouth and Norway streets, dedicated yesterday.
+The sweet, musical tones attracted quite a throng of people, who
+listened with delight.
+
+The chimes were made by the United States Tubular Bell Company, of
+Methuen, Mass., and are something of a novelty in this country, though
+for some time well and favorably known in the Old Country, especially in
+England.
+
+They are a substitution of tubes of drawn brass for the 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 not occupying a
+space of more than five by eight feet.
+
+Where the old-fashioned chimes required a strong man to ring them, these
+can be rung from an electric key board, 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
+something superb, being rich and mellow. The tubes are carefully tuned,
+so that the harmony is perfect. They have all the beauties of a great
+Cathedral chime, with infinitely less expense.
+
+There is practically no limit to the uses to which these bells may be
+put. They can be called into requisition in 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.
+
+
+
+
+(_The Republic_, Washington, D.C., February 2, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
+
+Mary Baker Eddy the "Mother" of the Idea.--She Has an Immense Following
+Throughout the United States, and a Church Costing $250,000 Was Recently
+Built in Her Honor at Boston.
+
+
+"My faith has the strength to nourish trees as well as 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
+delightful 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 made by a remarkable woman, who has
+originated a new phase of religious belief, and who numbers over 100,000
+intelligent people among her devoted followers.
+
+The great hold she has upon this army was demonstrated in a very
+tangible and material manner recently when "The First Church of Christ,
+Scientist," erected at a cost of $250,000, was dedicated in Boston. This
+handsome edifice was paid for before it was begun, by the voluntary
+contributions of Christian Scientists all over the country, and a tablet
+imbedded in its wall declares that it was built as "a testimonial to our
+beloved teacher, 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 Massachusetts Metaphysical college
+and the first pastor of this denomination."
+
+There is usually considerable difficulty in securing sufficient 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, 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 refuse further contributions in
+order to stop the continued inflow of money from enthusiastic Christian
+Scientists.
+
+Mrs. Eddy says she discovered Christian Science in 1866. She studied the
+Scriptures and the sciences, she declares, in a search for the great
+curative principle. She investigated allopathy, homeopathy, and
+electricity, without 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 principle was the Deity.
+
+
+
+
+(_New York Tribune_, February 7, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+
+Boston has just dedicated the first church of the Christian Scientists
+in commemoration of the founder of that sect, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy,
+drawing together 6,000 people to participate in the ceremonies, showing
+that belief in that curious creed is not confined to its original
+apostles and promulgators, but that it has penetrated what is called the
+New England mind to an unlooked-for extent, in inviting the Eastern
+churches and the Anglican fold to unity with Rome, the Holy Father
+should not overlook the Boston sect of Christian Scientists, which is
+rather small and new, to be sure, but is undoubtedly an interesting
+faith and may have a future before it, whatever attitude Rome may assume
+toward it.
+
+
+
+
+(_Journal_, Kansas City, Mo., January 10, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+GROWTH OF A FAITH.
+
+
+Attention is directed to the progress which has been made by what is
+called Christian Science by the dedication 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 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. 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 a naked beggar; and so was memorialized in art and stone what
+was called the divine spirit of giving, whose unbelieving exemplar
+afterward became a saint. The Boston church similarly expresses the
+faith of those who believe in what they term the divine art of healing,
+which, to their minds, exists as much to-day as it did when Christ
+healed the sick.
+
+The first church organization of this faith was founded fifteen years
+ago with a membership of only twenty-six, 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 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 the injunction to "heal the sick,
+raise the dead, cleanse the leper, and cast out demons." They hold with
+strict fidelity to what they conceive to be the literal teachings of the
+Bible as expressed in its poetical and highly figurative language.
+
+Altogether the belief and service are well suited to 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. 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 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 with which our civilization has developed.
+
+
+
+
+(_Montreal Daily Herald_ Saturday, February 2, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
+
+Sketch of Its Origin and Growth--The Montreal Branch.
+
+
+"If you would found a new faith, go to Boston," has 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 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'Rells famous enumeration of John Bull's creeds.
+
+Christian Science, or the principle of divine healing, is one of those
+movements which seek to give expression 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 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, comparatively, while in many towns and
+villages single believers or little knots of them are to be found.
+
+It was exactly 100 years from the date of the 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. The church was founded in April. 1879, with twenty-six
+members, and a charter was obtained two months later. Mrs. Eddy assumed
+the pastorship of the church during its early years, and in 1881 was
+ordained, being now known as the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.
+
+The Massachusetts Metaphysical College was founded by Mrs. Eddy in 1881,
+and here she taught the principles of the faith for nine years. Students
+came to it in hundreds from all parts of the world, and many are now
+pastors or in practice. The college was closed in 1889, as Mrs. 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.
+
+
+
+
+(_The American_, Baltimore, Md., January 14, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+MRS. EDDY'S DISCIPLES.
+
+
+It is not generally known that a Christian Science congregation was
+organized in this city about a year ago. It now holds regular services
+in the parlor of the residence 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 $200,000, adds interest to the
+Baltimore organization. There are many other church edifices in the
+United States owned by Christian Scientists. Christian Science was
+founded by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy. The Baltimore congregation was
+organized at a meeting held at the present location on February 27,
+1894.
+
+Dr. Hammond, the pastor, came to Baltimore about three years ago to
+organize this movement. Miss Cross came from Syracuse, N.Y., about
+eighteen months ago. Both were under the instruction of Mrs. Mary Baker
+Eddy, the founder of the movement.
+
+Dr. Hammond says he was converted to Christian Science by being cured by
+Mrs. Eddy of a physical ailment some twelve years ago, after several
+doctors had pronounced 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 fill the mind
+with good thoughts as to leave no room there for the bad, they can work
+a cure. He distinguishes Christian Science from the faith cure and
+added: "This Christian 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 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 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 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 manner, understanding and demonstrating the
+Christ-healing."
+
+
+
+
+(_The Reporter_, Lebanon, Ind., January 18, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+DISCOVERED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
+
+Remarkable Career of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Who Has Over 100,000
+Followers.
+
+
+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 Massachusetts 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 few years founded a sect
+that has over 100,000 converts, and very recently saw completed in
+Boston as a testimonial to her labors, a handsome fire proof church that
+cost $250,000, and was paid for by Christian Scientists all over the
+country.
+
+Mrs. Eddy asserts that in 1866 she became certain that "all causation
+was mind and every effect a mental phenomenon." Taking her text from the
+Bible, she endeavored in vain to find the great curative principle--the
+Deity--in philosophy and schools of medicine, and she concluded that the
+way of salvation demonstrated by Jesus was the power of truth over all
+error, sin, sickness, and 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 Concord, N.H. The
+Christian Science church has a membership of 4,000, and 800 of the
+members are Bostonians.
+
+
+
+
+(_N.Y. Commercial Advertiser_, January 9, 1895.)
+
+
+The idea that Christian Science has declined in popularity is not borne
+out by the voluntary contribution of a 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.
+
+
+
+
+(_The Post_, Syracuse, New York, February 1, 1895.)
+
+DO NOT BELIEVE SHE WAS DEIFIED.
+
+Christian Scientists of Syracuse Surprised at the News 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 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
+faith....
+
+It is well known that Mrs. Eddy has resigned herself completely to the
+study and foundation of the faith to which many thousands throughout the
+United States are now so entirely devoted. By her followers and
+co-believers she is unquestionably looked upon as having a divine
+mission to fulfill, and as though inspired in her great task by
+supernatural power.
+
+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 faith yesterday and had a
+number of very interesting conversations upon the subject.
+
+Mrs. D.W. Copeland of University avenue was one of 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 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 physicians.
+
+"And for the past eleven years," said Mrs. Copeland, "I have not taken
+any medicine or drugs of any kind, and 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 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.
+
+"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, 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.
+
+"Did you ever hear of Jesus' taking medicine Himself, or giving it to
+others?" inquired the speaker. "Then why should we worry ourselves about
+sickness and disease? 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 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 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 scholars 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 God
+has fulfilled His promises to her and to the world. "If ye have faith ye
+can move mountains."
+
+Mrs. Henrietta N. Cole is also a very prominent member of the church.
+When seen yesterday she emphasized herself as being of the same theory
+as Mrs. Copeland. Mrs. Cole has made a careful and searching study in
+the beliefs 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 whatever 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
+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_, February 1, 1895.)
+
+MRS. EDDY SHOCKED.
+
+[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.]
+
+
+CONCORD, N.H., February 4, 1895.--The article published in the HERALD on
+January 29, regarding a statement made by Mrs. Laura Lathrop, pastor of
+the Christian Science congregation, that meets every Sunday in Hodgson
+Hall, New York, was shown to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, 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 editor of the HERALD:
+
+"A despatch is given me, calling for an interview to answer for myself,
+'Am I the second Christ?'
+
+"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 Christian Science, and the blessing it has
+been to mankind which eternity enfolds.
+
+"I think Mrs. Lathrop was not understood. If she said 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 and statement of the
+Christ and the deification of mortals.
+
+"Christ is individual, and one with God, in the sense of Divine
+Principle and its compound divine idea.
+
+"There was, is and never can be but one God, one Christ, one Jesus of
+Nazareth. Whoever in any age expresses most of the spirit of Truth and
+Love, the Principle 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, 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 would not only be false, but the absolute
+antipode of Christian Science, and would savor more of heathenism, than
+of my doctrines.
+
+"MARY BAKER EDDY."
+
+
+
+
+(_The Globe_, Toronto, Canada, January 12, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS.
+
+Dedication to the Founder of the Order of a Beautiful Church at
+Boston.--Many Toronto Scientists Present.
+
+
+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 of that faith all over North America celebrated the
+dedication of the church constructed in the great New England capital as
+a Testimonial to the discoverer and founder of 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 material used in its construction
+being that used in the doors and pews. A striking feature of the church
+is a 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 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 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 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 the hearth is a large rug composed entirely of skins of the
+eider-down duck, brought from the Arctic regions. Pictures and
+bric-a-brac everywhere suggest the tribute of 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."
+
+
+
+
+(_Evening Monitor_, Concord, N.H., February 27, 1895.)
+
+AN ELEGANT SOUVENIR.
+
+Rev. Mary Baker Eddy Memorialized by a Christian Science Church.
+
+
+Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, discoverer of Christian Science, has received from
+the members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, an
+invitation to formally accept the magnificent new edifice of worship
+which the church has just erected.
+
+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 casket with white silk linings. Attached to the
+scroll is a golden key of the church structure.
+
+The inscription reads thus:
+
+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, 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 most lovingly invited to visit and formally accept this
+Testimonial on the twentieth day of February, eighteen hundred and
+ninety-five at high noon.
+
+The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass.
+
+By EDWARD P. BATES, CAROLINE S. BATES.
+
+To the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, Boston, January 6th, 1895.
+
+
+
+
+(_People and Patriot_, Concord, N.H., February 27, 1895.)
+
+MAGNIFICENT TESTIMONIAL.
+
+
+Members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston have
+forwarded to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy of this city, the founder of Christian
+Science, a Testimonial which is probably one of the most magnificent
+examples 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.
+
+It bears upon its face the following inscription cut in script letters:
+
+"Dear Mother,
+
+"During the year 1894, a church edifice was erected at the intersection
+of Falmouth and Norway streets in the city of Boston 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 most lovingly invited to visit and formally accept this
+testimonial on the 20th day of February, 1895, at high noon.
+
+"The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass.
+
+"To the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.
+
+"By Edward P. Bates
+
+"Caroline S. Bates.
+
+"Boston, January 6, 1895."
+
+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 of rich green
+velvet.
+
+The scroll is on exhibition in the window of J.C. Derby's jewelry
+store.
+
+
+
+
+(_The Union Signal_, Chicago.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+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 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, 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 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 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. The first is that a revolt was
+inevitable from the crass materialism of the cruder science that had
+taken possession of men's minds, for as a wicked but witty writer has
+said, "If there were no God we should be obliged to invent one." There
+is something in the constitution of man that requires the religious
+sentiment as much as his lungs call for breath; indeed, the breath of
+his soul is a belief in God.
+
+But when Christian Science arose, the thought of the world's scientific
+leaders had become materialistically "lopsided," and this condition can
+never long continue. 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
+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 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 emphatically the
+women's paradise, numerically, socially, indeed, every way. Here they
+have the largest individuality, the most recognition, the widest
+outlook. Mrs. Eddy we have never seen; her book has many a time been
+sent to us by interested friends and out of respect to them we have
+fairly broken our mental teeth over its granitic pebbles. 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 fact.
+
+We do not, therefore, speak of the system it sets forth, either to
+praise or blame, but this much is true; the spirit of Christian Science
+ideas has caused an army of well meaning people to believe in God and
+the power of faith, who did not believe in them before. It has made a
+myriad of 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 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 are
+Christian.
+
+The chimes on the Christian Science temple in Boston played "All hail
+the power of Jesus' name," on the morning 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 is set forth as
+the power of God for righteousness and the express image of God for
+love.
+
+
+
+
+(_The New Century_, Boston, February, 1885.)
+
+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 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 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 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 possibilities as a
+perfect harp, and she realizes that all the harmonies of the universe
+are in herself, while her own soul plays upon magic strings the
+unwritten anthems of love. She is the apostle of the true, the
+beautiful, the good, commissioned to complete all that the twelve have
+left undone. Hers is the mission of missions--the highest of all--to
+make the body not the prison, but the palace of the soul, with the brain
+for its great white throne.
+
+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 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 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. 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 created solely for man. Too many
+still are Jews who never called Abraham "Father," while the Jews
+themselves have long acknowledged woman as man's proper 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 for their sex. To-day there are ten thousand Esthers, and
+Miriams by the million, who sing best by singing most for their 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
+children, 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 fear has ceased to kiss the iron heel of
+wrong. Why then should we continue to demand woman's love and woman's
+help while we recklessly promise as lover and candidate what we never
+fulfill 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 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 disheartened 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
+she waits. At last she is becoming "as fair as the morn, as bright as
+the sun, and as terrible as an army with banners" to those who march
+under the black flag of oppression 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 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 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 freedom," 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 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 men the
+Prince of Peace, and He, departing, left His scepter not in her hand,
+but in her soul. "The time of times" is near when "the new woman" shall
+subdue the whole 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 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.
+
+
+
+
+(_Christian Science Journal_, January, 1895.)
+
+EXTRACT.
+
+THE MOTHER CHURCH.
+
+
+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 "our Prayer in Stone," all predictions and
+prognostications to the contrary notwithstanding.
+
+Of the significance of this achievement we shall not 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
+the future will tell the story of its mighty meaning or unfold it to the
+comprehension of mankind. It is enough for us now to know that all
+obstacles to its completion have 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, 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 nearly thirty years ago began to lay the foundation of this
+temple, and whose devotion and consecration to God and humanity during
+the intervening years have made its erection possible.
+
+Those who now, in part, understand her mission, turn 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 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 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 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 earth in accordance with the prayer
+and teachings of Jesus Christ.
+
+
+
+
+(_Concord Evening Monitor_, March 23, 1895.)
+
+TESTIMONIAL AND GIFT.
+
+To Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, from The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
+Boston.
+
+
+Rev. Mary Baker Eddy received Friday, from the Christian Science board
+of directors, Boston, a beautiful and unique testimonial of the
+appreciation of her labors and loving generosity in the cause of their
+common faith. It was a facsimile of the corner-stone of the new church
+of the Christian Scientists, just completed, being of granite, about six
+inches in each dimension, and contains a solid 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 her affectionate Students, the
+Christian Science Board of Directors." On the under side of the cover
+are the facsimile signatures of the directors, Ira O. Knapp, William B.
+Johnson, Joseph Armstrong, and Stephen A. Chase, with the date, "1895."
+The beautiful souvenir is encased in an elegant plush box.
+
+Accompanying the stone testimonial was the following address from the
+board of directors:
+
+BOSTON, March 20, 1895.
+
+To the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, our beloved teacher and leader:
+
+We are happy to announce to you the completion of The First Church of
+Christ, Scientist, in Boston.
+
+In behalf of your loving students and all contributors 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 Christian Science, and the author of its text-book, "SCIENCE
+AND HEALTH WITH KEY To THE SCRIPTURES."
+
+We therefore respectfully extend to you the invitation to become the
+permanent pastor of this church, in connection with the Bible, and the
+Book alluded to above, which you have already ordained as our pastor.
+And we most cordially invite you to be present and take charge of any
+services that may be held therein. We especially 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.
+
+Lovingly yours,
+
+  IRA O. KNAPP,
+  WILLIAM B. JOHNSON,
+  JOSEPH ARMSTRONG,
+  STEPHEN A. CHASE,
+  _The Christian Science Board of Directors_.
+
+
+REV. MRS. EDDY'S REPLY.
+
+BELOVED DIRECTORS AND BRETHREN:--
+
+For your costly offering, 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 acceptance, 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
+text-book, 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; 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 you grace.
+As our Church's tall tower detains the sun, so, may luminous lines from
+your lives, linger, a legacy to our race.
+
+MARY BAKER EDDY.
+
+March 25, 1895.
+
+
+
+
+From Canada to New Orleans, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean,
+the author has received leading newspapers with uniformly kind and
+interesting articles on the dedication of the Mother church. They were,
+however, too voluminous for these pages. Those were copied, and she
+could append only a few of the names of other prominent newspapers whose
+articles were reluctantly omitted.
+
+LIST OF LEADING NEWSPAPERS WHOSE ARTICLES ARE OMITTED.
+
+EASTERN STATES.
+
+  _Advertiser_, Calais, Me.
+  _Advertiser_, Boston, Mass.
+  _Farmer_, Bridgeport, Conn.
+  _Independent_, Rockland, Mass.
+  _Kennebec Journal_, Augusta, Me.
+  _News_, New Haven, Conn.
+  _News_, Newport, R.I.
+  _Post_, Boston, Mass.
+  _Post_, Hartford, Conn.
+  _Republican_, Springfield, Mass.
+  _Sentinel_, Eastport, Me.
+  _Sun_, Attleboro, Mass.
+
+MIDDLE STATES.
+
+  _Advertiser_, New York City.
+  _Bulletin_, Auburn, N.Y.
+  _Daily_, York, Pa.
+  _Enquirer_, Philadelphia, Pa.
+  _Evening Reporter_, Lebanon, Pa.
+  _Farmer_, Bridgeport, N.Y.
+  _Herald_, Rochester, N.Y.
+  _Independent_, Harrisburg, Pa.
+  _Independent_, New York City.
+  _Journal_, Lockport, N.Y.
+  _Knickerbocker_, Albany, N.Y.
+  _News_, Buffalo, N.Y.
+  _News_, Newark, N.J.
+  _Once A Week_, New York City.
+  _Post_, Pittsburg, Pa.
+  _Press_, Albany, N.Y.
+  _Press_, New York City.
+  _Press_, Philadelphia, Pa.
+  _Saratogian_, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
+  _Sun_, New York City.
+  _Telegram_, Philadelphia, Pa.
+  _Telegram_, Troy, N.Y.
+  _Times_, Trenton, N.J.
+
+SOUTHERN STATES.
+
+  _Commercial_, Louisville, Ky.
+  _Journal_, Atlanta, Ga.
+  _Post_, Washington, D.C.
+  _Telegram_, New Orleans, La.
+  _Times_, New Orleans, La.
+  _Times-Herald,_ Dallas, Tex.
+
+WESTERN STATES.
+
+  _Bee_, Omaha, Neb.
+  _Bulletin_, San Francisco, Cal.
+  _Chronicle_, San Francisco, Cal.
+  _Mite_, Chicago, Ill.
+  _Enquirer_, Oakland, Cal.
+  _Free Press_, Detroit, Mich.
+  _Gazette_, Burlington, Iowa.
+  _Herald_, Grand Rapids, Mich.
+  _Herald_, St. Joseph, Mo.
+  _Journal_, Columbus, Ohio.
+  _Journal_, Topeka, Kans.
+  _Leader_, Bloomington, Ill.
+  _Leader_, Cleveland, Ohio.
+  _News_, St. Joseph, Mo.
+  _News-Tribune,_ Duluth, Minn.
+  _Pioneer-Press,_ St. Paul, Minn.
+  _Post-Intelligencer,_ Seattle, Wash.
+  _Salt Lake Herald_, Salt Lake City, Utah.
+  _Sentinel_, Indianapolis, Ind.
+  _Sentinel_, Milwaukee, Wis.
+  _Star_, Kansas City, Mo.
+  _Telegram_, Portland, Ore.
+  _Times_, Chicago, Ill.
+  _Times_, Minneapolis, Minn.
+  _Tribune_, Minneapolis, Minn.
+  _Tribune_, Salt Lake City, Utah.
+  _Free Press_, London, Can.
+
+
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