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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Pulpit and Press + +Author: Mary Baker Eddy + +Release Date: October 2, 2005 [EBook #16778] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PULPIT AND PRESS *** + + + + +Produced by Justin Gillbank, Josephine Paolucci and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +PULPIT AND PRESS + +BY + +MARY BAKER EDDY + +DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND +HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES + +Registered +U.S. Patent Office + +Published by The +Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy +BOSTON, U.S.A. + +Authorized Literature of +THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST +in Boston, Massachusetts + +_Copyright, 1895_ +BY MARY BAKER EDDY +_Copyright renewed, 1923_ + + * * * * * + +_All rights reserved_ + + * * * * * + +PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA + + +TO + +THE DEAR TWO THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED CHILDREN + +WHOSE CONTRIBUTIONS OF $4,460[A] 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 + + + + +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 scan further 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 + + + + +CONTENTS + + + DEDICATORY SERMON + + CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK + + HYMNS + + _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 + + + + +PULPIT AND PRESS + +DEDICATORY SERMON + +BY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY + +First Pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass. + +Delivered January 6, 1895 + +TEXT: _They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy +house; and Thou shall make them drink of the river of Thy +pleasures._--Psalms xxxvi. 8. + + +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, and 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 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 on God's side 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! O ye tears! Not +in vain did ye flow. Those sacred drops were but enshrined for future use, +and God has now unsealed their receptacle with His outstretched 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 the Lord endureth forever." + +I have ordained the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and +Health with Key to the Scriptures," as pastor of The First Church of +Christ, Scientist, in 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 Thou hast 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.[B] 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." O glorious hope and blessed assurance, "it is your +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, O soul! This is the newborn of Spirit, this is His redeemed; +this, His beloved. May the kingdom of God within you,--with you +alway,--reascending, 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 hearts' holy intents. May all whose means, energies, and +prayers helped erect The Mother Church, find within it home, and _heaven_. + + + + +CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK + + +The following selections from "Science and Health with Key to the +Scriptures," pages 568-571, 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. 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 Truth, or Christ, 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, by which the nothingness of error is seen; and we know +that the nothingness of error is in proportion to its wickedness. He that +touches the hem of Christ's robe and masters his mortal beliefs, animality, +and hate, rejoices in the proof of healing,--in a sweet and certain sense +that God is Love. Alas for those who break faith with divine Science 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 devil knoweth his 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 +torture it may take to remove all sin, must depend upon sin's 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 of 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 should send forth a new flood to drown the +Christ-idea? He can neither drown your voice with its roar, nor again sink +the world into the 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 sinning, they should know the great benefit +which Mind has wrought. They should also know the great delusion of mortal +mind, when it makes them sick or sinful. Many are willing to open the eyes +of the people to the power of good resident in divine Mind, but they are +not so willing to point out the evil in human thought, and expose evil's +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 +blessed 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 +the 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 chiselled squarely good) + Stands His church,-- + God is Love, and understood + By His flock. + + _Laus Deo_, night starlit + Slumbers not in God's embrace; + Then, O 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. + I kiss the cross, and wake to know + A world more bright. + + And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea + I see Christ walk, + And come to me, 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; + An offering pure of Love, whereto + God leadeth me. + + + + +NOTE + +BY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY + + +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 in earth, as it is +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 during 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 Prof. 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 Founder, "Our prayer in stone." It is located at the intersection of +Norway and Falmouth Streets, on a triangular plot of ground, the design a +Romanesque tower with a circular front and an octagonal form, accented by +stone porticos and turreted 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 one hundred and twenty feet in +height and twenty-one and one half 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 fire-proof as is conceivable. The principal features +are the auditorium, seating eleven hundred people and capable of holding +fifteen hundred; the "Mother's Room," designed for the exclusive use of +Mrs. Eddy; the "directors' room," and the vestry. The 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" impanelled. A +sunburst in the centre of the ceiling takes the place of chandeliers. There +is a disc of cut glass in decorative designs, covering one hundred and +forty-four 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 +panelled 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 Renaissance +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 Ĉolian attachment, and cost eleven thousand dollars. 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 eight hundred people, and opening from it are three large +class-rooms and the pastor's study. + +The windows are a remarkable feature of this temple. 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 ii. 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 two hundred and twenty-one +thousand dollars, exclusive of the land--a gift from Mrs. Eddy--which is +valued at some forty thousand dollars. + + +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, Bowring, 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 lepers, 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 four thousand 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 two hundred thousand 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 two hundred thousand dollars, 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 More 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 infrequently 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 textbook. 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 homoeopathy, 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.[C] +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? + +LILIAN 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 six thousand persons, the +unique and costly edifice erected in Boston at Norway and Falmouth Streets +as a home for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and a 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 four thousand 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 forty +and fifty. The large auditorium, with its capacity for holding from +fourteen hundred to fifteen hundred persons, was hopelessly incapable of +receiving this vast throng, to say nothing of nearly a thousand local +believers. Hence the service was repeated until all who wished had heard +and seen; and 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 one hundred +and twenty-six feet above the earth, rung out their message of "On earth +peace, good will toward men." + +Old familiar hymns--"All hail the power of Jesus' 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 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 textbook. + +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:-- + + "To 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 two + thousand 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 contributions, 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 textbooks, 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, homoeopathy, 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 remodelled 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 to-morrow. +It has cost two hundred thousand dollars, 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 two hundred thousand dollars, love-offerings of the disciples +of Mary Baker Eddy, reviver of the ancient faith and author of the textbook +from which, 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 practised 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 practised in other countries at an +earlier date. "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and +that which is done is that which shall be 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 Saviour 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.[D] + +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 plenitude 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 four thousand 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 one hundred +thousand and two hundred thousand. 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 fire-proof, and cost over two hundred +thousand dollars. It is entirely paid for, and contributions for its +erection came from every State in the Union, and from many lands. The +auditorium 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[E] 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 +Publishing Society, with the other members of the Christian Science Board +of Directors--Ira O. Knapp, Edward P. Bates, Stephen A. Chase,--gentlemen +officially connected with the movement. The children of believing families +collected the money for the Mother's Room, and seats were especially set +apart for them at the second dedicatory service. Before one service was +over and the auditors left by the rear doors, the front vestibule and +street (despite the snowstorm) were crowded with others, waiting for +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 +textbook. 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 wind-chests throughout, and having an +Ĉolian 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 gamba, doppel flute, hohl +flute, octave, octave quint, superoctave, and trumpet,--61 pipes each. The +swell organ has bourdon, open diapason, salicional, ĉoline, 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 diapason, bourdon, 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 occupying a space not 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 keyboard, 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 one hundred thousand +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 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, 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, homoeopathy, 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 six thousand 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, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, +cast out demons." They hold with strict fidelity to what they conceive to +be the literal teachings of the 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'Rell's 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 one hundred 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 two hundred thousand dollars, 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 ONE HUNDRED +THOUSAND 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 +one hundred thousand converts, and very recently saw completed in Boston, +as a testimonial to her labors, a handsome fire-proof church that cost two +hundred and fifty thousand dollars and was paid for by Christian Scientists +all over the country. + +Mrs. Eddy asserts that in 1866 she became certain that "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 four thousand, and eight hundred 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 cobelievers +she is unquestionably looked upon as having a divine mission to fulfil, +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 you have faith, you 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 6, 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 + Love and its compound divine ideal. + + "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 +formally to 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. + + "By EDWARD P. BATES, + + "CAROLINE S. BATES. + + "To the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, + + "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 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, 1895] + + +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 fulfil as husband and office-holder? In our +secret heart our better self is shamed and dishonored, and appeals from +Philip drunk to Philip sober, but has 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 + textbook, "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, + JOSEPH ARMSTRONG, + WILLIAM B. JOHNSON, + 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 textbook, 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. + + * * * * * + +LIST OF LEADING NEWSPAPERS WHOSE ARTICLES ARE OMITTED + + +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. To those which are copied she can append only a +few of the names of other prominent newspapers whose articles are +reluctantly 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. + _Evening Reporter_, Lebanon, Pa. + _Farmer_, Bridgeport, Conn. + _Herald_, Rochester, N.Y. + _Independent_, Harrisburg, Pa. + _Inquirer_, Philadelphia, 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_, Pittsburgh, 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. + _Elite_, 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. + + +THE PLIMPTON PRESS NORWOOD MASS USA + +FOOTNOTES: + +[Footnote A: See footnote on page nine.] + +[Footnote B: This sum was increased to $5,568.51 by contributions which +reached the Treasurer after the Dedicatory Services.] + +[Footnote C: Steps were taken to promote the Church of Christ Scientist in +April, May and June; formal organization was accomplished and the charter +obtained in August, 1879.] + +[Footnote D: NOTE:--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. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Pulpit and Press + +Author: Mary Baker Eddy + +Release Date: October 2, 2005 [EBook #16778] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PULPIT AND PRESS *** + + + + +Produced by Justin Gillbank, Josephine Paolucci and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<p><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1"></a></p> +<h1><b>PULPIT AND PRESS</b></h1> + +<h3>BY</h3> + +<h2>MARY BAKER EDDY</h2> + +<h4>DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND +HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES</h4> + +<p> +Registered<br /> +U.S. Patent Office<br /> +<br /> +Published by The<br /> +Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy<br /> +BOSTON, U.S.A.<br /> +</p> + +<p><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2"></a></p><p> +Authorized Literature of<br /> +<span class="smcap">The First Church of Christ, Scientist</span><br /> +in Boston, Massachusetts<br /> +<br /> +<i>Copyright, 1895</i><br /> +<span class="smcap">By Mary Baker Eddy</span><br /> +<i>Copyright renewed, 1923</i><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<i>All rights reserved</i><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA<br /> +<br /> +</p><p><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3"></a></p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> +<h3>TO</h3> + +<h3>THE DEAR TWO THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED CHILDREN</h3> + +<h3>WHOSE CONTRIBUTIONS OF $4,460<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> WERE DEVOTED TO THE MOTHER'S ROOM IN THE +FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, BOSTON, THIS UNIQUE BOOK IS TENDERLY +DEDICATED BY</h3> + +<h3>MARY BAKER EDDY</h3> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4"></a></p> +<h2><a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></a><b>PREFACE</b></h2> + + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 scan further 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.</p> + +<p>MARY BAKER EDDY</p> + +<p>February, 1895</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5"></a></p> +<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap"><a href="#DEDICATORY_SERMON">Dedicatory Sermon</a></span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap"><a href="#CHRISTIAN_SCIENCE_TEXTBOOK">Christian Science Textbook</a></span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap"><a href="#HYMNS">Hymns</a></span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><i><a href="#Laying_the_Corner-stone">Laying the Corner-stone</a></i></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">"<i><a href="#Feed_My_Sheep">Feed My Sheep</a></i>"</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><i><a href="#Christ_My_Refuge">Christ My Refuge</a></i></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap"><a href="#NOTE">Note</a></span></span><br /> +</p> + + +<h3><a href="#CLIPPINGS_FROM_NEWSPAPERS">CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS</a></h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Chicago Inter-Ocean</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Boston Herald</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Boston Sunday Globe</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Boston Transcript</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Jackson Patriot</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Outlook</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">American Art Journal</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Boston Journal</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Republic (Washington, D.C.)</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">New York Tribune</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Kansas City Journal</span></span><br /><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6"></a> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Montreal Herald</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Baltimore American</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Reporter (Lebanon, Ind.)</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">New York Commercial Advertiser</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Syracuse Post</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">New York Herald</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Toronto Globe</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Concord Monitor</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">People and Patriot</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Union Signal</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">New Century</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Christian Science Journal</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Concord Monitor</span></span><br /> +</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7"></a></p> +<h2><a name="PULPIT_AND_PRESS" id="PULPIT_AND_PRESS"></a>PULPIT AND PRESS</h2> + +<h2><a name="DEDICATORY_SERMON" id="DEDICATORY_SERMON"></a>DEDICATORY SERMON</h2> + +<p><span class="smcap">By Rev. Mary Baker Eddy</span></p> + +<p>First Pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass.</p> + +<p>Delivered January 6, 1895</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Text</span>: <i>They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy +house; and Thou shall make them drink of the river of Thy +pleasures.</i>—Psalms xxxvi. 8.</p> + + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 <i>improved</i> 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.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Pass on, returnless year!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The path behind thee is with glory crowned;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">This spot whereon thou troddest was holy ground;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Pass proudly to thy bier!</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>To-day, being with you in spirit, what need that I should be present <i>in +propria persona?</i> Were I present, methinks<a name="Page_8" id="Page_8"></a> 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.</p> + +<p>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, and 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.</p> + +<p>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 +<a name="Page_9" id="Page_9"></a>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 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.</p> + +<p>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 <a name="Page_10" id="Page_10"></a>strength is +naught and my faith fails." O thou "weak and infirm of purpose." Jesus +said, "Be not afraid"!</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">"What if the little rain should say,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">'So small a drop as I</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Can ne'er refresh a drooping earth,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I'll tarry in the sky.'"</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>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 on God's side is a majority."</p> + +<p>A single drop of water may help to hide the stars, or crown the tree with +blossoms.</p> + +<p>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. <i>Reflect this +Life</i>, and with it cometh the full power of being. "They shall be +abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house."</p> + +<p>In 1893 the World's Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago, used, in all +its public sessions, my form of prayer <a name="Page_11" id="Page_11"></a>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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. <i>That prophecy is +fulfilled.</i></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 <a name="Page_12" id="Page_12"></a>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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 <i>conversazione</i> in Boston, he said, "You +may find in Mrs. Eddy's metaphysical teachings more than is dreamt of in +your philosophy."</p> + +<p>Also that renowned apostle of anti-slavery, Wendell Phillips, the native +course of whose mind never swerved <a name="Page_13" id="Page_13"></a>from the chariot-paths of justice, +speaking of my work, said: "Had I young blood in my veins, I would help +that woman."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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! O ye tears! Not +in vain did ye flow. Those sacred drops were but enshrined for future use, +and God has now unsealed their receptacle with His outstretched 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.</p> + +<p>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 the Lord endureth forever."</p> + +<p>I have ordained the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and +Health with Key to the Scriptures," as pastor of The First Church of +Christ, Scientist, in 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."</p><p><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14"></a></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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 Thou hast perfected +praise." The resident youthful workers were called "Busy Bees."</p> + +<p>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 <a name="Page_15" id="Page_15"></a>fund have come $4,460.<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a> Ah, children, +you are the bulwarks of freedom, the cement of society, the hope of our +race!</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>After the loss of our late lamented pastor, Rev. D.A. Easton, the church +services were maintained by excellent sermons from the editor of <i>The +Christian Science Journal</i> (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." O glorious hope and blessed assurance, "it is your +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<a name="Page_16" id="Page_16"></a> <i>practice</i>. 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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Divine presence, breathe Thou Thy blessing on every heart in this house. +Speak out, O soul! This is the newborn of Spirit, this is His redeemed; +this, His beloved. May the kingdom of God within you,—with you +alway,—reascending, <a name="Page_17" id="Page_17"></a>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 hearts' holy intents. May all whose means, energies, and +prayers helped erect The Mother Church, find within it home, and <i>heaven</i>.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18"></a></p> +<h2><a name="CHRISTIAN_SCIENCE_TEXTBOOK" id="CHRISTIAN_SCIENCE_TEXTBOOK"></a>CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK</h2> + + +<p>The following selections from "Science and Health with Key to the +Scriptures," pages 568-571, were read from the platform. The impressive +stillness of the audience indicated close attention.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Revelation</i> 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.</p></div> + +<p>For victory over a single sin, we give thanks and magnify the Lord of +Hosts. 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 Truth, or Christ, in our warfare against error, +is a rule in Christian Science. This rule clearly interprets God as <a name="Page_19" id="Page_19"></a>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.</p> + +<p>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, by which the nothingness of error is seen; and we know +that the nothingness of error is in proportion to its wickedness. He that +touches the hem of Christ's robe and masters his mortal beliefs, animality, +and hate, rejoices in the proof of healing,—in a sweet and certain sense +that God is Love. Alas for those who break faith with divine Science 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.</p> + +<p>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 devil knoweth his 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 +torture it may take to remove all sin, must depend upon sin's obduracy.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Revelation</i> xii. 13. And when the dragon saw that he was cast +unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the +man child.</p></div><p><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20"></a></p> + +<p>The march of mind and of 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.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Revelation</i> 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.</p></div> + +<p>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 should send forth a new flood to drown the +Christ-idea? He can neither drown your voice with its roar, nor again sink +the world into the 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.</p> + +<p>When God heals the sick or the sinning, they should know the great benefit +which Mind has wrought. They should also know the great delusion of mortal +mind, when it makes them sick or sinful. Many are willing to open <a name="Page_21" id="Page_21"></a>the eyes +of the people to the power of good resident in divine Mind, but they are +not so willing to point out the evil in human thought, and expose evil's +hidden mental ways of accomplishing iniquity.</p> + +<p>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 +blessed 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 +the 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22"></a></p> +<h2><a name="HYMNS" id="HYMNS"></a>HYMNS</h2> + +<p><span class="smcap">by Rev. Mary Baker Eddy</span></p> + +<p>[Set to the Church Chimes and Sung on This Occasion]</p> + + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap"><a name="Laying_the_Corner-stone" id="Laying_the_Corner-stone"></a>Laying the Corner-stone</span></span></p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Laus Deo</i>, it is done!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Rolled away from loving heart</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Is a stone.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Joyous, risen, we depart</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Having one.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Laus Deo</i>,—on this rock</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">(Heaven chiselled squarely good)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Stands His church,—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">God is Love, and understood</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">By His flock.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Laus Deo</i>, night starlit</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Slumbers not in God's embrace;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Then, O man!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Like this stone, be in thy place;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Stand, not sit.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Cold, silent, stately stone,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Dirge and song and shoutings low,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">In thy heart</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Dwell serene,—and sorrow? No,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">It has none,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><i>Laus Deo!</i></span><br /> +</p> + +<p><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23"></a><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"<span class="smcap"><a name="Feed_My_Sheep" id="Feed_My_Sheep"></a>Feed My Sheep</span></span>"</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Shepherd, show me how to go</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">O'er the hillside steep,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">How to gather, how to sow,—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">How to feed Thy sheep;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I will listen for Thy voice,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Lest my footsteps stray;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I will follow and rejoice</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">All the rugged way.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Thou wilt bind the stubborn will,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Wound the callous breast,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Make self-righteousness be still,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Break earth's stupid rest.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Strangers on a barren shore,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Lab'ring long and lone—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">We would enter by the door,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And Thou know'st Thine own.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">So, when day grows dark and cold,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Tear or triumph harms,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Lead Thy lambkins to the fold,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Take them in Thine arms;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Feed the hungry, heal the heart,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Till the morning's beam;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">White as wool, ere they depart—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Shepherd, wash them clean.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24"></a><a name="Christ_My_Refuge" id="Christ_My_Refuge"></a>Christ My Refuge</span></span></p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">There sweeps a strain,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">The power of pain.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And wake a white-winged angel throng</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Of thoughts, illumed</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">By faith, and breathed in raptured song,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">With love perfumed.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Then his unveiled, sweet mercies show</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Life's burdens light.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I kiss the cross, and wake to know</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">A world more bright.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I see Christ walk,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And come to me, and tenderly,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Divinely talk.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Thus Truth engrounds me on the rock,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Upon Life's shore;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">'Gainst which the winds and waves can shock,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Oh, nevermore!</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">From tired joy and grief afar,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And nearer Thee,—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Father, where Thine own children are,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I love to be.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">My prayer, some daily good to do</span><br /><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25"></a> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">To Thine, for Thee;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">An offering pure of Love, whereto</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">God leadeth me.</span><br /> +</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26"></a></p> +<h2><a name="NOTE" id="NOTE"></a>NOTE</h2> + +<p><span class="smcap">by Rev. Mary Baker Eddy</span></p> + + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27"></a>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 <i>is</i> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 +<a name="Page_28" id="Page_28"></a>with unworldliness, can give peace and good will towards men.</p> + +<p>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 in earth, as it is +in heaven."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29"></a></p> +<h2><a name="CLIPPINGS_FROM_NEWSPAPERS" id="CLIPPINGS_FROM_NEWSPAPERS"></a>CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS</h2> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>Daily Inter-Ocean</i>, Chicago, December 31, 1894]</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Mary Baker Eddy</span></p> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">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</span></p></div> + +<p>Boston, Mass., December 28.—<i>Special Correspondence</i>.—The "great +awakening" of the time of Jonathan Edwards has been paralleled during the +last decade by a wave of idealism that has swept over the country, +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 Prof. 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.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30"></a>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 Founder, "Our prayer in stone." It is located at the intersection of +Norway and Falmouth Streets, on a triangular plot of ground, the design a +Romanesque tower with a circular front and an octagonal form, accented by +stone porticos and turreted corners. On the front is a marble tablet, with +the following inscription carved in bold relief:—</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + + +<p>THE CHURCH EDIFICE</p> + +<p>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 one hundred and twenty feet in +height and twenty-one and one half feet square. The entrances are of +marble, with doors of antique oak richly carved. The windows of stained +glass are very rich in <a name="Page_31" id="Page_31"></a>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 fire-proof as is conceivable. The principal features +are the auditorium, seating eleven hundred people and capable of holding +fifteen hundred; the "Mother's Room," designed for the exclusive use of +Mrs. Eddy; the "directors' room," and the vestry. The 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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" impanelled. A +sunburst in the centre of the ceiling takes the place of chandeliers. There +is a disc of cut glass in <a name="Page_32" id="Page_32"></a>decorative designs, covering one hundred and +forty-four 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 +panelled 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 Renaissance +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 eleven thousand dollars. It is +the gift of a single individual—a votive offering of gratitude for the +healing of the wife of the donor.</p> + +<p>The chime of bells includes fifteen, of fine range and perfect tone.</p> + + +<p>THE "MOTHER'S ROOM"</p> + +<p>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 <a name="Page_33" id="Page_33"></a>off +the "Mother's Room" are toilet apartments, with full-length French mirrors +and every convenience.</p> + +<p>The directors' room is very beautiful in marble approaches and rich +carving, and off this is a vault for the safe preservation of papers.</p> + +<p>The vestry seats eight hundred people, and opening from it are three large +class-rooms and the pastor's study.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 ii. 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>One more window in the auditorium represents the raising of Lazarus.</p> + +<p>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 +<a name="Page_34" id="Page_34"></a>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."</p> + +<p>The cross and the crown and the star are presented in appropriate +decorative effect. The cost of this church is two hundred and twenty-one +thousand dollars, exclusive of the land—a gift from Mrs. Eddy—which is +valued at some forty thousand dollars.</p> + + +<p>THE ORDER OF SERVICE</p> + +<p>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, Bowring, 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<a name="Page_35" id="Page_35"></a> 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.</p> + +<p>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 lepers, 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.</p> + + +<p>THE CHURCH MEMBERS</p> + +<p>Later I was told that almost the entire congregation was composed of +persons who had either been themselves, or <a name="Page_36" id="Page_36"></a>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 four thousand 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.</p> + +<p>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 two hundred thousand 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 two hundred thousand dollars, and entirely paid for +when its consecration <a name="Page_37" id="Page_37"></a>service on January 6 shall be celebrated. This is +certainly a very remarkable retrospect.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + + +<p>MRS. EDDY</p> + +<p>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 <a name="Page_38" id="Page_38"></a>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.</p> + +<p>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 More 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.</p><p><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39"></a></p> + + +<p>MRS. EDDY AS A CHILD</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>These experiences, of which Catholic biographies are full, and which +history not infrequently 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.</p><p><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40"></a></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + + +<p>THE PRINCIPLE OF DIVINE HEALING</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"During this time," she said, in reply to my questions, "the Bible was my +only textbook. It answered my questions as to the process by which I was +restored to health; <a name="Page_41" id="Page_41"></a>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."</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>In writing of this experience, Mrs. Eddy has said:—</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>Through homœopathy, too, Mrs. Eddy became convinced of the Principle of +Mind-healing, discovering that the more attenuated the drug, the more +potent was its effects.</p> + +<p>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.<a name="Page_42" id="Page_42"></a> Eddy +died in 1882, a year after her founding of the Metaphysical College in +Boston, in which he taught.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + + +<p>MRS. EDDY'S PERSONALITY</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 <i>The Christian +Science Journal</i>, a monthly publication, and to whose courtesy I am much +indebted for some of the data of this paper. "It is a pleasure to <a name="Page_43" id="Page_43"></a>give any +information for <i>The Inter-Ocean</i>," remarked Mrs. Hanna, "for it is the +great daily that is so fair and so just in its attitude toward all +questions."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + + +<p>THE FIRST ASSOCIATION</p> + +<p>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 <a name="Page_44" id="Page_44"></a>members, and its charter obtained the following June.<a name="FNanchor_C_3" id="FNanchor_C_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_C_3" class="fnanchor">[C]</a> +Mrs. Eddy had preached in other parishes for five years before being +ordained in this church, which ceremony took place in 1881.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Yet each and all these movements, however they may differ among themselves, +are phases of idealism and manifestations of a higher spirituality seeking +expression.</p> + +<p>It is good that each and all shall prosper, serving those who find in one +form of belief or another their best aid <a name="Page_45" id="Page_45"></a>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</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">God's greatness flows around our incompleteness,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Round our restlessness, His rest.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Elizabeth Barrett Browning.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>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."—<span class="smcap">M.B. Eddy</span>.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At the Window</span></p> + +<p>[Written for the <i>Traveller</i>]</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The sunset, burning low,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Throws o'er the Charles its flood of golden light.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Dimly, as in a dream, I watch the flow</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Of waves of light.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The splendor of the sky</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Repeats its glory in the river's flow;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And sculptured angels, on the gray church tower,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Gaze on the world below.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Dimly, as in a dream,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I see the hurrying throng before me pass,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">But 'mid them all I only see <i>one</i> face,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Under the meadow grass.</span><br /><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46"></a> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Ah, love! I only know</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">How thoughts of you forever cling to me:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I wonder how the seasons come and go</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Beyond the sapphire sea?</span><br /> +</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Lilian Whiting.</span></p> + +<p>April 15, 1888.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>Boston Herald</i>, January 7, 1895]</p> + +<p>[Extract]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A Temple Given to God—Dedication of The Mother Church of Christian +Science</span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Novel Method of Enabling Six Thousand Believers to Attend the +Exercises</span>—<span class="smcap">The Service Repeated Four +Times</span>—<span class="smcap">Sermon by Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of the +Denomination</span>—<span class="smcap">Beautiful Room Which the Children +Built</span></p></div> + +<p>With simple ceremonies, four times repeated, in the presence of four +different congregations, aggregating nearly six thousand persons, the +unique and costly edifice erected in Boston at Norway and Falmouth Streets +as a home for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and a testimonial to +the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, was +yesterday dedicated to the worship of God.</p><p><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47"></a></p> + +<p>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 four thousand 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.</p> + +<p>From all New England the members of the denomination gathered; New York +sent its hundreds, and even from the distant States came parties of forty +and fifty. The large auditorium, with its capacity for holding from +fourteen hundred to fifteen hundred persons, was hopelessly incapable of +receiving this vast throng, to say nothing of nearly a thousand local +believers. Hence the service was repeated until all who wished had heard +and seen; and each of the four vast congregations filled the church to +repletion.</p> + +<p>At 7:30 a.m. the chimes in the great stone tower, which rises one hundred +and twenty-six feet above the earth, rung out their message of "On earth +peace, good will toward men."</p> + +<p>Old familiar hymns—"All hail the power of Jesus' name," and others +such—were chimed until the hour for the dedication service had come.</p> + +<p>At 9 a.m. the first congregation gathered. Before this <a name="Page_48" id="Page_48"></a>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p><p><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49"></a></p> + +<p>Two combined choirs—that of 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.</p> + +<p>Judge S.J. Hanna, editor of <i>The Christian Science Journal</i>, 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.</p> + +<p>The utmost simplicity marked the exercises. After an organ voluntary, the +hymn, "<i>Laus Deo</i>, 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.</p> + +<p>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 textbook.</p> + +<p>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 <i>The Herald</i>, it is her custom to discourage among +her followers that sort of personal worship which religious teachers so +often receive.</p> + +<p>Before presenting the sermon, Mrs. Bemis read the following letter from a +former pastor of the church:—</p><p><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50"></a></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"To Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.</p> + +<p>"<i>Dear Teacher, Leader, Guide</i>:—'<i>Laus Deo</i>, 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 two +thousand 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.</p> + +<p>"Yours lovingly,</p> + +<p>"<span class="smcap">Lanson P. Norcross</span>."</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>Boston Sunday Globe</i>, January 6, 1895]</p> + +<p>[Extract]</p> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Stately Home for Believers in Gospel Healing—A Woman of +Wealth Who Devotes All to Her Church Work</span></p></div> + +<p>Christian Science has shown its power over its students, as they are +called, by building a church by voluntary contributions, 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.</p> + +<p>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.<a name="Page_51" id="Page_51"></a> 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.</p> + +<p>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:—</p> + +<p>"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 textbooks, that the evidence of the mortal +senses is unreliable."</p> + +<p>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.</p><p><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52"></a></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 <a name="Page_53" id="Page_53"></a>attracted the attention of many clergymen of other denominations +by his able lectures upon Scriptural topics. He died in 1882.</p> + +<p>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 +<i>Journal of Christian Science</i>, and has had great circulation with the +members of this fast-increasing faith.</p> + +<p>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, homœopathy, 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>The big house, so delightfully remodelled and modernized from a primitive +homestead that nothing is left excepting the angles and pitch of the roof, +is remarkably <a name="Page_54" id="Page_54"></a>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Then my eye caught her family coat of arms and the diploma given her by the +Society of the Daughters of the Revolution.</p> + +<p>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.</p><p><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55"></a></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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!"</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>She employs a number of men to keep the grounds and farm in perfect order, +and it was pleasing to learn that this <a name="Page_56" id="Page_56"></a>rich woman is using her money to +promote the welfare of industrious workmen, in whom she takes a vital +interest.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>Boston Transcript</i>, December 31, 1894]</p> + +<p>[Extract]</p> + + +<p>The growth of Christian Science is properly marked by the erection of a +visible house of worship in this city, which will be dedicated to-morrow. +It has cost two hundred thousand dollars, and no additional sums outside of +the 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.</p><p><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57"></a></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p><p><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58"></a></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>Jackson Patriot</i>, Jackson, Mich., January 20, 1895]</p> + +<p>[Extract]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Christian Science</span></p> + +<p>The erection of a massive temple in Boston by Christian Scientists, at a +cost of over two hundred thousand dollars, love-offerings of the disciples +of Mary Baker Eddy, reviver of the ancient faith and author of the textbook +from which, 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 practised 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 <a name="Page_59" id="Page_59"></a>there is the fresh development +of a Principle that was put into practice by the Founder of Christianity +nineteen hundred years ago, though practised in other countries at an +earlier date. "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and +that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing +under the sun."</p> + +<p>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—<i>faith</i>. 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 Saviour of +the World." Whittier, grandest of mystic poets, saw the truth:—</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">That healing gift he lends to them</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Who use it in his name;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The power that filled his garment's hem</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Is evermore the same.</span><br /> +</p><p><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60"></a></p> + +<p>Again, in a poem entitled "The Master," he wrote:—</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The healing of his seamless dress</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Is by our beds of pain;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">We touch him in life's throng and press,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And we are whole again.<a name="FNanchor_D_4" id="FNanchor_D_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_D_4" class="fnanchor">[D]</a></span><br /> +</p> + +<p>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 plenitude 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.</p><p><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61"></a></p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">"Not in blind caprice of will,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Not in cunning sleight of skill,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Not for show of power, was wrought</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Nature's marvel in thy thought."</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>The present Boston congregation was organized April 19, 1879, and has now +over four thousand 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 one hundred +thousand and two hundred <a name="Page_62" id="Page_62"></a>thousand. 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">"And still we love the evil cause,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And of the just effect complain;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">We tread upon life's broken laws,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And mourn our self-inflicted pain."</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>The Outlook</i>, New York, January 19, 1895]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A Christian Science Church</span></p> + +<p>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 <a name="Page_63" id="Page_63"></a>the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, the Rev. +Mary Baker Eddy. The building is fire-proof, and cost over two hundred +thousand dollars. It is entirely paid for, and contributions for its +erection came from every State in the Union, and from many lands. The +auditorium 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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>American Art Journal</i>, New York, January 26, 1895]</p> + +<p>"<span class="smcap">Our Prayer in Stone</span>"</p> + + +<p>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 <a name="Page_64" id="Page_64"></a>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.</p> + +<p>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, +<a name="Page_65" id="Page_65"></a>behind an antique lamp, kept perpetually burning<a name="FNanchor_E_5" id="FNanchor_E_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_E_5" class="fnanchor">[E]</a> in her honor; though +she has not yet visited her temple, which was dedicated on New Year's +Sunday in a somewhat novel way.</p> + +<p>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 <i>Pater Noster</i> 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 +Publishing Society, with the other members of the Christian Science Board +of Directors—Ira O. Knapp, Edward P. Bates, Stephen A. Chase,—gentlemen +officially connected with the movement. The children of believing families +collected the money for the Mother's Room, and seats were especially set +apart for them at the second dedicatory service. Before one service was +over and the auditors left by the rear doors, the front vestibule and +street (despite <a name="Page_66" id="Page_66"></a>the snowstorm) were crowded with others, waiting for +admission.</p> + +<p>On the next Sunday the new order of service went into operation. There was +no address of any sort, no notices, no explanation of Bible or their +textbook. Judge Hanna, who was a Colorado lawyer before coming into this +work, presided, reading in clear, manly, and intelligent tones, the +<i>Quarterly</i> 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 wind-chests 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 gamba, doppel flute, hohl +flute, octave, octave quint, superoctave, and trumpet,—61 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 <a name="Page_67" id="Page_67"></a>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 diapason, bourdon, 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>J.H.W.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>Boston Journal</i>, January 7, 1895]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Chimes Rang Sweetly</span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>The chimes were made by the United States Tubular<a name="Page_68" id="Page_68"></a> 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.</p> + +<p>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 occupying a space not more than +five by eight feet.</p> + +<p>Where the old-fashioned chimes required a strong man to ring them, these +can be rung from an electric keyboard, 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p><p><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69"></a></p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>The Republic</i>, Washington, D.C., February 2, 1895]</p> + +<p>[Extract]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Christian Science</span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">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</span></p></div> + +<p>"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 one hundred thousand +intelligent people among her devoted followers.</p> + +<p>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 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, 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,<a name="Page_70" id="Page_70"></a> 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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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, homœopathy, 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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>New York Tribune</i>, February 7, 1895]</p> + +<p>[Extract]</p> + + +<p>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 six thousand people to participate in the ceremonies, +showing <a name="Page_71" id="Page_71"></a>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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>Journal</i>, Kansas City, Mo., January 10, 1895]</p> + +<p>[Extract]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Growth of a Faith</span></p> + +<p>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 <a name="Page_72" id="Page_72"></a>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.</p> + +<p>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, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, +cast out demons." They hold with strict fidelity to what they conceive to +be the literal teachings of the Bible as expressed in its poetical and +highly figurative language.</p> + +<p>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.</p><p><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73"></a></p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>Montreal Daily Herald</i>, Saturday, February 2, 1895]</p> + +<p>[Extract]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Christian Science</span></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Sketch of Its Origin and Growth—The Montreal Branch</span></p> + +<p>"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'Rell's famous enumeration of John Bull's creeds.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>It was exactly one hundred 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.<a name="Page_74" id="Page_74"></a> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>The American</i>, Baltimore, Md., January 14, 1895]</p> + +<p>[Extract]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Mrs. Eddy's Disciples</span></p> + +<p>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 two hundred thousand dollars, 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.</p><p><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75"></a></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p><p><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76"></a></p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>The Reporter</i>, Lebanon, Ind., January 18, 1895]</p> + +<p>[Extract]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Discovered Christian Science</span></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Remarkable Career of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Who Has Over One Hundred +Thousand Followers</span></p> + +<p>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 +one hundred thousand converts, and very recently saw completed in Boston, +as a testimonial to her labors, a handsome fire-proof church that cost two +hundred and fifty thousand dollars and was paid for by Christian Scientists +all over the country.</p> + +<p>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 <a name="Page_77" id="Page_77"></a>membership of four thousand, and eight hundred of the +members are Bostonians.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>N.Y. Commercial Advertiser</i>, January 9, 1895]</p> + + +<p>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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>The Post</i>, Syracuse, New York, February 1, 1895]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Do Not Believe She Was Deified</span></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Christian Scientists of Syracuse Surprised at the News About Mrs. Mary +Baker Eddy, Founder of the Faith</span></p> + +<p>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....</p> + +<p>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 cobelievers +she is unquestionably looked upon as having a divine mission to <a name="Page_78" id="Page_78"></a>fulfil, +and as though inspired in her great task by supernatural power.</p> + +<p>For the purpose of learning the feeling of Scientists in this city toward +the reported deification of Mrs. Eddy, a <i>Post</i> reporter called upon a few +of the leading members of the faith yesterday and had a number of very +interesting conversations upon the subject.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>"Did you ever hear of Jesus' taking medicine himself, or <a name="Page_79" id="Page_79"></a>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 you have faith, you can move +mountains."</p> + +<p>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.</p><p><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80"></a></p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>New York Herald</i>, February 6, 1895]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Mrs. Eddy Shocked</span></p> + +<p>[By Telegraph to the <i>Herald</i>]</p> + +<p>Concord, N.H., February 4, 1895.—The article published in the <i>Herald</i> 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.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Eddy preferred to prepare a written answer to the interrogatory, which +she did in this letter, addressed to the editor of the <i>Herald</i>:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"A despatch is given me, calling for an interview to answer for +myself, 'Am I the second Christ?'</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>"My books and teachings maintain but one conclusion and statement +of the Christ and the deification of mortals.</p> + +<p>"Christ is individual, and one with God, in the sense of divine +Love and its compound divine ideal.</p> + +<p>"There was, is, and never can be but one God, one<a name="Page_81" id="Page_81"></a> 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.</p> + +<p>"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.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">"<span class="smcap">Mary Baker Eddy.</span>"</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + + +<p>[<i>The Globe</i>, Toronto, Canada, January 12, 1895]</p> + +<p>[Extract]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Christian Scientists</span></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Dedication To the Founder of the Order of a Beautiful Church at +Boston—Many Toronto Scientists Present</span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>The temple is believed to be the most nearly fire-proof church structure on +the continent, the only combustible <a name="Page_82" id="Page_82"></a>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."</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + + +<p>[<i>Evening Monitor</i>, Concord, N.H., February 27, 1895]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">An Elegant Souvenir</span></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Rev. Mary Baker Eddy Memorialized by a Christian Science Church</span></p> + +<p>Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer of Christian Science, has received from +the members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, an invitation +formally to accept <a name="Page_83" id="Page_83"></a>the magnificent new edifice of worship which the church +has just erected.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>The inscription reads thus:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Dear Mother</i>:—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.</p> + +<p>"The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass.</p> + +<p>"By <span class="smcap">Edward P. Bates,</span></p> + +<p>"<span class="smcap">Caroline S. Bates.</span></p> + +<p>"To the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy,</p> + +<p>"Boston, January 6th, 1895."</p> + +</div> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>People and Patriot</i>, Concord, N.H., February 27, 1895]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Magnificent Testimonial</span></p> + +<p>Members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, have forwarded +to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy of <a name="Page_84" id="Page_84"></a>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.</p> + +<p>It bears upon its face the following inscription, cut in script letters:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"<i>Dear Mother</i>:—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.</p> + +<p>"The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass.</p> + +<p>"By <span class="smcap">Edward P. Bates</span>,</p> + +<p>"<span class="smcap">Caroline S. Bates.</span></p> + +<p>"To the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy,</p> + +<p>"Boston, January 6, 1895."</p></div> + +<p>Attached by a white ribbon to the scroll is a gold key to the church door.</p> + +<p>The testimonial is encased in a white satin-lined box of rich green velvet.</p> + +<p>The scroll is on exhibition in the window of J.C. Derby's jewelry store.</p><p><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85"></a></p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>The Union Signal</i>, Chicago]</p> + +<p>[Extract]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The New Woman and the New Church</span></p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>But when Christian Science arose, the thought of the world's scientific +leaders had become materialistically "lopsided," and this condition can +never long continue.<a name="Page_86" id="Page_86"></a> 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 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p><p><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87"></a></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>The New Century</i>, Boston, February, 1895]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">One Point of View—The New Woman</span></p> + +<p>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 +<a name="Page_88" id="Page_88"></a>make the body not the prison, but the palace of the soul, with the brain +for its great white throne.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 <a name="Page_89" id="Page_89"></a>should we continue to +demand woman's love and woman's help while we recklessly promise as lover +and candidate what we never fulfil as husband and office-holder? In our +secret heart our better self is shamed and dishonored, and appeals from +Philip drunk to Philip sober, but has 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.</p> + +<p>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 <a name="Page_90" id="Page_90"></a>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.</p> + + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>Christian Science Journal</i>, January, 1895]</p> + +<p>[Extract]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The Mother Church</span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 +<a name="Page_91" id="Page_91"></a>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>[<i>Concord Evening Monitor</i>, March 23, 1895]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Testimonial and Gift</span></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">To Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, From the First Church Of Christ, Scientist, in +Boston</span></p> + +<p>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 <a name="Page_92" id="Page_92"></a>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:—</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Accompanying the stone testimonial was the following address from the Board +of Directors:—</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Boston, March 20, 1895.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>To the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, our Beloved Teacher and +Leader</i>:—We are happy to announce to you the completion of The +First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston.</p> + +<p>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 +textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."</p> + +<p>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 <a name="Page_93" id="Page_93"></a>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.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Lovingly yours,</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Ira O. Knapp</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Joseph Armstrong</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">William B. Johnson</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Stephen A. Chase,</span></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>The Christian Science Board of Directors</i>.</span><br /> +</p> + + +<p>REV. MRS. EDDY'S REPLY</p> + +<p><i>Beloved Directors and Brethren</i>:—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 <i>Pastor Emeritus</i>, nominally. +Through my book, your textbook, 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.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Mary Baker Eddy.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">March 25, 1895.</span><br /> +</p><p><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94"></a></p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><span class="smcap">List of Leading Newspapers Whose Articles Are Omitted</span></p> + + +<p>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. To those which are copied she can append only a +few of the names of other prominent newspapers whose articles are +reluctantly omitted.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">EASTERN STATES</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Advertiser</i>, Calais, Me.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Advertiser</i>, Boston, Mass.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Farmer</i>, Bridgeport, Conn.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Independent</i>, Rockland, Mass.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Kennebec Journal</i>, Augusta, Me.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>News</i>, New Haven, Conn.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>News</i>, Newport, R.I.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Post</i>, Boston, Mass.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Post</i>, Hartford, Conn.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Republican</i>, Springfield, Mass.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Sentinel</i>, Eastport, Me.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Sun</i>, Attleboro, Mass.</span><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">MIDDLE STATES</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Advertiser</i>, New York City.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Bulletin</i>, Auburn, N.Y.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Daily</i>, York, Pa.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Evening Reporter</i>, Lebanon, Pa.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Farmer</i>, Bridgeport, Conn.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Herald</i>, Rochester, N.Y.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Independent</i>, Harrisburg, Pa.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Inquirer</i>, Philadelphia, Pa.</span><br /><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95"></a> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Independent</i>, New York City.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Journal</i>, Lockport, N.Y.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Knickerbocker</i>, Albany, N.Y.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>News</i>, Buffalo, N.Y.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>News</i>, Newark, N.J.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Once A Week</i>, New York City.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Post</i>, Pittsburgh, Pa.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Press</i>, Albany, N.Y.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Press</i>, New York City.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Press</i>, Philadelphia, Pa.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Saratogian</i>, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Sun</i>, New York City.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Telegram</i>, Philadelphia, Pa.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Telegram</i>, Troy, N.Y.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Times</i>, Trenton, N.J.</span><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">SOUTHERN STATES</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Commercial</i>, Louisville, Ky.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Journal</i>, Atlanta, Ga.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Post</i>, Washington, D.C.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Telegram</i>, New Orleans, La.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Times</i>, New Orleans, La.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Times-Herald</i>, Dallas, Tex.</span><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">WESTERN STATES</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Bee</i>, Omaha, Neb.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Bulletin</i>, San Francisco, Cal.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Chronicle</i>, San Francisco, Cal.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Elite</i>, Chicago, Ill.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Enquirer</i>, Oakland, Cal.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Free Press</i>, Detroit, Mich.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Gazette</i>, Burlington, Iowa.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Herald</i>, Grand Rapids, Mich.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Herald</i>, St. Joseph, Mo.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Journal</i>, Columbus, Ohio.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Journal</i>, Topeka, Kans.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Leader</i>, Bloomington, Ill.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Leader</i>, Cleveland, Ohio.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>News</i>, St. Joseph, Mo.</span><br /><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96"></a> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>News-Tribune</i>, Duluth, Minn.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Pioneer-Press</i>, St. Paul, Minn.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Post-Intelligencer</i>, Seattle, Wash.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Salt Lake Herald</i>, Salt Lake City, Utah.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Sentinel</i>, Indianapolis, Ind.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Sentinel</i>, Milwaukee, Wis.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Star</i>, Kansas City, Mo.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Telegram</i>, Portland, Ore.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Times</i>, Chicago, Ill.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Times</i>, Minneapolis, Minn.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Tribune</i>, Minneapolis, Minn.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Tribune</i>, Salt Lake City, Utah.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Free Press</i>, London, Can.</span><br /> +</p> + + +<p>THE PLIMPTON PRESS NORWOOD MASS USA</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> See footnote on page nine.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> This sum was increased to $5,568.51 by contributions which +reached the Treasurer after the Dedicatory Services.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_C_3" id="Footnote_C_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_C_3"><span class="label">[C]</span></a> Steps were taken to promote the Church of Christ Scientist in +April, May and June; formal organization was accomplished and the charter +obtained in August, 1879.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_D_4" id="Footnote_D_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_D_4"><span class="label">[D]</span></a> <span class="smcap">Note</span>:—About 1868, the author of Science and Health +healed Mr. Whittier with one visit, at his home in Amesbury, of incipient +pulmonary consumption.—<span class="smcap">M.B. Eddy.</span></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_E_5" id="Footnote_E_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_E_5"><span class="label">[E]</span></a> At Mrs. Eddy's request the lamp was not kept burning.</p></div> + +</div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Pulpit and Press, by Mary Baker Eddy + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PULPIT AND PRESS *** + +***** This file should be named 16778-h.htm or 16778-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/7/16778/ + +Produced by Justin Gillbank, Josephine Paolucci and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Pulpit and Press + +Author: Mary Baker Eddy + +Release Date: October 2, 2005 [EBook #16778] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PULPIT AND PRESS *** + + + + +Produced by Justin Gillbank, Josephine Paolucci and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +PULPIT AND PRESS + +BY + +MARY BAKER EDDY + +DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND +HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES + +Registered +U.S. Patent Office + +Published by The +Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy +BOSTON, U.S.A. + +Authorized Literature of +THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST +in Boston, Massachusetts + +_Copyright, 1895_ +BY MARY BAKER EDDY +_Copyright renewed, 1923_ + + * * * * * + +_All rights reserved_ + + * * * * * + +PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA + + +TO + +THE DEAR TWO THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED CHILDREN + +WHOSE CONTRIBUTIONS OF $4,460[A] 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 + + + + +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 scan further 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 + + + + +CONTENTS + + + DEDICATORY SERMON + + CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK + + HYMNS + + _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 + + + + +PULPIT AND PRESS + +DEDICATORY SERMON + +BY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY + +First Pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass. + +Delivered January 6, 1895 + +TEXT: _They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy +house; and Thou shall make them drink of the river of Thy +pleasures._--Psalms xxxvi. 8. + + +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, and 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 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 on God's side 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! O ye tears! Not +in vain did ye flow. Those sacred drops were but enshrined for future use, +and God has now unsealed their receptacle with His outstretched 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 the Lord endureth forever." + +I have ordained the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and +Health with Key to the Scriptures," as pastor of The First Church of +Christ, Scientist, in 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 Thou hast 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.[B] 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." O glorious hope and blessed assurance, "it is your +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, O soul! This is the newborn of Spirit, this is His redeemed; +this, His beloved. May the kingdom of God within you,--with you +alway,--reascending, 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 hearts' holy intents. May all whose means, energies, and +prayers helped erect The Mother Church, find within it home, and _heaven_. + + + + +CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK + + +The following selections from "Science and Health with Key to the +Scriptures," pages 568-571, 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. 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 Truth, or Christ, 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, by which the nothingness of error is seen; and we know +that the nothingness of error is in proportion to its wickedness. He that +touches the hem of Christ's robe and masters his mortal beliefs, animality, +and hate, rejoices in the proof of healing,--in a sweet and certain sense +that God is Love. Alas for those who break faith with divine Science 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 devil knoweth his 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 +torture it may take to remove all sin, must depend upon sin's 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 of 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 should send forth a new flood to drown the +Christ-idea? He can neither drown your voice with its roar, nor again sink +the world into the 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 sinning, they should know the great benefit +which Mind has wrought. They should also know the great delusion of mortal +mind, when it makes them sick or sinful. Many are willing to open the eyes +of the people to the power of good resident in divine Mind, but they are +not so willing to point out the evil in human thought, and expose evil's +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 +blessed 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 +the 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 chiselled squarely good) + Stands His church,-- + God is Love, and understood + By His flock. + + _Laus Deo_, night starlit + Slumbers not in God's embrace; + Then, O 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. + I kiss the cross, and wake to know + A world more bright. + + And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea + I see Christ walk, + And come to me, 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; + An offering pure of Love, whereto + God leadeth me. + + + + +NOTE + +BY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY + + +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 in earth, as it is +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 during 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 Prof. 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 Founder, "Our prayer in stone." It is located at the intersection of +Norway and Falmouth Streets, on a triangular plot of ground, the design a +Romanesque tower with a circular front and an octagonal form, accented by +stone porticos and turreted 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 one hundred and twenty feet in +height and twenty-one and one half 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 fire-proof as is conceivable. The principal features +are the auditorium, seating eleven hundred people and capable of holding +fifteen hundred; the "Mother's Room," designed for the exclusive use of +Mrs. Eddy; the "directors' room," and the vestry. The 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" impanelled. A +sunburst in the centre of the ceiling takes the place of chandeliers. There +is a disc of cut glass in decorative designs, covering one hundred and +forty-four 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 +panelled 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 Renaissance +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 eleven thousand dollars. 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 eight hundred people, and opening from it are three large +class-rooms and the pastor's study. + +The windows are a remarkable feature of this temple. 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 ii. 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 two hundred and twenty-one +thousand dollars, exclusive of the land--a gift from Mrs. Eddy--which is +valued at some forty thousand dollars. + + +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, Bowring, 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 lepers, 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 four thousand 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 two hundred thousand 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 two hundred thousand dollars, 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 More 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 infrequently 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 textbook. 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 homoeopathy, 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.[C] +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? + +LILIAN 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 six thousand persons, the +unique and costly edifice erected in Boston at Norway and Falmouth Streets +as a home for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and a 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 four thousand 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 forty +and fifty. The large auditorium, with its capacity for holding from +fourteen hundred to fifteen hundred persons, was hopelessly incapable of +receiving this vast throng, to say nothing of nearly a thousand local +believers. Hence the service was repeated until all who wished had heard +and seen; and 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 one hundred +and twenty-six feet above the earth, rung out their message of "On earth +peace, good will toward men." + +Old familiar hymns--"All hail the power of Jesus' 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 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 textbook. + +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:-- + + "To 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 two + thousand 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 contributions, 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 textbooks, 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, homoeopathy, 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 remodelled 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 to-morrow. +It has cost two hundred thousand dollars, 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 two hundred thousand dollars, love-offerings of the disciples +of Mary Baker Eddy, reviver of the ancient faith and author of the textbook +from which, 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 practised 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 practised in other countries at an +earlier date. "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and +that which is done is that which shall be 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 Saviour 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.[D] + +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 plenitude 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 four thousand 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 one hundred +thousand and two hundred thousand. 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 fire-proof, and cost over two hundred +thousand dollars. It is entirely paid for, and contributions for its +erection came from every State in the Union, and from many lands. The +auditorium 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[E] 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 +Publishing Society, with the other members of the Christian Science Board +of Directors--Ira O. Knapp, Edward P. Bates, Stephen A. Chase,--gentlemen +officially connected with the movement. The children of believing families +collected the money for the Mother's Room, and seats were especially set +apart for them at the second dedicatory service. Before one service was +over and the auditors left by the rear doors, the front vestibule and +street (despite the snowstorm) were crowded with others, waiting for +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 +textbook. 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 wind-chests throughout, and having an +AEolian attachment. It is of three-manual compass, C.C.C. to C.4, 61 notes; +and pedal compass, C.C.C. to F.30. The great organ has double open diapason +(stopped bass), open diapason, dulciana, viola di gamba, doppel flute, hohl +flute, octave, octave quint, superoctave, and trumpet,--61 pipes each. 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 diapason, bourdon, 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 occupying a space not 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 keyboard, 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 one hundred thousand +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 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, 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, homoeopathy, 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 six thousand 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, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, +cast out demons." They hold with strict fidelity to what they conceive to +be the literal teachings of the 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'Rell's 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 one hundred 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 two hundred thousand dollars, 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 ONE HUNDRED +THOUSAND 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 +one hundred thousand converts, and very recently saw completed in Boston, +as a testimonial to her labors, a handsome fire-proof church that cost two +hundred and fifty thousand dollars and was paid for by Christian Scientists +all over the country. + +Mrs. Eddy asserts that in 1866 she became certain that "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 four thousand, and eight hundred 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 cobelievers +she is unquestionably looked upon as having a divine mission to fulfil, +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 you have faith, you 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 6, 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 + Love and its compound divine ideal. + + "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 +formally to 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. + + "By EDWARD P. BATES, + + "CAROLINE S. BATES. + + "To the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, + + "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 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, 1895] + + +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 fulfil as husband and office-holder? In our +secret heart our better self is shamed and dishonored, and appeals from +Philip drunk to Philip sober, but has 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 + textbook, "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, + JOSEPH ARMSTRONG, + WILLIAM B. JOHNSON, + 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 textbook, 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. + + * * * * * + +LIST OF LEADING NEWSPAPERS WHOSE ARTICLES ARE OMITTED + + +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. To those which are copied she can append only a +few of the names of other prominent newspapers whose articles are +reluctantly 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. + _Evening Reporter_, Lebanon, Pa. + _Farmer_, Bridgeport, Conn. + _Herald_, Rochester, N.Y. + _Independent_, Harrisburg, Pa. + _Inquirer_, Philadelphia, 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_, Pittsburgh, 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. + _Elite_, 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. + + +THE PLIMPTON PRESS NORWOOD MASS USA + +FOOTNOTES: + +[Footnote A: See footnote on page nine.] + +[Footnote B: This sum was increased to $5,568.51 by contributions which +reached the Treasurer after the Dedicatory Services.] + +[Footnote C: Steps were taken to promote the Church of Christ Scientist in +April, May and June; formal organization was accomplished and the charter +obtained in August, 1879.] + +[Footnote D: NOTE:--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. 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