Trustees under the Will of Mary
Baker G. Eddy
Boston, U.S.A.
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THIS volume contains scintillations from
press and
pulpit - utterances which epitomize the story of the |
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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 |
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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, |
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but also a registry of the rise of the
mercury in the glass
of the world's opinion.
It will then be instructive to turn
backward the tele- |
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scope of that advanced age, with its lenses
of more
spiritual mentality, indicating the gain of intellectual
momentum, on the early footsteps of Christian Science |
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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 |
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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 |
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power of Truth and the actual bliss of
man's existence
in Science.
MARY BAKER EDDY
February, 1895
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 |
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TEXT: They shall be abundantly satisfied
with the fatness of Thy
house; and Thou shalt make them drink of the river
of Thy pleasures. |
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- PSALMS xxxvi. 8.
A NEW year
is a nursling, a babe of time, a prophecy
and promise clad in white
raiment, kissed - and |
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encumbered with greetings - redolent with
grief and
gratitude.
An old year is time's adult, and 1893 was a
distinguished |
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character, notable for good and evil. Time
past and time
present, both, may pain us, but time improved is
elo-
quent in God's praise. For due refreshment garner the |
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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! |
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The path behind thee is with glory
crowned;
This spot whereon thou troddest was holy ground;
Pass proudly
to thy bier! |
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To-day, being with you in spirit, what
need that I should
be present in propria persona? Were I present,
methinks
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I should be much like the Queen of Sheba,
when she saw
the house Solomon had erected. In the expressive language |
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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 |
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without and within, the spirit of beauty
dominates The
Mother Church, from its mosaic flooring to the soft shim-
mer of its starlit dome. |
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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, |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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" |
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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. |
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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 |
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of Truth, reared on the foundation of
Love, and pinnacled
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in Life. Such being its nature, how can our
godly temple
possibly be demolished, or even disturbed? Can eternity |
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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 |
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I will raise it up." He also said: "The
kingdom of God
is within you." Know, then, that you possess sovereign
power to think and act rightly, and that nothing can dis- |
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possess you of this heritage and trespass
on Love. If you
maintain this position, who or what can cause you to
sin
or suffer? Our surety is in our confidence that we are |
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indeed dwellers in Truth and Love, man's
eternal mansion.
Such a heavenly assurance ends all warfare, and bids
tu-
mult cease, for the good fight we have waged is over, and |
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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 |
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pleasures." No longer are we of the church
militant, but
of the church triumphant; and with Job of old we ex-
claim, "Yet in my flesh shall I see God." The river of |
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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 |
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quenched, satisfied with what is pleasing
to the divine
Mind.
Perchance some one
of you may say, "The evidence of |
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spiritual verity in me is so small that I
am afraid. I feel
so far from victory over the flesh that to reach out for
a
present realization of my hope savors of temerity. Be- |
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cause of my own unfitness for such a
spiritual animus my
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strength is naught and my faith fails." O
thou "weak
and infirm of purpose." Jesus said, "Be
not afraid"! |
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"What if
the little rain should say,
'So small a drop as
I
Can ne'er refresh a drooping earth, |
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I'll tarry in the sky.'
"
Is not a man metaphysically and mathematically num-
ber
one, a unit, and therefore whole number, governed |
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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 |
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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 |
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little ones reflects the infinite One, and
therefore is the
seer's declaration true, that "one on God's side is a
majority." |
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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, |
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through all space. His is an individual
kingdom, his dia-
dem a crown of crowns. His existence is deathless,
for-
ever unfolding its eternal Principle. Wait patiently on |
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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 |
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house."
In 1893 the World's Parliament of
Religions, held in
Chicago, used, in all its public sessions, my form of
prayer
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since 1866; and one of the very clergymen
who had pub-
licly proclaimed me "the prayerless Mrs. Eddy," offered |
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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. |
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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, |
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holds in her secret chambers those
characters of holiest
sort, bravest to endure, firmest to suffer, soonest
to re-
nounce. Such was the founder of the Concord School of |
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Philosophy - the late A. Bronson Alcott.
After the
publication of "Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures," his
athletic mind, scholarly and serene, |
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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 |
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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. |
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This book, in 1895, is in its ninety-first
edition of one
thousand copies. It is in the public libraries of the
prin-
cipal cities, colleges, and universities of America; also |
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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 |
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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 |
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literature of our and other lands. This
spiritual chemi-
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calization is the upheaval produced when
Truth is neutral-
izing error and impurities are passing off. And it
will |
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continue till the antithesis of
Christianity, engendering the
limited forms of a national or tyrannical
religion, yields to
the church established by the Nazarene Prophet and
main- |
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tained on the spiritual foundation of
Christ's healing.
Good, the
Anglo-Saxon term for God, unites Science to
Christianity. It presents to
the understanding, not matter, |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Methodist Episcopal Church. I feel the
truth is leading
us to return to Japan."
Another brilliant
enunciator, seeker, and servant of |
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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 |
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find in Mrs. Eddy's metaphysical teachings
more than is
dreamt of in your philosophy."
Also that
renowned apostle of anti-slavery, Wendell
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Phillips, the native course of whose mind
never swerved
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from the chariot-paths of justice, speaking
of my work,
said: "Had I young blood in my veins, I would help that |
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woman."
I love Boston, and
especially the laws of the State where-
of this city is the capital.
To-day, as of yore, her laws |
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have befriended progress.
Yet when I recall
the past, - how the gospel of healing
was simultaneously praised and
persecuted in Boston, - |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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committed in the name of religion.
An unjust,
unmerciful, and oppressive priesthood must
perish, for false prophets in
the present as in the past |
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stumble onward to their doom; while their
tabernacles
crumble with dry rot. "God is not mocked," and "the
word
of the Lord endureth forever." |
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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 |
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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 |
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Thou shalt make them drink of the river of
Thy pleasures. "
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All praise to the press of America's
Athens, - and
throughout our land the press has spoken out
historically, |
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impartially. Like the winds telling tales
through the
leaves of an ancient oak, unfallen, may our church chimes
repeat my thanks to the press. |
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Notwithstanding the perplexed condition of
our na-
tion's finances, the want and woe with millions of dollars
unemployed in our money centres, the Christian Scientists, |
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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 |
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privileged joy at helping to build The
Mother Church.
There was no urging, begging, or borrowing; only the
need made known, and forth came the money, or dia- |
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monds, which served to erect this "miracle
in stone."
Even the children
vied with their parents to meet the
demand. Little hands, never before
devoted to menial |
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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 |
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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." |
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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, |
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- Mother's Room in The First Church of
Christ, Sci-
entist, in Boston. The children are destined to witness
results which will eclipse Oriental dreams. They belong |
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to the twentieth century. By juvenile aid,
into the build-
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ing fund have come $4,460.(1) Ah, children,
you are the
bulwarks of freedom, the cement of society, the hope of |
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our race!
Brothers of the
Christian Science Board of Directors,
when your tireless tasks are done -
well done - no Del- |
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phian Iyre could break the full chords of
such a rest. May
the altar you have built never be shattered in our
hearts,
but justice, mercy, and love kindle perpetually its fires. |
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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 |
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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 |
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settle the subject.
After the loss of
our late lamented pastor, Rev. D. A.
Easton, the church services were
maintained by excellent |
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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 |
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river of His pleasures." O glorious hope
and blessed as-
surance, "it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the
kingdom." Christians rejoice in secret, they have a bounty |
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hidden from the world. Self-forgetfulness,
purity, and
love are treasures untold - constant prayers, prophecies,
and anointings. Practice, not profession, - goodness, not |
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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 |
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foundation of enlightened faith is
Christ's teachings and
(1)This sum was increased
to $5,568.51 by contributions which reached the Treas-
urer after the
Dedicatory Services.
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practice. It was our Master's
self-immolation, his life-
giving love, healing both mind and body, that
raised the |
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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 |
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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; |
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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 |
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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 |
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Love.
Christian
Scientists, you have planted your standard
on the rock of Christ, the true,
the spiritual idea, - the |
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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 |
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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 |
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that chill vicissitudes have not withheld
the timely shelter
of this house, which descended like day-spring from
on
high. |
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Divine presence, breathe Thou Thy blessing
on every
heart in this house. Speak out, O soul! This is the new-
born
of Spirit, this is His redeemed; this, His beloved. |
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May the kingdom of God within you, - with
you alway, -
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reascending, bear you outward, upward,
heavenward.
May the sweet song of silver-throated singers, making |
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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 |
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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.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK |
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The following selections from "Science and
Health
with Key to the Scriptures," pages 568-571, were read |
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from the platform. The impressive
stillness of the audi-
ence indicated close attention.
Revelation xii. 10-12. And
I heard a loud voice saying in |
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heaven, Now is come
salvation, and strength, and the king-
dom of our God, and the power of His
Christ: for the accuser
of our brethren is cast down, which accused them
before our |
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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 |
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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 |
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but a short time.
For victory over a single sin, we give
thanks and mag-
nify the Lord of Hosts. What shall we say of the
mighty |
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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 |
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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 |
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Christian Science. This rule clearly
interprets God as
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divine Principle, - as Life, represented by
the Father;
as Truth, represented by the Son; as Love, represented |
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by the Mother. Every mortal at some period,
here or here-
after, must grapple with and overcome the mortal belief
in a power opposed to God. |
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The Scripture, "Thou hast been faithful
over a few
things, I will make thee ruler over many," is literally ful-
filled, when we are conscious of the supremacy of Truth, |
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by which the nothingness of error is seen;
and we know
that the nothingness of error is in proportion to its wicked-
ness. He that touches the hem of Christ's robe and masters |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Revelation xii. 13. And
when the dragon saw that he was
cast unto the earth, he persecuted the
woman which brought
forth the man child.
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The march of mind and of honest
investigation will
bring the hour when the people will chain, with fetters
of |
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some sort, the growing occultism of this
period. The
present apathy as to the tendency of certain active yet un-
seen mental agencies will finally be shocked into another |
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extreme mortal mood, - into human
indignation; for
one extreme follows another.
Revelation xii. 15, 16.
And the serpent cast out of his |
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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 |
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swallowed up the flood
which the dragon cast out of his
mouth.
Millions of unprejudiced minds - simple
seekers for |
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Truth, weary wanderers, athirst in the
desert - are wait-
ing and watching for rest and drink. Give them a cup
of
cold water in Christ's name, and never fear the conse- |
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quences. What if the old dragon should send
forth a new
flood to drown the Christ-idea? He can neither drown
your
voice with its roar, nor again sink the world into the |
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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. |
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The waters will be pacified, and Christ
will command the
wave.
When God heals the sick or the sinning,
they should |
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know the great benefit which Mind has
wrought. They
should also know the great delusion of mortal mind, when
it makes them sick or sinful. Many are willing to open
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the eyes of the people to the power of good
resident in
divine Mind, but they are not so willing to point out the |
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evil in human thought, and expose evil's
hidden mental
ways of accomplishing iniquity.
Why this
backwardness, since exposure is necessary to |
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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 |
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Master to tell a man his faults, and so
risk human dis-
pleasure for the sake of doing right and benefiting our
race. Who is telling mankind of the foe in ambush? Is |
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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 |
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no warning.
At all times and
under all circumstances, overcome evil
with good. Know thyself, and God
will supply the wisdom |
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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 |
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one divinity.
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HYMNS
BY REV. MARY BAKER
EDDY |
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[Set to the Church Chimes and Sung on This
Occasion]
LAYING THE CORNER-STONE |
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Laus Deo, it is done!
Rolled away from loving heart
Is a stone. |
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Joyous, risen, we depart
Having one.
Laus Deo, - on this
rock |
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(Heaven chiselled squarely good)
Stands His church, -
God is Love, and understood |
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By His flock.
Laus Deo, night starlit
Slumbers not in God's embrace; |
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Then, O man!
Like this stone, be in thy place;
Stand, not sit. |
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Cold, silent, stately stone,
Dirge and song and shoutings low,
In thy heart |
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Dwell serene, - and sorrow? No,
It has none,
Laus
Deo!
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"FEED MY SHEEP"
Shepherd, show me how to go |
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O'er the hillside steep,
How to gather,
how to sow, -
How to feed Thy sheep; |
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I will listen for Thy voice,
Lest my
footsteps stray;
I will follow and rejoice |
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All the rugged way.
Thou wilt bind the stubborn will,
Wound the callous
breast, |
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Make self-righteousness be still,
Break
earth's stupid rest.
Strangers on a barren shore, |
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Lab'ring long and lone -
We would enter
by the door,
And Thou know'st Thine own. |
| 18 |
So, when day grows dark and cold,
Tear
or triumph harms,
Lead Thy lambkins to the fold, |
| 21 |
Take them in Thine arms;
Feed the
hungry, heal the heart,
Till the morning's beam; |
| 24 |
White as wool, ere they depart -
Shepherd, wash them clean.
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CHRIST MY REFUGE
O'er waiting
harpstrings of the mind |
| 3 |
There sweeps a strain,
Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind
The power of pain. |
| 6 |
And wake a white-winged angel throng
Of thoughts, illumed
By
faith, and breathed in raptured song, |
| 9 |
With love perfumed.
Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show
Life's burdens light. |
| 12 |
I kiss the cross, and wake to know
A world more bright.
And o'er earth's troubled,
angry sea |
| 15 |
I see Christ walk,
And come to me, and tenderly,
Divinely talk. |
| 18 |
Thus Truth engrounds me on the rock,
Upon Life's shore;
'Gainst which the winds and waves can shock, |
| 21 |
Oh, nevermore !
From tired joy and grief afar,
And nearer Thee, - |
| 24 |
Father, where Thine own children are,
I love to be.
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19 |
| 1 |
My prayer, some daily good to do
To Thine, for Thee; |
| 3 |
An offering pure of Love, whereto
God leadeth me.
Page 20
NOTE
BY REV. MARY BAKER
EDDY |
| 1 |
The land whereon stands The First Church of
Christ,
Scientist, in Boston, was first purchased by the church |
| 3 |
and society. Owing to a heavy loss, they
were unable to
pay the mortgage; therefore I paid it, and through
trustees
gave back the land to the church. |
| 6 |
In 1892 I had to recover the land from the
trustees, re-
organize the church, and reobtain its charter - not, how-
ever, through the State Commissioner, who refused to |
| 9 |
grant it, but by means of a statute of the
State, and through
Directors regive the land to the church. In 1895 I
recon-
structed my original system of ministry and church gov- |
| 12 |
ernment. Thus committed to the providence
of God, the
prosperity of this church is unsurpassed.
From first to last
The Mother Church seemed type and |
| 15 |
shadow of the warfare between the flesh and
Spirit, even
that shadow whose substance is the divine Spirit, im-
peratively propelling the greatest moral, physical, civil, |
| 18 |
and religious reform ever known on earth.
In the words
of the prophet: "The shadow of a great rock in a weary
land." |
| 21 |
This church was dedicated on January 6,
anciently one
of the many dates selected and observed in the East as
the
day of the birth and baptism of our master Metaphysician, |
| 24 |
Jesus of Nazareth.
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21 |
| 1 |
Christian Scientists, their children and
grandchildren
to the latest generations, inevitably love one another
with |
| 3 |
that love wherewith Christ loveth us; a
love unselfish,
unambitious, impartial, universal, - that loves only
be-
cause it is Love. Moreover, they love their enemies, even |
| 6 |
those that hate them. This we all must do
to be Christian
Scientists in spirit and in truth. I long, and live, to
see
this love demonstrated. I am seeking and praying for it |
| 9 |
to inhabit my own heart and to be made
manifest in my
life. Who will unite with me in this pure purpose, and
faithfully struggle till it be accomplished? Let this be our |
| 12 |
Christian endeavor society, which Christ
organizes and
blesses.
While we entertain
due respect and fellowship for what |
| 15 |
is good and doing good in all denominations
of religion,
and shun whatever would isolate us from a true sense of
goodness in others, we cannot serve mammon. |
| 18 |
Christian Scientists are really united to
only that which
is Christlike, but they are not indifferent to the welfare
of
any one. To perpetuate a cold distance between our de- |
| 21 |
nomination and other sects, and close the
door on church
or individuals - however much this is done to us - is
not Christian Science. Go not into the way of the un- |
| 24 |
christly, but wheresoever you recognize a
clear expression
of God's likeness, there abide in confidence and hope.
Our unity with churches of other denominations
must |
| 27 |
rest on the spirit of Christ calling us
together. It cannot
come from any other source. Popularity,
self-aggrandize-
ment, aught that can darken in any degree our
spirituality, |
| 30 |
must be set aside. Only what feeds and
fills the sentiment
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22 |
| 1 |
with unworldliness, can give peace and good
will towards
men. |
| 3 |
All Christian churches have one bond of
unity, one
nucleus or point of convergence, one prayer, - the Lord's
Prayer. It is matter for rejoicing that we unite in love, |
| 6 |
and in this sacred petition with every
praying assembly
on earth, - "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in
earth, as it is in heaven." |
| 9 |
If the lives of Christian Scientists attest
their fidelity
to Truth, I predict that in the twentieth century every
Christian church in our land, and a few in far-off lands, |
| 12 |
will approximate the understanding of
Christian Science
sufficiently to heal the sick in his name. Christ will
give
to Christianity his new name, and Christendom will be |
| 15 |
classified as Christian Scientists.
When the doctrinal barriers between the churches
are
broken, and the bonds of peace are cemented by spiritual |
| 18 |
understanding and Love, there will be unity
of spirit, and
the healing power of Christ will prevail. Then shall
Zion
have put on her most beautiful garments, and her waste |
| 21 |
places budded and blossomed as the
rose.
Page 23
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 Correspond-
|
| 9 |
ence. - The "great awakening" of the
time of Jonathan
Edwards has been paralleled during the last decade by
a
wave of idealism that has swept over the country, manif- |
| 12 |
esting itself under several different
aspects and under
various names, but each having the common identity of
spiritual demand. This movement, under the guise of |
| 15 |
Christian Science, and ingenuously calling
out a closer
inquiry into Oriental philosophy, prefigures itself to us
as one of the most potent factors in the social evolution |
| 18 |
of the last quarter of the nineteenth
century. History
shows the curious fact that the closing years of every
cen-
tury are years of more intense life, manifested in unrest |
| 21 |
or in aspiration, and scholars of special
research, like
Prof. Max Muller, assert that the end of a cycle, as is
the
latter part of the present century, is marked by peculiar |
| 24 |
intimations of man's immortal life.
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24 |
| 1 |
The completion of the first Christian
Science church
erected in Boston strikes a keynote of definite
attention. |
| 3 |
This church is in the fashionable Back Bay,
between
Commonwealth and Huntington Avenues. It is one of
the most
beautiful, and is certainly the most unique struc- |
| 6 |
ture in any city. The First Church of
Christ, Scientist,
as it is officially called, is termed by its Founder,
"Our
prayer in stone." It is located at the intersection of Nor- |
| 9 |
way and Falmouth Streets, on a triangular
plot of ground,
the design a Romanesque tower with a circular front and
an octagonal form, accented by stone porticos and turreted |
| 12 |
corners. On the front is a marble tablet,
with the follow-
ing inscription carved in bold relief: -
"The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, erected Anno |
| 15 |
Domini 1894. A testimonial to our beloved
teacher,
the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder
of Christian
Science; author of "Science and Health |
| 18 |
with Key to the Scriptures;" president of
the Massa-
chusetts Metaphysical College, and the first pastor of
this
denomination." |
| 21 |
THE CHURCH EDIFICE
The church is built
of Concord granite in light gray,
with trimmings of the pink granite of New
Hampshire, |
| 24 |
Mrs. Eddy's native State. The architecture
is Romanesque
throughout. The tower is one hundred and twenty feet in
height and twenty-one and one half feet square. The en- |
| 27 |
trances are of marble, with doors of
antique oak richly
carved. The windows of stained glass are very rich
in
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25 |
| 1 |
pictorial effect. The lighting and cooling
of the church -
for cooling is a recognized feature as well as heating
- |
| 3 |
are done by electricity, and the heat
generated by two
large boilers in the basement is distributed by the
four
systems with motor electric power. The partitions are |
| 6 |
of iron; the floors of marble in mosaic
work, and the
edifice is therefore as literally fire-proof as is
conceivable.
The principal features are the auditorium, seating
eleven |
| 9 |
hundred people and capable of holding
fifteen hundred;
the "Mother's Room," designed for the exclusive use of
Mrs. Eddy; the "directors' room," and the vestry. The |
| 12 |
girders are all of iron, the roof is of
terra cotta tiles, the
galleries are in plaster relief, the window frames
are of
iron, coated with plaster; the staircases are of iron, with |
| 15 |
marble stairs of rose pink, and marble
approaches.
The vestibule is a
fitting entrance to this magnificent
temple. In the ceiling is a sunburst
with a seven-pointed |
| 18 |
star, which illuminates it. From this are
the entrances
leading to the auditorium, the "Mother's Room," and
the
directors' room. |
| 21 |
The auditorium is seated with pews of curly
birch, up-
holstered in old rose plush. The floor is in white Italian
mosaic, with frieze of the old rose, and the wainscoting |
| 24 |
repeats the same tints. The base and cap
are of pink
Tennessee marble. On the walls are bracketed oxidized
silver lamps of Roman design, and there are frequent |
| 27 |
illuminated texts from the Bible and from
Mrs. Eddy's
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" im-
panelled. A sunburst in the centre of the ceiling takes |
| 30 |
the place of chandeliers. There is a disc
of cut glass in
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26 |
| 1 |
decorative designs, covering one hundred
and forty-four
electric lights in the form of a star, which is
twenty-one |
| 3 |
inches from point to point, the centre
being of pure white
light, and each ray under prisms which reflect the
rainbow
tints. The galleries are richly panelled in relief work. |
| 6 |
The organ and choir gallery is spacious and
rich beyond
the power of words to depict. The platform - corre-
sponding to the chancel of an Episcopal church - is a |
| 9 |
mosaic work, with richly carved seats
following the sweep
of its curve, with a lamp stand of the Renaissance
period
on either end, bearing six richly wrought oxidized silver |
| 12 |
lamps, eight feet in height. The great
organ comes from
Detroit. It is one of vast compass, with AEolian
attach-
ment, and cost eleven thousand dollars. It is the gift of |
| 15 |
a single individual - a votive offering of
gratitude for the
healing of the wife of the donor.
The chime of bells
includes fifteen, of fine range and |
| 18 |
perfect tone.
THE "MOTHER'S ROOM"
The "Mother's Room" is approached by an
entrance of |
| 21 |
Italian marble, and over the door, in large
golden letters on
a marble tablet, is the word "Love." In this room the
mosaic marble floor of white has a Romanesque border and |
| 24 |
is decorated with sprays of fig leaves
bearing fruit. The
room is toned in pale green with relief in old rose.
The
mantel is of onyx and gold. Before the great bay window |
| 27 |
hangs an Athenian lamp over two hundred
years old,
which will be kept always burning day and night.(1) Lead-
(1) At Mrs. Eddy's request
the lamp was not kept burning.
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27 |
| 1 |
ing off the "Mother's Room" are toilet
apartments, with
full-length French mirrors and every convenience. |
| 3 |
The directors' room is very beautiful in
marble ap-
proaches and rich carving, and off this is a vault for the
safe preservation of papers. |
| 6 |
The vestry seats eight hundred people, and
opening from
it are three large class-rooms and the pastor's study.
The windows are a
remarkable feature of this temple. |
| 9 |
There are no "memorial" windows; the entire
church is a
testimonial, not a memorial - a point that the members
strongly insist upon. |
| 12 |
In the auditorium are two rose windows -
one repre-
senting the heavenly city which "cometh down from God
out of
heaven," with six small windows beneath, emblem- |
| 15 |
atic of the six water-pots referred to in
John ii. 6. The
other rose window represents the raising of the
daughter
of Jairus. Beneath are two small windows bearing palms |
| 18 |
of victory, and others with lamps, typical
of Science and
Health.
Another great window
tells its pictorial story of the four |
| 21 |
Marys - the mother of Jesus, Mary anointing
the head of
Jesus, Mary washing the feet of Jesus, Mary at the resur-
rection; and the woman spoken of in the Apocalypse, |
| 24 |
chapter 12, God-crowned.
One more window in
the auditorium represents the
raising of Lazarus. |
| 27 |
In the gallery are windows representing
John on the
Isle of Patmos, and others of pictorial significance. In
the "Mother's Room" the windows are of still more unique |
| 30 |
interest. A large bay window, composed of
three separate
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28 |
| 1 |
panels, is designed to be wholly typical of
the work of Mrs.
Eddy. The central panel represents her in solitude
and |
| 3 |
meditation, searching the Scriptures by the
light of a single
candle, while the star of Bethlehem shines down from
above.
Above this is a panel containing the Christian Science seal, |
| 6 |
and other panels are decorated with
emblematic designs,
with the legends, "Heal the Sick," "Raise the Dead,"
"Cleanse the Lepers," and "Cast out Demons." |
| 9 |
The cross and the crown and the star are
presented in
appropriate decorative effect. The cost of this church is
two hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars, exclusive |
| 12 |
of the land - a gift from Mrs. Eddy -
which is valued
at some forty thousand dollars.
THE ORDER OF
SERVICE |
| 15 |
The order of service in the Christian
Science Church
does not differ widely from that of any other sect, save
that
its service includes the use of Mrs. Eddy's book, entitled |
| 18 |
"Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures," in per-
haps equal measure to its use of the Bible. The
reading
is from the two alternately; the singing is from a compila- |
| 21 |
tion called the "Christian Science Hymnal,"
but its songs
are for the most part those devotional hymns from
Herbert,
Faber, Robertson, Wesley, Bowring, and other recog- |
| 24 |
nized devotional poets, with selections
from Whittier and
Lowell, as are found in the hymn-books of the
Unitarian
churches. For the past year or two Judge Hanna, for- |
| 27 |
merly of Chicago, has filled the office of
pastor to the
church in this city, which held its meetings in
Chickering
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29 |
| 1 |
Hall, and later in Copley Hall, in the new
Grundmann
Studio Building on Copley Square. Preceding Judge |
| 3 |
Hanna were Rev. D. A. Easton and Rev. L. P.
Norcross,
both of whom had formerly been Congregational clergy-
men.
The organizer and first pastor of the church here |
| 6 |
was Mrs. Eddy herself, of whose work I
shall venture to
speak, a little later, in this article.
Last Sunday I gave
myself the pleasure of attending the |
| 9 |
service held in Copley Hall. The spacious
apartment was
thronged with a congregation whose remarkable earnest-
ness impressed the observer. There was no straggling |
| 12 |
of late-comers. Before the appointed hour
every seat in the
hall was filled and a large number of chairs pressed
into
service for the overflowing throng. The music was spirited, |
| 15 |
and the selections from the Bible and from
Science and
Health were finely read by Judge Hanna. Then came his
sermon, which dealt directly with the command of Christ |
| 18 |
to "heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse
the lepers, cast
out demons." In his admirable discourse Judge Hanna
said that while all these injunctions could, under certain |
| 21 |
conditions, be interpreted and fulfilled
literally, the
special lesson was to be taken spiritually - to cleanse
the
leprosy of sin, to cast out the demons of evil thought. |
| 24 |
The discourse was able, and helpful in its
suggestive
interpretation.
THE CHURCH
MEMBERS |
| 27 |
Later I was told that almost the entire
congregation was
composed of persons who had either been themselves, or
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30 |
| 1 |
had seen members of their own families,
healed by Chris-
tian Science treatment; and I was further told that
once |
| 3 |
when a Boston clergyman remonstrated with
Judge Hanna
for enticing a separate congregation rather than offering
their strength to unite with churches already established - |
| 6 |
I was told he replied that the Christian
Science Church did
not recruit itself from other churches, but from the
grave-
yards! The church numbers now four thousand members; |
| 9 |
but this estimate, as I understand, is not
limited to the
Boston adherents, but includes those all over the
country.
The ceremonial of uniting is to sign a brief "confession of |
| 12 |
faith," written by Mrs. Eddy, and to unite
in communion,
which is not celebrated by outward symbols of bread and
wine, but by uniting in silent prayer. |
| 15 |
The "confession of faith" includes the
declaration that
the Scriptures are the guide to eternal Life; that there
is a
Supreme Being, and His Son, and the Holy Ghost, and |
| 18 |
that man is made in His image. It affirms
the atonement;
it recognizes Jesus as the teacher and guide to
salvation;
the forgiveness of sin by God, and affirms the power of |
| 21 |
Truth over error, and the need of living
faith at the
moment to realize the possibilities of the divine Life.
The entire membership of Christian Scientists throughout |
| 24 |
the world now exceeds two hundred thousand
people. The
church in Boston was organized by Mrs. Eddy, and the
first
meeting held on April 12, 1879. It opened with |
| 27 |
twenty-six members, and within fifteen
years it has grown
to its present impressive proportions, and has now its
own
magnificent church building, costing over two hundred |
| 30 |
housand dollars, and entirely paid for
when its consecra-
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31 |
| 1 |
tion service on January 6 shall be
celebrated. This is
certainly a very remarkable retrospect. |
| 3 |
Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of this
denomina-
tion and Discoverer of Christian Science, as they term her
work in affirming the present application of the principles |
| 6 |
asserted by Jesus, is a most interesting
personality. At
the risk of colloquialism, I am tempted to "begin at the
beginning" of my own knowledge of Mrs. Eddy, and take, |
| 9 |
as the point of departure, my first meeting
with her and
the subsequent development of some degree of familiarity
with the work of her life which that meeting inaugurated |
| 12 |
for me.
MRS. EDDY
It was during some year in the early '80's
that I became |
| 15 |
aware - from that close contact with public
feeling result-
ing from editorial work in daily journalism - that the
Boston atmosphere was largely thrilled and pervaded by a |
| 18 |
new and increasing interest in the
dominance of mind over
matter, and that the central figure in all this
agitation was
Mrs. Eddy. To a note which I wrote her, begging the |
| 21 |
favor of an interview for press use, she
most kindly replied,
naming an evening on which she would receive me.
At
the hour named I rang the bell at a spacious house on |
| 24 |
Columbus Avenue, and I was hardly more than
seated be-
fore Mrs. Eddy entered the room. She impressed me as
singularly graceful and winning in bearing and manner, |
| 27 |
and with great claim to personal beauty.
Her figure was
tall, slender, and as flexible in movement as that of a
Del-
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32 |
| 1 |
sarte disciple; her face, framed in dark
hair and lighted
by luminous blue eyes, had the transparency and
rose-flush |
| 3 |
of tint so often seen in New England, and
she was magnetic,
earnest, impassioned. No photographs can do the least
justice to Mrs. Eddy, as her beautiful complexion and |
| 6 |
changeful expression cannot thus be
reproduced. At once
one would perceive that she had the temperament to
domi-
nate, to lead, to control, not by any crude self-assertion, but |
| 9 |
a spiritual animus. Of course such a
personality, with the
wonderful tumult in the air that her large and
enthusiastic
following excited, fascinated the imagination. What had |
| 12 |
she originated? I mentally questioned this
modern St.
Catherine, who was dominating her followers like any ab-
bess of old. She told me the story of her life, so far as out- |
| 15 |
ward events may translate those inner
experiences which
alone are significant.
Mary Baker was the
daughter of Mark and Abigail |
| 18 |
(Ambrose) Baker, and was born in Concord,
N. H., some-
where in the early decade of 1820-'30. At the time I met
her she must have been some sixty years of age, yet she had |
| 21 |
the coloring and the elastic bearing of a
woman of thirty,
and this, she told me, was due to the principles of
Chris-
tian Science. On her father's side Mrs. Eddy came from |
| 24 |
Scotch and English ancestry, and Hannah
More was a
relative of her grandmother. Deacon Ambrose, her mater-
nal
grandfather, was known as a "godly man," and her |
| 27 |
mother was a religious enthusiast, a
saintly and consecrated
character. One of her brothers, Albert Baker,
graduated
at Dartmouth and achieved eminence as a lawyer.
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33 |
| 1 |
MRS. EDDY AS A CHILD
As a child Mary Baker saw visions and
dreamed dreams. |
| 3 |
When eight years of age she began, like
Jeanne d'Arc, to
hear "voices," and for a year she heard her name called
distinctly, and would often run to her mother questioning |
| 6 |
if she were wanted. One night the mother
related to her
the story of Samuel, and bade her, if she heard the
voice
again to reply as he did: "Speak, Lord, for Thy servant |
| 9 |
heareth." The call came, but the little
maid was afraid
and did not reply. This caused her tears of remorse
and
she prayed for forgiveness, and promised to reply if the call |
| 12 |
came again. It came, and she answered as
her mother had
bidden her, and after that it ceased.
These experiences, of which Catholic
biographies are |
| 15 |
full, and which history not infrequently
emphasizes, cer-
tainly offer food for meditation. Theodore Parker
related
that when he was a lad, at work in a field one day on his |
| 18 |
father's farm at Lexington, an old man with
a snowy beard
suddenly appeared at his side, and walked with him as he
worked, giving him high counsel and serious thought. All |
| 21 |
inquiry in the neighborhood as to whence
the stranger
came or whither he went was fruitless; no one else had
seen him, and Mr. Parker always believed, so a friend has |
| 24 |
told me, that his visitor was a spiritual
form from another
world. It is certainly true that many and many
persons,
whose life has been destined to more than ordinary achieve- |
| 27 |
ment, have had experiences of voices or
visions in their
early youth.
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34 |
| 1 |
At an early age Miss Baker was married to
Colonel
Glover, of Charleston, S. C., who lived only a year. She |
| 3 |
returned to her father's home - in 1844 -
and from that
time until 1866 no special record is to be made.
In 1866, while
living in Lynn, Mass., Mrs. Eddy |
| 6 |
met with a severe accident, and her case
was pro-
nounced hopeless by the physicians. There came a
Sunday
morning when her pastor came to bid her good- |
| 9 |
by before proceeding to his morning
service, as there was
no probability that she would be alive at its close.
During
this time she suddenly became aware of a divine illumina- |
| 12 |
tion and ministration. She requested those
with her to
withdraw, and reluctantly they did so, believing her de-
lirious. Soon, to their bewilderment and fright, she walked |
| 15 |
into the adjoining room, "and they thought
I had died,
and that it was my apparition," she said.
THE PRINCIPLE OF
DIVINE HEALING |
| 18 |
From that hour dated her conviction of the
Principle of
divine healing, and that it is as true to-day as it was in the
days when Jesus of Nazareth walked the earth. "I felt |
| 21 |
that the divine Spirit had wrought a
miracle," she said, in
reference to this experience. "How, I could not
tell, but
later I found it to be in perfect scientific accord with
the |
| 24 |
divine law." From 1866-'69 Mrs. Eddy
withdrew from the
world to meditate, to pray, to search the
Scriptures.
"During this time," she said, in reply to
my questions, |
| 27 |
"the Bible was my only textbook. It
answered my ques-
tions as to the process by which I was restored to
health;
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35 |
| 1 |
it came to me with a new meaning, and
suddenly I appre-
hended the spiritual meaning of the teaching of Jesus
and |
| 3 |
the Principle and the law involved in
spiritual Science
and metaphysical healing - in a word - Christian
Science." |
| 6 |
Mrs. Eddy came to perceive that Christ's
healing was not
miraculous, but was simply a natural fulfilment of
divine
law - a law as operative in the world to-day as it was |
| 9 |
nineteen hundred years ago. "Divine Science
is begotten
of spirituality," she says, "since only the 'pure in
heart'
can see God." |
| 12 |
In writing of this experience, Mrs. Eddy
has said: -
"I had learned that thought must be spiritualized in
order
to apprehend Spirit. It must become honest, un- |
| 15 |
selfish, and pure, in order to have the
least understanding
of God in divine Science. The first must become
last.
Our reliance upon material things must be transferred to |
| 18 |
a perception of and dependence on spiritual
things. For
Spirit to be supreme in demonstration, it must be supreme
in our affections, and we must be clad with divine power. |
| 21 |
I had learned that Mind reconstructed the
body, and that
nothing else could. All Science is a revelation."
Through homoeopathy,
too, Mrs. Eddy became con- |
| 24 |
vinced of the Principle of Mind-healing,
discovering that
the more attenuated the drug, the more potent was its
effects. |
| 27 |
In 1877 Mrs. Glover married Dr. Asa Gilbert
Eddy, of
Londonderry, Vermont, a physician who had come into
sympathy
with her own views, and who was the first to |
| 30 |
place "Christian Scientist" on the sign at
his door. Dr.
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36 |
| 1 |
Eddy died in 1882, a year after her
founding of the Meta-
physical College in Boston, in which he taught. |
| 3 |
The work in the Metaphysical College lasted
nine years,
and it was closed (in 1889) in the very zenith of its pros-
perity, as Mrs. Eddy felt it essential to the deeper founda- |
| 6 |
tion of her religious work to retire from
active contact with
the world. To this College came hundreds and
hundreds
of students, from Europe as well as this country. I was |
| 9 |
present at the class lectures now and then,
by Mrs. Eddy's
kind invitation, and such earnestness of attention as
was
given to her morning talks by the men and women present |
| 12 |
I never saw equalled.
MRS. EDDY'S
PERSONALITY
On the evening that I first met Mrs. Eddy
by her hos- |
| 15 |
pitable courtesy, I went to her peculiarly
fatigued. I came
away in a state of exhilaration and energy that made
me
feel I could have walked any conceivable distance. I have |
| 18 |
met Mrs. Eddy many times since then, and
always with
this experience repeated.
Several years ago Mrs. Eddy removed from
Columbus |
| 21 |
to Commonwealth Avenue, where, just beyond
Massa-
chusetts Avenue, at the entrance to the Back Bay Park,
she
bought one of the most beautiful residences in Boston. |
| 24 |
The interior is one of the utmost taste and
luxury, and the
house is now occupied by Judge and Mrs. Hanna, who are
the editors of The Christian Science Journal, a monthly |
| 27 |
publication, and to whose courtesy I am
much indebted
for some of the data of this paper. "It is a pleasure to
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| 1 |
give any information for The
Inter-Ocean," remarked
Mrs. Hanna, "for it is the great daily that is
so fair and so |
| 3 |
just in its attitude toward all
questions."
The increasing
demands of the public on Mrs. Eddy
have been, it may be, one factor in her
removal to Concord, |
| 6 |
N. H., where she has a beautiful residence,
called Pleasant
View. Her health is excellent, and although her hair
is
white, she retains in a great degree her energy and power; |
| 9 |
she takes a daily walk and drives in the
afternoon. She
personally attends to a vast correspondence; superin-
tends the church in Boston, and is engaged on further |
| 12 |
writings on Christian Science. In every
sense she is the
recognized head of the Christian Science Church. At
the
same time it is her most earnest aim to eliminate the ele- |
| 15 |
ment of personality from the faith. "On
this point, Mrs.
Eddy feels very strongly," said a gentleman to me on
Christmas eve, as I sat in the beautiful drawing-room, |
| 18 |
where Judge and Mrs. Hanna, Miss Elsie
Lincoln, the
soprano for the choir of the new church, and one or two
other friends were gathered. |
| 21 |
"Mother feels very strongly," he continued,
"the danger
and the misfortune of a church depending on any one
personality. It is difficult not to centre too closely around |
| 24 |
a highly gifted personality."
THE FIRST
ASSOCIATION
The first Christian Scientist Association
was organized |
| 27 |
on July 4, 1876, by seven persons,
including Mrs. Eddy.
In April, 1879, the church was founded with
twenty-six
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38 |
| 1 |
members, and its charter obtained the
following June.(1)
Mrs. Eddy had preached in other parishes for five
years |
| 3 |
before being ordained in this church,
which ceremony
took place in 1881.
The first edition of
Mrs. Eddy's book, Science and |
| 6 |
Health, was issued in 1875. During these
succeeding
twenty years it has been greatly revised and enlarged, and
it is now in its ninety-first edition. It consists of fourteen |
| 9 |
chapters, whose titles are as follows:
"Science, Theology,
Medicine," "Physiology," "Footsteps of Truth,"
"Crea-
tion," "Science of Being," "Christian Science and Spirit- |
| 12 |
ualism," "Marriage," "Animal Magnetism,"
"Some
Objections Answered," "Prayer," "Atonement and Eu-
charist,"
"Christian Science Practice," "Teaching Chris- |
| 15 |
tian Science," "Recapitulation." Key to
the Scriptures,
Genesis, Apocalypse, and Glossary.
The Christian
Scientists do not accept the belief we call |
| 18 |
spiritualism. They believe those who have
passed the
change of death are in so entirely different a plane of con-
sciousness that between the embodied and disembodied |
| 21 |
there is no possibility of communication.
They are
diametrically opposed to the philosophy of
Karma and of reincarnation,
which are the tenets of |
| 24 |
theosophy. They hold with strict fidelity
to what they
believe to be the literal teachings of Christ.
Yet each and all
these movements, however they may |
| 27 |
differ among themselves, are phases of
idealism and mani-
festations of a higher spirituality seeking
expression.
It is good that each
and all shall prosper, serving those |
| 30 |
who find in one form of belief or another
their best aid
(1) Steps were taken to
promote the Church of Christ, Scientist, in April, May,
and June; formal
organization was accomplished and the charter obtained in
August, 1879.
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39 |
| 1 |
and guidance, and that all meet on common
ground in the
great essentials of love to God and love to man as a
signal |
| 3 |
proof of the divine origin of humanity
which finds no rest
until it finds the peace of the Lord in spirituality.
They
all teach that one great truth, that |
| 6 |
God's
greatness flows around our incompleteness,
Round our restlessness, His
rest.
ELIZABETH BARRETT
BROWNING
------ |
| 9 |
I add on the following page a little poem
that I con-
sider superbly sweet - from my friend, Miss Whiting,
the
talented author of "The World Beautiful." - M. B. |
| 12 |
EDDY
AT THE WINDOW
[Written for the
Traveller] |
| 15 |
The sunset, burning
low,
Throws o'er the Charles its flood of golden light.
Dimly, as in a
dream, I watch the flow |
| 18 |
Of waves of light.
The splendor of the
sky
Repeats its glory in the river's flow; |
| 21 |
And sculptured angels, on
the gray church tower,
Gaze on the world below.
Dimly, as in a
dream, |
| 24 |
I see the hurrying throng
before me pass,
But 'mid them all I only see one face,
Under the
meadow grass.
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40 |
| 1 |
Ah, love! I only know
How thoughts of you forever cling to me: |
| 3 |
I wonder how the seasons
come and go
Beyond the sapphire sea?
LILIAN WHITING
6 April 15, 1888
________________
[Boston
Herald, January 7, 1895]
[Extract]
A TEMPLE
GIVEN TO GOD - DEDICATION OF THE
MOTHER CHURCH OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
NOVEL
METHOD OF ENABLING SIX THOUSAND BELIEVERS TO
ATTEND THE EXERCISES - THE
SERVICE REPEATED FOUR
TIMES - SERMON BY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY, FOUNDER
OF
THE DENOMINATION - BEAUTIFUL ROOM WHICH THE CHILDREN
BUILT
With simple ceremonies, four times
repeated, in the
presence of four different congregations,
aggregating |
| 18 |
nearly six thousand persons, the unique and
costly edifice
erected in Boston at Norway and Falmouth Streets as a
home for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and a |
| 21 |
testimonial to the Discoverer and Founder
of Christian
Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, was yesterday dedicated
to
the worship of God.
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41 |
| 1 |
The structure came forth from the hands of
the artisans
with every stone paid for - with an appeal, not for more |
| 3 |
money, but for a cessation of the tide of
contributions
which continued to flow in after the full amount needed
was received. From every State in the Union, and from |
| 6 |
many lands, the love-offerings of the
disciples of Christian
Science came to help erect this beautiful structure,
and
more than four thousand of these contributors came to |
| 9 |
Boston, from the far-off Pacific coast and
the Gulf States
and all the territory that lies between, to view the
new-
built temple and to listen to the Message sent them by |
| 12 |
the teacher they revere.
From all New England
the members of the denomina-
tion gathered; New York sent its hundreds,
and even |
| 15 |
from the distant States came parties of
forty and fifty.
The large auditorium, with its capacity for holding
from
fourteen hundred to fifteen hundred persons, was hopelessly |
| 18 |
incapable of receiving this vast throng, to
say nothing of
nearly a thousand local believers. Hence the service
was
repeated until all who wished had heard and seen; and |
| 21 |
each of the four vast congregations filled
the church to
repletion.
At 7 :30 a. m. the
chimes in the great stone tower, which |
| 24 |
rises one hundred and twenty-six feet above
the earth,
rung out their message of "On earth peace, good will
toward
men." |
| 27 |
Old familiar hymns - "All hail the power of
Jesus'
name," and others such - were chimed until the hour for
the
dedication service had come. |
| 30 |
At 9 a. m. the first congregation
gathered. Before this
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42 |
| 1 |
service had closed the large vestry room
and the spacious
lobbies and the sidewalks around the church were all |
| 3 |
filled with a waiting multitude. At l0:30
o'clock another
service began, and at noon still another. Then there
was
an intermission, and at 3 p. m. the service was repeated |
| 6 |
for the last time.
There was scarcely
even a minor variation in the exer-
cises at any one of these services. At
10:30 a. m., how- |
| 9 |
ever, the scene was rendered particularly
interesting by
the presence of several hundred children in the central
pews. These were the little contributors to the building |
| 12 |
fund, whose money was devoted to the
"Mother's Room,"
a superb apartment intended for the sole use of Mrs.
Eddy.
These children are known in the church as the "Busy |
| 15 |
Bees," and each of them wore a white satin
badge with a
golden beehive stamped upon it, and beneath the beehive
the words, "Mother's Room," in gilt letters. |
| 18 |
The pulpit end of the auditorium was rich
with the
adornment of flowers. On the wall of the choir gallery
above
the platform, where the organ is to be hereafter |
| 21 |
placed, a huge seven-pointed star was hung
- a star of
lilies resting on palms, with a centre of white
immortelles,
upon which in letters of red were the words: "Love- |
| 24 |
Children's Offering - 1894."
In the choir and the
steps of the platform were potted
palms and ferns and Easter lilies. The
desk was wreathed |
| 27 |
with ferns and pure white roses fastened
with a broad
ribbon bow. On its right was a large basket of white
carnations resting on a mat of palms, and on its left a vase |
| 30 |
filled with beautiful pink roses.
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43 |
| 1 |
Two combined choirs - that of First Church
of Christ,
Scientist, of New York, and the choir of the home church, |
| 3 |
numbering thirty-five singers in all - led
the singing,
under the direction, respectively, of Mr. Henry Lincoln
Case and Miss Elsie Lincoln. |
| 6 |
Judge S. J. Hanna, editor of The
Christian Science
Journal, presided over the exercises. On the
platform
with him were Messrs. Ira O. Knapp, Joseph Armstrong, |
| 9 |
Stephen A. Chase, and William B. Johnson,
who compose
the Board of Directors, and Mrs. Henrietta Clark Bemis,
a
distinguished elocutionist, and a native of Concord, New |
| 12 |
Hampshire.
The utmost
simplicity marked the exercises. After an
organ voluntary, the hymn,
"Laus Deo, it is done!" |
| 15 |
written by Mrs. Eddy for the corner-stone
laying last
spring, was sung by the congregation. Selections from the
Scriptures and from "Science and Health with Key to the |
| 18 |
Scriptures," were read by Judge Hanna and
Dr. Eddy.
A few minutes of
silent prayer came next, followed by
the recitation of the Lord's Prayer,
with its spiritual inter- |
| 21 |
pretation as given in the Christian
Science textbook.
The sermon prepared
for the occasion by Mrs. Eddy,
which was looked forward to as the chief
feature of the |
| 24 |
dedication, was then read by Mrs. Bemis.
Mrs. Eddy
remained at her home in Concord, N. H., during the day,
because, as heretofore stated in The Herald, it is her |
| 27 |
custom to discourage among her followers
that sort of
personal worship which religious teachers so often
receive.
Before presenting
the sermon, Mrs. Bemis read the fol- |
| 30 |
lowing letter from a former pastor of the
church: -
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44 |
| 1 |
"To Rev. Mary Baker Eddy
"Dear Teacher,
Leader, Guide: - 'Laus Deo, it is done!' |
| 3 |
At last you begin to see the fruition of
that you have worked,
toiled, prayed for. The 'prayer in stone' is
accomplished.
Across two thousand miles of space, as mortal sense puts |
| 6 |
it, I send my hearty congratulations. You
are fully occu-
pied, but I thought you would willingly pause for an
instant to receive this brief message of congratulation. |
| 9 |
Surely it marks an era in the blessed
onward work of
Christian Science. It is a most auspicious hour in your
eventful career. While we all rejoice, yet the mother in |
| 12 |
Israel, alone of us all, comprehends its
full significance.
"Yours lovingly,
"LANSON P.
NORCROSS"
---------- |
| 15 |
[Boston Sunday Globe, January 6,
1895]
[Extract]
STATELY
HOME FOR BELIEVERS IN GOSPEL HEALING - |
| 18 |
A WOMAN OF WEALTH WHO
DEVOTES ALL TO HER
CHURCH WORK
Christian Science has shown its power over
its students, |
| 21 |
as they are called, by building a church by
voluntary con-
tributions, the first of its kind; a church which will
be
dedicated to-day with a quarter of a million dollars ex- |
| 24 |
pended and free of debt.
The money has flowed in from all parts of
the United
States and Canada without any special appeal, and it
kept |
| 27 |
coming until the custodian of funds cried
"enough" and
refused to accept any further checks by mail or otherwise.
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45 |
| 1 |
Men, women, and children lent a helping
hand, some
giving a mite and some substantial sums. Sacrifices were |
| 3 |
made in many an instance which will never
be known in
this world.
Christian Scientists
not only say that they can effect |
| 6 |
cures of disease and erect churches, but
add that they can
get their buildings finished on time, even when the
feat
seems impossible to mortal senses. Read the following, |
| 9 |
from a publication of the new
denomination: -
"One of the grandest
and most helpful features of this
glorious consummation is this: that one
month before the |
| 12 |
close of the year every evidence of
material sense declared
that the church's completion within the year 1894
tran-
scended human possibility. The predictions of workman |
| 15 |
and onlooker alike were that it could not
be completed
before April or May of 1895. Much was the ridicule
heaped
upon the hopeful, trustful ones, who declared and |
| 18 |
repeatedly asseverated to the contrary.
This is indeed,
then, a scientific demonstration. It has proved, in
most
striking manner, the oft-repeated declarations of our |
| 21 |
textbooks, that the evidence of the mortal
senses is
unreliable."
A week ago Judge
Hanna withdrew from the pastorate |
| 24 |
of the church, saying he gladly laid down
his responsibili-
ties to be succeeded by the grandest of ministers -
the
Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip- |
| 27 |
tures." This action, it appears, was the
result of rules
made by Mrs. Eddy. The sermons hereafter will consist
of passages read from the two books by Readers, who will |
| 30 |
be elected each year by the congregation.
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46 |
| 1 |
A story has been abroad that Judge Hanna
was so elo-
quent and magnetic that he was attracting listeners who |
| 3 |
came to hear him preach, rather than in
search of the
truth as taught. Consequently the new rules were formu-
lated. But at Christian Science headquarters this is denied; |
| 6 |
Mrs. Eddy says the words of the judge
speak to the point,
and that no such inference is to be drawn
therefrom.
In Mrs. Eddy's
personal reminiscences, which are pub- |
| 9 |
lished under the title of "Retrospection
and Introspection,"
much is told of herself in detail that can only be
touched
upon in this brief sketch. |
| 12 |
Aristocratic to the backbone, Mrs. Eddy
takes delight
in going back to the ancestral tree and in tracing those
branches which are identified with good and great names |
| 15 |
both in Scotland and England.
Her family came to
this country not long before the
Revolution. Among the many souvenirs that
Mrs. Eddy |
| 18 |
remembers as belonging to her grandparents
was a heavy
sword, encased in a brass scabbard, upon which had been
inscribed the name of the kinsman upon whom the sword |
| 21 |
had been bestowed by Sir William Wallace
of mighty
Scottish fame.
Mrs. Eddy applied
herself, like other girls, to her studies, |
| 24 |
though perhaps with an unusual zest,
delighting in philos-
ophy, logic, and moral science, as well as looking
into the
ancient languages, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. |
| 27 |
Her last marriage was in the spring of
1877, when, at
Lynn, Mass., she became the wife of Asa Gilbert Eddy.
He
was the first organizer of a Christian Science Sunday |
| 30 |
School, of which he was the
superintendent, and later he
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47 |
| 1 |
attracted the attention of many clergymen
of other de-
nominations by his able lectures upon Scriptural topics. |
| 3 |
He died in 1882.
Mrs. Eddy is known
to her circle of pupils and admirers
as the editor and publisher of the
first official organ of this |
| 6 |
sect. It was called the Journal of
Christian Science, and
has had great circulation with the members of
this fast-
increasing faith. |
| 9 |
In recounting her experiences as the
pioneer of Chris-
tian Science, she states that she sought knowledge
concern-
ing the physical side in this research through the different |
| 12 |
schools of allopathy, homoeopathy, and so
forth, without
receiving any real satisfaction. No ancient or modern
philosophy gave her any distinct statement of the Science |
| 15 |
of Mind-healing. She claims that no human
reason has
been equal to the question. And she also defines care-
fully the difference in the theories between faith-cure and |
| 18 |
Christian Science, dwelling particularly
upon the terms
belief and understanding, which are the key words
respec-
tively used in the definitions of these two healing arts. |
| 21 |
Besides her Boston home, Mrs. Eddy has a
delightful
country home one mile from the State House of New
Hampshire's quiet capital, an easy driving distance for |
| 24 |
her when she wishes to catch a glimpse of
the world. But
for the most part she lives very much retired, driving
rather
into the country, which is so picturesque all about Con- |
| 27 |
cord and its surrounding villages.
The big house, so
delightfully remodelled and modern-
ized from a primitive homestead that
nothing is left ex- |
| 30 |
cepting the angles and pitch of the roof,
is remarkably
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48 |
| 1 |
well placed upon a terrace that slopes
behind the build-
ings, while they themselves are in the midst of
green |
| 3 |
stretches of lawns, dotted with beds of
flowering shrubs,
with here and there a fountain or summer-house.
Mrs. Eddy took the
writer straight to her beloved "look- |
| 6 |
out" - a broad piazza on the south side of
the second
story of the house, where she can sit in her swinging chair,
revelling in the lights and shades of spring and summer |
| 9 |
greenness. Or, as just then, in the
gorgeous October
coloring of the whole landscape that lies below, across
the
farm, which stretches on through an intervale of beautiful |
| 12 |
meadows and pastures to the woods that
skirt the valley
of the little truant river, as it wanders eastward.
It pleased her to
point out her own birthplace. Straight |
| 15 |
as the crow flies, from her piazza, does it
lie on the brow
of Bow hill, and then she paused and reminded the
reporter
that Congressman Baker from New Hampshire, her cousin, |
| 18 |
was born and bred in that same
neighborhood. The
photograph of Hon. Hoke Smith, another distinguished
relative, adorned the mantel. |
| 21 |
Then my eye caught her family coat of arms
and the
diploma given her by the Society of the Daughters of the
Revolution. |
| 24 |
The natural and lawful pride that comes
with a tincture
of blue and brave blood, is perhaps one of her
characteris-
tics, as is many another well-born woman's. She had a |
| 27 |
long list of worthy ancestors in Colonial
and Revolutionary
days, and the McNeils and General Knox figure largely
in
her genealogy, as well as the hero who killed the ill-starred |
| 30 |
Paugus.
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49 |
| 1 |
This big, sunny room which Mrs. Eddy calls
her den -
or sometimes "Mother's room," when speaking of her |
| 3 |
many followers who consider her their
spiritual Leader -
has the air of hospitality that marks its hostess
herself.
Mrs. Eddy has hung its walls with reproductions of some |
| 6 |
of Europe's masterpieces, a few of which
had been the
gifts of her loving pupils.
Looking down from
the windows upon the tree-tops |
| 9 |
on the lower terrace, the reporter
exclaimed: "You have
lived here only four years, and yet from a barren
waste
of most unpromising ground has come forth all this |
| 12 |
beauty!"
"Four years!" she
ejaculated; "two and a half, only
two and a half years." Then, touching my
sleeve and |
| 15 |
pointing, she continued: "Look at those big
elms! I had
them brought here in warm weather, almost as big as they
are now, and not one died." |
| 18 |
Mrs. Eddy talked earnestly of her
friendships . . . .
She told something of her domestic arrangements, of
how
she had long wished to get away from her busy career in |
| 21 |
Boston, and return to her native granite
hills, there to
build a substantial home that should do honor to that
precinct of Concord. |
| 24 |
She chose the stubbly old farm on the road
from Con-
cord, within one mile of the "Eton of America," St. Paul's
School. Once bought, the will of the woman set at work, |
| 27 |
and to-day a strikingly well-kept estate
is the first impres-
sion given to the visitor as he approaches Pleasant
View.
She employs a number
of men to keep the grounds and |
| 30 |
farm in perfect order, and it was pleasing
to learn that this
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50 |
| 1 |
rich woman is using her money to promote
the welfare of
industrious workmen, in whom she takes a vital
interest. |
| 3 |
Mrs. Eddy believes that "the laborer is
worthy of his
hire," and, moreover, that he deserves to have a home and
family of his own. Indeed, one of her motives in buying |
| 6 |
so large an estate was that she might do
something for the
toilers, and thus add her influence toward the
advancement
of better home life and citizenship. |
| 9 |
[Boston
Transcript, December 31, 1894]
[Extract]
The growth of Christian Science is
properly marked by |
| 12 |
the erection of a visible house of worship
in this city, which
will be dedicated to-morrow. It has cost two
hundred
thousand dollars, and no additional sums outside of the |
| 15 |
subscriptions are asked for. This
particular phase of
religious belief has impressed itself upon a large and
in-
creasing number of Christian people, who have been |
| 18 |
tempted to examine its principles, and
doubtless have been
comforted and strengthened by them. Any new move-
ment will awaken some sort of interest. There are many |
| 21 |
who have worn off the novelty and are
thoroughly carried
away with the requirements, simple and direct as they
are,
of Christian Science. The opposition against it from the |
| 24 |
so-called orthodox religious bodies keeps
up a while, but
after a little skirmishing, finally subsides. No one
religious
body holds the whole of truth, and whatever is likely to |
| 27 |
show even some one side of it will gain
followers and live
down any attempted repression.
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51 |
| 1 |
Christian Science does not strike all as a
system of truth.
If it did, it would be a prodigy. Neither does the
Christian |
| 3 |
faith produce the same impressions upon
all. Freedom to
believe or to dissent is a great privilege in these days.
So
when a number of conscientious followers apply themselves |
| 6 |
to a matter like Christian Science, they
are enjoying that
liberty which is their inherent right as human beings,
and
though they cannot escape censure, yet they are to be |
| 9 |
numbered among the many pioneers who are
searching
after religious truth. There is really nothing settled.
Every truth is more or less in a state of agitation. The |
| 12 |
many who have worked in the mine of
knowledge are glad
to welcome others who have different methods, and
with
them bring different ideas. |
| 15 |
It is too early to predict where this
movement will go,
and how greatly it will affect the well-established
methods.
That it has produced a sensation in religious circles, and |
| 18 |
called forth the implements of theological
warfare, is very
well known. While it has done this, it may, on the
other
hand, have brought a benefit. Ere this many a new project |
| 21 |
in religious belief has stirred up
feeling, but as time has
gone on, compromises have been welcomed.
The erection of this
temple will doubtless help on the |
| 24 |
growth of its principles. Pilgrims from
everywhere will go
there in search of truth, and some may be satisfied and
some
will not. Christian Science cannot absorb the world's |
| 27 |
thought. It may get the share of attention
it deserves, but
it can only aspire to take its place alongside other
great
demonstrations of religious belief which have done some- |
| 30 |
thing good for the sake of humanity.
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52 |
| 1 |
Wonders will never cease. Here is a church
whose
treasurer has to send out word that no sums except those |
| 3 |
already subscribed can be received! The
Christian
Scientists have a faith of the mustard-seed variety.
What a
pity some of our practical Christian folk have not a |
| 6 |
faith approximate to that of these
"impractical" Christian
Scientists.
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[Jackson Patriot, Jackson, Mich., January 20,
1895] |
| 9 |
[Extract]
CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
The erection of a
massive temple in Boston by Christian |
| 12 |
Scientists, at a cost of over two hundred
thousand dollars,
love-offerings of the disciples of Mary Baker Eddy,
reviver
of the ancient faith and author of the textbook from which, |
| 15 |
with the New Testament at the foundation,
believers
receive light, health, and strength, is evidence of the rapid
growth of the new movement. We call it new. It is not. |
| 18 |
The name Christian Science alone is new. At
the begin-
ning of Christianity it was taught and practised by Jesus
and his disciples. The Master was the great healer. But |
| 21 |
the wave of materialism and bigotry that
swept over the
world for fifteen centuries, covering it with the
blackness
of the Dark Ages, nearly obliterated all vital belief in his |
| 24 |
teachings. The Bible was a sealed book.
Recently a
revived belief in what he taught is manifest, and Christian
Science is one result. No new doctrine is proclaimed, but
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53 |
| 1 |
here is the fresh development of a
Principle that was put
into practice by the Founder of Christianity
nineteen hun- |
| 3 |
dred years ago, though practised in other
countries at an
earlier date. "The thing that hath been, it is that which
shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be |
| 6 |
done: and there is no new thing under the
sun."
The condition which
Jesus of Nazareth, on various
occasions during the three years of his
ministry on earth, |
| 9 |
declared to be essential, in the mind of
both healer and
patient, is contained in the one word - faith. Can
drugs
suddenly cure leprosy? When the ten lepers were cleansed |
| 12 |
and one returned to give thanks in Oriental
phrase, Jesus
said to him: "Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee
whole." That was Christian Science. In his "Law of |
| 15 |
Psychic Phenomena" Hudson says: "That word,
more
than any other, expresses the whole law of human felicity
and
power in this world, and of salvation in the world to |
| 18 |
come. It is that attribute of mind which
elevates man
above the level of the brute, and gives dominion over the
physical world. It is the essential element of success in |
| 21 |
every field of human endeavor. It
constitutes the power
of the human soul. When Jesus of Nazareth
proclaimed
its potency from the hilltops of Palestine, he gave to man- |
| 24 |
kind the key to health and heaven, and
earned the title
of Saviour of the World." Whittier, grandest of
mystic
poets, saw the truth: - |
| 27 |
That
healing gift he lends to them
Who use it in his name;
The power that
filled his garment's hem |
| 30 |
Is
evermore the same.
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54 |
| 1 |
Again, in a poem entitled "The Master," he
wrote: -
The
healing of his seamless dress |
| 3 |
Is by our
beds of pain;
We touch him in life's throng and press,
And we are whole
again.(1) |
| 6 |
That Jesus operated in perfect harmony with
natural
law, not in defiance, suppression, or violation of it, we can-
not doubt. The perfectly natural is the perfectly spiritual. |
| 9 |
Jesus enunciated and exemplified the
Principle; and,
obviously, the conditions requisite in psychic healing
to-day are the same as were necessary in apostolic times. |
| 12 |
We accept the statement of Hudson: "There
was no law
of nature violated or transcended. On the contrary, the
whole transaction was in perfect obedience to the laws of |
| 15 |
nature. He understood the law perfectly, as
no one before
him understood it; and in the plenitude of his power he
applied it where the greatest good could be accomplished." |
| 18 |
A careful reading of the accounts of his
healings, in the
light of modern science, shows that he observed, in
his
practice of mental therapeutics, the conditions of environ- |
| 21 |
ment and harmonious influence that are
essential to success.
In the case of Jairus' daughter they are fully set
forth.
He kept the unbelievers away, "put them all out," and |
| 24 |
permitting only the father and mother, with
his closest
friends and followers, Peter, James, and John, in the
chamber with him, and having thus the most perfect |
| 27 |
obtainable environment, he raised the
daughter to life.
(1) NOTE:
- About 1868, the author of Science and Health healed
Mr. Whittier with one
visit, at his home in Amesbury, of incipient |
| 30 |
pulmonary
consumption. - M. B. EDDY
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55 |
| 1 |
"Not in blind caprice of
will,
Not in cunning sleight of skill. |
| 3 |
Not for show of power, was
wrought
Nature's marvel in thy thought."
In a previous article we have referred to
cyclic changes |
| 6 |
that came during the last quarter of
preceding centuries.
Of our remarkable nineteenth century not the least
event-
ful circumstance is the advent of Christian Science. |
| 9 |
That it should be the work of a woman is
the natural out-
come of a period notable for her emancipation from
many
of the thraldoms, prejudices, and oppressions of the past. |
| 12 |
We do not, therefore, regard it as a mere
coincidence that
the first edition of Mrs. Eddy's Science and Health
should
have been published in 1875. Since then she has revised |
| 15 |
it many times, and the ninety-first edition
is announced.
Her discovery was first called, "The Science of Divine
Metaphysical Healing." Afterward she selected the name |
| 18 |
Christian Science. It is based upon what is
held to be
scientific certainty, namely, - that all causation is of
Mind, every effect has its origin in desire and thought. |
| 21 |
The theology - if we may use the word - of
Christian
Science is contained in the volume entitled "Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures." |
| 24 |
The present Boston congregation was
organized
April 12, 1879, and has now over four thousand members.
It is
regarded as the parent organization, all others being |
| 27 |
branches, though each is entirely
independent in the
management of its own affairs. Truth is the sole
recognized
authority. Of actual members of different congregations |
| 30 |
there are between one hundred thousand and
two hundred
Page
56 |
| 1 |
thousand. One or more organized societies
have sprung
up in New York, Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincin- |
| 3 |
nati, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toledo,
Milwaukee, Madison,
Scranton, Peoria, Atlanta, Toronto, and nearly every
other
centre of population, besides a large and growing number |
| 6 |
of receivers of the faith among the members
of all the
churches and non-church-going people. In some churches
a
majority of the members are Christian Scientists, and, as |
| 9 |
a rule, are the most intelligent.
Space does not admit
of an elaborate presentation on the
occasion of the erection of the temple,
in Boston, the |
| 12 |
dedication taking place on the 6th of
January, of one of
the most remarkable, helpful, and powerful movements
of the last quarter of the century. Christian Science |
| 15 |
has brought hope and comfort to many weary
souls. It
makes people better and happier. Welding Christianity
and
Science, hitherto divorced because dogma and truth |
| 18 |
could not unite, was a happy inspiration.
"And still
we love the evil cause,
And of the just effect complain; |
| 21 |
We tread
upon life's broken laws,
And mourn our self-inflicted pain."
------------
[The
Outlook, New York, January 19, 1895] |
| 24 |
A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
A great Christian
Science church was dedicated in Bos-
ton on Sunday, the 6th inst. It is
located at Norway and |
| 27 |
Falmouth Streets, and is intended to be a
testimonial to
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57 |
| 1 |
the Discoverer and Founder of Christian
Science, the
Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. The building is fire-proof, and |
| 3 |
cost over two hundred thousand dollars. It
is entirely
paid for, and contributions for its erection came from
every
State in the Union, and from many lands. The auditorium |
| 6 |
is said to seat between fourteen and
fifteen hundred, and
was thronged at the four services on the day of
dedication.
The sermon, prepared by Mrs. Eddy, was read by Mrs. |
| 9 |
Bemis. It rehearsed the significance of the
building, and
reenunciated the truths which will find emphasis there.
From the description we judge that it is one of the most |
| 12 |
beautiful buildings in Boston, and, indeed,
in all New
England. Whatever may be thought of the peculiar tenets
of
the Christian Scientists, and whatever difference of |
| 15 |
opinion there may be concerning the
organization of such
a church, there can be no question but that the
adherents
of this church have proved their faith by their works. |
| 18 |
[American Art Journal, New York,
January 26, 1895]
"OUR PRAYER IN
STONE"
Such is the
excellent name given to a new Boston church. |
| 21 |
Few people outside its own circles realize
how extensive is
the belief in Christian Science. There are several sects
of
mental healers, but this new edifice on Back Bay, just off |
| 24 |
Huntington Avenue, not far from the big
Mechanics
Building and the proposed site of the new Music Hall,
belongs to the followers of Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, |
| 27 |
a lady born of an old New Hampshire
family, who, after
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58 |
| 1 |
many vicissitudes, found herself in Lynn,
Mass., healed by
the power of divine Mind, and thereupon devoted
herself |
| 3 |
to imparting this faith to her
fellow-beings. Coming to
Boston about 1880, she began teaching, gathered
an
association of students, and organized a church. For |
| 6 |
several years past she has lived in
Concord, N. H., near
her birthplace, owning a beautiful estate called
Pleasant
View; but thousands of believers throughout this country |
| 9 |
have joined The Mother Church in Boston,
and have now
erected this edifice at a cost of over two hundred
thousand
dollars, every bill being paid. |
| 12 |
Its appearance is shown in the pictures we
are permitted
to publish. In the belfry is a set of tubular chimes.
Inside
is a basement room, capable of division into seven excellent |
| 15 |
class-rooms, by the use of movable
partitions. The main
auditorium has wide galleries, and will seat over a
thousand
in its exceedingly comfortable pews. Scarcely any wood- |
| 18 |
work is to be found. The floors are all
mosaic, the steps
marble, and the walls stone. It is rather dark, often
too
much so for comfortable reading, as all the windows are of |
| 21 |
colored glass, with pictures symbolic of
the tenets of the
organization. In the ceiling is a beautiful sunburst
window.
Adjoining the chancel is a pastor's study; but for an |
| 24 |
indefinite time their prime instructor has
ordained that the
only pastor shall be the Bible, with her book, called
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." In the |
| 27 |
tower is a room devoted to her, and called
"Mother's
Room," furnished with all conveniences for living, should
she wish to make it a home by day or night. Therein is |
| 30 |
a portrait of her in stained glass; and an
electric light,
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59 |
| 1 |
behind an antique lamp, kept perpetually
burning (1) in her
honor; though she has not yet visited her temple,
which |
| 3 |
was dedicated on New Year's Sunday in a
somewhat novel
way.
There was no special
sentence or prayer of consecration, |
| 6 |
but continuous services were held from nine
to four o'clock,
every hour and a half, so long as there were
attendants;
and some people heard these exercises four times repeated. |
| 9 |
The printed program was for some reason not
followed,
certain hymns and psalms being omitted. There was sing-
ing
by a choir and congregation. The Pater Noster was |
| 12 |
repeated in the way peculiar to Christian
Scientists, the
congregation repeating one sentence and the leader re-
sponding with its parallel interpretation by Mrs. Eddy. |
| 15 |
Antiphonal paragraphs were read from the
book of
Revelation and her work respectively. The sermon,
prepared by
Mrs. Eddy, was well adapted for its purpose, |
| 18 |
and read by a professional elocutionist,
not an adherent of
the order, Mrs. Henrietta Clark Bemis, in a clear
emphatic
style. The solo singer, however, was a Scientist, Miss Elsie |
| 21 |
Lincoln; and on the platform sat Joseph
Armstrong,
formerly of Kansas, and now the business manager of the
Publishing Society, with the other members of the Christian |
| 24 |
Science Board of Directors - Ira O. Knapp,
Edward P.
Bates, Stephen A. Chase, - gentlemen officially connected
with the movement. The children of believing families |
| 27 |
collected the money for the Mother's Room,
and seats were
especially set apart for them at the second dedicatory
service. Before one service was over and the auditors left |
| 30 |
by the rear doors, the front vestibule and
street (despite
(1) At
Mrs. Eddy's request the lamp was not kept burning.
Page
60 |
| 1 |
the snowstorm) were crowded with others,
waiting for
admission. |
| 3 |
On the next Sunday the new order of service
went
into operation. There was no address of any sort, no
notices, no
explanation of Bible or their textbook. Judge |
| 6 |
Hanna, who was a Colorado lawyer before
coming into
this work, presided, reading in clear, manly, and intelli-
gent tones, the Quarterly Bible Lesson, which happened |
| 9 |
that day to be on Jesus' miracle of loaves
and fishes.
Each paragraph he supplemented first with illustrative
Scripture parallels, as set down for him, and then by pas- |
| 12 |
sages selected for him from Mrs. Eddy's
book. The place
was again crowded, many having remained over a week
from among the thousands of adherents who had come |
| 15 |
to Boston for this auspicious occasion from
all parts of
the country. The organ, made by Farrand & Votey in
Detroit, at a cost of eleven thousand dollars, is the gift of |
| 18 |
a wealthy Universalist gentleman, but was
not ready for
the opening. It is to fill the recess behind the spacious
platform, and is described as containing pneumatic wind- |
| 21 |
chests throughout, and having an AEolian
attachment.
It is of three-manual compass, C. C. C. to C. 4, 61 notes;
and pedal compass, C. C. C. to F. 30. The great organ |
| 24 |
has double open diapason (stopped bass),
open diapason,
dulciana, viola di gamba, doppel flute, hohl flute,
octave,
octave quint, superoctave, and trumpet, - 61 pipes each. |
| 27 |
The swell organ has bourdon, open diapason,
salicional,
aeoline, stopped diapason, gemshorn, flute harmonique,
flageolet, cornet - 3 ranks, 183, - cornopean, oboe, vox |
| 30 |
humana - 61 pipes each. The choir organ,
enclosed in
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61 |
| 1 |
separate swell-box, has geigen principal,
dolce, concert
flute, quintadena, fugara, flute d'amour, piccolo
harmo- |
| 3 |
nique, clarinet, - 61 pipes each. The pedal
organ has
open diapason, bourdon, lieblich gedeckt (from stop 10),
violoncello-wood, - 30 pipes each. Couplers: swell to |
| 6 |
great; choir to great; swell to choir;
swell to great oc-
taves, swell to great sub-octaves; choir to great
sub-
octaves; swell octaves; swell to pedal; great to pedal; |
| 9 |
choir to pedal. Mechanical accessories:
swell tremulant,
choir tremulant, bellows signal; wind indicator.
Pedal
movements: three affecting great and pedal stops, three |
| 12 |
affecting swell and pedal stops; great to
pedal reversing
pedal; crescendo and full organ pedal; balanced great
and choir pedal; balanced swell pedal. |
| 15 |
Beautiful suggestions greet you in every
part of this
unique church, which is practical as well as poetic, and
justifies the name given by Mrs. Eddy, which stands at |
| 18 |
the head of this sketch. J. H. W.
----------
[Boston
Journal, January 7, 1895]
CHIMES RANG
SWEETLY |
| 21 |
Much admiration was expressed by all those
fortunate
enough to listen to the first peal of the chimes in the tower
of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, corner of Fal- |
| 24 |
mouth and Norway Streets, dedicated
yesterday. The
sweet, musical tones attracted quite a throng of
people,
who listened with delight. |
| 27 |
The chimes were made by the United States
Tubular
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62 |
| 1 |
Bell Company, of Methuen, Mass., and are
something
of a novelty in this country, though for some time well |
| 3 |
and favorably known in the Old Country,
especially in
England.
They are a
substitution of tubes of drawn brass for the |
| 6 |
heavy cast bells of old-fashioned chimes.
They have the
advantage of great economy of space, as well as of cost,
a
chime of fifteen bells occupying a space not more than |
| 9 |
five by eight feet.
Where the
old-fashioned chimes required a strong man
to ring them, these can be rung
from an electric keyboard, |
| 12 |
and even when rung by hand require but
little muscular
power to manipulate them and call forth all the purity
and sweetness of their tones. The quality of tone is some- |
| 15 |
thing superb, being rich and mellow. The
tubes are care-
fully tuned, so that the harmony is perfect. They have
all the beauties of a great cathedral chime, with infinitely |
| 18 |
less expense.
There is practically
no limit to the uses to which these
bells may be put. They can be called
into requisition in |
| 21 |
theatres, concert halls, and public
buildings, as they range
in all sizes, from those described down to little
sets of
silver bells that might be placed on a small centre table.
Page
63
[The
Republic, Washington, D. C., February 2, 1895]
[Extract] |
| 3 |
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
MARY BAKER
EDDY THE "MOTHER" OF THE IDEA - SHE HAS AN
IMMENSE FOLLOWING THROUGHOUT THE
UNITED STATES, AND |
| 6 |
A CHURCH
COSTING $250,000 WAS RECENTLY BUILT IN HER
HONOR AT BOSTON
"My faith has the
strength to nourish trees as well as |
| 9 |
souls," was the remark Rev. Mary Baker
Eddy, the
"Mother" of Christian Science, made recently as she
pointed
to a number of large elms that shade her delight- |
| 12 |
ful country home in Concord, N. H. "I had
them brought
here in warm weather, almost as big as they are now, and
not one died." This is a remarkable statement, but it is |
| 15 |
made by a remarkable woman, who has
originated a new
phase of religious belief, and who numbers over one
hun-
dred thousand intelligent people among her devoted |
| 18 |
followers.
The great hold she
has upon this army was demon-
strated in a very tangible and material
manner recently, |
| 21 |
when "The First Church of Christ,
Scientist," erected at
a cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
was
dedicated in Boston. This handsome edifice was paid |
| 24 |
for before it was begun, by the voluntary
contributions of
Christian Scientists all over the country, and a tablet
im-
bedded in its wall declares that it was built as "a testi- |
| 27 |
monial to our beloved teacher, Rev. Mary
Baker Eddy,
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64 |
| 1 |
Discoverer and Founder of Christian
Science, author of
its textbook, 'Science and Health with Key to the
Scrip- |
| 3 |
tures,' president of the Massachusetts
Metaphysical Col-
lege, and the first pastor of this denomination."
There is usually
considerable difficulty in securing suffi- |
| 6 |
cient funds for the building of a new
church, but such was
not the experience of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. Money
came freely from all parts of the United States. Men, |
| 9 |
women, and children contributed, some
giving a pittance,
others donating large sums. When the necessary
amount
was raised, the custodian of the funds was compelled to |
| 12 |
refuse further contributions, in order to
stop the continued
inflow of money from enthusiastic Christian
Scientists.
Mrs. Eddy says she
discovered Christian Science in |
| 15 |
1866. She studied the Scriptures and the
sciences, she
declares, in a search for the great curative Principle.
She
investigated allopathy, homoeopathy, and electricity, with- |
| 18 |
out finding a clew; and modern philosophy
gave her no
distinct statement of the Science of Mind-healing. After
careful study she became convinced that the curative |
| 21 |
Principle was the Deity.
--------
[New
York Tribune, February 7, 1895]
[Extract] |
| 24 |
Boston has just dedicated the first church
of the Chris-
tian Scientists, in commemoration of the Founder of that
sect, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, drawing together six |
| 27 |
thousand people to participate in the
ceremonies, showing
Page
65 |
| 1 |
that belief in that curious creed is not
confined to its
original apostles and promulgators, but that it has
pene- |
| 3 |
trated what is called the New England mind
to an un-
looked-for extent. In inviting the Eastern churches and
the
Anglican fold to unity with Rome, the Holy Father |
| 6 |
should not overlook the Boston sect of
Christian Scientists,
which is rather small and new, to be sure, but is
undoubt-
edly an interesting faith and may have a future before it, |
| 9 |
whatever attitude Rome may assume toward
it.
--------------
[Journal, Kansas City, Mo., January 10, 1895]
[Extract] |
| 12 |
GROWTH OF A FAITH
Attention is
directed to the progress which has been
made by what is called Christian
Science by the dedication |
| 15 |
at Boston of "The First Church of Christ,
Scientist."
It is a most beautiful structure of gray granite, and its
builders call it their "prayer in stone," which suggests |
| 18 |
to recollection the story of the cathedral
of Amiens, whose
architectural construction and arrangement of
statuary
and paintings made it to be called the Bible of that city. |
| 21 |
The Frankish church was reared upon the
spot where, in
pagan times, one bitter winter day, a Roman soldier
parted
his mantle with his sword and gave half of the garment to |
| 24 |
a naked beggar; and so was memorialized in
art and
stone what was called the divine spirit of giving, whose un-
believing exemplar afterward became a saint. The Boston |
| 27 |
church similarly expresses the faith of
those who believe
Page
66 |
| 1 |
in what they term the divine art of
healing, which, to their
minds, exists as much to-day as it did when Christ
healed |
| 3 |
the sick.
The first church
organization of this faith was founded
fifteen years ago with a membership
of only twenty-six, |
| 6 |
and since then the number of believers has
grown with
remarkable rapidity, until now there are societies in every
part of the country. This growth, it is said, proceeds |
| 9 |
more from the graveyards than from
conversions from
other churches, for most of those who embrace the
faith
claim to have been rescued from death miraculously under |
| 12 |
the injunction to "heal the sick, cleanse
the lepers, raise
the dead, cast out demons." They hold with strict
fidelity
to what they conceive to be the literal teachings of the |
| 15 |
Bible as expressed in its poetical and
highly figurative
language.
Altogether the
belief and service are well suited to |
| 18 |
satisfy a taste for the mystical which,
along many lines, has
shown an uncommon development in this country
during
the last decade, and which is largely Oriental in its choice. |
| 21 |
Such a rapid departure from long respected
views as is
marked by the dedication of this church, and others of
kindred meaning, may reasonably excite wonder as to |
| 24 |
how radical is to be this encroachment upon
prevailing
faiths, and whether some of the pre-Christian ideas of
the
Asiatics are eventually to supplant those in company |
| 27 |
with which our civilization has developed.
Page
67 |
| 1 |
[Montreal Daily Herald, Saturday, February 2, 1895]
[Extract]
|
| 3 |
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
SKETCH OF ITS ORIGIN AND GROWTH - THE
MONTREAL BRANCH
"If you would found a new faith, go to
Boston," has |
| 6 |
been said by a great American writer. This
is no idle
word, but a fact borne out by circumstances. Boston can
fairly claim to be the hub of the logical universe, and an |
| 9 |
accurate census of the religious faiths
which are to be
found there to-day would probably show a greater number
of them than even Max O'Rell's famous enumeration of |
| 12 |
John Bull's creeds.
Christian Science, or the Principle of
divine healing,
is one of those movements which seek to give
expression |
| 15 |
to a higher spirituality. Founded
twenty-five years ago,
it was still practically unknown a decade since,
but to-day
it numbers over a quarter of a million of believers, the |
| 18 |
majority of whom are in the United States,
and is rapidly
growing. In Canada, also, there is a large number of
members. Toronto and Montreal have strong churches, |
| 21 |
comparatively, while in many towns and
villages single
believers or little knots of them are to be found.
It was exactly one hundred years from the
date of the |
| 24 |
Declaration of Independence, when on July
4, 1876, the
first Christian Scientist Association was organized by
seven persons, of whom the foremost was Mrs. Eddy. |
| 27 |
The church was founded in April, 1879,
with twenty-six
members, and a charter was obtained two months later.
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68 |
| 1 |
Mrs. Eddy assumed the pastorship of the
church during
its early years, and in 1881 was ordained, being now
known |
| 3 |
as the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.
The Massachusetts
Metaphysical College was founded
by Mrs. Eddy in 1881, and here she taught
the principles |
| 6 |
of the faith for nine years. Students came
to it in hun-
dreds from all parts of the world, and many are now
pastors
or in practice. The college was closed in 1889, as Mrs. |
| 9 |
Eddy felt it necessary for the interests
of her religious work
to retire from active contact with the world. She
now
lives in a beautiful country residence in her native State.
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| 12 |
[The
American, Baltimore, Md., January 14, 1895]
[Extract]
MRS. EDDY'S
DISCIPLES |
| 15 |
It is not generally known that a Christian
Science con-
gregation was organized in this city about a year ago. It
now holds regular services in the parlor of the residence |
| 18 |
of the pastor, at 1414 Linden Avenue. The
dedication in
Boston last Sunday of the Christian Science church,
called
The Mother Church, which cost over two hundred thou- |
| 21 |
sand dollars, adds interest to the
Baltimore organization.
There are many other church edifices in the United
States
owned by Christian Scientists. Christian Science was |
| 24 |
founded by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy. The
Baltimore con-
gregation was organized at a meeting held at the present
location on February 27, 1894.
Page
69 |
| 1 |
Dr. Hammond, the pastor, came to Baltimore
about
three years ago to organize this movement. Miss Cross |
| 3 |
came from Syracuse, N. Y., about eighteen
months ago.
Both were under the instruction of Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy,
the Founder of the movement. |
| 6 |
Dr. Hammond says he was converted to
Christian Sci-
ence by being cured by Mrs. Eddy of a physical ailment
some twelve years ago, after several doctors had pronounced |
| 9 |
his case incurable. He says they use no
medicines, but
rely on Mind for cure, believing that disease comes
from
evil and sick-producing thoughts, and that, if they can so |
| 12 |
fill the mind with good thoughts as to
leave no room there
for the bad, they can work a cure. He distinguishes
Chris-
tian Science from the faith-cure, and added: "This Chris- |
| 15 |
tian Science really is a return to the
ideas of primitive
Christianity. It would take a small book to explain
fully
all about it, but I may say that the fundamental idea is that |
| 18 |
God is Mind, and we interpret the
Scriptures wholly from
the spiritual or metaphysical standpoint. We find in
this
view of the Bible the power fully developed to heal the |
| 21 |
sick. It is not faith-cure, but it is an
acknowledgment of
certain Christian and scientific laws, and to work a cure
the
practitioner must understand these laws aright. The |
| 24 |
patient may gain a better understanding
than the Church
has had in the past. All churches have prayed for the
cure
of disease, but they have not done so in an intelligent man- |
| 27 |
ner, understanding and demonstrating the
Christ-healing."
Page
70 |
| 1 |
[The
Reporter, Lebanon, Ind., January 18, 1895]
[Extract]
|
| 3 |
DISCOVERED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
REMARKABLE CAREER OF REV. MARY BAKER EDDY, WHO HAS
OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FOLLOWERS |
| 6 |
Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and
Founder of
Christian Science, author of its textbook, "Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures," president of the Mas- |
| 9 |
sachusetts Metaphysical College, and first
pastor of the
Christian Science denomination, is without doubt one of
the most remarkable women in America. She has within a |
| 12 |
few years founded a sect that has over one
hundred thou-
sand converts, and very recently saw completed in Boston,
as a testimonial to her labors, a handsome fire-proof church |
| 15 |
that cost two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars and was
paid for by Christian Scientists all over the country.
Mrs. Eddy asserts
that in 1866 she became certain that |
| 18 |
"all causation was Mind, and every effect a
mental phe-
nomenon." Taking her text from the Bible, she endeav-
ored
in vain to find the great curative Principle - the Deity |
| 21 |
- in philosophy and schools of medicine,
and she con-
cluded that the way of salvation demonstrated by Jesus
was
the power of Truth over all error, sin, sickness, and |
| 24 |
death. Thus originated the divine or
spiritual Science of
Mind-healing, which she termed Christian Science.
She
has a palatial home in Boston and a country-seat in |
| 27 |
Concord, N. H. The Christian Science
Church has a
Page
71 |
| 1 |
membership of four thousand, and eight
hundred of the
members are Bostonians.
------------- |
| 3 |
[N. Y.
Commercial Advertiser, January 9, 1895]
The idea that
Christian Science has declined in popu-
larity is not borne out by the
voluntary contribution of a |
| 6 |
quarter of a million dollars for a
memorial church for Mrs.
Eddy, the inventor of this cure. The money comes
from
Christian Science believers exclusively.
--------------- |
| 9 |
[The Post, Syracuse, New York,
February 1, 1895]
DO NOT BELIEVE SHE
WAS DEIFIED
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS OF SYRACUSE SURPRISED AT THE
NEWS |
| 12 |
ABOUT MRS. MARY BAKER EDDY, FOUNDER OF THE
FAITH
Christian Scientists
in this city, and in fact all over the
country, have been startled and
greatly discomfited over |
| 15 |
the announcements in New York papers that
Mrs. Mary
Baker G. Eddy, the acknowledged Christian Science
Leader,
has been exalted by various dignitaries of the |
| 18 |
faith. . . .
It is well known
that Mrs. Eddy has resigned herself
completely to the study and foundation
of the faith to which |
| 21 |
many thousands throughout the United
States are now so
entirely devoted. By her followers and cobelievers she
is
unquestionably looked upon as having a divine mission to
Page
72 |
| 1 |
fulfil, and as though inspired in her great
task by super-
natural power. |
| 3 |
For the purpose of learning the feeling of
Scientists in this
city toward the reported deification of Mrs. Eddy, a
Post
reporter called upon a few of the leading members of the |
| 6 |
faith yesterday and had a number of very
interesting con-
versations upon the subject.
Mrs. D. W. Copeland
of University Avenue was one of |
| 9 |
the first to be seen. Mrs. Copeland is a
very pleasant and
agreeable lady, ready to converse, and evidently very
much
absorbed in the work to which she has given so much of |
| 12 |
her attention. Mrs. Copeland claims to have
been healed
a number of years ago by Christian Scientists, after she
had practically been given up by a number of well-known |
| 15 |
physicians.
"And for the past
eleven years," said Mrs. Copeland,
"I have not taken any medicine or drugs
of any kind, and |
| 18 |
yet have been perfectly well."
In regard to Mrs.
Eddy, Mrs. Copeland said that she
was the Founder of the faith, but that
she had never |
| 21 |
claimed, nor did she believe that Mrs.
Lathrop had, that
Mrs. Eddy had any power other than that which came
from God and through faith in Him and His teachings. |
| 24 |
"The power of Christ has been dormant in
mankind for
ages," added the speaker, "and it was Mrs. Eddy's mission
to revive it. In our labors we take Christ as an example, |
| 27 |
going about doing good and healing the
sick. Christ has
told us to do his work, naming as one great essential
that
we have faith in him. |
| 30 |
"Did you ever hear of Jesus' taking
medicine himself, or
Page
73 |
| 1 |
giving it to others?" inquired the speaker.
"Then why
should we worry ourselves about sickness and disease? |
| 3 |
If we become sick, God will care for us,
and will send to
us those who have faith, who believe in His unlimited
and
divine power. Mrs. Eddy was strictly an ardent follower |
| 6 |
after God. She had faith in Him, and she
cured herself of
a deathly disease through the mediation of her God.
Then
she secluded herself from the world for three years and |
| 9 |
studied and meditated over His divine Word.
She delved
deep into the Biblical passages, and at the end of the period
came from her seclusion one of the greatest Biblical schol- |
| 12 |
ars of the age. Her mission was then the
mission of a
Christian, to do good and heal the sick, and this duty
she
faithfully performed. She of herself had no power. But |
| 15 |
God has fulfilled His promises to her and
to the world.
If you have faith, you can move mountains."
Mrs. Henrietta N.
Cole is also a very prominent member |
| 18 |
of the church. When seen yesterday she
emphasized her-
self as being of the same theory as Mrs. Copeland. Mrs.
Cole has made a careful and searching study in the beliefs |
| 21 |
of Scientists, and is perfectly versed in
all their beliefs and
doctrines. She stated that man of himself has no
power,
but that all comes from God. She placed no credit what- |
| 24 |
ever in the reports from New York that Mrs.
Eddy has
been accredited as having been deified. She referred the
reporter to the large volume which Mrs. Eddy had herself |
| 27 |
written, and said that no more complete
and yet concise
idea of her belief could be obtained than by a perusal of
it.
Page
74 |
| 1 |
[New York Herald, February 6, 1895]
MRS. EDDY
SHOCKED |
| 3 |
[By
Telegraph to the Herald]
Concord, N. H.,
February 4, 1895. - The article pub-
lished in the Herald on January
29, regarding a statement |
| 6 |
made by Mrs. Laura Lathrop, pastor of the
Christian Sci-
ence congregation that meets every Sunday in Hodgson
Hall, New York, was shown to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, |
| 9 |
the Christian Science "Discoverer,"
to-day.
Mrs. Eddy preferred
to prepare a written answer to the
interrogatory, which she did in this
letter, addressed to the |
| 12 |
editor of the Herald: -
"A despatch is given
me, calling for an interview to an-
swer for myself, 'Am I the second
Christ?' |
| 15 |
"Even the question shocks me. What I am is
for God
to declare in His infinite mercy. As it is, I claim nothing
more than what I am, the Discoverer and Founder of |
| 18 |
Christian Science, and the blessing it has
been to mankind
which eternity enfolds.
"I think Mrs.
Lathrop was not understood. If she said |
| 21 |
aught with intention to be thus
understood, it is not what
I have taught her, and not at all as I have
heard her talk.
"My books and
teachings maintain but one conclusion |
| 24 |
and statement of the Christ and the
deification of mortals.
"Christ is
individual, and one with God, in the sense
of divine Love and its compound
divine ideal. |
| 27 |
"There was, is, and never can be but one
God, one
Page
75 |
| 1 |
Christ, one Jesus of Nazareth. Whoever in
any age ex-
presses most of the spirit of Truth and Love, the
Principle |
| 3 |
of God's idea, has most of the spirit of
Christ, of that Mind
which was in Christ Jesus.
"If Christian
Scientists find in my writings, teachings, |
| 6 |
and example a greater degree of this spirit
than in others,
they can justly declare it. But to think or speak of me
in
any manner as a Christ, is sacrilegious. Such a statement |
| 9 |
would not only be false, but the absolute
antipode of Chris-
tian Science, and would savor more of heathenism than
of
my doctrines. |
| 12 |
"MARY BAKER EDDY"
--------------
[ The
Globe, Toronto, Canada, January 12, 1895]
[Extract]
|
| 15 |
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
DEDICATION TO THE
FOUNDER OF THE ORDER OF A BEAUTIFUL CHURCH AT
BOSTON - MANY TORONTO SCIENTISTS PRESENT |
| 18 |
The Christian Scientists of Toronto, to the
number of
thirty, took part in the ceremonies at Boston last Sunday
and for the day or two following, by which the members |
| 21 |
of that faith all over North America
celebrated the dedica-
tion of the church constructed in the great New
England
capital as a testimonial to the Discoverer and Founder of |
| 24 |
Christian Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.
The temple is
believed to be the most nearly fire-proof
church structure on the
continent, the only combustible
Page
76 |
| 1 |
material used in its construction being
that used in the
doors and pews. A striking feature of the church is a |
| 3 |
beautiful apartment known as the "Mother's
Room,"
which is approached through a superb archway of Italian
marble
set in the wall. The furnishing of the "Mother's |
| 6 |
Room" is described as "particularly
beautiful, and blends
harmoniously with the pale green and gold decoration
of the
walls. The floor is of mosaic in elegant designs, and two |
| 9 |
alcoves are separated from the apartment by
rich hangings
of deep green plush, which in certain lights has a
shimmer
of silver. The furniture frames are of white mahogany |
| 12 |
in special designs, elaborately carved, and
the upholstery
is in white and gold tapestry. A superb mantel of
Mexican
onyx with gold decoration adorns the south wall, and before |
| 15 |
the hearth is a large rug composed entirely
of skins of the
eider-dawn duck, brought from the Arctic regions. Pic-
tures and bric-a-brac everywhere suggest the tribute of |
| 18 |
loving friends. One of the two alcoves is
a retiring-room
and the other a lavatory in which the plumbing is all
heavily plated with gold."
------------ |
| 21 |
[Evening Monitor, Concord, N. H.,
February 27, 1895]
AN ELEGANT
SOUVENIR
REV. MARY BAKER EDDY MEMORIALIZED BY A CHRISTIAN |
| 24 |
SCIENCE CHURCH
Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer of Christian
Science,
has received from the members of The First Church of |
| 27 |
Christ, Scientist, Boston, an invitation
formally to accept
Page
77 |
| 1 |
the magnificent new edifice of worship
which the church
has just erected. |
| 3 |
The invitation itself is one of the most
chastely elegant
memorials ever prepared, and is a scroll of solid
gold,
suitably engraved, and encased in a handsome plush |
| 6 |
casket with white silk linings. Attached
to the scroll is a
golden key of the church structure.
The inscription
reads thus: - |
| 9 |
"Dear Mother: - During the year
eighteen hundred and
ninety-four a church edifice was erected at the
intersection
of Falmouth and Norway Streets, in the city of Boston, |
| 12 |
by the loving hands of four thousand
members. This
edifice is built as a testimonial to Truth, as revealed
by
divine Love through you to this age. You are hereby |
| 15 |
most lovingly invited to visit and formally
accept this
testimonial on the twentieth day of February, eighteen
hundred and ninety-five, at high noon. |
| 18 |
"The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at
Boston, Mass.
"BY EDWARD P. BATES,
"CAROLINE S. BATES |
| 21 |
"To the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy,
"Boston, January 6th, 1895"
-----------------
[People
and Patriot, Concord, N. H., February 27, 1895] |
| 24 |
MAGNIFICENT TESTIMONIAL
Members of The First
Church of Christ, Scientist, at
Boston, have forwarded to Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy of
Page
78 |
| 1 |
this city, the Founder of Christian
Science, a testimonial
which is probably one of the most magnificent
examples |
| 3 |
of the goldsmith's art ever wrought in this
country. It is
in the form of a gold scroll, twenty-six inches long,
nine
inches wide, and an eighth of an inch thick. |
| 6 |
It bears upon its face the following
inscription, cut in
script letters: -
"Dear Mother:
- During the year 1894 a church edi- |
| 9 |
fice was erected at the intersection of
Falmouth and Nor-
way Streets, in the city of Boston, by the loving hands
of
four thousand members. This edifice is built as a testi- |
| 12 |
monial to Truth, as revealed by divine Love
through you
to this age. You are hereby most lovingly invited to visit
and formally accept this testimonial on the 20th day of |
| 15 |
February, 1895, at high noon.
"The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass.
"BY EDWARD P.
BATES, |
| 18 |
"CAROLINE S. BATES
"To the Rev. Mary
Baker Eddy,
"Boston, January 6, 1895" |
| 21 |
Attached by a white ribbon to the scroll
is a gold key
to the church door.
The testimonial is
encased in a white satin-lined box |
| 24 |
of rich green velvet.
The scroll is on exhibition in the window of J. C.
Derby's jewelry store.
Page
79 |
| 1 |
[The
Union Signal, Chicago]
[Extract] |
| 3 |
THE NEW
WOMAN AND THE NEW CHURCH
The dedication, in
Boston, of a Christian Science temple
costing over two hundred thousand
dollars, and for which |
| 6 |
the money was all paid in so that no debt
had to be taken
care of on dedication day, is a notable event. While we
are not, and never have been, devotees of Christian Science, |
| 9 |
it becomes us as students of public
questions not to ignore
a movement which, starting fifteen years ago, has
already
gained to itself adherents in every part of the civilized |
| 12 |
world, for it is a significant fact that
one cannot take up
a daily paper in town or village - to say nothing of
cities -
without seeing notices of Christian Science meetings, and |
| 15 |
in most instances they are held at
"headquarters."
We believe there are
two reasons for this remarkable
development, which has shown a vitality so
unexpected. |
| 18 |
The first is that a revolt was inevitable
from the crass
materialism of the cruder science that had taken
posses-
sion of men's minds, for as a wicked but witty writer has |
| 21 |
said, "If there were no God, we should be
obliged to in-
vent one." There is something in the constitution of
man that requires the religious sentiment as much as his |
| 24 |
lungs call for breath; indeed, the breath
of his soul is a
belief in God.
But when Christian
Science arose, the thought of the |
| 27 |
world's scientific leaders had become
materialistically
"lopsided," and this condition can never long continue.
Page
80 |
| 1 |
There must be a righting-up of the mind as
surely as of a
ship when under stress of storm it is ready to capsize.
The |
| 3 |
pendulum that has swung to one extreme will
surely find
the other. The religious sentiment in women is so strong
that the revolt was headed by them; this was inevitable |
| 6 |
in the nature of the case. It began in the
most intellectual
city of the freest country in the world - that is to
say,
it sought the line of least resistance. Boston is emphati- |
| 9 |
cally the women's paradise, - numerically,
socially, in-
deed every way. Here they have the largest individuality,
the most recognition, the widest outlook. Mrs. Eddy we |
| 12 |
have never seen; her book has many a time
been sent
us by interested friends, and out of respect to them we
have
fairly broken our mental teeth over its granitic peb- |
| 15 |
bles. That we could not understand it might
be rather
to the credit of the book than otherwise. On this subject
we
have no opinion to pronounce, but simply state the |
| 18 |
fact.
We do not,
therefore, speak of the system it sets forth,
either to praise or blame,
but this much is true: the spirit |
| 21 |
of Christian Science ideas has caused an
army of well-mean-
ing people to believe in God and the power of faith,
who
did not believe in them before. It has made a myriad of |
| 24 |
women more thoughtful and devout; it has
brought a
hopeful spirit into the homes of unnumbered invalids.
The
belief that "thoughts are things," that the invisible |
| 27 |
is the only real world, that we are here to
be trained into
harmony with the laws of God, and that what we are here
determines where we shall be hereafter - all these ideas |
| 30 |
are Christian.
Page
81 |
| 1 |
The chimes on the Christian Science temple
in Boston
played "All hail the power of Jesus' name," on the morn- |
| 3 |
ing of the dedication. We did not attend,
but we learn
that the name of Christ is nowhere spoken with more
reverence than it was during those services, and that he |
| 6 |
is set forth as the power of God for
righteousness and the
express image of God for love.
---------------
[The
New Century, Boston, February, 1895] |
| 9 |
ONE POINT
OF VIEW - THE NEW WOMAN
We all know her -
she is simply the woman of the past
with an added grace - a newer charm.
Some of her |
| 12 |
dearest ones call her "selfish" because she
thinks so much
of herself she spends her whole time helping others.
She
represents the composite beauty, sweetness, and nobility |
| 15 |
of all those who scorn self for the sake of
love and her
handmaiden duty - of all those who seek the brightness
of
truth not as the moth to be destroyed thereby, but as |
| 18 |
the lark who soars and sings to the great
sun. She is of
those who have so much to give they want no time to
take,
and their name is legion. She is as full of beautiful possi- |
| 21 |
bilities as a perfect harp, and she
realizes that all the har-
monies of the universe are in herself, while
her own soul
plays upon magic strings the unwritten anthems of love. |
| 24 |
She is the apostle of the true, the
beautiful, the good, com-
missioned to complete all that the twelve have
left undone.
Hers is the mission of missions - the highest of all - to
Page
82 |
| 1 |
make the body not the prison, but the
palace of the soul,
with the brain for its great white throne. |
| 3 |
When she comes like the south wind into the
cold haunts
of sin and sorrow, her words are smiles and her smiles are
the sunlight which heals the stricken soul. Her hand is |
| 6 |
tender - but steel tempered with holy
resolve, and as
one whom her love had glorified once said - she is soft
and gentle, but you could no more turn her from her |
| 9 |
course than winter could stop the coming of
spring. She
has long learned with patience, and to-day she knows
many
things dear to the soul far better than her teachers. |
| 12 |
In olden times the Jews claimed to be the
conservators
of the world's morals - they treated woman as a chattel,
and said that because she was created after man, she was |
| 15 |
created solely for man. Too many still are
Jews who
never called Abraham "Father," while the Jews them-
selves
have long acknowledged woman as man's proper |
| 18 |
helpmeet. In those days women had few
lawful claims
and no one to urge them. True, there were Miriam and
Esther, but they sang and sacrificed for their people, not |
| 21 |
for their sex.
To-day there are ten
thousand Esthers, and Miriams
by the million, who sing best by singing most
for their |
| 24 |
own sex. They are demanding the right to
help make
the laws, or at least to help enforce the laws upon
which
depends the welfare of their husbands, their chil- |
| 27 |
dren, and themselves. Why should our
selfish self longer
remain deaf to their cry? The date is no longer B.
C.
Might no longer makes right, and in this fair land at least |
| 30 |
fear has ceased to kiss the iron heel of
wrong. Why then
Page
83 |
| 1 |
should we continue to demand woman's love
and woman's
help while we recklessly promise as lover and candidate |
| 3 |
what we never fulfil as husband and
office-holder? In
our secret heart our better self is shamed and
dishonored,
and appeals from Philip drunk to Philip sober, but has |
| 6 |
not yet the moral strength and courage to
prosecute the
appeal. But the east is rosy, and the sunlight cannot
long
be delayed. Woman must not and will not be disheart- |
| 9 |
ened by a thousand denials or a million of
broken pledges.
With the assurance of faith she prays, with the
certainty
of inspiration she works, and with the patience of genius |
| 12 |
she waits. At last she is becoming "as fair
as the morn,
as bright as the sun, and as terrible as an army with ban-
ners" to those who march under the black flag of oppres- |
| 15 |
sion and wield the ruthless sword of
injustice.
In olden times it
was the Amazons who conquered the
invincibles, and we must look now to
their daughters to |
| 18 |
overcome our own allied armies of evil and
to save us from
ourselves. She must and will succeed, for as David
sang
- "God shall help her, and that right early." When we |
| 21 |
try to praise her later works it is as if
we would pour
incense upon the rose. It is the proudest boast of many
of us that we are "bound to her by bonds dearer than free- |
| 24 |
dom," and that we live in the reflected
royalty which
shines from her brow. We rejoice with her that at last
we begin to know what John on Patmos meant - "And |
| 27 |
there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a
woman clothed
with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her
head a crown of twelve stars." She brought to warring |
| 30 |
men the Prince of Peace, and he,
departing, left his scepter
Page
84 |
| 1 |
not in her hand, but in her soul. "The time
of times"
is near when "the new woman" shall subdue the whole |
| 3 |
earth with the weapons of peace. Then shall
wrong be
robbed of her bitterness and ingratitude of her sting,
revenge
shall clasp hands with pity, and love shall dwell |
| 6 |
in the tents of hate; while side by side,
equal partners in
all that is worth living for, shall stand the new man
with
the new woman.
--------------- |
| 9 |
[The
Christian Science Journal, January, 1895]
[Extract]
THE MOTHER
CHURCH |
| 12 |
The Mother Church edifice - The First
Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, is erected. The close of the
year, Anno Domini 1894, witnessed the completion of |
| 15 |
"our prayer in stone," all predictions and
prognostications
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Of the significance
of this achievement we shall not |
| 18 |
undertake to speak in this article. It can
be better felt
than expressed. All who are awake thereto have some
measure of understanding of what it means. But only |
| 21 |
the future will tell the story of its
mighty meaning or un-
fold it to the comprehension of mankind. It is enough
for
us now to know that all obstacles to its completion have |
| 24 |
been met and overcome, and that our temple
is completed
as God intended it should be.
This achievement is
the result of long years of untiring, |
| 27 |
unselfish, and zealous effort on the part
of our beloved
teacher and Leader, the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy,
the
Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, who
Page
85 |
| 1 |
nearly thirty years ago began to lay the
foundation of
this temple, and whose devotion and consecration to God |
| 3 |
and humanity during the intervening years
have made
its erection possible.
Those who now, in
part, understand her mission, turn |
| 6 |
their hearts in gratitude to her for her
great work, and
those who do not understand it will, in the fulness of
time,
see and acknowledge it. In the measure in which she has |
| 9 |
unfolded and demonstrated divine Love, and
built up in
human consciousness a better and higher conception of
God
as Life, Truth, and Love, - as the divine Principle |
| 12 |
of all things which really exist, - and in
the degree in
which she has demonstrated the system of healing of
Jesus
and the apostles, surely she, as the one chosen of God to |
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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 |
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earth in accordance with the prayer and
teachings of
Jesus Christ.
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[Concord Evening Monitor, March 23, 1895] |
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TESTIMONIAL AND GIFT
TO REV. MARY BAKER
EDDY, FROM THE FIRST CHURCH OF
CHRIST, SCIENTIST, IN BOSTON |
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Rev. Mary Baker Eddy received Friday, from
the Chris-
tian Science Board of Directors, Boston, a beautiful and
unique testimonial of the appreciation of her labors and |
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loving generosity in the Cause of their
common faith. It
was a facsimile of the corner-stone of the new church
of
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the Christian Scientists, just completed,
being of granite,
about six inches in each dimension, and contains a
solid |
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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 |
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her affectionate Students, the Christian
Science Board of
Directors."
On the under side of
the cover are the facsimile sig- |
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natures of the Directors, - Ira O. Knapp,
William B.
Johnson, Joseph Armstrong, and Stephen A. Chase,
with the
date, "1895." The beautiful souvenir is en- |
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cased in an elegant plush box.
Accompanying the
stone testimonial was the following
address from the Board of Directors:
- |
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Boston, March 20, 1895
To the Reverend
Mary Baker Eddy, our Beloved
Teacher and Leader: - We are happy to announce to you |
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the completion of The First Church of
Christ, Scientist,
in Boston.
In behalf of your
loving students and all contributors |
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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 |
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Christian Science, and the author of its
textbook, "Sci-
ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures."
We therefore
respectfully extend to you the invitation |
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to become the permanent pastor of this
church, in con-
nection with the Bible and the book alluded to above,
which you have already ordained as our pastor. And we
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most cordially invite you to be present and
take charge
of any services that may be held therein. We especially |
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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. |
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Lovingly yours,
IRA O. KNAPP, JOSEPH
ARMSTRONG,
WILLIAM B. JOHNSON, STEPHEN A. CHASE, |
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The Christian Science Board of
Directors
REV. MRS. EDDY'S
REPLY
Beloved Directors
and Brethren: - For your costly
offer- |
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ing, and kind call to the pastorate of "The
First Church
of Christ, Scientist," in Boston - accept my profound
thanks. But permit me, respectfully, to decline their ac- |
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ceptance, while I fully appreciate your
kind intentions.
If it will comfort you in the least, make me your
Pastor
Emeritus, nominally. Through my book, your textbook, |
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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; |
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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 |
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you grace. As our church's tall tower
detains the sun,
so may luminous lines from your lives linger, a legacy
to
our race. |
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MARY BAKER EDDY
March 25, 1895
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LIST OF
LEADING NEWSPAPERS WHOSE ARTICLES
ARE OMITTED |
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From Canada to New Orleans, and from the
Atlantic
to the Pacific ocean, the author has received leading news-
papers with uniformly kind and interesting articles on |
| 6 |
the dedication of The Mother Church. They
were, how-
ever, too voluminous for these pages. To those which are
copied she can append only a few of the names of other |
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prominent newspapers whose articles are
reluctantly
omitted.
EASTERN
STATES |
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Advertiser, Calais, Me.
Advertiser, Boston, Mass.
Farmer, Bridgeport, Conn. |
| 15 |
Independent, Rockland, Mass.
Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Me.
News, New Haven, Conn. |
| 18 |
News, Newport, R. I.
Post, Boston, Mass.
Post, Hartford, Conn. |
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Republican, Springfield, Mass.
Sentinel, Eastport, Me.
Sun, Attleboro, Mass. |
| 24 |
MIDDLE STATES
Advertiser, New York City.
Bulletin, Auburn, N. Y. |
| 27 |
Daily, York, Pa.
Evening
Reporter, Lebanon, Pa.
Farmer, Bridgeport, N. Y. |
| 30 |
Herald, Rochester, N. Y.
Independent, Harrisburg, Pa.
Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pa.
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89 |
| 1 |
Independent, New York City.
Journal, Lockport, N. Y. |
| 3 |
Knickerbocker, Albany, N. Y.
News, Buffalo, N. Y.
News, Newark, N. J. |
| 6 |
Once A Week, New York City.
Post, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Press, Albany, N. Y. |
| 9 |
Press, New York City.
Press, Philadelphia, Pa.
Saratogian, Saratoga Springs, N.
Y. |
| 12 |
Sun, New York City.
Telegram, Philadelphia, Pa.
Telegram, Troy, N. Y. |
| 15 |
Times, Trenton, N. J.
SOUTHERN STATES
Commercial, Louisville,
Ky. |
| 18 |
Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
Post, Washington, D. C.
Telegram, New Orleans, La. |
| 21 |
Times, New Orleans, La.
Times-Herald, Dallas, Tex.
WESTERN
STATES |
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Bee, Omaha, Neb.
Bulletin, San Francisco, Cal.
Chronicle, San Francisco,
Cal. |
| 27 |
Elite, Chicago, Ill.
Enquirer, Oakland, Cal.
Free Press, Detroit, Mich. |
| 30 |
Gazette, Burlington, Iowa.
Herald, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Herald, St. Joseph, Mo. |
| 33 |
Journal, Columbus, Ohio.
Journal, Topeka, Kans.
Leader, Bloomington, Ill. |
| 36 |
Leader, Cleveland, Ohio.
News, St. Joseph, Mo.
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90 |
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News-Tribune, Duluth, Minn.
Pioneer-Press, St. Paul, Minn. |
| 3 |
Post-lntelligencer, Seattle, Wash.
Salt Lake Herald, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Sentinel,
Indianapolis, Ind. |
| 6 |
Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wis.
Star, Kansas City, Mo.
Telegram, Portland, Ore. |
| 9 |
Times, Chicago, Ill.
Times, Minneapolis, Minn.
Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn. |
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Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Free
Press, London, Can.
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