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The eighth book, PulPit and Press, published in April 1895, celebrates
the dedication in January of the newly-built edifice of The First Church
of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. (This is the original Mother Church
building.) As the title suggests, the book is in two halves: the first
contains Mrs Eddy's Dedicatory Sermon; the second is a selection of
twenty-four newspaper clippings that record the achievement with awe
and friendliness. The tone of the book is that of the church universal and
triumphant, no longer the church militant (p. 3).
In its early years, when Christian Science had seemed to the
establishment to be a very eccentric and even dangerous phenomenon, it
had been assailed by the pulpit and by the press. Now however, twenty
years later and with thousands of healed people and Christianized lives
speaking for it, it has its own pulpit, and the nation's newspapers are
very willing to pay tribute not only to its spectacular growth but also to
the spiritual character of Mrs Eddy.
A pulpit is primarily for voicing the Christ standpoint; the printing
press, in an ideal sense, exists to record the redeeming effect of that
Truth on human consciousness. Thus pulpit and press together should
function as the twin translations, the pulpit teaching how to come forth
from divine perfection and the press registering humanity gradually
reaching perfection in practice.
This theme of coming forth from and returning to the divine source is
also, of course, the... message of the eighth chapter in Science and Health
FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH, which likewise unfolds in two main parts. First it
traces the footsteps leading out from Truth - the sole foundation from
which Christian perfection can be won. Then it traces the indispensable
"human footsteps leading to perfection," "the way to health and
holiness." The great need is that "the human self must be evangelized"
(Christianized), but tbe even greater need is to understand that this has
to be done from Truth; such "purity" is "the corner-stone of all spiritual
building" (S&H 241, 254).
The Preface to PulPit and Press echoes this point, hinging on the
connection between the impetus of Truth and the world's response.
"This volume contains scintillations from press and pulpit - utterances
which epitomize the story of the birth of Christian Science, in 1866, and
its progress during the ensuing thirty years. Three quarters of a century
hence, when the children of to-day are the elders of the twentieth
century, it will be interesting to have not only a record of the inclination
given their own thoughts in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but
also a registry of the rise of the mercury in the glass of the world's
opinion.
"It will then be instructive to turn backward the telescope of that
advanced age, with its lenses of more spiritual mentality, indicating the
gain of intellectual momentum, on the early footsteps of Christian
Science. .. to con the facts surrounding the cradle of this grand
verity .... "
Why "three quarters of a century"? Seventy-five years is
approximately a human life-time. Three quarters of a century backward
takes one to 1820, the year before Mary Baker was born. Three quarters
of a century hence takes us to 1970, by which date a huge advance has
been made: 'the telescope' has been used to discover the Science and
system that is within the textbook. This has made it possible to "con the
facts surrounding the cradle" of Christian Science. But we should not
congratulate ourselves prematurely on having made spiritual progress.
Any rise in the world's opinion will surely depend not so much on the
technology (essential though it is for our understanding) as on the lives
and achievements of today's Scientists.
Proceeding then to the 'Pulpit' part of the book: it comprises four
distinct sections, reflecting the four 'sides' of the heavenly city which the
new church represents. First is Mrs Eddy's Sermon read at the
dedication, spelling out the premise of divine oneness; second, the
readings from the textbook, all taken from THE APOCALYPSE chapter and
referring to the power of Christ; third, three pastoral hymns that all refer
to God's leading; and fourth, a NOTE by Mrs Eddy on the theme of unity
- amongst Christian Scientists, as well as between them and other
churches.
When the first church organization, formed in 1879, is dissolved in
1889, it is not lost sight of: its principle of self-dissolution is built in to the
second. So in 1892 it is reconstituted on a divine basis. What it means is
that we have to dissolve the belief that society, or church, or world, is
composed oflots of human persons, if we are to experience it anew as the
divine One in infinite expression. The two organizations stand for two
quite different approaches to the concept of unity. The first church was an
attempt to get diverse people to work together in harmony, an attempt
which comes unstuck; the second represented everyone coming forth
together in harmony from the divine One, as diversity in unity.
The section called NOTE was not part of the service of dedication but
was written by Mrs Eddy for the first edition of Pulpit and Press. In it she
includes the startling sentence, "From first to last The Mother Church
seemed type and shadow of the warfare between the flesh and Spirit"
(p. 20). "Seemed," in the past tense, is surprising when the new church
phase has scarcely begun. Actually the term "Mother Church" first
appears in 1889, before the dissolution of the first organization, and it
seems that in the sentence quoted it applies to the whole period of
disorganization when Mrs Eddy is seeking the divine way of establishing
a church centre that error could not control - hence "the warfare." By
1895 this ideal "Mother Church" is in operation, with all the reins safely
in her (in Principle's) hands. In the new membership it is not
personalities jockeying for position so much as spiritual individuality
emanating from the divine.
The factor that has made this transition possible is the advent of the
fiftieth edition of Science and Health, which has defined the terms for God
as synonymous. It is this principle of synonymity that introduces a
totally new kind of unity in the human also, for when we recognize one
another as synonyms for the one man, there can no longer be rivalry,
power-seeking, and the arrogance of thinking that 'only I am right.'
Pulpit and Press expresses the new attitude in the most beautiful way:
"The real house in which 'we live, and move, and have our being' is
Spirit, God ... our true temple is no human fabrication, but the
superstructure of Truth, reared on the foundation of Love, and
pinnaded in Life ... Know, then, that you possess sovereign power to
think and act rightly, and that nothing can dispossess you of this
heritage and trespass on Love" (pp. 2, 3). Man is not a separate
personal 'I:' "Is not a man metaphysically and mathematically numher
one, a unit, and therefore whole number, governed and protected by his
divine Principle, God? You have simply to preserve a scientific, positive
sense of unity with your divine source, and daily demonstrate this ... A
dewdrop reflects the sun. Each of Christ's little ones reflects the infinite
One, and therefore ... 'one on God's side is a majority' " (p. 4).
Each one one with the One - that is the key to unity, and the heart of
Pulpit and Press. It is unity according to the first translation, where
Principle and its idea is one. The Scientist now proves his unity with the
One by being one with what is Christlike in everyone else. The church is
made up of Christ's One infinitely reflected. Hence the section called
NOTE is filled with this outward unity - unity according to the second
translation, impelled by the first. "Christian Scientists ... inevitably
love one another with that love wherewith Christ loveth us; a love ...
that loves only because it is Love" (p. 21). If we are united, there is
promise of our uniting with other Christian churches: "Our unity with
churches of other denominations must rest on the spirit of Christ calling
us together" (p. 21). Finally this unity extends out and embraces the
world, as is reflected faintly in the kindly and perceptive articles from the
newspapers.
As noticed, Pulpit and Press contains an unusual number of predictions,
or prophecies (pp. vii,S, 8, 10,22,84,85). In fact, the Journal announced
it as "A sermon, hymns and prophecy" (CS] April 1895). This is
because it appears just when the second church organization puts into
operation the new 'out from' stand pont. The prediction on p. 22
contains an important qualification: "If the lives of Christian Scientists
attest their fidelity to Truth, I predict that in the twentieth century every
Christian church in our land ... will approximate the understanding of
Christian Science sufficiently to heal the sick in his name. Christ will
give to Christianity his new name, and Christendom will be classified as
Christian Scientists." Hence the Sermon is addressed to the church of
"the new-born of Spirit" (p. 10).
It must be for the same reason, surely, that PulPit and Press is packed
with references to children, babes and little ones. "Ah, children, you are
the bulwarks of freedom, the cement of society, the hope of our race!"
(p. 9). When reborn of Spirit, humanity is the child of God; each of
Christ's little ones reflects the whole of the divine One and so they
reflect one another. A new sense of creation is about to be experienced.
Being the eighth book in the sequence, Pulpit and Press strikes the
octave. In the musical scale the octave is at once the goal of the first
seven notes and the start of a new series. This sense of achievement, of
having reached the centre, of working from the summit, metaphysically
speaking is 'the woman.' It is not a female but a state of consciousness of
the kingdom of heaven already with us. Pulpit and Press marks this new
awareness by the emphatic references to the woman in the Apocalypse
(pp. 12-15), and even more particularly by the Press articles on "The
New Woman" (pp. 79-84). It seems that at intervals throughout the
nineteenth century there had been an active 'Woman's Movement,' but
it had been somewhat feminist, and worked for the social and political
rights of women. Around 1890, however, a new note can be discerned in
the literature, a realization that the spiritual element in man can
properly be regarded as woman. "She realizes that all the harmonies of
the universe are in herself' (p. 81; see also Journal Vol. XIII 1894-1895,
pp. 28, 144,419).
The 'Press' part of the book reflects this 'woman' viewpoint in another
way also, for tucked away amongst the clippings are two messages by
Mrs Eddy that are given directly to the world and only indirectly to the
Scientists. In the first, writing to the New York Herald, she repudiates the
suggestion that she personally is the second Christ, for "whoever in any
age expresses most of the spirit of Truth and Love ... has most of the
spirit of Christ" (p. 75). In the second, reported in the Concord Evening
Monitor, she declines to become pastor but accepts the honour of Pastor
Emeritus (see pp. 85-87). The sense is that the spiritual idea is generic,
universal and impersonal.
Pulpit and Press brings us to the end of the second group of four books,
with their strong message of how the Christ standpoint resolves the
seeming power of error. First there is Unity of Good, teaching the
Christ-consciousness - the absolute allness of good and the absolute
nothingness of evil; Retrospection and introspection then shows how this
Christ-consciousness operates - through a process of translating the
organic sense of life. Christ and Christmas illustrates this translation
actually at work, redeeming man from the male and female of mortality;
finally Pulpit and Press reaffirms that by preserving a scientific sense of
unity with the divine source, each of Christ's little ones reflects the
infinite One.

Mary Baker Eddy's Other Writings
'You will find me in my books'

“To be a Christian Scientist involves being changed; it demands an inner transformation, a renovation of the self, in order to become a transparency for the divine. This vital work is done by spiritualization of consciousness, but it is done in the area of life and of relationships, and it is on this area of experience that the Other Writings concentrate. Mrs Eddy herself considered these writings 'essential to preparing Christian Scientists for the full understanding of Science and Health'” (Orcutt 78).

"The spiritual beauty and practicality of these inspired books have made them beloved to generations of Christian Scientists, yet strangely few students today, a century later, know much about their origin, or regard them in their wholeness.  Yet this is critical to appreciating the value of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy’s flagship which is the Textbook of Christian Science.  Understanding this framework is necessary in order to approach the ever-unfoldment that takes place when a serious study of Christian Science is undertaken.  With this background information the student can read intelligently each piece in its setting, The message of the writings is enormously enhanced once he understands their occasion.  
See  Mary Baker Eddy's Other Writings by John L. Morgan  (1984)
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         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 

 1	    TEXT:  They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy
  	house; and Thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy pleasures. 
 3	 — PSALMS xxxvi. 8. 

  	    A new year is a nursling, a babe of time, a prophecy
  	and promise clad in white raiment, kissed — and
 6	encumbered with greetings — redolent with grief and
  	gratitude. 
  	    An old year is time's adult, and 1893 was a distinguished
 9	character, notable for good and evil. Time past and time
  	present, both, may pain us, but time improved is elo-
  	quent in God's praise. For due refreshment garner the
12	memory of 1894; for if wiser by reason of its large lessons,
  	and records deeply engraven, great is the value thereof. 

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


18	    To-day, being with you in spirit, what need that I should
  	be present in propria persona? Were I present, methinks
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 1	I should be much like the Queen of Sheba,... when she saw
  	the house Solomon had erected. In the expressive language
 3	of Holy Writ, "There was no more spirit in her;" and
  	she said, "Behold, the half was not told me:  thy wisdom
  	and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard." Both
 6	without and within, the spirit of beauty dominates The
  	Mother Church, from its mosaic flooring to the soft shim-
  	mer of its starlit dome. 
 9	    Nevertheless, there is a thought higher and deeper than
  	the edifice. Material light and shade are temporal, not
  	eternal. Turning the attention from sublunary views,
12	however enchanting, think for a moment with me of the
  	house wherewith "they shall be abundantly satisfied," — 
  	even the "house not made with hands, eternal in the
15	heavens." With the mind's eye glance at the direful
  	scenes of the war between China and Japan. Imagine
  	yourselves in a poorly barricaded fort, fiercely besieged
18	by the enemy. Would you rush forth single-handed to
  	combat the foe? Nay, would you not rather strengthen
  	your citadel by every means in your power, and remain
21	within the walls for its defense? Likewise should we do
  	as metaphysicians and Christian Scientists. The real
  	house in which "we live, and move, and have our being"
24	is Spirit, God, the eternal harmony of infinite Soul. The
  	enemy we confront would overthrow this sublime fortress,
  	and it behooves us to defend our heritage. 
27	    How can we do this Christianly scientific work? By
  	intrenching ourselves in the knowledge that our true
  	temple is no human fabrication, but the superstructure
30	of Truth, reared on the foundation of Love, and pinnacled
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 1	in Life. Such being its nature, how can our godly temple
  	possibly be demolished, or even disturbed? Can eternity
 3	end? Can Life die? Can Truth be uncertain? Can
  	Love be less than boundless? Referring to this temple,
  	our Master said: "Destroy this temple, and in three days
 6	I will raise it up." He also said: "The kingdom of God
  	is within you." Know, then, that you possess sovereign
  	power to think and act rightly, and that nothing can dis-
 9	possess you of this heritage and trespass on Love. If you
  	maintain this position, who or what can cause you to sin
  	or suffer? Our surety is in our confidence that we are
12	indeed dwellers in Truth and Love, man's eternal mansion. 
  	Such a heavenly assurance ends all warfare, and bids tu-
  	mult cease, for the good fight we have waged is over, and
15	divine Love gives us the true sense of victory. "They
  	shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house;
  	and Thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy
18	pleasures." No longer are we of the church militant, but
  	of the church triumphant; and with Job of old we ex-
  	claim, "Yet in my flesh shall I see God." The river of
21	His pleasures is a tributary of divine Love, whose living
  	waters have their source in God, and flow into everlasting
  	Life. We drink of this river when all human desires are
24	quenched, satisfied with what is pleasing to the divine
  	Mind. 
  	    Perchance some one of you may say, "The evidence of
27	spiritual verity in me is so small that I am afraid.  I feel
  	so far from victory over the flesh that to reach out for a
  	present realization of my hope savors of temerity.  Be-
30	cause of my own unfitness for such a spiritual animus my
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 1	strength is naught and my faith fails." O thou "weak
  	and infirm of purpose." Jesus said, "Be not afraid"! 

 3	     "What if the little rain should say,
  	        'So small a drop as I
  	      Can ne'er refresh a drooping earth,
 6	         I'll tarry in the sky.'" 


  	    Is not a man metaphysically and mathematically num-
  	ber one, a unit, and therefore whole number, governed
 9	and protected by his divine Principle, God? You have
  	simply to preserve a scientific, positive sense of unity with
  	your divine source, and daily demonstrate this. Then you
12	will find that one is as important a factor as duodecillions
  	in being and doing right, and thus demonstrating deific
  	Principle. A dewdrop reflects the sun. Each of Christ's
15	little ones reflects the infinite One, and therefore is the
  	seer's declaration true, that "one on God's side is a
  	majority." 
18	    A single drop of water may help to hide the stars, or
  	crown the tree with blossoms. 
  	    Who lives in good, lives also in God, — lives in all Life,
21	through all space. His is an individual kingdom, his dia-
  	dem a crown of crowns. His existence is deathless, for-
  	ever unfolding its eternal Principle. Wait patiently on
24	illimitable Love, the lord and giver of Life. Reflect this
  	Life, and with it cometh the full power of being. "They
  	shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy
27	house." 
  	    In 1893 the World's Parliament of Religions, held in
  	Chicago, used, in all its public sessions, my form of prayer
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 1	since 1866; and one of the very clergymen who had pub-
  	licly proclaimed me "the prayerless Mrs. Eddy," offered
 3	his audible adoration in the words I use, besides listening
  	to an address on Christian Science from my pen, read by
  	Judge S. J. Hanna, in that unique assembly. 
 6	    When the light of one friendship after another passes
  	from earth to heaven, we kindle in place thereof the glow
  	of some deathless reality. Memory, faithful to goodness,
 9	holds in her secret chambers those characters of holiest
  	sort, bravest to endure, firmest to suffer, soonest to re-
  	nounce. Such was the founder of the Concord School of
12	Philosophy — the late A. Bronson Alcott. 
  	    After the publication of "Science and Health with Key
  	to the Scriptures," his athletic mind, scholarly and serene,
15	was the first to bedew my hope with a drop of humanity. 
  	When the press and pulpit cannonaded this book, he
  	introduced himself to its author by saying, "I have come
18	to comfort you." Then eloquently paraphrasing it, and
  	prophesying its prosperity, his conversation with a beauty
  	all its own reassured me. That prophecy is fulfilled. 
21	    This book, in 1895, is in its ninety-first edition of one
  	thousand copies. It is in the public libraries of the prin-
  	cipal cities, colleges, and universities of America; also
24	the same in Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia,
  	Italy, Greece, Japan, India, and China; in the Oxford
  	University and the Victoria Institute, England; in the
27	Academy of Greece, and the Vatican at Rome. 
  	    This book is the leaven fermenting religion; it is
  	palpably working in the sermons, Sunday Schools, and
30	literature of our and other lands. This spiritual chemi-
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 1	calization is the upheaval produced when Truth is neutral-
  	izing error and impurities are passing off. And it will
 3	continue till the antithesis of Christianity, engendering the
  	limited forms of a national or tyrannical religion, yields to
  	the church established by the Nazarene Prophet and main-
 6	tained on the spiritual foundation of Christ's healing. 
  	    Good, the Anglo-Saxon term for God, unites Science to
  	Christianity. It presents to the understanding, not matter,
 9	but Mind; not the deified drug, but the goodness of God — 
  	healing and saving mankind. 
  	    The author of "Marriage of the Lamb," who made the
12	mistake of thinking she caught her notions from my book,
  	wrote to me in 1894, "Six months ago your book, Science
  	and Health, was put into my hands.  I had not read three
15	pages before I realized I had found that for which I had
  	hungered since girlhood, and was healed instantaneously
  	of an ailment of seven years' standing.  I cast from me the
18	false remedy I had vainly used, and turned to the 'great
  	Physician.' I went with my husband, a missionary to
  	China, in 1884.  He went out under the auspices of the
21	Methodist Episcopal Church.  I feel the truth is leading
  	us to return to Japan." 
  	    Another brilliant enunciator, seeker, and servant of
24	Truth, the Rev. William R. Alger of Boston, signalled
  	me kindly as my lone bark rose and fell and rode the rough
  	sea. At a conversazione in Boston, he said, "You may
27	find in Mrs. Eddy's metaphysical teachings more than is
  	dreamt of in your philosophy." 
  	    Also that renowned apostle of anti-slavery, Wendell
30	Phillips, the native course of whose mind never swerved
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 1	from the chariot-paths of justice, speaking of my work,
  	said: "Had I young blood in my veins, I would help that
 3	woman." 
  	    I love Boston, and especially the laws of the State where-
  	of this city is the capital. To-day, as of yore, her laws
 6	have befriended progress. 
  	    Yet when I recall the past, — how the gospel of healing
  	was simultaneously praised and persecuted in Boston, — 
 9	and remember also that God is just, I wonder whether,
  	were our dear Master in our New England metropolis at
  	this hour, he would not weep over it, as he wept over
12	Jerusalem! O ye tears! Not in vain did ye flow. Those
  	sacred drops were but enshrined for future use, and God
  	has now unsealed their receptacle with His outstretched
15	arm. Those crystal globes made morals for mankind. 
  	They will rise with joy, and with power to wash away, in
  	floods of forgiveness, every crime, even when mistakenly
18	committed in the name of religion. 
  	    An unjust, unmerciful, and oppressive priesthood must
  	perish, for false prophets in the present as in the past
21	stumble onward to their doom; while their tabernacles
  	crumble with dry rot. "God is not mocked," and "the
  	word of the Lord endureth forever." 
24	    I have ordained the Bible and the Christian Science
  	textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,"
  	as pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
27	Boston, — so long as this church is satisfied with this
  	pastor. This is my first ordination. "They shall be
  	abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house; and
30	Thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy pleasures." 
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 1	    All praise to the press of America's Athens, — and
  	throughout our land the press has spoken out historically,
 3	impartially. Like the winds telling tales through the
  	leaves of an ancient oak, unfallen, may our church chimes
  	repeat my thanks to the press. 
 6	    Notwithstanding the perplexed condition of our na-
  	tion's finances, the want and woe with millions of dollars
  	unemployed in our money centres, the Christian Scientists,
 9	within fourteen months, responded to the call for this
  	church with $191,012. Not a mortgage was given nor a
  	loan solicited, and the donors all touchingly told their
12	privileged joy at helping to build The Mother Church. 
  	There was no urging, begging, or borrowing; only the
  	need made known, and forth came the money, or dia-
15	monds, which served to erect this "miracle in stone." 
  	    Even the children vied with their parents to meet the
  	demand. Little hands, never before devoted to menial
18	services, shoveled snow, and babes gave kisses to earn a
  	few pence toward this consummation. Some of these
  	lambs my prayers had christened, but Christ will rechristen
21	them with his own new name. "Out of the mouths of
  	babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected praise." The
  	resident youthful workers were called "Busy Bees." 
24	    Sweet society, precious children, your loving hearts and
  	deft fingers distilled the nectar and painted the finest
  	flowers in the fabric of this history, — even its centre-piece,
27	 — Mother's Room in The First Church of Christ, Sci-
  	entist, in Boston. The children are destined to witness
  	results which will eclipse Oriental dreams. They belong
30	to the twentieth century. By juvenile aid, into the build-
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 1	ing fund have come $4,460.¹  Ah, children, you are the
  	bulwarks of freedom, the cement of society, the hope of
 3	our race! 
  	    Brothers of the Christian Science Board of Directors,
  	when your tireless tasks are done — well done — no Del-
 6	phian lyre could break the full chords of such a rest. May
  	the altar you have built never be shattered in our hearts,
  	but justice, mercy, and love kindle perpetually its fires. 
 9	    It was well that the brother whose appliances warm
  	this house, warmed also our perishless hope, and nerved
  	its grand fulfilment. Woman, true to her instinct, came
12	to the rescue as sunshine from the clouds; so, when man
  	quibbled over an architectural exigency, a woman climbed
  	with feet and hands to the top of the tower, and helped
15	settle the subject. 
  	    After the loss of our late lamented pastor, Rev. D. A. 
  	Easton, the church services were maintained by excellent
18	sermons from the editor of The Christian Science Journal
  	(who, with his better half, is a very whole man), together
  	with the Sunday School giving this flock "drink from the
21	river of His pleasures." O glorious hope and blessed as-
  	surance, "it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the
  	kingdom." Christians rejoice in secret, they have a bounty
24	hidden from the world. Self-forgetfulness, purity, and
  	love are treasures untold — constant prayers, prophecies,
  	and anointings. Practice, not profession, — goodness, not
27	doctrines, — spiritual understanding, not mere belief,
  	gain the ear and right hand of omnipotence, and call down
  	blessings infinite. "Faith without works is dead." The
30	foundation of enlightened faith is Christ's teachings and

  	      ¹This sum was increased to $5,568.51 by contributions which
  	 reached the Treasurer after the Dedicatory Services.

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 1	practice. It was our Master's self-immolation, his life-
  	giving love, healing both mind and body, that raised the
 3	deadened conscience, paralyzed by inactive faith, to a
  	quickened sense of mortal's necessities, — and God's
  	power and purpose to supply them. It was, in the words
 6	of the Psalmist, He "who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
  	who healeth all thy diseases." 
  	    Rome's fallen fanes and silent Aventine is glory's tomb;
 9	her pomp and power lie low in dust. Our land, more
  	favored, had its Pilgrim Fathers. On shores of solitude,
  	at Plymouth Rock, they planted a nation's heart, — the
12	rights of conscience, imperishable glory. No dream of
  	avarice or ambition broke their exalted purpose, theirs
  	was the wish to reign in hope's reality — the realm of
15	Love. 
  	    Christian Scientists, you have planted your standard
  	on the rock of Christ, the true, the spiritual idea, — the
18	chief corner-stone in the house of our God. And our
  	Master said: "The stone which the builders rejected, the
  	same is become the head of the corner." If you are less
21	appreciated to-day than your forefathers, wait — for if
  	you are as devout as they, and more scientific, as progress
  	certainly demands, your plant is immortal. Let us rejoice
24	that chill vicissitudes have not withheld the timely shelter
  	of this house, which descended like day-spring from on
  	high. 
27	    Divine presence, breathe Thou Thy blessing on every
  	heart in this house. Speak out, O soul! This is the new-
  	born of Spirit, this is His redeemed; this, His beloved. 
30	May the kingdom of God within you, — with you alway, — 
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 1	reascending, bear you outward, upward, heavenward. 
  	May the sweet song of silver-throated singers, making
 3	melody more real, and the organ's voice, as the sound of
  	many waters, and the Word spoken in this sacred temple
  	dedicated to the ever-present God — mingle with the joy
 6	of angels and rehearse your hearts' holy intents. May all
  	whose means, energies, and prayers helped erect The
  	Mother Church, find within it home, and heaven.
 
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    CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK

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

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

  	    For victory over a single sin, we give thanks and mag-
  	nify the Lord of Hosts. What shall we say of the mighty
18	conquest over all sin? A louder song, sweeter than has
  	ever before reached high heaven, now rises clearer and
  	nearer to the great heart of Christ; for the accuser is not
21	there, and Love sends forth her primal and everlasting
  	strain. Self-abnegation, by which we lay down all for
  	Truth, or Christ, in our warfare against error, is a rule in
24	Christian Science. This rule clearly interprets God as
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 1	divine Principle, — as Life, represented by the Father;
  	as Truth, represented by the Son; as Love, represented
 3	by the Mother. Every mortal at some period, here or here-
  	after, must grapple with and overcome the mortal belief
  	in a power opposed to God. 
 6	    The Scripture, "Thou hast been faithful over a few
  	things, I will make thee ruler over many," is literally ful-
  	filled, when we are conscious of the supremacy of Truth,
 9	by which the nothingness of error is seen; and we know
  	that the nothingness of error is in proportion to its wicked-
  	ness. He that touches the hem of Christ's robe and masters
12	his mortal beliefs, animality, and hate, rejoices in the proof
  	of healing, — in a sweet and certain sense that God is
  	Love. Alas for those who break faith with divine Science
15	and fail to strangle the serpent of sin as well as of sickness! 
  	They are dwellers still in the deep darkness of belief. 
  	They are in the surging sea of error, not struggling to lift
18	their heads above the drowning wave. 
  	    What must the end be? They must eventually expiate
  	their sin through suffering. The sin, which one has made
21	his bosom companion, comes back to him at last with
  	accelerated force, for the devil knoweth his time is short. 
  	Here the Scriptures declare that evil is temporal, not
24	eternal. The dragon is at last stung to death by his own
  	malice; but how many periods of torture it may take to
  	remove all sin, must depend upon sin's obduracy. 

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

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

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

  	    Millions of unprejudiced minds — simple seekers for
15	Truth, weary wanderers, athirst in the desert — are wait-
  	ing and watching for rest and drink. Give them a cup of
  	cold water in Christ's name, and never fear the conse-
18	quences. What if the old dragon should send forth a new
  	flood to drown the Christ-idea? He can neither drown
  	your voice with its roar, nor again sink the world into the
21	deep waters of chaos and old night. In this age the earth
  	will help the woman; the spiritual idea will be understood. 
  	Those ready for the blessing you impart will give thanks. 
24	The waters will be pacified, and Christ will command the
  	wave. 
  	    When God heals the sick or the sinning, they should
27	know the great benefit which Mind has wrought. They
  	should also know the great delusion of mortal mind, when
  	it makes them sick or sinful. Many are willing to open
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 1	the eyes of the people to the power of good resident in
  	divine Mind, but they are not so willing to point out the
 3	evil in human thought, and expose evil's hidden mental
  	ways of accomplishing iniquity. 
  	    Why this backwardness, since exposure is necessary to
 6	ensure the avoidance of the evil? Because people like
  	you better when you tell them their virtues than when you
  	tell them their vices. It requires the spirit of our blessed
 9	Master to tell a man his faults, and so risk human dis-
  	pleasure for the sake of doing right and benefiting our
  	race. Who is telling mankind of the foe in ambush? Is
12	the informer one who sees the foe? If so, listen and be
  	wise. Escape from evil, and designate those as unfaithful
  	stewards who have seen the danger and yet have given
15	no warning. 
  	    At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil
  	with good. Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom
18	and the occasion for a victory over evil. Clad in the
  	panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. The
  	cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the
21	one divinity.
 
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                                   HYMNS 

  	                        By Rev. Mary Baker Eddy 

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

  	                LAYING THE CORNER-STONE 

 3	              Laus Deo, it is done! 
  	              Rolled away from loving heart
  	                  Is a stone. 
 6	              Joyous, risen, we depart
  	                  Having one. 

  	              Laus Deo, — on this rock
 9	              (Heaven chiselled squarely good)
  	                  Stands His church, — 
  	              God is Love, and understood
12	                  By His flock. 

  	              Laus Deo, night starlit
  	              Slumbers not in God's embrace;
15	                  Then, O man! 
  	              Like this stone, be in thy place;
  	                  Stand, not sit. 

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

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 1	                    "FEED MY SHEEP" 

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

  	              Thou wilt bind the stubborn will,
  	                Wound the callous breast,
12	              Make self-righteousness be still,
  	                Break earth's stupid rest. 
  	              Strangers on a barren shore,
15	                Lab'ring long and lone — 
  	              We would enter by the door,
  	                And Thou know'st Thine own. 

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

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 1	                          CHRIST MY REFUGE 

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

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

  	              Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show
  	                  Life's burdens light. 
12	              I kiss the cross, and wake to know
  	                  A world more bright. 

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

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

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

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 1	              My prayer, some daily good to do
  	                 To Thine, for Thee;
 3	              An offering pure of Love, whereto
  	               God leadeth me.
 
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                                 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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 1	    Christian Scientists, their children and grandchildren
  	to the latest generations, inevitably love one another with
 3	that love wherewith Christ loveth us; a love unselfish,
  	unambitious, impartial, universal, — that loves only be-
  	cause it is Love. Moreover, they love their enemies, even
 6	those that hate them. This we all must do to be Christian
  	Scientists in spirit and in truth. I long, and live, to see
  	this love demonstrated. I am seeking and praying for it
 9	to inhabit my own heart and to be made manifest in my
  	life. Who will unite with me in this pure purpose, and
  	faithfully struggle till it be accomplished? Let this be our
12	Christian endeavor society, which Christ organizes and
  	blesses. 
  	    While we entertain due respect and fellowship for what
15	is good and doing good in all denominations of religion,
  	and shun whatever would isolate us from a true sense of
  	goodness in others, we cannot serve mammon. 
18	    Christian Scientists are really united to only that which
  	is Christlike, but they are not indifferent to the welfare of
  	any one. To perpetuate a cold distance between our de-
21	nomination and other sects, and close the door on church
  	or individuals — however much this is done to us — is
  	not Christian Science. Go not into the way of the un-
24	christly, but wheresoever you recognize a clear expression
  	of God's likeness, there abide in confidence and hope. 
  	    Our unity with churches of other denominations must
27	rest on the spirit of Christ calling us together. It cannot
  	come from any other source. Popularity, self-aggrandize-
  	ment, aught that can darken in any degree our spirituality,
30	must be set aside. Only what feeds and fills the sentiment
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 1	with unworldliness, can give peace and good will towards
  	men. 
 3	    All Christian churches have one bond of unity, one
  	nucleus or point of convergence, one prayer, — the Lord's
  	Prayer. It is matter for rejoicing that we unite in love,
 6	and in this sacred petition with every praying assembly
  	on earth, — "Thy kingdom come.  Thy will be done in
  	earth, as it is in heaven." 
 9	    If the lives of Christian Scientists attest their fidelity
  	to Truth, I predict that in the twentieth century every
  	Christian church in our land, and a few in far-off lands,
12	will approximate the understanding of Christian Science
  	sufficiently to heal the sick in his name. Christ will give
  	to Christianity his new name, and Christendom will be
15	classified as Christian Scientists. 
  	    When the doctrinal barriers between the churches are
  	broken, and the bonds of peace are cemented by spiritual
18	understanding and Love, there will be unity of spirit, and
  	the healing power of Christ will prevail. Then shall Zion
  	have put on her most beautiful garments, and her waste
    21     places budded and blossomed as the rose.
 
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        CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS 

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

  	                           MARY BAKER EDDY 

 3	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
 6	         AND ITS FURNISHINGS — MRS. EDDY'S WORK AND HER IN-
  	           FLUENCE 

  	    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, mani-
12	festing itself under several different aspects and under
  	various names, but each having the common identity of
  	spiritual demand. This movement, under the guise of
15	Christian Science, and ingenuously calling out a closer
  	inquiry into Oriental philosophy, prefigures itself to us
  	as one of the most potent factors in the social evolution
18	of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. History
  	shows the curious fact that the closing years of every cen-
  	tury are years of more intense life, manifested in unrest
21	or in aspiration, and scholars of special research, like
  	Prof. Max Muller, assert that the end of a cycle, as is the
  	latter part of the present century, is marked by peculiar
24	intimations of man's immortal life. 
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 1	    The completion of the first Christian Science church
  	erected in Boston strikes a keynote of definite attention. 
 3	This church is in the fashionable Back Bay, between
  	Commonwealth and Huntington Avenues. It is one of
  	the most beautiful, and is certainly the most unique struc-
 6	ture in any city. The First Church of Christ, Scientist,
  	as it is officially called, is termed by its Founder, "Our
  	prayer in stone." It is located at the intersection of Nor-
 9	way and Falmouth Streets, on a triangular plot of ground,
  	the design a Romanesque tower with a circular front and
  	an octagonal form, accented by stone porticos and turreted
12	corners. On the front is a marble tablet, with the follow-
  	ing inscription carved in bold relief: —  
  	    "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, erected Anno
15	Domini 1894.  A testimonial to our beloved teacher,
  	the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder
  	of Christian Science; author of "Science and Health
18	with Key to the Scriptures;" president of the Massa-
  	chusetts Metaphysical College, and the first pastor of
  	this denomination." 


21	                            THE CHURCH EDIFICE 

  	    The church is built of Concord granite in light gray,
  	with trimmings of the pink granite of New Hampshire,
24	Mrs. Eddy's native State. The architecture is Romanesque
  	throughout. The tower is one hundred and twenty feet in
  	height and twenty-one and one half feet square. The en-
27	trances are of marble, with doors of antique oak richly
  	carved. The windows of stained glass are very rich in
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 1	pictorial effect. The lighting and cooling of the church — 
  	for cooling is a recognized feature as well as heating — 
 3	are done by electricity, and the heat generated by two
  	large boilers in the basement is distributed by the four
  	systems with motor electric power. The partitions are
 6	of iron; the floors of marble in mosaic work, and the
  	edifice is therefore as literally fire-proof as is conceivable. 
  	The principal features are the auditorium, seating eleven
 9	hundred people and capable of holding fifteen hundred;
  	the "Mother's Room," designed for the exclusive use of
  	Mrs. Eddy; the "directors' room," and the vestry. The
12	girders are all of iron, the roof is of terra cotta tiles, the
  	galleries are in plaster relief, the window frames are of
  	iron, coated with plaster; the staircases are of iron, with
15	marble stairs of rose pink, and marble approaches. 
  	    The vestibule is a fitting entrance to this magnificent
  	temple. In the ceiling is a sunburst with a seven-pointed
18	star, which illuminates it. From this are the entrances
  	leading to the auditorium, the "Mother's Room," and
  	the directors' room. 
21	    The auditorium is seated with pews of curly birch, up-
  	holstered in old rose plush. The floor is in white Italian
  	mosaic, with frieze of the old rose, and the wainscoting
24	repeats the same tints. The base and cap are of pink
  	Tennessee marble. On the walls are bracketed oxidized
  	silver lamps of Roman design, and there are frequent
27	illuminated texts from the Bible and from Mrs. Eddy's
  	"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" im-
  	panelled. A sunburst in the centre of the ceiling takes
30	the place of chandeliers. There is a disc of cut glass in
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 1	decorative designs, covering one hundred and forty-four
  	electric lights in the form of a star, which is twenty-one
 3	inches from point to point, the centre being of pure white
  	light, and each ray under prisms which reflect the rainbow
  	tints. The galleries are richly panelled in relief work. 
 6	The organ and choir gallery is spacious and rich beyond
  	the power of words to depict. The platform — corre-
  	sponding to the chancel of an Episcopal church — is a
 9	mosaic work, with richly carved seats following the sweep
  	of its curve, with a lamp stand of the Renaissance period
  	on either end, bearing six richly wrought oxidized silver
12	lamps, eight feet in height. The great organ comes from
  	Detroit. It is one of vast compass, with Aeolian attach-
  	ment, and cost eleven thousand dollars. It is the gift of
15	a single individual — a votive offering of gratitude for the
  	healing of the wife of the donor. 
  	    The chime of bells includes fifteen, of fine range and
18	perfect tone. 


  	                         THE "MOTHER'S ROOM" 

  	    The "Mother's Room" is approached by an entrance of
21	Italian marble, and over the door, in large golden letters on
  	a marble tablet, is the word "Love." In this room the
  	mosaic marble floor of white has a Romanesque border and
24	is decorated with sprays of fig leaves bearing fruit. The
  	room is toned in pale green with relief in old rose. The
  	mantel is of onyx and gold. Before the great bay window
27	hangs an Athenian lamp over two hundred years old,
  	which will be kept always burning day and night.¹  Lead-

  	 ¹At Mrs. Eddy's request the lamp was not kept burning.

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 1	ing off the "Mother's Room" are toilet apartments, with
  	full-length French mirrors and every convenience. 
 3	    The directors' room is very beautiful in marble ap-
  	proaches and rich carving, and off this is a vault for the
  	safe preservation of papers. 
 6	    The vestry seats eight hundred people, and opening from
  	it are three large class-rooms and the pastor's study. 
  	    The windows are a remarkable feature of this temple. 
 9	There are no "memorial" windows; the entire church is a
  	testimonial, not a memorial — a point that the members
  	strongly insist upon. 
12	    In the auditorium are two rose windows — one repre-
  	senting the heavenly city which "cometh down from God
  	out of heaven," with six small windows beneath, emblem-
15	atic of the six water-pots referred to in John ii. 6. The
  	other rose window represents the raising of the daughter
  	of Jairus. Beneath are two small windows bearing palms
18	of victory, and others with lamps, typical of Science and
  	Health. 
  	    Another great window tells its pictorial story of the four
21	Marys — the mother of Jesus, Mary anointing the head of
  	Jesus, Mary washing the feet of Jesus, Mary at the resur-
  	rection; and the woman spoken of in the Apocalypse,
24	chapter 12, God-crowned. 
  	    One more window in the auditorium represents the
  	raising of Lazarus. 
27	    In the gallery are windows representing John on the
  	Isle of Patmos, and others of pictorial significance. In
  	the "Mother's Room" the windows are of still more unique
30	interest. A large bay window, composed of three separate
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1	panels, is designed to be wholly typical of the work of Mrs.
  	Eddy. The central panel represents her in solitude and
 3	meditation, searching the Scriptures by the light of a single
  	candle, while the star of Bethlehem shines down from above. 
  	Above this is a panel containing the Christian Science seal,
 6	and other panels are decorated with emblematic designs,
  	with the legends, "Heal the Sick," "Raise the Dead,"
  	"Cleanse the Lepers," and "Cast out Demons." 
 9	    The cross and the crown and the star are presented in
  	appropriate decorative effect. The cost of this church is
  	two hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars, exclusive
12	of the land — a gift from Mrs. Eddy — which is valued
  	at some forty thousand dollars. 


  	                          THE ORDER OF SERVICE 

15	    The order of service in the Christian Science Church
  	does not differ widely from that of any other sect, save that
  	its service includes the use of Mrs. Eddy's book, entitled
18	"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in per-
  	haps equal measure to its use of the Bible. The reading
  	is from the two alternately; the singing is from a compila-
21	tion called the "Christian Science Hymnal," but its songs
  	are for the most part those devotional hymns from Herbert,
  	Faber, Robertson, Wesley, Bowring, and other recog-
24	nized devotional poets, with selections from Whittier and
  	Lowell, as are found in the hymn-books of the Unitarian
  	churches. For the past year or two Judge Hanna, for-
27	merly of Chicago, has filled the office of pastor to the
  	church in this city, which held its meetings in Chickering
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 1	Hall, and later in Copley Hall, in the new Grundmann
  	Studio Building on Copley Square. Preceding Judge
 3	Hanna were Rev. D. A. Easton and Rev. L. P. Norcross,
  	both of whom had formerly been Congregational clergy-
  	men. The organizer and first pastor of the church here
 6	was Mrs. Eddy herself, of whose work I shall venture to
  	speak, a little later, in this article. 
  	    Last Sunday I gave myself the pleasure of attending the
 9	service held in Copley Hall. The spacious apartment was
  	thronged with a congregation whose remarkable earnest-
  	ness impressed the observer. There was no straggling
12	of late-comers. Before the appointed hour every seat in the
  	hall was filled and a large number of chairs pressed into
  	service for the overflowing throng. The music was spirited,
15	and the selections from the Bible and from Science and
  	Health were finely read by Judge Hanna. Then came his
  	sermon, which dealt directly with the command of Christ
18	to "heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast
  	out demons." In his admirable discourse Judge Hanna
  	said that while all these injunctions could, under certain
21	conditions, be interpreted and fulfilled literally, the
  	special lesson was to be taken spiritually — to cleanse the
  	leprosy of sin, to cast out the demons of evil thought. 
24	The discourse was able, and helpful in its suggestive
  	interpretation. 


  	                            THE CHURCH MEMBERS 

27	    Later I was told that almost the entire congregation was
  	composed of persons who had either been themselves, or
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 1	had seen members of their own families, healed by Chris-
  	tian Science treatment; and I was further told that once
 3	when a Boston clergyman remonstrated with Judge Hanna
  	for enticing a separate congregation rather than offering
  	their strength to unite with churches already established — 
 6	I was told he replied that the Christian Science Church did
  	not recruit itself from other churches, but from the grave-
  	yards! The church numbers now four thousand members;
 9	but this estimate, as I understand, is not limited to the
  	Boston adherents, but includes those all over the country. 
  	The ceremonial of uniting is to sign a brief "confession of
12	faith," written by Mrs. Eddy, and to unite in communion,
  	which is not celebrated by outward symbols of bread and
  	wine, but by uniting in silent prayer. 
15	    The "confession of faith" includes the declaration that
  	the Scriptures are the guide to eternal Life; that there is a
  	Supreme Being, and His Son, and the Holy Ghost, and
18	that man is made in His image. It affirms the atonement;
  	it recognizes Jesus as the teacher and guide to salvation;
  	the forgiveness of sin by God, and affirms the power of
21	Truth over error, and the need of living faith at the
  	moment to realize the possibilities of the divine Life. 
  	The entire membership of Christian Scientists throughout
24	the world now exceeds two hundred thousand people. The
  	church in Boston was organized by Mrs. Eddy, and the
  	first meeting held on April 12, 1879. It opened with
27	twenty-six members, and within fifteen years it has grown
  	to its present impressive proportions, and has now its own
  	magnificent church building, costing over two hundred
30	thousand dollars, and entirely paid for when its consecra-
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 1	tion service on January 6 shall be celebrated. This is
  	certainly a very remarkable retrospect. 
 3	    Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of this denomina-
  	tion and Discoverer of Christian Science, as they term her
  	work in affirming the present application of the principles
 6	asserted by Jesus, is a most interesting personality. At
  	the risk of colloquialism, I am tempted to "begin at the
  	beginning" of my own knowledge of Mrs. Eddy, and take,
 9	as the point of departure, my first meeting with her and
  	the subsequent development of some degree of familiarity
  	with the work of her life which that meeting inaugurated
12	for me. 


  	                                            MRS. EDDY 

  	    It was during some year in the early '80's that I became
15	aware — from that close contact with public feeling result-
  	ing from editorial work in daily journalism — that the
  	Boston atmosphere was largely thrilled and pervaded by a
18	new and increasing interest in the dominance of mind over
  	matter, and that the central figure in all this agitation was
  	Mrs. Eddy. To a note which I wrote her, begging the
21	favor of an interview for press use, she most kindly replied,
  	naming an evening on which she would receive me. At
  	the hour named I rang the bell at a spacious house on
24	Columbus Avenue, and I was hardly more than seated be-
  	fore Mrs. Eddy entered the room. She impressed me as
  	singularly graceful and winning in bearing and manner,
27	and with great claim to personal beauty. Her figure was
  	tall, slender, and as flexible in movement as that of a Del-
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 1	sarte disciple; her face, framed in dark hair and lighted
  	by luminous blue eyes, had the transparency and rose-flush
 3	of tint so often seen in New England, and she was magnetic,
  	earnest, impassioned. No photographs can do the least
  	justice to Mrs. Eddy, as her beautiful complexion and
 6	changeful expression cannot thus be reproduced. At once
  	one would perceive that she had the temperament to domi-
  	nate, to lead, to control, not by any crude self-assertion, but
 9	a spiritual animus. Of course such a personality, with the
  	wonderful tumult in the air that her large and enthusiastic
  	following excited, fascinated the imagination. What had
12	she originated? I mentally questioned this modern St. 
  	Catherine, who was dominating her followers like any ab-
  	bess of old. She told me the story of her life, so far as out-
15	ward events may translate those inner experiences which
  	alone are significant. 
  	    Mary Baker was the daughter of Mark and Abigail
18	(Ambrose) Baker, and was born in Concord, N. H., some-
  	where in the early decade of 1820-'30. At the time I met
  	her she must have been some sixty years of age, yet she had
21	the coloring and the elastic bearing of a woman of thirty,
  	and this, she told me, was due to the principles of Chris-
  	tian Science. On her father's side Mrs. Eddy came from
24	Scotch and English ancestry, and Hannah More was a
  	relative of her grandmother. Deacon Ambrose, her mater-
  	nal grandfather, was known as a "godly man," and her
27	mother was a religious enthusiast, a saintly and consecrated
  	character. One of her brothers, Albert Baker, graduated
  	at Dartmouth and achieved eminence as a lawyer. 


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 1	                            MRS. EDDY AS A CHILD 

  	    As a child Mary Baker saw visions and dreamed dreams. 
 3	When eight years of age she began, like Jeanne d'Arc, to
  	hear "voices," and for a year she heard her name called
  	distinctly, and would often run to her mother questioning
 6	if she were wanted. One night the mother related to her
  	the story of Samuel, and bade her, if she heard the voice
  	again to reply as he did: "Speak, Lord, for Thy servant
 9	heareth." The call came, but the little maid was afraid
  	and did not reply. This caused her tears of remorse and
  	she prayed for forgiveness, and promised to reply if the call
12	came again. It came, and she answered as her mother had
  	bidden her, and after that it ceased. 
  	    These experiences, of which Catholic biographies are
15	full, and which history not infrequently emphasizes, cer-
  	tainly offer food for meditation. Theodore Parker related
  	that when he was a lad, at work in a field one day on his
18	father's farm at Lexington, an old man with a snowy beard
  	suddenly appeared at his side, and walked with him as he
  	worked, giving him high counsel and serious thought. All
21	inquiry in the neighborhood as to whence the stranger
  	came or whither he went was fruitless; no one else had
  	seen him, and Mr. Parker always believed, so a friend has
24	told me, that his visitor was a spiritual form from another
  	world. It is certainly true that many and many persons,
  	whose life has been destined to more than ordinary achieve-
27	ment, have had experiences of voices or visions in their
  	early youth. 
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 1	    At an early age Miss Baker was married to Colonel
  	Glover, of Charleston, S. C., who lived only a year. She
 3	returned to her father's home — in 1844 — and from that
  	time until 1866 no special record is to be made. 
  	    In 1866, while living in Lynn, Mass., Mrs. Eddy
 6	met with a severe accident, and her case was pro-
  	nounced hopeless by the physicians. There came a
  	Sunday morning when her pastor came to bid her good-
 9	by before proceeding to his morning service, as there was
  	no probability that she would be alive at its close. During
  	this time she suddenly became aware of a divine illumina-
12	tion and ministration. She requested those with her to
  	withdraw, and reluctantly they did so, believing her de-
  	lirious. Soon, to their bewilderment and fright, she walked
15	into the adjoining room, "and they thought I had died,
  	and that it was my apparition," she said. 


  	             THE PRINCIPLE OF DIVINE HEALING 

18	    From that hour dated her conviction of the Principle of
  	divine healing, and that it is as true to-day as it was in the
  	days when Jesus of Nazareth walked the earth. "I felt
21	that the divine Spirit had wrought a miracle," she said, in
  	reference to this experience. "How, I could not tell, but
  	later I found it to be in perfect scientific accord with the
24	divine law." From 1866-'69 Mrs. Eddy withdrew from the
  	world to meditate, to pray, to search the Scriptures. 
  	    "During this time," she said, in reply to my questions,
27	"the Bible was my only textbook.  It answered my ques-
  	tions as to the process by which I was restored to health;
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 1	it came to me with a new meaning, and suddenly I appre-
  	hended the spiritual meaning of the teaching of Jesus and
 3	the Principle and the law involved in spiritual Science
  	and metaphysical healing — in a word — Christian
  	Science." 
 6	    Mrs. Eddy came to perceive that Christ's healing was not
  	miraculous, but was simply a natural fulfilment of divine
  	law — a law as operative in the world to-day as it was
 9	nineteen hundred years ago. "Divine Science is begotten
  	of spirituality," she says, "since only the 'pure in heart'
  	can see God." 
12	    In writing of this experience, Mrs. Eddy has said:  —  
  	    "I had learned that thought must be spiritualized in
  	order to apprehend Spirit.  It must become honest, un-
15	selfish, and pure, in order to have the least understanding
  	of God in divine Science.  The first must become last.  
  	Our reliance upon material things must be transferred to
18	a perception of and dependence on spiritual things.  For
  	Spirit to be supreme in demonstration, it must be supreme
  	in our affections, and we must be clad with divine power.  
21	I had learned that Mind reconstructed the body, and that
  	nothing else could.  All Science is a revelation." 
  	    Through homoeopathy, too, Mrs. Eddy became con-
24	vinced of the Principle of Mind-healing, discovering that
  	the more attenuated the drug, the more potent was its
  	effects. 
27	    In 1877 Mrs. Glover married Dr. Asa Gilbert Eddy, of
  	Londonderry, Vermont, a physician who had come into
  	sympathy with her own views, and who was the first to
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1	Eddy died in 1882, a year after her founding of the Meta-
  	physical College in Boston, in which he taught. 
 3	    The work in the Metaphysical College lasted nine years,
  	and it was closed (in 1889) in the very zenith of its pros-
  	perity, as Mrs. Eddy felt it essential to the deeper founda-
 6	tion of her religious work to retire from active contact with
  	the world. To this College came hundreds and hundreds
  	of students, from Europe as well as this country. I was
 9	present at the class lectures now and then, by Mrs. Eddy's
  	kind invitation, and such earnestness of attention as was
  	given to her morning talks by the men and women present
12	I never saw equalled. 


  	                       MRS. EDDY'S PERSONALITY 

  	    On the evening that I first met Mrs. Eddy by her hos-
15	pitable courtesy, I went to her peculiarly fatigued. I came
  	away in a state of exhilaration and energy that made me
  	feel I could have walked any conceivable distance. I have
18	met Mrs. Eddy many times since then, and always with
  	this experience repeated. 
  	    Several years ago Mrs. Eddy removed from Columbus
21	to Commonwealth Avenue, where, just beyond Massa-
  	chusetts Avenue, at the entrance to the Back Bay Park,
  	she bought one of the most beautiful residences in Boston. 
24	The interior is one of the utmost taste and luxury, and the
  	house is now occupied by Judge and Mrs. Hanna, who are
  	the editors of The Christian Science Journal, a monthly
27	publication, and to whose courtesy I am much indebted
  	for some of the data of this paper. "It is a pleasure to
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 1	give any information for The Inter-Ocean," remarked
  	Mrs. Hanna, "for it is the great daily that is so fair and so
 3	just in its attitude toward all questions." 
  	    The increasing demands of the public on Mrs. Eddy
  	have been, it may be, one factor in her removal to Concord,
 6	N. H., where she has a beautiful residence, called Pleasant
  	View. Her health is excellent, and although her hair is
  	white, she retains in a great degree her energy and power;
 9	she takes a daily walk and drives in the afternoon. She
  	personally attends to a vast correspondence; superin-
  	tends the church in Boston, and is engaged on further
12	writings on Christian Science. In every sense she is the
  	recognized head of the Christian Science Church. At the
  	same time it is her most earnest aim to eliminate the ele-
15	ment of personality from the faith. "On this point, Mrs.  
  	Eddy feels very strongly," said a gentleman to me on
  	Christmas eve, as I sat in the beautiful drawing-room,
18	where Judge and Mrs. Hanna, Miss Elsie Lincoln, the
  	soprano for the choir of the new church, and one or two
  	other friends were gathered. 
21	    "Mother feels very strongly," he continued, "the danger
  	and the misfortune of a church depending on any one
  	personality.  It is difficult not to centre too closely around
24	a highly gifted personality." 


  	                           THE FIRST ASSOCIATION 

  	    The first Christian Scientist Association was organized
27	on July 4, 1876, by seven persons, including Mrs. Eddy. 
  	In April, 1879, the church was founded with twenty-six
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 1	members, and its charter obtained the following June.¹
  	Mrs. Eddy had preached in other parishes for five years
 3	before being ordained in this church, which ceremony
  	took place in 1881. 
  	    The first edition of Mrs. Eddy's book, Science and
 6	Health, was issued in 1875. During these succeeding
  	twenty years it has been greatly revised and enlarged, and
  	it is now in its ninety-first edition. It consists of fourteen
 9	chapters, whose titles are as follows: "Science, Theology,
  	Medicine," "Physiology," "Footsteps of Truth," "Crea-
  	tion," "Science of Being," "Christian Science and Spirit-
12	ualism," "Marriage," "Animal Magnetism," "Some
  	Objections Answered," "Prayer," "Atonement and Eu-
  	charist," "Christian Science Practice," "Teaching Chris-
15	tian Science," "Recapitulation." Key to the Scriptures,
  	Genesis, Apocalypse, and Glossary. 
  	    The Christian Scientists do not accept the belief we call
18	spiritualism. They believe those who have passed the
  	change of death are in so entirely different a plane of con-
  	sciousness that between the embodied and disembodied
21	there is no possibility of communication. 
  	    They are diametrically opposed to the philosophy of
  	Karma and of reincarnation, which are the tenets of
24	theosophy. They hold with strict fidelity to what they
  	believe to be the literal teachings of Christ. 
  	    Yet each and all these movements, however they may
27	differ among themselves, are phases of idealism and mani-
  	festations of a higher spirituality seeking expression. 
  	    It is good that each and all shall prosper, serving those
30	who find in one form of belief or another their best aid

  	      ¹Steps were taken to promote the Church of Christ, Scientist,
  	 in April, May, and June; formal organization was accomplished and
33	 the charter obtained in August, 1879.

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1	and guidance, and that all meet on common ground in the
  	great essentials of love to God and love to man as a signal
 3	proof of the divine origin of humanity which finds no rest
  	until it finds the peace of the Lord in spirituality. They
  	all teach that one great truth, that 

 6	     God's greatness flows around our incompleteness,
  	     Round our restlessness, His rest. 
  	                              ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 


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


  	                                 AT THE WINDOW 

  	                               [Written for the Traveller] 

15	           The sunset, burning low,
  	             Throws o'er the Charles its flood of golden light. 
  	           Dimly, as in a dream, I watch the flow
18	             Of waves of light. 

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

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

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 1	           Ah, love! I only know
  	             How thoughts of you forever cling to me:
 3	           I wonder how the seasons come and go
  	             Beyond the sapphire sea? 
  	                                                LILIAN WHITING 

 6	April 15, 1888 


  	             [Boston Herald, January 7, 1895] 

  	                               [Extract] 

 9	  A TEMPLE GIVEN TO GOD — DEDICATION OF THE
  	          MOTHER CHURCH OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

  	  NOVEL METHOD OF ENABLING SIX THOUSAND BELIEVERS TO
12	         ATTEND THE EXERCISES — THE SERVICE REPEATED FOUR
  	           TIMES — SERMON BY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY, FOUNDER OF 
  	           THE DENOMINATION — BEAUTIFUL ROOM WHICH THE CHILDREN
15	         BUILT 

  	    With simple ceremonies, four times repeated, in the
  	presence of four different congregations, aggregating
18	nearly six thousand persons, the unique and costly edifice
  	erected in Boston at Norway and Falmouth Streets as a
  	home for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and a
21	testimonial to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian
  	Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, was yesterday dedicated
  	to the worship of God. 
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 1	    The structure came forth from the hands of the artisans
  	with every stone paid for — with an appeal, not for more
 3	money, but for a cessation of the tide of contributions
  	which continued to flow in after the full amount needed
  	was received. From every State in the Union, and from
 6	many lands, the love-offerings of the disciples of Christian
  	Science came to help erect this beautiful structure, and
  	more than four thousand of these contributors came to
 9	Boston, from the far-off Pacific coast and the Gulf States
  	and all the territory that lies between, to view the new-
  	built temple and to listen to the Message sent them by
12	the teacher they revere. 
  	    From all New England the members of the denomina-
  	tion gathered; New York sent its hundreds, and even
15	from the distant States came parties of forty and fifty. 
  	The large auditorium, with its capacity for holding from
  	fourteen hundred to fifteen hundred persons, was hopelessly
18	incapable of receiving this vast throng, to say nothing of
  	nearly a thousand local believers. Hence the service was
  	repeated until all who wished had heard and seen; and
21	each of the four vast congregations filled the church to
  	repletion. 
  	    At 7:30 a.m. the chimes in the great stone tower, which
24	rises one hundred and twenty-six feet above the earth,
  	rung out their message of "On earth peace, good will
  	toward men." 
27	    Old familiar hymns — "All hail the power of Jesus'
  	name," and others such — were chimed until the hour for
  	the dedication service had come. 
30	    At 9 a.m. the first congregation gathered. Before this
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 1	service had closed the large vestry room and the spacious
  	lobbies and the sidewalks around the church were all
 3	filled with a waiting multitude. At 10:30 o'clock another
  	service began, and at noon still another. Then there was
  	an intermission, and at 3 p.m. the service was repeated
 6	for the last time. 
  	    There was scarcely even a minor variation in the exer-
  	cises at any one of these services. At 10:30 a.m., how-
 9	ever, the scene was rendered particularly interesting by
  	the presence of several hundred children in the central
  	pews. These were the little contributors to the building
12	fund, whose money was devoted to the "Mother's Room,"
  	a superb apartment intended for the sole use of Mrs. Eddy. 
  	These children are known in the church as the "Busy
15	Bees," and each of them wore a white satin badge with a
  	golden beehive stamped upon it, and beneath the beehive
  	the words, "Mother's Room," in gilt letters. 
18	    The pulpit end of the auditorium was rich with the
  	adornment of flowers. On the wall of the choir gallery
  	above the platform, where the organ is to be hereafter
21	placed, a huge seven-pointed star was hung — a star of
  	lilies resting on palms, with a centre of white immortelles,
  	upon which in letters of red were the words: "Love-
24	Children's Offering — 1894." 
  	    In the choir and the steps of the platform were potted
  	palms and ferns and Easter lilies. The desk was wreathed
27	with ferns and pure white roses fastened with a broad
  	ribbon bow. On its right was a large basket of white
  	carnations resting on a mat of palms, and on its left a vase
30	filled with beautiful pink roses. 
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 1	    Two combined choirs — that of First Church of Christ,
  	Scientist, of New York, and the choir of the home church,
 3	numbering thirty-five singers in all — led the singing,
  	under the direction, respectively, of Mr. Henry Lincoln
  	Case and Miss Elsie Lincoln. 
 6	    Judge S. J. Hanna, editor of The Christian Science
  	Journal, presided over the exercises. On the platform
  	with him were Messrs. Ira O. Knapp, Joseph Armstrong,
 9	Stephen A. Chase, and William B. Johnson, who compose
  	the Board of Directors, and Mrs. Henrietta Clark Bemis,
  	a distinguished elocutionist, and a native of Concord, New
12	Hampshire. 
  	    The utmost simplicity marked the exercises. After an
  	organ voluntary, the hymn, "Laus Deo, it is done!" 
15	written by Mrs. Eddy for the corner-stone laying last
  	spring, was sung by the congregation. Selections from the
  	Scriptures and from "Science and Health with Key to the
18	Scriptures," were read by Judge Hanna and Dr. Eddy. 
  	    A few minutes of silent prayer came next, followed by
  	the recitation of the Lord's Prayer, with its spiritual inter-
21	pretation as given in the Christian Science textbook. 
  	    The sermon prepared for the occasion by Mrs. Eddy,
  	which was looked forward to as the chief feature of the
24	dedication, was then read by Mrs. Bemis. Mrs. Eddy
  	remained at her home in Concord, N. H., during the day,
  	because, as heretofore stated in The Herald, it is her
27	custom to discourage among her followers that sort of
  	personal worship which religious teachers so often receive. 
  	    Before presenting the sermon, Mrs. Bemis read the fol-
30	lowing letter from a former pastor of the church: — 
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1	"To Rev. Mary Baker Eddy 
  	    "Dear Teacher, Leader, Guide: — 'Laus Deo, it is done!'
 3	At last you begin to see the fruition of that you have worked,
  	toiled, prayed for. The 'prayer in stone' is accomplished. 
  	Across two thousand miles of space, as mortal sense puts
 6	it, I send my hearty congratulations. You are fully occu-
  	pied, but I thought you would willingly pause for an
  	instant to receive this brief message of congratulation. 
 9	Surely it marks an era in the blessed onward work of
  	Christian Science. It is a most auspicious hour in your
  	eventful career. While we all rejoice, yet the mother in
12	Israel, alone of us all, comprehends its full significance. 
  	                                       "Yours lovingly, 

  	                                                "LANSON P. NORCROSS" 


15	              [Boston Sunday Globe, January 6, 1895] 

  	                                    [Extract] 

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

  	    Christian Science has shown its power over its students,
21	as they are called, by building a church by voluntary con-
  	tributions, the first of its kind; a church which will be
  	dedicated to-day with a quarter of a million dollars ex-
24	pended and free of debt. 
  	    The money has flowed in from all parts of the United
  	States and Canada without any special appeal, and it kept
27	coming until the custodian of funds cried "enough" and
  	refused to accept any further checks by mail or otherwise. 
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 1	Men, women, and children lent a helping hand, some
  	giving a mite and some substantial sums. Sacrifices were
 3	made in many an instance which will never be known in
  	this world. 
  	    Christian Scientists not only say that they can effect
 6	cures of disease and erect churches, but add that they can
  	get their buildings finished on time, even when the feat
  	seems impossible to mortal senses. Read the following,
 9	from a publication of the new denomination: —  
  	    "One of the grandest and most helpful features of this
  	glorious consummation is this:  that one month before the
12	close of the year every evidence of material sense declared
  	that the church's completion within the year 1894 tran-
  	scended human possibility. The predictions of workman
15	and onlooker alike were that it could not be completed
  	before April or May of 1895. Much was the ridicule
  	heaped upon the hopeful, trustful ones, who declared and
18	repeatedly asseverated to the contrary. This is indeed,
  	then, a scientific demonstration. It has proved, in most
  	striking manner, the oft-repeated declarations of our
21	textbooks, that the evidence of the mortal senses is
  	unreliable." 
  	    A week ago Judge Hanna withdrew from the pastorate
24	of the church, saying he gladly laid down his responsibili-
  	ties to be succeeded by the grandest of ministers — the
  	Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-
27	tures." This action, it appears, was the result of rules
  	made by Mrs. Eddy. The sermons hereafter will consist
  	of passages read from the two books by Readers, who will
30	be elected each year by the congregation. 
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 1	    A story has been abroad that Judge Hanna was so elo-
  	quent and magnetic that he was attracting listeners who
 3	came to hear him preach, rather than in search of the
  	truth as taught. Consequently the new rules were formu-
  	lated. But at Christian Science headquarters this is denied;
 6	Mrs. Eddy says the words of the judge speak to the point,
  	and that no such inference is to be drawn therefrom. 
  	    In Mrs. Eddy's personal reminiscences, which are pub-
 9	lished under the title of "Retrospection and Introspection,"
  	much is told of herself in detail that can only be touched
  	upon in this brief sketch. 
12	    Aristocratic to the backbone, Mrs. Eddy takes delight
  	in going back to the ancestral tree and in tracing those
  	branches which are identified with good and great names
15	both in Scotland and England. 
  	    Her family came to this country not long before the
  	Revolution. Among the many souvenirs that Mrs. Eddy
18	remembers as belonging to her grandparents was a heavy
  	sword, encased in a brass scabbard, upon which had been
  	inscribed the name of the kinsman upon whom the sword
21	had been bestowed by Sir William Wallace of mighty
  	Scottish fame. 
  	    Mrs. Eddy applied herself, like other girls, to her studies,
24	though perhaps with an unusual zest, delighting in philos-
  	ophy, logic, and moral science, as well as looking into the
  	ancient languages, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. 
27	    Her last marriage was in the spring of 1877, when, at
  	Lynn, Mass., she became the wife of Asa Gilbert Eddy. 
  	He was the first organizer of a Christian Science Sunday
30	School, of which he was the superintendent, and later he
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 1	attracted the attention of many clergymen of other de-
  	nominations by his able lectures upon Scriptural topics. 
 3	He died in 1882. 
  	    Mrs. Eddy is known to her circle of pupils and admirers
  	as the editor and publisher of the first official organ of this
 6	sect. It was called the Journal of Christian Science, and
  	has had great circulation with the members of this fast-
  	increasing faith. 
 9	    In recounting her experiences as the pioneer of Chris-
  	tian Science, she states that she sought knowledge concern-
  	ing the physical side in this research through the different
12	schools of allopathy, homoeopathy, and so forth, without
  	receiving any real satisfaction. No ancient or modern
  	philosophy gave her any distinct statement of the Science
15	of Mind-healing. She claims that no human reason has
  	been equal to the question. And she also defines care-
  	fully the difference in the theories between faith-cure and
18	Christian Science, dwelling particularly upon the terms
  	belief and understanding, which are the key words respec-
  	tively used in the definitions of these two healing arts. 
21	    Besides her Boston home, Mrs. Eddy has a delightful
  	country home one mile from the State House of New
  	Hampshire's quiet capital, an easy driving distance for
24	her when she wishes to catch a glimpse of the world. But
  	for the most part she lives very much retired, driving rather
  	into the country, which is so picturesque all about Con-
27	cord and its surrounding villages. 
  	    The big house, so delightfully remodelled and modern-
  	ized from a primitive homestead that nothing is left ex-
30	cepting the angles and pitch of the roof, is remarkably
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 1	well placed upon a terrace that slopes behind the build-
  	ings, while they themselves are in the midst of green
 3	stretches of lawns, dotted with beds of flowering shrubs,
  	with here and there a fountain or summer-house. 
  	    Mrs. Eddy took the writer straight to her beloved "look-
 6	out" — a broad piazza on the south side of the second
  	story of the house, where she can sit in her swinging chair,
  	revelling in the lights and shades of spring and summer
 9	greenness. Or, as just then, in the gorgeous October
  	coloring of the whole landscape that lies below, across the
  	farm, which stretches on through an intervale of beautiful
12	meadows and pastures to the woods that skirt the valley
  	of the little truant river, as it wanders eastward. 
  	    It pleased her to point out her own birthplace. Straight
15	as the crow flies, from her piazza, does it lie on the brow
  	of Bow hill, and then she paused and reminded the reporter
  	that Congressman Baker from New Hampshire, her cousin,
18	was born and bred in that same neighborhood. The
  	photograph of Hon. Hoke Smith, another distinguished
  	relative, adorned the mantel. 
21	    Then my eye caught her family coat of arms and the
  	diploma given her by the Society of the Daughters of the
  	Revolution. 
24	    The natural and lawful pride that comes with a tincture
  	of blue and brave blood, is perhaps one of her characteris-
  	tics, as is many another well-born woman's. She had a
27	long list of worthy ancestors in Colonial and Revolutionary
  	days, and the McNeils and General Knox figure largely in
  	her genealogy, as well as the hero who killed the ill-starred
30	Paugus. 
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 1	    This big, sunny room which Mrs. Eddy calls her den — 
  	or sometimes "Mother's room," when speaking of her
 3	many followers who consider her their spiritual Leader — 
  	has the air of hospitality that marks its hostess herself. 
  	Mrs. Eddy has hung its walls with reproductions of some
 6	of Europe's masterpieces, a few of which had been the
  	gifts of her loving pupils. 
  	    Looking down from the windows upon the tree-tops
 9	on the lower terrace, the reporter exclaimed: "You have
  	lived here only four years, and yet from a barren waste
  	of most unpromising ground has come forth all this
12	beauty!" 
  	    "Four years!" she ejaculated; "two and a half, only
  	two and a half years." Then, touching my sleeve and
15	pointing, she continued: "Look at those big elms! I had
  	them brought here in warm weather, almost as big as they
  	are now, and not one died." 
18	    Mrs. Eddy talked earnestly of her friendships. . . .
  	She told something of her domestic arrangements, of how
  	she had long wished to get away from her busy career in
21	Boston, and return to her native granite hills, there to
  	build a substantial home that should do honor to that
  	precinct of Concord. 
24	    She chose the stubbly old farm on the road from Con-
  	cord, within one mile of the "Eton of America," St. Paul's
  	School. Once bought, the will of the woman set at work,
27	and to-day a strikingly well-kept estate is the first impres-
  	sion given to the visitor as he approaches Pleasant View. 
  	    She employs a number of men to keep the grounds and
30	farm in perfect order, and it was pleasing to learn that this
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 1	rich woman is using her money to promote the welfare of
  	industrious workmen, in whom she takes a vital interest. 
 3	    Mrs. Eddy believes that "the laborer is worthy of his
  	hire," and, moreover, that he deserves to have a home and
  	family of his own. Indeed, one of her motives in buying
 6	so large an estate was that she might do something for the
  	toilers, and thus add her influence toward the advancement
  	of better home life and citizenship. 


 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
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1	    Christian Science does not strike all as a system of truth. 
  	If it did, it would be a prodigy. Neither does the Christian
 3	faith produce the same impressions upon all. Freedom to
  	believe or to dissent is a great privilege in these days. So
  	when a number of conscientious followers apply themselves
 6	to a matter like Christian Science, they are enjoying that
  	liberty which is their inherent right as human beings, and
  	though they cannot escape censure, yet they are to be
 9	numbered among the many pioneers who are searching
  	after religious truth. There is really nothing settled. 
  	Every truth is more or less in a state of agitation. The
12	many who have worked in the mine of knowledge are glad
  	to welcome others who have different methods, and with
  	them bring different ideas. 
15	    It is too early to predict where this movement will go,
  	and how greatly it will affect the well-established methods. 
  	That it has produced a sensation in religious circles, and
18	called forth the implements of theological warfare, is very
  	well known. While it has done this, it may, on the other
  	hand, have brought a benefit. Ere this many a new project
21	in religious belief has stirred up feeling, but as time has
  	gone on, compromises have been welcomed. 
  	    The erection of this temple will doubtless help on the
24	growth of its principles. Pilgrims from everywhere will go
  	there in search of truth, and some may be satisfied and some
  	will not. Christian Science cannot absorb the world's
27	thought. It may get the share of attention it deserves, but
  	it can only aspire to take its place alongside other great
  	demonstrations of religious belief which have done some-
30	thing good for the sake of humanity. 
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1	    Wonders will never cease. Here is a church whose
  	treasurer has to send out word that no sums except those
 3	already subscribed can be received! The Christian
  	Scientists have a faith of the mustard-seed variety. 
  	What a pity some of our practical Christian folk have not a
 6	faith approximate to that of these "impractical" Christian
  	Scientists. 


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

 9	                                             [Extract] 

  	                           CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

  	    The erection of a massive temple in Boston by Christian
12	Scientists, at a cost of over two hundred thousand dollars,
  	love-offerings of the disciples of Mary Baker Eddy, reviver
  	of the ancient faith and author of the textbook from which,
15	with the New Testament at the foundation, believers
  	receive light, health, and strength, is evidence of the rapid
  	growth of the new movement. We call it new. It is not. 
18	The name Christian Science alone is new. At the begin-
  	ning of Christianity it was taught and practised by Jesus
  	and his disciples. The Master was the great healer. But
21	the wave of materialism and bigotry that swept over the
  	world for fifteen centuries, covering it with the blackness
  	of the Dark Ages, nearly obliterated all vital belief in his
24	teachings. The Bible was a sealed book. Recently a
  	revived belief in what he taught is manifest, and Christian
  	Science is one result. No new doctrine is proclaimed, but
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 1	there is the fresh development of a Principle that was put
  	into practice by the Founder of Christianity nineteen hun-
 3	dred years ago, though practised in other countries at an
  	earlier date. "The thing that hath been, it is that which
  	shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be
 6	done:  and there is no new thing under the sun." 
  	    The condition which Jesus of Nazareth, on various
  	occasions during the three years of his ministry on earth,
 9	declared to be essential, in the mind of both healer and
  	patient, is contained in the one word — faith. Can drugs
  	suddenly cure leprosy? When the ten lepers were cleansed
12	and one returned to give thanks in Oriental phrase, Jesus
  	said to him: "Arise, go thy way:  thy faith hath made thee
  	whole." That was Christian Science. In his "Law of
15	Psychic Phenomena" Hudson says: "That word, more
  	than any other, expresses the whole law of human felicity
  	and power in this world, and of salvation in the world to
18	come.  It is that attribute of mind which elevates man
  	above the level of the brute, and gives dominion over the
  	physical world.  It is the essential element of success in
21	every field of human endeavor.  It constitutes the power
  	of the human soul.  When Jesus of Nazareth proclaimed
  	its potency from the hilltops of Palestine, he gave to man-
24	kind the key to health and heaven, and earned the title
  	of Saviour of the World." Whittier, grandest of mystic
  	poets, saw the truth: —  

27	                      That healing gift he lends to them
  	                        Who use it in his name;
  	                      The power that filled his garment's hem
30	                        Is evermore the same. 

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 1	    Again, in a poem entitled "The Master," he wrote: —  

  	                      The healing of his seamless dress
 3	                        Is by our beds of pain;
  	                      We touch him in life's throng and press,
  	                        And we are whole again.¹ 


 6	    That Jesus operated in perfect harmony with natural
  	law, not in defiance, suppression, or violation of it, we can-
  	not doubt. The perfectly natural is the perfectly spiritual. 
 9	Jesus enunciated and exemplified the Principle; and,
  	obviously, the conditions requisite in psychic healing
  	to-day are the same as were necessary in apostolic times. 
12	We accept the statement of Hudson: "There was no law
  	of nature violated or transcended. On the contrary, the
  	whole transaction was in perfect obedience to the laws of
15	nature. He understood the law perfectly, as no one before
  	him understood it; and in the plenitude of his power he
  	applied it where the greatest good could be accomplished." 
18	A careful reading of the accounts of his healings, in the
  	light of modern science, shows that he observed, in his
  	practice of mental therapeutics, the conditions of environ-
21	ment and harmonious influence that are essential to success. 
  	In the case of Jairus' daughter they are fully set forth. 
  	He kept the unbelievers away, "put them all out," and
24	permitting only the father and mother, with his closest
  	friends and followers, Peter, James, and John, in the
  	chamber with him, and having thus the most perfect
27	obtainable environment, he raised the daughter to life. 


  	      ¹NOTE: — 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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 1	                      "Not in blind caprice of will,
  	                       Not in cunning sleight of skill,
 3	                       Not for show of power, was wrought
  	                       Nature's marvel in thy thought." 



  	    In a previous article we have referred to cyclic changes
 6	that came during the last quarter of preceding centuries. 
  	Of our remarkable nineteenth century not the least event-
  	ful circumstance is the advent of Christian Science. 
 9	That it should be the work of a woman is the natural out-
  	come of a period notable for her emancipation from many
  	of the thraldoms, prejudices, and oppressions of the past. 
12	We do not, therefore, regard it as a mere coincidence that
  	the first edition of Mrs. Eddy's Science and Health should
  	have been published in 1875. Since then she has revised
15	it many times, and the ninety-first edition is announced. 
  	Her discovery was first called, "The Science of Divine
  	Metaphysical Healing." Afterward she selected the name
18	Christian Science. It is based upon what is held to be
  	scientific certainty, namely, — that all causation is of
  	Mind, every effect has its origin in desire and thought. 
21	The theology — if we may use the word — of Christian
  	Science is contained in the volume entitled "Science and
  	Health with Key to the Scriptures." 
24	    The present Boston congregation was organized
  	April 12, 1879, and has now over four thousand members. 
  	It is regarded as the parent organization, all others being
27	branches, though each is entirely independent in the
  	management of its own affairs. Truth is the sole recognized
  	authority. Of actual members of different congregations
30	there are between one hundred thousand and two hundred
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 1	thousand. One or more organized societies have sprung
  	up in New York, Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincin-
 3	nati, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toledo, Milwaukee, Madison,
  	Scranton, Peoria, Atlanta, Toronto, and nearly every other
  	centre of population, besides a large and growing number
 6	of receivers of the faith among the members of all the
  	churches and non-church-going people. In some churches
  	a majority of the members are Christian Scientists, and, as
 9	a rule, are the most intelligent. 
  	    Space does not admit of an elaborate presentation on the
  	occasion of the erection of the temple, in Boston, the
12	dedication taking place on the 6th of January, of one of
  	the most remarkable, helpful, and powerful movements
  	of the last quarter of the century. Christian Science
15	has brought hope and comfort to many weary souls. It
  	makes people better and happier. Welding Christianity
  	and Science, hitherto divorced because dogma and truth
18	could not unite, was a happy inspiration. 

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



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

24	                  A  CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE  CHURCH 

  	    A great Christian Science church was dedicated in Bos-
  	ton on Sunday, the 6th inst. It is located at Norway and
27	Falmouth Streets, and is intended to be a testimonial to
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 1	the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, the
  	Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. The building is fire-proof, and
 3	cost over two hundred thousand dollars. It is entirely
  	paid for, and contributions for its erection came from every
  	State in the Union, and from many lands. The auditorium
 6	is said to seat between fourteen and fifteen hundred, and
  	was thronged at the four services on the day of dedication. 
  	The sermon, prepared by Mrs. Eddy, was read by Mrs.
 9	Bemis. It rehearsed the significance of the building, and
  	reenunciated the truths which will find emphasis there. 
  	From the description we judge that it is one of the most
12	beautiful buildings in Boston, and, indeed, in all New
  	England. Whatever may be thought of the peculiar tenets
  	of the Christian Scientists, and whatever difference of
15	opinion there may be concerning the organization of such
  	a church, there can be no question but that the adherents
  	of this church have proved their faith by their works. 


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

  	                     "OUR PRAYER IN STONE" 

  	    Such is the excellent name given to a new Boston church. 
21	Few people outside its own circles realize how extensive is
  	the belief in Christian Science. There are several sects of
  	mental healers, but this new edifice on Back Bay, just off
24	Huntington Avenue, not far from the big Mechanics
  	Building and the proposed site of the new Music Hall,
  	belongs to the followers of Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy,
27	a lady born of an old New Hampshire family, who, after
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 1	many vicissitudes, found herself in Lynn, Mass., healed by
  	the power of divine Mind, and thereupon devoted herself
 3	to imparting this faith to her fellow-beings. Coming to
  	Boston about 1880, she began teaching, gathered an
  	association of students, and organized a church. For
 6	several years past she has lived in Concord, N. H., near
  	her birthplace, owning a beautiful estate called Pleasant
  	View; but thousands of believers throughout this country
 9	have joined The Mother Church in Boston, and have now
  	erected this edifice at a cost of over two hundred thousand
  	dollars, every bill being paid. 
12	    Its appearance is shown in the pictures we are permitted
  	to publish. In the belfry is a set of tubular chimes. Inside
  	is a basement room, capable of division into seven excellent
15	class-rooms, by the use of movable partitions. The main
  	auditorium has wide galleries, and will seat over a thousand
  	in its exceedingly comfortable pews. Scarcely any wood-
18	work is to be found. The floors are all mosaic, the steps
  	marble, and the walls stone. It is rather dark, often too
  	much so for comfortable reading, as all the windows are of
21	colored glass, with pictures symbolic of the tenets of the
  	organization. In the ceiling is a beautiful sunburst window. 
  	Adjoining the chancel is a pastor's study; but for an
24	indefinite time their prime instructor has ordained that the
  	only pastor shall be the Bible, with her book, called
  	"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." In the
27	tower is a room devoted to her, and called "Mother's
  	Room," furnished with all conveniences for living, should
  	she wish to make it a home by day or night. Therein is
30	a portrait of her in stained glass; and an electric light,
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1	behind an antique lamp, kept perpetually burning¹ 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 

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 1	the snowstorm) were crowded with others, waiting for
  	admission. 
 3	    On the next Sunday the new order of service went
  	into operation. There was no address of any sort, no
  	notices, no explanation of Bible or their textbook. Judge
 6	Hanna, who was a Colorado lawyer before coming into
  	this work, presided, reading in clear, manly, and intelli-
  	gent tones, the Quarterly Bible Lesson, which happened
 9	that day to be on Jesus' miracle of loaves and fishes. 
  	Each paragraph he supplemented first with illustrative
  	Scripture parallels, as set down for him, and then by pas-
12	sages selected for him from Mrs. Eddy's book. The place
  	was again crowded, many having remained over a week
  	from among the thousands of adherents who had come
15	to Boston for this auspicious occasion from all parts of
  	the country. The organ, made by Farrand & Votey in
  	Detroit, at a cost of eleven thousand dollars, is the gift of
18	a wealthy Universalist gentleman, but was not ready for
  	the opening. It is to fill the recess behind the spacious
  	platform, and is described as containing pneumatic wind-
21	chests throughout, and having an Aeolian attachment. 
  	It is of three-manual compass, C.C.C. to C. 4, 61 notes;
  	and pedal compass, C.C.C. to F. 30. The great organ
24	has double open diapason (stopped bass), open diapason,
  	dulciana, viola di gamba, doppel flute, hohl flute, octave,
  	octave quint, superoctave, and trumpet, — 61 pipes each. 
27	The swell organ has bourdon, open diapason, salicional,
  	aeoline, stopped diapason, gemshorn, flute harmonique,
  	flageolet, cornet — 3 ranks, 183, — cornopean, oboe, vox
30	humana — 61 pipes each. The choir organ, enclosed in
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 1	separate swell-box, has geigen principal, dolce, concert
  	flute, quintadena, fugara, flute d'amour, piccolo harmo-
 3	nique, clarinet, — 61 pipes each. The pedal organ has
  	open diapason, bourdon, lieblich gedeckt (from stop 10),
  	violoncello-wood, — 30 pipes each. Couplers:  swell to
 6	great; choir to great; swell to choir; swell to great oc-
  	taves, swell to great sub-octaves; choir to great sub-
  	octaves; swell octaves; swell to pedal; great to pedal;
 9	choir to pedal. Mechanical accessories:  swell tremulant,
  	choir tremulant, bellows signal; wind indicator. Pedal
  	movements:  three affecting great and pedal stops, three
12	affecting swell and pedal stops; great to pedal reversing
  	pedal; crescendo and full organ pedal; balanced great
  	and choir pedal; balanced swell pedal. 
15	    Beautiful suggestions greet you in every part of this
  	unique church, which is practical as well as poetic, and
  	justifies the name given by Mrs. Eddy, which stands at
18	the head of this sketch.                                  J. H. W. 



	                    [Boston Journal, January 7, 1895] 

        	              CHIMES  RANG  SWEETLY 

21	    Much admiration was expressed by all those fortunate
  	enough to listen to the first peal of the chimes in the tower
  	of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, corner of Fal-
24	mouth and Norway Streets, dedicated yesterday. The
  	sweet, musical tones attracted quite a throng of people,
  	who listened with delight. 
27	    The chimes were made by the United States Tubular
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1	Bell Company, of Methuen, Mass., and are something
  	of a novelty in this country, though for some time well
 3	and favorably known in the Old Country, especially in
  	England. 
  	    They are a substitution of tubes of drawn brass for the
 6	heavy cast bells of old-fashioned chimes. They have the
  	advantage of great economy of space, as well as of cost, a
  	chime of fifteen bells occupying a space not more than
 9	five by eight feet. 
  	    Where the old-fashioned chimes required a strong man
  	to ring them, these can be rung from an electric keyboard,
12	and even when rung by hand require but little muscular
  	power to manipulate them and call forth all the purity
  	and sweetness of their tones. The quality of tone is some-
15	thing superb, being rich and mellow. The tubes are care-
  	fully tuned, so that the harmony is perfect. They have
  	all the beauties of a great cathedral chime, with infinitely
18	less expense. 
  	    There is practically no limit to the uses to which these
  	bells may be put. They can be called into requisition in
21	theatres, concert halls, and public buildings, as they range
  	in all sizes, from those described down to little sets of
  	silver bells that might be placed on a small centre table. 


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

  	                                                 [Extract] 

 3	                                  CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

  	MARY BAKER EDDY THE "MOTHER" OF THE IDEA — SHE HAS AN
  	         IMMENSE FOLLOWING THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, AND 
 6	       A CHURCH COSTING $250,000 WAS RECENTLY BUILT IN HER
  	        HONOR AT BOSTON 

  	    "My faith has the strength to nourish trees as well as
 9	souls," was the remark Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, the
  	"Mother" of Christian Science, made recently as she
  	pointed to a number of large elms that shade her delight-
12	ful country home in Concord, N. H. "I had them brought
  	here in warm weather, almost as big as they are now, and
  	not one died." This is a remarkable statement, but it is
15	made by a remarkable woman, who has originated a new
  	phase of religious belief, and who numbers over one hun-
  	dred thousand intelligent people among her devoted
18	followers. 
  	    The great hold she has upon this army was demon-
  	strated in a very tangible and material manner recently,
21	when "The First Church of Christ, Scientist," erected at
  	a cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, was
  	dedicated in Boston. This handsome edifice was paid
24	for before it was begun, by the voluntary contributions of
  	Christian Scientists all over the country, and a tablet im-
  	bedded in its wall declares that it was built as "a testi-
27	monial to our beloved teacher, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy,
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 1	Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, author of
  	its textbook, 'Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-
 3	tures,' president of the Massachusetts Metaphysical Col-
  	lege, and the first pastor of this denomination." 
  	    There is usually considerable difficulty in securing suffi-
 6	cient funds for the building of a new church, but such was
  	not the experience of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. Money
  	came freely from all parts of the United States. Men,
 9	women, and children contributed, some giving a pittance,
  	others donating large sums. When the necessary amount
  	was raised, the custodian of the funds was compelled to
12	refuse further contributions, in order to stop the continued
  	inflow of money from enthusiastic Christian Scientists. 
  	    Mrs. Eddy says she discovered Christian Science in
15	1866. She studied the Scriptures and the sciences, she
  	declares, in a search for the great curative Principle. She
  	investigated allopathy, homoeopathy, and electricity, with-
18	out finding a clew; and modern philosophy gave her no
  	distinct statement of the Science of Mind-healing. After
  	careful study she became convinced that the curative
21	Principle was the Deity. 


	                    [New York Tribune, February 7, 1895] 
	
                                              [Extract] 

24	    Boston has just dedicated the first church of the Chris-
  	tian Scientists, in commemoration of the Founder of that
  	sect, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, drawing together six
27	thousand people to participate in the ceremonies, showing
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 1	that belief in that curious creed is not confined to its
  	original apostles and promulgators, but that it has pene-
 3	trated what is called the New England mind to an un-
  	looked-for extent. In inviting the Eastern churches and
  	the Anglican fold to unity with Rome, the Holy Father
 6	should not overlook the Boston sect of Christian Scientists,
  	which is rather small and new, to be sure, but is undoubt-
  	edly an interesting faith and may have a future before it,
 9	whatever attitude Rome may assume toward it. 


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

                                           [Extract] 

      	
12	                            GROWTH OF A FAITH 

  	    Attention is directed to the progress which has been
  	made by what is called Christian Science by the dedication
15	at Boston of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist." 
  	It is a most beautiful structure of gray granite, and its
  	builders call it their "prayer in stone," which suggests
18	to recollection the story of the cathedral of Amiens, whose
  	architectural construction and arrangement of statuary
  	and paintings made it to be called the Bible of that city. 
21	The Frankish church was reared upon the spot where, in
  	pagan times, one bitter winter day, a Roman soldier parted
  	his mantle with his sword and gave half of the garment to
24	a naked beggar; and so was memorialized in art and
  	stone what was called the divine spirit of giving, whose un-
  	believing exemplar afterward became a saint. The Boston
27	church similarly expresses the faith of those who believe
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 1	in what they term the divine art of healing, which, to their
  	minds, exists as much to-day as it did when Christ healed
 3	the sick. 
  	    The first church organization of this faith was founded
  	fifteen years ago with a membership of only twenty-six,
 6	and since then the number of believers has grown with
  	remarkable rapidity, until now there are societies in every
  	part of the country. This growth, it is said, proceeds
 9	more from the graveyards than from conversions from
  	other churches, for most of those who embrace the faith
  	claim to have been rescued from death miraculously under
12	the injunction to "heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise
  	the dead, cast out demons." They hold with strict fidelity
  	to what they conceive to be the literal teachings of the
15	Bible as expressed in its poetical and highly figurative
  	language. 
  	    Altogether the belief and service are well suited to
18	satisfy a taste for the mystical which, along many lines, has
  	shown an uncommon development in this country during
  	the last decade, and which is largely Oriental in its choice. 
21	Such a rapid departure from long respected views as is
  	marked by the dedication of this church, and others of
  	kindred meaning, may reasonably excite wonder as to
24	how radical is to be this encroachment upon prevailing
  	faiths, and whether some of the pre-Christian ideas of
  	the Asiatics are eventually to supplant those in company
27	with which our civilization has developed. 
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 1	   [Montreal Daily Herald, Saturday, February 2, 1895] 

  	                                          [Extract] 

 3	                           CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

  	SKETCH OF ITS ORIGIN AND GROWTH — THE MONTREAL BRANCH 

  	    "If you would found a new faith, go to Boston," has
 6	been said by a great American writer. This is no idle
  	word, but a fact borne out by circumstances. Boston can
  	fairly claim to be the hub of the logical universe, and an
 9	accurate census of the religious faiths which are to be
  	found there to-day would probably show a greater number
  	of them than even Max O'Rell's famous enumeration of
12	John Bull's creeds. 
  	    Christian Science, or the Principle of divine healing,
  	is one of those movements which seek to give expression
15	to a higher spirituality. Founded twenty-five years ago,
  	it was still practically unknown a decade since, but to-day
  	it numbers over a quarter of a million of believers, the
18	majority of whom are in the United States, and is rapidly
  	growing. In Canada, also, there is a large number of
  	members. Toronto and Montreal have strong churches,
21	comparatively, while in many towns and villages single
  	believers or little knots of them are to be found. 
  	    It was exactly one hundred years from the date of the
24	Declaration of Independence, when on July 4, 1876, the
  	first Christian Scientist Association was organized by
  	seven persons, of whom the foremost was Mrs. Eddy. 
27	The church was founded in April, 1879, with twenty-six
  	members, and a charter was obtained two months later. 
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 1	Mrs. Eddy assumed the pastorship of the church during
  	its early years, and in 1881 was ordained, being now known
 3	as the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. 
  	    The Massachusetts Metaphysical College was founded
  	by Mrs. Eddy in 1881, and here she taught the principles
 6	of the faith for nine years. Students came to it in hun-
  	dreds from all parts of the world, and many are now pastors
  	or in practice. The college was closed in 1889, as Mrs.
 9	Eddy felt it necessary for the interests of her religious work
  	to retire from active contact with the world. She now
  	lives in a beautiful country residence in her native State. 


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

  	                                              [Extract] 

  	                            MRS. EDDY'S DISCIPLES 

15	    It is not generally known that a Christian Science con-
  	gregation was organized in this city about a year ago. It
  	now holds regular services in the parlor of the residence
18	of the pastor, at 1414 Linden Avenue. The dedication in
  	Boston last Sunday of the Christian Science church, called
  	The Mother Church, which cost over two hundred thou-
21	sand dollars, adds interest to the Baltimore organization. 
  	There are many other church edifices in the United States
  	owned by Christian Scientists. Christian Science was
24	founded by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy. The Baltimore con-
  	gregation was organized at a meeting held at the present
  	location on February 27, 1894. 
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 1	    Dr. Hammond, the pastor, came to Baltimore about
  	three years ago to organize this movement. Miss Cross
 3	came from Syracuse, N. Y., about eighteen months ago. 
  	Both were under the instruction of Mrs. Mary Baker
  	Eddy, the Founder of the movement. 
 6	    Dr. Hammond says he was converted to Christian Sci-
  	ence by being cured by Mrs. Eddy of a physical ailment
  	some twelve years ago, after several doctors had pronounced
 9	his case incurable. He says they use no medicines, but
  	rely on Mind for cure, believing that disease comes from
  	evil and sick-producing thoughts, and that, if they can so
12	fill the mind with good thoughts as to leave no room there
  	for the bad, they can work a cure. He distinguishes Chris-
  	tian Science from the faith-cure, and added: "This Chris-
15	tian Science really is a return to the ideas of primitive
  	Christianity.  It would take a small book to explain fully
  	all about it, but I may say that the fundamental idea is that
18	God is Mind, and we interpret the Scriptures wholly from
  	the spiritual or metaphysical standpoint.  We find in this
  	view of the Bible the power fully developed to heal the
21	sick.  It is not faith-cure, but it is an acknowledgment of
  	certain Christian and scientific laws, and to work a cure the
  	practitioner must understand these laws aright.  The
24	patient may gain a better understanding than the Church
  	has had in the past.  All churches have prayed for the cure
  	of disease, but they have not done so in an intelligent man-
27	ner, understanding and demonstrating the Christ-healing." 
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 1	       [The Reporter, Lebanon, Ind., January 18, 1895] 

  	                                           [Extract] 

 3	              DISCOVERED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

  	  REMARKABLE CAREER OF REV. MARY BAKER EDDY, WHO HAS
  	                 OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FOLLOWERS 

 6	    Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of
  	Christian Science, author of its textbook, "Science and
  	Health with Key to the Scriptures," president of the Mas-
 9	sachusetts Metaphysical College, and first pastor of the
  	Christian Science denomination, is without doubt one of
  	the most remarkable women in America. She has within a
12	few years founded a sect that has over one hundred thou-
  	sand converts, and very recently saw completed in Boston,
  	as a testimonial to her labors, a handsome fire-proof church
15	that cost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and was
  	paid for by Christian Scientists all over the country. 
  	    Mrs. Eddy asserts that in 1866 she became certain that
18	"all causation was Mind, and every effect a mental phe-
  	nomenon." Taking her text from the Bible, she endeav-
  	ored in vain to find the great curative Principle — the Deity
21	 — in philosophy and schools of medicine, and she con-
  	cluded that the way of salvation demonstrated by Jesus
  	was the power of Truth over all error, sin, sickness, and
24	death. Thus originated the divine or spiritual Science of
  	Mind-healing, which she termed Christian Science. She
  	has a palatial home in Boston and a country-seat in
27	Concord, N. H. The Christian Science Church has a
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 1	membership of four thousand, and eight hundred of the
  	members are Bostonians. 


 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
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 1	fulfil, and as though inspired in her great task by super-
  	natural power. 
 3	    For the purpose of learning the feeling of Scientists in this
  	city toward the reported deification of Mrs. Eddy, a Post
  	reporter called upon a few of the leading members of the
 6	faith yesterday and had a number of very interesting con-
  	versations upon the subject. 
  	    Mrs. D. W. Copeland of University Avenue was one of
 9	the first to be seen. Mrs. Copeland is a very pleasant and
  	agreeable lady, ready to converse, and evidently very much
  	absorbed in the work to which she has given so much of
12	her attention. Mrs. Copeland claims to have been healed
  	a number of years ago by Christian Scientists, after she
  	had practically been given up by a number of well-known
15	physicians. 
  	    "And for the past eleven years," said Mrs. Copeland,
  	"I have not taken any medicine or drugs of any kind, and
18	yet have been perfectly well." 
  	    In regard to Mrs. Eddy, Mrs. Copeland said that she
  	was the Founder of the faith, but that she had never
21	claimed, nor did she believe that Mrs. Lathrop had, that
  	Mrs. Eddy had any power other than that which came
  	from God and through faith in Him and His teachings. 
24	    "The power of Christ has been dormant in mankind for
  	ages," added the speaker, "and it was Mrs. Eddy's mission
  	to revive it.  In our labors we take Christ as an example,
27	going about doing good and healing the sick.  Christ has
  	told us to do his work, naming as one great essential that
  	we have faith in him. 
30	    "Did you ever hear of Jesus' taking medicine himself, or
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 1	giving it to others?" inquired the speaker. "Then why
  	should we worry ourselves about sickness and disease?  
 3	If we become sick, God will care for us, and will send to
  	us those who have faith, who believe in His unlimited and
  	divine power.  Mrs. Eddy was strictly an ardent follower
 6	after God.  She had faith in Him, and she cured herself of
  	a deathly disease through the mediation of her God.  Then
  	she secluded herself from the world for three years and
 9	studied and meditated over His divine Word.  She delved
  	deep into the Biblical passages, and at the end of the period
  	came from her seclusion one of the greatest Biblical schol-
12	ars of the age.  Her mission was then the mission of a
  	Christian, to do good and heal the sick, and this duty she
  	faithfully performed.  She of herself had no power.  But
15	God has fulfilled His promises to her and to the world.  
  	If you have faith, you can move mountains." 
  	    Mrs. Henrietta N. Cole is also a very prominent member
18	of the church. When seen yesterday she emphasized her-
  	self as being of the same theory as Mrs. Copeland. Mrs.
  	Cole has made a careful and searching study in the beliefs
21	of Scientists, and is perfectly versed in all their beliefs and
  	doctrines. She stated that man of himself has no power,
  	but that all comes from God. She placed no credit what-
24	ever in the reports from New York that Mrs. Eddy has
  	been accredited as having been deified. She referred the
  	reporter to the large volume which Mrs. Eddy had herself
27	written, and said that no more complete and yet concise
  	idea of her belief could be obtained than by a perusal of it. 
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 1	                       [New York Herald, February 6, 1895] 

  	                                  MRS. EDDY SHOCKED 

 3	                              [By Telegraph to the Herald] 

  	    Concord, N. H., February 4, 1895. — The article pub-
  	lished in the Herald on January 29, regarding a statement
 6	made by Mrs. Laura Lathrop, pastor of the Christian Sci-
  	ence congregation that meets every Sunday in Hodgson
  	Hall, New York, was shown to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy,
 9	the Christian Science "Discoverer," to-day. 
  	    Mrs. Eddy preferred to prepare a written answer to the
  	interrogatory, which she did in this letter, addressed to the
12	editor of the Herald: —  

  	    "A despatch is given me, calling for an interview to an-
  	swer for myself, 'Am I the second Christ?' 
15	    "Even the question shocks me. What I am is for God
  	to declare in His infinite mercy. As it is, I claim nothing
  	more than what I am, the Discoverer and Founder of
18	Christian Science, and the blessing it has been to mankind
  	which eternity enfolds. 
  	    "I think Mrs. Lathrop was not understood.  If she said
21	aught with intention to be thus understood, it is not what
  	I have taught her, and not at all as I have heard her talk. 
  	    "My books and teachings maintain but one conclusion
24	and statement of the Christ and the deification of mortals. 
  	    "Christ is individual, and one with God, in the sense
  	of divine Love and its compound divine ideal. 
27	    "There was, is, and never can be but one God, one
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 1	Christ, one Jesus of Nazareth. Whoever in any age ex-
  	presses most of the spirit of Truth and Love, the Principle
 3	of God's idea, has most of the spirit of Christ, of that Mind
  	which was in Christ Jesus. 
  	    "If Christian Scientists find in my writings, teachings,
 6	and example a greater degree of this spirit than in others,
  	they can justly declare it.  But to think or speak of me in
  	any manner as a Christ, is sacrilegious.  Such a statement
 9	would not only be false, but the absolute antipode of Chris-
  	tian Science, and would savor more of heathenism than of
  	my doctrines. 
12	                                      "MARY BAKER EDDY" 


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

  	                                        Extract] 

15	                              CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS 

  	DEDICATION TO THE FOUNDER OF THE ORDER OF A BEAUTIFUL
  	     CHURCH AT BOSTON — MANY TORONTO SCIENTISTS PRESENT 

18	    The Christian Scientists of Toronto, to the number of
  	thirty, took part in the ceremonies at Boston last Sunday
  	and for the day or two following, by which the members
21	of that faith all over North America celebrated the dedica-
  	tion of the church constructed in the great New England
  	capital as a testimonial to the Discoverer and Founder of
24	Christian Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. 
  	    The temple is believed to be the most nearly fire-proof
  	church structure on the continent, the only combustible
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 1	material used in its construction being that used in the
  	doors and pews. A striking feature of the church is a
 3	beautiful apartment known as the "Mother's Room,"
  	which is approached through a superb archway of Italian
  	marble set in the wall. The furnishing of the "Mother's
 6	Room" is described as "particularly beautiful, and blends
  	harmoniously with the pale green and gold decoration of the
  	walls. The floor is of mosaic in elegant designs, and two
 9	alcoves are separated from the apartment by rich hangings
  	of deep green plush, which in certain lights has a shimmer
  	of silver. The furniture frames are of white mahogany
12	in special designs, elaborately carved, and the upholstery
  	is in white and gold tapestry. A superb mantel of Mexican
  	onyx with gold decoration adorns the south wall, and before
15	the hearth is a large rug composed entirely of skins of the
  	eider-down 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
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 1	the magnificent new edifice of worship which the church
  	has just erected. 
 3	    The invitation itself is one of the most chastely elegant
  	memorials ever prepared, and is a scroll of solid gold,
  	suitably engraved, and encased in a handsome plush
 6	casket with white silk linings. Attached to the scroll is a
  	golden key of the church structure. 
  	    The inscription reads thus: —  

 9	    "Dear Mother: — During the year eighteen hundred and
  	ninety-four a church edifice was erected at the intersection
  	of Falmouth and Norway Streets, in the city of Boston,
12	by the loving hands of four thousand members. This
  	edifice is built as a testimonial to Truth, as revealed by
  	divine Love through you to this age. You are hereby
15	most lovingly invited to visit and formally accept this
  	testimonial on the twentieth day of February, eighteen
  	hundred and ninety-five, at high noon. 
18	    "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass. 
  	                                   "BY EDWARD P. BATES, 
  	                                     "CAROLINE S. BATES 
21	    "To the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy,
  	        "Boston, January 6th, 1895" 


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

24	                  MAGNIFICENT TESTIMONIAL 

  	    Members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at
  	Boston, have forwarded to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy of
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 1	this city, the Founder of Christian Science, a testimonial
  	which is probably one of the most magnificent examples
 3	of the goldsmith's art ever wrought in this country. It is
  	in the form of a gold scroll, twenty-six inches long, nine
  	inches wide, and an eighth of an inch thick. 
 6	    It bears upon its face the following inscription, cut in
  	script letters: —  

  	    "Dear Mother: — During the year 1894 a church edi-
 9	fice was erected at the intersection of Falmouth and Nor-
  	way Streets, in the city of Boston, by the loving hands of
  	four thousand members.  This edifice is built as a testi-
12	monial to Truth, as revealed by divine Love through you
  	to this age.  You are hereby most lovingly invited to visit
  	and formally accept this testimonial on the 20th day of
15	February, 1895, at high noon. 
  	    "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass. 
  	                                          "BY EDWARD P. BATES, 
18	                                                "CAROLINE S. BATES 
  	   
      "To the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy,
  	    "Boston, January 6, 1895" 

21	    Attached by a white ribbon to the scroll is a gold key
  	to the church door. 
  	    The testimonial is encased in a white satin-lined box
24	of rich green velvet. 
  	    The scroll is on exhibition in the window of J. C.
  	Derby's jewelry store. 
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1	                            [The Union Signal, Chicago] 

                                         [Extract] 

      	
 3	      THE NEW WOMAN AND THE NEW CHURCH 

  	    The dedication, in Boston, of a Christian Science temple
  	costing over two hundred thousand dollars, and for which
 6	the money was all paid in so that no debt had to be taken
  	care of on dedication day, is a notable event. While we
  	are not, and never have been, devotees of Christian Science,
 9	it becomes us as students of public questions not to ignore
  	a movement which, starting fifteen years ago, has already
  	gained to itself adherents in every part of the civilized
12	world, for it is a significant fact that one cannot take up
  	a daily paper in town or village — to say nothing of cities — 
  	without seeing notices of Christian Science meetings, and
15	in most instances they are held at "headquarters." 
  	    We believe there are two reasons for this remarkable
  	development, which has shown a vitality so unexpected. 
18	The first is that a revolt was inevitable from the crass
  	materialism of the cruder science that had taken posses-
  	sion of men's minds, for as a wicked but witty writer has
21	said, "If there were no God, we should be obliged to in-
  	vent one." There is something in the constitution of
  	man that requires the religious sentiment as much as his
24	lungs call for breath; indeed, the breath of his soul is a
  	belief in God. 
  	    But when Christian Science arose, the thought of the
27	world's scientific leaders had become materialistically
  	"lopsided," and this condition can never long continue. 
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 1	There must be a righting-up of the mind as surely as of a
  	ship when under stress of storm it is ready to capsize. The
 3	pendulum that has swung to one extreme will surely find
  	the other. The religious sentiment in women is so strong
  	that the revolt was headed by them; this was inevitable
 6	in the nature of the case. It began in the most intellectual
  	city of the freest country in the world — that is to say,
  	it sought the line of least resistance. Boston is emphati-
 9	cally the women's paradise, — numerically, socially, in-
  	deed every way. Here they have the largest individuality,
  	the most recognition, the widest outlook. Mrs. Eddy we
12	have never seen; her book has many a time been sent
  	us by interested friends, and out of respect to them we
  	have fairly broken our mental teeth over its granitic peb-
15	bles. That we could not understand it might be rather
  	to the credit of the book than otherwise. On this subject
  	we have no opinion to pronounce, but simply state the
18	fact. 
  	    We do not, therefore, speak of the system it sets forth,
  	either to praise or blame, but this much is true:  the spirit
21	of Christian Science ideas has caused an army of well-mean-
  	ing people to believe in God and the power of faith, who
  	did not believe in them before. It has made a myriad of
24	women more thoughtful and devout; it has brought a
  	hopeful spirit into the homes of unnumbered invalids. 
  	The belief that "thoughts are things," that the invisible
27	is the only real world, that we are here to be trained into
  	harmony with the laws of God, and that what we are here
  	determines where we shall be hereafter — all these ideas
30	are Christian. 
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 1	    The chimes on the Christian Science temple in Boston
  	played "All hail the power of Jesus' name," on the morn-
 3	ing of the dedication. We did not attend, but we learn
  	that the name of Christ is nowhere spoken with more
  	reverence than it was during those services, and that he
 6	is set forth as the power of God for righteousness and the
  	express image of God for love. 



  	            [The New Century, Boston, February, 1895] 

 9	       ONE POINT OF VIEW — THE NEW WOMAN 

  	    We all know her — she is simply the woman of the past
  	with an added grace — a newer charm. Some of her
12	dearest ones call her "selfish" because she thinks so much
  	of herself she spends her whole time helping others. She
  	represents the composite beauty, sweetness, and nobility
15	of all those who scorn self for the sake of love and her
  	handmaiden duty — of all those who seek the brightness
  	of truth not as the moth to be destroyed thereby, but as
18	the lark who soars and sings to the great sun. She is of
  	those who have so much to give they want no time to take,
  	and their name is legion. She is as full of beautiful possi-
21	bilities as a perfect harp, and she realizes that all the har-
  	monies of the universe are in herself, while her own soul
  	plays upon magic strings the unwritten anthems of love. 
24	She is the apostle of the true, the beautiful, the good, com-
  	missioned to complete all that the twelve have left undone. 
  	Hers is the mission of missions — the highest of all — to
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 1	make the body not the prison, but the palace of the soul,
  	with the brain for its great white throne. 
 3	    When she comes like the south wind into the cold haunts
  	of sin and sorrow, her words are smiles and her smiles are
  	the sunlight which heals the stricken soul. Her hand is
 6	tender — but steel tempered with holy resolve, and as
  	one whom her love had glorified once said — she is soft
  	and gentle, but you could no more turn her from her
 9	course than winter could stop the coming of spring. She
  	has long learned with patience, and to-day she knows
  	many things dear to the soul far better than her teachers. 
12	In olden times the Jews claimed to be the conservators
  	of the world's morals — they treated woman as a chattel,
  	and said that because she was created after man, she was
15	created solely for man. Too many still are Jews who
  	never called Abraham "Father," while the Jews them-
  	selves have long acknowledged woman as man's proper
18	helpmeet. In those days women had few lawful claims
  	and no one to urge them. True, there were Miriam and
  	Esther, but they sang and sacrificed for their people, not
21	for their sex. 
  	    To-day there are ten thousand Esthers, and Miriams
  	by the million, who sing best by singing most for their
24	own sex. They are demanding the right to help make
  	the laws, or at least to help enforce the laws upon
  	which depends the welfare of their husbands, their chil-
27	dren, and themselves. Why should our selfish self longer
  	remain deaf to their cry? The date is no longer B. C. 
  	Might no longer makes right, and in this fair land at least
30	fear has ceased to kiss the iron heel of wrong. Why then
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 1	should we continue to demand woman's love and woman's
  	help while we recklessly promise as lover and candidate
 3	what we never fulfil as husband and office-holder? In
  	our secret heart our better self is shamed and dishonored,
  	and appeals from Philip drunk to Philip sober, but has
 6	not yet the moral strength and courage to prosecute the
  	appeal. But the east is rosy, and the sunlight cannot long
  	be delayed. Woman must not and will not be disheart-
 9	ened by a thousand denials or a million of broken pledges. 
  	With the assurance of faith she prays, with the certainty
  	of inspiration she works, and with the patience of genius
12	she waits. At last she is becoming "as fair as the morn,
  	as bright as the sun, and as terrible as an army with ban-
  	ners" to those who march under the black flag of oppres-
15	sion and wield the ruthless sword of injustice. 
  	    In olden times it was the Amazons who conquered the
  	invincibles, and we must look now to their daughters to
18	overcome our own allied armies of evil and to save us from
  	ourselves. She must and will succeed, for as David sang
  	 — "God shall help her, and that right early." When we
21	try to praise her later works it is as if we would pour
  	incense upon the rose. It is the proudest boast of many
  	of us that we are "bound to her by bonds dearer than free-
24	dom," and that we live in the reflected royalty which
  	shines from her brow. We rejoice with her that at last
  	we begin to know what John on Patmos meant — "And
27	there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed
  	with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her
  	head a crown of twelve stars." She brought to warring
30	men the Prince of Peace, and he, departing, left his scepter
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 1	not in her hand, but in her soul. "The time of times"
  	is near when "the new woman" shall subdue the whole
 3	earth with the weapons of peace. Then shall wrong be
  	robbed of her bitterness and ingratitude of her sting,
  	revenge shall clasp hands with pity, and love shall dwell
 6	in the tents of hate; while side by side, equal partners in
  	all that is worth living for, shall stand the new man with
  	the new woman. 


 9	       [The Christian Science Journal, January, 1895] 

  	                                    [Extract] 

  	                         THE MOTHER CHURCH 

12	    The Mother Church edifice — The First Church of
  	Christ, Scientist, in Boston, is erected. The close of the
  	year, Anno Domini 1894, witnessed the completion of
15	"our prayer in stone," all predictions and prognostications
  	to the contrary notwithstanding. 
  	    Of the significance of this achievement we shall not
18	undertake to speak in this article. It can be better felt
  	than expressed. All who are awake thereto have some
  	measure of understanding of what it means. But only
21	the future will tell the story of its mighty meaning or un-
  	fold it to the comprehension of mankind. It is enough for
  	us now to know that all obstacles to its completion have
24	been met and overcome, and that our temple is completed
  	as God intended it should be. 
  	    This achievement is the result of long years of untiring,
27	unselfish, and zealous effort on the part of our beloved
  	teacher and Leader, the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy,
  	the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, who
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 1	nearly thirty years ago began to lay the foundation of
  	this temple, and whose devotion and consecration to God
 3	and humanity during the intervening years have made
  	its erection possible. 
  	    Those who now, in part, understand her mission, turn
 6	their hearts in gratitude to her for her great work, and
  	those who do not understand it will, in the fulness of time,
  	see and acknowledge it. In the measure in which she has
 9	unfolded and demonstrated divine Love, and built up in
  	human consciousness a better and higher conception of
  	God as Life, Truth, and Love, — as the divine Principle
12	of all things which really exist, — and in the degree in
  	which she has demonstrated the system of healing of Jesus
  	and the apostles, surely she, as the one chosen of God to
15	this end, is entitled to the gratitude and love of all who
  	desire a better and grander humanity, and who believe
  	it to be possible to establish the kingdom of heaven upon
18	earth in accordance with the prayer and teachings of
  	Jesus Christ. 


  	             [Concord Evening Monitor, March 23, 1895] 

21	                          TESTIMONIAL AND GIFT 

  	    TO REV. MARY BAKER EDDY, FROM THE FIRST CHURCH OF
  	                               CHRIST, SCIENTIST, IN BOSTON 

24	    Rev. Mary Baker Eddy received Friday, from the Chris-
  	tian Science Board of Directors, Boston, a beautiful and
  	unique testimonial of the appreciation of her labors and
27	loving generosity in the Cause of their common faith. It
  	was a facsimile of the corner-stone of the new church of
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1	the Christian Scientists, just completed, being of granite,
  	about six inches in each dimension, and contains a solid
 3	gold box, upon the cover of which is this inscription: —  
  	    "To our Beloved Teacher, the Reverend Mary Baker
  	Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, from
 6	her affectionate Students, the Christian Science Board of
  	Directors." 
  	    On the under side of the cover are the facsimile sig-
 9	natures of the Directors, — Ira O. Knapp, William B. 
  	Johnson, Joseph Armstrong, and Stephen A. Chase,
  	with the date, "1895." The beautiful souvenir is en-
12	cased in an elegant plush box. 
  	    Accompanying the stone testimonial was the following
  	address from the Board of Directors: —  

15	                                     Boston, March 20, 1895 
  	    To the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, our Beloved
  	Teacher and Leader: — We are happy to announce to you
18	the completion of The First Church of Christ, Scientist,
  	in Boston. 
  	    In behalf of your loving students and all contributors
21	wherever they may be, we hereby present this church to
  	you as a testimonial of love and gratitude for your labors
  	and loving sacrifice, as the Discoverer and Founder of
24	Christian Science, and the author of its textbook, "Sci-
  	ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures." 
  	    We therefore respectfully extend to you the invitation
27	to become the permanent pastor of this church, in con-
  	nection with the Bible and the book alluded to above,
  	which you have already ordained as our pastor. And we
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 1	most cordially invite you to be present and take charge
  	of any services that may be held therein. We especially
 3	desire you to be present on the twenty-fourth day of March,
  	eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to accept this offering,
  	with our humble benediction. 
 6	                      Lovingly yours,

  	     IRA O. KNAPP,                      JOSEPH ARMSTRONG,
  	     WILLIAM B. JOHNSON,        STEPHEN A. CHASE, 
 9	                               The Christian Science Board of Directors 


  	                        REV. MRS. EDDY'S REPLY 

  	    Beloved Directors and Brethren: — For your costly offer-
12	ing, and kind call to the pastorate of "The First Church
  	of Christ, Scientist," in Boston — accept my profound
  	thanks. But permit me, respectfully, to decline their ac-
15	ceptance, while I fully appreciate your kind intentions. 
  	If it will comfort you in the least, make me your Pastor
  	Emeritus, nominally. Through my book, your textbook,
18	I already speak to you each Sunday. You ask too much
  	when asking me to accept your grand church edifice. I
  	have more of earth now, than I desire, and less of heaven;
21	so pardon my refusal of that as a material offering. More
  	effectual than the forum are our states of mind, to bless
  	mankind. This wish stops not with my pen — God give
24	you grace. As our church's tall tower detains the sun,
  	so may luminous lines from your lives linger, a legacy to
  	our race. 
27	                                                  MARY BAKER EDDY
  	March 25, 1895 
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 1	   LIST OF LEADING NEWSPAPERS WHOSE ARTICLES
  	                                       ARE OMITTED 

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


  	                EASTERN STATES 

12	        Advertiser, Calais, Me.  
  	        Advertiser, Boston, Mass.  
  	        Farmer, Bridgeport, Conn.  
15	        Independent, Rockland, Mass.  
  	        Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Me.  
  	        News, New Haven, Conn.  
18	        News, Newport, R. I.  
  	        Post, Boston, Mass.  
  	        Post, Hartford, Conn.  
21	        Republican, Springfield, Mass.  
  	        Sentinel, Eastport, Me.  
  	        Sun, Attleboro, Mass.


24	                MIDDLE STATES 

  	        Advertiser, New York City.  
  	        Bulletin, Auburn, N. Y.  
27	        Daily, York, Pa.  
  	        Evening Reporter, Lebanon, Pa.  
  	        Farmer, Bridgeport, N. Y.  
30	        Herald, Rochester, N. Y.  
  	        Independent, Harrisburg, Pa.  
  	        Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pa.  
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 1	        Independent, New York City.  
  	        Journal, Lockport, N. Y.  
 3	        Knickerbocker, Albany, N. Y.  
  	        News, Buffalo, N. Y.  
  	        News, Newark, N. J.  
 6	        Once A Week, New York City.  
  	        Post, Pittsburgh, Pa.  
  	        Press, Albany, N. Y.  
 9	        Press, New York City.  
  	        Press, Philadelphia, Pa.  
  	        Saratogian, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.  
12	        Sun, New York City.  
  	        Telegram, Philadelphia, Pa.  
  	        Telegram, Troy, N. Y.  
15	        Times, Trenton, N. J.


  	                SOUTHERN STATES

  	        Commercial, Louisville, Ky.  
18	        Journal, Atlanta, Ga.  
  	        Post, Washington, D. C.  
  	        Telegram, New Orleans, La.  
21	        Times, New Orleans, La.  
  	        Times-Herald, Dallas, Tex.


  	                WESTERN STATES

24	        Bee, Omaha, Neb.  
  	        Bulletin, San Francisco, Cal.  
  	        Chronicle, San Francisco, Cal.  
27	        Elite, Chicago, Ill.  
  	        Enquirer, Oakland, Cal.  
  	        Free Press, Detroit, Mich.  
30	        Gazette, Burlington, Iowa.  
  	        Herald, Grand Rapids, Mich.  
  	        Herald, St. Joseph, Mo.  
33	        Journal, Columbus, Ohio.  
  	        Journal, Topeka, Kans.  
  	        Leader, Bloomington, Ill.  
36	        Leader, Cleveland, Ohio.  
  	        News, St. Joseph, Mo.  
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 1	        News-Tribune, Duluth, Minn.  
  	        Pioneer-Press, St. Paul, Minn.  
 3	        Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, Wash.  
  	        Salt Lake Herald, Salt Lake City, Utah.  
  	        Sentinel, Indianapolis, Ind.  
 6	        Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wis.  
  	        Star, Kansas City, Mo.  
  	        Telegram, Portland, Ore.  
 9	        Times, Chicago, Ill.  
  	        Times, Minneapolis, Minn.  
  	        Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn.  
12	        Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah. 

  	        Free Press, London, Can.
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