Transcriber's Note: The spelling "diapson" occurs in our print copy in the article from the _American Art Journal_. 

PULPIT AND PRESS. 

Sixth Edition. 

BY

REVEREND MARY BAKER EDDY, DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

1897. 

CONTENTS

 DEDICATORY SERMON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK HYMN--_Laying the Corner Stone_ _Feed My Sheep_ _Christ My Refuge_ NOTE

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PREFACE. 

This volume contains scintillations from press and pulpit--utteranceswhich epitomize the story of the birth of Christian Science, in 1866, and its progress during the ensuing thirty years. Three quarters of acentury hence, when the children of to-day are the elders of thetwentieth century, it will be interesting to have not only a record ofthe inclination given their own thoughts in the latter half of thenineteenth century, but also a registry of the rise of the mercury inthe glass of the world's opinion. 

It will then be instructive to turn backward the telescope of thatadvanced age, with its lenses of more spiritual mentality, indicatingthe gain of intellectual momentum, on the early footsteps of ChristianScience as planted in the pathway of this generation; to note theimpetus thereby given to Christianity; to con the facts surrounding thecradle of this grand verity--that the sick are healed and sinners saved, not by matter, but by Mind; and to further scan the features of the vastproblem of eternal life, as expressed in the absolute power of Truth, and the actual bliss of man's existence in Science. 

MARY BAKER EDDY. 

February, 1895. 

TO

The dear two thousand and six hundred Children, WHOSE CONTRIBUTIONS

_Of $4, 460 were devoted to the Mother's Room in The First Church ofChrist, Scientist, Boston_, THIS UNIQUE BOOK IS TENDERLY DEDICATED BY

MARY BAKER EDDY. 

DEDICATORY SERMON. 

BY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY, First pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass. , Delivered Jan. 6, 1895. 

TEXT--Psalms xxxvi, 8. "They shall be abundantly satisfied with thefatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thypleasures. "

A new year is a nursling, a babe of time, a prophecy and promise clad inwhite raiment, kissed--and encumbered with greetings--redolent withgrief and gratitude. 

An old year is time's adult, and 1893 was a distinguished character, notable for good and evil. Time past and time present, both, may painus, but time IMPROVED is eloquent in God's praise. For due refreshmentgarner the memory of 1894; for if wiser by reason of its large lessons, and records deeply engraven, great is the value thereof. 

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

To-day being with you in spirit, what need that I should be present _inpropria persona_? Were I present, methinks I should be much like theQueen of Sheba, when she saw the house Solomon had erected. In theexpressive language of Holy Writ, "there was no more spirit in her;" andshe said: "Behold, the half was not told me; thy wisdom and prosperityexceedeth the fame which I heard. " Both without and within, the spiritof beauty dominates the Mother Church, from its mosaic flooring to thesoft shimmer of its starlit dome. 

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

How can we do this christianly scientific work? By intrenching ourselvesin the knowledge that our true temple is no human fabrication, but thesuperstructure of Truth, reared on the foundation of Love, and pinnacledin Life. Such being its nature, how can our godly temple possibly bedemolished, or even disturbed? Can eternity end? Can Life die? CanTruth be uncertain? Can Love be less than boundless? Referring to thistemple our Master said: "Destroy this temple and in three days I willraise it up. " He also said: "The kingdom of God is already within you. "Know then that you possess sovereign power to think and actrightly, --and that nothing can dispossess you of this heritage andtrespass on Love. If you maintain this position, who or what can causeyou to sin or suffer? Our surety is in our confidence that we are indeeddwellers in Truth and Love, man's eternal mansion. Such a heavenlyassurance ends all warfare, and bids tumult cease, for the good fight wehave waged is over, and divine Love gives us the true sense of victory. "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; andthou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. " No longer arewe of the church militant, but of the church triumphant; and with Job ofold we exclaim: "Yet in my flesh shall I see God. " The river of hispleasures is a tributary of divine love, whose living waters have theirsource in God, and flow into everlasting Life. We drink of this riverwhen all human desires are quenched, satisfied with what is pleasing tothe divine Mind. 

Perchance some one of you may say, "The evidence of spiritual verity inme is so small that I am afraid. I feel so far from victory over theflesh that to reach out for a present realization of my hope savors oftemerity. Because of my own unfitness for such a spiritual animus mystrength is naught, and my faith fails. " O thou "weak and infirm ofpurpose. " Jesus said, "Be not afraid. "

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

Is not a man metaphysically and mathematically number one, a unit, andtherefore whole number, governed and protected by his divine Principle, God? You have simply to preserve a scientific, positive sense of unitywith your divine Source and daily demonstrate this. Then you will findthat one is as important a factor as duodecillions in being and doingright, and thus demonstrating deific Principle. A dewdrop reflects thesun. Each of Christ's little ones reflects the infinite One, andtherefore is the seer's declaration true, that "one with God is amajority. "

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

Who lives in Good, lives also in God, --lives in all Life, through allspace. His is an individual kingdom, his diadem a crown of crowns. Hisexistence is deathless, forever unfolding its eternal Principle. Waitpatiently on illimitable Love, the lord and giver of Life. _Reflect thisLife_, and with it cometh the full power of Being. "They shall beabundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house. "

In 1893 the World's Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago, used, inall its public sessions, my form of prayer since 1866; and one of thevery clergymen who had publicly proclaimed me "the prayerless Mrs. Eddy, " offered his audible adoration in the words I use, besideslistening to an address on Christian Science from my pen, read by JudgeS. J. Hanna, in that unique assembly. 

When the light of one friendship after another passes from earth toheaven, we kindle in place thereof the glow of some deathless reality. Memory, faithful to goodness, holds in her secret chambers thosecharacters of holiest sort, bravest to endure, firmest to suffer, soonest to renounce. Such was the founder of the Concord School ofPhilosophy--the late A. Bronson Alcott. 

After the publication of SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, his athletic mind, scholarly and serene, was the first to bedew my hopewith a drop of humanity. When the press and pulpit cannonaded this book, he introduced himself to its author by saying--"I have come to comfortyou. " Then eloquently paraphrasing it and prophesying its prosperity, his conversation with a beauty all its own reassured me. _That prophecyis fulfilled_. 

This book, in 1895, is in its ninety-first edition of one thousandcopies. It is in the public libraries of the principal cities, colleges, and Universities of America; also the same in Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Greece, Japan, India, and China, in the OxfordUniversity and the Victoria Institute, England; in the Academy ofGreece, and the Vatican at Rome. 

This book is the leaven fermenting religion; it is palpably working inthe sermons, Sunday schools, and literature of our and other lands. Thisspiritual chemicalization is the upheaval produced when Truth isneutralizing error, and impurities are passing off. And it will continuetill the antithesis of Christianity engendering the limited forms of anational or tyrannical religion yields to the church established by theNazarene prophet and maintained on the spiritual foundation of Christ'shealing. 

Good, the Anglo-Saxon term for God, unites Science to Christianity. Itpresents to the understanding, not matter, but Mind; not the deifieddrug, but the goodness of God--healing and saving mankind. 

The author of "Marriage of the Lamb, " who made the mistake of thinkingshe caught her notions from my book, wrote to me in 1894, "Six monthsago your book, SCIENCE AND HEALTH, was put into my hands. I had not readthree pages before I realized I had found that for which I had hungeredsince girlhood, and was healed instantaneously of an ailment of sevenyears standing. I cast from me the false remedy I had vainly used andturned to the Great Physician. I went with my husband, a missionary toChina, in 1884. He went out under the auspices of the MethodistEpiscopal church. I feel the truth is leading us to return to Japan. "

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

Also that renowned apostle of anti-slavery, Wendell Phillips, the nativecourse of whose mind never swerved from the chariot-paths of justice, speaking of my work, said: "Had I young blood in my veins I would helpthat woman. "

I love Boston, and especially the laws of the state whereof this city isthe capital. To-day, as of yore, her laws have befriended progress. 

Yet when I recall the past, --how the gospel of healing wassimultaneously praised and persecuted in Boston, --and remember also thatGod is just, I wonder whether, were our dear Master in our New Englandmetropolis at this hour, he would not weep over it, as he wept overJerusalem! Oh, ye tears! Not in vain did ye flow. Those sacred dropswere but enshrined for future use, and God has now unsealed theirreceptacle with His outstretched arm. Those crystal globes made moralsfor mankind. They will rise with joy, and with power to wash away, infloods of forgiveness, every crime, even when mistakenly committed inthe name of religion. 

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

I have ordained the Bible and the Christian Science text-book, SCIENCEAND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, as pastor of The First Church ofChrist, Scientist, in Boston, --so long as this church is satisfied withthis pastor. This is my first ordination. "They shall be abundantlysatisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drinkof the river of thy pleasures. "

All praise to the press of America's Athens, --and throughout our land, the press has spoken out historically, impartially. Like the windstelling tales through the leaves of an ancient oak, unfallen, may ourchurch chimes repeat my thanks to the press. 

Notwithstanding the perplexed condition of our nation's finances, thewant and woe, with millions of dollars unemployed in our money centres, the Christian Scientists, within fourteen months, responded to the callfor this church with $191, 012. Not a mortgage was given nor a loansolicited, and the donors all touchingly told their privileged joy athelping to build the Mother Church. There was no urging, begging, orborrowing, only the need made known and forth came the money, ordiamonds, which served to erect this "miracle in stone. "

Even the children vied with their parents to meet the demand. Littlehands never before devoted to menial services, shoveled snow, and babesgave kisses to earn a few pence toward this consummation. Some of theselambs my prayers had christened, but Christ will rechristen them withhis own new name. "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast Thouperfected praise. " The resident youthful workers were called BUSY BEES. 

Sweet society, precious children, your loving hearts and deft fingersdistilled the nectar, and painted the finest flowers in the fabric ofthis history--even its centre-piece--Mother's Room in The First Churchof Christ, Scientist, in Boston. The children are destined to witnessresults which will eclipse oriental dreams. They belong to the twentiethcentury. By juvenile aid, into the building fund have come $4, 460. Ah, children, you are the bulwarks of freedom, the cement of society, thehope of our race!

Brothers of the Christian Science Board of Directors, when your tirelesstasks are done--well done--no Delphian lyre could break the full chordsof such a rest. May the altar you have built never be shattered in ourhearts, but justice, mercy, and love kindle perpetually its fires. 

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

After the loss of our late lamented pastor, Rev. D. A. Easton, thechurch services were maintained by excellent sermons from the editorof the _Christian Science Journal_ (who, with his better half, is avery whole man), together with the Sunday school giving this flock"drink from the river of His pleasures. " Oh, glorious hope, andblessed assurance, "it is the Father's good pleasure to give you theKingdom. " Christians rejoice in secret, they have a bounty hidden fromthe world. Self-forgetfulness, purity, and love are treasuresuntold--constant prayers, prophecies, and anointings. Practice, notprofession, --goodness, not doctrines, --spiritual understanding, notmere belief, gain the ear and right hand of Omnipotence, and call downblessings infinite. Faith without works is dead. The foundation ofenlightened faith is Christ's teachings and _practice_. It was ourMaster's self-immolation, his life-giving love, healing both mind andbody, that raised the deadened conscience, paralyzed by inactivefaith, to a quickened sense of mortal's necessities, --and God's powerand purpose to supply them. It was, in the words of the Psalmist, He"who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. "

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

Christian Scientists, you have planted your standard on the Rock ofChrist, the true, the spiritual idea, --the chief corner-stone in thehouse of our God. And our Master said: "The stone which the buildersrejected the same is become the head of the corner. " If you are lessappreciated to-day than your forefathers, wait--for if you are as devoutas they and more scientific, as progress certainly demands, your plantis immortal. Let us rejoice that chill vicissitudes have not withheldthe timely shelter of this house, which descended like day spring fromon high. 

Divine Presence, breathe Thou thy blessing on every heart in this house. Speak out, oh, soul! This is the new-born of Spirit, this is Hisredeemed, this, His beloved. May the Kingdom of God within you--with youalway--re-ascending, bear you outward, upward, Heavenward. May the sweetsong of silver-throated singers, making melody more real, and theorgan's voice as the sound of many waters, and the Word spoken in thissacred Temple dedicated to the ever-present God--mingle with the joy ofangels and rehearse your heart's holy intents. May all whose means, energies, and prayers helped erect the Mother Church, find within ithome, and _Heaven_. 

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK. 

The following selections from SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THESCRIPTURES, pages 560-563, were read from the platform. The impressivestillness of the audience indicated close attention. 

_Revelation_ xii, 10-12. And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven: Nowis come salvation, and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and thepower of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, whichaccused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by theblood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they lovednot their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and yethat 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 heknoweth that he hath but a short time. 

For victory over a single sin we give thanks, and magnify the Lord ofHosts. Then what shall we say of the mighty conquest over all sin? Alouder song, sweeter than has ever before reached high Heaven, now risesclearer and nearer to the great heart of Christ; for the accuser is notthere, and Love sends forth her primal and everlasting strain. Self-abnegation--by which we lay down all for Christ, Truth, in ourwarfare against error--is a rule in Christian Science. This rule clearlyinterprets God as divine Principle, --as Life, represented by the Father;as Truth, represented by the Son; as Love, represented by the mother. Every mortal, at some period, here or hereafter, must grapple with andovercome the mortal belief in a power opposed to God. 

The Scripture, "Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will makethee ruler over many, " is literally fulfilled, when we are conscious ofthe supremacy of Truth, whereby the nothingness of error is seen, and weknow that its nothingness is in proportion to its wickedness. He thattouches the hem of Christ's robe, and masters his mortal belief, animality and hate, rejoices in the proof of healing, --in a sweet andcertain sense that God is Love. Alas for those who break faith withDivine Science, and fail to strangle the serpent of sin, as well as ofsickness! They are dwellers still in the deep darkness of belief. Theyare in the surging sea of error, not struggling to lift their headsabove the drowning wave. 

What must the end be? They must eventually expiate their sin throughsuffering. The sin which one has made his bosom companion, comes back tohim at last with accelerated force; for the evil knoweth its time isshort. Here the Scriptures declare that evil is temporal, not eternal. The dragon is at last stung to death by his own malice; but how manyperiods of self-torture it may take to remove all sin and its effects, must depend upon its obduracy. 

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

The march of mind and honest investigation will bring the hour when thepeople will chain, with fetters of some sort, the growing occultism ofthis period. The present apathy as to the tendency of certain active yetunseen mental agencies will finally be shocked into another extrememortal mood, --into human indignation; for one extreme follows another. 

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

Millions of unprejudiced minds--simple seekers for Truth, wearywanderers, athirst in the desert--are waiting and watching for rest anddrink. Give them a cup of cold water in Christ's name, and never fearthe consequences. What if the old dragon sends forth a new flood, todrown the Christ-idea? He can neither drown your voice with its roar, nor again sink the world into the deep waters of chaos and old night. Inthis age the earth will help the woman; the spiritual idea will beunderstood. Those ready for the blessing you impart will give thanks. The waters will be pacified, and Christ will command the wave. 

When God heals the sick or the sinful, they should know the greatbenefit Mind has wrought. They should also know the great delusion ofmortal mind, when it makes them sick or sinful. Many are willing to openthe eyes of the people to the power of good resident in divine Mind; butthey are not as willing to point out the evil in human thought, andexpose its hidden mental ways of accomplishing iniquity. 

Why this backwardness, since exposure is necessary, to ensure theavoidance of the evil? Because people like you better when you tellthem their virtues, than when you tell them their vices. It requires thespirit of our great Master to tell a man his faults, and so risk humandispleasure, for the sake of doing right and benefiting our race. Who istelling mankind of their foe in ambush? Is the informer one who sees thefoe? If so, listen and be wise. Escape from evil, and designate those asunfaithful stewards, who have seen the danger and yet have given nowarning. 

At all times, and under all circumstances, overcome evil with Good. Knowthyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victoryover evil. Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. The cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the oneDivinity. 

HYMNS. 

BY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY. 

(Set to the Church chimes and sung on this occasion. )

LAYING THE CORNER STONE. 

 _Laus Deo_, it is done. Rolled away from loving heart Is a stone, -- Joyous, risen, we depart Having one. 

 _Laus Deo_, --on this rock (Heaven chiseled squarely good) Stands His Church-- God is Love and understood By His flock. 

 _Laus Deo_, night starlit Slumbers not in God's embrace; Then oh, man! Like this stone be in thy place; Stand, not sit. 

 Cold, silent, stately stone, Dirge and song and shoutings low, In thy heart Dwell serene, --and sorrow? No, It has none, _Laus Deo_!

FEED MY SHEEP. 

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

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

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

CHRIST MY REFUGE. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

 My prayer, some daily good to do To Thine, for Thee, -- Some offering pure of Love, whereto God leadeth me. 

NOTE. --The land whereon stands The First Church of Christ, Scientist, inBoston, was first purchased by the church and society. Owing to a heavyloss they were unable to pay the mortgage, therefore I paid it andthrough trustees gave back the land to the church. 

In 1892 I had to recover the land from the trustees, reorganize thechurch, and reobtain its charter--not, however, through the statecommissioner, who refused to grant it, but by means of a statute of thestate, and through Directors regive the land to the church. In 1895 Ireconstructed my original system of ministry and church government. Thuscommitted to the providence of God, the prosperity of this church isunsurpassed. 

From first to last the Mother church seemed type and shadow of thewarfare between the flesh and Spirit, even that shadow, whose substanceis the divine Spirit, imperatively propelling the greatest moral, physical, civil, and religious reform ever known on earth. In the wordsof the Prophet: "The shadow of a great Rock in a weary land. "

This church was dedicated on January 6, anciently one of the many datesselected and observed in the East as the day of the birth and baptism ofour Master Metaphysician, Jesus of Nazareth. 

Christian Scientists, their children, and grandchildren to the latestgenerations, inevitably love one another with that love wherewith Christloveth us. A love unselfish, unambitious, impartial, universal, --thatloves only because it _is_ Love. Moreover, they love their enemies, eventhose that hate them. This we all must do to be Christian Scientists inspirit and in truth. I long, and live, to see this love demonstrated. Iam seeking and praying for it to inhabit my own heart and to be mademanifest in my life. Who will unite with me in this pure purpose, andfaithfully struggle till it be accomplished? Let this be our Christianendeavor society which Christ organizes and blesses. 

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

Christian Scientists are really united to only that which is Christlike, but they are not indifferent to the welfare of any one. To perpetuate acold distance between our denomination and other sects, and close thedoor on church or individuals--however much this is done to us--is notChristian Science. Go not into the way of the unchristly, butwheresoever you recognize a clear expression of God's likeness, thereabide in confidence and hope. 

Our unity with churches of other denominations must rest on the spiritof Christ calling us together. It cannot come from any other source. Popularity, self aggrandizement, aught that can darken in any degree ourspirituality, must be set aside. Only what feeds and fills the sentimentwith unworldliness, can give peace and good will towards men. 

All Christian churches have one bond of unity, one nucleus or point ofconvergence, one prayer, --The Lord's Prayer. It is matter for rejoicingthat we unite in love, and in this sacred petition with every prayingassembly on earth, --"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as inHeaven. "

If the lives of Christian Scientists attest their fidelity to Truth, Ipredict that in the twentieth century, every Christian church in ourland, and a few in far-off lands, will approximate the understanding ofChristian Science sufficiently to heal the sick in His name. Christ willgive to Christianity His new name, and Christendom will be classified asChristian Scientists. 

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

CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS. 

(_Daily Inter-Ocean_, Chicago, December 31, 1894. )

MARY BAKER EDDY. 

Completion of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston. --"OurPrayer in Stone. "--Description of the Most Unique Structure in AnyCity. --A Beautiful Temple and Its Furnishings--Mrs. Eddy's Work and HerInfluence. 

BOSTON, MASS. , December 28. --_Special Correspondence_. --The "greatawakening" of the time of Jonathan Edwards has been paralleled daringthe last decade by a wave of idealism that has swept over the country, manifesting itself under several different aspects and under variousnames, but each having the common identity of spiritual demand. Thismovement, under the guise of Christian Science, and ingenuously callingout a closer inquiry into oriental philosophy, prefigures itself to usas one of the most potent factors in the social evolution of the lastquarter of the nineteenth century. History shows the curious fact thatthe closing years of every century are years of more intense lifemanifested in unrest, or in aspiration, and scholars of specialresearch, like Professor Max Muller, assert that the end of a cycle, asis the latter part of the present century, is marked by peculiarintimations of man's immortal life. 

The completion of the first Christian Science church erected in Bostonstrikes a keynote of definite attention. This church is in thefashionable Back Bay between Commonwealth and Huntington avenues. It isone of the most beautiful, and is certainly the most unique structure inany city. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, as it is officiallycalled, is termed by its founders "our prayer in stone. " It is locatedat the intersection of Norway and Falmouth streets on a plot oftriangular ground, the design a Romanesque tower with a circular frontand an octagonal form accented by stone porticos and turreted corners. On the front is a marble tablet with the following inscription carved inbold relief:

 The First Church of Christ, Scientist, erected Anno Domini, 1894. A testimonial to our beloved teacher, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science; author of "Science And Health, with Key to the Scriptures;" President of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, and the first Pastor of this denomination. 

THE CHURCH EDIFICE. 

The church is built of Concord granite in light gray, with trimmings ofthe pink granite of New Hampshire, Mrs. Eddy's native State. Thearchitecture is Romanesque throughout. The tower is 120 feet in heightand 21-1/2 feet square. The entrances are of marble, with doors ofantique oak richly carved. The windows of stained glass are very rich inpictorial effect. The lighting and cooling of the church--for cooling isa recognized feature as well as heating--are done by electricity, andthe heat generated by two large boilers in the basement is distributedby the four systems with motor electric power. The partitions are ofiron; the floors of marble in mosaic work, and the edifice is thereforeas literally fireproof as is conceivable. The principal features are theauditorium, seating 1, 100 people and capable of holding 1, 500; the"Mother's room, " designed for the exclusive use of Mrs. Eddy; the"directors' room, " and the vestry. The girders are all of iron, the roofis of terra cotta tiles, the galleries are in plaster relief, the windowframes are of iron, coated with plaster; the staircases are of iron, with marble stairs of rose pink and marble approaches. 

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

The auditorium is seated with pews of curly birch, upholstered in oldrose plush. The floor is in white Italian mosaic, with frieze of the oldrose, and the wainscoting repeats the same tints. The base and cap areof pink Tennessee marble. On the walls are bracketed oxidized silverlamps of Roman design, and there are frequent illuminated texts from theBible and from Mrs. Eddy's SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURESimpaneled. A sunburst in the centre of the ceiling takes the place ofchandeliers. There is a disc of cut glass in decorative designs covering144 electric lights in the form of a star, which is twenty-one inchesfrom point to point, the centre being of pure white light, and each rayunder prisms which reflect the rainbow tints. The galleries are richlypaneled in relief work. The organ and choir gallery is spacious and richbeyond the power of words to depict. The platform--corresponding to thechancel of an Episcopal church--is a mosaic work, with richly carvedseats following the sweep of its curve, with a lamp stand of therennaissance period on either end, bearing six richly wrought oxidizedsilver lamps, eight feet in height. The great organ comes from Detroit. It is one of vast compass, with æolian attachment, and cost $11, 000. Itis the gift of a single individual--a votive offering of gratitude forthe healing of the wife of the donor. 

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

THE "MOTHER'S ROOM. "

The "Mother's room" is approached by an entrance of Italian marble, andover 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 Romanesqueborder and is decorated with sprays of fig leaves bearing fruit. Theroom is toned in pale green with relief in old rose. The mantel is ofonyx and gold. Before the great bay window hangs an Athenian lamp overtwo hundred years old, which will be kept always burning day and night. Leading off the "Mother's room" are toilet apartments, with full lengthFrench mirrors and every convenience. 

The directors' room is very beautiful in marble approaches and richcarving, and off this is a vault for the safe preservation of papers. 

The vestry seats 800 people, and opening from it are three large classrooms and the pastor's study. 

The windows are a remarkable feature of this temple. There are no"memorial" windows: the entire church is a Testimonial, not amemorial--a point that the members strongly insist upon. 

In the auditorium are two rose windows--one representing the heavenlycity which "cometh down from God out of Heaven, " with six small windowsbeneath, emblematic of the six water pots referred to in John xi:6. Theother rose window represents the raising of the daughter of Jairus. Beneath are two small windows bearing palms of victory and others withlamps typical of Science and Health. 

Another great window tells its pictorial story of the four Marys--themother of Jesus, Mary anointing the head of Jesus, Mary washing the feetof Jesus, Mary at the resurrection; and the woman spoken of in theApocalypse, chapter 12, God-crowned. 

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

In the gallery are windows representing John on the Isle of Patmos andothers of pictorial significance. In the "Mother's room" the windows areof still more unique interest. A large bay window composed of threeseparate panels is designed to be wholly typical of the work of Mrs. Eddy. The central panel represents her in solitude and meditationsearching the scriptures by the light of a single candle, while the Starof Bethlehem shines down from above. Above this is a panel containingthe Christian Science seal, and other panels are decorated withemblematic designs with the legends, "Heal the Sick, " "Raise the Dead, ""Cleanse the Lepers, " and "Cast Out Demons. "

The cross and the crown and the star are presented in appropriatedecorative effect. The cost of this church is $221, 000, exclusive of theland--a gift from Mrs. Eddy--which is valued at some $40, 000. 

THE ORDER OF SERVICE. 

The order of service in the Christian Science Church does not differwidely from that of any other sect save that its service includes theuse of Mrs. Eddy's book entitled SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THESCRIPTURES in perhaps equal measure to its use of the Bible--The readingis from the two alternately; the singing is from a compilation calledthe "Christian Science Hymnal, " but its songs are for the most partthose devotional hymns from Herbert, Faber, Robertson, Wesley, Browning, and other recognized devotional poets, with selections from Whittier andLowell, as are found in the hymn books of the Unitarian churches. Forthe past year or two Judge Hanna, formerly of Chicago, has filled theoffice of pastor to the church in this city, which held its meetings inChickering hall, and later in Copley hall, in the new Grundmann Studiobuilding on Copley square. Preceding Judge Hanna were Rev. D. A. Eastonand Rev. L. P. Norcross, both of whom had formerly been Congregationalclergymen. The organizer and first pastor of the church here was Mrs. Eddy herself, of whose work I shall venture to speak, a little later, inthis article. 

Last Sunday I gave myself the pleasure of attending the service held inCopley hall. The spacious apartment was thronged with a congregationwhose remarkable earnestness impressed the observer. There was nostraggling of late-comers. Before the appointed hour every seat in thehall was filled and a large number of chairs pressed into service forthe overflowing throng. The music was spirited, and the selections fromthe Bible and from SCIENCE AND HEALTH were finely read by Judge Hanna. Then came his sermon, which dealt directly with the command of Christ to"Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leper, cast out demons. " Inhis admirable discourse, Judge Hanna said that while all theseinjunctions could, under certain conditions, be interpreted andfulfilled literally, the special lesson was to be taken spiritually--tocleanse the leprosy of sin, to cast out the demons of evil thought. Thediscourse was able, and helpful in its suggestive interpretation. 

THE CHURCH MEMBERS. 

Later I was told that almost the entire congregation was composed ofpersons who had either been themselves, or had seen members of their ownfamilies, healed by Christian Science treatment; and I was further toldthat once when a Boston clergyman remonstrated with Judge Hanna forenticing a separate congregation rather than offering their strength tounite with churches already established--I was told he replied that theChristian Science church did not recruit itself from other churches, butfrom the graveyards! The church numbers now 4, 000 members, but thisestimate, as I understand, is not limited to the Boston adherents, butincludes those all over the country. The ceremonial of uniting is tosign a brief "confession of faith, " written by Mrs. Eddy, and to unitein communion, which is not celebrated by outward symbols of bread andwine, but by uniting in silent prayer. 

The "confession of faith" includes the declaration that the Scripturesare the guide to eternal life; that there is a Supreme Being, and hisSon, and the Holy Ghost, and that man is made in his image. It affirmsthe atonement; it recognizes Jesus as the teacher and guide tosalvation; the forgiveness of sin by God, and affirms the power of truthover error, and the need of living faith at the moment to realize thepossibilities of the divine life. The entire membership of ChristianScientists throughout the world now exceeds 200, 000 people. The churchin Boston was organized by Mrs. Eddy, and the first meeting held onApril 19, 1879. It opened with twenty-six members, and within fifteenyears it has grown to its present impressive proportions, and has nowits own magnificent church building, costing over $200, 000, and entirelypaid for when its consecration service on January 6 shall be celebrated. This is certainly a very remarkable retrospect. 

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of this denomination and discoverer ofChristian Science, as they term her work in affirming the presentapplication of the principles asserted by Jesus, is a most interestingpersonality. At the risk of colloquialism, I am tempted to "begin at thebeginning" of my own knowledge of Mrs. Eddy, and take, as the point ofdeparture, my first meeting with her and the subsequent development ofsome degree of familiarity with the work of her life which that meetinginaugurated for me. 

MRS. EDDY. 

It was during some year in the early '80's that I became aware--fromthat close contact with public feeling resulting from editorial work indaily journalism--that the Boston atmosphere was largely thrilled andpervaded by a new and increasing interest in the dominance of mind overmatter, and that the central figure in all this agitation was Mrs. Eddy. To a note which I wrote her, begging the favor of an interview for pressuse, she most kindly replied, naming an evening on which she wouldreceive me. At the hour named I rang the bell at a spacious house onColumbus avenue, and I was hardly more than seated before Mrs. Eddyentered the room. She impressed me as singularly graceful and winning inbearing and manner, and with great claim to personal beauty. Her figurewas tall, slender, and as flexible in movement as that of a Delsartedisciple; her face, framed in dark hair and lighted by luminous blueeyes, had the transparency and rose-flush of tint so often seen in NewEngland, and she was magnetic, earnest, impassioned. No photographs cando the least justice to Mrs. Eddy, as her beautiful complexion andchangeful expression cannot thus be reproduced. At once one wouldperceive that she had the temperament to dominate, to lead, to control, not by any crude self-assertion, but a spiritual animus. Of course sucha personality, with the wonderful tumult in the air that her large andenthusiastic following excited, fascinated the imagination. What had sheoriginated? I mentally questioned this modern St. Catherine who wasdominating her followers like any abbess of old. She told me the storyof her life, so far as outward events may translate those innerexperiences which alone are significant. 

Mary Baker was the daughter of Mark and Abigail (Ambrose) Baker, and wasborn in Concord, N. H. , somewhere in the early decade of 1820-'30. At thetime I met her she must have been some sixty years of age, yet she hadthe coloring and the elastic bearing of a woman of thirty, and this, shetold me, was due to the principles of Christian Science. On her father'sside Mrs. Eddy came from Scotch and English ancestry, and Hannah Moorewas a relative of her grandmother. Deacon Ambrose, her maternalgrandfather, was known as a "godly man, " and her mother was a religiousenthusiast, a saintly and consecrated character. One of her brothers, Albert Baker, graduated at Dartmouth and achieved eminence as a lawyer. 

MRS. EDDY AS A CHILD. 

As a child Mary Baker saw visions and dreamed dreams. When eight yearsof age she began, like Jeanne d'Arc, to hear "voices, " and for a yearshe heard her name called distinctly, and would often run to her motherquestioning if she were wanted. One night the mother related to her thestory of Samuel, and bade her, if she heard the voice again to reply ashe did: "Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth. " The call came, but thelittle maid was afraid and did not reply. This caused her tears ofremorse and she prayed for forgiveness, and promised to reply if thecall came again. It came, and she answered as her mother had bidden her, and after that it ceased. 

These experiences, of which Catholic biographies are full, and whichhistory not unfrequently emphasizes, certainly offer food formeditation. Theodore Parker related that when he was a lad at work in afield one day on his father's farm at Lexington, an old man with a snowybeard suddenly appeared at his side, and walked with him as he worked, giving him high counsel and serious thought. All inquiry in theneighborhood as to whence the stranger came or whither he went wasfruitless; no one else had seen him, and Mr. Parker always believed, soa friend has told me, that his visitor was a spiritual form from anotherworld. It is certainly true that many and many persons, whose life hasbeen destined to more than ordinary achievement, have had experiences ofvoices or visions in their early youth. 

At an early age Miss Baker was married to Colonel Glover, of Charleston, S. C. , who lived only a year. She returned to her father's home--in1844--and from that time until 1866 no special record is to be made. 

In 1866, while living in Lynn, Mass. , Mrs. Eddy (then Mrs. Glover) metwith a severe accident and her case was pronounced hopeless by thephysicians. There came a Sunday morning when her pastor came to bid hergood-by before proceeding to his morning service as there was noprobability that she would be alive at its close. During this time shesuddenly became aware of a divine illumination and ministration. Sherequested those with her to withdraw, and reluctantly they did so, believing her delirious. Soon, to their bewilderment and fright, shewalked into the adjoining room, "and they thought I had died, and thatit was my apparition, " she said. 

THE PRINCIPLE OF DIVINE HEALING. 

From that hour dated her conviction of the principle of divine healing, and that it is as true to-day as it was in the days when Jesus ofNazareth walked the earth. "I felt that the divine spirit had wrought amiracle, " she said, in reference to this experience. "How, I could nottell, but later I found it to be in perfect scientific accord with thedivine law. " From 1866-'69, Mrs. Eddy withdrew from the world tomeditate, to pray, to search the Scriptures. 

"During this time, " she said, in reply to my questions, "the Bible wasmy only text-book. It answered my questions as to the process by which Iwas restored to health; it came to me with a new meaning, and suddenly Iapprehended the spiritual meaning of the teaching of Jesus and theprinciple and the law involved in spiritual science and metaphysicalhealing--in a word--Christian science. "

Mrs. Eddy came to perceive that Christ's healing was not miraculous, butwas simply a natural fulfilment of divine law--a law as operative in theworld to-day as it was nineteen hundred years ago. "Divine science isbegotten of spirituality, " she says, "since only the 'pure in heart' cansee God. "

In writing of this experience, Mrs. Eddy has said:

 I had learned that thought must be spiritualized in order to apprehend Spirit. It must become honest unselfish, and pure, in order to have the least understanding of God in Divine Science. The first must become last. Our reliance upon material things must be transferred to a perception of and dependence on spiritual things. For spirit to be supreme in demonstration, it must be supreme in our affections, and we must be clad with divine power. I had learned that mind reconstructed the body and that nothing else could. All science is a revelation. 

Through homeopathy, too, Mrs. Eddy became convinced of the principle ofmind healing, discovering that the more attenuated the drug, the morepotent was its effects. 

In 1877 Mrs. Glover married Dr. Asa Gilbert Eddy, of Londonderry, Vermont, a physician who had come into sympathy with her own views, andwho was the first to place "Christian Scientist, " on the sign at hisdoor. Dr. Eddy died in 1882, a year after her founding of the"Metaphysical College" in Boston, in which he taught. 

The work in the Metaphysical College lasted nine years, and it wasclosed (in 1889) in the very zenith of its prosperity as Mrs. Eddy feltit essential to the deeper foundation of her religious work to retirefrom active contact with the world. To this college came hundreds andhundreds of students, from Europe as well as this country. I was presentat the class lectures now and then by Mrs. Eddy's kind invitation, andsuch earnestness of attention as was given to her morning talks by themen and women present I never saw equalled. 

MRS. EDDY'S PERSONALITY. 

On the evening that I first met Mrs. Eddy by her hospitable courtesy, Iwent to her peculiarly fatigued. I came away in a state of exhilarationand energy that made me feel I could have walked any conceivabledistance. I have met Mrs. Eddy many times since then, and always withthis experience repeated. 

Several years ago Mrs. Eddy removed from Columbus to Commonwealthavenue, where, just beyond Massachusetts avenue, at the entrance to theBack Bay Park, she bought one of the most beautiful residences inBoston. The interior is one of the utmost taste and luxury, and thehouse is now occupied by Judge and Mrs. Hanna, who are the editors ofthe _Christian Science Journal_, a monthly publication, and to whosecourtesy I am much indebted for some of the data of this paper. "It is apleasure to give any information for _The Inter-Ocean_, " remarked Mrs. Hanna, "for it is the great daily that is so fair and so just in itsattitude toward all questions. "

The increasing demands of the public on Mrs. Eddy have been, it may be, one factor in her removal to Concord, N. H. , where she has a beautifulresidence, called Pleasant View. Her health is excellent, and althoughher hair is white, she retains in a great degree her energy and power;she takes a daily walk and drives in the afternoon. She personallyattends to a vast correspondence; superintends the church in Boston, andis engaged on further writings on Christian Science. In every sense sheis the recognized head of the Christian Science Church. At the same timeit is her most earnest aim to eliminate the element of personality fromthe faith. "On this point, Mrs. Eddy feels very strongly, " said agentleman to me on Christmas eve, as I sat in the beautiful drawingroom, where Judge and Mrs. Hanna, Miss Elsie Lincoln, the soprano forthe choir of the new church, and one or two other friends were gathered. 

"Mother feels very strongly, " he continued, "the danger and themisfortune of a church depending on any one personality. It is difficultnot to centre too closely around a highly gifted personality. "

THE FIRST ASSOCIATION. 

The first Christian Scientist Association was organized on July 4, 1876, by seven persons, including Mrs. Eddy. In April, 1879, the church wasfounded with twenty-six members, and its charter obtained the followingJune. Mrs. Eddy had preached in other parishes for five years beforebeing ordained in this church, which ceremony took place in 1881. 

The first edition of Mrs. Eddy's book, SCIENCE AND HEALTH, was issued in1875. During these succeeding twenty years it has been greatly revisedand enlarged, and it is now in its ninety-first edition. It consists offourteen chapters, whose titles are as follows: "Science, Theology, Medicine, " "Physiology, " "Footsteps of Truth, " "Creation, " "Science ofBeing, " "Christian Science and Spiritualism, " "Marriage, " "AnimalMagnetism, " "Some Objections Answered, " "Prayer, " "Atonement andEucharist, " "Christian Science Practice, " "Teaching Christian Science, ""Recapitulation. " Key to the Scriptures, Genesis, Apocalypse, andGlossary. 

The Christian Scientists do not accept the belief we call spiritualism. They believe those who have passed the change of death are in soentirely different a plane of consciousness that between the embodiedand disembodied there is no possibility of communication. 

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

Yet each and all these movements, however they may differ amongthemselves, are phases of idealism and manifestations of a higherspirituality seeking expression. 

It is good that each and all shall prosper, serving those who find inone form of belief or another their best aid and guidance, and that allmeet on common ground in the great essentials of love to God and love toman as a signal proof of the divine origin of humanity which finds norest until it finds the peace of the Lord in spirituality. They allteach that one great truth that:

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

I add on the following page a little poem that I consider superblysweet--from my friend, Miss Whiting, the talented author of "THE WORLDBEAUTIFUL. "--M. B. EDDY. 

AT THE WINDOW. 

[_Written for the Traveller_. ]

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

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

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

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

LILLIAN WHITING. 

April 15, 1888. 

(_Boston Herald_, January 7, 1895. )

EXTRACT. 

A TEMPLE GIVEN TO GOD. --DEDICATION OF THE MOTHER CHURCH OF CHRISTIANSCIENCE. 

Novel Method of Enabling Six Thousand Believers to Attend theExercises--The Service Repeated Four Times--Sermon by Rev. Mary BakerEddy, Founder of the Denomination--Beautiful Room Which the ChildrenBuilt. 

With simple ceremonies, four times repeated, in the presence of fourdifferent congregations, aggregating nearly 6, 000 persons, the uniqueand costly edifice erected in Boston at Norway and Falmouth streets as ahome for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and a testimonial to thediscoverer and founder of Christian Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, wasyesterday dedicated to the worship of God. 

The structure came forth from the hands of the artisans with every stonepaid for--with an appeal, not for more money, but for a cessation of thetide of contributions which continued to flow in after the full amountneeded was received. From every state in the Union and from many lands, the love offerings of the disciples of Christian Science came to helperect this beautiful structure, and more than 4, 000 of thesecontributors came to Boston from the far-off Pacific coast and the Gulfstates and all the territory that lies between, to view the new-builttemple and to listen to the message sent them by the teacher theyrevere. 

From all New England the members of the denomination gathered; New Yorksent its hundreds, and even from the distant states came parties of 40and 50. The large auditorium, with its capacity for holding 1, 400 or1, 500 persons, was hopelessly incapable of receiving this vast throng, to say nothing of the nearly 1, 000 local believers. Hence the servicewas repeated until all who wished had heard and seen; and each of thefour vast congregations filled the church to repletion. 

At 7:30 a. M. The chimes in the great stone tower, which rises 126 feetabove the earth, rung out their message of "Peace on earth and good willto men. "

Old familiar hymns--"All Hail the Power of Jesus's Name, " and otherssuch--were chimed until the hour for the dedication service had come. 

At 9 a. M. The first congregation gathered. Before this service hadclosed the large vestry room and the spacious lobbies and the sidewalksaround the church were all filled with a waiting multitude. At 10:30o'clock another service began, and at noon still another. Then there wasan intermission, and at 3 p. M. The service was repeated for the lasttime. 

There was scarcely even a minor variation in the exercises at any one ofthese services. At 10:30 a. M. , however, the scene was renderedparticularly interesting by the presence of several hundred children inthe central pews. These were the little contributors to the buildingfund, whose money was devoted to the "Mother's room, " a superb apartmentintended for the sole use of Mrs. Eddy. These children are known in thechurch as the "Busy Bees, " and each of them wore a white satin badgewith a golden beehive stamped upon it, and beneath the beehive the words"Mother's Room, " in gilt letters. 

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

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

Two combined choirs--that of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, ofNew York, and the choir of the home church, numbering thirty-fivesingers in all--led the singing, under the direction, respectively, ofMr. Henry Lincoln Case, and Miss Elsie Lincoln. 

Judge S. J. Hanna, editor of the _Christian Science Journal_, presidedover the exercises. On the platform with him were Messrs. Ira O. Knapp, Joseph Armstrong, Stephen A. Chase, and William B. Johnson, who composethe board of directors, and Mrs. Henrietta Clark Bemis, a distinguishedelocutionist, and a native of Concord, New Hampshire. 

The utmost simplicity marked the exercises. After an organ voluntary, the hymn, "Laus Deo, It Is Done, " written by Mrs. Eddy for thecorner-stone laying last spring, was sung by the congregation. Selections from the Scriptures and from SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TOTHE SCRIPTURES, were read by Judge Hanna and Dr. Eddy. 

A few minutes of silent prayer came next, followed by the recitation ofthe Lord's prayer, with its spiritual interpretation as given in theChristian Science text-book. 

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

Before presenting the sermon, Mrs. Bemis read the following letter froma former pastor of the church:

 _Rev. Mary Baker Eddy_--Dear Teacher, Leader, Guide: Laus Deo. It is done. At last you begin to see the fruition of that you have worked, toiled, prayed for. The prayer in stone is accomplished. 

 Across 2, 000 miles of space, as mortal sense puts it, I send my hearty congratulations. You are fully occupied, but I thought you would willingly pause for an instant to receive this brief message of congratulation. Surely it marks an era in the blessed onward work of Christian Science. It is a most auspicious hour in your eventful career. While we all rejoice, yet the mother in Israel, alone of us all, comprehends its full significance. Yours lovingly, LANSON P. NORCROSS. 

(_Boston Sunday Globe_, January 6, 1895. )

EXTRACT. 

Stately Home for Believers in Gospel Healing. --A Woman of Wealth WhoDevotes All to Her Church Work. 

Christian Science has shown its power over its students, as they arecalled, by building a church by voluntary contribution, the first of itskind, a church which will be dedicated to-day, with a quarter of amillion dollars expended and free of debt. 

The money has flowed in from all parts of the United States and Canadawithout any special appeal, and it kept coming until the custodian offunds cried "enough" and refused to accept any further checks by mail orotherwise. Men, women, and children lent a helping hand, some giving amite and some substantial sums. Sacrifices were made in many an instancewhich will never be known in this world. 

Christian Scientists not only say that they can effect cures of diseaseand erect churches, but add that they can get their buildings finishedon time even when the feat seems impossible to mortal senses. Read thefollowing from a publication of the new denomination:

 One of the grandest and most helpful features of this glorious consummation is this: that one month before the close of the year every evidence of material sense declared that the church's completion within the year 1894 transcended human possibility. The predictions of workman and onlooker alike were that it could not be completed before April or May of 1895. 

Much was the ridicule heaped upon the hopeful, trustful ones, whodeclared and repeatedly asseverated to the contrary. This is indeed, then, a scientific demonstration. It has proved, in most strikingmanner, the oft-repeated declarations of our text-books, that theevidence of the mortal senses is unreliable. 

A week ago Judge Hanna withdrew from the pastorate of the church, sayinghe gladly laid down his responsibilities to be succeeded by the grandestof ministers--the Bible and "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THESCRIPTURES. " This action it appears, was the result of rules made byMrs. Eddy. The sermons hereafter will consist of passages read from thetwo books by readers, who will be elected each year by the congregation. 

A story has been abroad that Judge Hanna was so eloquent and magneticthat he was attracting listeners who came to hear him preach rather thanin search of the truth as taught. Consequently the new rules wereformulated. 

But at Christian Science headquarters this is denied; Mrs. Eddy says thewords of the judge speak to the point, and that no such inference is tobe drawn therefrom. 

In Mrs. Eddy's personal reminiscences, which are published under thetitle of "Retrospection and Introspection, " much is told of herself indetail that can only be touched upon in this brief sketch. 

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

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

Mrs. Eddy applied herself, like other girls, to her studies, thoughperhaps with an unusual zest, delighting in philosophy, logic, and moralscience, as well as looking into the ancient languages, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. 

Her last marriage was in the spring of 1877, when, at Lynn, Mass. , shebecame the wife of Asa Gilbert Eddy. He was the first organizer of aChristian Science Sunday-School, of which he was the superintendent, andlater he attracted the attention of many clergymen of other denominationsby his able lectures upon scriptural topics. He died in 1882. 

Mrs. Eddy is known to her circle of pupils and admirers as the editorand publisher of the first official organ of this sect. It was calledthe _Journal of Christian Science_, and has had great circulation withthe members of this fast-increasing faith. 

In recounting her experiences as the pioneer of Christian Science, shestates that she sought knowledge concerning the physical side in thisresearch through the different schools of allopathy, homeopathy, and soforth, without receiving any real satisfaction. No ancient or modernphilosophy gave her any distinct statement of the science of mindhealing. She claims that no human reason has been equal to the question. 

And she also defines carefully the difference in the theories betweenfaith cure and Christian Science, dwelling particularly upon the termsbelief and understanding, which are the key words respectively used inthe definitions of these two healing arts. 

Besides her Boston home, Mrs. Eddy has a delightful country home onemile from the state house of New Hampshire's quiet capital, an easydriving distance for her when she wishes to catch a glimpse of theworld. But for the most part she lives very much retired, driving ratherinto the country, which is so picturesque all about Concord and itssurrounding villages. 

The big house, so delightfully remodeled and modernized from a primitivehomestead, that nothing is left excepting the angles and pitch of theroof, is remarkably well placed upon a terrace that slopes behind thebuildings, while they themselves are in the midst of green stretches oflawns, dotted with beds of flowering shrubs, with here and there afountain or summer-house. 

Mrs. Eddy took the writer straight to her beloved "lookout"--a broadpiazza on the south side of the second story of the house, where she cansit in her swinging chair, revelling in the lights and shades of springand summer greenness. Or, as just then, in the gorgeous October coloringof the whole landscape that lies below, across the farm, which stretcheson through an intervale of beautiful meadows and pastures to the woodsthat skirt the valley of the little truant river, as it wanderseastward. 

It pleased her to point out her own birthplace. Straight as the crowflies, from her piazza, does it lie on the brow of Bow hill, and thenshe paused and reminded the reporter that Congressman Baker from NewHampshire, her cousin, was born and bred in that same neighborhood. Thephotograph of Hon. Hoke Smith, another distinguished relative, adornedthe mantel. 

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

The natural and lawful pride that comes with a tincture of blue andbrave blood, is perhaps one of her characteristics, as is many anotherwell born woman's. She had a long list of worthy ancestors in colonialand revolutionary days, and the McNeils, and General Knox, figurelargely in her genealogy, as well as the hero who killed the ill-starredPaugus. 

This big, sunny room which Mrs. Eddy calls her den--or sometimes"mother's room, " when speaking of her many followers who consider hertheir spiritual leader--has the air of hospitality that marks itshostess herself. Mrs. Eddy has hung its walls with reproductions of someof Europe's masterpieces, a few of which had been the gifts of herloving pupils. 

Looking down from the windows upon the tree-tops on the lower terrace, the reporter exclaimed: "You have lived here only four years, and yetfrom a barren waste of most unpromising ground has come forth all thisbeauty!"

"Four years!" she ejaculated; "two and a half, only two and a halfyears. " Then, touching my sleeve and pointing, she continued: "Look atthose big elms! I had them brought here in warm weather, almost as bigas they are now, and not one died. "

Mrs. Eddy talked earnestly of her friendships. . . . She told somethingof her domestic arrangements, of how she had long wished to get awayfrom her busy career in Boston, and return to her native granite hills, there to build a substantial home that should do honor to that precinctof Concord. 

She chose the stubbly, old farm on the road from Concord within one mileof the "Eton of America, " St. Paul's school. Once bought, the will ofthe woman set at work, and to-day a strikingly well kept estate is thefirst impression given to the visitor as he approaches Pleasant View. 

She employs a number of men to keep the grounds and farm in perfectorder, and it was pleasing to learn that this rich woman is using hermoney to promote the welfare of industrious workmen in whom she takes avital interest. 

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

(_Boston Transcript_, December 31, 1894. )

EXTRACT. 

The growth of Christian Science is properly marked by the erection of avisible house of worship in this city, which will be dedicated tomorrow. It has cost $200, 000, and no additional sums outside of thesubscriptions are asked for. This particular phase of religious beliefhas impressed itself upon a large and increasing number of Christianpeople, who have been tempted to examine its principles, and doubtlesshave been comforted and strengthened by them. Any new movement willawaken some sort of interest. There are many who have worn off thenovelty and are thoroughly carried away with the requirements, simpleand direct as they are, of Christian Science. The opposition against itfrom the so-called orthodox religious bodies keeps up a while, but aftera little skirmishing, finally subsides. No one religious body holds thewhole of truth, and whatever is likely to show even some one side of itwill gain followers and live down any attempted repression. 

Christian Science does not strike all as a system of truth. If it did, it would be a prodigy. Neither does the Christian faith produce thesame impressions upon all. Freedom to believe or to dissent is a greatprivilege in these days. So when a number of conscientious followersapply themselves to a matter like Christian Science, they are enjoyingthat liberty which is their inherent right as human beings, and thoughthey cannot escape censure, yet they are to be numbered among the manypioneers who are searching after religious truth. There is reallynothing settled. Every truth is more or less in a state of agitation. The many who have worked in the mine of knowledge are glad to welcomeothers who have different methods, and with them bring different ideas. 

It is too early to predict where this movement will go, and how greatlyit will affect the well established methods. That it has produced asensation in religious circles, and called forth the implements oftheological 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 projectin religious belief has stirred up feeling, but as time has gone on, compromises have been welcomed. 

The erection of this temple will doubtless help on the growth of itsprinciples. Pilgrims from everywhere will go there in search of truth, and some may be satisfied and some will not. Christian Science cannotabsorb the world's thought. It may get the share of attention itdeserves, but it can only aspire to take its place alongside other greatdemonstrations of religious belief which have done something good forthe sake of humanity. 

Wonders will never cease. Here is a church whose treasurer has to sendout word that no sums except those already subscribed can be received!The Christian Scientists have a faith of the mustard-seed variety. Whata pity some of our practical Christian folk have not a faith approximateto that of these "impractical" Christian Scientists. 

(_Jackson Patriot_, Jackson, Mich. January 20, 1895. )

EXTRACT. 

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

The erection of a massive temple in Boston by Christian Scientists, at acost of over $200, 000, love offerings of the disciples of MARY BAKEREDDY, reviver of the ancient faith and author of the text-book fromwhich, with the New Testament at the foundation, believers receivelight, health, and strength, is evidence of the rapid growth of the newmovement. We call it new. It is not. The name Christian Science alone isnew. At the beginning of Christianity it was taught and practiced byJesus and his disciples. The Master was the great healer. But the waveof materialism and bigotry that swept over the world for fifteencenturies, covering it with the blackness of the Dark Ages, nearlyobliterated all vital belief in his teachings. The Bible was a sealedbook. Recently a revived belief in what he taught is manifest, andChristian Science is one result. No new doctrine is proclaimed, butthere is the fresh development of a principle that was put into practiceby the founder of Christianity nineteen hundred years ago, thoughpracticed in other countries at any earlier date. "The thing that hathbeen, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that whichshall be done, and there is no new thing under the sun. "

The condition which Jesus of Nazareth, on various occasions during thethree years of his ministry on earth, declared to be essential, in themind of both healer and patient, is contained in the one word--FAITH. Can drugs suddenly cure leprosy? When the ten lepers were cleansed andone returned to give thanks in Oriental phrase, Jesus said to him:"Arise, go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. " That was ChristianScience. In his "Law of Psychic Phenomena" Hudson says: "That word, morethan any other, expresses the whole law of human felicity and power inthis world and of salvation in the world to come. " It is that attributeof mind which elevates man above the level of the brute, and givesdominion over the physical world. It is the essential element of successin every field of human endeavor. It constitutes the power of the humansoul. When Jesus of Nazareth proclaimed its potency from the hilltops ofPalestine he gave to mankind the key to health and heaven, and earnedthe title of "Savior of the World. " Whittier, grandest of mystic poets, saw the truth:

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

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

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

[Footnote: About 1868, the author of SCIENCE AND HEALTH healedMr. Whittier with one visit, at his home in Amesbury, of incipientpulmonary consumption. --M. B. EDDY. ]

That Jesus operated in perfect harmony with natural law, not indefiance, suppression, or violation of it, we cannot doubt. Theperfectly natural is the perfectly spiritual. Jesus enunciated andexemplified the principle; and, obviously, the conditions requisite inpsychic healing to-day are the same as were necessary in apostolictimes. We accept the statement of Hudson: "There was no law of natureviolated or transcended. On the contrary, the whole transaction was inperfect obedience to the laws of nature. He understood the lawperfectly, as no one before him understood it; and in the plentitude ofhis power he applied it where the greatest good could be accomplished. "A careful reading of the accounts of his healings, in the light ofmodern science, shows that he observed, in his practice of mentaltherapeutics, the conditions of environment and harmonious influencethat are essential to success. In the case of Jairus' daughter they arefully set forth. He kept the unbelievers away, "put them all out, " andpermitting only the father and mother, with his closest friends andfollowers, Peter, James, and John, in the chamber with him, and havingthus the most perfect obtainable environment, he raised the daughter tolife. 

 "Not in blind caprice of will, Not in cunning sleight of skill, Not for show of power, was wrought Nature's marvel in Thy thought. "

In a previous article we have referred to cyclic changes that cameduring the last quarter of preceding centuries. Of our remarkablenineteenth century not the least eventful circumstance is the advent ofChristian Science. That it should be the work of a woman is the naturaloutcome of a period notable for her emancipation from many of thethraldoms, prejudices, and oppressions of the past. We do not, therefore, regard it as a mere coincidence that the first edition ofMrs. Eddy's "SCIENCE AND HEALTH" should have been published in 1875. Since then she has revised it many times, and the ninety-first editionis announced. Her discovery was first called "the science of divinemetaphysical healing. " Afterward she selected the name ChristianScience. It is based upon what is held to be scientific certainty, namely, --that all causation is of Mind, every effect has its origin indesire and thought. The theology--if we may use the word--of ChristianScience is contained in the volume entitled "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEYTO THE SCRIPTURES. "

The present Boston congregation was organized April 19, 1879, and hasnow over 4, 000 members. It is regarded as the parent organization, allothers being branches, though each is entirely independent in themanagement of its own affairs. Truth is the sole recognized authority. Of actual members of different congregations there are between 100, 000and 200, 000. One or more organized societies have sprung up in New York, Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toledo, Milwaukee, Madison, Scranton, Peoria, Atlanta, Toronto, and nearly everyother centre of population, besides a large and growing number ofreceivers of the faith among the members of all the churches andnon-church-going people. In some churches a majority of the members areChristian Scientists, and, as a rule, are the most intelligent. 

Space does not admit of an elaborate presentation on the occasion of theerection of the temple, in Boston, the dedication taking place on the6th of January, of one of the most remarkable, helpful, and powerfulmovements of the last quarter of the century. Christian Science hasbrought hope and comfort to many weary souls. It makes people better andhappier. Welding Christianity and Science, hitherto divorced becausedogma and truth could not unite, was a happy inspiration. 

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

(_The Outlook_, New York, January 19, 1895. )

A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH. 

A great Christian Science Church was dedicated in Boston on Sunday, the6th inst. It is located at Norway and Falmouth streets, and is intendedto be a testimonial to the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. The building is fireproof, and cost over$200, 000. It is entirely paid for, and contributions for its erectioncame from every state in the Union, and from many lands. The auditoriumis said to seat between fourteen and fifteen hundred, and was throngedat the four services on the day of dedication. The sermon prepared byMrs. Eddy was read by Mrs. Bemis. It rehearsed the significance of thebuilding, and reënunciated the truths which will find emphasis there. From the description we judge that it is one of the most beautifulbuildings in Boston, and, indeed, in all New England. Whatever may bethought of the peculiar tenets of the Christian Scientists, and whateverdifference of opinion there may be concerning the organization of such achurch, there can be no question but that the adherents of this churchhave proved their faith by their works. 

(_American Art Journal_, New York, January 26, 1895. )

"OUR PRAYER IN STONE. "

Such is the excellent name given to a new Boston church. Few peopleoutside its own circles, realize how extensive is the belief inChristian Science. There are several sects of mental healers, but thisnew edifice on Back Bay, just off Huntington avenue, not far from thebig Mechanics building and the proposed site of the new Music hall, belongs to the followers of Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, a lady born ofan old New Hampshire family, who, after many vicissitudes, found herselfin Lynn, Mass. , healed by the power of Divine Mind, and thereupondevoted herself to imparting this faith to her fellow beings. Coming toBoston about 1880 she began teaching, gathered an association ofstudents, and organized a church. For several years past she has livedin Concord, N. H. , near her birthplace, owning a beautiful estate calledPleasant View; but thousands of believers throughout this country havejoined the Mother Church in Boston and have now erected this edifice ata cost of over two hundred thousand dollars, every bill being paid. 

Its appearance is shown in the pictures we are permitted to publish. Inthe belfry is a set of tubular chimes. Inside is a basement room, capable of division into seven excellent class rooms, by the use ofmovable partitions. The main auditorium has wide galleries, and willseat over a thousand in its exceedingly comfortable pews. Scarcely anywoodwork is to be found. The floors are all mosaic, the steps marble, and the walls stone. It is rather dark, often too much so forcomfortable reading, as all the windows are of colored glass, withpictures symbolic of the tenets of the organization. In the ceiling is abeautiful sunburst window. Adjoining the chancel is a pastor's study;but for an indefinite time their prime instructor has ordained that theonly pastor shall be the Bible, with her book called "SCIENCE AND HEALTHWITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES. " In the tower is a room devoted to her, andcalled Mother's Room, furnished with all conveniences for living, shouldshe wish to make it a home by day or night. Therein is a portrait of herin stained glass; and an electric light, behind an antique lamp, keptperpetually burning in her honor; though she has not yet visited hertemple, which was dedicated on New Year's Sunday, in a somewhat novelway. 

There was no special sentence or prayer of consecration; but continuousservices were held from nine to four o'clock, every hour and a half, solong as there were attendants; and some people heard these exercisesfour times repeated. The printed program was for some reason notfollowed, certain hymns and psalms being omitted. There was singing by achoir and congregation. The _pater noster_ was repeated in the waypeculiar to Christian Scientists, the congregation repeating onesentence and the leader responding with its parallel interpretation byMrs. Eddy. Antiphonal paragraphs were read from the book of Revelationand her work respectively. The sermon, prepared by Mrs. Eddy, was welladapted for its purpose, and read by a professional elocutionist, not anadherent of the order, Mrs. Henrietta Clark Bemis, in a clear, emphaticstyle. The solo singer, however, was a Scientist, Miss Elsie Lincoln;and on the platform sat Joseph Armstrong, formerly of Kansas, and nowthe business manager of the publication society, with the other membersof the Christian Science Board of Directors--Ira C. Knapp, Edward P. Bates, Stephen A. Chase, --gentlemen officially connected with themovement. The children of believing families collected the money for theMother Room, and seats were especially set apart for them at the seconddedicatory service. Before one service was over and the auditors left bythe rear doors, the front vestibule and street (despite the snowstorm)were crowded with others, waiting admission. 

On the next Sunday the new order of service went into operation. Therewas no address of any sort, no notices, no explanation of Bible or theirtext-book. Judge Hanna, who was a Colorado lawyer before coming intothis work, presided, reading in clear, manly, and intelligent tones, thequarterly Bible lesson, which happened that day to be on Jesus' miracleof loaves and fishes. Each paragraph he supplemented first withillustrative Scripture parallels, as set down for him, and then bypassages selected for him from Mrs. Eddy's book. The place was againcrowded, many having remained over a week from among the thousands ofadherents who had come to Boston for this auspicious occasion from allparts of the country. The organ, made by Farrand & Votey in Detroit, ata cost of eleven thousand dollars, is the gift of a wealthy Universalistgentleman, but was not ready for the opening. It is to fill the recessbehind the spacious platform, and is described as containing pneumaticwindchests throughout, and having an æolian attachment. It is ofthree-manual compass, C. C. C. To C. 4, 61 notes; and pedal compass, C. C. C. To F. 30. The great organ has double open diapason (stopped bass), open diapason, dulciana, viola di gambi, doppel flute, hohl flute, octave, octave quint, superoctave, and trumpet, --65 pipes each. Theswell organ has bourdon, open diapason, salicional, æoline, stoppeddiapason, gemshorn, flute harmonique, flageolet, cornet--3 ranks, 183, --cornopean, oboe, vox humana--61 pipes each. The choir organ, enclosed in separate swell-box, has geigen principal, dolce, concertflute, quintadena, fugara, flute d'amour, piccolo harmonique, clarinet, --61 pipes each. The pedal organ has open diapson, bourden, lieblich gedeckt (from stop 10), violoncello-wood, --30 pipes each. Couplers: swell to great; choir to great; swell to choir; swell to greatoctaves, swell to great sub-octaves; choir to great sub-octaves; swelloctaves; swell to pedal; great to pedal; choir to pedal. Mechanicalaccessories: swell tremulant, choir tremulant, bellows signal; windindicator. Pedal movements: three affecting great and pedal stops, threeaffecting swell and pedal stops; great to pedal reversing pedal;crescendo and full organ pedal; balanced great and choir pedal; balancedswell pedal. 

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

(_Boston Journal_, January 7, 1895. )

CHIMES RANG SWEETLY. 

Much admiration was expressed by all those fortunate enough to listen tothe first peal of the chimes in the tower of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, corner of Falmouth and Norway streets, dedicated yesterday. The sweet, musical tones attracted quite a throng of people, wholistened with delight. 

The chimes were made by the United States Tubular Bell Company, ofMethuen, Mass. , and are something of a novelty in this country, thoughfor some time well and favorably known in the Old Country, especially inEngland. 

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

Where the old-fashioned chimes required a strong man to ring them, thesecan be rung from an electric key board, and even when rung by handrequire but little muscular power to manipulate them, and call forth allthe purity and sweetness of their tones. The quality of tone issomething superb, being rich and mellow. The tubes are carefully tuned, so that the harmony is perfect. They have all the beauties of a greatCathedral chime, with infinitely less expense. 

There is practically no limit to the uses to which these bells may beput. They can be called into requisition in theatres, concert halls, andpublic buildings, as they range in all sizes, from those described downto little sets of silver bells that might be placed on a small centretable. 

(_The Republic_, Washington, D. C. , February 2, 1895. )

EXTRACT. 

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

Mary Baker Eddy the "Mother" of the Idea. --She Has an Immense FollowingThroughout the United States, and a Church Costing $250, 000 Was RecentlyBuilt in Her Honor at Boston. 

"My faith has the strength to nourish trees as well as souls, " was theremark Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, the "mother" of Christian Science, maderecently as she pointed to a number of large elms that shade herdelightful country home, in Concord, N. H. "I had them brought here inwarm weather almost as big as they are now, and not one died. " This is aremarkable statement, but it is made by a remarkable woman, who hasoriginated a new phase of religious belief, and who numbers over 100, 000intelligent people among her devoted followers. 

The great hold she has upon this army was demonstrated in a verytangible and material manner recently when "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, " erected at a cost of $250, 000, was dedicated in Boston. Thishandsome edifice was paid for before it was begun, by the voluntarycontributions of Christian Scientists all over the country, and a tabletimbedded in its wall declares that it was built as "a testimonial to ourbeloved teacher, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, discoverer and founder ofChristian Science, author of its textbook, 'SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEYTO THE SCRIPTURES, ' president of the Massachusetts Metaphysical collegeand the first pastor of this denomination. "

There is usually considerable difficulty in securing sufficient fundsfor the building of a new church, but such was not the experience ofRev. Mary Baker Eddy. Money came freely from all parts of the UnitedStates. Men, women, and children contributed, some giving a pittance, others donating large sums. When the necessary amount was raised thecustodian of the funds was compelled to refuse further contributions inorder to stop the continued inflow of money from enthusiastic ChristianScientists. 

Mrs. Eddy says she discovered Christian Science in 1866. She studied theScriptures and the sciences, she declares, in a search for the greatcurative principle. She investigated allopathy, homeopathy, andelectricity, without finding a clew; and modern philosophy gave her nodistinct statement of the science of mind healing. After careful studyshe became convinced that the curative principle was the Deity. 

(_New York Tribune_, February 7, 1895. )

EXTRACT. 

Boston has just dedicated the first church of the Christian Scientistsin commemoration of the founder of that sect, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, drawing together 6, 000 people to participate in the ceremonies, showingthat belief in that curious creed is not confined to its originalapostles and promulgators, but that it has penetrated what is called theNew England mind to an unlooked-for extent, in inviting the Easternchurches and the Anglican fold to unity with Rome, the Holy Fathershould not overlook the Boston sect of Christian Scientists, which israther small and new, to be sure, but is undoubtedly an interestingfaith and may have a future before it, whatever attitude Rome may assumetoward it. 

(_Journal_, Kansas City, Mo. , January 10, 1895. )

EXTRACT. 

GROWTH OF A FAITH. 

Attention is directed to the progress which has been made by what iscalled Christian Science by the dedication at Boston of "The FirstChurch of Christ, Scientist. " It is a most beautiful structure of graygranite, and its builders call it their "prayer in stone, " whichsuggests to recollection the story of the cathedral of Amiens, whosearchitectural construction and arrangement of statuary and paintingsmade it to be called the Bible of that city. The Frankish church wasreared upon the spot where, in pagan times, one bitter winter day, aRoman soldier parted his mantle with his sword and gave half of thegarment to a naked beggar; and so was memorialized in art and stone whatwas called the divine spirit of giving, whose unbelieving exemplarafterward became a saint. The Boston church similarly expresses thefaith of those who believe in what they term the divine art of healing, which, to their minds, exists as much to-day as it did when Christhealed the sick. 

The first church organization of this faith was founded fifteen yearsago with a membership of only twenty-six, and since then the number ofbelievers has grown with remarkable rapidity, until now, there aresocieties in every part of the country. This growth, it is said, proceeds more from the graveyards than from conversions from otherchurches, for most of those who embrace the faith claim to have beenrescued from death miraculously under the injunction to "heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leper, and cast out demons. " They hold withstrict fidelity to what they conceive to be the literal teachings of theBible as expressed in its poetical and highly figurative language. 

Altogether the belief and service are well suited to satisfy a taste forthe mystical which, along many lines, has shown an uncommon developmentin this country during the last decade, and which is largely Oriental inits choice. Such a rapid departure from long respected views as ismarked by the dedication of this church, and others of kindred meaning, may reasonably excite wonder as to how radical is to be thisencroachment upon prevailing faiths, and whether some of thepre-Christian ideas of the Asiatics are eventually to supplant those incompany with which our civilization has developed. 

(_Montreal Daily Herald_ Saturday, February 2, 1895. )

EXTRACT. 

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

Sketch of Its Origin and Growth--The Montreal Branch. 

"If you would found a new faith, go to Boston, " has been said by a greatAmerican writer. This is no idle word, but a fact borne out bycircumstances. Boston can fairly claim to be the hub of the logicaluniverse, and an accurate census of the religious faiths which are to befound there to-day, would probably show a greater number of them thaneven Max O'Rells famous enumeration of John Bull's creeds. 

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

It was exactly 100 years from the date of the Declaration ofIndependence, when on July 4, 1876, the first Christian ScientistAssociation was organized by seven persons, of whom the foremost wasMrs. Eddy. The church was founded in April. 1879, with twenty-sixmembers, and a charter was obtained two months later. Mrs. Eddy assumedthe pastorship of the church during its early years, and in 1881 wasordained, being now known as the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. 

The Massachusetts Metaphysical College was founded by Mrs. Eddy in 1881, and here she taught the principles of the faith for nine years. Studentscame to it in hundreds from all parts of the world, and many are nowpastors or in practice. The college was closed in 1889, as Mrs. Eddyfelt it necessary for the interests of her religious work to retire fromactive contact with the world. She now lives in a beautiful countryresidence in her native state. 

(_The American_, Baltimore, Md. , January 14, 1895. )

EXTRACT. 

MRS. EDDY'S DISCIPLES. 

It is not generally known that a Christian Science congregation wasorganized in this city about a year ago. It now holds regular servicesin the parlor of the residence of the pastor, at 1414 Linden avenue. Thededication in Boston last Sunday of the Christian Science Church, calledthe Mother Church, which cost over $200, 000, adds interest to theBaltimore organization. There are many other church edifices in theUnited States owned by Christian Scientists. Christian Science wasfounded by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy. The Baltimore congregation wasorganized at a meeting held at the present location on February 27, 1894. 

Dr. Hammond, the pastor, came to Baltimore about three years ago toorganize this movement. Miss Cross came from Syracuse, N. Y. , abouteighteen months ago. Both were under the instruction of Mrs. Mary BakerEddy, the founder of the movement. 

Dr. Hammond says he was converted to Christian Science by being cured byMrs. Eddy of a physical ailment some twelve years ago, after severaldoctors had pronounced his case incurable. He says they use nomedicines, but rely on Mind for cure, believing that disease comes fromevil and sick-producing thoughts, and that, if they can so fill the mindwith good thoughts as to leave no room there for the bad, they can worka cure. He distinguishes Christian Science from the faith cure andadded: "This Christian Science really is a return to the ideas ofprimitive Christianity. It would take a small book to explain fully allabout it, but I may say that the fundamental idea is that God is Mind, and we interpret the Scriptures wholly from the spiritual ormetaphysical standpoint. We find in this view of the Bible the powerfully developed to heal the sick. It is not faith cure, but it is anacknowledgment of certain Christian and scientific laws, and to work acure the practitioner must understand these laws aright. The patient maygain a better understanding than the church has had in the past. Allchurches have prayed for the cure of disease, but they have not done soin an intelligent manner, understanding and demonstrating theChrist-healing. "

(_The Reporter_, Lebanon, Ind. , January 18, 1895. )

EXTRACT. 

DISCOVERED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

Remarkable Career of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Who Has Over 100, 000Followers. 

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, discoverer and founder of Christian Science, author of its textbook, "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, "president of the Massachusetts Metaphysical college, and first pastor ofthe Christian Science denomination, is without doubt one of the mostremarkable women in America. She has within a few years founded a sectthat has over 100, 000 converts, and very recently saw completed inBoston as a testimonial to her labors, a handsome fire proof church thatcost $250, 000, and was paid for by Christian Scientists all over thecountry. 

Mrs. Eddy asserts that in 1866 she became certain that "all causationwas mind and every effect a mental phenomenon. " Taking her text from theBible, she endeavored in vain to find the great curative principle--theDeity--in philosophy and schools of medicine, and she concluded that theway of salvation demonstrated by Jesus was the power of truth over allerror, sin, sickness, and death. Thus originated the divine or spiritualscience of mind healing, which she termed Christian Science. She has apalatial home in Boston and a country seat in Concord, N. H. TheChristian Science church has a membership of 4, 000, and 800 of themembers are Bostonians. 

(_N. Y. Commercial Advertiser_, January 9, 1895. )

The idea that Christian Science has declined in popularity is not borneout by the voluntary contribution of a quarter of a million dollars fora memorial church for Mrs. Eddy, the inventor of this cure. The moneycomes from Christian Science believers exclusively. 

(_The Post_, Syracuse, New York, February 1, 1895. )

DO NOT BELIEVE SHE WAS DEIFIED. 

Christian Scientists of Syracuse Surprised at the News About Mrs. MaryBaker Eddy, Founder of the Faith. 

Christian Scientists in this city, and in fact all over the country, have been startled and greatly discomfited over the announcements inNew York papers that Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the acknowledgedChristian Science leader, has been exalted by various dignitaries of thefaith. . . . 

It is well known that Mrs. Eddy has resigned herself completely to thestudy and foundation of the faith to which many thousands throughout theUnited States are now so entirely devoted. By her followers andco-believers she is unquestionably looked upon as having a divinemission to fulfill, and as though inspired in her great task bysupernatural power. 

For the purpose of learning the feeling of Scientists in this citytoward the reported deification of Mrs. Eddy, a _Post_ reporter calledupon a few of the leading members of the faith yesterday and had anumber of very interesting conversations upon the subject. 

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

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

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

"The power of Christ has been dormant in mankind for ages, " added thespeaker, "and it was Mrs. Eddy's mission to revive it. In our labors wetake Christ as an example, going about doing good and healing the sick. Christ has told us to do His work, naming as one great essential that wehave faith in Him. 

"Did you ever hear of Jesus' taking medicine Himself, or giving it toothers?" inquired the speaker. "Then why should we worry ourselves aboutsickness and disease? If we become sick God will care for us, and willsend to us those who have faith, who believe in His unlimited and divinepower. " Mrs. Eddy was strictly an ardent follower after God. She hadfaith in him, and she cured herself of a deathly disease through themediation of her God. Then she secluded herself from the world for threeyears and studied and meditated over His divine word. She delved deepinto the Biblical passages, and at the end of the period came from herseclusion one of the greatest Biblical scholars of the age. Her missionwas then the mission of a Christian to do good and heal the sick, andthis duty she faithfully performed. She of herself had no power. But Godhas fulfilled His promises to her and to the world. "If ye have faith yecan move mountains. "

Mrs. Henrietta N. Cole is also a very prominent member of the church. When seen yesterday she emphasized herself as being of the same theoryas Mrs. Copeland. Mrs. Cole has made a careful and searching study inthe beliefs of Scientists and is perfectly versed in all their beliefsand doctrines. She stated that man of himself has no power, but that allcomes from God. She placed no credit whatever in the reports from NewYork that Mrs. Eddy has been accredited as having been deified. Shereferred the reporter to the large volume which Mrs. Eddy had herselfwritten, and said that no more complete and yet concise idea of herbelief could be obtained than by a perusal of it. 

(_New York Herald_, February 1, 1895. )

MRS. EDDY SHOCKED. 

[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. ]

CONCORD, N. H. , February 4, 1895. --The article published in the HERALD onJanuary 29, regarding a statement made by Mrs. Laura Lathrop, pastor ofthe Christian Science congregation, that meets every Sunday in HodgsonHall, New York, was shown to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the Christian Science"discoverer, " to-day. 

Mrs. Eddy preferred to prepare a written answer to the interrogatory, which she did in this letter, addressed to the editor of the HERALD:

"A despatch is given me, calling for an interview to answer for myself, 'Am I the second Christ?'

"Even the question shocks me. What I am is for God to declare in hisinfinite mercy. As it is I claim nothing more than what I am, thediscoverer and founder of Christian Science, and the blessing it hasbeen to mankind which eternity enfolds. 

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

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

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

"There was, is and never can be but one God, one Christ, one Jesus ofNazareth. Whoever in any age expresses most of the spirit of Truth andLove, the Principle of God's Idea, has most of the spirit of Christ, ofthat Mind which was in Christ Jesus. 

"If Christian Scientists find in my writings, teachings, and example agreater degree of this spirit than in others, they can justly declareit. But to think or speak of me in any manner as a Christ, issacrilegious. Such a statement would not only be false, but the absoluteantipode of Christian Science, and would savor more of heathenism, thanof my doctrines. 

"MARY BAKER EDDY. "

(_The Globe_, Toronto, Canada, January 12, 1895. )

EXTRACT. 

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS. 

Dedication to the Founder of the Order of a Beautiful Church atBoston. --Many Toronto Scientists Present. 

The Christian Scientists of Toronto to the number of thirty took part inthe ceremonies at Boston last Sunday and for the day or two following, by which the members of that faith all over North America celebrated thededication of the church constructed in the great New England capital asa Testimonial to the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. 

The temple is believed to be the most nearly fire-proof church structureon the continent, the only combustible material used in its constructionbeing that used in the doors and pews. A striking feature of the churchis a beautiful apartment known as the "Mother's Room, " which isapproached through a superb archway of Italian marble set in the wall. The furnishing of the "Mother's Room" is described as "particularlybeautiful, and blends harmoniously with the pale green and golddecoration of the walls. The floor is of mosaic in elegant designs, andtwo alcoves are separated from the apartment by rich hangings of deepgreen plush, which in certain lights has a shimmer of silver. Thefurniture frames are of white mahogany in special designs, elaboratelycarved, and the upholstery is in white and gold tapestry. A superbmantel of Mexican onyx with gold decoration adorns the south wall, andbefore the hearth is a large rug composed entirely of skins of theeider-down duck, brought from the Arctic regions. Pictures andbric-a-brac everywhere suggest the tribute of loving friends. One of thetwo alcoves is a retiring room, and the other a lavatory in which theplumbing is all heavily plated with gold. "

(_Evening Monitor_, Concord, N. H. , February 27, 1895. )

AN ELEGANT SOUVENIR. 

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy Memorialized by a Christian Science Church. 

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, discoverer of Christian Science, has received fromthe members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, aninvitation to formally accept the magnificent new edifice of worshipwhich the church has just erected. 

The invitation itself is one of the most chastely elegant memorials everprepared, and is a scroll of solid gold, suitably engraved, and encasedin a handsome plush casket with white silk linings. Attached to thescroll is a golden key of the church structure. 

The inscription reads thus:

DEAR MOTHER: During the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four a churchedifice was erected at the intersection of Falmouth and Norway streetsin the city of Boston, by the loving hands of four thousand members. This edifice is built as a Testimonial to truth as revealed by divineLove through you to this age. 

You are hereby most lovingly invited to visit and formally accept thisTestimonial on the twentieth day of February, eighteen hundred andninety-five at high noon. 

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

By EDWARD P. BATES, CAROLINE S. BATES. 

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

(_People and Patriot_, Concord, N. H. , February 27, 1895. )

MAGNIFICENT TESTIMONIAL. 

Members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston haveforwarded to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy of this city, the founder of ChristianScience, a Testimonial which is probably one of the most magnificentexamples of the goldsmith's art ever wrought in this country. It is inthe form of a gold scroll, twenty-six inches long, nine inches wide, andan eighth of an inch thick. 

It bears upon its face the following inscription cut in script letters:

"Dear Mother, "During the year 1894, a church edifice was erected at the intersectionof Falmouth and Norway streets in the city of Boston by the lovinghands of four thousand members. This edifice is built as a Testimonialto truth as revealed by divine Love through you to this age. You arehereby most lovingly invited to visit and formally accept thistestimonial on the 20th day of February, 1895, at high noon. 

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

"To the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. 

"By Edward P. Bates

"Caroline S. Bates. 

"Boston, January 6, 1895. "

Attached by a white ribbon to the scroll is a gold key to the churchdoor. 

The testimonial is encased in a white satin lined box of rich greenvelvet. 

The scroll is on exhibition in the window of J. C. Derby's jewelrystore. 

(_The Union Signal_, Chicago. )

EXTRACT. 

THE NEW WOMAN AND THE NEW CHURCH. 

The dedication, in Boston, of a Christian Science temple costing overtwo hundred thousand dollars, and for which the money was all paid in sothat no debt had to be taken care of on dedication day, is a notableevent. While we are not, and never have been, devotees of ChristianScience, it becomes us as students of public questions not to ignore amovement which starting fifteen years ago has already gained to itselfadherents in every part of the civilized world, for it is a significantfact that one cannot take up a daily paper in town or village--to saynothing of cities--'Without seeing notices of Christian Sciencemeetings, and in most instances they are held at "headquarters. "

We believe there are two reasons for this remarkable development, whichhas shown a vitality so unexpected. The first is that a revolt wasinevitable from the crass materialism of the cruder science that hadtaken possession of men's minds, for as a wicked but witty writer hassaid, "If there were no God we should be obliged to invent one. " Thereis something in the constitution of man that requires the religioussentiment as much as his lungs call for breath; indeed, the breath ofhis soul is a belief in God. 

But when Christian Science arose, the thought of the world's scientificleaders had become materialistically "lopsided, " and this condition cannever long continue. There must be a righting-up of the mind as surelyas of a ship when under stress of storm it is ready to capsize. Thependulum that has swung to one extreme will surely find the other. Thereligious sentiment in women is so strong that the revolt was headed bythem; this was inevitable in the nature of the case. It began in themost intellectual city of the freest country in the world--that is tosay, it sought the line of least resistance. Boston is emphatically thewomen's paradise, numerically, socially, indeed, every way. Here theyhave the largest individuality, the most recognition, the widestoutlook. Mrs. Eddy we have never seen; her book has many a time beensent to us by interested friends and out of respect to them we havefairly broken our mental teeth over its granitic pebbles. That we couldnot understand it might be rather to the credit of the book thanotherwise. On this subject we have no opinion to pronounce, but simplystate the fact. 

We do not, therefore, speak of the system it sets forth, either topraise or blame, but this much is true; the spirit of Christian Scienceideas has caused an army of well meaning people to believe in God andthe power of faith, who did not believe in them before. It has made amyriad of women more thoughtful and devout; it has brought a hopefulspirit into the homes of unnumbered invalids. The belief that "thoughtsare things, " that the invisible is the only real world, that we are hereto be trained into harmony with the laws of God, and that what we arehere determines where we shall be hereafter--all these ideas areChristian. 

The chimes on the Christian Science temple in Boston played "All hailthe power of Jesus' name, " on the morning of the dedication. We did notattend, but we learn that the name of Christ is nowhere spoken with morereverence than it was during those services, and that He is set forth asthe power of God for righteousness and the express image of God forlove. 

(_The New Century_, Boston, February, 1885. )

ONE POINT OF VIEW. --THE NEW WOMAN. 

We all know her--she is simply the woman of the past with an addedgrace--a newer charm. Some of her dearest ones call her "selfish"because she thinks so much of herself she spends her whole time helpingothers. She represents the composite beauty, sweetness, and nobility ofall those who scorn self for the sake of Love and her handmaidenDuty--of all those who seek the brightness of truth not as the moth tobe destroyed thereby, but as the lark who soars and sings to the greatsun. She is of those who have so much to give they want no time to take, and their name is legion. She is as full of beautiful possibilities as aperfect harp, and she realizes that all the harmonies of the universeare in herself, while her own soul plays upon magic strings theunwritten anthems of love. She is the apostle of the true, thebeautiful, the good, commissioned to complete all that the twelve haveleft undone. Hers is the mission of missions--the highest of all--tomake the body not the prison, but the palace of the soul, with the brainfor its great white throne. 

When she comes like the south wind into the cold haunts of sin andsorrow her words are smiles and her smiles are the sunlight which healsthe stricken soul. Her hand is tender--but steel tempered with holyresolve, and as one whom her love had glorified once said--she is softand gentle, but you could no more turn her from her course than wintercould stop the coming of spring. She has long learned with patience, andto-day she knows many things dear to the soul far better than herteachers. In olden times the Jews claimed to be the conservators of theworld's morals--they treated woman as a chattel, and said that becauseshe was created after man, she was created solely for man. Too manystill are Jews who never called Abraham "Father, " while the Jewsthemselves have long acknowledged woman as man's proper helpmeet. Inthose days women had few lawful claims and no one to urge them. True, there were Miriam and Esther, but they sang and sacrificed for theirpeople, not for their sex. To-day there are ten thousand Esthers, andMiriams by the million, who sing best by singing most for their own sex. They are demanding the right to help make the laws, or at least to helpenforce the laws upon which depends the welfare of their husbands, theirchildren, and themselves. Why should our selfish self longer remain deafto their cry? The date is no longer B. C. Might no longer makes right, and in this fair land at least fear has ceased to kiss the iron heel ofwrong. Why then should we continue to demand woman's love and woman'shelp while we recklessly promise as lover and candidate what we neverfulfill as husband and office-holder? In our secret heart our betterself is shamed and dishonored, and appeals from Philip drunk to Philipsober, but has not yet the moral strength and courage to prosecute theappeal. But the east is rosy and the sunlight cannot long be delayed. Woman must not and will not be disheartened by a thousand denials or amillion of broken pledges. With the assurance of faith she prays, withthe certainty of inspiration she works, and with the patience of geniusshe waits. At last she is becoming "as fair as the morn, as bright asthe sun, and as terrible as an army with banners" to those who marchunder the black flag of oppression and wield the ruthless sword ofinjustice. 

In olden times it was the Amazons who conquered the invincibles, and wemust look now to their daughters to overcome our own allied armies ofevil and to save us from ourselves. She must and will succeed, for asDavid sang--"God shall help her and that right early. " When we try topraise 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 bybonds dearer than freedom, " and that we live in the reflected royaltywhich shines from her brow. We rejoice with her that at last we begin toknow what John on Patmos meant--"And there appeared a great wonder inHeaven, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, andupon her head a crown of twelve stars. " She brought to warring men thePrince of Peace, and He, departing, left His scepter not in her hand, but in her soul. "The time of times" is near when "the new woman" shallsubdue the whole earth with the weapons of peace. Then shall wrong berobbed of her bitterness and ingratitude of her sting; revenge shallclasp hands with pity, and love shall dwell in the tents of hate, whileside by side, equal partners in all that is worth living for, shallstand the new man with the new woman. 

(_Christian Science Journal_, January, 1895. )

EXTRACT. 

THE MOTHER CHURCH. 

The Mother Church edifice--The First Church of Christ, Scientist, inBoston, is erected. The close of the year Anno Domini, 1894, witnessedthe completion of "our Prayer in Stone, " all predictions andprognostications to the contrary notwithstanding. 

Of the significance of this achievement we shall not undertake to speakin this article. It can be better felt than expressed. All who are awakethereto have some measure of understanding of what it means. But onlythe future will tell the story of its mighty meaning or unfold it to thecomprehension of mankind. It is enough for us now to know that allobstacles to its completion have been met and overcome, and that ourtemple is completed as God intended it should be. 

This achievement is the result of long years of untiring, unselfish, andzealous effort on the part of our beloved Teacher and Leader, theReverend Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of ChristianScience, who nearly thirty years ago began to lay the foundation of thistemple, and whose devotion and consecration to God and humanity duringthe intervening years have made its erection possible. 

Those who now, in part, understand her mission, turn their hearts ingratitude to her for her great work, and those who do not understand itwill, in the fulness of time, see and acknowledge it. In the measure inwhich she has unfolded and demonstrated Divine Love and built up inhuman consciousness a better and higher conception of God as Life, Truth, and Love, --as the Divine Principle of all things which reallyexist, --and in the degree in which she has demonstrated the system ofhealing of Jesus and the Apostles, surely she, as the one chosen of Godto this end, is entitled to the gratitude and love of all who desire abetter and grander humanity, and who believe it to be possible toestablish the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth in accordance with the prayerand teachings of Jesus Christ. 

(_Concord Evening Monitor_, March 23, 1895. )

TESTIMONIAL AND GIFT. 

To Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, from The First Church of Christ, Scientist, inBoston. 

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy received Friday, from the Christian Science boardof directors, Boston, a beautiful and unique testimonial of theappreciation of her labors and loving generosity in the cause of theircommon faith. It was a facsimile of the corner-stone of the new churchof the Christian Scientists, just completed, being of granite, about sixinches in each dimension, and contains a solid gold box, upon the coverof which is this inscription:

"To our Beloved Teacher, the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer andFounder of Christian Science, from her affectionate Students, theChristian Science Board of Directors. " On the under side of the coverare the facsimile signatures of the directors, Ira O. Knapp, William B. Johnson, Joseph Armstrong, and Stephen A. Chase, with the date, "1895. "The beautiful souvenir is encased in an elegant plush box. 

Accompanying the stone testimonial was the following address from theboard of directors:

BOSTON, March 20, 1895. 

To the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, our beloved teacher and leader:

We are happy to announce to you the completion of The First Church ofChrist, Scientist, in Boston. 

In behalf of your loving students and all contributors wherever they maybe, we hereby present this church to you as a testimonial of love andgratitude for your labors and loving sacrifice, as the discoverer andfounder of Christian Science, and the author of its text-book, "SCIENCEAND HEALTH WITH KEY To THE SCRIPTURES. "

We therefore respectfully extend to you the invitation to become thepermanent pastor of this church, in connection with the Bible, and theBook alluded to above, which you have already ordained as our pastor. And we most cordially invite you to be present and take charge of anyservices that may be held therein. We especially desire you to bepresent on the twenty-fourth day of March, eighteen hundred andninety-five, to accept this offering, with our humble benediction. 

Lovingly yours, IRA O. KNAPP, WILLIAM B. JOHNSON, JOSEPH ARMSTRONG, STEPHEN A. CHASE, _The Christian Science Board of Directors_. 

REV. MRS. EDDY'S REPLY. 

BELOVED DIRECTORS AND BRETHREN:--

For your costly offering, and kind call to the pastorate of "The FirstChurch of Christ, Scientist, " in Boston--accept my profound thanks. Butpermit me, respectfully, to decline their acceptance, while I fullyappreciate your kind intentions. -If it will comfort you in the least, make me your Pastor _Emeritus_, nominally. Through my book, yourtext-book, I already speak to you each Sunday. You ask too much whenasking me to accept your grand Church edifice. I have more of earth now, than I desire, and less of heaven; so pardon my refusal of that as amaterial offering. More effectual than the forum are our states of mind, to bless mankind. This wish stops not with my pen--God give you grace. As our Church's tall tower detains the sun, so, may luminous lines fromyour lives, linger, a legacy to our race. 

MARY BAKER EDDY. 

March 25, 1895. 

From Canada to New Orleans, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, the author has received leading newspapers with uniformly kind andinteresting articles on the dedication of the Mother church. They were, however, too voluminous for these pages. Those were copied, and shecould append only a few of the names of other prominent newspapers whosearticles were reluctantly omitted. 

LIST OF LEADING NEWSPAPERS WHOSE ARTICLES ARE OMITTED. 

EASTERN STATES. 

 _Advertiser_, Calais, Me. _Advertiser_, Boston, Mass. _Farmer_, Bridgeport, Conn. _Independent_, Rockland, Mass. _Kennebec Journal_, Augusta, Me. _News_, New Haven, Conn. _News_, Newport, R. I. _Post_, Boston, Mass. _Post_, Hartford, Conn. _Republican_, Springfield, Mass. _Sentinel_, Eastport, Me. _Sun_, Attleboro, Mass. 

MIDDLE STATES. 

 _Advertiser_, New York City. _Bulletin_, Auburn, N. Y. _Daily_, York, Pa. _Enquirer_, Philadelphia, Pa. _Evening Reporter_, Lebanon, Pa. _Farmer_, Bridgeport, N. Y. _Herald_, Rochester, N. Y. _Independent_, Harrisburg, Pa. _Independent_, New York City. _Journal_, Lockport, N. Y. _Knickerbocker_, Albany, N. Y. _News_, Buffalo, N. Y. _News_, Newark, N. J. _Once A Week_, New York City. _Post_, Pittsburg, Pa. _Press_, Albany, N. Y. _Press_, New York City. _Press_, Philadelphia, Pa. _Saratogian_, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. _Sun_, New York City. _Telegram_, Philadelphia, Pa. _Telegram_, Troy, N. Y. _Times_, Trenton, N. J. 

SOUTHERN STATES. 

 _Commercial_, Louisville, Ky. _Journal_, Atlanta, Ga. _Post_, Washington, D. C. _Telegram_, New Orleans, La. _Times_, New Orleans, La. _Times-Herald, _ Dallas, Tex. 

WESTERN STATES. 

 _Bee_, Omaha, Neb. _Bulletin_, San Francisco, Cal. _Chronicle_, San Francisco, Cal. _Mite_, Chicago, Ill. _Enquirer_, Oakland, Cal. _Free Press_, Detroit, Mich. _Gazette_, Burlington, Iowa. _Herald_, Grand Rapids, Mich. _Herald_, St. Joseph, Mo. _Journal_, Columbus, Ohio. _Journal_, Topeka, Kans. _Leader_, Bloomington, Ill. _Leader_, Cleveland, Ohio. _News_, St. Joseph, Mo. _News-Tribune, _ Duluth, Minn. _Pioneer-Press, _ St. Paul, Minn. _Post-Intelligencer, _ Seattle, Wash. _Salt Lake Herald_, Salt Lake City, Utah. _Sentinel_, Indianapolis, Ind. _Sentinel_, Milwaukee, Wis. _Star_, Kansas City, Mo. _Telegram_, Portland, Ore. _Times_, Chicago, Ill. _Times_, Minneapolis, Minn. _Tribune_, Minneapolis, Minn. _Tribune_, Salt Lake City, Utah. _Free Press_, London, Can.