{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_10437/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_10437","id":"gutenberg_10437","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10437","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Religion/Spirituality","Christian Science","Christianity"],"text":"Transcriber's Note: The spelling \"diapson\" occurs in our print copy\n                    in the article from the _American Art Journal_.\n\n\n\n\n\nPULPIT AND PRESS.\n\nSixth Edition.\n\nBY\n\nREVEREND MARY BAKER EDDY,\n\nDISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\n\n1897.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\n  DEDICATORY SERMON\n  CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK\n  HYMN--_Laying the Corner Stone_\n    _Feed My Sheep_\n    _Christ My Refuge_\n  NOTE\n\n  CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS\n\n  CHICAGO INTER-OCEAN\n  BOSTON HERALD\n  BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE\n  BOSTON TRANSCRIPT\n  JACKSON PATRIOT\n  OUTLOOK\n  AMERICAN ART JOURNAL\n  BOSTON JOURNAL\n  REPUBLIC, (WASHINGTON, D.C.)\n  NEW YORK TRIBUNE\n  KANSAS CITY JOURNAL\n  MONTREAL HERALD\n  BALTIMORE AMERICAN\n  REPORTER, (LEBANON, IND.)\n  NEW YORK COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER\n  SYRACUSE POST\n  NEW YORK HERALD\n  TORONTO GLOBE\n  CONCORD MONITOR\n  PEOPLE AND PATRIOT\n  UNION SIGNAL\n  NEW CENTURY\n  CHRISTIAN SCIENCE JOURNAL\n  CONCORD MONITOR\n\n\n\n\nPREFACE.\n\n\nThis volume contains scintillations from press and pulpit--utterances\nwhich epitomize the story of the birth of Christian Science, in 1866,\nand its progress during the ensuing thirty years. Three quarters of a\ncentury hence, when the children of to-day are the elders of the\ntwentieth century, it will be interesting to have not only a record of\nthe inclination given their own thoughts in the latter half of the\nnineteenth century, but also a registry of the rise of the mercury in\nthe glass of the world's opinion.\n\nIt will then be instructive to turn backward the telescope of that\nadvanced age, with its lenses of more spiritual mentality, indicating\nthe gain of intellectual momentum, on the early footsteps of Christian\nScience as planted in the pathway of this generation; to note the\nimpetus thereby given to Christianity; to con the facts surrounding the\ncradle of this grand verity--that the sick are healed and sinners saved,\nnot by matter, but by Mind; and to further scan the features of the vast\nproblem of eternal life, as expressed in the absolute power of Truth,\nand the actual bliss of man's existence in Science.\n\nMARY BAKER EDDY.\n\nFebruary, 1895.\n\n\n\n\nTO\n\nThe dear two thousand and six hundred Children,\n\nWHOSE CONTRIBUTIONS\n\n_Of $4,460 were devoted to the Mother's Room in The First Church of\nChrist, Scientist, Boston_,\n\nTHIS UNIQUE BOOK IS TENDERLY DEDICATED BY\n\nMARY BAKER EDDY.\n\n\n\n\nDEDICATORY SERMON.\n\nBY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY,\n\nFirst pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass.,\nDelivered Jan. 6, 1895.\n\n\nTEXT--Psalms xxxvi, 8. \"They shall be abundantly satisfied with the\nfatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy\npleasures.\"\n\nA new year is a nursling, a babe of time, a prophecy and promise clad in\nwhite raiment, kissed--and encumbered with greetings--redolent with\ngrief and gratitude.\n\nAn old year is time's adult, and 1893 was a distinguished character,\nnotable for good and evil. Time past and time present, both, may pain\nus, but time IMPROVED is eloquent in God's praise. For due refreshment\ngarner the memory of 1894; for if wiser by reason of its large lessons,\nand records deeply engraven, great is the value thereof.\n\n  Pass on returnless year!\n  The path behind thee is with glory crowned;\n  This spot whereon thou troddest was holy ground;\n          Pass proudly to thy bier!\n\nTo-day being with you in spirit, what need that I should be present _in\npropria persona_? Were I present, methinks I should be much like the\nQueen of Sheba, when she saw the house Solomon had erected. In the\nexpressive language of Holy Writ, \"there was no more spirit in her;\" and\nshe said: \"Behold, the half was not told me; thy wisdom and prosperity\nexceedeth the fame which I heard.\" Both without and within, the spirit\nof beauty dominates the Mother Church, from its mosaic flooring to the\nsoft shimmer of its starlit dome.\n\nNevertheless, there is a thought higher and deeper than the edifice.\nMaterial light and shade are temporal, not eternal. Turning the\nattention from sublunary views, however enchanting, think for a moment\nwith me of the house wherewith \"they shall be abundantly satisfied,\"\n\"Even the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.\" With the\nmind's eye glance at the direful scenes of the war between China and\nJapan. Imagine yourselves in a poorly barricaded fort, fiercely besieged\nby the enemy. Would you rush forth single-handed to combat the foe? Nay,\nwould you not rather strengthen your citadel by every means in your\npower, and remain within the walls for its defense? Likewise should we\ndo as metaphysicians and Christian Scientists. The real house in which\n\"we live, move, and have our being\" is Spirit, God, the eternal harmony\nof infinite Soul. The enemy we confront would overthrow this sublime\nfortress, and it behooves us to defend our heritage.\n\nHow can we do this christianly scientific work? By intrenching ourselves\nin the knowledge that our true temple is no human fabrication, but the\nsuperstructure of Truth, reared on the foundation of Love, and pinnacled\nin Life. Such being its nature, how can our godly temple possibly be\ndemolished, or even disturbed? Can eternity end? Can Life die? Can\nTruth be uncertain? Can Love be less than boundless? Referring to this\ntemple our Master said: \"Destroy this temple and in three days I will\nraise it up.\" He also said: \"The kingdom of God is already within you.\"\nKnow then that you possess sovereign power to think and act\nrightly,--and that nothing can dispossess you of this heritage and\ntrespass on Love. If you maintain this position, who or what can cause\nyou to sin or suffer? Our surety is in our confidence that we are indeed\ndwellers in Truth and Love, man's eternal mansion. Such a heavenly\nassurance ends all warfare, and bids tumult cease, for the good fight we\nhave waged is over, and divine Love gives us the true sense of victory.\n\"They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and\nthou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.\" No longer are\nwe of the church militant, but of the church triumphant; and with Job of\nold we exclaim: \"Yet in my flesh shall I see God.\" The river of his\npleasures is a tributary of divine love, whose living waters have their\nsource in God, and flow into everlasting Life. We drink of this river\nwhen all human desires are quenched, satisfied with what is pleasing to\nthe divine Mind.\n\nPerchance some one of you may say, \"The evidence of spiritual verity in\nme is so small that I am afraid. I feel so far from victory over the\nflesh that to reach out for a present realization of my hope savors of\ntemerity. Because of my own unfitness for such a spiritual animus my\nstrength is naught, and my faith fails.\" O thou \"weak and infirm of\npurpose.\" Jesus said, \"Be not afraid.\"\n\n  \"What if the little rain should say,\n    'So small a drop as I\n  Can ne'er refresh a drooping earth,\n    I'll tarry in the sky.'\"\n\nIs not a man metaphysically and mathematically number one, a unit, and\ntherefore whole number, governed and protected by his divine Principle,\nGod? You have simply to preserve a scientific, positive sense of unity\nwith your divine Source and daily demonstrate this. Then you will find\nthat one is as important a factor as duodecillions in being and doing\nright, and thus demonstrating deific Principle. A dewdrop reflects the\nsun. Each of Christ's little ones reflects the infinite One, and\ntherefore is the seer's declaration true, that \"one with God is a\nmajority.\"\n\nA single drop of water may help to hide the stars, or crown the tree\nwith blossoms.\n\nWho lives in Good, lives also in God,--lives in all Life, through all\nspace. His is an individual kingdom, his diadem a crown of crowns. His\nexistence is deathless, forever unfolding its eternal Principle. Wait\npatiently on illimitable Love, the lord and giver of Life. _Reflect this\nLife_, and with it cometh the full power of Being. \"They shall be\nabundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house.\"\n\nIn 1893 the World's Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago, used, in\nall its public sessions, my form of prayer since 1866; and one of the\nvery clergymen who had publicly proclaimed me \"the prayerless Mrs.\nEddy,\" offered his audible adoration in the words I use, besides\nlistening to an address on Christian Science from my pen, read by Judge\nS.J. Hanna, in that unique assembly.\n\nWhen the light of one friendship after another passes from earth to\nheaven, we kindle in place thereof the glow of some deathless reality.\nMemory, faithful to goodness, holds in her secret chambers those\ncharacters of holiest sort, bravest to endure, firmest to suffer,\nsoonest to renounce. Such was the founder of the Concord School of\nPhilosophy--the late A. Bronson Alcott.\n\nAfter the publication of SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES,\nhis athletic mind, scholarly and serene, was the first to bedew my hope\nwith a drop of humanity. When the press and pulpit cannonaded this book,\nhe introduced himself to its author by saying--\"I have come to comfort\nyou.\" Then eloquently paraphrasing it and prophesying its prosperity,\nhis conversation with a beauty all its own reassured me. _That prophecy\nis fulfilled_.\n\nThis book, in 1895, is in its ninety-first edition of one thousand\ncopies. It is in the public libraries of the principal cities, colleges,\nand Universities of America; also the same in Great Britain, France,\nGermany, Russia, Italy, Greece, Japan, India, and China, in the Oxford\nUniversity and the Victoria Institute, England; in the Academy of\nGreece, and the Vatican at Rome.\n\nThis book is the leaven fermenting religion; it is palpably working in\nthe sermons, Sunday schools, and literature of our and other lands. This\nspiritual chemicalization is the upheaval produced when Truth is\nneutralizing error, and impurities are passing off. And it will continue\ntill the antithesis of Christianity engendering the limited forms of a\nnational or tyrannical religion yields to the church established by the\nNazarene prophet and maintained on the spiritual foundation of Christ's\nhealing.\n\nGood, the Anglo-Saxon term for God, unites Science to Christianity. It\npresents to the understanding, not matter, but Mind; not the deified\ndrug, but the goodness of God--healing and saving mankind.\n\nThe author of \"Marriage of the Lamb,\" who made the mistake of thinking\nshe caught her notions from my book, wrote to me in 1894, \"Six months\nago your book, SCIENCE AND HEALTH, was put into my hands. I had not read\nthree pages before I realized I had found that for which I had hungered\nsince girlhood, and was healed instantaneously of an ailment of seven\nyears standing. I cast from me the false remedy I had vainly used and\nturned to the Great Physician. I went with my husband, a missionary to\nChina, in 1884. He went out under the auspices of the Methodist\nEpiscopal church. I feel the truth is leading us to return to Japan.\"\n\nAnother brilliant enunciator, seeker, and servant of Truth, the Rev.\nWilliam R. Alger of Boston, signalled me kindly as my lone bark rose and\nfell and rode the rough sea. At a conversazione in Boston, he said, \"You\nmay find in Mrs. Eddy's metaphysical teachings, more than is dreamt of\nin your philosophy.\"\n\nAlso that renowned apostle of anti-slavery, Wendell Phillips, the native\ncourse of whose mind never swerved from the chariot-paths of justice,\nspeaking of my work, said: \"Had I young blood in my veins I would help\nthat woman.\"\n\nI love Boston, and especially the laws of the state whereof this city is\nthe capital. To-day, as of yore, her laws have befriended progress.\n\nYet when I recall the past,--how the gospel of healing was\nsimultaneously praised and persecuted in Boston,--and remember also that\nGod is just, I wonder whether, were our dear Master in our New England\nmetropolis at this hour, he would not weep over it, as he wept over\nJerusalem! Oh, ye tears! Not in vain did ye flow. Those sacred drops\nwere but enshrined for future use, and God has now unsealed their\nreceptacle with His outstretched arm. Those crystal globes made morals\nfor mankind. They will rise with joy, and with power to wash away, in\nfloods of forgiveness, every crime, even when mistakenly committed in\nthe name of religion.\n\nAn unjust, unmerciful, and oppressive priesthood must perish, for false\nprophets in the present as in the past stumble onward to their doom;\nwhile their tabernacles crumble with dry rot. \"God is not mocked,\" and\n\"the word of our God abideth forever.\"\n\nI have ordained the Bible and the Christian Science text-book, SCIENCE\nAND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, as pastor of The First Church of\nChrist, Scientist, in Boston,--so long as this church is satisfied with\nthis pastor. This is my first ordination. \"They shall be abundantly\nsatisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink\nof the river of thy pleasures.\"\n\nAll praise to the press of America's Athens,--and throughout our land,\nthe press has spoken out historically, impartially. Like the winds\ntelling tales through the leaves of an ancient oak, unfallen, may our\nchurch chimes repeat my thanks to the press.\n\nNotwithstanding the perplexed condition of our nation's finances, the\nwant and woe, with millions of dollars unemployed in our money centres,\nthe Christian Scientists, within fourteen months, responded to the call\nfor this church with $191,012. Not a mortgage was given nor a loan\nsolicited, and the donors all touchingly told their privileged joy at\nhelping to build the Mother Church. There was no urging, begging, or\nborrowing, only the need made known and forth came the money, or\ndiamonds, which served to erect this \"miracle in stone.\"\n\nEven the children vied with their parents to meet the demand. Little\nhands never before devoted to menial services, shoveled snow, and babes\ngave kisses to earn a few pence toward this consummation. Some of these\nlambs my prayers had christened, but Christ will rechristen them with\nhis own new name. \"Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast Thou\nperfected praise.\" The resident youthful workers were called BUSY BEES.\n\nSweet society, precious children, your loving hearts and deft fingers\ndistilled the nectar, and painted the finest flowers in the fabric of\nthis history--even its centre-piece--Mother's Room in The First Church\nof Christ, Scientist, in Boston. The children are destined to witness\nresults which will eclipse oriental dreams. They belong to the twentieth\ncentury. By juvenile aid, into the building fund have come $4,460. Ah,\nchildren, you are the bulwarks of freedom, the cement of society, the\nhope of our race!\n\nBrothers of the Christian Science Board of Directors, when your tireless\ntasks are done--well done--no Delphian lyre could break the full chords\nof such a rest. May the altar you have built never be shattered in our\nhearts, but justice, mercy, and love kindle perpetually its fires.\n\nIt was well that the brother whose appliances warm this house, warmed\nalso our perishless hope, and nerved its grand fulfilment. Woman, true\nto her instinct, came to the rescue as sunshine from the clouds; so,\nwhen man quibbled over an architectural exigency, a woman climbed with\nfeet and hands to the top of the tower, and helped settle the subject.\n\nAfter the loss of our late lamented pastor, Rev. D.A. Easton, the\nchurch services were maintained by excellent sermons from the editor\nof the _Christian Science Journal_ (who, with his better half, is a\nvery whole man), together with the Sunday school giving this flock\n\"drink from the river of His pleasures.\" Oh, glorious hope, and\nblessed assurance, \"it is the Father's good pleasure to give you the\nKingdom.\" Christians rejoice in secret, they have a bounty hidden from\nthe world. Self-forgetfulness, purity, and love are treasures\nuntold--constant prayers, prophecies, and anointings. Practice, not\nprofession,--goodness, not doctrines,--spiritual understanding, not\nmere belief, gain the ear and right hand of Omnipotence, and call down\nblessings infinite. Faith without works is dead. The foundation of\nenlightened faith is Christ's teachings and _practice_. It was our\nMaster's self-immolation, his life-giving love, healing both mind and\nbody, that raised the deadened conscience, paralyzed by inactive\nfaith, to a quickened sense of mortal's necessities,--and God's power\nand purpose to supply them. It was, in the words of the Psalmist, He\n\"who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.\"\n\nRome's fallen fanes and silent Aventine is glory's tomb; her pomp and\npower lie low in dust. Our land, more favored, had its Pilgrim Fathers.\nOn shores of solitude at Plymouth Rock, they planted a nation's\nheart,--the rights of conscience, imperishable glory. No dream of\navarice or ambition broke their exalted purpose, theirs was the wish to\nreign in hope's reality--the realm of Love.\n\nChristian Scientists, you have planted your standard on the Rock of\nChrist, the true, the spiritual idea,--the chief corner-stone in the\nhouse of our God. And our Master said: \"The stone which the builders\nrejected the same is become the head of the corner.\" If you are less\nappreciated to-day than your forefathers, wait--for if you are as devout\nas they and more scientific, as progress certainly demands, your plant\nis immortal. Let us rejoice that chill vicissitudes have not withheld\nthe timely shelter of this house, which descended like day spring from\non high.\n\nDivine Presence, breathe Thou thy blessing on every heart in this house.\nSpeak out, oh, soul! This is the new-born of Spirit, this is His\nredeemed, this, His beloved. May the Kingdom of God within you--with you\nalway--re-ascending, bear you outward, upward, Heavenward. May the sweet\nsong of silver-throated singers, making melody more real, and the\norgan's voice as the sound of many waters, and the Word spoken in this\nsacred Temple dedicated to the ever-present God--mingle with the joy of\nangels and rehearse your heart's holy intents. May all whose means,\nenergies, and prayers helped erect the Mother Church, find within it\nhome, and _Heaven_.\n\n\n\n\nCHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK.\n\nThe following selections from SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE\nSCRIPTURES, pages 560-563, were read from the platform. The impressive\nstillness of the audience indicated close attention.\n\n\n_Revelation_ xii, 10-12. And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven: Now\nis come salvation, and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the\npower of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which\naccused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the\nblood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved\nnot their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye\nthat dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea!\nfor the Devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he\nknoweth that he hath but a short time.\n\nFor victory over a single sin we give thanks, and magnify the Lord of\nHosts. Then what shall we say of the mighty conquest over all sin? A\nlouder song, sweeter than has ever before reached high Heaven, now rises\nclearer and nearer to the great heart of Christ; for the accuser is not\nthere, and Love sends forth her primal and everlasting strain.\nSelf-abnegation--by which we lay down all for Christ, Truth, in our\nwarfare against error--is a rule in Christian Science. This rule clearly\ninterprets God as divine Principle,--as Life, represented by the Father;\nas Truth, represented by the Son; as Love, represented by the mother.\nEvery mortal, at some period, here or hereafter, must grapple with and\novercome the mortal belief in a power opposed to God.\n\nThe Scripture, \"Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make\nthee ruler over many,\" is literally fulfilled, when we are conscious of\nthe supremacy of Truth, whereby the nothingness of error is seen, and we\nknow that its nothingness is in proportion to its wickedness. He that\ntouches the hem of Christ's robe, and masters his mortal belief,\nanimality and hate, rejoices in the proof of healing,--in a sweet and\ncertain sense that God is Love. Alas for those who break faith with\nDivine Science, and fail to strangle the serpent of sin, as well as of\nsickness! They are dwellers still in the deep darkness of belief. They\nare in the surging sea of error, not struggling to lift their heads\nabove the drowning wave.\n\nWhat must the end be? They must eventually expiate their sin through\nsuffering. The sin which one has made his bosom companion, comes back to\nhim at last with accelerated force; for the evil knoweth its time is\nshort. Here the Scriptures declare that evil is temporal, not eternal.\nThe dragon is at last stung to death by his own malice; but how many\nperiods of self-torture it may take to remove all sin and its effects,\nmust depend upon its obduracy.\n\n  _Revelation_ xii, 13. And when the dragon saw\n  that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the\n  woman which brought forth the man child.\n\nThe march of mind and honest investigation will bring the hour when the\npeople will chain, with fetters of some sort, the growing occultism of\nthis period. The present apathy as to the tendency of certain active yet\nunseen mental agencies will finally be shocked into another extreme\nmortal mood,--into human indignation; for one extreme follows another.\n\n  _Revelation_ xii, 15, 16. And the serpent\n  cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the\n  woman, that he might cause her to be carried away\n  of the flood. And the earth helped the woman; and\n  the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the\n  flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.\n\nMillions of unprejudiced minds--simple seekers for Truth, weary\nwanderers, athirst in the desert--are waiting and watching for rest and\ndrink. Give them a cup of cold water in Christ's name, and never fear\nthe consequences. What if the old dragon sends forth a new flood, to\ndrown the Christ-idea? He can neither drown your voice with its roar,\nnor again sink the world into the deep waters of chaos and old night. In\nthis age the earth will help the woman; the spiritual idea will be\nunderstood. Those ready for the blessing you impart will give thanks.\nThe waters will be pacified, and Christ will command the wave.\n\nWhen God heals the sick or the sinful, they should know the great\nbenefit Mind has wrought. They should also know the great delusion of\nmortal mind, when it makes them sick or sinful. Many are willing to open\nthe eyes of the people to the power of good resident in divine Mind; but\nthey are not as willing to point out the evil in human thought, and\nexpose its hidden mental ways of accomplishing iniquity.\n\nWhy this backwardness, since exposure is necessary, to ensure the\navoidance of the evil? Because people like you better when you tell\nthem their virtues, than when you tell them their vices. It requires the\nspirit of our great Master to tell a man his faults, and so risk human\ndispleasure, for the sake of doing right and benefiting our race. Who is\ntelling mankind of their foe in ambush? Is the informer one who sees the\nfoe? If so, listen and be wise. Escape from evil, and designate those as\nunfaithful stewards, who have seen the danger and yet have given no\nwarning.\n\nAt all times, and under all circumstances, overcome evil with Good. Know\nthyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory\nover evil. Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you.\nThe cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the one\nDivinity.\n\n\n\n\nHYMNS.\n\nBY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY.\n\n(Set to the Church chimes and sung on this occasion.)\n\n\nLAYING THE CORNER STONE.\n\n  _Laus Deo_, it is done.\n  Rolled away from loving heart\n  Is a stone,--\n  Joyous, risen, we depart\n  Having one.\n\n  _Laus Deo_,--on this rock\n  (Heaven chiseled squarely good)\n  Stands His Church--\n  God is Love and understood\n  By His flock.\n\n  _Laus Deo_, night starlit\n  Slumbers not in God's embrace;\n  Then oh, man!\n  Like this stone be in thy place;\n  Stand, not sit.\n\n  Cold, silent, stately stone,\n  Dirge and song and shoutings low,\n  In thy heart\n  Dwell serene,--and sorrow? No,\n  It has none,\n  _Laus Deo_!\n\n\nFEED MY SHEEP.\n\n  Shepherd, show me how to go\n  O'er the hillside steep,\n  How to gather, how to sow,\n  How to feed Thy sheep;\n  I will listen for Thy voice,\n  Lest my footsteps stray,\n  I will follow and rejoice\n  All the rugged way.\n\n  Thou wilt bind the stubborn will,\n  Wound the callous breast,\n  Make self righteousness be still,\n  Break earth's stupid rest;\n  Strangers on a barren shore\n  Lab'ring long and lone--\n  We would enter by the door,\n  And Thou know'st Thine own.\n\n  So when day grows dark and cold,\n  Tear or triumph harms,\n  Lead Thy lambkins to the fold,\n  Take them in Thine arms;\n  Feed the hungry, heal the heart,\n  Till the morning's beam;\n  White as wool, ere they depart--\n  Shepherd, wash them clean.\n\n\nCHRIST MY REFUGE.\n\n  O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind\n    There sweeps a strain,\n  Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind\n    The power of pain\n\n  And wake a white-winged angel throng\n    Of thoughts, illumed\n  By faith, and breathed in raptured song,\n    With love perfumed.\n\n  Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show\n    Life's burdens light.\n  We kiss the cross, and wait to know\n    A world more bright.\n\n  And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea\n    We see Christ walk,\n  And come to us, and tenderly,\n    Divinely talk.\n\n  Thus Truth engrounds me on the Rock\n    Upon Life's shore;\n  'Gainst which the winds and waves can shock,\n    Oh, nevermore!\n\n  From tired joy and grief afar,\n    And nearer Thee,--\n  Father, where Thine own children are,\n    I love to be.\n\n  My prayer, some daily good to do\n    To Thine, for Thee,--\n  Some offering pure of Love, whereto\n    God leadeth me.\n\n\n\n\nNOTE.--The land whereon stands The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in\nBoston, was first purchased by the church and society. Owing to a heavy\nloss they were unable to pay the mortgage, therefore I paid it and\nthrough trustees gave back the land to the church.\n\nIn 1892 I had to recover the land from the trustees, reorganize the\nchurch, and reobtain its charter--not, however, through the state\ncommissioner, who refused to grant it, but by means of a statute of the\nstate, and through Directors regive the land to the church. In 1895 I\nreconstructed my original system of ministry and church government. Thus\ncommitted to the providence of God, the prosperity of this church is\nunsurpassed.\n\nFrom first to last the Mother church seemed type and shadow of the\nwarfare between the flesh and Spirit, even that shadow, whose substance\nis the divine Spirit, imperatively propelling the greatest moral,\nphysical, civil, and religious reform ever known on earth. In the words\nof the Prophet: \"The shadow of a great Rock in a weary land.\"\n\nThis church was dedicated on January 6, anciently one of the many dates\nselected and observed in the East as the day of the birth and baptism of\nour Master Metaphysician, Jesus of Nazareth.\n\nChristian Scientists, their children, and grandchildren to the latest\ngenerations, inevitably love one another with that love wherewith Christ\nloveth us. A love unselfish, unambitious, impartial, universal,--that\nloves only because it _is_ Love. Moreover, they love their enemies, even\nthose that hate them. This we all must do to be Christian Scientists in\nspirit and in truth. I long, and live, to see this love demonstrated. I\nam seeking and praying for it to inhabit my own heart and to be made\nmanifest in my life. Who will unite with me in this pure purpose, and\nfaithfully struggle till it be accomplished? Let this be our Christian\nendeavor society which Christ organizes and blesses.\n\nWhile we entertain due respect and fellowship for what is good and doing\ngood in all denominations of religion, and shun whatever would isolate\nus from a true sense of goodness in others--we cannot serve mammon.\n\nChristian Scientists are really united to only that which is Christlike,\nbut they are not indifferent to the welfare of any one. To perpetuate a\ncold distance between our denomination and other sects, and close the\ndoor on church or individuals--however much this is done to us--is not\nChristian Science. Go not into the way of the unchristly, but\nwheresoever you recognize a clear expression of God's likeness, there\nabide in confidence and hope.\n\nOur unity with churches of other denominations must rest on the spirit\nof Christ calling us together. It cannot come from any other source.\nPopularity, self aggrandizement, aught that can darken in any degree our\nspirituality, must be set aside. Only what feeds and fills the sentiment\nwith unworldliness, can give peace and good will towards men.\n\nAll Christian churches have one bond of unity, one nucleus or point of\nconvergence, one prayer,--The Lord's Prayer. It is matter for rejoicing\nthat we unite in love, and in this sacred petition with every praying\nassembly on earth,--\"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as in\nHeaven.\"\n\nIf the lives of Christian Scientists attest their fidelity to Truth, I\npredict that in the twentieth century, every Christian church in our\nland, and a few in far-off lands, will approximate the understanding of\nChristian Science sufficiently to heal the sick in His name. Christ will\ngive to Christianity His new name, and Christendom will be classified as\nChristian Scientists.\n\nWhen the doctrinal barriers between the churches are broken, and the\nbonds of peace are cemented by spiritual understanding and Love, there\nwill be unity of spirit, and the healing power of Christ will prevail.\nThen shall Zion have put on her most beautiful garments, and her waste\nplaces budded and blossomed as the rose.\n\n\n\n\nCLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS.\n\n\n\n\n(_Daily Inter-Ocean_, Chicago, December 31, 1894.)\n\nMARY BAKER EDDY.\n\nCompletion of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston.--\"Our\nPrayer in Stone.\"--Description of the Most Unique Structure in Any\nCity.--A Beautiful Temple and Its Furnishings--Mrs. Eddy's Work and Her\nInfluence.\n\n\nBOSTON, MASS., December 28.--_Special Correspondence_.--The \"great\nawakening\" of the time of Jonathan Edwards has been paralleled daring\nthe last decade by a wave of idealism that has swept over the country,\nmanifesting itself under several different aspects and under various\nnames, but each having the common identity of spiritual demand. This\nmovement, under the guise of Christian Science, and ingenuously calling\nout a closer inquiry into oriental philosophy, prefigures itself to us\nas one of the most potent factors in the social evolution of the last\nquarter of the nineteenth century. History shows the curious fact that\nthe closing years of every century are years of more intense life\nmanifested in unrest, or in aspiration, and scholars of special\nresearch, like Professor Max Muller, assert that the end of a cycle, as\nis the latter part of the present century, is marked by peculiar\nintimations of man's immortal life.\n\nThe completion of the first Christian Science church erected in Boston\nstrikes a keynote of definite attention. This church is in the\nfashionable Back Bay between Commonwealth and Huntington avenues. It is\none of the most beautiful, and is certainly the most unique structure in\nany city. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, as it is officially\ncalled, is termed by its founders \"our prayer in stone.\" It is located\nat the intersection of Norway and Falmouth streets on a plot of\ntriangular ground, the design a Romanesque tower with a circular front\nand an octagonal form accented by stone porticos and turreted corners.\nOn the front is a marble tablet with the following inscription carved in\nbold relief:\n\n  The First Church of Christ, Scientist, erected\n  Anno Domini, 1894. A testimonial to our beloved\n  teacher, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and\n  Founder of Christian Science; author of \"Science\n  And Health, with Key to the Scriptures;\" President\n  of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, and the\n  first Pastor of this denomination.\n\n\nTHE CHURCH EDIFICE.\n\nThe church is built of Concord granite in light gray, with trimmings of\nthe pink granite of New Hampshire, Mrs. Eddy's native State. The\narchitecture is Romanesque throughout. The tower is 120 feet in height\nand 21-1/2 feet square. The entrances are of marble, with doors of\nantique oak richly carved. The windows of stained glass are very rich in\npictorial effect. The lighting and cooling of the church--for cooling is\na recognized feature as well as heating--are done by electricity, and\nthe heat generated by two large boilers in the basement is distributed\nby the four systems with motor electric power. The partitions are of\niron; the floors of marble in mosaic work, and the edifice is therefore\nas literally fireproof as is conceivable. The principal features are the\nauditorium, seating 1,100 people and capable of holding 1,500; the\n\"Mother's room,\" designed for the exclusive use of Mrs. Eddy; the\n\"directors' room,\" and the vestry. The girders are all of iron, the roof\nis of terra cotta tiles, the galleries are in plaster relief, the window\nframes are of iron, coated with plaster; the staircases are of iron,\nwith marble stairs of rose pink and marble approaches.\n\nThe vestibule is a fitting entrance to this magnificent temple. In the\nceiling is a sunburst with a seven-pointed star, which illuminates it.\nFrom this are the entrances leading to the auditorium, the \"Mother's\nroom,\" and the directors' room.\n\nThe auditorium is seated with pews of curly birch, upholstered in old\nrose plush. The floor is in white Italian mosaic, with frieze of the old\nrose, and the wainscoting repeats the same tints. The base and cap are\nof pink Tennessee marble. On the walls are bracketed oxidized silver\nlamps of Roman design, and there are frequent illuminated texts from the\nBible and from Mrs. Eddy's SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES\nimpaneled. A sunburst in the centre of the ceiling takes the place of\nchandeliers. There is a disc of cut glass in decorative designs covering\n144 electric lights in the form of a star, which is twenty-one inches\nfrom point to point, the centre being of pure white light, and each ray\nunder prisms which reflect the rainbow tints. The galleries are richly\npaneled in relief work. The organ and choir gallery is spacious and rich\nbeyond the power of words to depict. The platform--corresponding to the\nchancel of an Episcopal church--is a mosaic work, with richly carved\nseats following the sweep of its curve, with a lamp stand of the\nrennaissance period on either end, bearing six richly wrought oxidized\nsilver lamps, eight feet in height. The great organ comes from Detroit.\nIt is one of vast compass, with \u00e6olian attachment, and cost $11,000. It\nis the gift of a single individual--a votive offering of gratitude for\nthe healing of the wife of the donor.\n\nThe chime of bells includes fifteen, of fine range and perfect tone.\n\n\nTHE \"MOTHER'S ROOM.\"\n\nThe \"Mother's room\" is approached by an entrance of Italian marble, and\nover the door in large golden letters on a marble tablet, is the word\n\"Love.\" In this room the mosaic marble floor of white has a Romanesque\nborder and is decorated with sprays of fig leaves bearing fruit. The\nroom is toned in pale green with relief in old rose. The mantel is of\nonyx and gold. Before the great bay window hangs an Athenian lamp over\ntwo hundred years old, which will be kept always burning day and night.\nLeading off the \"Mother's room\" are toilet apartments, with full length\nFrench mirrors and every convenience.\n\nThe directors' room is very beautiful in marble approaches and rich\ncarving, and off this is a vault for the safe preservation of papers.\n\nThe vestry seats 800 people, and opening from it are three large class\nrooms and the pastor's study.\n\nThe windows are a remarkable feature of this temple. There are no\n\"memorial\" windows: the entire church is a Testimonial, not a\nmemorial--a point that the members strongly insist upon.\n\nIn the auditorium are two rose windows--one representing the heavenly\ncity which \"cometh down from God out of Heaven,\" with six small windows\nbeneath, emblematic of the six water pots referred to in John xi:6. The\nother rose window represents the raising of the daughter of Jairus.\nBeneath are two small windows bearing palms of victory and others with\nlamps typical of Science and Health.\n\nAnother great window tells its pictorial story of the four Marys--the\nmother of Jesus, Mary anointing the head of Jesus, Mary washing the feet\nof Jesus, Mary at the resurrection; and the woman spoken of in the\nApocalypse, chapter 12, God-crowned.\n\nOne more window in the auditorium represents the raising of Lazarus.\n\nIn the gallery are windows representing John on the Isle of Patmos and\nothers of pictorial significance. In the \"Mother's room\" the windows are\nof still more unique interest. A large bay window composed of three\nseparate panels is designed to be wholly typical of the work of Mrs.\nEddy. The central panel represents her in solitude and meditation\nsearching the scriptures by the light of a single candle, while the Star\nof Bethlehem shines down from above. Above this is a panel containing\nthe Christian Science seal, and other panels are decorated with\nemblematic designs with the legends, \"Heal the Sick,\" \"Raise the Dead,\"\n\"Cleanse the Lepers,\" and \"Cast Out Demons.\"\n\nThe cross and the crown and the star are presented in appropriate\ndecorative effect. The cost of this church is $221,000, exclusive of the\nland--a gift from Mrs. Eddy--which is valued at some $40,000.\n\n\nTHE ORDER OF SERVICE.\n\nThe order of service in the Christian Science Church does not differ\nwidely from that of any other sect save that its service includes the\nuse of Mrs. Eddy's book entitled SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE\nSCRIPTURES in perhaps equal measure to its use of the Bible--The reading\nis from the two alternately; the singing is from a compilation called\nthe \"Christian Science Hymnal,\" but its songs are for the most part\nthose devotional hymns from Herbert, Faber, Robertson, Wesley, Browning,\nand other recognized devotional poets, with selections from Whittier and\nLowell, as are found in the hymn books of the Unitarian churches. For\nthe past year or two Judge Hanna, formerly of Chicago, has filled the\noffice of pastor to the church in this city, which held its meetings in\nChickering hall, and later in Copley hall, in the new Grundmann Studio\nbuilding on Copley square. Preceding Judge Hanna were Rev. D.A. Easton\nand Rev. L.P. Norcross, both of whom had formerly been Congregational\nclergymen. The organizer and first pastor of the church here was Mrs.\nEddy herself, of whose work I shall venture to speak, a little later, in\nthis article.\n\nLast Sunday I gave myself the pleasure of attending the service held in\nCopley hall. The spacious apartment was thronged with a congregation\nwhose remarkable earnestness impressed the observer. There was no\nstraggling of late-comers. Before the appointed hour every seat in the\nhall was filled and a large number of chairs pressed into service for\nthe overflowing throng. The music was spirited, and the selections from\nthe Bible and from SCIENCE AND HEALTH were finely read by Judge Hanna.\nThen came his sermon, which dealt directly with the command of Christ to\n\"Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leper, cast out demons.\" In\nhis admirable discourse, Judge Hanna said that while all these\ninjunctions could, under certain conditions, be interpreted and\nfulfilled literally, the special lesson was to be taken spiritually--to\ncleanse the leprosy of sin, to cast out the demons of evil thought. The\ndiscourse was able, and helpful in its suggestive interpretation.\n\n\nTHE CHURCH MEMBERS.\n\nLater I was told that almost the entire congregation was composed of\npersons who had either been themselves, or had seen members of their own\nfamilies, healed by Christian Science treatment; and I was further told\nthat once when a Boston clergyman remonstrated with Judge Hanna for\nenticing a separate congregation rather than offering their strength to\nunite with churches already established--I was told he replied that the\nChristian Science church did not recruit itself from other churches, but\nfrom the graveyards! The church numbers now 4,000 members, but this\nestimate, as I understand, is not limited to the Boston adherents, but\nincludes those all over the country. The ceremonial of uniting is to\nsign a brief \"confession of faith,\" written by Mrs. Eddy, and to unite\nin communion, which is not celebrated by outward symbols of bread and\nwine, but by uniting in silent prayer.\n\nThe \"confession of faith\" includes the declaration that the Scriptures\nare the guide to eternal life; that there is a Supreme Being, and his\nSon, and the Holy Ghost, and that man is made in his image. It affirms\nthe atonement; it recognizes Jesus as the teacher and guide to\nsalvation; the forgiveness of sin by God, and affirms the power of truth\nover error, and the need of living faith at the moment to realize the\npossibilities of the divine life. The entire membership of Christian\nScientists throughout the world now exceeds 200,000 people. The church\nin Boston was organized by Mrs. Eddy, and the first meeting held on\nApril 19, 1879. It opened with twenty-six members, and within fifteen\nyears it has grown to its present impressive proportions, and has now\nits own magnificent church building, costing over $200,000, and entirely\npaid for when its consecration service on January 6 shall be celebrated.\nThis is certainly a very remarkable retrospect.\n\nRev. Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of this denomination and discoverer of\nChristian Science, as they term her work in affirming the present\napplication of the principles asserted by Jesus, is a most interesting\npersonality. At the risk of colloquialism, I am tempted to \"begin at the\nbeginning\" of my own knowledge of Mrs. Eddy, and take, as the point of\ndeparture, my first meeting with her and the subsequent development of\nsome degree of familiarity with the work of her life which that meeting\ninaugurated for me.\n\n\nMRS. EDDY.\n\nIt was during some year in the early '80's that I became aware--from\nthat close contact with public feeling resulting from editorial work in\ndaily journalism--that the Boston atmosphere was largely thrilled and\npervaded by a new and increasing interest in the dominance of mind over\nmatter, and that the central figure in all this agitation was Mrs. Eddy.\nTo a note which I wrote her, begging the favor of an interview for press\nuse, she most kindly replied, naming an evening on which she would\nreceive me. At the hour named I rang the bell at a spacious house on\nColumbus avenue, and I was hardly more than seated before Mrs. Eddy\nentered the room. She impressed me as singularly graceful and winning in\nbearing and manner, and with great claim to personal beauty. Her figure\nwas tall, slender, and as flexible in movement as that of a Delsarte\ndisciple; her face, framed in dark hair and lighted by luminous blue\neyes, had the transparency and rose-flush of tint so often seen in New\nEngland, and she was magnetic, earnest, impassioned. No photographs can\ndo the least justice to Mrs. Eddy, as her beautiful complexion and\nchangeful expression cannot thus be reproduced. At once one would\nperceive that she had the temperament to dominate, to lead, to control,\nnot by any crude self-assertion, but a spiritual animus. Of course such\na personality, with the wonderful tumult in the air that her large and\nenthusiastic following excited, fascinated the imagination. What had she\noriginated? I mentally questioned this modern St. Catherine who was\ndominating her followers like any abbess of old. She told me the story\nof her life, so far as outward events may translate those inner\nexperiences which alone are significant.\n\nMary Baker was the daughter of Mark and Abigail (Ambrose) Baker, and was\nborn in Concord, N.H., somewhere in the early decade of 1820-'30. At the\ntime I met her she must have been some sixty years of age, yet she had\nthe coloring and the elastic bearing of a woman of thirty, and this, she\ntold me, was due to the principles of Christian Science. On her father's\nside Mrs. Eddy came from Scotch and English ancestry, and Hannah Moore\nwas a relative of her grandmother. Deacon Ambrose, her maternal\ngrandfather, was known as a \"godly man,\" and her mother was a religious\nenthusiast, a saintly and consecrated character. One of her brothers,\nAlbert Baker, graduated at Dartmouth and achieved eminence as a lawyer.\n\n\nMRS. EDDY AS A CHILD.\n\nAs a child Mary Baker saw visions and dreamed dreams. When eight years\nof age she began, like Jeanne d'Arc, to hear \"voices,\" and for a year\nshe heard her name called distinctly, and would often run to her mother\nquestioning if she were wanted. One night the mother related to her the\nstory of Samuel, and bade her, if she heard the voice again to reply as\nhe did: \"Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth.\" The call came, but the\nlittle maid was afraid and did not reply. This caused her tears of\nremorse and she prayed for forgiveness, and promised to reply if the\ncall came again. It came, and she answered as her mother had bidden her,\nand after that it ceased.\n\nThese experiences, of which Catholic biographies are full, and which\nhistory not unfrequently emphasizes, certainly offer food for\nmeditation. Theodore Parker related that when he was a lad at work in a\nfield one day on his father's farm at Lexington, an old man with a snowy\nbeard suddenly appeared at his side, and walked with him as he worked,\ngiving him high counsel and serious thought. All inquiry in the\nneighborhood as to whence the stranger came or whither he went was\nfruitless; no one else had seen him, and Mr. Parker always believed, so\na friend has told me, that his visitor was a spiritual form from another\nworld. It is certainly true that many and many persons, whose life has\nbeen destined to more than ordinary achievement, have had experiences of\nvoices or visions in their early youth.\n\nAt an early age Miss Baker was married to Colonel Glover, of Charleston,\nS.C., who lived only a year. She returned to her father's home--in\n1844--and from that time until 1866 no special record is to be made.\n\nIn 1866, while living in Lynn, Mass., Mrs. Eddy (then Mrs. Glover) met\nwith a severe accident and her case was pronounced hopeless by the\nphysicians. There came a Sunday morning when her pastor came to bid her\ngood-by before proceeding to his morning service as there was no\nprobability that she would be alive at its close. During this time she\nsuddenly became aware of a divine illumination and ministration. She\nrequested those with her to withdraw, and reluctantly they did so,\nbelieving her delirious. Soon, to their bewilderment and fright, she\nwalked into the adjoining room, \"and they thought I had died, and that\nit was my apparition,\" she said.\n\n\nTHE PRINCIPLE OF DIVINE HEALING.\n\nFrom that hour dated her conviction of the principle of divine healing,\nand that it is as true to-day as it was in the days when Jesus of\nNazareth walked the earth. \"I felt that the divine spirit had wrought a\nmiracle,\" she said, in reference to this experience. \"How, I could not\ntell, but later I found it to be in perfect scientific accord with the\ndivine law.\" From 1866-'69, Mrs. Eddy withdrew from the world to\nmeditate, to pray, to search the Scriptures.\n\n\"During this time,\" she said, in reply to my questions, \"the Bible was\nmy only text-book. It answered my questions as to the process by which I\nwas restored to health; it came to me with a new meaning, and suddenly I\napprehended the spiritual meaning of the teaching of Jesus and the\nprinciple and the law involved in spiritual science and metaphysical\nhealing--in a word--Christian science.\"\n\nMrs. Eddy came to perceive that Christ's healing was not miraculous, but\nwas simply a natural fulfilment of divine law--a law as operative in the\nworld to-day as it was nineteen hundred years ago. \"Divine science is\nbegotten of spirituality,\" she says, \"since only the 'pure in heart' can\nsee God.\"\n\nIn writing of this experience, Mrs. Eddy has said:\n\n  I had learned that thought must be spiritualized\n  in order to apprehend Spirit. It must become\n  honest unselfish, and pure, in order to have the\n  least understanding of God in Divine Science. The\n  first must become last. Our reliance upon material\n  things must be transferred to a perception of and\n  dependence on spiritual things. For spirit to be\n  supreme in demonstration, it must be supreme in\n  our affections, and we must be clad with divine\n  power. I had learned that mind reconstructed the\n  body and that nothing else could. All science is a\n  revelation.\n\nThrough homeopathy, too, Mrs. Eddy became convinced of the principle of\nmind healing, discovering that the more attenuated the drug, the more\npotent was its effects.\n\nIn 1877 Mrs. Glover married Dr. Asa Gilbert Eddy, of Londonderry,\nVermont, a physician who had come into sympathy with her own views, and\nwho was the first to place \"Christian Scientist,\" on the sign at his\ndoor. Dr. Eddy died in 1882, a year after her founding of the\n\"Metaphysical College\" in Boston, in which he taught.\n\nThe work in the Metaphysical College lasted nine years, and it was\nclosed (in 1889) in the very zenith of its prosperity as Mrs. Eddy felt\nit essential to the deeper foundation of her religious work to retire\nfrom active contact with the world. To this college came hundreds and\nhundreds of students, from Europe as well as this country. I was present\nat the class lectures now and then by Mrs. Eddy's kind invitation, and\nsuch earnestness of attention as was given to her morning talks by the\nmen and women present I never saw equalled.\n\n\nMRS. EDDY'S PERSONALITY.\n\nOn the evening that I first met Mrs. Eddy by her hospitable courtesy, I\nwent to her peculiarly fatigued. I came away in a state of exhilaration\nand energy that made me feel I could have walked any conceivable\ndistance. I have met Mrs. Eddy many times since then, and always with\nthis experience repeated.\n\nSeveral years ago Mrs. Eddy removed from Columbus to Commonwealth\navenue, where, just beyond Massachusetts avenue, at the entrance to the\nBack Bay Park, she bought one of the most beautiful residences in\nBoston. The interior is one of the utmost taste and luxury, and the\nhouse is now occupied by Judge and Mrs. Hanna, who are the editors of\nthe _Christian Science Journal_, a monthly publication, and to whose\ncourtesy I am much indebted for some of the data of this paper. \"It is a\npleasure to give any information for _The Inter-Ocean_,\" remarked Mrs.\nHanna, \"for it is the great daily that is so fair and so just in its\nattitude toward all questions.\"\n\nThe increasing demands of the public on Mrs. Eddy have been, it may be,\none factor in her removal to Concord, N.H., where she has a beautiful\nresidence, called Pleasant View. Her health is excellent, and although\nher hair is white, she retains in a great degree her energy and power;\nshe takes a daily walk and drives in the afternoon. She personally\nattends to a vast correspondence; superintends the church in Boston, and\nis engaged on further writings on Christian Science. In every sense she\nis the recognized head of the Christian Science Church. At the same time\nit is her most earnest aim to eliminate the element of personality from\nthe faith. \"On this point, Mrs. Eddy feels very strongly,\" said a\ngentleman to me on Christmas eve, as I sat in the beautiful drawing\nroom, where Judge and Mrs. Hanna, Miss Elsie Lincoln, the soprano for\nthe choir of the new church, and one or two other friends were gathered.\n\n\"Mother feels very strongly,\" he continued, \"the danger and the\nmisfortune of a church depending on any one personality. It is difficult\nnot to centre too closely around a highly gifted personality.\"\n\n\nTHE FIRST ASSOCIATION.\n\nThe first Christian Scientist Association was organized on July 4, 1876,\nby seven persons, including Mrs. Eddy. In April, 1879, the church was\nfounded with twenty-six members, and its charter obtained the following\nJune. Mrs. Eddy had preached in other parishes for five years before\nbeing ordained in this church, which ceremony took place in 1881.\n\nThe first edition of Mrs. Eddy's book, SCIENCE AND HEALTH, was issued in\n1875. During these succeeding twenty years it has been greatly revised\nand enlarged, and it is now in its ninety-first edition. It consists of\nfourteen chapters, whose titles are as follows: \"Science, Theology,\nMedicine,\" \"Physiology,\" \"Footsteps of Truth,\" \"Creation,\" \"Science of\nBeing,\" \"Christian Science and Spiritualism,\" \"Marriage,\" \"Animal\nMagnetism,\" \"Some Objections Answered,\" \"Prayer,\" \"Atonement and\nEucharist,\" \"Christian Science Practice,\" \"Teaching Christian Science,\"\n\"Recapitulation.\" Key to the Scriptures, Genesis, Apocalypse, and\nGlossary.\n\nThe Christian Scientists do not accept the belief we call spiritualism.\nThey believe those who have passed the change of death are in so\nentirely different a plane of consciousness that between the embodied\nand disembodied there is no possibility of communication.\n\nThey are diametrically opposed to the philosophy of Karma and of\nreincarnation, which are the tenets of theosophy. They hold with strict\nfidelity to what they believe to be the literal teachings of Christ.\n\nYet each and all these movements, however they may differ among\nthemselves, are phases of idealism and manifestations of a higher\nspirituality seeking expression.\n\nIt is good that each and all shall prosper, serving those who find in\none form of belief or another their best aid and guidance, and that all\nmeet on common ground in the great essentials of love to God and love to\nman as a signal proof of the divine origin of humanity which finds no\nrest until it finds the peace of the Lord in spirituality. They all\nteach that one great truth that:\n\n  God's greatness flows around our incompleteness,\n  Round our restlessness, his rest.\n                       ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.\n\nI add on the following page a little poem that I consider superbly\nsweet--from my friend, Miss Whiting, the talented author of \"THE WORLD\nBEAUTIFUL.\"--M.B. EDDY.\n\n\nAT THE WINDOW.\n\n[_Written for the Traveller_.]\n\n  The sunset, burning low,\n    Throws o'er the Charles its flood of golden light.\n  Dimly, as in a dream, I watch the flow\n    Of waves of light.\n\n  The splendor of the sky\n    Repeats its glory in the river's flow;\n  And sculptured angels, on the gray church tower,\n    Gaze on the world below.\n\n  Dimly, as in a dream,\n    I see the hurrying throng before me pass,\n  But 'mid them all I only see _one_ face\n    Under the meadow grass.\n\n  Ah, love! I only know\n    How thoughts of you forever cling to me:\n  I wonder how the seasons come and go\n    Beyond the sapphire sea?\n\nLILLIAN WHITING.\n\nApril 15, 1888.\n\n\n\n\n(_Boston Herald_, January 7, 1895.)\n\nEXTRACT.\n\nA TEMPLE GIVEN TO GOD.--DEDICATION OF THE MOTHER CHURCH OF CHRISTIAN\nSCIENCE.\n\nNovel Method of Enabling Six Thousand Believers to Attend the\nExercises--The Service Repeated Four Times--Sermon by Rev. Mary Baker\nEddy, Founder of the Denomination--Beautiful Room Which the Children\nBuilt.\n\n\nWith simple ceremonies, four times repeated, in the presence of four\ndifferent congregations, aggregating nearly 6,000 persons, the unique\nand costly edifice erected in Boston at Norway and Falmouth streets as a\nhome for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and a testimonial to the\ndiscoverer and founder of Christian Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, was\nyesterday dedicated to the worship of God.\n\nThe structure came forth from the hands of the artisans with every stone\npaid for--with an appeal, not for more money, but for a cessation of the\ntide of contributions which continued to flow in after the full amount\nneeded was received. From every state in the Union and from many lands,\nthe love offerings of the disciples of Christian Science came to help\nerect this beautiful structure, and more than 4,000 of these\ncontributors came to Boston from the far-off Pacific coast and the Gulf\nstates and all the territory that lies between, to view the new-built\ntemple and to listen to the message sent them by the teacher they\nrevere.\n\nFrom all New England the members of the denomination gathered; New York\nsent its hundreds, and even from the distant states came parties of 40\nand 50. The large auditorium, with its capacity for holding 1,400 or\n1,500 persons, was hopelessly incapable of receiving this vast throng,\nto say nothing of the nearly 1,000 local believers. Hence the service\nwas repeated until all who wished had heard and seen; and each of the\nfour vast congregations filled the church to repletion.\n\nAt 7:30 a.m. the chimes in the great stone tower, which rises 126 feet\nabove the earth, rung out their message of \"Peace on earth and good will\nto men.\"\n\nOld familiar hymns--\"All Hail the Power of Jesus's Name,\" and others\nsuch--were chimed until the hour for the dedication service had come.\n\nAt 9 a.m. the first congregation gathered. Before this service had\nclosed the large vestry room and the spacious lobbies and the sidewalks\naround the church were all filled with a waiting multitude. At 10:30\no'clock another service began, and at noon still another. Then there was\nan intermission, and at 3 p.m. the service was repeated for the last\ntime.\n\nThere was scarcely even a minor variation in the exercises at any one of\nthese services. At 10:30 a.m., however, the scene was rendered\nparticularly interesting by the presence of several hundred children in\nthe central pews. These were the little contributors to the building\nfund, whose money was devoted to the \"Mother's room,\" a superb apartment\nintended for the sole use of Mrs. Eddy. These children are known in the\nchurch as the \"Busy Bees,\" and each of them wore a white satin badge\nwith a golden beehive stamped upon it, and beneath the beehive the words\n\"Mother's Room,\" in gilt letters.\n\nThe pulpit end of the auditorium was rich with the adornment of flowers.\nOn the wall of the choir gallery above the platform, where the organ is\nto be hereafter placed, a huge seven pointed star was hung--a star of\nlilies resting on palms, with a centre of white immortelles, upon which\nin letters of red were the words: \"Love-Children's Offering--1894.\"\n\nIn the choir and the steps of the platform were potted palms and ferns\nand Easter lilies. The desk was wreathed with ferns and pure white roses\nfastened with a broad ribbon bow. On its right was a large basket of\nwhite carnations resting on a mat of palms, and on its left a vase\nfilled with beautiful pink roses.\n\nTwo combined choirs--that of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of\nNew York, and the choir of the home church, numbering thirty-five\nsingers in all--led the singing, under the direction, respectively, of\nMr. Henry Lincoln Case, and Miss Elsie Lincoln.\n\nJudge S.J. Hanna, editor of the _Christian Science Journal_, presided\nover the exercises. On the platform with him were Messrs. Ira O. Knapp,\nJoseph Armstrong, Stephen A. Chase, and William B. Johnson, who compose\nthe board of directors, and Mrs. Henrietta Clark Bemis, a distinguished\nelocutionist, and a native of Concord, New Hampshire.\n\nThe utmost simplicity marked the exercises. After an organ voluntary,\nthe hymn, \"Laus Deo, It Is Done,\" written by Mrs. Eddy for the\ncorner-stone laying last spring, was sung by the congregation.\nSelections from the Scriptures and from SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO\nTHE SCRIPTURES, were read by Judge Hanna and Dr. Eddy.\n\nA few minutes of silent prayer came next, followed by the recitation of\nthe Lord's prayer, with its spiritual interpretation as given in the\nChristian Science text-book.\n\nThe sermon prepared for the occasion by Mrs. Eddy, which was looked\nforward to as the chief feature of the dedication, was then read by Mrs.\nBemis. Mrs. Eddy remained at her home in Concord, N.H., during the day,\nbecause, as heretofore stated in _The Herald_, it is her custom to\ndiscourage among her followers that sort of personal worship which\nreligious teachers so often receive.\n\nBefore presenting the sermon, Mrs. Bemis read the following letter from\na former pastor of the church:\n\n  _Rev. Mary Baker Eddy_--Dear Teacher, Leader,\n  Guide: Laus Deo. It is done. At last you begin to\n  see the fruition of that you have worked, toiled,\n  prayed for. The prayer in stone is accomplished.\n\n  Across 2,000 miles of space, as mortal sense puts\n  it, I send my hearty congratulations. You are\n  fully occupied, but I thought you would willingly\n  pause for an instant to receive this brief message\n  of congratulation. Surely it marks an era in the\n  blessed onward work of Christian Science. It is a\n  most auspicious hour in your eventful career.\n  While we all rejoice, yet the mother in Israel,\n  alone of us all, comprehends its full significance.\n  Yours lovingly,\n\n  LANSON P. NORCROSS.\n\n\n\n\n(_Boston Sunday Globe_, January 6, 1895.)\n\nEXTRACT.\n\nStately Home for Believers in Gospel Healing.--A Woman of Wealth Who\nDevotes All to Her Church Work.\n\n\nChristian Science has shown its power over its students, as they are\ncalled, by building a church by voluntary contribution, the first of its\nkind, a church which will be dedicated to-day, with a quarter of a\nmillion dollars expended and free of debt.\n\nThe money has flowed in from all parts of the United States and Canada\nwithout any special appeal, and it kept coming until the custodian of\nfunds cried \"enough\" and refused to accept any further checks by mail or\notherwise. Men, women, and children lent a helping hand, some giving a\nmite and some substantial sums. Sacrifices were made in many an instance\nwhich will never be known in this world.\n\nChristian Scientists not only say that they can effect cures of disease\nand erect churches, but add that they can get their buildings finished\non time even when the feat seems impossible to mortal senses. Read the\nfollowing from a publication of the new denomination:\n\n  One of the grandest and most helpful features of\n  this glorious consummation is this: that one month\n  before the close of the year every evidence of\n  material sense declared that the church's completion\n  within the year 1894 transcended human possibility.\n  The predictions of workman and onlooker alike were\n  that it could not be completed before April or May\n  of 1895.\n\nMuch was the ridicule heaped upon the hopeful, trustful ones, who\ndeclared and repeatedly asseverated to the contrary. This is indeed,\nthen, a scientific demonstration. It has proved, in most striking\nmanner, the oft-repeated declarations of our text-books, that the\nevidence of the mortal senses is unreliable.\n\nA week ago Judge Hanna withdrew from the pastorate of the church, saying\nhe gladly laid down his responsibilities to be succeeded by the grandest\nof ministers--the Bible and \"SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE\nSCRIPTURES.\" This action it appears, was the result of rules made by\nMrs. Eddy. The sermons hereafter will consist of passages read from the\ntwo books by readers, who will be elected each year by the congregation.\n\nA story has been abroad that Judge Hanna was so eloquent and magnetic\nthat he was attracting listeners who came to hear him preach rather than\nin search of the truth as taught. Consequently the new rules were\nformulated.\n\nBut at Christian Science headquarters this is denied; Mrs. Eddy says the\nwords of the judge speak to the point, and that no such inference is to\nbe drawn therefrom.\n\nIn Mrs. Eddy's personal reminiscences, which are published under the\ntitle of \"Retrospection and Introspection,\" much is told of herself in\ndetail that can only be touched upon in this brief sketch.\n\nAristocratic to the backbone, Mrs. Eddy takes delight in going back to\nthe ancestral tree and in tracing those branches which are identified\nwith good and great names both in Scotland and England.\n\nHer family came to this country not long before the Revolution. Among\nthe many souvenirs that Mrs. Eddy remembers as belonging to her\ngrandparents was a heavy sword, encased in a brass scabbard, upon which\nhad been inscribed the name of the kinsman upon whom the sword had been\nbestowed by Sir William Wallace of mighty Scottish fame.\n\nMrs. Eddy applied herself, like other girls, to her studies, though\nperhaps with an unusual zest, delighting in philosophy, logic, and moral\nscience, as well as looking into the ancient languages, Hebrew, Greek,\nand Latin.\n\nHer last marriage was in the spring of 1877, when, at Lynn, Mass., she\nbecame the wife of Asa Gilbert Eddy. He was the first organizer of a\nChristian Science Sunday-School, of which he was the superintendent, and\nlater he attracted the attention of many clergymen of other denominations\nby his able lectures upon scriptural topics. He died in 1882.\n\nMrs. Eddy is known to her circle of pupils and admirers as the editor\nand publisher of the first official organ of this sect. It was called\nthe _Journal of Christian Science_, and has had great circulation with\nthe members of this fast-increasing faith.\n\nIn recounting her experiences as the pioneer of Christian Science, she\nstates that she sought knowledge concerning the physical side in this\nresearch through the different schools of allopathy, homeopathy, and so\nforth, without receiving any real satisfaction. No ancient or modern\nphilosophy gave her any distinct statement of the science of mind\nhealing. She claims that no human reason has been equal to the question.\n\nAnd she also defines carefully the difference in the theories between\nfaith cure and Christian Science, dwelling particularly upon the terms\nbelief and understanding, which are the key words respectively used in\nthe definitions of these two healing arts.\n\nBesides her Boston home, Mrs. Eddy has a delightful country home one\nmile from the state house of New Hampshire's quiet capital, an easy\ndriving distance for her when she wishes to catch a glimpse of the\nworld. But for the most part she lives very much retired, driving rather\ninto the country, which is so picturesque all about Concord and its\nsurrounding villages.\n\nThe big house, so delightfully remodeled and modernized from a primitive\nhomestead, that nothing is left excepting the angles and pitch of the\nroof, is remarkably well placed upon a terrace that slopes behind the\nbuildings, while they themselves are in the midst of green stretches of\nlawns, dotted with beds of flowering shrubs, with here and there a\nfountain or summer-house.\n\nMrs. Eddy took the writer straight to her beloved \"lookout\"--a broad\npiazza on the south side of the second story of the house, where she can\nsit in her swinging chair, revelling in the lights and shades of spring\nand summer greenness. Or, as just then, in the gorgeous October coloring\nof the whole landscape that lies below, across the farm, which stretches\non through an intervale of beautiful meadows and pastures to the woods\nthat skirt the valley of the little truant river, as it wanders\neastward.\n\nIt pleased her to point out her own birthplace. Straight as the crow\nflies, from her piazza, does it lie on the brow of Bow hill, and then\nshe paused and reminded the reporter that Congressman Baker from New\nHampshire, her cousin, was born and bred in that same neighborhood. The\nphotograph of Hon. Hoke Smith, another distinguished relative, adorned\nthe mantel.\n\nThen my eye caught her family coat of arms and the diploma given her by\nthe Society of the Daughters of the Revolution.\n\nThe natural and lawful pride that comes with a tincture of blue and\nbrave blood, is perhaps one of her characteristics, as is many another\nwell born woman's. She had a long list of worthy ancestors in colonial\nand revolutionary days, and the McNeils, and General Knox, figure\nlargely in her genealogy, as well as the hero who killed the ill-starred\nPaugus.\n\nThis big, sunny room which Mrs. Eddy calls her den--or sometimes\n\"mother's room,\" when speaking of her many followers who consider her\ntheir spiritual leader--has the air of hospitality that marks its\nhostess herself. Mrs. Eddy has hung its walls with reproductions of some\nof Europe's masterpieces, a few of which had been the gifts of her\nloving pupils.\n\nLooking down from the windows upon the tree-tops on the lower terrace,\nthe reporter exclaimed: \"You have lived here only four years, and yet\nfrom a barren waste of most unpromising ground has come forth all this\nbeauty!\"\n\n\"Four years!\" she ejaculated; \"two and a half, only two and a half\nyears.\" Then, touching my sleeve and pointing, she continued: \"Look at\nthose big elms! I had them brought here in warm weather, almost as big\nas they are now, and not one died.\"\n\nMrs. Eddy talked earnestly of her friendships.... She told something\nof her domestic arrangements, of how she had long wished to get away\nfrom her busy career in Boston, and return to her native granite hills,\nthere to build a substantial home that should do honor to that precinct\nof Concord.\n\nShe chose the stubbly, old farm on the road from Concord within one mile\nof the \"Eton of America,\" St. Paul's school. Once bought, the will of\nthe woman set at work, and to-day a strikingly well kept estate is the\nfirst impression given to the visitor as he approaches Pleasant View.\n\nShe employs a number of men to keep the grounds and farm in perfect\norder, and it was pleasing to learn that this rich woman is using her\nmoney to promote the welfare of industrious workmen in whom she takes a\nvital interest.\n\nMrs. Eddy believes that \"the laborer is worthy of his hire,\" and,\nmoreover, that he deserves to have a home and family of his own. Indeed,\none of her motives in buying so large an estate was that she might do\nsomething for the toilers, and thus add her influence toward the\nadvancement of better home life and citizenship.\n\n\n\n\n(_Boston Transcript_, December 31, 1894.)\n\nEXTRACT.\n\n\nThe growth of Christian Science is properly marked by the erection of a\nvisible house of worship in this city, which will be dedicated tomorrow.\nIt has cost $200,000, and no additional sums outside of the\nsubscriptions are asked for. This particular phase of religious belief\nhas impressed itself upon a large and increasing number of Christian\npeople, who have been tempted to examine its principles, and doubtless\nhave been comforted and strengthened by them. Any new movement will\nawaken some sort of interest. There are many who have worn off the\nnovelty and are thoroughly carried away with the requirements, simple\nand direct as they are, of Christian Science. The opposition against it\nfrom the so-called orthodox religious bodies keeps up a while, but after\na little skirmishing, finally subsides. No one religious body holds the\nwhole of truth, and whatever is likely to show even some one side of it\nwill gain followers and live down any attempted repression.\n\nChristian Science does not strike all as a system of truth. If it did,\nit would be a prodigy. Neither does the Christian faith produce the\nsame impressions upon all. Freedom to believe or to dissent is a great\nprivilege in these days. So when a number of conscientious followers\napply themselves to a matter like Christian Science, they are enjoying\nthat liberty which is their inherent right as human beings, and though\nthey cannot escape censure, yet they are to be numbered among the many\npioneers who are searching after religious truth. There is really\nnothing settled. Every truth is more or less in a state of agitation.\nThe many who have worked in the mine of knowledge are glad to welcome\nothers who have different methods, and with them bring different ideas.\n\nIt is too early to predict where this movement will go, and how greatly\nit will affect the well established methods. That it has produced a\nsensation in religious circles, and called forth the implements of\ntheological warfare, is very well known. While it has done this, it may,\non the other hand, have brought a benefit. Ere this many a new project\nin religious belief has stirred up feeling, but as time has gone on,\ncompromises have been welcomed.\n\nThe erection of this temple will doubtless help on the growth of its\nprinciples. Pilgrims from everywhere will go there in search of truth,\nand some may be satisfied and some will not. Christian Science cannot\nabsorb the world's thought. It may get the share of attention it\ndeserves, but it can only aspire to take its place alongside other great\ndemonstrations of religious belief which have done something good for\nthe sake of humanity.\n\nWonders will never cease. Here is a church whose treasurer has to send\nout word that no sums except those already subscribed can be received!\nThe Christian Scientists have a faith of the mustard-seed variety. What\na pity some of our practical Christian folk have not a faith approximate\nto that of these \"impractical\" Christian Scientists.\n\n\n\n\n(_Jackson Patriot_, Jackson, Mich. January 20, 1895.)\n\nEXTRACT.\n\nCHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\n\n\nThe erection of a massive temple in Boston by Christian Scientists, at a\ncost of over $200,000, love offerings of the disciples of MARY BAKER\nEDDY, reviver of the ancient faith and author of the text-book from\nwhich, with the New Testament at the foundation, believers receive\nlight, health, and strength, is evidence of the rapid growth of the new\nmovement. We call it new. It is not. The name Christian Science alone is\nnew. At the beginning of Christianity it was taught and practiced by\nJesus and his disciples. The Master was the great healer. But the wave\nof materialism and bigotry that swept over the world for fifteen\ncenturies, covering it with the blackness of the Dark Ages, nearly\nobliterated all vital belief in his teachings. The Bible was a sealed\nbook. Recently a revived belief in what he taught is manifest, and\nChristian Science is one result. No new doctrine is proclaimed, but\nthere is the fresh development of a principle that was put into practice\nby the founder of Christianity nineteen hundred years ago, though\npracticed in other countries at any earlier date. \"The thing that hath\nbeen, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which\nshall be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.\"\n\nThe condition which Jesus of Nazareth, on various occasions during the\nthree years of his ministry on earth, declared to be essential, in the\nmind of both healer and patient, is contained in the one word--FAITH.\nCan drugs suddenly cure leprosy? When the ten lepers were cleansed and\none returned to give thanks in Oriental phrase, Jesus said to him:\n\"Arise, go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole.\" That was Christian\nScience. In his \"Law of Psychic Phenomena\" Hudson says: \"That word, more\nthan any other, expresses the whole law of human felicity and power in\nthis world and of salvation in the world to come.\" It is that attribute\nof mind which elevates man above the level of the brute, and gives\ndominion over the physical world. It is the essential element of success\nin every field of human endeavor. It constitutes the power of the human\nsoul. When Jesus of Nazareth proclaimed its potency from the hilltops of\nPalestine he gave to mankind the key to health and heaven, and earned\nthe title of \"Savior of the World.\" Whittier, grandest of mystic poets,\nsaw the truth:\n\n  \"That healing gift He lends to them\n    Who use it in His name;\n  The power that filled his garment's hem\n    Is evermore the same.\"\n\nAgain, in a poem entitled \"The Master,\" he wrote:\n\n  \"The healing of his seamless dress\n    Is by our beds of pain;\n  We touch Him in life's throng and press,\n    And we are whole again.\"\n\n[Footnote: About 1868, the author of SCIENCE AND HEALTH healed\nMr. Whittier with one visit, at his home in Amesbury, of incipient\npulmonary consumption.--M.B. EDDY.]\n\nThat Jesus operated in perfect harmony with natural law, not in\ndefiance, suppression, or violation of it, we cannot doubt. The\nperfectly natural is the perfectly spiritual. Jesus enunciated and\nexemplified the principle; and, obviously, the conditions requisite in\npsychic healing to-day are the same as were necessary in apostolic\ntimes. We accept the statement of Hudson: \"There was no law of nature\nviolated or transcended. On the contrary, the whole transaction was in\nperfect obedience to the laws of nature. He understood the law\nperfectly, as no one before him understood it; and in the plentitude of\nhis power he applied it where the greatest good could be accomplished.\"\nA careful reading of the accounts of his healings, in the light of\nmodern science, shows that he observed, in his practice of mental\ntherapeutics, the conditions of environment and harmonious influence\nthat are essential to success. In the case of Jairus' daughter they are\nfully set forth. He kept the unbelievers away, \"put them all out,\" and\npermitting only the father and mother, with his closest friends and\nfollowers, Peter, James, and John, in the chamber with him, and having\nthus the most perfect obtainable environment, he raised the daughter to\nlife.\n\n  \"Not in blind caprice of will,\n  Not in cunning sleight of skill,\n  Not for show of power, was wrought\n  Nature's marvel in Thy thought.\"\n\nIn a previous article we have referred to cyclic changes that came\nduring the last quarter of preceding centuries. Of our remarkable\nnineteenth century not the least eventful circumstance is the advent of\nChristian Science. That it should be the work of a woman is the natural\noutcome of a period notable for her emancipation from many of the\nthraldoms, prejudices, and oppressions of the past. We do not,\ntherefore, regard it as a mere coincidence that the first edition of\nMrs. Eddy's \"SCIENCE AND HEALTH\" should have been published in 1875.\nSince then she has revised it many times, and the ninety-first edition\nis announced. Her discovery was first called \"the science of divine\nmetaphysical healing.\" Afterward she selected the name Christian\nScience. It is based upon what is held to be scientific certainty,\nnamely,--that all causation is of Mind, every effect has its origin in\ndesire and thought. The theology--if we may use the word--of Christian\nScience is contained in the volume entitled \"SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY\nTO THE SCRIPTURES.\"\n\nThe present Boston congregation was organized April 19, 1879, and has\nnow over 4,000 members. It is regarded as the parent organization, all\nothers being branches, though each is entirely independent in the\nmanagement of its own affairs. Truth is the sole recognized authority.\nOf actual members of different congregations there are between 100,000\nand 200,000. One or more organized societies have sprung up in New York,\nChicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toledo,\nMilwaukee, Madison, Scranton, Peoria, Atlanta, Toronto, and nearly every\nother centre of population, besides a large and growing number of\nreceivers of the faith among the members of all the churches and\nnon-church-going people. In some churches a majority of the members are\nChristian Scientists, and, as a rule, are the most intelligent.\n\nSpace does not admit of an elaborate presentation on the occasion of the\nerection of the temple, in Boston, the dedication taking place on the\n6th of January, of one of the most remarkable, helpful, and powerful\nmovements of the last quarter of the century. Christian Science has\nbrought hope and comfort to many weary souls. It makes people better and\nhappier. Welding Christianity and Science, hitherto divorced because\ndogma and truth could not unite, was a happy inspiration.\n\n  \"And still we love the evil cause,\n    And of the just effect complain;\n  We tread upon life's broken laws,\n    And mourn our self-inflicted pain.\"\n\n\n\n\n(_The Outlook_, New York, January 19, 1895.)\n\nA CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH.\n\n\nA great Christian Science Church was dedicated in Boston on Sunday, the\n6th inst. It is located at Norway and Falmouth streets, and is intended\nto be a testimonial to the discoverer and founder of Christian Science,\nthe Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. The building is fireproof, and cost over\n$200,000. It is entirely paid for, and contributions for its erection\ncame from every state in the Union, and from many lands. The auditorium\nis said to seat between fourteen and fifteen hundred, and was thronged\nat the four services on the day of dedication. The sermon prepared by\nMrs. Eddy was read by Mrs. Bemis. It rehearsed the significance of the\nbuilding, and re\u00ebnunciated the truths which will find emphasis there.\nFrom the description we judge that it is one of the most beautiful\nbuildings in Boston, and, indeed, in all New England. Whatever may be\nthought of the peculiar tenets of the Christian Scientists, and whatever\ndifference of opinion there may be concerning the organization of such a\nchurch, there can be no question but that the adherents of this church\nhave proved their faith by their works.\n\n\n\n\n(_American Art Journal_, New York, January 26, 1895.)\n\n\"OUR PRAYER IN STONE.\"\n\n\nSuch is the excellent name given to a new Boston church. Few people\noutside its own circles, realize how extensive is the belief in\nChristian Science. There are several sects of mental healers, but this\nnew edifice on Back Bay, just off Huntington avenue, not far from the\nbig Mechanics building and the proposed site of the new Music hall,\nbelongs to the followers of Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, a lady born of\nan old New Hampshire family, who, after many vicissitudes, found herself\nin Lynn, Mass., healed by the power of Divine Mind, and thereupon\ndevoted herself to imparting this faith to her fellow beings. Coming to\nBoston about 1880 she began teaching, gathered an association of\nstudents, and organized a church. For several years past she has lived\nin Concord, N.H., near her birthplace, owning a beautiful estate called\nPleasant View; but thousands of believers throughout this country have\njoined the Mother Church in Boston and have now erected this edifice at\na cost of over two hundred thousand dollars, every bill being paid.\n\nIts appearance is shown in the pictures we are permitted to publish. In\nthe belfry is a set of tubular chimes. Inside is a basement room,\ncapable of division into seven excellent class rooms, by the use of\nmovable partitions. The main auditorium has wide galleries, and will\nseat over a thousand in its exceedingly comfortable pews. Scarcely any\nwoodwork is to be found. The floors are all mosaic, the steps marble,\nand the walls stone. It is rather dark, often too much so for\ncomfortable reading, as all the windows are of colored glass, with\npictures symbolic of the tenets of the organization. In the ceiling is a\nbeautiful sunburst window. Adjoining the chancel is a pastor's study;\nbut for an indefinite time their prime instructor has ordained that the\nonly pastor shall be the Bible, with her book called \"SCIENCE AND HEALTH\nWITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES.\" In the tower is a room devoted to her, and\ncalled Mother's Room, furnished with all conveniences for living, should\nshe wish to make it a home by day or night. Therein is a portrait of her\nin stained glass; and an electric light, behind an antique lamp, kept\nperpetually burning in her honor; though she has not yet visited her\ntemple, which was dedicated on New Year's Sunday, in a somewhat novel\nway.\n\nThere was no special sentence or prayer of consecration; but continuous\nservices were held from nine to four o'clock, every hour and a half, so\nlong as there were attendants; and some people heard these exercises\nfour times repeated. The printed program was for some reason not\nfollowed, certain hymns and psalms being omitted. There was singing by a\nchoir and congregation. The _pater noster_ was repeated in the way\npeculiar to Christian Scientists, the congregation repeating one\nsentence and the leader responding with its parallel interpretation by\nMrs. Eddy. Antiphonal paragraphs were read from the book of Revelation\nand her work respectively. The sermon, prepared by Mrs. Eddy, was well\nadapted for its purpose, and read by a professional elocutionist, not an\nadherent of the order, Mrs. Henrietta Clark Bemis, in a clear, emphatic\nstyle. The solo singer, however, was a Scientist, Miss Elsie Lincoln;\nand on the platform sat Joseph Armstrong, formerly of Kansas, and now\nthe business manager of the publication society, with the other members\nof the Christian Science Board of Directors--Ira C. Knapp, Edward P.\nBates, Stephen A. Chase,--gentlemen officially connected with the\nmovement. The children of believing families collected the money for the\nMother Room, and seats were especially set apart for them at the second\ndedicatory service. Before one service was over and the auditors left by\nthe rear doors, the front vestibule and street (despite the snowstorm)\nwere crowded with others, waiting admission.\n\nOn the next Sunday the new order of service went into operation. There\nwas no address of any sort, no notices, no explanation of Bible or their\ntext-book. Judge Hanna, who was a Colorado lawyer before coming into\nthis work, presided, reading in clear, manly, and intelligent tones, the\nquarterly Bible lesson, which happened that day to be on Jesus' miracle\nof loaves and fishes. Each paragraph he supplemented first with\nillustrative Scripture parallels, as set down for him, and then by\npassages selected for him from Mrs. Eddy's book. The place was again\ncrowded, many having remained over a week from among the thousands of\nadherents who had come to Boston for this auspicious occasion from all\nparts of the country. The organ, made by Farrand & Votey in Detroit, at\na cost of eleven thousand dollars, is the gift of a wealthy Universalist\ngentleman, but was not ready for the opening. It is to fill the recess\nbehind the spacious platform, and is described as containing pneumatic\nwindchests throughout, and having an \u00e6olian attachment. It is of\nthree-manual compass, C.C.C. to C.4, 61 notes; and pedal compass, C.C.C.\nto F.30. The great organ has double open diapason (stopped bass),\nopen diapason, dulciana, viola di gambi, doppel flute, hohl flute,\noctave, octave quint, superoctave, and trumpet,--65 pipes each. The\nswell organ has bourdon, open diapason, salicional, \u00e6oline, stopped\ndiapason, gemshorn, flute harmonique, flageolet, cornet--3 ranks,\n183,--cornopean, oboe, vox humana--61 pipes each. The choir organ,\nenclosed in separate swell-box, has geigen principal, dolce, concert\nflute, quintadena, fugara, flute d'amour, piccolo harmonique,\nclarinet,--61 pipes each. The pedal organ has open diapson, bourden,\nlieblich gedeckt (from stop 10), violoncello-wood,--30 pipes each.\nCouplers: swell to great; choir to great; swell to choir; swell to great\noctaves, swell to great sub-octaves; choir to great sub-octaves; swell\noctaves; swell to pedal; great to pedal; choir to pedal. Mechanical\naccessories: swell tremulant, choir tremulant, bellows signal; wind\nindicator. Pedal movements: three affecting great and pedal stops, three\naffecting swell and pedal stops; great to pedal reversing pedal;\ncrescendo and full organ pedal; balanced great and choir pedal; balanced\nswell pedal.\n\nBeautiful suggestions greet you in every part of this unique church,\nwhich is practical as well as poetic, and justifies the name given by\nMrs. Eddy, which stands at the head of this sketch. J.H.W.\n\n\n\n\n(_Boston Journal_, January 7, 1895.)\n\nCHIMES RANG SWEETLY.\n\n\nMuch admiration was expressed by all those fortunate enough to listen to\nthe first peal of the chimes in the tower of The First Church of Christ,\nScientist, corner of Falmouth and Norway streets, dedicated yesterday.\nThe sweet, musical tones attracted quite a throng of people, who\nlistened with delight.\n\nThe chimes were made by the United States Tubular Bell Company, of\nMethuen, Mass., and are something of a novelty in this country, though\nfor some time well and favorably known in the Old Country, especially in\nEngland.\n\nThey are a substitution of tubes of drawn brass for the heavy cast bells\nof old-fashioned chimes. They have the advantage of great economy of\nspace, as well as of cost, a chime of fifteen bells not occupying a\nspace of more than five by eight feet.\n\nWhere the old-fashioned chimes required a strong man to ring them, these\ncan be rung from an electric key board, and even when rung by hand\nrequire but little muscular power to manipulate them, and call forth all\nthe purity and sweetness of their tones. The quality of tone is\nsomething superb, being rich and mellow. The tubes are carefully tuned,\nso that the harmony is perfect. They have all the beauties of a great\nCathedral chime, with infinitely less expense.\n\nThere is practically no limit to the uses to which these bells may be\nput. They can be called into requisition in theatres, concert halls, and\npublic buildings, as they range in all sizes, from those described down\nto little sets of silver bells that might be placed on a small centre\ntable.\n\n\n\n\n(_The Republic_, Washington, D.C., February 2, 1895.)\n\nEXTRACT.\n\nCHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\n\nMary Baker Eddy the \"Mother\" of the Idea.--She Has an Immense Following\nThroughout the United States, and a Church Costing $250,000 Was Recently\nBuilt in Her Honor at Boston.\n\n\n\"My faith has the strength to nourish trees as well as souls,\" was the\nremark Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, the \"mother\" of Christian Science, made\nrecently as she pointed to a number of large elms that shade her\ndelightful country home, in Concord, N.H. \"I had them brought here in\nwarm weather almost as big as they are now, and not one died.\" This is a\nremarkable statement, but it is made by a remarkable woman, who has\noriginated a new phase of religious belief, and who numbers over 100,000\nintelligent people among her devoted followers.\n\nThe great hold she has upon this army was demonstrated in a very\ntangible and material manner recently when \"The First Church of Christ,\nScientist,\" erected at a cost of $250,000, was dedicated in Boston. This\nhandsome edifice was paid for before it was begun, by the voluntary\ncontributions of Christian Scientists all over the country, and a tablet\nimbedded in its wall declares that it was built as \"a testimonial to our\nbeloved teacher, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, discoverer and founder of\nChristian Science, author of its textbook, 'SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY\nTO THE SCRIPTURES,' president of the Massachusetts Metaphysical college\nand the first pastor of this denomination.\"\n\nThere is usually considerable difficulty in securing sufficient funds\nfor the building of a new church, but such was not the experience of\nRev. Mary Baker Eddy. Money came freely from all parts of the United\nStates. Men, women, and children contributed, some giving a pittance,\nothers donating large sums. When the necessary amount was raised the\ncustodian of the funds was compelled to refuse further contributions in\norder to stop the continued inflow of money from enthusiastic Christian\nScientists.\n\nMrs. Eddy says she discovered Christian Science in 1866. She studied the\nScriptures and the sciences, she declares, in a search for the great\ncurative principle. She investigated allopathy, homeopathy, and\nelectricity, without finding a clew; and modern philosophy gave her no\ndistinct statement of the science of mind healing. After careful study\nshe became convinced that the curative principle was the Deity.\n\n\n\n\n(_New York Tribune_, February 7, 1895.)\n\nEXTRACT.\n\n\nBoston has just dedicated the first church of the Christian Scientists\nin commemoration of the founder of that sect, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy,\ndrawing together 6,000 people to participate in the ceremonies, showing\nthat belief in that curious creed is not confined to its original\napostles and promulgators, but that it has penetrated what is called the\nNew England mind to an unlooked-for extent, in inviting the Eastern\nchurches and the Anglican fold to unity with Rome, the Holy Father\nshould not overlook the Boston sect of Christian Scientists, which is\nrather small and new, to be sure, but is undoubtedly an interesting\nfaith and may have a future before it, whatever attitude Rome may assume\ntoward it.\n\n\n\n\n(_Journal_, Kansas City, Mo., January 10, 1895.)\n\nEXTRACT.\n\nGROWTH OF A FAITH.\n\n\nAttention is directed to the progress which has been made by what is\ncalled Christian Science by the dedication at Boston of \"The First\nChurch of Christ, Scientist.\" It is a most beautiful structure of gray\ngranite, and its builders call it their \"prayer in stone,\" which\nsuggests to recollection the story of the cathedral of Amiens, whose\narchitectural construction and arrangement of statuary and paintings\nmade it to be called the Bible of that city. The Frankish church was\nreared upon the spot where, in pagan times, one bitter winter day, a\nRoman soldier parted his mantle with his sword and gave half of the\ngarment to a naked beggar; and so was memorialized in art and stone what\nwas called the divine spirit of giving, whose unbelieving exemplar\nafterward became a saint. The Boston church similarly expresses the\nfaith of those who believe in what they term the divine art of healing,\nwhich, to their minds, exists as much to-day as it did when Christ\nhealed the sick.\n\nThe first church organization of this faith was founded fifteen years\nago with a membership of only twenty-six, and since then the number of\nbelievers has grown with remarkable rapidity, until now, there are\nsocieties in every part of the country. This growth, it is said,\nproceeds more from the graveyards than from conversions from other\nchurches, for most of those who embrace the faith claim to have been\nrescued from death miraculously under the injunction to \"heal the sick,\nraise the dead, cleanse the leper, and cast out demons.\" They hold with\nstrict fidelity to what they conceive to be the literal teachings of the\nBible as expressed in its poetical and highly figurative language.\n\nAltogether the belief and service are well suited to satisfy a taste for\nthe mystical which, along many lines, has shown an uncommon development\nin this country during the last decade, and which is largely Oriental in\nits choice. Such a rapid departure from long respected views as is\nmarked by the dedication of this church, and others of kindred meaning,\nmay reasonably excite wonder as to how radical is to be this\nencroachment upon prevailing faiths, and whether some of the\npre-Christian ideas of the Asiatics are eventually to supplant those in\ncompany with which our civilization has developed.\n\n\n\n\n(_Montreal Daily Herald_ Saturday, February 2, 1895.)\n\nEXTRACT.\n\nCHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\n\nSketch of Its Origin and Growth--The Montreal Branch.\n\n\n\"If you would found a new faith, go to Boston,\" has been said by a great\nAmerican writer. This is no idle word, but a fact borne out by\ncircumstances. Boston can fairly claim to be the hub of the logical\nuniverse, and an accurate census of the religious faiths which are to be\nfound there to-day, would probably show a greater number of them than\neven Max O'Rells famous enumeration of John Bull's creeds.\n\nChristian Science, or the principle of divine healing, is one of those\nmovements which seek to give expression to a higher spirituality.\nFounded twenty-five years ago, it was still practically unknown a decade\nsince, but to-day it numbers over a quarter of a million of believers,\nthe majority of whom are in the United States, and is rapidly growing.\nIn Canada, also, there is a large number of members. Toronto and\nMontreal have strong churches, comparatively, while in many towns and\nvillages single believers or little knots of them are to be found.\n\nIt was exactly 100 years from the date of the Declaration of\nIndependence, when on July 4, 1876, the first Christian Scientist\nAssociation was organized by seven persons, of whom the foremost was\nMrs. Eddy. The church was founded in April. 1879, with twenty-six\nmembers, and a charter was obtained two months later. Mrs. Eddy assumed\nthe pastorship of the church during its early years, and in 1881 was\nordained, being now known as the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.\n\nThe Massachusetts Metaphysical College was founded by Mrs. Eddy in 1881,\nand here she taught the principles of the faith for nine years. Students\ncame to it in hundreds from all parts of the world, and many are now\npastors or in practice. The college was closed in 1889, as Mrs. Eddy\nfelt it necessary for the interests of her religious work to retire from\nactive contact with the world. She now lives in a beautiful country\nresidence in her native state.\n\n\n\n\n(_The American_, Baltimore, Md., January 14, 1895.)\n\nEXTRACT.\n\nMRS. EDDY'S DISCIPLES.\n\n\nIt is not generally known that a Christian Science congregation was\norganized in this city about a year ago. It now holds regular services\nin the parlor of the residence of the pastor, at 1414 Linden avenue. The\ndedication in Boston last Sunday of the Christian Science Church, called\nthe Mother Church, which cost over $200,000, adds interest to the\nBaltimore organization. There are many other church edifices in the\nUnited States owned by Christian Scientists. Christian Science was\nfounded by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy. The Baltimore congregation was\norganized at a meeting held at the present location on February 27,\n1894.\n\nDr. Hammond, the pastor, came to Baltimore about three years ago to\norganize this movement. Miss Cross came from Syracuse, N.Y., about\neighteen months ago. Both were under the instruction of Mrs. Mary Baker\nEddy, the founder of the movement.\n\nDr. Hammond says he was converted to Christian Science by being cured by\nMrs. Eddy of a physical ailment some twelve years ago, after several\ndoctors had pronounced his case incurable. He says they use no\nmedicines, but rely on Mind for cure, believing that disease comes from\nevil and sick-producing thoughts, and that, if they can so fill the mind\nwith good thoughts as to leave no room there for the bad, they can work\na cure. He distinguishes Christian Science from the faith cure and\nadded: \"This Christian Science really is a return to the ideas of\nprimitive Christianity. It would take a small book to explain fully all\nabout it, but I may say that the fundamental idea is that God is Mind,\nand we interpret the Scriptures wholly from the spiritual or\nmetaphysical standpoint. We find in this view of the Bible the power\nfully developed to heal the sick. It is not faith cure, but it is an\nacknowledgment of certain Christian and scientific laws, and to work a\ncure the practitioner must understand these laws aright. The patient may\ngain a better understanding than the church has had in the past. All\nchurches have prayed for the cure of disease, but they have not done so\nin an intelligent manner, understanding and demonstrating the\nChrist-healing.\"\n\n\n\n\n(_The Reporter_, Lebanon, Ind., January 18, 1895.)\n\nEXTRACT.\n\nDISCOVERED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\n\nRemarkable Career of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Who Has Over 100,000\nFollowers.\n\n\nRev. Mary Baker Eddy, discoverer and founder of Christian Science,\nauthor of its textbook, \"SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES,\"\npresident of the Massachusetts Metaphysical college, and first pastor of\nthe Christian Science denomination, is without doubt one of the most\nremarkable women in America. She has within a few years founded a sect\nthat has over 100,000 converts, and very recently saw completed in\nBoston as a testimonial to her labors, a handsome fire proof church that\ncost $250,000, and was paid for by Christian Scientists all over the\ncountry.\n\nMrs. Eddy asserts that in 1866 she became certain that \"all causation\nwas mind and every effect a mental phenomenon.\" Taking her text from the\nBible, she endeavored in vain to find the great curative principle--the\nDeity--in philosophy and schools of medicine, and she concluded that the\nway of salvation demonstrated by Jesus was the power of truth over all\nerror, sin, sickness, and death. Thus originated the divine or spiritual\nscience of mind healing, which she termed Christian Science. She has a\npalatial home in Boston and a country seat in Concord, N.H. The\nChristian Science church has a membership of 4,000, and 800 of the\nmembers are Bostonians.\n\n\n\n\n(_N.Y. Commercial Advertiser_, January 9, 1895.)\n\n\nThe idea that Christian Science has declined in popularity is not borne\nout by the voluntary contribution of a quarter of a million dollars for\na memorial church for Mrs. Eddy, the inventor of this cure. The money\ncomes from Christian Science believers exclusively.\n\n\n\n\n(_The Post_, Syracuse, New York, February 1, 1895.)\n\nDO NOT BELIEVE SHE WAS DEIFIED.\n\nChristian Scientists of Syracuse Surprised at the News About Mrs. Mary\nBaker Eddy, Founder of the Faith.\n\n\nChristian Scientists in this city, and in fact all over the country,\nhave been startled and greatly discomfited over the announcements in\nNew York papers that Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the acknowledged\nChristian Science leader, has been exalted by various dignitaries of the\nfaith....\n\nIt is well known that Mrs. Eddy has resigned herself completely to the\nstudy and foundation of the faith to which many thousands throughout the\nUnited States are now so entirely devoted. By her followers and\nco-believers she is unquestionably looked upon as having a divine\nmission to fulfill, and as though inspired in her great task by\nsupernatural power.\n\nFor the purpose of learning the feeling of Scientists in this city\ntoward the reported deification of Mrs. Eddy, a _Post_ reporter called\nupon a few of the leading members of the faith yesterday and had a\nnumber of very interesting conversations upon the subject.\n\nMrs. D.W. Copeland of University avenue was one of the first to be seen.\nMrs. Copeland is a very pleasant and agreeable lady, ready to converse,\nand evidently very much absorbed in the work to which she has given so\nmuch of her attention. Mrs. Copeland claims to have been healed a number\nof years ago by Christian Scientists, after she had practically been\ngiven up by a number of well known physicians.\n\n\"And for the past eleven years,\" said Mrs. Copeland, \"I have not taken\nany medicine or drugs of any kind, and yet have been perfectly well.\"\n\nIn regard to Mrs. Eddy, Mrs. Copeland said that she was the founder of\nthe faith, but that she had never claimed, nor did she believe that Mrs.\nLathrop had, that Mrs. Eddy had any power other than that which came\nfrom God and through faith in Him and His teachings.\n\n\"The power of Christ has been dormant in mankind for ages,\" added the\nspeaker, \"and it was Mrs. Eddy's mission to revive it. In our labors we\ntake Christ as an example, going about doing good and healing the sick.\nChrist has told us to do His work, naming as one great essential that we\nhave faith in Him.\n\n\"Did you ever hear of Jesus' taking medicine Himself, or giving it to\nothers?\" inquired the speaker. \"Then why should we worry ourselves about\nsickness and disease? If we become sick God will care for us, and will\nsend to us those who have faith, who believe in His unlimited and divine\npower.\" Mrs. Eddy was strictly an ardent follower after God. She had\nfaith in him, and she cured herself of a deathly disease through the\nmediation of her God. Then she secluded herself from the world for three\nyears and studied and meditated over His divine word. She delved deep\ninto the Biblical passages, and at the end of the period came from her\nseclusion one of the greatest Biblical scholars of the age. Her mission\nwas then the mission of a Christian to do good and heal the sick, and\nthis duty she faithfully performed. She of herself had no power. But God\nhas fulfilled His promises to her and to the world. \"If ye have faith ye\ncan move mountains.\"\n\nMrs. Henrietta N. Cole is also a very prominent member of the church.\nWhen seen yesterday she emphasized herself as being of the same theory\nas Mrs. Copeland. Mrs. Cole has made a careful and searching study in\nthe beliefs of Scientists and is perfectly versed in all their beliefs\nand doctrines. She stated that man of himself has no power, but that all\ncomes from God. She placed no credit whatever in the reports from New\nYork that Mrs. Eddy has been accredited as having been deified. She\nreferred the reporter to the large volume which Mrs. Eddy had herself\nwritten, and said that no more complete and yet concise idea of her\nbelief could be obtained than by a perusal of it.\n\n\n\n\n(_New York Herald_, February 1, 1895.)\n\nMRS. EDDY SHOCKED.\n\n[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.]\n\n\nCONCORD, N.H., February 4, 1895.--The article published in the HERALD on\nJanuary 29, regarding a statement made by Mrs. Laura Lathrop, pastor of\nthe Christian Science congregation, that meets every Sunday in Hodgson\nHall, New York, was shown to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the Christian Science\n\"discoverer,\" to-day.\n\nMrs. Eddy preferred to prepare a written answer to the interrogatory,\nwhich she did in this letter, addressed to the editor of the HERALD:\n\n\"A despatch is given me, calling for an interview to answer for myself,\n'Am I the second Christ?'\n\n\"Even the question shocks me. What I am is for God to declare in his\ninfinite mercy. As it is I claim nothing more than what I am, the\ndiscoverer and founder of Christian Science, and the blessing it has\nbeen to mankind which eternity enfolds.\n\n\"I think Mrs. Lathrop was not understood. If she said aught with\nintention to be thus understood, it is not what I have taught her, and\nnot at all as I have heard her talk.\n\n\"My books and teachings maintain but one conclusion and statement of the\nChrist and the deification of mortals.\n\n\"Christ is individual, and one with God, in the sense of Divine\nPrinciple and its compound divine idea.\n\n\"There was, is and never can be but one God, one Christ, one Jesus of\nNazareth. Whoever in any age expresses most of the spirit of Truth and\nLove, the Principle of God's Idea, has most of the spirit of Christ, of\nthat Mind which was in Christ Jesus.\n\n\"If Christian Scientists find in my writings, teachings, and example a\ngreater degree of this spirit than in others, they can justly declare\nit. But to think or speak of me in any manner as a Christ, is\nsacrilegious. Such a statement would not only be false, but the absolute\nantipode of Christian Science, and would savor more of heathenism, than\nof my doctrines.\n\n\"MARY BAKER EDDY.\"\n\n\n\n\n(_The Globe_, Toronto, Canada, January 12, 1895.)\n\nEXTRACT.\n\nCHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS.\n\nDedication to the Founder of the Order of a Beautiful Church at\nBoston.--Many Toronto Scientists Present.\n\n\nThe Christian Scientists of Toronto to the number of thirty took part in\nthe ceremonies at Boston last Sunday and for the day or two following,\nby which the members of that faith all over North America celebrated the\ndedication of the church constructed in the great New England capital as\na Testimonial to the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, Rev.\nMary Baker Eddy.\n\nThe temple is believed to be the most nearly fire-proof church structure\non the continent, the only combustible material used in its construction\nbeing that used in the doors and pews. A striking feature of the church\nis a beautiful apartment known as the \"Mother's Room,\" which is\napproached through a superb archway of Italian marble set in the wall.\nThe furnishing of the \"Mother's Room\" is described as \"particularly\nbeautiful, and blends harmoniously with the pale green and gold\ndecoration of the walls. The floor is of mosaic in elegant designs, and\ntwo alcoves are separated from the apartment by rich hangings of deep\ngreen plush, which in certain lights has a shimmer of silver. The\nfurniture frames are of white mahogany in special designs, elaborately\ncarved, and the upholstery is in white and gold tapestry. A superb\nmantel of Mexican onyx with gold decoration adorns the south wall, and\nbefore the hearth is a large rug composed entirely of skins of the\neider-down duck, brought from the Arctic regions. Pictures and\nbric-a-brac everywhere suggest the tribute of loving friends. One of the\ntwo alcoves is a retiring room, and the other a lavatory in which the\nplumbing is all heavily plated with gold.\"\n\n\n\n\n(_Evening Monitor_, Concord, N.H., February 27, 1895.)\n\nAN ELEGANT SOUVENIR.\n\nRev. Mary Baker Eddy Memorialized by a Christian Science Church.\n\n\nRev. Mary Baker Eddy, discoverer of Christian Science, has received from\nthe members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, an\ninvitation to formally accept the magnificent new edifice of worship\nwhich the church has just erected.\n\nThe invitation itself is one of the most chastely elegant memorials ever\nprepared, and is a scroll of solid gold, suitably engraved, and encased\nin a handsome plush casket with white silk linings. Attached to the\nscroll is a golden key of the church structure.\n\nThe inscription reads thus:\n\nDEAR MOTHER: During the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four a church\nedifice was erected at the intersection of Falmouth and Norway streets\nin the city of Boston, by the loving hands of four thousand members.\nThis edifice is built as a Testimonial to truth as revealed by divine\nLove through you to this age.\n\nYou are hereby most lovingly invited to visit and formally accept this\nTestimonial on the twentieth day of February, eighteen hundred and\nninety-five at high noon.\n\nThe First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass.\n\nBy EDWARD P. BATES, CAROLINE S. BATES.\n\nTo the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, Boston, January 6th, 1895.\n\n\n\n\n(_People and Patriot_, Concord, N.H., February 27, 1895.)\n\nMAGNIFICENT TESTIMONIAL.\n\n\nMembers of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston have\nforwarded to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy of this city, the founder of Christian\nScience, a Testimonial which is probably one of the most magnificent\nexamples of the goldsmith's art ever wrought in this country. It is in\nthe form of a gold scroll, twenty-six inches long, nine inches wide, and\nan eighth of an inch thick.\n\nIt bears upon its face the following inscription cut in script letters:\n\n\"Dear Mother,\n\n\"During the year 1894, a church edifice was erected at the intersection\nof Falmouth and Norway streets in the city of Boston by the loving\nhands of four thousand members. This edifice is built as a Testimonial\nto truth as revealed by divine Love through you to this age. You are\nhereby most lovingly invited to visit and formally accept this\ntestimonial on the 20th day of February, 1895, at high noon.\n\n\"The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass.\n\n\"To the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.\n\n\"By Edward P. Bates\n\n\"Caroline S. Bates.\n\n\"Boston, January 6, 1895.\"\n\nAttached by a white ribbon to the scroll is a gold key to the church\ndoor.\n\nThe testimonial is encased in a white satin lined box of rich green\nvelvet.\n\nThe scroll is on exhibition in the window of J.C. Derby's jewelry\nstore.\n\n\n\n\n(_The Union Signal_, Chicago.)\n\nEXTRACT.\n\nTHE NEW WOMAN AND THE NEW CHURCH.\n\n\nThe dedication, in Boston, of a Christian Science temple costing over\ntwo hundred thousand dollars, and for which the money was all paid in so\nthat no debt had to be taken care of on dedication day, is a notable\nevent. While we are not, and never have been, devotees of Christian\nScience, it becomes us as students of public questions not to ignore a\nmovement which starting fifteen years ago has already gained to itself\nadherents in every part of the civilized world, for it is a significant\nfact that one cannot take up a daily paper in town or village--to say\nnothing of cities--'Without seeing notices of Christian Science\nmeetings, and in most instances they are held at \"headquarters.\"\n\nWe believe there are two reasons for this remarkable development, which\nhas shown a vitality so unexpected. The first is that a revolt was\ninevitable from the crass materialism of the cruder science that had\ntaken possession of men's minds, for as a wicked but witty writer has\nsaid, \"If there were no God we should be obliged to invent one.\" There\nis something in the constitution of man that requires the religious\nsentiment as much as his lungs call for breath; indeed, the breath of\nhis soul is a belief in God.\n\nBut when Christian Science arose, the thought of the world's scientific\nleaders had become materialistically \"lopsided,\" and this condition can\nnever long continue. There must be a righting-up of the mind as surely\nas of a ship when under stress of storm it is ready to capsize. The\npendulum that has swung to one extreme will surely find the other. The\nreligious sentiment in women is so strong that the revolt was headed by\nthem; this was inevitable in the nature of the case. It began in the\nmost intellectual city of the freest country in the world--that is to\nsay, it sought the line of least resistance. Boston is emphatically the\nwomen's paradise, numerically, socially, indeed, every way. Here they\nhave the largest individuality, the most recognition, the widest\noutlook. Mrs. Eddy we have never seen; her book has many a time been\nsent to us by interested friends and out of respect to them we have\nfairly broken our mental teeth over its granitic pebbles. That we could\nnot understand it might be rather to the credit of the book than\notherwise. On this subject we have no opinion to pronounce, but simply\nstate the fact.\n\nWe do not, therefore, speak of the system it sets forth, either to\npraise or blame, but this much is true; the spirit of Christian Science\nideas has caused an army of well meaning people to believe in God and\nthe power of faith, who did not believe in them before. It has made a\nmyriad of women more thoughtful and devout; it has brought a hopeful\nspirit into the homes of unnumbered invalids. The belief that \"thoughts\nare things,\" that the invisible is the only real world, that we are here\nto be trained into harmony with the laws of God, and that what we are\nhere determines where we shall be hereafter--all these ideas are\nChristian.\n\nThe chimes on the Christian Science temple in Boston played \"All hail\nthe power of Jesus' name,\" on the morning of the dedication. We did not\nattend, but we learn that the name of Christ is nowhere spoken with more\nreverence than it was during those services, and that He is set forth as\nthe power of God for righteousness and the express image of God for\nlove.\n\n\n\n\n(_The New Century_, Boston, February, 1885.)\n\nONE POINT OF VIEW.--THE NEW WOMAN.\n\n\nWe all know her--she is simply the woman of the past with an added\ngrace--a newer charm. Some of her dearest ones call her \"selfish\"\nbecause she thinks so much of herself she spends her whole time helping\nothers. She represents the composite beauty, sweetness, and nobility of\nall those who scorn self for the sake of Love and her handmaiden\nDuty--of all those who seek the brightness of truth not as the moth to\nbe destroyed thereby, but as the lark who soars and sings to the great\nsun. She is of those who have so much to give they want no time to take,\nand their name is legion. She is as full of beautiful possibilities as a\nperfect harp, and she realizes that all the harmonies of the universe\nare in herself, while her own soul plays upon magic strings the\nunwritten anthems of love. She is the apostle of the true, the\nbeautiful, the good, commissioned to complete all that the twelve have\nleft undone. Hers is the mission of missions--the highest of all--to\nmake the body not the prison, but the palace of the soul, with the brain\nfor its great white throne.\n\nWhen she comes like the south wind into the cold haunts of sin and\nsorrow her words are smiles and her smiles are the sunlight which heals\nthe stricken soul. Her hand is tender--but steel tempered with holy\nresolve, and as one whom her love had glorified once said--she is soft\nand gentle, but you could no more turn her from her course than winter\ncould stop the coming of spring. She has long learned with patience, and\nto-day she knows many things dear to the soul far better than her\nteachers. In olden times the Jews claimed to be the conservators of the\nworld's morals--they treated woman as a chattel, and said that because\nshe was created after man, she was created solely for man. Too many\nstill are Jews who never called Abraham \"Father,\" while the Jews\nthemselves have long acknowledged woman as man's proper helpmeet. In\nthose days women had few lawful claims and no one to urge them. True,\nthere were Miriam and Esther, but they sang and sacrificed for their\npeople, not for their sex. To-day there are ten thousand Esthers, and\nMiriams by the million, who sing best by singing most for their own sex.\nThey are demanding the right to help make the laws, or at least to help\nenforce the laws upon which depends the welfare of their husbands, their\nchildren, and themselves. Why should our selfish self longer remain deaf\nto their cry? The date is no longer B.C. Might no longer makes right,\nand in this fair land at least fear has ceased to kiss the iron heel of\nwrong. Why then should we continue to demand woman's love and woman's\nhelp while we recklessly promise as lover and candidate what we never\nfulfill as husband and office-holder? In our secret heart our better\nself is shamed and dishonored, and appeals from Philip drunk to Philip\nsober, but has not yet the moral strength and courage to prosecute the\nappeal. But the east is rosy and the sunlight cannot long be delayed.\nWoman must not and will not be disheartened by a thousand denials or a\nmillion of broken pledges. With the assurance of faith she prays, with\nthe certainty of inspiration she works, and with the patience of genius\nshe waits. At last she is becoming \"as fair as the morn, as bright as\nthe sun, and as terrible as an army with banners\" to those who march\nunder the black flag of oppression and wield the ruthless sword of\ninjustice.\n\nIn olden times it was the Amazons who conquered the invincibles, and we\nmust look now to their daughters to overcome our own allied armies of\nevil and to save us from ourselves. She must and will succeed, for as\nDavid sang--\"God shall help her and that right early.\" When we try to\npraise her later works it is as if we would pour incense upon the rose.\nIt is the proudest boast of many of us that we are \"bound to her by\nbonds dearer than freedom,\" and that we live in the reflected royalty\nwhich shines from her brow. We rejoice with her that at last we begin to\nknow what John on Patmos meant--\"And there appeared a great wonder in\nHeaven, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and\nupon her head a crown of twelve stars.\" She brought to warring men the\nPrince of Peace, and He, departing, left His scepter not in her hand,\nbut in her soul. \"The time of times\" is near when \"the new woman\" shall\nsubdue the whole earth with the weapons of peace. Then shall wrong be\nrobbed of her bitterness and ingratitude of her sting; revenge shall\nclasp hands with pity, and love shall dwell in the tents of hate, while\nside by side, equal partners in all that is worth living for, shall\nstand the new man with the new woman.\n\n\n\n\n(_Christian Science Journal_, January, 1895.)\n\nEXTRACT.\n\nTHE MOTHER CHURCH.\n\n\nThe Mother Church edifice--The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in\nBoston, is erected. The close of the year Anno Domini, 1894, witnessed\nthe completion of \"our Prayer in Stone,\" all predictions and\nprognostications to the contrary notwithstanding.\n\nOf the significance of this achievement we shall not undertake to speak\nin this article. It can be better felt than expressed. All who are awake\nthereto have some measure of understanding of what it means. But only\nthe future will tell the story of its mighty meaning or unfold it to the\ncomprehension of mankind. It is enough for us now to know that all\nobstacles to its completion have been met and overcome, and that our\ntemple is completed as God intended it should be.\n\nThis achievement is the result of long years of untiring, unselfish, and\nzealous effort on the part of our beloved Teacher and Leader, the\nReverend Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian\nScience, who nearly thirty years ago began to lay the foundation of this\ntemple, and whose devotion and consecration to God and humanity during\nthe intervening years have made its erection possible.\n\nThose who now, in part, understand her mission, turn their hearts in\ngratitude to her for her great work, and those who do not understand it\nwill, in the fulness of time, see and acknowledge it. In the measure in\nwhich she has unfolded and demonstrated Divine Love and built up in\nhuman consciousness a better and higher conception of God as Life,\nTruth, and Love,--as the Divine Principle of all things which really\nexist,--and in the degree in which she has demonstrated the system of\nhealing of Jesus and the Apostles, surely she, as the one chosen of God\nto this end, is entitled to the gratitude and love of all who desire a\nbetter and grander humanity, and who believe it to be possible to\nestablish the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth in accordance with the prayer\nand teachings of Jesus Christ.\n\n\n\n\n(_Concord Evening Monitor_, March 23, 1895.)\n\nTESTIMONIAL AND GIFT.\n\nTo Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, from The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in\nBoston.\n\n\nRev. Mary Baker Eddy received Friday, from the Christian Science board\nof directors, Boston, a beautiful and unique testimonial of the\nappreciation of her labors and loving generosity in the cause of their\ncommon faith. It was a facsimile of the corner-stone of the new church\nof the Christian Scientists, just completed, being of granite, about six\ninches in each dimension, and contains a solid gold box, upon the cover\nof which is this inscription:\n\n\"To our Beloved Teacher, the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and\nFounder of Christian Science, from her affectionate Students, the\nChristian Science Board of Directors.\" On the under side of the cover\nare the facsimile signatures of the directors, Ira O. Knapp, William B.\nJohnson, Joseph Armstrong, and Stephen A. Chase, with the date, \"1895.\"\nThe beautiful souvenir is encased in an elegant plush box.\n\nAccompanying the stone testimonial was the following address from the\nboard of directors:\n\nBOSTON, March 20, 1895.\n\nTo the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, our beloved teacher and leader:\n\nWe are happy to announce to you the completion of The First Church of\nChrist, Scientist, in Boston.\n\nIn behalf of your loving students and all contributors wherever they may\nbe, we hereby present this church to you as a testimonial of love and\ngratitude for your labors and loving sacrifice, as the discoverer and\nfounder of Christian Science, and the author of its text-book, \"SCIENCE\nAND HEALTH WITH KEY To THE SCRIPTURES.\"\n\nWe therefore respectfully extend to you the invitation to become the\npermanent pastor of this church, in connection with the Bible, and the\nBook alluded to above, which you have already ordained as our pastor.\nAnd we most cordially invite you to be present and take charge of any\nservices that may be held therein. We especially desire you to be\npresent on the twenty-fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and\nninety-five, to accept this offering, with our humble benediction.\n\nLovingly yours,\n\n  IRA O. KNAPP,\n  WILLIAM B. JOHNSON,\n  JOSEPH ARMSTRONG,\n  STEPHEN A. CHASE,\n  _The Christian Science Board of Directors_.\n\n\nREV. MRS. EDDY'S REPLY.\n\nBELOVED DIRECTORS AND BRETHREN:--\n\nFor your costly offering, and kind call to the pastorate of \"The First\nChurch of Christ, Scientist,\" in Boston--accept my profound thanks. But\npermit me, respectfully, to decline their acceptance, while I fully\nappreciate your kind intentions.-If it will comfort you in the least,\nmake me your Pastor _Emeritus_, nominally. Through my book, your\ntext-book, I already speak to you each Sunday. You ask too much when\nasking me to accept your grand Church edifice. I have more of earth now,\nthan I desire, and less of heaven; so pardon my refusal of that as a\nmaterial offering. More effectual than the forum are our states of mind,\nto bless mankind. This wish stops not with my pen--God give you grace.\nAs our Church's tall tower detains the sun, so, may luminous lines from\nyour lives, linger, a legacy to our race.\n\nMARY BAKER EDDY.\n\nMarch 25, 1895.\n\n\n\n\nFrom Canada to New Orleans, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean,\nthe author has received leading newspapers with uniformly kind and\ninteresting articles on the dedication of the Mother church. They were,\nhowever, too voluminous for these pages. Those were copied, and she\ncould append only a few of the names of other prominent newspapers whose\narticles were reluctantly omitted.\n\nLIST OF LEADING NEWSPAPERS WHOSE ARTICLES ARE OMITTED.\n\nEASTERN STATES.\n\n  _Advertiser_, Calais, Me.\n  _Advertiser_, Boston, Mass.\n  _Farmer_, Bridgeport, Conn.\n  _Independent_, Rockland, Mass.\n  _Kennebec Journal_, Augusta, Me.\n  _News_, New Haven, Conn.\n  _News_, Newport, R.I.\n  _Post_, Boston, Mass.\n  _Post_, Hartford, Conn.\n  _Republican_, Springfield, Mass.\n  _Sentinel_, Eastport, Me.\n  _Sun_, Attleboro, Mass.\n\nMIDDLE STATES.\n\n  _Advertiser_, New York City.\n  _Bulletin_, Auburn, N.Y.\n  _Daily_, York, Pa.\n  _Enquirer_, Philadelphia, Pa.\n  _Evening Reporter_, Lebanon, Pa.\n  _Farmer_, Bridgeport, N.Y.\n  _Herald_, Rochester, N.Y.\n  _Independent_, Harrisburg, Pa.\n  _Independent_, New York City.\n  _Journal_, Lockport, N.Y.\n  _Knickerbocker_, Albany, N.Y.\n  _News_, Buffalo, N.Y.\n  _News_, Newark, N.J.\n  _Once A Week_, New York City.\n  _Post_, Pittsburg, Pa.\n  _Press_, Albany, N.Y.\n  _Press_, New York City.\n  _Press_, Philadelphia, Pa.\n  _Saratogian_, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.\n  _Sun_, New York City.\n  _Telegram_, Philadelphia, Pa.\n  _Telegram_, Troy, N.Y.\n  _Times_, Trenton, N.J.\n\nSOUTHERN STATES.\n\n  _Commercial_, Louisville, Ky.\n  _Journal_, Atlanta, Ga.\n  _Post_, Washington, D.C.\n  _Telegram_, New Orleans, La.\n  _Times_, New Orleans, La.\n  _Times-Herald,_ Dallas, Tex.\n\nWESTERN STATES.\n\n  _Bee_, Omaha, Neb.\n  _Bulletin_, San Francisco, Cal.\n  _Chronicle_, San Francisco, Cal.\n  _Mite_, Chicago, Ill.\n  _Enquirer_, Oakland, Cal.\n  _Free Press_, Detroit, Mich.\n  _Gazette_, Burlington, Iowa.\n  _Herald_, Grand Rapids, Mich.\n  _Herald_, St. Joseph, Mo.\n  _Journal_, Columbus, Ohio.\n  _Journal_, Topeka, Kans.\n  _Leader_, Bloomington, Ill.\n  _Leader_, Cleveland, Ohio.\n  _News_, St. Joseph, Mo.\n  _News-Tribune,_ Duluth, Minn.\n  _Pioneer-Press,_ St. Paul, Minn.\n  _Post-Intelligencer,_ Seattle, Wash.\n  _Salt Lake Herald_, Salt Lake City, Utah.\n  _Sentinel_, Indianapolis, Ind.\n  _Sentinel_, Milwaukee, Wis.\n  _Star_, Kansas City, Mo.\n  _Telegram_, Portland, Ore.\n  _Times_, Chicago, Ill.\n  _Times_, Minneapolis, Minn.\n  _Tribune_, Minneapolis, Minn.\n  _Tribune_, Salt Lake City, Utah.\n  _Free Press_, London, Can.","title":"Pulpit and Press (6th Edition)","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":21208}