Pulpit and Press

Pulpit and Press

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Title: Pulpit and Press (6th Edition)
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
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PULPIT AND PRESS.
Sixth Edition.
BY
REVEREND MARY BAKER EDDY,
DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
1897.

CONTENTS
DEDICATORY SERMON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK

HYMN--Laying the Corner Stone Feed My Sheep Christ My Refuge
NOTE
CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS
CHICAGO INTER-OCEAN BOSTON HERALD BOSTON SUNDAY
GLOBE BOSTON TRANSCRIPT JACKSON PATRIOT OUTLOOK
AMERICAN ART JOURNAL BOSTON JOURNAL REPUBLIC,
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) NEW YORK TRIBUNE KANSAS CITY
JOURNAL MONTREAL HERALD BALTIMORE AMERICAN
REPORTER, (LEBANON, IND.) NEW YORK COMMERCIAL
ADVERTISER SYRACUSE POST NEW YORK HERALD
TORONTO GLOBE CONCORD MONITOR PEOPLE AND
PATRIOT UNION SIGNAL NEW CENTURY CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE JOURNAL CONCORD MONITOR

PREFACE.
This volume contains scintillations from press and pulpit--utterances
which epitomize the story of the birth of Christian Science, in 1866,
and its progress during the ensuing thirty years. Three quarters of a
century hence, when the children of to-day are the elders of the
twentieth century, it will be interesting to have not only a record of the
inclination given their own thoughts in the latter half of the nineteenth
century, but also a registry of the rise of the mercury in the glass of the
world's opinion.
It will then be instructive to turn backward the telescope of that
advanced age, with its lenses of more spiritual mentality, indicating the
gain of intellectual momentum, on the early footsteps of Christian
Science as planted in the pathway of this generation; to note the
impetus thereby given to Christianity; to con the facts surrounding the
cradle of this grand verity--that the sick are healed and sinners saved,
not by matter, but by Mind; and to further scan the features of the vast
problem of eternal life, as expressed in the absolute power of Truth,
and the actual bliss of man's existence in Science.
MARY BAKER EDDY.
February, 1895.

TO

The dear two thousand and six hundred Children,
WHOSE CONTRIBUTIONS
_Of $4,460 were devoted to the Mother's Room in The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, Boston_,
THIS UNIQUE BOOK IS TENDERLY DEDICATED BY
MARY BAKER EDDY.

DEDICATORY SERMON.
BY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY,
First pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass.,
Delivered Jan. 6, 1895.
TEXT--Psalms xxxvi, 8. "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the
fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy
pleasures."
A new year is a nursling, a babe of time, a prophecy and promise clad
in white raiment, kissed--and encumbered with greetings--redolent with
grief and gratitude.
An old year is time's adult, and 1893 was a distinguished character,
notable for good and evil. Time past and time present, both, may pain
us, but time IMPROVED is eloquent in God's praise. For due
refreshment garner the memory of 1894; for if wiser by reason of its
large lessons, and records deeply engraven, great is the value thereof.
Pass on returnless year! The path behind thee is with glory crowned;
This spot whereon thou troddest was holy ground; Pass proudly to thy
bier!
To-day being with you in spirit, what need that I should be present _in
propria persona_? Were I present, methinks I should be much like the
Queen of Sheba, when she saw the house Solomon had erected. In the
expressive language of Holy Writ, "there was no more spirit in her;"
and she said: "Behold, the half was not told me; thy wisdom and
prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard." Both without and within,
the spirit of beauty dominates the Mother Church, from its mosaic
flooring to the soft shimmer of its starlit dome.
Nevertheless, there is a thought higher and deeper than the edifice.
Material light and shade are temporal, not eternal. Turning the attention
from sublunary views, however enchanting, think for a moment with
me of the house wherewith "they shall be abundantly satisfied," "Even

the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." With the
mind's eye glance at the direful scenes of the war between China and
Japan. Imagine yourselves in a poorly barricaded fort,