Pulpit and Press

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PULPIT AND PRESS
BY
MARY BAKER EDDY

DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND
AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE
SCRIPTURES
Registered U.S. Patent Office
Published by The Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy
BOSTON, U.S.A.
Authorized Literature of THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,
SCIENTIST in Boston, Massachusetts
_Copyright, 1895_ BY MARY BAKER EDDY _Copyright renewed,
1923_
* * * * *
All rights reserved * * * * *
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
THE DEAR TWO THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED CHILDREN
WHOSE CONTRIBUTIONS OF $4,460[A] 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

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 scan further 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

CONTENTS
DEDICATORY SERMON
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK
HYMNS
_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

PULPIT AND PRESS
DEDICATORY SERMON
BY REV. MARY BAKER EDDY
First Pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass.
Delivered January 6, 1895
TEXT: _They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy
house; and Thou shall make them drink of the river of Thy
pleasures._--Psalms xxxvi. 8.
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