Pulpit and Press (6th Edition)

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Sixth Edition.
1897.
DEDICATORY SERMON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK HYMN— Laying the Corner Stone Feed My Sheep Christ My Refuge NOTE
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.
February, 1895.
The dear two thousand and six hundred Children,
Of $4,460 were devoted to the Mother's Room in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston ,
First pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass., Delivered Jan. 6, 1895.