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Transcriber's Note: The spelling "diapson" occurs in our print copy in the article from the American Art Journal.
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—utteranceswhich epitomize the story of the birth of Christian Science, in 1866,and its progress during the ensuing thirty years. Three quarters of acentury hence, when the children of to-day are the elders of thetwentieth century, it will be interesting to have not only a record ofthe inclination given their own thoughts in the latter half of thenineteenth century, but also a registry of the rise of the mercury inthe glass of the world's opinion.
It will then be instructive to turn backward the telescope of thatadvanced age, with its lenses of more spiritual mentality, indicatingthe gain of intellectual momentum, on the early footsteps of ChristianScience as planted in the pathway of this generation; to note theimpetus thereby given to Christianity; to con the facts surrounding thecradle of this grand verity—that the sick are healed and sinners saved,not by matter, but by Mind; and to further scan the features of the vastproblem of eternal life, as expressed in the absolute power of Truth,and the actual bliss of man's existence in Science.
February, 1895.
The dear two thousand and six hundred Children,
Of $4,460 were devoted to the Mother's Room in The First Church ofChrist, Scientist, Boston,
First pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass.,
Delivered Jan. 6, 1895.
TEXT—Psalms xxxvi, 8. "They shall be abundantly satisfied with thefatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thypleasures."
A new year is a nursling, a babe of time, a prophecy and promise clad inwhite raiment, kissed—and encumbered with greetings—redolent withgrief and gratitude.
An old y