Produced by Justin Gillbank, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net 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.