Transcriber's Note: The spelling "diapson" occurs in our print copy in the article from the _American Art Journal_. 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.