CONCORD, N.H., February 4, 1895.--The article published in the HERALD on January 29, regarding a statement made by Mrs. Laura Lathrop, pastor of the Christian Science congregation, that meets every Sunday in Hodgson Hall, New York, was shown to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the Christian Science "discoverer," to-day. Mrs. Eddy preferred to prepare a written answer to the interrogatory, which she did in this letter, addressed to the editor of the HERALD: "A despatch is given me, calling for an interview to answer for myself, 'Am I the second Christ?' "Even the question shocks me. What I am is for God to declare in his infinite mercy. As it is I claim nothing more than what I am, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, and the blessing it has been to mankind which eternity enfolds. "I think Mrs. Lathrop was not understood. If she said aught with intention to be thus understood, it is not what I have taught her, and not at all as I have heard her talk. "My books and teachings maintain but one conclusion and statement of the Christ and the deification of mortals. "Christ is individual, and one with God, in the sense of Divine Principle and its compound divine idea. "There was, is and never can be but one God, one Christ, one Jesus of Nazareth. Whoever in any age expresses most of the spirit of Truth and Love, the Principle of God's Idea, has most of the spirit of Christ, of that Mind which was in Christ Jesus. "If Christian Scientists find in my writings, teachings, and example a greater degree of this spirit than in others, they can justly declare it. But to think or speak of me in any manner as a Christ, is sacrilegious. Such a statement would not only be false, but the absolute antipode of Christian Science, and would savor more of heathenism, than of my doctrines. "MARY BAKER EDDY." (_The Globe_, Toronto, Canada, January 12, 1895.) EXTRACT. CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS. Dedication to the Founder of the Order of a Beautiful Church at Boston.--Many Toronto Scientists Present. The Christian Scientists of Toronto to the number of thirty took part in the ceremonies at Boston last Sunday and for the day or two following, by which the members of that faith all over North America celebrated the dedication of the church constructed in the great New England capital as a Testimonial to the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.