IRA O. KNAPP, WILLIAM B. JOHNSON, JOSEPH ARMSTRONG, STEPHEN A. CHASE, _The Christian Science Board of Directors_. REV. MRS. EDDY'S REPLY. BELOVED DIRECTORS AND BRETHREN:-- For your costly offering, and kind call to the pastorate of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist," in Boston--accept my profound thanks. But permit me, respectfully, to decline their acceptance, while I fully appreciate your kind intentions.-If it will comfort you in the least, make me your Pastor _Emeritus_, nominally. Through my book, your text-book, I already speak to you each Sunday. You ask too much when asking me to accept your grand Church edifice. I have more of earth now, than I desire, and less of heaven; so pardon my refusal of that as a material offering. More effectual than the forum are our states of mind, to bless mankind. This wish stops not with my pen--God give you grace. As our Church's tall tower detains the sun, so, may luminous lines from your lives, linger, a legacy to our race. MARY BAKER EDDY. March 25, 1895. From Canada to New Orleans, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, the author has received leading newspapers with uniformly kind and interesting articles on the dedication of the Mother church. They were, however, too voluminous for these pages. Those were copied, and she could append only a few of the names of other prominent newspapers whose articles were reluctantly omitted. LIST OF LEADING NEWSPAPERS WHOSE ARTICLES ARE OMITTED. EASTERN STATES. _Advertiser_, Calais, Me. _Advertiser_, Boston, Mass. _Farmer_, Bridgeport, Conn. _Independent_, Rockland, Mass. _Kennebec Journal_, Augusta, Me. _News_, New Haven, Conn. _News_, Newport, R.I. _Post_, Boston, Mass. _Post_, Hartford, Conn. _Republican_, Springfield, Mass. _Sentinel_, Eastport, Me. _Sun_, Attleboro, Mass. MIDDLE STATES. _Advertiser_, New York City. _Bulletin_, Auburn, N.Y. _Daily_, York, Pa. _Enquirer_, Philadelphia, Pa. _Evening Reporter_, Lebanon, Pa. _Farmer_, Bridgeport, N.Y. _Herald_, Rochester, N.Y. _Independent_, Harrisburg, Pa. _Independent_, New York City. _Journal_, Lockport, N.Y. _Knickerbocker_, Albany, N.Y. _News_, Buffalo, N.Y. _News_, Newark, N.J. _Once A Week_, New York City. _Post_, Pittsburg, Pa. _Press_, Albany, N.Y. _Press_, New York City. _Press_, Philadelphia, Pa. _Saratogian_, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. _Sun_, New York City. _Telegram_, Philadelphia, Pa. _Telegram_, Troy, N.Y. _Times_, Trenton, N.J. SOUTHERN STATES. _Commercial_, Louisville, Ky. _Journal_, Atlanta, Ga. _Post_, Washington, D.C. _Telegram_, New Orleans, La. _Times_, New Orleans, La. _Times-Herald,_ Dallas, Tex. WESTERN STATES.