Rev. Mary Baker Eddy Memorialized by a Christian Science Church.
Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, discoverer of Christian Science, has received from
the members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, an
invitation to formally accept the magnificent new edifice of worship
which the church has just erected.
The invitation itself is one of the most chastely elegant memorials ever
prepared, and is a scroll of solid gold, suitably engraved, and encased
in a handsome plush casket with white silk linings. Attached to the
scroll is a golden key of the church structure.
The inscription reads thus:
DEAR MOTHER: During the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four a church
edifice was erected at the intersection of Falmouth and Norway streets
in the city of Boston, by the loving hands of four thousand members.
This edifice is built as a Testimonial to truth as revealed by divine
Love through you to this age.
You are hereby most lovingly invited to visit and formally accept this
Testimonial on the twentieth day of February, eighteen hundred and
ninety-five at high noon.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass.
By EDWARD P. BATES, CAROLINE S. BATES.
To the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, Boston, January 6th, 1895.
(_People and Patriot_, Concord, N.H., February 27, 1895.)