The Springfield herald., 1904-07-22
SCIENCE CHURCH
MRS. EDov's GIFT DEDICATED.
Notable Gathering Of Christian seien-
fists at concord.-Mrs. Ed
dy's Message.

Concord. N. H., July lS.-Five thou
sand Christian Scientists visited Con-
cord yesterday to participate in the
dedication of the new church editce
given by Mrs Eddy to the members OF
her home church. Four services were
held during the day, and a dedicatory
message from Mrs Eddy was read by
MIR. Bicknell Young of Chicago. Rev.
Irving Tomlinson also read an address
of welcome to the visitors. Although
the church was filled at every service
during the day. no collection was taken
up, all the funds necessary to pay for
the building having already been re-
ceived
The people of Concord threw open
their homes to the Scientists. who are
unanimous in their praise of the hos
pitable treatment received. All de-
nominations regard Mrs. Eddy as
public benefactress, and express their
hearty appreciation of her influence for
good in the community. Mrs, Eddy
drove by the church during the after
noon between the hours of service and
bowed graciously to her assembled fol
lowers who lined the public thorough
fares for several blocks. Special trains
arrived from New York and Chicago.
Boston and Concord.
Mrs Eddy, in her message to the
church, says:
First Church of Christian Scientists,
Concord, New Hampshire:
Dear Brethren-At this period, the
greatest man or woman on earth
stands at the vestibule Of Christian Sci
ence. struggling to enter into the per-
feet of God and man. The infinite Will
not be buried in the finite; the true
thought escapes from the inward to the
outward, and this is the only right ac-
tivity and that whereby we reach our
higher nature.
Material theorems tend to check
spiritual attraction-a tendency to-
ward God, the infinite and eternal-by
an opposite attraction toward the tenn
porary and finite. Truth, life and love
are the only legitimate and eternal de-
mands upon men; they are spiritual
laws enforcing obedience thereto and
Furnishing disopedience thereof.
Even Epictetus, heather philoso-
pher. who held that Zeus, the master
of the gods, could not control human
will writes: What is the essence OF
God? Mind The general thought most
regards material things, and keeps
mind much out of sight. The Christian,
however, strives for the spiritual-he
abides in right purpose, as in laws
which 1t We're impious to transgress.
and follows fearlessly truth.
"The heart that beats mostly for self
is seldom alight with love. To live SO,
to keep human consciousness in con-
slant relation with the divine. the spir-
itual and eternal, is to individualize
infinite power-and this is Christian
Science.
1T is of less importance that We re-
ceive from mankind justice than that
we deserve it. Most of us willingly ac-
cept dead truisms that can be buried
at will; but a live truth. even though
it be sapling within rich soil and
with blossoms on its branches. scares
folks. The trenchant truth that cuts its
way through iron and steel most men
avoid until compelled to glance at it..
then open their hearts to 1t for actual
being, health, holiness and immortal
ity.
'"I am asked, is there help Yes,
there is hell for all who persist in
breaking the golden rule, or in disobey-
ing the commandments of God.
Physical science shows that the in
ternal fires of our earth will event
ually consume this planet Christian
Science shows that hidden, unpunished
sin in this eternal fire - even
the fire Of guilty consci-
ence to true sense of it.
self and burning torture until the sin
ner is consumed, his sins destroyed,
which may take millions of cycles, but
of the time no man knoweth. The ad-
vanced psychist knows that this situa-
tion is mental. not material. and that
the Christian has no part in it. Only
the makers of hell burn in their fire. v