Article April 6, 1899 Issue

Dedicatory Address of Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy

Mary Baker G. Eddy

This article was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany: My. 187:20-191:25

The following is a dedicatory message sent by Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the Discover and Founder of Christian Science, to First Church of Christ, Scientist, Atlanta, Georgia, and read on the occasion of the dedication of a beautiful church edifice in that city, on Easter Sunday, 1899.

My Beloved Brethren: —

You have met to consecrate your beautiful temple to the worship of the only true God. Since the day wherein you were brought into the light and liberty, of His children, it has been in the hearts of this people to build a house unto Him whose name they would glorify in a new commandment — "that ye love one another." In this new recognition of the riches of His love and the majesty of His might you have built this house — laid its foundations on the Rock of Christ; and the stone which the builders rejected you have made the head of the corner. This house is hallowed by His promise, "I will put my name there forever, and my presence shall be there perpetually, and mine eyes shall be open and my ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this house." Your feast days will not be in commemoration but in recognition of His presence; your ark of the covenant will not be brought out of the city of David, but out of the secret place of the Most High, whereof the Psalmist sang, even the omniscience of omnipotence, your tabernacle of the congregation will not be temporary, but "a house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens;" your oracle, under the wings of the cherubim, is Truth's evangel, enunciating, "God is Love."

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