Article June 15, 1899 Issue

Scientists Gathering

Boston Transcript,

Boston Transcript, June 3.

The gathering of Christian Scientists in Boston reaches its climax to-day and to-morrow. Strictly speaking, it is only sentimental reasons which cause thousands of the followers of the doctrines of Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy thus to make the long pilgrimage from some of the uttermost parts of the land. They do not come as delegates to a convention, for there is no convention ; and they are charged with no mission, for there is no business awaiting their attention; they come solely because of their individual enthusiasm and faith in a cause which has brought them health and happiness, and whose praises they never tire of singing. Nor did the element of hero-worship enter into the spirit which prompted them to come, for they all know that it is very doubtful if their Leader will attend any of the services in person, and that their only hope of seeing her may lie in making individual journeys to her quiet home in New Hampshire.

Back Bay hotels and lodging-houses are filled with Christian Scientists. By special train of nine sleepers, two hundred came from Chicago yesterday. Two trains from New York brought one hundred each; two parties, the smaller of sixty, came from Kansas City, and there are delegations from Washington, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Cleveland, Portland, Or., San Francisco, Nebraska, Toronto, Can., Atlanta, Ga., Michigan, and Wisconsin—indeed, from almost every State in the Union. It is estimated that there will be seven thousand Christian Scientist visitors in Boston to-morrow, and with the resident members and those from the suburbs there will be ten thousand eager to attend the four services to-morrow. The Countess of Dunmore, her son, Lord Fincastle, and her daughter, Lady Mildred Murray, have been in Boston several weeks awaiting the meetings, at which they will represent the movement in England, and they leave at home the Earl of Dunmore, an ardent Scientist, and the eldest daughter, who is a practitioner of Christian Science.

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