Article July 4, 1901 Issue

Message from Mrs. Eddy

Boston Evening Transcript

Four large congregations assembled for successive but identical services of the annual Communion at the Christian Science Church, Norway and Falmouth Streets, on Sunday (June 23), and in all probably nine thousand people, at least, heard the long message from the Founder and Leader of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker G. Eddy. This message took up an hour and a half at each service as read by John W. Reeder, First Reader of the Roxbury Church, and it was largely an explanation of the Christian Science idea of God; a statement of the reasons why evil mental suggestion would in time be made amenable to the laws of the land; and a closing word of advice and exhortation to her followers.

Judge S. J. Hanna conducted all the services, at 9 A. M., noon, 3, and 7 P. M. THE service was much the same as usual, except that the reading of the Lesson-Sermon was omitted and its place taken by the message, and near the end of the service came the communion, at which the whole assembly bowed in silent prayer, concluding with the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer. The seats for the first service began to fill as early as 7.30 A. M., and long before each of the later services the throng in waiting to enter crowded stairways and vestibule, and reached even out on the sidewalks. Confusion was avoided by having the church emptied each time through the doors at the sides of the auditorium, leaving the others for the entering congregation.

Judge Hanna announced that the number admitted to the church at this Communion was 2,469, making the total membership in the Mother Church, as that in this city is called, 21,631. Many of these, of course, are also admitted to membership in one of the branch churches in this or some other country. A considerable number of those in the congregations Sunday were from foreign countries, and after the last service a message expressing gratitude and appreciation, sent from the church to Mrs. Eddy at her home in Concord, N. H., bore these signatures: Edward P. Bates of Boston; Edward A. Kimball of Chicago; Septimus J. Hanna of Boston; Earl Dunmore of London; John B. Willis of Allston; William P. McKenzie of Cambridge; Mrs. Caroline V. Ferguson of Florence, Italy; Irving C. Tomlinson of Concord, N. H.; Mrs. Sue H. Mims of Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. Ruth B. Ewing of Chicago; Mrs. Majorie Colles of Ireland; Mrs. Sara Pike Conger of Pekin, China; Miss Helen L. Swasey of Washington; Mrs. Annie M. Knott of Detroit; Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson and Mrs. Laura Lathrop of New York; Miss Sue Ella Bradshaw of San Francisco; Mrs. Rose E. Cochrane of Edinburgh, Scotland; Ormond Higman of Ottawa, and Mlle. Alphonsine Demarez of Paris.

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