God’s greatness flows around our incompleteness,
    Round our restlessness, His rest.

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.

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I add on the following page a little poem that I consider superbly sweet—­from my friend, Miss Whiting, the talented author of “The World Beautiful.”—­M.B.  EDDY.

AT THE WINDOW

[Written for the Traveller]

    The sunset, burning low,
      Throws o’er the Charles its flood of golden light. 
    Dimly, as in a dream, I watch the flow
      Of waves of light.

    The splendor of the sky
      Repeats its glory in the river’s flow;
    And sculptured angels, on the gray church tower,
      Gaze on the world below.

    Dimly, as in a dream,
      I see the hurrying throng before me pass,
    But ’mid them all I only see one face,
      Under the meadow grass.

    Ah, love!  I only know
      How thoughts of you forever cling to me: 
    I wonder how the seasons come and go
      Beyond the sapphire sea?

LILIAN WHITING.

April 15, 1888.

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[Boston Herald, January 7, 1895]

[Extract]

A TEMPLE GIVEN TO GOD—­DEDICATION OF THE MOTHER CHURCH OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

    NOVEL METHOD OF ENABLING SIX THOUSAND BELIEVERS TO ATTEND THE
    EXERCISES—­THE SERVICE REPEATED FOUR
    TIMES—­SERMON BY REV.  MARY BAKER EDDY, FOUNDER OF THE
    DENOMINATION—­BEAUTIFUL ROOM WHICH THE CHILDREN
    BUILT

With simple ceremonies, four times repeated, in the presence of four different congregations, aggregating nearly six thousand persons, the unique and costly edifice erected in Boston at Norway and Falmouth Streets as a home for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and a testimonial to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, was yesterday dedicated to the worship of God.

The structure came forth from the hands of the artisans with every stone paid for—­with an appeal, not for more money, but for a cessation of the tide of contributions which continued to flow in after the full amount needed was received.  From every State in the Union, and from many lands, the love-offerings of the disciples of Christian Science came to help erect this beautiful structure, and more than four thousand of these contributors came to Boston, from the far-off Pacific coast and the Gulf States and all the territory that lies between, to view the new-built temple and to listen to the Message sent them by the teacher they revere.

From all New England the members of the denomination gathered; New York sent its hundreds, and even from the distant States came parties of forty and fifty.  The large auditorium, with its capacity for holding from fourteen hundred to fifteen hundred persons, was hopelessly incapable of receiving this vast throng, to say nothing of nearly a thousand local believers.  Hence the service was repeated until all who wished had heard and seen; and each of the four vast congregations filled the church to repletion.