and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.”  She brought to warring men the Prince of Peace, and He, departing, left His scepter not in her hand, but in her soul.  “The time of times” is near when “the new woman” shall subdue the whole earth with the weapons of peace.  Then shall wrong be robbed of her bitterness and ingratitude of her sting; revenge shall clasp hands with pity, and love shall dwell in the tents of hate, while side by side, equal partners in all that is worth living for, shall stand the new man with the new woman.

(Christian Science Journal, January, 1895.)

EXTRACT.

THE MOTHER CHURCH.

The Mother Church edifice—­The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, is erected.  The close of the year Anno Domini, 1894, witnessed the completion of “our Prayer in Stone,” all predictions and prognostications to the contrary notwithstanding.

Of the significance of this achievement we shall not undertake to speak in this article.  It can be better felt than expressed.  All who are awake thereto have some measure of understanding of what it means.  But only the future will tell the story of its mighty meaning or unfold it to the comprehension of mankind.  It is enough for us now to know that all obstacles to its completion have been met and overcome, and that our temple is completed as God intended it should be.

This achievement is the result of long years of untiring, unselfish, and zealous effort on the part of our beloved Teacher and Leader, the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, who nearly thirty years ago began to lay the foundation of this temple, and whose devotion and consecration to God and humanity during the intervening years have made its erection possible.

Those who now, in part, understand her mission, turn their hearts in gratitude to her for her great work, and those who do not understand it will, in the fulness of time, see and acknowledge it.  In the measure in which she has unfolded and demonstrated Divine Love and built up in human consciousness a better and higher conception of God as Life, Truth, and Love,—­as the Divine Principle of all things which really exist,—­and in the degree in which she has demonstrated the system of healing of Jesus and the Apostles, surely she, as the one chosen of God to this end, is entitled to the gratitude and love of all who desire a better and grander humanity, and who believe it to be possible to establish the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth in accordance with the prayer and teachings of Jesus Christ.

(Concord Evening Monitor, March 23, 1895.)

TESTIMONIAL AND GIFT.

To Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, from The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
Boston.

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy received Friday, from the Christian Science board of directors, Boston, a beautiful and unique testimonial of the appreciation of her labors and loving generosity in the cause of their common faith.  It was a facsimile of the corner-stone of the new church of the Christian Scientists, just completed, being of granite, about six inches in each dimension, and contains a solid gold box, upon the cover of which is this inscription: