are happy to announce to you the completion of The
First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston.

In behalf of your loving students and all contributors wherever
they may be, we hereby present this church to you as a testimonial
of love and gratitude for your labors and loving sacrifice, as the
Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and the author of its
textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

We therefore respectfully extend to you the invitation to become
the permanent pastor of this church, in connection with the Bible
and the book alluded to above, which you have already ordained as
our pastor. And we most cordially invite you to be present and
take charge of any services that may be held therein. We
especially desire you to be present on the twenty-fourth day of
March, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to accept this offering,
with our humble benediction.

Lovingly yours,

IRA O. KNAPP,
JOSEPH ARMSTRONG,
WILLIAM B. JOHNSON,
STEPHEN A. CHASE,
_The Christian Science Board of Directors_.

REV. MRS. EDDY'S REPLY

_Beloved Directors and Brethren_:--For your costly offering, and kind call
to the pastorate of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist," in
Boston--accept my profound thanks. But permit me, respectfully, to decline
their acceptance, while I fully appreciate your kind intentions. If it will
comfort you in the least, make me your _Pastor Emeritus_, nominally.
Through my book, your textbook, I already speak to you each Sunday. You ask
too much when asking me to accept your grand church edifice. I have more of
earth now, than I desire, and less of heaven; so pardon my refusal of that
as a material offering. More effectual than the forum are our states of
mind, to bless mankind. This wish stops not with my pen--God give you
grace. As our church's tall tower detains the sun, so may luminous lines
from your lives linger, a legacy to our race.

MARY BAKER EDDY.

March 25, 1895.

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LIST OF LEADING NEWSPAPERS WHOSE ARTICLES ARE OMITTED

From Canada to New Orleans, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, the
author has received leading newspapers with uniformly kind and interesting
articles on the dedication of The Mother Church. They were, however, too
voluminous for these pages. To those which are copied she can append only a
few of the names of