dy. Antiphonal
paragraphs were read from the book of Revelation and her work respectively.
The sermon, prepared by Mrs. Eddy, was well adapted for its purpose, and
read by a professional elocutionist, not an adherent of the order, Mrs.
Henrietta Clark Bemis, in a clear emphatic style. The solo singer, however,
was a Scientist, Miss Elsie Lincoln; and on the platform sat Joseph
Armstrong, formerly of Kansas, and now the business manager of the
Publishing Society, with the other members of the Christian Science Board
of Directors--Ira O. Knapp, Edward P. Bates, Stephen A. Chase,--gentlemen
officially connected with the movement. The children of believing families
collected the money for the Mother's Room, and seats were especially set
apart for them at the second dedicatory service. Before one service was
over and the auditors left by the rear doors, the front vestibule and
street (despite the snowstorm) were crowded with others, waiting for
admission.

On the next Sunday the new order of service went into operation. There was
no address of any sort, no notices, no explanation of Bible or their
textbook. Judge Hanna, who was a Colorado lawyer before coming into this
work, presided, reading in clear, manly, and intelligent tones, the
_Quarterly_ Bible Lesson, which happened that day to be on Jesus' miracle
of loaves and fishes. Each paragraph he supplemented first with
illustrative Scripture parallels, as set down for him, and then by passages
selected for him from Mrs. Eddy's book. The place was again crowded, many
having remained over a week from among the thousands of adherents who had
come to Boston for this auspicious occasion from all parts of the country.
The organ, made by Farrand & Votey in Detroit, at a cost of eleven thousand
dollars, is the gift of a wealthy Universalist gentleman, but was not ready
for the opening. It is to fill the recess behind the spacious platform, and
is described as containing pneumatic wind-chests throughout, and having an
AEolian attachment. It is of three-manual compass, C.C.C. to C.4, 61 notes;
and pedal compass, C.C.C. to F.30. The great organ has double open diapason
(stopped bass), open diapason, dulciana, viola di gamba, doppel flute, hohl
flute, octave, octave quint, superoctave, and trumpet,--61 pipes each. The
swell organ has bourdon, open diapason, salicional, aeoline, stopped
diapason, gemshorn, flute harmonique, flageolet, cornet--3 ranks,
183,--cornopean, oboe, vox humana--