On January 15, despite the slippery and wet streets, Chickering Hall was filled with people, as Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy was to be present for the first time in many weeks.
The printed program announced a sermon on the text John xxi. 5, "Children have ye any meat?" But at this point F. E. Mason preached a fourteen-minute discourse, on the exclamation of the disciples at the Passover Supper, "Lord, is it I?"
Mrs. Eddy led in her customary paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer, and Mr. Mason led in the usual silent prayer. After the hymn following the sermon, Mrs. Eddy announced the names of twenty persons, standing in the front rows, who were to join the church; and read several letters of dismission from other churches, Baptist and Methodist, granted to some of the candidates. The Pastor also read the tenets of our church, in which the candidates acknowledged their belief, and this ceremony concluded with a few words of welcome.
