Some two years ago Rev. M. B. G. Eddy proposed to the committee of the Church of Christ (Scientist) to purchase the site for our church-building, and pay for it; but the offer was declined. They said she had done too much already for the church, for them to accept such a gift from their Pastor. She afterwards bought her present beautiful residence for the purpose of making it a parsonage.
It is her intention to give all the money accruing from the sales of her book, Science and Health, and of her other works, already in print or to be published,—except what is necessary for her annual expenditures and purposes of beneficence,—for a fund to be used for purchasing sites and erecting church and school buildings for future generations, which she has faith to believe will rise to the altitude of Christian Science.
