Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 12, 1893.
Editor Of Concord Evening Monitor: —I was interested in reading in your paper of the 8th inst. the account of the awarding of contracts for building the First "Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston." The church has outgrown its present accommodations, many having to go away every Sunday because of their inability to obtain a seat. Besides this, many stand during the entire service. Within about a year fifteen hundred members have been added to the church. The church members feel that they owe their prosperity largely to the love and loyal adherence that this church has steadily maintained to the first pastor of this denomination in this city, the Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy, the revered founder and leader of Christian Science. Technically she is no longer pastor, having deemed it advisable to resign in order to devote herself to more important branches of the work. But we love to think of her as our pastor yet, whose silent but potent thought leads us "in green pastures" and "beside the still waters."
The regret of the church and society in losing her services as pastor was intensified, when we learned that Mrs. Eddy thought best to leave Boston and retire to Concord, while engaged in revising "Science and Health, With Key to the Scriptures," the only textbook of Christian Science. Nor was their regret lessened when we heard that she had decided to make her home in Concord. Our only consolation, as a church and as a community, has been that our loss is the great gain of any community fortunate enough to have her influence in their midst. The author of this communication is the present pastor of the church, and a graduate of Andover Theological seminary and was pastor for a number of years of a Congregational church in Connecticut.
