Chief among the many interesting events occurring within our circles of late was the appearance of our beloved Teacher and Leader, the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, in the pulpit of the new Church building, on Sunday May 26th. Having herself ordained the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, as the pastor of the Church, she was appointed its Pastor Emeritus, and as such, it was announced, she appeared.
As is her custom, she came wholly unannounced, and save to a very few, her presence was unknown until her appearance in the isle of the auditorium on her way to the pulpit.
The services had proceeded as usual until they were more than half concluded when she stepped upon the platform. After listening to the organ and a solo by Miss Elsie Lincoln,— Aria from Bach's Passion Music according to St. Matthew— she stepped to the desk and without text or note addressed the congregation for upwards of twenty minutes. Her glowing words of kindly greeting, love, admonition, and warning were intently and eagerly listened to by all. She closed the services with a benediction of beauty, power and great impressiveness, which sank deep into the hearts of her hearers, as did also the weighty words of her address, which though impromptu, was a marvel of conciseness and pathos,— a deep symphony of love out breathed from an overflowing heart.
