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MRS. EDDY'S GIFT

From the June 1898 issue of The Christian Science Journal

Independent Statesman

This article was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany: My. 157:1-158:5


Rev. Mary Baker Eddy has given $100,000 for the construction of a church edifice to be used as the home of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in the city of Concord.

In response to an inquiry from the Monitor, the following reply was received this afternoon:—

"On January 31, 1898, I gave a deed of trust to three individuals, which conveyed to them the sum of $100,000, to be, at some future date, appropriated in building a granite church edifice for a First Church of Christ, Scientist, in this city.

"Very truly,


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