Atlanta, Ga., April 4, 1899.
When the members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, of this city, assembled on last Sunday morning to dedicate to the one ever–present God their beautiful new temple, whose fair white walls rose in stately beauty and purity in the radiant Easter sunshine, it was with joyful hearts and gratitude too deep for expression that divine Love had so bounteously rewarded their faithful work in establishing Truth in this sunny southland. What a witness to the overcoming of pride and prejudice, what a demonstration of the affluence of Mind, how fitting a testimonial to the Mother, whose reflection of Good has shown us how to accomplish so beautiful a work!
Many have been the battles with error, many the persecutions of enemy and friend, many indeed the tests of bravery and patience, but unfalteringly the little band pressed on, meeting all obstacles with love, realizing constantly that Mind was the builder, the architect, the artist, the attorney, the financier, the source of supply, and with what sweet force do the Mother's words come home to us on this glorious day of achievement:—
