Mary Baker Glover Eddy, a lady born of an old New Hampshire family,
who, after many vicissitudes, found herself in Lynn, Mass., healed by the
power of divine Mind, and thereupon devoted herself to imparting this faith
to her fellow-beings. Coming to Boston about 1880, she began teaching,
gathered an association of students, and organized a church. For several
years past she has lived in Concord, N.H., near her birthplace, owning a
beautiful estate called Pleasant View; but thousands of believers
throughout this country have joined The Mother Church in Boston, and have
now erected this edifice at a cost of over two hundred thousand dollars,
every bill being paid.
Its appearance is shown in the pictures we are permitted to publish. In the
belfry is a set of tubular chimes. Inside is a basement room, capable of
division into seven excellent class-rooms, by the use of movable
partitions. The main auditorium has wide galleries, and will seat over a
thousand in its exceedingly comfortable pews. Scarcely any woodwork is to
be found. The floors are all mosaic, the steps marble, and the walls stone.
It is rather dark, often too much so for comfortable reading, as all the
windows are of colored glass, with pictures symbolic of the tenets of the
organization. In the ceiling is a beautiful sunburst window. Adjoining the
chancel is a pastor's study; but for an indefinite time their prime
instructor has ordained that the only pastor shall be the Bible, with her
book, called "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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