A superb mantel of Mexican onyx with gold decoration adorns
the south wall, and before the hearth is a large rug composed entirely of
skins of the eider-down duck, brought from the Arctic regions. Pictures and
bric-a-brac everywhere suggest the tribute of loving friends. One of the
two alcoves is a retiring-room and the other a lavatory in which the
plumbing is all heavily plated with gold."
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[_Evening Monitor_, Concord, N.H., February 27, 1895]
AN ELEGANT SOUVENIR
REV. MARY BAKER EDDY MEMORIALIZED BY A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer of Christian Science, has received from
the members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, an invitation
formally to accept the magnificent new edifice of worship which the church
has just erected.
The invitation itself is one of the most chastely elegant memorials ever
prepared, and is a scroll of solid gold, suitably engraved, and encased in
a handsome plush casket with white silk linings. Attached to the scroll is
a golden key of the church structure.
The inscription reads thus:--
_Dear Mother_:--During the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four a
church edifice was erected at the intersection of Falmouth and
Norway Streets, in the city of Boston, by the loving hands of four
thousand members.
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