the Father's house in which are many mansions, many welcomes, many pardons for the penitent.
Ofttimes I think of this in the great light of the present, the might and light of the present fulfilment. So shall all earth's children at last come to acknowledge God, and be one; inhabit His holy hill, the God-crowned summit of divine Science; the church militant rise to the church triumphant, and Zion be glorified.
A Question Answered
My beloved church will not receive a Message from me this summer, for my annual Message is swallowed up in sundries already given out. These crumbs and monads will feed the hungry, and the fragments gathered therefrom should waken the sleeper, — “dead in trespasses and sins,” — set the captive sense free from self's sordid sequela; and one more round of old Sol give birth to the sowing of Solomon.
Mary Baker Eddy.
| Pleasant View, Concord, N. H., | |
| May 11, 1903. |
Letter of the Pastor Emeritus, June, 1903
My Beloved Brethren: — I have a secret to tell you and a question to ask. Do you know how much I love you and the nature of this love? No: then my sacred secret is incommunicable, and we live apart. But, yes: and this inmost something becomes articulate, and my book is not all you know of me. But your knowledge with its magnitude of meaning uncovers my life, even as your heart has discovered it. The spiritual bespeaks
