Looking down from the windows upon the tree-tops on the lower terrace, the reporter exclaimed:  “You have lived here only four years, and yet from a barren waste of most unpromising ground has come forth all this beauty!”

“Four years!” she ejaculated; “two and a half, only two and a half years.”  Then, touching my sleeve and pointing, she continued:  “Look at those big elms!  I had them brought here in warm weather, almost as big as they are now, and not one died.”

Mrs. Eddy talked earnestly of her friendships....  She told something of her domestic arrangements, of how she had long wished to get away from her busy career in Boston, and return to her native granite hills, there to build a substantial home that should do honor to that precinct of Concord.

She chose the stubbly, old farm on the road from Concord within one mile of the “Eton of America,” St. Paul’s school.  Once bought, the will of the woman set at work, and to-day a strikingly well kept estate is the first impression given to the visitor as he approaches Pleasant View.

She employs a number of men to keep the grounds and farm in perfect order, and it was pleasing to learn that this rich woman is using her money to promote the welfare of industrious workmen in whom she takes a vital interest.

Mrs. Eddy believes that “the laborer is worthy of his hire,” and, moreover, that he deserves to have a home and family of his own.  Indeed, one of her motives in buying so large an estate was that she might do something for the toilers, and thus add her influence toward the advancement of better home life and citizenship.

(Boston Transcript, December 31, 1894.)

EXTRACT.

The growth of Christian Science is properly marked by the erection of a visible house of worship in this city, which will be dedicated tomorrow.  It has cost $200,000, and no additional sums outside of the subscriptions are asked for.  This particular phase of religious belief has impressed itself upon a large and increasing number of Christian people, who have been tempted to examine its principles, and doubtless have been comforted and strengthened by them.  Any new movement will awaken some sort of interest.  There are many who have worn off the novelty and are thoroughly carried away with the requirements, simple and direct as they are, of Christian Science.  The opposition against it from the so-called orthodox religious bodies keeps up a while, but after a little skirmishing, finally subsides.  No one religious body holds the whole of truth, and whatever is likely to show even some one side of it will gain followers and live down any attempted repression.