CHAPTER VI
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, CONCORD, N. H.
[Concord (N. H.) Monitor]
Mrs. Eddy's Gift to the Concord Church
“BELOVED Teacher and Leader: — The members of the Concord church are filled with profound joy and deep gratitude that your generous gift of one hundred thousand dollars is to be used at once to build a beautiful church edifice for your followers in the capital city of your native State. We rejoice that the prosperity of the Cause in your home city, where, without regard to class or creed, you are so highly esteemed, makes necessary the commodious and beautiful church home you have so freely bestowed. We thank you for this renewed evidence of your unselfish love.”
The church will be built of the same beautiful Concord granite of which the National Library Building in Washington is constructed. This is in accord with the expressed wish of Mrs. Eddy, made known in her original deed of trust, first announced in the Concord Monitor of March 19, 1898. In response to an inquiry from the editor of that paper, Mrs. Eddy made the following statement: —
On January 31, 1898, I gave a deed of trust to three individuals which conveyed to them the sum of one
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