The Year 1900

The year 1900

1900 - A grateful testimony from New Mexico

(a reader of from Science and health with Key to the scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy)

AN EVER-PRESENT HELP FOUND

    On the 23rd of March, 1900, I received from one of my daughters a copy of Science and Health on my seventy-first birthday. Although a constant reader of all kinds of papers and books, I had never heard anything of Christian Science, except a short notice that spring in a San Francisco newspaper, from an orthodox clergyman, referring to the Christian Science people in not very complimentary style.

674    In Mrs. Eddy’s book I came across a great deal of thought that was not readily understood at the first reading, but by continued and careful study, and a good deal of help from my knowledge of chemistry and natural philosophy, I soon shook off the belief of sensation in matter, — the so-called elementary substance. One afternoon I put the belt on my circular saw to cut blocks of firewood…

1900: News of a Liberty Bell

304:1Columbian Liberty Bell Committee, 1505 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C. 3To the Daughters of the American Revolution: — 

    It has been determined to create a Columbian Liberty Bell, to be placed by the lovers of liberty and peace in 6the most appropriate place in the coming World’s Exposition at Chicago. After the close of the Exhibition this bell will pass from place to place throughout the world 9as a missionary of freedom, coming first to the capital of the nation under the care of our society.

    Then it will go to Bunker Hill or Liberty Island, to 12the battle-field of New Orleans (1812), to San Francisco, to the place where any great patriotic celebration is being held, until 1900, when it will be sent to the next World’s 15Exhibition, which takes place at Paris, France. There it will continue until that Exhibition closes.

   …
Very cordially yours,
Mary Desha,
ex-Vice-President General, D.A.R.

From Miscellany

·      My. 8:29

    “Since the last report, in 1900, one hundred and five new churches or congregations have been added, and those previously established have had large accessions to their membership.

·      My. 154:14

First Annual Meeting, January 11, 1900

·      My. 256:16

Christmas, 1900

·      My. 264:1

[Boston Herald, May 5, 1900]

·      My. 264:7

[Boston Globe, November 29, 1900]

·      My. 266:1

[New York World, December, 1900]