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ADDRESS ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
AT PLEASANT VIEW, CONCORD, N. H., BEFORE 2,500 MEMBERS OF THE MOTHER CHURCH,
1897 - 1 My beloved brethren, who have come all the
way from the Pacific to the Atlantic shore, from the Palmetto to the Pine Tree
State, I greet you; my hand may not touch yours to-day, but my heart will with
tenderness untalkable.
His Honor, Mayor Woodworth, has welcomed
you to Concord most graciously, voicing the friendship of this city and of my
native State - loyal to the heart's core to religion, home, friends, and
country.
To-day we
commemorate not only our nation's civil and religious freedom, but a greater
even, the liberty of the sons of God, the inalienable rights and radiant
reality of Christianity, whereof our Master said: "The works that I do
shall he do;" and, "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation"
(with knowledge obtained from the senses), but "the kingdom of God is
within you," - within the present possibilities of mankind. (Eddy,
Mary Baker, Miscellaneous Writings, p,251:1-19) |