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Rh give any information for The Inter-Ocean,” remarked Mrs. Hanna, “for it is the great daily that is so fair and so just in its attitude toward all questions.” The increasing demands of the public on Mrs. Eddy have been, it may be, one factor in her removal to Concord, N. H., where she has a beautiful residence, called Pleasant View. Her health is excellent, and although her hair is white, she retains in a great degree her energy and power; she takes a daily walk and drives in the afternoon. She personally attends to a vast correspondence; superintends the church in Boston, and is engaged on further writings on Christian Science. In every sense she is the recognized head of the Christian Science Church. At the same time it is her most earnest aim to eliminate the element of personality from the faith. “On this point, Mrs. Eddy feels very strongly,” said a gentleman to me on Christmas eve, as I sat in the beautiful drawing-room, where Judge and Mrs. Hanna, Miss Elsie Lincoln, the soprano for the choir of the new church, and one or two other friends were gathered.

“Mother feels very strongly,” he continued, “the danger and the misfortune of a church depending on any one personality. It is difficult not to centre too closely around a highly gifted personality.”

The first Christian Scientist Association was organized on July 4, 1876, by seven persons, including Mrs. Eddy. In April, 1879, the church was founded with twenty-six