“Extempore

January 1, 1910

I
O blessings infinite!
O glad New Year!
Sweet sign and substance
Of God's presence here.
II
Give us not only angels' songs,
But Science vast, to which belongs
The tongue of angels
And the song of songs.
Mary Baker Eddy

[The above lines were written extemporaneously by
Mrs. Eddy on New Year's morning. The members of her
household were with her at the time, and it was gratifying
to them, as it will be to the field, to see in her spiritualized
thought and mental vigor a symbol of the glad New Year
on which we have just entered. — Editor Sentinel] ”

— The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 354:13–4