The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-09

l remember her as she used to walk into
church on Sunday. A pretty doll she
was, much inclined toward fine clothes
and coquetry. Both Mary Baker and one
of her sisters taught school. Later, after
the other sister had married, Mary Baker
spent much of her time with her She
still needed a good deal of attention, and
the violent Mysteries she used to have are
something L can remember after sixty
years.
Miss Mary Baker has not yet made the
acquaintance of DR.. Quimby, of Maine,
from whom, it is alleged, she derived the
foundations of Christian Science, when
she met and married her first husband,
Mr.. Glover a young army man, who died
in the South a year later.
The son born of this marriage, George
Glover is the only child Mrs. Eddy has
ever had 1t is known that the separation
between them lasted many years. Mrs.
Eddy's marriage connection explained this
by saying that during the child's infancy
Mrs. Glover believed herself too i'll to
care for him, and SO gave him to far
mer's family living not far away. The
chids whereabouts during many years
were unknown to many New Hampshire
people, if not to his mother, and when
more or less of a sensation was caused by
Mrs. Eddy's widely advertised discovery,
dent Of Deadwood, N. Oak, the mothers
surprise it is said, was doubtless ex-
aggerated in the reports, since it can
hardly have had any foundation in fact.
Some years back Mrs. Eddy adopted
young Boston physician, a DR.. Foster,
whose legal name is now Dr. Foster
Eddy.
Mary Baker Glover's second courtshipe
took place at her sisters home. After
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a dentist, 1t is said that she assisted him
with his patients, and one Concord wo-
man admitted to me that she still bears
Mother Eddy a grudge because of her
having dangled a jumping-jack before
the cruelty painful methods of dentistry
half a century ago.
Dr. Patterson, however, after a time,
according to Mrs. Eddy's own statement.
deserted her, whereupon she became di-
vorced and, renouncing definitely the
spiritualistic leanings, frances and other
vagaries of her girlhood, began to de-
velop her Science" In few years
she became the wife of Dr. Asa Eddy and
lived with him in Lynn until his death
from mental poisoning" AS this was
Mrs Eddy's own diagnosis and not that
of any physician, she became at this time
the victim of much unpleasant comment.
Between this period and the time of
her retreat to Concord Mrs. Eddy lived
handsomely in Boston. building up the
Mother Church there.
For many years Mrs. Eddy has contin-
ually received gifts and honors from her
growing multitude of followers. Many of
these, such as the famous gold scroll
and key are ineligible enough and are
exhibited in her home. Others, such as
the jewelled decorations which Mrs. Ed
dy wears, cannot be described or explain
ed by the lay observer. None other than
an authorized biographer probably could
explain Mrs. Eddy's coat of arms which
decorates her notepaper. and part OF
which, being the emblem of the English
Order OF the Bath, must have been plac-
ed in her possession by extraordinary
and interesting means. Her motto like
wise "Vincere aut Mori.' appears at first
sight incongruous with Christian Science
principles. There is doubtless however,
and excellent explanation of the fact that
the leader of a sect that does mention
death Incorporates the word in her motto