Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-11-27


New Hampshire patriot, published al
Concord, contained a biographical
sketch of Mrs. Eddy, written by Henry
Robinson, postmaster and ex-maycF OF
Concord. The writer says:
"The fact that it is the home of Mary
Baker Eddy has endeared the attractive
city of Concord to a widespread million
of cultured people, many of whom have
never seen the capital of the granite
state.
$50 unostentatious, reserved, and
gracious is the unaffected discoverer,
founder, and teacher of Christian Sci
ence that half of her own townfolk may
not realize that history will recognize
I'm her one of the brightest and most
beneficent beacons of the last and pres
ent century, radiant spirit, Won
derful intellectuality tremendous
factor for universal good, whom the
whole community respects, appreciates,
holds in evident Difference and high
esteem.
''From her elegant residence Pleas
ant View, somewhat removed from the
hum and activity of the business GEN.
ter, she can gaze across her beaut1ful
, grounds upon the sun-croWned nil
from which her eyes first looked in love
to the summer sky and where In girl
hoods buoyant days she wandered
through the woods and fields of the
broad ancestral farm, gathering wild
daises or picking delicious berries, with
no premonition of the momentous mis-
sion that awaited her.
Nobody could have imagined then
that to that free, sweet-faced breeze
kissed, country girl 1t would be given
to dispel superstitious ignorance. to
awaken the world from the dreadful in
cubus of materiality, to teach the chill
dren of men that God and man are CO.
existent and inseparable and that He
is the l-pervading, divine principle
and that death holds no mastery over
life.
Current biography has already CIV
en- to her work and worth the promi-
nent mention which her merits demand
in the annals of advanced Christian
civilization; and her niche of fame in
!. the coister of the worlds best intel
lGCJS VIII UG ecu dIiu DVNOiAlS ihci
sacred as time rolls on.
'Mary Baker Eddy was born July 16,
1921, in the neghboring town of Bow,
New Hampshire the daughter of Mark
and Abigail b. (Ambrose) Baker,
among whose ancestors were Gen. John
Mcneil, of Lundys Zane fame. Gen.
Henry Knox of revolutionary celebrity,
Capt John Lovewell, active in Indian
troubles. and Sir John Mcneil. Scotch
Knight prominent in British politics,
and ambassador to Persia.
'"Thus 1t may be seen that her fore
fathers were from both Scotland and
England Indeed, the claim of her an
cestrv NAV he traced back to David,
and the heraldrv of her family is as
ancient and exalted as any that human
records suhstantiate.
"She Is the only far"v Of her faith
er's family. which bore the coat of
arms of the ancient family of the Me?
Neils. rnder the ario"s spellings of the
name not fewer than -even renderings
being given The c>--. and familu
coat-of-arr's. as gathered from the
registers of .penealooies We're peerless
grles and or; in chief three mrllets
of the second: n base in lvmphad with
sails f,Irled and oars of the first: dex-
ter, lion rampant; of the last sinister
"A dexter hand fees way and in base a
salmon naiant in the -. Crest, a
dexter arm empowered in armor; in
the hand a dagger. The motto is Vim
cere aut mort. Surrounding the shield
and enclosed in a heavy wreath, is the
motto of the Order of the Bath: "Trla
iuncta in uno" The supporters are two
Persian lions, maneless. rampant, and
in some of the escutcheons two High
land hounds, rampant.
Prom infancy her life has been
marked one Even in girlhood she was
far in advance of others of her age
One of the favorite pictures in hei
home is of Jesus, the youth, debating
with the wise men, and as she STOOD
for a moment near it, the thought came
into the writer's mind,-How much Ike
the Great Master!
TT was not given alone to Rev. Il
Alexander Hyde in pen-picture o
Christ the Orator to gather from his
tory, Scripture, and the natural law
of correspondence somewhat regarding
our Lords appearance. The form o
outline all other things being equal
corresponds to the inner life. Human
beauty is frequently only the shoV
or blossom of inner perfection. TIL
human body in all its parts is moulde'
by the inner vitality; the form, by tn
physical and moral life; the facial ex
preston, by the moral and spiritua
Beauty OF thought, purity of sentiment
and harmony of conduct, seldom IA
to trace their nature on the huma
countenance The more universal tn
elements of mind and sould in activity
the more regular and perfect the form
AT ten years of age, Mrs. Eddy de
lighted in studying books. abstrus'
metaphysical. and difficult even for he