The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-03
AFTERNOON TEAS AND
 SMALL DINNER PARTIES
Bazars for PhiIanthropic Purposes to Fill Present Week-Visit of Several Distinguished Women Who
 Will Deliver Lectures.
BY ANNIE kENDRICk WALKER. LECTURE ATTHE JEFFERSON.

Mrs. Livingston Mims of Atlanta, member of the board of lectureship Of the First Church of Christ, scientist, Bos- ton, will give a lecture on Christian Sci ence this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Jefferson theatre. The public is cordially invited Mrs Mims, who will be intro- duced by Dr. J. H. Phillips, Is d brilliant and entertaining lecturer and in the cities where she has been heard her au- diences are large and representative. She established the first church in the south, and while at that time there were com paratively few followers in the southern cities, the large number of people who are now members of the churches Whlch have been established as branches Of the Mother Church, indicates how the movement has grown within recent years.
 Both in America and in Europe the number of Christian Scientists has in creased. New York has handsome church building with a membership of four thousand In London there is large church and in Berlin the Scientists are very strong. Every year the prejudice so marked in the early history of the move- ment seems to have grown less and fewer are the direct attacks. The attitude which was expressed in a spirit of critic ism seems to have given away to a more
 
 pronounced in their antagonism. This does not necessarily mean that they are believers. or converts to Christian Science, but indicates to a great extent recog- milton of the spirituality of Christian Science.
 Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science was born July 16, 1921, in Bow, New Hampshire.
 So many misleading statements have ap- |. 4 Cl,.ief ia,, ficte. have welcomed the biographical sketch of Mrs. Eddy, which was written by the Hon. Henry Robinson, ex-mayor and postmas- ter of Concord N. H. Many interesting facts are found in this little volume.
 From infancy her life has been mark ed one. At ten years Mrs. Eddy delighted in studying books, abstruse, metaphysical and difficult for even her elders. Her fa- vorite studies were natural history, logic and moral science. From her brother AL bert, who was a collegiate, she received lessons in ancient tongues-Hebrew, Greek and Latin. A private tutor declared that she had mastered studies that as a fact she had never entered upon, so quick was she in comprehension. The Bible, Milton, Shakespeare, Mrs. Hemans and Young s Night Thoughts, did much toward form ing her style of writing and speaking. At F. after disputing on the doctrinal points
 
 would not yield her views, she was "e- ceived into the Congregational church. She remained devoted to this church for forty years. At the age of 16. she began her literary career developing remarkable ability not only as a prose writer but in poetry as we'll From childhood she has been versemaker. poetry suiting hei emotions better than poetry. She has a store of poetry still unpublished
 n fathers house at Triton, N. H., to Col George w. Glover resident of Charles ton, S. c. This first marriage to a south ern man was happy one On return. ing north after his death she introduced the southern system of infant schools ant became the first teacher of that schoo which has since merged into the kinder. garten Mrs. Eddy is a life member and associate of the Victoria institute, Lon don; member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a life member oi the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Boston; member of MT Comstocks society for the Suppression o Vice, New York, and she also belongs tt various other benevolent and reformatory organizations, literary associations anC societies.
 Believing Christian Science to be O. God and desiring to aid mankind, Mrs Eddy labored for twenty-sx busy year. unaided, and much of this time healing people of all manner of affllction. Al though she has not received patients fol fifteen years and does not now person ally give instruction to students she re mains unalterable and inflexible in tht belief that ''the physical healing O.