The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-05

Concord, N. H., Jan. 5.-The jan
uary issue of McClure's Magazine,
which undertakes to publish the history
of the early life of the Reverend
Mary Baker Eddy, Leader of the Chris
tian Scientists, and her family, has
been brought to the attention of Mrs.
Eddy. She has taken the pains to
correct the matter, and has sent out
the following statement over her own
signature:
1t is calumny on Christian Science
to say that man is aroused 10 thought
or action only by ease, pleasure, or
recompense. Something higher, mob
Ter, more imperative, impels the inl-
pulses of Soul.
1t becomes my duty to - Just to
the departed and to tread not ruth
lessly on their ashes. Th= attack on
me and my late father and mis- family
in McClure's Magazine, January. 1907,
compels me as dntiful child and the
Leader of Christian Science to speak.
McClure's Magazine refers to my
fathers tall, gaunt FRAME" and pic
lures the old man tramping .loggedly
along the highway regularly beating
the ground with "a huge walking
stick"
My fathers person was erect and
robust. He nevisr used a walking
stick. To illustrate: One time when
my father was visiting Governor
Pierce, President Franklin Piercs's
father, the Governor handed my father
pld-headed walking stick as they
were about to start for church My
father thanked the Governor, but de-
clined to accept the stick, saying, ~
never use cane"
Although McClure's Magazine at
tributes to my father language UNI
seemly, his household law, constantly
enforced, was no profanity and no
slang phrases. McClure's Magazine
also declares that the Bible was the
only book in his house. On the conr
trary, my father was great reader.
The, man, whom McClure's Maya
zine characterizes as ignorant. DOM
mating, passionate, fearless" was uni
formly djgnified-a well-Mformed, in
tellectual man. cultivated in mind and
manners. He was called upon to do
much business for his town, making
out deeds, settling quarrels, and even
acting as counsel in a lawsuit in
volving a question of pauperism be-
tween the towns of Loudon and Bow,
N. H.. Franklin Pierce, afterward
President OF the United States, was
the counsel for Loldon and Mark
pleas, and my father won the suit
After it was decided, Mr.. Pierce bowel
to my father and congratulated him.
For several years, father was chap
lain of the New Hampshire State
Militia, and as l recollect it, he was
Justice of the Peace at one time. My
father was strong believer in States
Rights, but slavery he regarded as a
great sin.
Mark Baker was the youngest OF his
fathers family, and inherited his
fathers real estate, an extensive farm
situated in Bow and Concord. N. H. 1t
is on record that Mark Bakers father
peeAo lhS SoCSI III ZIG COlOuy.
McClure's magazine says, describing
the Baker homestead at Bow: The
house itself was a small square box
structure of rudimentary architecture"
My fathers house had a sloping roof
after the prevailing style of architec-
turo at that date.
McClure's magazine states: Alone
of the Bakers. he tAlberD received IL
liberal education. Mary Baker
passed. her first fifteen years at the
ancestral home at Bow. 1t was Il
lonely and discriminating existence.
The church supplied the only social
diversion, the district school nracti-
cally all tho Intellectual life
Let us see what were the fruits of
this lonely and discriminating avis