The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-17

hlui against tndI AS Vi Olu, ii
may be said that the preaching of
the cross is to them that perish fool
ishness; but unto us which are
saved it is the power of God When
We remember that the teaching for
SO many centuries has been that the
real individuality of man is material,
, and that he is dependent on matter
, for the qualification of his senses and
even for the very sustenance of his
--e, we cannot wonder that SO many
hesitate to accept the teachings OF
Christian Science, since this Science
demands the abandonment of all be-
iIef in materiality. 1t is, neverthe-
less, true that only as we lose our
belief if life in matter, and our de-
pendence ON matter as source of
sustenance and, satisfaction, are we
enabled thorugh Christian Science to
grasp the true sense of Life, verify
ing again the words of Truth as
spoken by Jesus, He that loseth his
life for my sake shall find it. -
If any Christian Scientists have
worried about Mrs. Eddy's health
and strength, that reading would
have ended the worry, could they
have heard it. Among young public
speakers there are few with voices
stronger, deeper than the voice of
Mrs. Eddy at eighty-six years of age.
She read the ordinary magazine type
without glasses, as readily as any
woman of twenty-five could do, and
with great power of expression and
understanding.
In the course of the afternoon the
writer had three separate talks with
Mrs. Eddy. Once, after the first talk
ended and again a second time Mrs.
Eddy said that she had some other
things to say.
Aside from the legal matters in
which next friends" seek to disturb
her old age and her peace, Mrs. Ed
dy talked chiefly of Christian Science
matters. She was much interested
in the statement made publicly by
granddaughter of Henry Ward
Beecher, who is now a Christian
Science practitioner, that her grand
father if alive would be Christian
Scientist. The name of Beecher
means of course a great deal to Mrs.
Eddy, who was young woman at
the height of the preachers fame.
She spoke of the work that he did
to free the slaves and said, as though
aloud, Eyes, he would in
deed work to free the spirit as he
worked to free the body of the
slave"
Mrs. Eddy gave the writer per-
to publish a photograph of
herself which has not before been
seen Upon this photograph, in the
writer's presence, she wrote her own
name.
AS she said good-by to the writer,
rising from her chair to hold his
hand in both of hers, and to talk
with pathetic simplicity and convic-
ton of the good that the visit was to
do him, she presented very beauti-
full picture of venerable womanhoOd.
Her face, so remarkably young,
framed in the beautiful snow-white
nair, and supported by the delicate,
frail, yet erect, body, seemed really
the personification of that victory of
spirit over matters to which her reli-
gion aspires.
Forty years ago, when Mrs. Eddy
lived in a garret-like room and told
a world that would not yet listen,
stones were thrown through her win
dows. She spoke of this with sad pa
thence and forgiveness.
Today, when all the world knows
her name, and when many thousands
bless that name, Mrs. Eddy finds her.
self still with enemies eager and en-
ergetic against her. They do not
throw stones through her windows
that was at the beginning of her
teaching. With legal arts and inge-
NOUS action they try to control her
and the success that she has built up
in spite of the early opposition.
The lawyers who oppose her will
try to show that Mrs. Eddy is not
fit, mentally or physically, to take
care of herself or of her fortune,
which is considerable. They will try
to remove her from her present sur
roundings, and make her physically
subject to the will of others appoint
ed to control her. Success in this
effort, in the opinion of the writer,
would be shameful, degradation to
all woman hood and old age.
Mrs. Eddy said in her interview,
Young man, / made my money with
my pen, just as you do, and | have
a right to it Mrs. Eddy not only
has right to it, but she has the
mind to control it.
Fortunately, Mrs. Eddy has in
General Streeter not only one of the
ablest lawyers in this country, but
man whose interest in her case is
based upon chivalrous devotion and
determination to protect an old lady
from enemies disguised as next
friends The effort of those that at
tack Mrs. Eddy will be to prove that
she is unfit to care for herself.
1t is to be wished for her sake and
for the sake of her friends that the
Judge who tries her case could see
her and talk with her. Perhaps that
would not be according to cOnven
tionaI rule. But if the Judge did see
her, he would not tolerate the
thought that next friends" or far
off enemies should deprive her of her
liberty or her fortune. He would
realize that she is ideally happy in
her simple home, that those about
her feel for her devotion and rev.
erence that is absolutely inexpressi
BILE; that, so far from being the vic
tim of designing individuals, she is
absolute mistress in her own house.
hold.
Those that attack Mrs. Eddy legal
ly, and perhaps sincerely, propose to
show that she is 1.-The victim of hal
lucinations." They will not show
this unless American law shall decide
that fixed religious belief is hallu-
cination.
The Turkish minister at Washing
ton, If any court aske him, would say
he firmly believes that Mohammed
rode up to see God on galloway
named All Borak, that the intelligent