Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-20
A gift from
Mary Baker G. Eddy,
The Discoverer and Founder Of
Christian Science,
To First Church Of Christ, Scientist,
Concord, n. II.
A gift from


The auditorium seats about l 100 and the
usual attendance at Sunday services is
about 300. 1t strikes the average observer
as little short of blasphemous to see the
words of Jesus and the writings of Mrs.
Eddy given equal prominence upon the
IN favor of Mrs. Eddy. At the right side
of the organ loft appear these words from
one Of her books:
mo wisdom is wise but His wisdom;
No truth is true, love is lovely,
No life is life, but the Divine;
No good Is but the good God bestows."
On the left side Of the organ loft is a
quotation from the words of Christ be-
ginning: But thou, when thou prayest,
enter into thy Closet etc.
The church is fine a church can be.
The interior woodwork is black oak. There
is large organ in the loft and the win
dows are filled with stained glass.
Mrs. Eddy admitted to the old
North Congregational Church, the Oldest in
Concord, by confession of faith at the age
of twelve years, and there is no record
that she was ever separated from it. She
attended service there occasionally when
she returned to Concord in 1885, before
she organized a church of her own, and
frequently contributed to its support. Last
year. when its 256th anniversary was being
celebrated and fund was being raised for
reservations and repairs, she sent her check
for 500 without solicitation and there was
a lively controversy as to whether money
d
Some people considered 1t tainted" but
the majority of the congregation decided
in her favor and the treasurer made a
grateful acknOWl edgment.
Mrs. Edy's Liberality.
Mrs. Eddy has paved Warren street in
Concord and Pleasant street as far as st.
Paurs School, which is about mile and
a half beyond her house and two miles
and half from the center of town. She
betrayed one-half of the expense of paving
State street, one of the principal thorough
fares of the city, and other taxpayers We're
assessed for the remainder. She gives
a thousand dollars annually toward the
support of the state fair which is held on
a tract of land on the banks of the Mer-
rimac river adjoining her farm, and every
year, while the fair is in progress she
gives a pair of shoes to every person who
applies for them. She has an arrangement
with shoe factory to furnish a supply at
wholesale rates and to distribute them
for her. The number of shoes given away
varies with the prosperity of the people.
During the hard times several years ago
six or seven hundred pairs were called for.
OF recent years the demand has been much
less; it has been limited to two or three
hundred pairs.
She gave 1000 to the relief of the suf-
ferers from the San Francisco earth
quake. The money was sent through the
local committee.
When the state legislature refused to
make appropriation to pay for represen-
tation at the St. Louis exposition the news
papers recommended that fund be raised
by private subscription, and Mrs. Eddy
was the first subscriber. She sent her
abandoned she refused to take back the
| money and asked that 1t be added to the
school fund.
She has been a generous participant in
all public enterprises; Is usually the first
to respond and always makes the largest
| contribution when appeals are made for
| charity. She gives away large sums OF
| money for benevolence in other parts of
! the country of which the details are not
| known to any one but herself and Calvin
Frye, her cashier, except by general rumor.
Pending Litigation.
! The litigation now in progress is brough,
by her son. George w. Glover of Lead
| s. D.; his daughter, Mary Baker Glover
! her adopted son. DR.. Ebenezer J. Foster
| Eddy of Waterbury, VT; her cousin. George
| W. Baker of Bangor, Me-, and her nephew
| Frederick w. Baker OF EPSON. N. H The
| object is TO take the control of her estate
! out of her hands on the ground that she is
| Incapable of attending TO her own inter.
ests and is surrounded by persons who are
| conspiring to deprive her natural heirs
| above named OF their lawful rights VII.
| liam E. Chandler, former United State:
| senator and Secretary of the Navy, and
| now a member of the Spanish treaty claim:
| commission. is the leading attorney fol
| the plaintiffs. Gen Frank s. Streeter 70,
! many years general counsel of the Boston
| and Maine railway and member of tn,
| republican national committee is he
! counsel. with several associates.
| Several motions have been made and de
cided, and the court has appointed Judg,
| Aldrich of the United States district cour
| of New Hampshire to act as q commits
| sioner TO investigate and report upon he
| mental condition. Associated with him ar,
| two of the most eminent alienists in New
| England.
Owing to Mrs. Eddy's prominence TIL
litigation is naturally attracting universal
] interest. and in Concord 1t 10 the almos