The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-01-07

Eudy speaks as DutifuI Child and
the Leader of Christian Science.
Concord, N. H., Jan. 4.-The January
issue of McClure's Magazine, which
undertakes to publish the history of
the early, life of the Reverend Mary
Baker Eddy, Leader of the Christian
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 signatures:
Al is calumny on Christian Science to
say that man is aroused to thought or
action only by ease, pleasure, or re-
compense. Something higher, nobler
more imperative, impels the impulse of
Soul
1t becomes my duty to be just to the
departed and to tread not ruthlessly on
their ashes. The attack on me and my
late father and his family in McClure's
Magazine, January, 1907, compels me
as dutiful child and the Leader Of
Christian Science to speak.
McClure's Magazine refers to my
fathers tall, gaunt Frame" and pic
lures the OH man tramping doggedly
along the highway regularly bea ting
the ground with a huge walking stick"
My fathers person was erect and ro-
bust He never used a walking-stick.
To illustrate: One time when my
father was visiting Governor Pierce,
President Franklin Pierce's father, the
Governor handed him a gold-headed
walking-stick as they were about to
start for church. My father thanked
the Governor, but declined to accept
the stick, saying, 81 never use a cane"
Although Mcclure s Magazine attrib-
utes to my father language unseemly,
his household law, constantly enforced,
was no profanity and no slang phras-
es. McCiure's Magazine also declares
that the Bible was the only book in his
house. On the contrary, my father
was great reader.
The man, whom McClure's Magazine
characterizes as Ignorant, domina-
ting, passionate, fearless" was uni
formly dignifed--a well-informed, in
tellectual man, cultivated in mind and
manners. He was called upon to do
much business for his town, making
sout deeds, settling quarrels, and even
acting as counsel in q lawsuit invol-
wing question of pauperism between
the towns of Loudon and Bow, N. H.
Franklin Pierce, afterward President
Of the United States, was the counsel
for Loudon and Mark Baker for Bow.
pnt1, n71farnI thar nj ND INV Fo
er won the suit. After it was decided,
Mr.. Pierce bowel to my father and
congratulated him. For several years,
father was chaplain Of the New Hamp-
hire State Militia, and as | recollect it,
he was Justice of the Peace at one
time. Ny father was a strong believer
In States rights, but slavery he re-
garded as a great sin.
Mark Baker was the youngest of his
fathers family, and Inherited his faith
{ Zeal estate, an extensive farm stu
ss4tcd in Bow and Concord, NJ, TIL, It is
on record that Mark Bakers father
paid the largest tax in the colony.
McClures Magazine says, describing
the Baker homestead at Bow: 1.-THE
house itself was small, square box
structure of rudimentary architec-
ture." My fathers house had slop-
ing roof after the prevailing style Of
architecture at that date.
McClure's Magazine states: "Alone
of the Bakers, he (AIbert) received a
liberal education. Mary Baker
passed her first fifteen years at the an
CO. home at Bow. 1t was a lonely
tfy1o1, loR tcto Tbo
clsarch supplied the only social diver
sion, the district school practically all
the intellectual life"
Let us see what were the fruits of
this lonely and unstimulating exis-
tence.'' All my fathers daughters
were given an academic education, suf-
tlciently advanced so that they all
taught school acceptably at various
times and places
My brother Albert was distin-
guished lawyer, In addition to my ac-
ademic training, l was privately tu-
tored by him He was a member of
the New Hampshire Legislature, and
was nominated for Congress but died
before the election.
McClure's Magazine calls my
youngest brother, George Sullivan
Baker, "a workman in Tilton wooden
mill" AS a matter Of fact, he was
5oint partner with Alexander Tilton,
and together they owned a large man
ufacturing establishment in Tilton, N
III. His military title of Colonel came
from appointment on the staff Of the
Governor Of New Hampshire.
NY Oldest brother, Samuel D. Baker,
carried on a large business in Boston,
Mass.
Regarding the allegation by Me-
SClures Magazine that all the family,
',excepting Albert, died of cancer" l
will say that there was never a death
In my fathers family reported by ply
stefan or post-mortem examination as
caused by cancer.
McClures Magazine says that 'the
nuarrels between Mary, a child ten
years old, and her father, gray
haired man of fifty, frequently set the
house in an uproar," and adds that
Mthese ''fits" were diagnosed by DR..
I.add as "hysteria mingled with bail
temper"
NV mother often presented my dis
position as exemplary for her other
Bchildren to initiate, saying, when do
YOU ever see Mary angry?" When the
4irst edition Of Science and Health
! WAS published DIR. Ladd sai7 to Alex
ander Tilton: Read it, for ii will do
you good. 1t does not surprise me, it
50 resembles the author"
Will relate the following incident,
(which occurred later in life, as Illus