The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-01-10
over her own signature.

over her own signature.
1t is q calumny on Christian
Scilhce to say that man is aroused
to thought or action only by ease,
pleasure, or recompense. Some
thing higher, nobler, more impera-
tive, impels the impulses Of Soul.
It becomes my duty to be just to
the departed and to tread not ruth
lessly on their ashes. The attack
on me and my late father and his
family in McClure's Magazine,
January 1907, compels me as a duti-
full child and the Leader Of Chris
tian Science to speak.
McClure's Magazine refers to
my fathers stall, gaunt frame, :"
and pictures ''the old man tramp
ing doggedly along the highway
regularly beating the ground with
a huge walking stick. -
My fathers person was erect
and robust. He never used q walk
ing stick. To illustrates: One
time when my father was visiting
Governor Pierce, President Frank
lin Pierce's father, the governor
handed my father gold headed
walking stick as they were about
to start for church. My father
thanked the Governor, but declined
to use the stick, saying, 81 never
use cane"
Although McClure's Magazine
attributes to my father language
unseemly, his household law, con-
.stantly enforced, was no profanity
and no slang phrases. McClure's
Magazine also declares that the BIZ
BILE was. the only book in his
house. On the contrary my father
was a great rea Ter. The man,
whom McClure's Magazine charac-
terizes as Ignorant, dominating,
passionate, fearless, was uniform
" dignified-a well-informed, in
tellectual man, cultivated in mind
to do much business for his town,
making out deeds, settling quarrels,
and even acting as counsel in a
lawsuit involving question Of
pauperism between the towns OF
Loudon and Bow, N. III. Frank.
lin Pierce, afterward President OF
the United States, was the counsel
for Loudon and Mark Baker fol
Bow. Both entered their pleas,
and my father won the suit. AT
ter it was decided, Mr.. Pierce bow.
ed to my father and congratulated
him. For several years, father
was chaplain of the New Hamp.
shire State Militia, and as recol-
lect it, he was Justice of the Peace
at one time. My father was strong
believer in State Rights, but slav.
cry he regarded as great sin.
Mark Baker was the youngest
of his fathers family, and inner.
tied his fathers real estate, an ex.
tensive farm situated in Bow and
Concord, n. III. 1t is on RECORD
that Mark Bakers father paid th.
largest tax in the colony.
McClure's Magazine, says, de.
scrlbing the Baker homestead a
Bow: sThe house itself was ,
small, square box structure of rud
imentary architecture. My faith
er's house had sloping roof afte
the prevailing style of architecture
at that date.
McClure's Magazine states
+" Alone of the Bakers, he Albert
received q liberal education. ***
Mary Baker passed her first fifteel
years at the ancestral home at Bow
1t was a lonely and unstimulatin
existence. The church supple,
the only social diversion, the dis
trict school practically all the in
tellectual life.''
Let us see what were the fruit
of this ''lonely and unstimulatin
existence. +" All my fathers daugh
CoIS WoIo SlSou du hCduoulC ouu
cation, sufficiently advanced s
that they all taught school accept
ably at various times and places
My brother Albert was a distin
guished lawyer. In addition t
my academic education, / was pri
vately tutored by him. He was /
member of the New Hampshir
Legislature, and was nominated TO
Congress but died before the cleo
ton.
McClure's Magazine calls m,
youngest brother, George Sullivan
Baker, "a workman in a Tiltor
wooden mill.n AS matter of fact
he was joint partner with Alexan
der Tilton, and together they own
ed large manufacturing establish
ment in Tilton. N. III. His mill
tary appointment of Colonel cam'
from appointment on the staff O