The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-01-10

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Reverend Mary Baker G.. Eddy, Leader
of the Christian Scientists, has been
brought to the attention Of Mrs. Ed
DIV. She has taken the pains to cor
rect the matter, and has sent out the
following statement over her own SIG
nature.
It is calumny on Christian Science
to say that man Is aroused to thought
or action only by ease. pleasure, or
recompepse. Something higher, no.
bier, more imperative, impels the i'm
pulse Of Soul.
1t 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 MeClure's Magazine, January, 1907.
compels me as q dutiful child and the
Leader Of Christian Science to speak.
McClure's Magazine refcfs to my
fathers tail, gaunt frame" and pic.
tures hthe old man tramplng logged.
" along the highway regularly peat
ing the ground with a huge walking
stick"
NV fathers person was erect and
robust, He never used a walking
stick. To illustrate: One time when
nv father was visiting Governor
Pierce, President Franklin Pierce's
father, the Governor handed my faith
or a gold-headed walking stick as
they we're about to start for church,
MY father thanked the Governor, but
declined To accept the stick, saying,
II never use a cane"
Although McClure's Magazine at
tributes to my fathers language un-
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 con-
trary, my father was a great reader.
The man, whom McClure's Maya
zine characterizes as Ignorant, dom
mating, passionate, fearless was un-
iformly dignified - a well-informed,
intellectual man, cultivated In nina
and manners. He was called upon to
do much business for his town, max
ing out deeds, settling Quarreis, ana
even acting as counsel in a lawsuit
involving pauperism between the
towns OF Loudon and Bow, N. II.
Franklin Pierce, afterward President
of the United States, was the counsei
for Ioudon and Mark Baker for bow
Both entered their pleas, and my fath
err won the suit. After 1t was DE
cided. Mr.. Pierce bowed to my father
and congratulated him. For several
wears. father was chaplain OF the o
Hampshire State Militia, and as
recollest II, he was Justice or the
Peace at one time. My father Was
a strong believer in States Rlghts
but slavery he regarded as a grea'
sin. q =
Mark Baker was the youngest o.
his fathers family, and inherited MI
fathers real estate, an extensive farn
situate In Bow and Concord. v. n
II Ia on record that Mark Baker
father paid the largest tax IN th'
colony.
M~cClure's Magazine says, describ
ing the Baker homestead at BOW
"Tbe house itself was a small, square
box structure Of rudimentary arcni
lecture" My fathers house a I
sloping roof after the prevailing styi'
of architecture at that date.
McClure's Magazine states: ALONE
Of the Bakers, he (Albert) received
a liberal education. . " 'Mary Bake
nassed her first fifteen years at TIT
ancestral home at Bow. 1t was
lonely and unstimulating existence
The church supplied the only socla
diversion, the district school practi
cally all the intellectual life"
Let us see what were the fruits o
this "lonely and unstimulating exist
ence." All my fathers daughter
were given an academic education
sufficiently advanced so that they al
taught school a~cceptably at various
times and places. -,
NV brother Albert was a distin
guished lawyer. In addition TO m.
academic training, I was privatei!
tutored by him. He was a member o
the New Hampshire Legislature, ant
was nominated for Congress but die'
before the election.
McClure's Magazine calls my young
est brother, George Sullivan Baker
"a workman In a Tilton wooden mill.
AS q matter of fact, he was joint part
ner with Alexander Tilton, n to
E6I0GI tu0y OWhS0 q ne
turing establishment in Tilton, N. u
His military title Of Colonel came ron
appointment on the stan or the Gov
ernor Of New Hampshire.
NV eldest brother, Samuel d
Baker, carried on a large business Il
Boston. Mass.
Regarding the allegation by Ma
Clure's Magazine that all the family
"excepting Albert, dice Of cancer"
win say that there was never a deaf
In my fathers family reported b,
physician or post mortem examina
ton as caused by cancer.
McClure's Magazine says that "th
uuarrels between Mary. the child tel
years old, and her father, a gray
haired man Of fifty, frequently Sc
the house In an uproar," and add
that these ''hts" were diagnosed b,
DR.. Ladd as "hysteria mingled witt
bad temper"
Hfy mother often presented my dis
naaition AZ exemplary for her othe
rhiI6ren to initiate. saying when d
49, Mary a~ngry7v When tn