Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-01-18
MRS. EDDY'S REPLY
To the January McClure
Article.
coscoRn. N. H.. Jan. 8:

CoScoRn. N. H.. Jan. b:
The January issue Of Mcciurs'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 signature:
II is eaiumny on Christian Science to
action only by ease. pleasure or recon-
penss- Someshing higher. noblsf. more
imperative. impsls the impulses Of Soul.
II becomes my duty 20 DO lust 10 the
departed. and 10 tread not Eu,hlessly on
their ashes. The attack on me and my
late father and his family In Meciurs's
Magazine. January. 1907, eompels me as
du,iful child and the Leader Of Christian
Science To speak.
Meciurs's Magazine refefs 10 my faith
srs tall. gaunt frame. and pictures the
old man aamping doggsdly along the
highway regularly beating the ground
with huge walking stick"
Ny fathers pssson was erect and so-
bust He never used . walking stiek
To Illustrate: One time vhsn my father
Was visiting Governor Pisses. President
Franklin P'srss's father. ths Governor
HANDED my father . gold.bsadsd walking
stick ~ they we're about 70 start Tor
church. Ny father thanked The Governor.
but declined 70 accept The seisk. ssyiag.
Il never use cane"
Although Msciuss's Magazine ait1ib-
usss TO nv father language uasssmly. his
household Law. constantly enforced. vas
no profanity and no slang phrases. Nc
Ciuss'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 Meclurs's Magazine
eharaeisrixss as ''ignornat dominating.
passionate. fearless" was uniformly dig
niasd-a well Informed. Intellectual man.
cultivated In mind and manners. lie was
called upon 70 do much business for his
town. making out deeds. settling qua'rsls.
and even acting as counsel IN . law suit
involving q question Of psupsrism be-
tween tho towns Of loudon and Bow. N.
X. Franklin Pierce. aftsrward President
OF the United States. was tho counsel Tor
Louden and Mark Baker for Bow. Both
entered thair ploas. and my father won
tho suit. Altar Il was decided. Mr.. Pierce
bowed to my father and congratulated
him. For several years. father was chap
lain Of tho New Hampshire State Militia.
and a. ! reeollect Il, hc was Justice Of
tho Peace a, one ,imc. Ny father was a
strong believer in States Rights. bu;
slavery he regarded as a great sin.
Mark Baker was tho younges, OF his
fathers family, and inherited his fathers
real estate. an extensive farm situated in
Bow and Concord. N. N. Il Is on record
that Mark Bakers father paid the largest
tax in the colony.
MeClurc's Magazine says. describing
. tho Baker homestead at Bow: The
house itself was a small. square box
structure Of rudimcntary architecture
My fathers house had a sleping roof aftsr
tho prevailing style Of architecture at
that date.
meclmc's Magazine states: "Aione Of
the Bakers. he tAlhsrt received u liberal
education. - Mary Bakcr passed her
first fifteen years at tho ancestral home
at Bow. II was a lonely and unstimulat-
ing esistanec. The church supplied the
only social diversion. the district school
practically all tho Intellectual lifo."
Let US SEQ what were tho fruits Of this
lonely and unstimulasing existence" All
my fathers daughters were given an
academic education, sufficiently advanced
SO that they all taught school aeesptably
at various times and places.
My brother Albert was distinguished
lawyer. In addition to my academic