The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-01-09

1t is calumuy on Christian Science to
say that man is aroused to thought or
action only by ease, pleasure, or recon-
pense Something higher, nobler. more
imperative, impels the impulse or 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 g
Magazine, January, 1907, compels ma as
dutiful child and the Leader Of Chris"
tian Science TO speak.
McClure's IS Magazine refers to my
fathers "tall, gaunt Frame and pic
lures "the old man tramping doggedly
along the highway regularly beating the
ground with huge walking stick, -
Ny father 3 person was erect and ro-
bust. He never used n walking stuck
To illustrate: One time when my faith
er was visiting Gov Pierce. President
Franklin Pierce s father, the Governor
handed him n gold headed walking stick
as they were about to start for church,
Ny father thanked the Governor, but
declined to accept the stick, saying, 81
never use cane.
Although Mcclure s Magazine attrih-
utes to my father language unseemlys
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 contrary, my father was
a great reader
The man, whom Mcclure s Magazine
characterzes as Ignorant, dominating,
passionate. fearless was uniformly
dignifed-a well-nformed, intellectual
man. cultivated in mind and manners.
He was called upon to do much business
for his town, making out deeds, settling
quarrels, and even acting as counsel in
law suit involving question of pau
perism between the towns of Boudon
and Bow. n H. Franklin Pierce, after
ward President of the United States,
was the counsel for Loudon and Mark
Baker for Bow Both entered their
pleas. and nv father won the suit. After
il was decided. Mr.. Pierce bowed 10 my
father and congratulated him. For sew
eral years, father was chaplain Of the
New Hampshire State Militia and as T
recollect IL, he WAS Justice of the Peace
at one time Ny father was a strong
believer In State rights, but slavery
he regarded as a great sin.
Mark Baker was the youngest of his
father s family, and inherited hIs faith
er 's real estate. an extensive farm situ-
ated in Bow and Concord. \. II. II is
on record that Mark Bakers father
paid the largest tax in the colony.
Mcclure s Magazine says, describing
the Baker homestead at Bow: "The
house itself was small, square box
structure of rudimentary architec-
ture.'' NV fathers house had slop-
ing roof after the prevailing style OF
architecture at that date.
Mcclure s Magazine states: Alone
Of the Bakers, he (Albert) received
liberal education. Mary Baker
passed her first fifteen wears at the
ancestral home ct Bow. IT. was lone
ly and unstlmulating existence. The
church supplied the only social diver
sion, the district school practically all
the intellectual life"
Let us sec what were TIE fruits of
this "lonelv and upstimulating exist.
cuce.' All my fathers daughters
were given an academic education, suf-
iiciently advanced so that they all
taught school accePtably at various
times and places.
Ny brother Albert was distin-
euished lawyer. In addition To my
academic training, ] was privately tu