The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-17
sMRS. EDDY AND
Z THE MCCLURE
I BIOGRAPHY
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 31IFF338IE 39to8T7o9F.

'1N l'IlD. N. Ila january H...I I'd.
january issue off McCmres Magazine
which undertakes TO publish the hiA-
tory of the early life of the Reverend
Mary Baker Eddy Leader of the Chris
tian scientists, and her family has
been brought To- The attention os Mrs.
Eddy She has taken the pains to- core
rect the natter and has sent out the
following statement over her own size
nature:
1t Is calumny ON christian Science To
say that man is aroused 20 thought or
action only by ease, pleasure, or rec
compense. Something higher, nobler
more imperative, impels the impulses
of Soul.
1t becomes my duty to be just to the
departed and to tread mol ruthlessly on
their ashes. The attack on me and my
late father and his family i'm McClures
Magazine, January, 1907 compels me as
duuful child and the Leader Of
Christian Science to speak.
McClure's Magazine refers to my
fathers tail, gaunt frame and pic
lures "the old man trampng doggedly
along the highway regularly beating
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 faith
er was visiting Governor Pierce, Presi-
dent Franklin Pierce's father, the
Governor handed my father 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, Il never use
cane"
Although McClure's Magazine attrib-
utes to my father language unseemly'
his household law, constantly enforced,
was no profanity and no slang phrases.
McClures 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
characterizes as Ignorant, dominating,
passionate, fearless" was uniformly
| dignihed-a well-informed, intellectual
man, cultivated in mind and manners.
He was called upon to do much bust
ness for his town, making out deeds,
settling uuarrels, and even acting as
counsel in a lawsuit involving a ques-
| ton of pauperism between the towns
I of Loudon and Bow, n. II. Franklin
Pierce. afterward President of the
United States was the counsel for
Loudon and Mark Baker for Bow. Both
| entered their pleas, and my father won
/ the suit After 1t was decided, Mr.
/ Pierce bowed to my father and con-
I graduated him. For several years
| father was chaplain of the New Hamp-
| shire state Militia, and as I recOllect
4 it, he was Justice of the Peace at one
time. My 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
| er's real estate an extensive farm sit
uated in Bow and Concord, n. H. It 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 a small square box
| structure of rudimentary architecture
! My fathers house had a sloping roof
after the prevailing style of architect
ure at that date.
McClures Magazine states: "Alone
! of the Bakers, he (Albert) received a
liberal education. Mary Baker
passed her first fifteen years at the
ancestral home at Bow. 1t was a lone
! ~ and discriminating existence. The
! church 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 discriminating exist
ence" All my fathers daughters were
given an academic education, sufficient
ly advanced so that they all taught
school acceptably at various times and
places.
My brother Albert was a distinguish
ed lawyer. In addition to my academic
training I was privately tutored by
I him. He was a member of the New
Hampshire Legislature and was nom
mated for Congress but died before
| the election.
| McClures Magazine calls my young
est brother, George Sullivan Baker, "a
] workman in a Tilton wooden mill" AS
a matter of fact, he was joint partner
with Alexander Tilton, and together
they owned a large manufacturing es-
! Enlistment in Tilton, N H. His mili'
tary title of Colonel came from ap.
pointment on the staff of the Governor
| of New Hampshire.
My Oldest brother, Samuel d. Baker
carried on a large business in Boston
| Mass.
Regarding the allegation by Nc
Clure's Magazine that all the family,
except Albert, died of cancer" 1 will
| say that there was never a death ir
my fathers family reported by physi-
/ clan or post norton examination as
( caused by cancer.
/ MpClnra'g MapaZfpa eavo n