Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-01-16
MRS. EDDY'S REPLY TO THE
 JANUARY MCCLURE ARTICLE

t.b undertakes to Puoiish 'hc ms -, fine carly life of the Reverend .,t Baker Eddy. leader of the Christ. s,,ti.is. and her family, has been |. ..t, Io thc attention of Mrs. Eddy. .. ta, taken the pains to correct the ..., .nd has sent out the following ...m,ri over her own signature: ri. ,alumny on Christian Science 10 t.t man is aroused to thought or t,o only by ease, pleasure, or recon ., something higher, noblcr, more .,.riiyc. impcls the impulse of Soul. r Lorom,, my duty to be just to the |, ,..,i,I and tread not ruthlcssly on a', o.bcs. The attack on me and my .., father and his family in McClurc's Magazine. January, 1907, compcls me as J,tnu child and the Leader of or.,ian science to speak.
 ueClurc's Magazine refers to my hhc's "tall, gaunt framc," and pie u,.. tho old man tramping doggcdly ,6as the highway regularly beating the ,,,onl with huge walking stick"
 Ny fathers person was erect and TO. ,os He never used n walking stick. [, Illustrate: One time when my h,her was visiting Governor Pierce, p,,.ijcpt Franklin Picrcc's father, the syernor handed him gold.headed rlkipp stick as they were about to s,r for church. My father thanked ae Governor, but declined to accept as stick. saving, "I never use n cnnc." Although McClurc's Magazine attrib. s,,. ,o my father language unsccmly, i, household law, constantly enforced n, no profanity and no slang phrases NClurc's Magazine also declares that As Bible was the only book in hii lus. on the contrary, my father wa great reader.
 The man, whom McClurc's Magazine Aaractcrlzcs as "ignorant, dominating ,,yioha,c. fcarless,' was uniforml. SpiGed-a well.informcd, intellectun ,an. cultivated in mind and manners \, was called upon to do much bushes for his town, making out deeds, settlin vaucls, and even acting as counsel law suit involving n question of pat vri.m between the towns of Loudo nd Bow, \. II. Franklin Pierce, afte srl President of the United State vas the counsel for Loudon and Mar Alc for Bow. Both entered the sess, and my father won the suit. A sr i, was decided, Mir. Pierce bowed sy father and congratulated him. F' srcral years, father was chaplain a, New Hampshire State Militia, ai s recollect it, he was Justice of q Peace a, one time. My father was srong believer in State rights, but sla r he regarded as n great sin.
 Mark Baker was the youngest of hlher's family, and inherited
 i,her's real estate, m extensive fal
 situated in Bow and Concord, N.
 h is on record that Mark Bakcl
 hAer paid inc largest tax m
 oOby
 McClurc's Magazine says, dcscribi
 lk Baker homestead at Bow: "1
 Iuse itself was small, square !
 sne,urc of rudimentary archit
 'ue" My fathers house had sl
 hg roof after the prevailing style
 nthiteeturc nt that date.
 NeClure's Magazine states "Al d ihe Bakers, he (Albcrt) received
 Aoenl education Mary Bar nsscd her first fifteen years at the
 ~tral home a, Bow. It was lcr
 nd unstimulating existence.
 Aurch supplied the only social d''
 'n, inc district school practically , af intellectual life"
 |, Le' us see what were the fruits |, Ns lonely and uns,imulating e' . ne.' All my father's daugh !. 'ue given an academic education, |. Nitnily advanced SO that they
 Aashi school acccptably at var
 'Hs and places.
 r Ny brother Albert was disting' Q ahwyer In addition to my aead' { Anmg, 1 was privately tutored Q 1h- He was member of the |, nanphirc Legislature, and was l, a'ed for Congress but died b' E De election.
 heClur's Magazine calls my yo
 brother, George Sullivan Baker Q '''kman in a Triton wooicn mill v i. matter of fact, he was joint pa'
 'h Alexander Hilton, and tog
 ''y owned n large manfaetsrini It A0h'hment in Hilton, N. II. His l NY tltlo nf r.lnual cuvua from nDI