East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-05

tion and dogged determination. From
acquaintance with him, Mrs Eddy
became imbued with metaphysical
ideal and began a career in that di-
rection which made her one of the
most famous Of the worlds mental
healers.
Mrs. Eddy, then Mrs. Patterson,
dwelt long under the influence of
Qulnby's mesmeric belief and 1t came
to have a great though not supreme
weight in her subsequent teachings.
Later she denounced Quinbys meth
DDS and said:
81 discovered the science of mind
reading and that was enough"
After spending two years in Port
land, Mrs. Patterson rejoined her
husband in Lynn, where she lived five
years. continuing her study of meta
physics. While there she suffered a
fall on the ice which the doctor said
was severe, but from which she recov-
cred, II is said, in one night. 1t was
this incident that led directly to the
promulgation Of her discovery Of
Christian Science.
House Was Mecca.
The little house on Broad street, in
Lynn. where she lived at this time. is
a Mecca of Christian Science pilgrims
from all over the world today. 1t was
in 1875, nine years after the discov-
cry that the first edition of Science
and Health" was published. The clos
ing chapters of the manuscript were
written in an upper room of the Broad
street house.
In 1877, four years after her sepa-
ration from Mr.. Patterson, the foun-
der of the new belief, was married to
Asa Gilbert Eddy. In the interval she
had been admitted into the Congrega-
tional domination and baptized. Mrs.
Eddy established the Massachusetts,
Metaphysical college in Boston in
1881. Her teachings were taken up
and accepted at first by a few fol-
lowers, and as years passed by, lar
ger and larger number until the de-
nomination today extends to many
lands and numbers millions Of adher-
ents.
Church Organized.
Mrs Eddy began preaching in 1873
and organized the First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, in 1879.
Subsequently large edifice was erect
ed in this city of which she was made
pastor emeritus. Her writings at this
time became very voluminous and she
contributed largely to the Christian
Science Journal, the Christian Science
Science.
Mrs. Eddy took up her residence in
Concord in 1889 and 1t was at her
home at Pleasant View that she
watched the growth of her denomi-
nation and received many enthusias-
tic followers. Finally the number of
visitors became so large that she was
forced to ask them to cease their
calls.
Nevertheless, large delegations
continued to go up the Merrimac riv-
er and in June, 1908, 10000 Chris
tian Scientists visited Concord and
heard a few words from their leaders,
In the last few years of Mrs Eddy's
life in Concord there was a newspa-
per controversy over her identity and
for several days the city was filled
with reporters drawn there on the
charge that another person was i'm
personating her Mrs. Eddy was
obliged to exhibit herself to a jury of
newspaper men.
Studied Constantly.
Mrs. Eddy took up her residence at
Chestnut Hill, Newton, In large
stone house. in 1908. and there her
last days were passed. For the past
three years she lived quiet, peaceful
life, much of 1t In seeming monot-
ony, with her friends was consumed
mostly in constant study. From
window at Chestnut Hill could be seen
the white dome of the Christian Sci
ence temple, planted close beside the
little Mother church which she had
founded 80 years before.
Mrs. Eddy's literary efforts were al
most\wholly in prose, but her poems
have been set to music as hymns and
are sung at all Christian Science
meetings. The most noteworthy OF
these begins:
shepherd. show me how to go
Ger the hillsides steep;
How to gather, how to SOW,
How to feed thy sheep"
ROru Near Courord