Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-12-05
Tho Christian Science
Meeting Place In Boston.

In New England and one of the most
costly In the United States, the motif
er church." at Boston.
Out of that little meeting In Lynn
has grown a powerful institution.
Statistics of last year show that in the
United States there were 66S Christian
Science churches and also churches in
Italy, France, Great Brfta In. Canada
and British Columbia, G~many, Nor
way, Switzerland, India, China, South
Africa, Australia and many other
countries. Also In the United States
were 1896 Christian Science readers
and $4,000 communicates. All these
churches and the churches in foreign
countries are the result of the think
ing of the delicate. religious little farm
girl, and all are branches of the moth
err church at Boston.
This growth has resulted in spite of
the attitude of a doubling world.
Mrs. Eddy's mother was a descend
ant of a strict Congregationalist fam
lily that lived across the Merrimac riv
err from Bow, where Mary was born.
and the mother divided her efforts be
tween rearing her family Of six and
attending church.
The first fifteen years of Mrs. Eddy'a
life were spent on theofarm at Bow
Somebody has said Mary not only was
the most beautiful Of a family noted
locally for its good looks, but she alsc
"u1 EGlfffnront - n o-poda nhnun fhp
rest, her own family thought, intellec'
tually, and the family therefore had &
, habit of looking up to her.
She was fifteen years old when hei
father sold his 500 acres at Bow ano
moved to Sanbornton Bridge, which
now is known as Tilton. Mary Baker
went to school in Tilton and was mar
ried there at the age of twenty-five t.
her first husband, George Washington
| Glover, a close friend of Mary's broth
er Sam and who learned brieklayini
with Sam in Boston. Six months aft
er the marriage, in 1914, Glover diet
of%yphoid fever. The following Sep
TENDER. at her fathers, home at Tilton
her only child, George Washington
Glover, who now lives in Lead, $. ID.
was born. rse,e. -
For ten years following the birth o
her boy Mrs. Glover had a hard tim'
Of it trying to make ends meet atgTil
ton. asa a9oss a4Fs
In those days Mrs. Gloyer's extreme
nervousness was so great that he
father spread tan bark and straw II
front of the house many times so tina
his high strung daughter would escap
the noise OF rumbling wagons.
Mrs. T1lton. her sister. and she ha'
IA difference of opinion n day tina
resulted In the sister closing the doc
OF Mrs. Glover after telling her neve
to come into the house again. Whel
Mrs. Tilton died of ANGER in the nine
ties she left word that Mrs. Edd
should not be permitted TO attend tn
funeral. No part of Mrs. Tilton's fol-
tune, which was large. went to Mrs
Eddy, although George Glover, Mr.
Eddy's son, received q bequest of $40
900.
Mrs. Glover married a travelling der
tisL, Daniel Patterson. In Tilton
1858. For nine years Dr.. and Mrs
Patterson lived a wandering life. a
the husband practiced dentistry in vi
lagos between Tilton and North Gre
ton In 1878 Mrs. Patterson divorce
her husband on the grounds of desc
ton. He died st Saeo, Me-, where b
had been living as a hermit. in 1896.
Mrs. Eddy was forty years old.
nnnfPnnl invalid Itrs.,- uzttAA laors hY.,
band, DR.. Patterson, at Rumney, N. Il
i In 1881 and for almost seven year
q had been almost bedridden, when he
{ husband. who had been trying TO ri
her of her V disorders by h
e meopathy, n day wrote te c.
I Quimby of Portland, Me, whose cure
Mrs. Eddy had heard about. DIR. Pa
I terson told Quimby ia the letter tn,
/, Mrs. Patterson was suffering from
. spinal disease. This was the hegi
{ ming of Mrs. Eddy's interest in met
Is dds of cure. which later developed in
is Christian Science.
In October. 1862. Mrs. Eddy went
see Quimby at Portland. Sheeremai
II ed in Portland three weeks. n VIII
Il being treated by Quimby her heal
nj Improved. The talks she had wi
ri Quimby during those weeks We're t
first mental Impetus she had iowa
70 the work TO which later she devot
n her life.
u When she got backbone she talk
necessarily about Qaimhyism and tri
!, TO get III SILK neighhors to go to hi
Ia 4snaarv 1894 she wrote 10 QHi
ay fer tSent treafaleist,
i sear fsaer she WIS back Ia 70