Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-05
n,cknowledgsl founder ana

| Schramm-Jo nnson5 DRUG co.. sat
Lake City.
acknowledged founder and rsycred
head.
.For.lnany weeks | conferred .hyn
Mrs. Eddy almost daily about tile shift
Ing pulses of+the attacks. Shcncta the.
charge Of mental iniirmtN with bril-,
| liant sanity5}nnd rcasonabicness. Y she
met every other assault with&dignity,.
patriotism and sound common sense.
| During those irving months shoiill-l
spired me with the. highest regard for
her character and PERSONAL ye Profcs-
| pcctcd, but" hei: re.4conduct land
| bearing during =. the most troubled
months Other life INSPIRED x iitxmSself
and others near htf the highest 'peFson-
al loyalty and Affection & ft1ar .5jss,
Mrs Sibyl Wilbur, the tlatcstg3ef Mrs.
Eddy's biographcis: whose Mic hsas
t-approved by the lcader{ and by tie,
church authorities, says 4thatt'no mys-
terry today! surrounds Mrs. sEddy's life
history. Her birth. her ancestry for
20 years her education, her social de-
vclopment. her individual service 10 the
world, have been scrutinized with the
strong searchlights of both love ,and
criticism
WHERE HER LIFE BEGAN,
Her life began among tho granite
foothills Of New Hampshire, %IiHrSfa-s
thcr, Mark Baker, was n farmer of
Bow and a descendant Of revolutionary
and colonial heroes. while her mother
was of Scottish ancestry. She was the
youngest Of three daughters and She
had three brothers. I.
She was Of delicate health from her
birth and in her childhood is said TO
have perplcxed her father BY sage say
ings and doings. Her education in little
schools and later at the Pembroke acnd-
envy. was supplemented by what she
gathered from discussion on religious
matters at the family iilesdc when
leading churchmen gathered to tax
over church matters with her father.
In the carly foitics. George Washing
ton Glover, formerly of Concord. be-
came associated with Samuel Baker. the
third son. and as result. Mary Baker
and he were married about Christmas
in 1s43 at Tlton, N. H. The Glovcrs
went to the south, where Mrs Eddy saw
slavery in its worst forms and there
the June after her marriage she was
left,a widow. Returning to New Hamp-
shire she gave birth to her son. George
Washington Glover. in September.
Mary Baker Glover spent the next few
years with her sister. Abigail. and other
relatives in New Hampshire. and be-
gan literary work with several articles
on her observations Of slavery in the
south. She also taught school.
About 1850 wave of spiritualism
swept over New England, which drew
her attention to some extent.
After, nine years of widowhood. Mrs.
Eddy married DR. Daniel Patterson. a
New England dentist This marriage
was not happy However, the relation
ship was continued for 20 years, when 1t !
was severed by divorce.
MEETING WITH QGINBY.
a notable event of Mrs. EddS's life.
was her meeting in 1862 with Phineas
.Quinby, /; mesmcric healer. at the In
ternational hotel in PORTLAND. Me.
Quinby who was the son OF black |
smith, was described at the time of
the meeting With Mrs. Eddy as
sllrewd little man Of argumcntative
disposition and logged determine
ton. From acquaintance with
him. Mrs. Eddy became mbued with
metaphysical IDEAS and began her
career.
Mrs Eddy. then Mrs; Patterson,
dwelt long under the influence OF
Quinhy's mesmerc belief and it came
to have n great weight in her teach
ings. Later she denounced Quinby's
methods and said: 81 discovered the
science of mind reading and thatr@as
enough" sapl'a ~
After spending two years in Port
land, Me-. Mrs Patterson rcJoined Hers
husband in Lynn, where she lived iivo
years continuing her study of
While there, she fell on
the ice sustaining injury which the
doctor said was severe. but from which
she said she. recovered in one night.
1t was this incident that led directly to
the PRONUNCIATION of her discovery OF
Christian Science. yF,
The little house on Brond street,
H., r ,,-I,a ,.l, at !
is II Mecca of Christininr Science pil- |
grms from all over the. world today,
1t was in 1857, nine. year after the
discovery that the first edition OF
Science and Health" was published
The closing chapters of the manu-
script were written lin an upper
room of the Broad street house @
In 1877, four years after her scpara-
ton from Mr.. Patterson. the founder
of tho new belief was married to Asa
Gilbert Eddy. In the interval she had
hccn admitted into the5ConSrcgattonal
and baptized. rSrti sis,5
Mrs Eddy cstahiishedl tho Ma sss-
chusetts metaphysical college In nBGs-s
ton in 1881. Her teachings were M
cepted at first by a fcw followers but
the denomination today extends to
many lands and numbers millions of
adhercnts.
BEGINS PREACHING.
Mrs. Eddy began preaching In 1878
and organized the First Church OF
Christ. Scientist in Boston in 1879.
~ large cdiicc was
erected in this city Of which, she
was made pastor emeritus, Her writ
ings ut this time became very
rolnminous.
Mrs Eddy took M her residence in
Concord in 1882. ut her home In Plea
SAINT View. Finally tho number of
visitors became so large that she was