Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-31
Passing of Noted Writer and
Lecturer Brings Sorrow to
Hundreds of AtIantans.

TRANSPORTATION rather than dissolu-
ton is the logical step.
The body may be redeemed by spirit
utilization of thought
! These are essentials in the philoso-
phy Of hope embodied in what is prac-
| tlcally the last utterance of Mrs. Liv-
lngston Minis, leader of thought and
manners in Atlanta for years who died
In Boston yesterday.
prophecies of a beautiful life passed
with the death of Mrs. Livingston
M1ms--Mrs. Sue Harper Minis, as she
is known in her writings and lectures
along the lines of her powerful ortho-
dox philosophy Her last message is
that of hope for the human race to be
delivered from death.
Perhaps not now. at this stage Of eX-
1stence,s she said, can man escape
death; but he will at some period when
he learns by spiritual regeneration to
escape sin and disease.
Death is only phase of belief. that
existence is material instead OF spirit
ual, an experience Of the human mind. ;"
she wrote in her last message, ''and we
nave but to awake from the dream of
materialism to the joy and fruition of
spiritual understanding. AS we learn
that mind makes its own embodiment
and can not die, the change called death
is seen to be neither corrective nor
| Transforming; the body must be re-
deemed by the spiritualization Of
thought"
The death of Mrs. Minis probably is
most significant to those of the Chris
tian Science faith, for whom she was
leader since her adoption Of the faith
in Atlanta something more than TWEEN
ty years ago She was close to Mrs
Mary Baker Eddy, and in power and
following probably second only to Mrs
Eddy.
Mrs. Minis died Thursday in Boston,
where she had been visiting friends
She had been i'll for seven or eight
months. Her body will be brought to
Atlanta for burial beside that Of her
husband, Major Livingston Minis
Mr.. and Mrs. Livingston Minis, dur
ing their residence in Atlanta, were
| leaders in social affairs and in the in
tellectual life of the city. Their home
at the junction of Peachtree street and
Ponce DeLeon avenue, where now
stands the Georgian Terrace hotel, was
veritable salon for the exposition Of
all that was brilliant in the life of At
| lanta and of Georgia. Major Minis was
mayor of Atlanta and president for
many years of the Capital City club.
Leader in Charity Work.
Mrs. Minis activities did not cease
with the social and intellectual phase Of
life She was leader in charity work.
and was the prime factor in founding
the Atlanta Home for the Friendless.
Later, when she became interested in
Christian Science work because she was
healed after an invalidism of fifteen
years, her vigorous mind took up
thought along that line, and she found
ed the First Church OF Christ in At
lanta. which was located on West Ba-
ker street The building recently was
sold to the Atlanta Woman's club. 1t
was in her home that the first Chris
tan Science gathering in Atlanta was
held.
After the death Of her husband and
the consequent destruction Of her home
in Atlanta. Mrs. Minis gave herself up
TO lecture work and Travelled in every
part of the country She held until the
time of her death a position in the col
lese of lecturers of the Christian Sci
ence church.
Resides her force Of intellect, Mrs.
Minis was attractive because OF her
great beauty, drawing attention by her
charm even when she had passed the
7o-vear mark She was about u years
old at her death.
That Mrs. Minis was beloved gen
orally was evidenced by many tributes
80 erection which she inspired, nota-
H. o-,onq them a sonnet sequence
- ,,,ora than 100 sonnets written by
0L,aa Oralia Key Bell, an Atlanta poet,
who achieved national prominence anu
largely through her sonnets u MI D
Minis. ,. r.n+.r
| 1 20 the most graceful and one
.,,ainh exnresses something OF the noun
of Mrs, Minis life was:
e,noo our souls crossed, sweet SOUL
my soul hath dwelt ,,.. ,,o,,o
- +he Eternal Now. No might nave
M D D no will be, but the great Sc
rene ,o,+
I,ight is. Life is, Love Isl feh
/. IS -, +he moment at thy side I knelt'
II a. a. nhen / arose and Cpd mine eyes
twas seen, ,,a
cod,s kingdom in this beauteouS iahu
terrene, .,,rr,o,,,
80. in one chosen spot, one narrow
Emf ou pg,oi Ger the earth which Is
which is not sinful, is not woe-pre-
doom'd, ,.-.. ,,,r
Rpt by the fire of love updra"n con-
sumed ,.,-5
r..o truths sun, unleapeth ana Is glau,
mt II is~Light is Life is, Love Is ana
~, drau we in the kingdom Of His