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

Death may be overcome by humanity
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-
! ply Of hope embodied in what is prac-
ticaIly the last utterance of Mrs. Liv-
ingston 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
| Mims-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-
istence, 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
| have 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 capitalization of
! thought"
The death of Mrs. Minis probably is
most significant to those of the Chris
tian Science faith, for whom she was
a 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
a 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
Ianta. 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
! mart of the country. She held until the
time of her death a position in the col
lege of lecturers of the Christian Sci