The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-21
Mrs. Eddy Early Leader in
Movement for Temperance
Science Text Book Acv in Reform Work in Lynn and
of Her Discovery Ito sFoundat

the side Of Spirit, and strive to cease
my warfare
when through this consciousness.
was delivered from the dark shad-
ow and portal Of death. my friends
We're frightened at beholding me re-
stored to health,
"a dear old lady asked me. How is
1t that YOU are restored TO us? Has
Christ come again on earth?'" Mis-
cellaneous Writings. p 1870.
Searching the next number of the
Lynn Reporter February Z, 1866, one
looks 10 vain for any further mention
of Mrs. Patterson's accident. But one
Is stavtued by q headline as emphatic
as ever used In that conservative pub
iicatten. notable for Its prosaic atten-
ton to fact. II reads:
THE DEAD ALIVE
The item which follows Is reported
from Norwich, Conn.,. as having oc-
cured a few days ago" 1t tells OF a
girl who came te-Afe again after she
was supposed to be dead. The account
ends with these words: This reads
like romance but II Is said to be the
literal truth"
The girl was buried, II appears. IN
cataleptic condition. When exhumed
the same night she rose out of her
coffin. she went to the home Of her
parents who at first refused her ad-
mission. thinking her a ghost II is a
striking parallel on a very different
plane. Of Mrs. Pattersons experience,
Slavcry's End Coincidcnt.
The same issie Of the Reporter re-
cords the passage at Washington on
February 2. 1866, of a bill providing
that no discrimination shall be made
against the civil rights and immuni-
ties Of any inhabtant of any State Of
territory of the United States on ac-
count of race, color or previous con-
ditiOns Of servitude. In other words.
on the very day when the law at last
settled 1t that human slavery should
exist 10 more In the United States. the
angel Of the crusade against what
Mrs Eddy later called - worldwide
slavery" under more subtle and de-
PRAYING forms" was speaking the
momentous word to the discoyerer
and founder of Christian Science (see
Science and Health. .. 2261.
The same paper carries long ar
tirle by Thomas Hughes, member OF
Parliament for Lambeth, England. EN-
titled Peace on Earth" 1t cites
Loweli's words.
Bow down. dear land for thou
hast found release"
aud an article on The age Of certain
great men is entitled The Turn of
Life"
These things have meaning for
lhese who understand what a wonder
fn1 new accession Of light ON the
whole problem of human existence
came 10 earth In those days and nights
If revelation al Swampsc Mrs. Ed
dv has since said that the world feels
tho alternative effects of truth through
every pore fScience and Health, p.
2241. The paper. which was hospi-
table to her writings OF the time, has
these signs that thought in that hour
WIS turning TO freedom, TO peace, To
longevity and even to the raising Of
the supposed dead. Was this some
faint response go tho marvellous con-
seriousness Of pans eternal freedom,
s+fta fft-f1
ing to earth?
Writing Afte1 Discovery.
On march 20 in the same year
CSG6) Mrs Patterson wrote again
from, Swampscott "A letter published on
April A. This, as probably her first
piece of published writing after the
events Of February. is If remarkable
interest. II has the marked style OF
her later writing and recalls the
description Of a sunset published In
her miscellaneous Writings (p,
21Gl, and the hints % spiritual inter
probation which are found in All her
pictures of nature tIhid., p. 329), II
is fun Of the joy of returning spring.
tho new life In the world. Several
sentences are deeply significant OF tho
recent experience. She begins by de-
scrlbing swampscott. She says sum
mer birds are not yet. but the voice
IF the turtle will ere long be heard
In the land"
THE snow birds and your humble
servant ha1e had a brief Irritation that
ended with The winter in fl genuine
friendship when blasts blow ficrcely
ard cit mad antics about my window.
NV winter wanderer would hop over