The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-09-17
A Brief Glimpse of the Life
of Mary Baker G. Eddy

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Many of her students never worked
so well after they withdrew from her
compelling leadership, and their con.
tact with her remained the most vivid
and important event in their lives"
wrote one who was unsympathetic,
but in her own way strove to be fair.
And she continued: "Out of her abur,.
dant energy and determination Mrs
Eddy was enabled to nerve many
weak arm and to steel many an IL
resolute will, and did much of her
work with tools which were tempo
rarily given hardness and edge by the
driving personality behind them"
One finds on every hand evidence
of the indomitable spirit working In
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy by which she
was able to overcome the impediments
that would have crushed another.
Through them she swept, living u
see her ideas working for the practi-
cal as well as the spiritual beenfit u
thousands, who eagerly testified to
the good they received. Today, Il
decade after her passing, there are
said to be more than seventeen hun
dred Christian Science churches in
the world.
Born July 16, 1921, at the Baker
homestead in the town of Bow, near
the present city of Concord, in New
Hampshire, Mary A. Morse Baker was
the sixth and youngest child of Mark
and Abigail Baker. From infancy 1.
is said she was subject to convulsive
attacks of an hysterical nature, which
seemed not to grow better as she grew
older. When she was % she married
George Washington Glover, who lived
but six months, and then she -camH
home to give birth to her only child
named after her father-and she still
suffered sadly from her trouble. It.
was only after she had married for
the second time-to Daniel Patterson
that she found relief, it is said,
through the ministrations of Phineas
Parkhurst Quimby, who practiced a
form of healing in Portland, Me.
In the 1898 edition of Science and
Health" Mrs. Eddy wrote: "In the
year 1866 / discovered the science of
metaphysical healing and named it
Christian Science" 1t was not, how
ever, until after years of writing AMI
rewriting with undated patience that
the book first saw the light in 1875.
At this time Mrs. Eddy was in Lynn.
Mass, and there her theories had
found practical application in that city
In 1882 Mrs. Eddy left Lynn with her
husband, Asa Gilbert Eddy, whom she
married in 1877, and went to Boston,
where she lived and worked until she
retired to Concord, N. H, in the latte
part Of 1899. So simple was her life
in Concord it is said few persons felt
any interest in her until the dedication
of the Mother Church in Boston in
1895 caused them to realize how great
public parsonage lived among them.
Out of hardships few women have
endured, from misunderstanding AMI
what has been described as appalling
enmities," Mrs. Eddy achieved sue
cess such as has been given few per-
sons. Perhaps Mrs. Eddy herself was
thrilled when, on June 3, 1883, she
spoke to the third annual convention
of the National Christian Scientists
Association in Chicago. There she
had gone with Calvin A. Eye and
Ebenezer J. Foster-whom she later
adopted-and addressed three thou
sand persons, eight hundred of who'll
were Christian Science delegates. AS
indicated in a letter, it was scene
almost beyond description.
up they came in crowds to her sids
begging one handclasp, one look, one
memorial from her whose name wa
a power and sacred thing in their
homes. Those women she had nevec
seen. before-invalids raised up by her
book-attempted to hurriedly tell the
wonderful story.
"a mother who failed to get near
her held her babe to look on the-f
helper. Others touched the dress Of
their benefactor not so much as asking
for more"
1t was December 8, 1910, that Mary
Baker G. Eddy passed on, in Concord,
N. H.