Pueblo chieftain., 1921-07-03

| Boston, Mass. July 1.-The ono hun
dredth anniversary of one of the most
| remarkable women of those who la
bored to benefit humanity will >be
| memorialized next Saturday. Born in
the little New Hampshire village OF
Bow on July 1s, 1921. Mary Baker Ed
dy, by her determination to devote her
life to spiritual things. has risen in
the hearts Of millions OF human be-
ings to height achieved by few. The
I storm center OF as bitter a medico-
theological controversy as modern
times has ever seen, Mrs. Eddy went
steadily forward to the accomplishment
of her avowed purpose, the restora-
tion of the earlier Christian teachings
in their full significance. and lived to
see her work firmly established.
That Mrs Eddy was an American.
born of a long line of Puritan ances-
tors. and whose genealogy is that OF
the Anglo-Saxon founders of this
| thoughtful people. but another con-
crete evidence of tho vast spiritual
| destiny of America. AS an instance
of the Importance Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy assumed in the minds OF past
generation of great Americans may
Bronson Alcott in letter he wrote her
during the early eighties:
In times like these, so sunk In SEN
sualism, I hail with joy your voice.
speaking an assured word for God and
immortality. and my joy is heightened
that these words are of womans di-
winnings" 1t was but a few years pre-
| viously that the Concord philosopher
had visited Mrs. Eddy in the hours of
her bitterest persecution. with the
gentle statement: Il have come to
comfort you
| genealogy has a place in the affairs
of the world, it will be OF interest to
note that Mary Baker Eddy's lineage
goes back to those Scotch forbears who
were nightly associated with the af-
fairs of their times, for direct an
cestor was daughter OF a king of
Scotland. and thus her limo is con-
nected with the present royal house
OF Great Britain. which, as has been
| recently shown by many authorities
goes back straight in history thru
Scotland and Ireland to David, King
| of Israel.
The women OF America and of other
lands. have recognized tho value of the
labors of Mary Baker Eddy and today
her name stands highly placed in the
list OF those who have toiled in the
| interests of human kind. On tho oc-
casion of Mrs. Eddy's demise. some
years ago. the woman's National Daily
tDec. 5. 1870 set forth cditorially the
/ estimate In which she was held by
millions.
TT is peculiarly human to venerate
and sanctify our ancestors remarked
| this newspaper. and stone those who
seek TO better life while we are living
II. But comparatively few years ago
a man died whose life had been spent
In causing the world t" swim in blood
and misery. 1t trembled and gasped In
relief AS he died. and then proceeded
TO slorify him as II had grovelied at
his feet while he lived. He had emp
tied a million homes of their bread
| winners. caused more widespread mis-
cry and distress than any man who
ever lived. and built a world empire
which crumbled before he was zone:
yet when Napoleon Bonaparte died. all
the world bowed It's head in tribute 10
the beating he had given 1t
| Two nights ago a fraii little old
scntiewoman died. who. too. had built
an empire. but not of blood and misery.
A million hearts mourned her silently
for a moment, but in accordance with
her own teachings. IL was only a iri-
butte OF love and loyalty for the bright
er. better viewpoint, she had taught
them. She had shed 70 blood.
DESTROYED no homes. shacki.d no ma
ton. but what she had done was TO
take away a little human misery and
substitute a happier. better attitude
toward life. She taught nothing new.
for what she taught wa. bu. a differ
ent view OF the same thing-,he BEGIN
| ming and the end. We may differ from
that view. but mono even now can
doubt that she was one of tho mos.
romarkch'. .cii's that has ever ap-.
/ psared I'm human Euise"
II was on February l, 1856. that Mary
Baker Eddy fell upon the Ice at Lynn.
| Mass. and sustained what physicians
pronounced fatal injury. For years
| prcviouply she had boon seeking u
greater light upon the Scriptures. and
now. In her extremity. she turned to
her Bible for help. I. was three days
after her injury that she reeained con-
sciousness, heard the verdict of the
| doctors. and asked for her worn copy
Of the Scriptures. She turned to the
Gospel or Matthew. and as she read
the account OF tho healing OF tho pal
sled man. she herself said:
1T was to me a revelation Of Truth,
tho lost chord OF Truth. healing as
| old"
She rose. dr~s-cd herself and walked
into tire paTior Of tho house where
were gathered thope who had bu, a