The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-07-08

On July 10th the thought of hun
dreds of thousands of earnest Chris
tian people will turn in loving mem
DRY toward the little town of Bow.
New Hampshire, where one hundred
years ago was born the child who la
ter became known 10 the world as
Mary Baker Eddy, the founder and
discOverer of the most remarkable
of all modern spiritual movements.
a few years ago writer i'm a great
London magazine, when commenting
on Mrs. Eddy's strength of character
mingled with extraordinary tender
ness for humanity" said her zone par
amount impulsiOn has ever been the
good of mankind"
While only the sober estimate of
pOsterity can rightly estimate the
work of the human figures that pass
across the world stage, the world is
now inclined TO accept the view of
some Of its more thoughtful leaders
that among the great and good women
| of history. none will have more en-
| during place than Mary Baker Eddy.
Born of sturdy Scotch-English an
cestry, her forbears were among those
who carved the mighty American ma
! tion out of the wilderness. Appar-
emily of that high type of character
which with deliberation chooses the
| spiritual things of life, Mrs. Eddy
blazed Il pathway of light along which
have travelled with JOY and gratitude
millions of human beings. At an age
when the average person counts his
best work finished, Mrs. Eddy began
her greatest effort, and unlike other
spiritual leaders of history, she lived
10 see her teachings established as ii
recognized influence for good i'm the
world
Mrs. Eddy's ancestry includes some
of the most distinguished families of
England and Scotland. \ direct an
cestor was daughter of king OF
Scotland, and SO her line is connected
with the present royal house of Great
Britain, and thus according To some
authorities. straight back to David,
king of Israel
1t was on February 4, 1866. at
SwampScOtt near Lynn, Mass, that
Mrs. Eddy experienced a remarkable
spiritual healing from the effects of u
fall which had been pronounced fatal.
This experience, with further Scrip
tural study, led to her discovery that
all causatiOn is mind and all effects
mental phenomena, and that there is
Il definite spiritual law which, under
stood, governs all human affairs. She
spent the next nine years in working
out. proving, and teaching the truth
of her discovery, and then published
her book, Science and Health" i'm
1919. In June of the same year she
opened regular services at her home
in Lynn, and gave to the little group
who there worshipped with her, the
name Christian Scientists" These
students commenced at once TO prac-
tice Christian Science healing. and
from that day to this the healing Of
the sick and the regenerating of the
sinful have constituted the practical
ministry of Christian Science. In
June. 1878, Mrs. Eddy began her
Christian Science work in Boston. and
on Patriots day, April 10, 1879. she
formally organized the first Christian
Science church which she declared
was designed To commemorate the
word and works of our Master, which
ShouI1 raiuctota ,,riuafti.-o Cbrisffanifx-
and its lost element of healing
There followed the establishment OF
college for the teaching of the nev
Science, and in 1883 the publication
of the first of the influential period
icals which have helped So tremen-
dously 10 spread the teachings OF
Christian Science. Ten years after
founding her church in Boston, Mrs
Eddy returned TO her native state of
New Hampshire and established her
home ut Concord. almost within sight
of her childhood home at Bow.
Then followed a period OF almost
twenty years of retirement at her
beautiful estate, pheasant View
There her time and thought were Civ
en to further spiritual research and
plans for the further extension OF the
great religious Movement she had es
tablished and in which she held the
honored title OF Pastor Emeritus
Perhaps her most important accom-
plishment during this period was the
development Of code OF rules &c