Arizona republican., 1921-07-16


 walked into the parIor of the house where were gathered those who had but few moments previously left what they believed was her deatlw bed. The incident marks, she has said, the discovery of Christian Science.
 Many writers have pointed out that it is not frequently given to the in spirers of great enterprises to see their life work bear vast fruition. With Mary Baker Eddy apparently it was otherwise, for while she entered upon her work at an age when most women are given to believing that they are close to the end of their earthly journey, she lived during the next forty years to see her dis covery become one of the accepted religions of the world, with churches numbering the thousands dedicated to it's service, and countless thou sands of adherents in every civilized land.
 Those who knew her best have said that she was great leader. Among her followers were business men who left their work to do the things she bade them. They numbered bankers financiers. manufacturers. literary men and merchants. Each and every
 
 gentle determination that marked her own character. it is said She was a woman of high emprise. if one may judge by fhe- works, and she was possessed of keen insight.
 On Thanksgiving day, 190S,. ap- peared the last of her ideals--a daily newspaper which should, in her own language. "injure no man, but bless all mankind" Quietly and from all parts of thes United States she gath cred the men to whom she entrusted the carrying out of her new enter prise. It was all very simple. She wrote to a select few of her stu dents and told them the time had come for the establishment of the Christian Science Monitor and asked them how long it would be required for them to produce the first copy. They replied three months, and the paper made its appearance on time.
 Those who have contended that women lack the executive ability to carry forward great enterprises have been met many times with the record of Mary Baker Eddy, a simple New England woman of great culture, re- finement and courage. who in less than fifty years built up sn organiza- ton that has spread all over the globe; that has for one of it's expres- sions magnificent temple that dom mates the exclusive Back Bay dis trict of Boston. and that is devoted to the amelioration of the lives oi mankind.
 Mrs. Eddy's father was Mark Baker her mother was Abigail, nee Ambrose. Mrs. Eddy's mother was the sister of Senator Hoke Smiths grandmother. It was Senator Smith S father who on December 28. 1906 wrote a letter, designed expressly to set at rest erroneous reports, in which he said:
 T have known the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy from childhood. She is my first cousin. Her mother was my mothers younger sister. She (Mary Baker Eddy) was always a beloved visitor in our home. We corresponded | for several years while I was in col lege. :. Her brother Albert wa. | one of the ablest lawyers of New Hampshire: but Mary was deemed | the most scholarly member of hel family"
 l Mrs. Eddy was indeed a gentle | cultured woman. Her brother, Al | bert. who was law partner O. | Franklin H. Pierce, later president O l the United States, was her tutor, ant before she was eighteen she was ia l miliar with Latin, Hebrew and Greek Later in life she taught in the Metho
 dist. Conference Seminary (1S46) She contributed more or less regu l larly to well-known publications Ii I New England, generally upon politi
 cal topics, and some of her writing
 were published in the Belknap Ga | I triot After the death of her first hus
 band she was offered a salary 0 S3,000 year to write for the Od Fellows Magazine by it's editor, Rev Albert Case.
 \ Her first individual publication
 was Science and Health, With Ke
 to the Scriptures, which made it's ap
 pearance in 1875.
 q The world has numbered few wo men as leaders of great spiritua ' movements, and by the thoughtfl student the figure of Mary Bake [ Eddy is looming larger as the year ; go by. Those who came most inti
 mately in contact with her have al ways spoken of her straight Ameri , canism, and her conviction of th great destiny of the land of her birtl
 She laid upon her followers striC |, injunction to obey and respect tn
 laws of the land. And she practice
 strictly what she preached in that re
 spect. She held no great illusions herself; she was content to worshi ,, God and otdo her duty as an Amer can. On one occasion the Bosto Globe asked her for an expressic |. of her political beliefs. She replie in words which one writer hs Q claimed may well express the pel sonal creed of every American cit
 german. woman or child:
 e T am asked What are your pol = tics?' I have none in reality. oth' than to help support a righteous go'