Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-07-16
MRS. EDDY BORN
100 YEARS AGO
TODAY IN N. \.
Tens of Thousands of Her
Followers Are Expected
to Pay Silent Tribute to
Mothers Memory.
Especial Correspondence to The JournaI)

Especial Correspondence to The J0urnai0
Boston, Mass, July 15.-Tomor-
row will be the one hundredth an
niversary of the birth of Mary
Baker Eddy, the discoverer and
founder Of Christian Science" and
in many respects one Of the most
remarkable women Of modern
times.
While tens of thousands of fol-
lowers of the faith, in America ana
in many other lands, will pay silent
tribute to the memory Of Mother
Eddy, there will be no formal com
memoration of the centenary for
the reason that it is contrary to the
tenets Of the church to recognize
birthdays. For the same reason
the pilgrimage to the old Eddy
homestead in New Hampshire
which had been proposed by d
group of the Boston church men,
bers, has been called off.
Mary Baker Glover Eddy was
born at Bow, N. H., July 16, 1921,
the youngest of six children OF
Mark Baker, a farmer. AS a child
she was frail and impressionaole,
of ardent religious nature. and
much given to reu-ing and COM
position.
George Washington Glover, a
friend of Mary Bakers brother,
Samuel won her heart and hand in
l1S42, and after their marriage they
removed to Charleston, s. c., where
Major Glover had business con-
tracts. At Wilmington, N. c., he
was stricken With yellow fever, ara
died after an illness of nine days
His widow returned to her father
home in New Hampshire. There
she gave birth to son, and there
after she was an invalid for much
of the time during the succeeding
twenty years.
In 1853 Mrs. Glover became the
wife of Daniel Patterson, a dentist,
but the marriage proved unhappy
land in 1873 Mrs. Patterson secured
a divorce on the ground of desef-
| ton.
Tried Various Treatments.
Meanwhile Mrs. Patterson had
divided her time between New
Hampshire and Boston and Port
land, Me-, trying various treatments
for the spinal weakness and nerV-
Gus indigestion from which she was
a constant sufferer. In PortlaEa
she had met Phineas P. Qr-mby'
son of a blacksmith and in Early
life a clockmaker, who had become
interested in the so-called magnet
ic or mesmeric treatment In later
years the claim was put forth that
Quimby was the real discoverer OF
Christian Science, but this was re-
futed by the followers of Mrs. EDDY
with the statement that while DR..
Quimby showed that cures could
be effected by the affirmation OF
health, it was Mrs. Eddy who IN
terpreted these effects as the re-
suit of faith.
1t was in Boston, between 1870
and 1872, that Mrs. Patterson be-
gan the teaching and practice OF
the new method of healing. The
movement spread rapidly and in
1875 the first society of Christian
Scientists was organized by the
followers in Lynn. About the same
time the publication of book, EN-
bodying the essence of Science
and Health, With Key to the Scrip
lures" gave great publicity to the
movement. While engaged in work
in Lynn Mrs. Patterson first met
Asa Gilber Eddy, whom she mar
ried in 1877.
The Christian Science church
was chartered under the laws of
Massachusetts in 1879 and the firae
regular church services were conf
menced the following year. Mrs.
Eddy lived to see the movement
spread to many lands. The latter
years of her life were spent in Sc
clusion, first at Concord, N. H., and
later in a residence in one of the
Boston suburbs. Her death oc-
Cured December 8, 1910. Her re-
mains rest in a magnificent mauso-
loum in Mount Auburn cemetery, in
Cambridge. OF the old homestead
at Bow, N. H., no trace remains,
but the site is marked by hand
same granite monolith.