Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-07-15

On July 10th the thought of hun
dreds Of thousands of earnest Chris
tiaD people will turn In loving men,
DRY toward the little town Of Bow,
New Hampshire, where one hundred
years ago was born the child who To-
ter became known to the world as
Mary Baker Eddy, the founder and
discOverer of the most remarkable
nf all modern spiritual movements.
few years ago writer IN a great
London magazine. when commenting
on Mrs. Etidy's strength Of character
mingled with extraordinary tender
ness for humanity, said her zone par
amount impnIsion 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 a more Ell
during place than Mary Baker Eddy.
Born of sturdy Scotch-English an
cestry, her forbears were among those
who carved the mighty American ma
ton out Of the wilderness. Appar-
emily of that high type of character
which with deliberation chooses the
spiritual things of life. Mrs. Eddy
blazed a 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
to see her teachings established as a
recognized influence for good In the
world
Mrs. Eddy's ancestry includes some
Of the most distinguished families OF
England and Scotland. A 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 OH February 4, 1866, al
Swampscott. near Lynn. Mass, that
Mrs. Eddy experienced a remarkable
spiritual healing from the effects OF |,
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
a definite spiritual law which, under
stood, governs all human affairs. Sht
spent the next nine years In working
out, proving, and teaching the truth
of her discovery. and then published
her book, Science and HEALTH n
1876. In June of the same year SHIT
opened regular services at her HON,
in Lynn, and gave to the little grOul
who there worshipped with her, tn.
name "Christlan 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 thu
sinful have constituted the practice
ministry Of Christian Science. II
June, 1878, Mrs. Eddy began he
Christian Science work In Boston, an,
on Patriots day, April 10, 1870, sh'
formally organized the first Christian
Science church which she declares
was designed to commemorate tn
word and works Of our Master, whicl
should reinstate primitive Christianit
and Its lost element Of healing"
There followed the establishment o
a college for the teaching Of the ne>
Science, and In 1883 the publicatio
Of the first Of the influential period
icals which have helped SO tremer
dously to spread the teachings @
Christian Science. Ten years afte
founding her church In Boston, MR.
Eddy returned TO her native state Q
New Hampshire and established he
home AT Concord. almost within sigh
of her childhood home at Bow.
Then followed period of almos
twenty years Of retirement at he
beautiful estate, pheasant View
There her time and thought were 81,
en- TO further spiritual research an
MANS for the further extension of III
great religious Movement she had q
tablished and in which she held tn
honored title Of Pastor Emeritus
Perhaps her most important accen
plishment during this period was til
development Of code OF rules