Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-09
Mary Baker Eddy Discoverer of Christian seien'

 Around the Memory Thereof Cluster the |
 Golden Days of My Childhood''
 This quotation Is reproduced in greatly l enlarged facsnilie from letter in regard to her girlhood home, written by Mrs Eddy to a friend.
 On the east side is the following quo tation from the sixteenth verse of the twenty-eighth chapter of Isaih:
 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, lay in Zion for q foundation stone, a tried stone, . precious cornerstone, . sure foundation. he that belieyeth shall not make haste"
 On the north side is the following from Mrs. Eddy's writings-'No and Yes" page 3s:
 This Truth is the rock which the builders rejected but fine same is be- come the head of the corner This Is the chief cornerstone. the basis and support of creation. the interpreter of one God, the infnity and unity of good"
 MARY EDDY BAKE.
 On the west side of the tablet bears the following:
 'Novus Ordo seelerum"
 This is an intentionally altered que tation from Virgirs collection of the Sibylline books and translated means, ''The New Order of the Ages" It also appears on the Great Seal of the United States.
 With a fame worldwide and a follow ing embrac cling literally all lands and tongues and peoples, 1t is worth not ing that practically all of Mrs. Dddy's long life of eighty-nine years was passed if not in sight, certainly within two hours travel of the place of her birth. She lived a few mehths in Will mingteH, N. C., when first married. She went to Philadelphia at the time of the Centennial and to Washington a flew years later. In 1884 and again in 1888 she visited Chicago. But aside from these instances she practically never left New England. Boston and vicinity and Con- cord, saw the beginnings and the fruit age of her great work as religious teacher and leader.
 A few days ago a little party of Bos- ton and Manchester newspaper writers jeurneyed up the MerFiHae to Bow and climbed through the country lane to the plateau on which stands the Eddy mono lith One of the party in speaking of Mrs. Eddy, expressed deside for some estimate of her work and worth from some follower who knew her per senally. The following was therefore furnished:
 "The life of Mrs. Eddy was noticeable one of contracts. Hailed by her fol- lowers as the restorer of this age of the true import of the teachings of Christ Jesus-as the emphasizer particu- larly that the healing of physical disease, which had been overlooked by the ortho- dox Christian religionists, was inherent in the Christ message - Mrs. Ed dy in her personal aspects remained al- ways fine type of the New England wo- l man of the old school.
 Although Hr teachings were cosmo- politan and universal, she, herself, was | interestingly provincial. an old-fashioned 1 New Englander Of the Sturdy Puritan l strain to the backbone. She had sound | New England virtues of moral courage, 1 indepenAence. simple living and definite answering purpose A very human wo- man was Mary Baker Eddy. as human as her great conutrymen, George Wash | ington, and Abraham Linceln were hu- man, and character of extraordinary interest to all who knew her as well as great spiritual light of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
 At present one hears a great deal about ! Einstein and his theory of relativty rob- ping time and space of their actuality and | making them incidental instead of fun l damental. How many realize that Fin stein is stating in his own terms con | clusions which Mary Baker Eddy arrived at and published some fifty years age l Her teaching of the "unreality of mat ter" might just as well have been stat ed as the "reIativity of matter, time ant space" Moreover she went Einstein one better. She said she could prove he theory by healing physical disease, ant there is an abundance of evidence throug1 out the world to show that she made good her claim.
 Right here is another contrast Mar, Baker Eddy was not of humaply sci entihc or philosophical trend of mind Her early home and school education had been adequate according to thes times She wrote all her life. but hel natural bent was toward poetic expres sion and the paramount interest of he life was religious. Unquestionably, how . ever. her teaching is just as revolutionar philosophcslly as it has proved te b religiously. and furthermore it is just a revolutionary socially and economicall
 as it is philosophically. a point whic . 1t is doubtful if even her followers hay |; yet definitely perceived.
 In addition to her many published re ligious works. Mrs. Eddy developed
 code of church law uniuue in its pro visions and opera ton. This law is so in eeniously worked out that a failure O
 the part of the membership or the con : stituted authority of the church to con petentIy fulfill the obligations of the :, membership or their office according u the teaching of Christian Science autC a matiea1ly results In rapid collective ii: l. integratien until a new and spiritual e advanced viewpoint is gained and thu = iRsures continued unfoldment in the rigl = direction, Altogether, therefore, the eel