McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1921-07-15

On July lOtn Ine Thought Oh nun
dreds of thousands Of earnest Chris
tian people will turn in loving mem.
ory toward the little town OF Bow.
New Hampshire, where one hundred
years ago was born the child who la
ter became known to the world as
Mary Baker Eddy, the founder and
discoverer Iof the most remarkable
of all modern spiritual movements.
A few years ago writer In 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
blaxed 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
Ingland and Scotland. A direct an
castor was a 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.
Tt was on February 4. 1866, at
Swampscott, near Lynn, Mass, that
Mrs. Eddy experienced a remarkable
spiritual healing from the effects OF a
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
q 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 In
1876. 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. 1870, she
formally organized the first Christian
Science church which she declared
was designed to commemorate the
word and works of our Master, which
should reinstate primitive christianity
and Its lost element of healing"
There followed the establishment o.
q college for the teaching Of the new
Science, and in 1888 the publication
OF the first Of the influential period
icals which have helped so tremen
dousiy to spread the teachings o
ChrIstiau Science. Ten years afte