Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-07-14

On July 10th the thought Of hun
dredS of thousands Of earnest Chris
tan people will turn in loving mem
DRY howard 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 of the most remarkable
Of all modern spiritual movements.
A few years ago a writer in a great
London magazine, when commenting
on Mrs. Eddy's strength of character
mingled with extraordinary tender
ness for humanity" said her lone 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 it's more thoughtful leaders
that among the great and good women
of history, none will have a more en-
during place than Mary Baker Eddy.
Born of sturdy Scotch-English an
restry, 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
PLACED 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
pest work finished, Mrs. Eddy began
ler greatest effort, and unlike other
spiritual leaders of history, she lived
20 see her teachings established as
recognized influence for good in the
world.
Mrs. Eddys ancestry includes some
If the most distinguished families Of
England and Scotland. A direct an
oestor was a daughter of a 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 on February 4, 1866, at
5wampscott. near Lynn, Mass, that
Mrs. Eddy experienced a remarkable
spiritual healing from the effects of
all which had been pronounced fatal.
This experience, with further Scrip
urul study, led to her discovery that
III causation is mind and all effects
mental phenomena, and that there is
definite spiritual law which, under
stood, governs all human affairs. She
spent the next nine years in working
aut, proving, and teaching the truth
If her discovery, and then published
Ter book, Science and Health" in
1878. In June of the same year she
opened regular services at her home
Il Lynn, and gave to the little group
who there wOrshipped with her, the
lame christian Scientists" These
students commenced at once to prac-
tice Christian Science healing, and
rom that day to this the healing Of
he 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
Oh Patriots day, April 10, 1879 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 of
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-
dously to spread the teachings OF
Christian Science. Ten years after
founding her church in Boston, Mrs
| Eddy returned to her native state OF
New Hampshire and established her
home at Concord, almost within sight
of her childhood home at Bow.
Then followed a period of almost
| twenty years of retirement at hel
| beautiful estate, pleasant View
There her time and thought were Civ
en- to further spiritual research anC
plans for the further extension of the
great religious Movement she had es
| tablished and in which she held tht
honored title of Pastor Emeritus
| Perhaps her most Important accom-
| plishment during this period was tn,
| ieveloDment Of code # t7IleS Il
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