Arizona republican., 1921-07-16
HERALDED AS
 GREAT AMERICAN
Men and Women of All Nations Irrespective Of
 Creed Hail Her as Won
 derful Spiritual Leader

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 Creed Hail Her as Won
 derful Spiritual Leader
 BOSTON, Mass, July 15.-The one nundredth anniversary of one of the most remarkable women of those who t4bored to benefit humanity will be memorialized tomorrow. Born in the little New Hampshire village of Bow orl July IS, 1891. Mary Baker Eddy, by her determination to devote her life 10 spiritual things has risen in the hearts of millions of human beings to q height achieved by few The otorm center of as bitter a medico- theological controversy as modern times has ever seen, Mrs. Eddy went steadily forward to the accomplish nlent of her avowed purpose. the res toratfon of the earlier Christian teachings in their full significance, and lived to see her work firmly es- tAb1fshed
 That Mrs. Eddy was an American, born of a long line of Puritan an- ceStorx, and whose genealogy is that of the Angio-Saxon founders of this country. is, in the minds of many thoughtful people. but another con- crete evidence of the vast spiritual destiny of America As an instance of the importance Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy assumed in the minds of a past Generafion<of great Americans may be cited the words of the much loved Bronson Alcott in a letter he wrote her during the early eighties:
 Tn times like these, so sunk in sen- sualism, I hail with joy your voice, speakinR an assured word for God and immortality, and my joy is heightened that these words are of woman's divinings-" It was but a few years previously that the Con cord philosopher had visited Mrs. Eddy in the hours of her bitterest persecution, with the gentle state ment: .I have come to comfort you.'
 To those who are not unmindful that genealogy has a place in the af- fairs of the world, it will be of inter- est to note that Mary Baker Eddy s lineage goes back to those Scotch forbears who were nightly associat- Cd with the affairs of their times, for q direct ancestor was daughter of a king of Scotland, and thus her line is connected with the present royal house of Great Britain, which, as has been recently shown by many au- thorities. goes back straight in his-
  David. king of Israel.
 The women of America and of oth- CT lands have recognized the value of the labors of Mary Baker Eddy. and today her name stands highly placed in the list of those who have toiled in the interests of human kind. On the occasion of Mrs. Eddy's demise some years ago, the Woman's Na- tional Daily, (Dec. 5. 1910D set forth editorially the estimate in which she was held by millions.
 s'It is peculiarly human to venerate and sanctify our ancestors, remarked this newspaper. "and stone those who seek fo better life while we are living it. But a comparatively few years aeo a man died whose life had beer spent in causing the world to swim 1T blood and misery. It trembled ane rasped in relief as he died, and ther proceeded to glorify him as 1t hat rroveled at his feet while he lived He had emptied a million homes Q their bread winners, caused mor' widespread misery and distress tha1 any man who ever lived, and built { world empire which crumbled befor' be was gone, yet when Napoleon Bonaparte died, all the world bowed it's head in tribute to the beating h' had given it.
 .sTwo nights ago frail little ol' ~Antlewomarl died, who, too, had bull an empire, but not of blood and mls erv. A million hearts mourned her si lentIy for moment, but in accord ance with her own teaciingA It wa only a tribute of love and loyalty TO the brighter, better viewpoint she ha taught them. She had .sheu blood. destroyed no homes, shackle TO nation, but what she had ooIl was to take away little human His erv and substitute a happier, bette attitude toward life. She taught noth ing new. for what she taught was bu . different view of the same thing the beginning and the end. We ma differ from that view, but none eve now can doubt that she was one Inc most remarkable souls that Ina ever appeared in human guise."
 If was on February l, 1866, ths Mary Baker Eddy fell upon the lc at Lynn, Mass, and sustained whs physicians pronounced fatal 1n1ur For wears previously she had bee seeking a greater light upon tt Scriptures and now in her extren ity she turned to her Bible for hell If was three days after her lnJuI that she regalned CONSCIOUSNESS, Hedi the verdict of the doctors and aske for her worn copy of the Scripture She turned to the gospel of Matthe and as she read the account or u healing of the palsied man she hel self said:
 Tt was to me a revelation of u Truth: the lost chord of Truth, hea ing as of old"