Article February 18, 1911 Issue

Regardless of conflicting opinions concerning this new...

Jackson (Miss.) Daily News

Regardless of conflicting opinions concerning this new religious cult, the cold facts of history must be conceded. Mrs. Eddy enlisted under her banner nearly a million followers within a decade, and she must be accorded a unique place among the religious leaders and thinkers of this day and generation. The Christian Science movement has grown so rapidly and shown so much virility amid unusual storm and stress, that it may be expected to survive the death of its Leader, and continue to show strength and vitality among the creeds and cults of the day. Even here in Mississippi, where the people are slow to adopt new spiritual ideas, clinging tenaciously to the orthodox faith of their fathers, Christian Science has obtained a strong foothold.

Credit must be given where credit is due, regardless of your personal views. In summarizing the life of Mrs. Eddy, therefore, we must admit that a woman with the will and power to establish, within little more than ten years, a new religious cult, and place it upon such a firm foundation, must possess more than ordinary powers. The growth of the Christian Science movement, the establishment of its churches in magnificent buildings, and the organization of hundreds of thousands of people in a faith which has become world-wide,—this has been one of the extraordinary phenomena of the present and the past centuries.

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