Article April 13, 1899 Issue

Mary Baker G. Eddy—What She has Done

Denver Republican

In that darkest hours of slavery, just before the dawn of freedom, how dreary must the future have seemed to many a negro mother, as she sat in the stillness crooning a cheerless song to her drowsy babe! The tears must have often dimmed her eyes, as she thought of the life of bondage into which her child had come, with no prospect of happiness before it, unless its owners should chance to be kind-hearted.

When the proclamation of freedom came, what tides of love must have flowed toward Abraham Lincoln from the grateful hearts of slave mothers! How fervently they must have blessed him, as they heard more and more of their good white brother, under whose earnest leadership, their bonds were being effectually shattered! Not their bonds only, but also those of their children and children's children.

Who would condemn the slave mother for her devotion to Lincoln? If she should link the liberator's name with her account of her liberation, would any one sneer and accuse her of making a god of him?

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