Article June 15, 1899 Issue

Mrs. Eddy's Visit

The Boston press gave a great deal of space to accounts of the visit of Mrs. Eddy and her address to her followers assembled at the Annual Meeting of the Mother Church, Tuesday afternoon, June 6. Three leading papers published the address in full.

Following are brief extracts from the afternoon papers :

If one asks these people why a visit from Mrs. Eddy means so much to them, he will find that they associate no element of worship with her personality. They evince for her a love and regard that might at first seem inexplicable when many of them have never seen her, but such reverence as is shown her is the reverence by which a loyal body of followers recognize the fitness of the Leader to lead, and her insight and wisdom in pointing out the way that must be followed. It is to be remembered, too, that hundreds of the people who heard and saw Mrs. Eddy for the first time to-day, associate her name and the Truth as she has stated it with their own healing from physical infirmities and ills that they once thought incurable, and it seems hardly strange that such persons should feel an eagerness to see one to whom they feel they owe present immunity from the ills that flesh is heir to, or that their eagerness to see and hear their acknowledged Leader, should be mingled with a deep personal sense of gratitude. So far as Mrs. Eddy herself is concerned in the matter, as was said at the Communion service on Sunday, her reluctance to appear among her followers publicly is based on the desire to turn their allegiance altogether away from her own personality, and rather toward the Principle of life which she enunciates.

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