Editorial January 10, 1901 Issue

Monument to Baron and Baroness de Hirsch

Editor with contributions from Mary Baker G. Eddy

A letter in this article was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany: My. 287:1-289:5

A Monument is soon to be erected in Central Park, New York, in commemoration of the eradication of racial prejudice. The monument will cost upwards of fifty thousand dollars, and the amount is to be raised entirely by voluntary subscriptions.

The sculptor's conception is highly artistic and effective. A female figure in bronze, heroic size, typifying Philanthropy, is represented holding in her left arm a tablet on which are engraved the features of the Baron and Baroness. Before this figure is a smaller one, that of a child, representing posterity, placing on the tablet a bunch of palms.

These figures will be placed on a pedestal of highly polished pink granite. The pedestal will take the form of an exedra, whose majestic sweep of unbroken curves will be intended to convey the idea of the all-embracing arms of true charity.

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