The Test of Character

Editor

There is no better test of character than the estimate in which one is held in his own neighborhood, city, or state, among his immediate friends and associates. They have means and opportunities of knowing and measuring one's worth, or lack of worth, not possessed by others.

It is certain, therefore, that he who stands well with his neighbors,—with those who know him best,—be he humble and obscure or great and distinguished, is worthy the respect and confidence of all others, and in due measure will have it.

We who know intimately the facts and circumstances surrounding the private life and character of the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, are glad to have that life and character gauged by this test, as well as by that of her worldwide career as a religious evangelist, and the faithful servant of God in establishing a system of healing Truth for the benefit of her fellow-beings.

As one among many evidences of the esteem for Mrs. Eddy by her home citizens, we mention the fact that the local press of the city wherein she resides, have only words of kindness and respect for her and her life of Christian devoutness. If occasionally a person, impelled by misapprehension or by malice, seeks to publish an attack upon Mrs. Eddy or upon Christian Science, they are quietly but firmly told by the publishers that their columns are closed to anything unfriendly and unjust to one of Mrs. Eddy's well-known goodness and purity of life.

Only recently, the editor of an old and representative periodical of the state, published at Concord, was importuned by a person unfriendly to Christian Science to publish an article in the nature of an attack upon Mrs. Eddy and Christian Science, but he was politely told by the management that nothing of that kind could appear in their columns. In thus doing these gentlemen are but reflecting the prevailing sentiment.

This attitude on the part of a neighbor of Mrs. Eddy speaks volumes in support of our proposition that our neighbors, of all others, are best fitted to judge of our private life and character.

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