Article March 2, 1907 Issue

JUSTICE TO MRS. EDDY

Lake County (Minn.) Advocate

McClure's magazine, which was heretofore taken a front rank among the periodicals of the day on account of its able editorial staff and brilliant special writers, has lost prestign and influence in the eyes of the literary and religious world by its recent publication of a most uncalled-for personal and malignant attack on the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the able Founder of the Christian Science Church, than whom there is no more refined, cultured, or talented woman in the New England States, and whose life from her childhood days within the borders of the old Granite State has been Christian. It is a matter of profound regret to the many readers of McClure's magazine that the publishers should have condescended to dim the luster of its pages with a mass of vituperation and personal abuse which is only fit for the sensational yellow papers of the day.

As a matter of simple justice to the life and good works of Mrs. Eddy we feel it our duty to publish some incontrovertible facts regarding her early life prior to her becoming the Leader of the Christian Science Church—before she became distinguished through the promulgation of her noble teachings for the uplifting of the human race, teaching which are so in harmony with the doctrines of the great Prince of Peace.

As a matter of fact, Mary Baker studied with honor in several of the seminaries in New Hampshire, and the late Julia A. A. Wood, who was the daughter of Ezekiel Sargent of New London, N. H. (one of the old settlers of Minnesota), and who was well known under the nom de plume of "Minnie Mary Lee"—a contributor to magazines as well as author of several books and of a history of Minnesota, uncompleted at the time of her death—was a classmate of Mrs. Eddy, as was Mrs. Wood's sister, Emily Sargent. Later, Mrs. Wood, who was the mother of the writer of this article, was one of Mary Baker's bridesmaids at the time of her marriage to Major George W. Glover of Charleston, S. C.

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