The Countess Lewenhaupt-Bildt of Stockholm, who...

Boston Sunday Herald

The Countess Lewenhaupt-Bildt of Stockholm, who is visiting Mrs. John Munro Longyear of Brookline, has with her a real Correggio, a painting valued at fifty thousand dollars. In speaking of it the Countess said, "Yes, I value it much. Is it not beautiful? It has been in my family two hundred and fifty years, and came to me from the collection of my grandfather, Maj.-Gen. von Bagge."

"Are you interested in Christian Science?" asked the countess, changing the subject. "I want to tell you about my meeting with Mrs. Eddy. She granted me an audience on Sept. 19, and that has been my most wonderful experience in America, so far. Mrs. Eddy is beautiful beyond expression. She has a most exquisite voice,—musical, as you say, and her eyes are so that you see the whole soul shining through. The eyes are the chief thing, don't you think so?"

"How did I become interested in Christian Science?" she repeated, in reply to the question.

"It was like this. Six years ago I was so ill. Every one said I had consumption, and I grew all discouraged. Then a friend of mine in America sent me some of Mrs. Eddy's books and I read all. It was fascinating and beautiful. I read more and more and I grew better. It made me so glad that I wrote a letter to Mrs. Eddy, thanking her for all the books had done for me. She asked me later if she might use my letter as a testimonial, and I said surely, if it would do any good, though I had no such thought when I wrote it. I hope to do what little I can to make the people in Europe as interested in the great truths of Christian Science as you are here in America."

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