Article December 24, 1910 Issue

In the death of Mrs. Eddy there passes from the stage...

Birmingham (Ala.) News

In the death of Mrs. Eddy there passes from the stage of life not only one of the most remarkable women that the world has ever seen, but a woman remarkable in a most distinctive way. In the past, women have commanded armies and ruled empires, but Mrs. Eddy was the first of her sex to found a religion, and in this work her greatness lies, not in the line of invention or discovery.

It remained for Mrs. Eddy to assert the absolute nonreality of matter and to pronounce the belief in its existence the of all evil, both spiritual and physical. And she did this with a bareness, a force and a persistence that won from their former moorings not only minds mystical by nature, but also minds pronouncedly materialistic. It is in this ability to rehabilitate and old thought, swing it clear of long accepted foundation, and drive it home to the consciousness of a materialistic age, that Mrs. Eddy's greatness lies.

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