Article December 24, 1910 Issue

It will be difficult to the layman in either the religious or...

San Francisco Examiner

It will be difficult to the layman in either the religious or medical worlds to properly estimate at its true value the life and career of Mary Baker Eddy. This much, however, the unprejudiced must admit: She was a woman with a mentality strong enough to hold her own against as bitter a tide of hostile criticism as ever threatened to overwhelm any leader of a new thought. In spite of hostility Mrs. Eddy established, here in the United States, a cult which is today an important factor in the religious and social life of the nation. The Christian Science church is a recognized moral, religious, and medical force. Its edifices are reared in nearly a thousand cities and towns. Its membership is large. Its growth has been rapid. Its influence reaches into every quarter of the civilized globe.

A woman who could in the short span of a generation—she did not found the church of which she was the Leader until 1879–build so great an edifice upon so firm a foundation was more than an ordinary woman. She was a great woman. How great the future alone can determine, for the true greatness of a leader of a new thought can only be measured through the perspective of years.

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