Article December 24, 1910 Issue

The editorial comments on the life and career of Mrs. Eddy...

Journal-Courier

The editorial comments on the life and career of Mrs. Eddy show a gratifying sense of tolerance. Here and there a newspaper expresses its violent dissent from Christian Science doctrines, but the great majority frankly express their admiration of the woman from both a personal point of view and spiritual. Had she died ten years ago this would not have been the case, which is additional tribute to her marvelous power of organization.

It was the Springfield Republican, if we are not mistaken, that emphasized the immense good she did in influencing the medical profession by establishing the influence of mind over matter. That truth was not original with her, but it was she who preached it until it became a gospel with over two million souls. The New York Sun emphasizes still another phase of her usefulness, and it is this after all that has received such a visible manifestation. Says the Sun: "We are thinking of the astonishing influence she exerted in thousands of homes for the amelioration of life and manners in some of the details of family and social intercourse. She taught cheerfulness of spirit, and observation encourages the belief that the great majority of her followers either became more cheerful, both subjectively and as consistent examples to those around them, or with more or less success simulated a modification of temperament in that respect, which nearly amounts in practice to the same thing. She taught charity in judging the deeds and motives of another," etc., etc.

This attitude of tolerance does more than gratify the followers of Mrs. Eddy, which we take it it does. It reflects the highest credit upon the American people, who are brave enough and fair enough to acknowledge an achievement without small jealousy. The more this spirit is encouraged the nearer shall we get to the real brotherhood of man and church unity.

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