Article December 24, 1910 Issue

Whatever the partizan conviction of the average American...

Pasadena (Cal.) Daily News

Whatever the partizan conviction of the average American churchman as to the permanent quality and present ethical and spiritual value of the religious faith of which Mrs. Eddy, the author of the text-book on Christian Science, was the acknowledged Leader, thinking people will at least pause to accord her that measure of justice and respect which her remarkable life, drawn out to the limit of almost ninety years, commands. Even in her old age she has been the object of the enmity of those who perhaps slightly understood her work and her real part in the realignment of the religious thought of the world.

Mrs. Eddy's remarkable book, it must be admitted by friends and critics alike, has resulted in one of the most wonderful religious developments of our time. It cannot be denied that its teachings have carried relief to hundreds of thousands of hopeless sufferers, many of them having exhausted every other possible source of relief. Whatever may be thought of its interpretation of spiritual truth, whatever may be the judgment of the world at this time of its logic, the fact remains that to suffering humanity it has been a boon. No intelligent fair-minded person, in the face of the overwhelming evidence of the value of this belief in bringing health, mental sunshine and cheer, in expelling suffering, fear, worry, and hate, can question that it is one of the great, potent, and virile religions, however they may differ from its point of view. It professes to be a religion of love and unshrinking trust.

The more religion the world can get, under whatever name that will strengthen faith and relieve suffering, dispel discouragement, fear, and hate, the better for humanity. It is perhaps the common consensus of opinion that in this direction Mrs. Eddy's life and work has contributed its full part. Abuse and persecution has not retarded the growth of Christian Science. Its hold on men and women of discrimination, intelligence, and character has been the most conspicuous development of modern religious thought.

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