Article December 31, 1910 Issue

Mrs. Eddy's death is the world event of a day because...

Joplin (Mo.) Daily Globe

Mrs. Eddy's death is the world event of a day because her life is a world event of the age. The verdict as to her place in literature, or philosophy, or theology, or medicine is unimportant. The verdict as to her place in the lifestory of the world is stupendous; it "passeth all understanding." Now that she has gone the world will speculate upon the effect of her departure and will reconsider and gently qualify many of the harsh, unfair sentences it passed upon her. The profound scholarship, for illustration, that had penetrated the depths of the labyrinth of human knowledge may be accorded belated recognition. Men of letters may apprehend it to be their duty to read the book which in the artistry of its proportion, the felicity of its expression, the puissance of its logic, its rare grammatical purity, the splendor of its visions, and the sweetness of its message is, in simple truth, a book of books.

And as men of letters may do honor to her scholarship, so philosophy may lay aside its pride and its intolerance and pay homage to a service that retrieved contentment from the world's lost arts. So, too, may theology, grim and resentful, address in a spirit of fellowship, one other of "the wondrous names of God." And who shall say but medicine, grappling resolutely but hopelessly with its adversary, may ultimately accept this school of healing as an ally?

As a Leader, a teacher, and evangel that sought strange, independent channels for her energies, Mrs. Eddy is held in reverence and affectionate esteem by the army of a million recruited from all the ranks of life. And in the assurance she has brought to doubt, the hope with which she has routed despair, the strength that has been given to weakness, the courage that has supplanted cowardice, the health that has banished wretchedness, the glory of the everlasting day into which she has marshaled the wanderers in night's terror—thus, in the grandeur and the permanence and the mercy of her works, she stands justified. And by these tokens and imperishable signs the voice of a million reiterates, "There is no death."

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