Article January 7, 1911 Issue

There are few women of this age whose names are more...

Argus-Leader

[Argus-Leader, Sioux Falls, S. D.]

There are few women of this age whose names are more familiar in the average home than that of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy. There are few who have been the object of such extremes in the expressed opinion of the public as has this able woman, who in middle life, after a long period of seclusion, emerged with a wonderful system of religion, that within a few years has extended its influence to the uttermost parts of the earth.

Her faith has weathered the taunts and the gibes and the persecution of the majority, and has brought peace and comfort and usefulness to an ever-increasing minority of her fellow-beings. We who know the least of the woman and her work have perhaps been their severest critics. It has been easy to follow up the recital of cures effected by Christian Science with the remark that it was a wonderful thing, and it was accomplishing a great work among people who were ailing only in imagination. We have delighted in recounting cases where Christian Science patients have died for want of medical assistance. Perhaps they have; but in order to have been just, we should have struck a balance with the fatalities due to too much surgical and medical experiment.

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