Article January 14, 1911 Issue

The death of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the Leader of the...

Utica (N.Y.) Press

The death of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the Leader of the Christian Science church, removes a remarkable woman, whose activities were continued till her ninetieth year. Whatever anybody may think about the doctrines she taught or the church she founded, it must be conceded by her severest critic that she was a woman of exceptional ability in several directions, and that her equal has been seldom seen.

It is a great achievement to have built up in practically three decades a church as large as that founded by the deceased. She wrote Science and Health in 1875, began preaching in 1878, and organized The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston in 1879. Since then the growth has been phenomenal, till now there is scarcely a community of any size in the country where this denomination is not represented. One need not subscribe to it or agree with it to accord honest respect to those who do believe in it, for this is a free country in which everybody is entitled to absolute personal freedom in matters of this sort. Surely the Christian Scientists are good citizens, honorable and upright, and that is as far as the public has any concern. To Mrs. Eddy must be paid the tribute of exceptional ability as a leader and an executive, and those who have faith in her regarded her with an affection that knew no bounds.

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