Article January 14, 1911 Issue

The tone of the newspaper comments on the death of...

Harper's Weekly

The tone of the newspaper comments on the death of Mrs. Eddy indicates a decided increase of respect in recent years both for her character and for her achievements. Nor is it a case of "de mortuis nil nisi bonum," but a taking of one consideration with another, and giving a judgment of net approbation. Thus, to quote two of our more thoughtful and mentally exacting contemporaries, the Sun speaks 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," teaching cheerfulness of spirit and charity in judging deeds and motives. The Springfield Republican says her life was a marvel, and that having stumbled upon the truth that the influence of mind over the body is really profound and farreaching, the credit cannot be denied her of having forced, however extravagantly, the valuable qualities of this principle of therapeutics upon the world.

Certainly Mrs. Eddy, and the theories, and practical applications of them, with which she is so closely associated, have had a notable influence on certain phases of the thought of her time. She was a pioneer—one of the most extraordinary of whom there is a record—and there are few now who doubt that the body of facts and experience which has resulted from her pioneering is a valuable gain to knowledge.

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