Article January 14, 1911 Issue

With the passing of the acknowledged Founder and...

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With the passing of the acknowledged Founder and Leader of the Christian Science church organization, there departed from this life one of the most remarkable women the world has ever known. It is not necessary to be a believer in the religious tenets she propounded to realize this fact, nor does appreciation of her stupendous labors depend in any manner upon acceptance of their verity. Call her inspiration by whatever term you choose, it is still undeniably true that her teachings were accepted without question by a very large number of unusually intelligent men and women upon whose lives was exerted as powerful an influence for good—both material and spiritual—as has ever been recorded in the history of civilization.

Apart from and independent of any doctrinal feature of the Church of Christ, Scientist—a discussion of which would not be proper in a secular newspaper—there towers the supreme personality of its Founder. Forceful, and dominating by the power of spiritual strength, she won and held a loyalty seldom accorded the pioneer in a religious movement. The persistence of her thought was a mighty force that convinced where doubt existed and broke down the barriers erected by mental opposition to a degree that has been the marvel of the age.

Coupled with a positive genius for organization, there was a depth of sincerity and a profound earnestness which illumined the written word as much as the spoken sentence and brought heart and mind of her followers captive to the central precept she sought to inculcate, and she believed no more implicitly than did they in the essential quality of its divine origin. Such power to sway others is seldom met with in all the records of all times, and its effect cannot be other than vital upon the life and destiny of the human race, in the history of which few personalities have been more impressive than that of the aged woman from whose mortal frame the masterful spirit has finally departed.

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