Article February 11, 1911 Issue

To the long list of women who have been leaders in...

London (Ont.) Free Press

To the long list of women who have been leaders in religious movements of the world, death has added the name of Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of the Christian Science church in America. Born in a farmhouse overlooking the beautiful Merrimac valley, she is described as having been "a very delicate and a very religious little girl." Yet that delicate little girl was destined to become the Founder of a sect which in her own country alone has well on to one hundred thousand communicants, and that has spread all over the world.

There has been a tendency to joke about the teachings of this woman, but a movement that has spread as has Christian Science, including in its ranks men who are leaders in all walks of life, must be viewed as of importance. Particularly is this so when it is considered that it has all been brought to pass in a period of thirty-five years, and that during all of that period the teachings have been criticized and in many quarters strongly denounced.

The world has seen the rise and fall of many new religious movements, but it does not seem as if a better test has ever been devised by man than that which Gamaliel proposed nearly nineteen hundred years ago, when Christianity was first on trial: "If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught; but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it."

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