Article February 11, 1911 Issue

With the death of Mary Baker Eddy, one of the most...

Calgary (Can.) Herald

With the death of Mary Baker Eddy, one of the most remarkable figures of this or any age passes from the world's stage. To have been for half a century the head of a great movement is a lot conferred on few. To have been for the same length of time the center of heated controversies, of bitter attacks, of religious and philosophical arguments, is a record that few would have survived. To die at the age of ninety, leaving a devoted following that numbers millions of souls, with their churches scattered throughout the world, is but the climax of a wonderful career.

That Mrs. Eddy's death will have any marked effect on the Christian Science church is unlikely. Her work was done. To her, and to her alone, is due the foundation of the faith she taught, and during its earlier history her presence and her personality were no doubt essential to its progress, if not to its very life. In recent years, however, she relegated to others many of her former activities, though she had not altogether retired from work. Today her church is so fully organized as to be independent even of her personality, and it may be assumed that the machinery of the organization will continue uninterruptedly.

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