Article February 11, 1911 Issue

With the passing of Mrs. Eddy, at the age of ninety, the...

Butte (Mont.) Tribune-Review

With the passing of Mrs. Eddy, at the age of ninety, the world has lost one of its remarkable women. Her writings and her teachings will continue to live. This truly wonderful woman really commenced the work of her life when the average woman is about to give up. No one can charge that Mrs. Eddy used her great powers to further her own personal interests—and her powers for organization were remarkable. As an observer of human nature she possessed great insight, and had the faculty of gathering around her men and women who carried out her wishes to the letter.

If Mrs. Eddy had accomplished nothing more, she did a great work when she founded The Christian Science Monitor, which in a very short space of time has risen to tremendous proportions in the journalistic field. By this alone her influence for good is difficult to estimate. All other things were as nothing compared to her life-work of founding the new thought of Christian Science, and it will not be found wanting in the elevation of the human family to a higher plane. It is now exercising a world-wide influence, and her followers have been recruited from every avenue of life. The most learned and cultured have accepted her teachings, while the humble and unlettered have found comfort therein. Her teachings were the very extreme of some of our other Christian churches, and might be summed up in one word—repose. Her life was a shining example of her own doctrine. No matter from what point of view her life may be judged, her success must be counted as one of the wonders of the age.

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