Article February 18, 1911 Issue

Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of the Christian Science...

Ft. Wayne (Ind.) Sentinel

Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of the Christian Science church, leaves behind her such a monument of achievement as no woman in any age, perhaps, had builded. The Christian Science church and its propaganda in a matter of some thirty years have gone almost literally around the world. Today in the United States there is hardly a community of notable size that has not an organized body of this sect, and doubtless none that has not one or more who have accepted and practised its doctrines. What the future of the church is to be, without its Founder and Leader, only time can tell; but it is true that today the Christian Science denomination shows such a spread over the earth and such proportions of growth as have been true of no other religious movement in like time in any age of the world. Millions of people acknowledge the doctrines formulated and spread by Mrs. Eddy and her followers. The movement has built magnificent cathedrals and churches, it has established centers for its literature all over the globe, it has enlisted men and women of the highest type of intellect in its teachings and in its propaganda.

This is the work of a woman whose nature was timid, whose disposition was modest, and whose tastes were retiring. Mrs. Eddy never sought the limelight. Where she might have made herself heroic, she was content to live as much out of sight as possible, and watch and direct the growth of the sect she had founded and the doctrine she had enunciated.

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