Article September 28, 1912 Issue

An anonymous correspondent, in a recent issue of your...

Frederick Dixon—Newcastle, England.

Newcastle Weekly Chronicle

An anonymous correspondent, in a recent issue of your paper, recommends your readers to study the story of Mrs. Eddy's life. Will you, therefore, permit me, as one who knew Mrs. Eddy, and had the opportunity of knowing a little of her life, and of what it meant to the world, to tell them, very briefly, something of it?

Mrs. Eddy was one of the noblest women the world has known. Her entire time and energy was given to the service of God and man. Those who know best the story of her life, instinct as it was with marvelous courage and self-sacrifice, have never told it. That was her wish, her way. She knew the future was on her side. She knew that the finest vindication of her fame against the breath of slander, as well as the most splendid memorial to her work, would be found in the lives and labors of the Christian Scientists of the world, to which the archbishop of York bore such splendid testimony, not so very long ago.

It was Mrs. Eddy's fearlessness, with its accompanying certainty of divine protection, that struck every one with whom she was brought in contact. To dream of failure where she was concerned was an impossibility. Her followers learned that, with marvelous prescience, she never made demands beyond their strength. If the Tenth Legion never shook, no matter how fierce the press, if the Ironsides never wavered, no matter what the odds before them, and if the Old Guard never surrendered, and all this in the struggle to take life on the battle-fields of the world, the Christian Scientists were little likely to falter in the effort to bring health to the sick, to give peace to the weary, or to help the sinner to fling off his sin.

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