Article August 6, 1921 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Canon H. Scott Holland, Graham Wallas, Henry Foster Adams, John Macdonell, David Starr Jordan

[From The Providence Sunday Journal]

The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the most remarkable women of those who labored to benefit humanity will be memorialized next Saturday. Born in the little New Hampshire village of Bow, on July 16, 1821, Mary Baker Eddy, by her determination to devote her life to spiritual things, has risen in the hearts of millions of human beings to a height achieved by few. The storm center of as bitter a medico-theological controversy as modern times have ever seen, Mrs. Eddy went steadily forward to the accomplishment of her avowed purpose, the restoration of the earlier Christian teachings in their full significance, and lived to see her work firmly established.

That Mrs. Eddy was an American, born of a long line of Puritan ancestors, and whose genealogy is that of the Anglo-Saxon founders of this country, is, in the minds of many thoughtful people, but another concrete evidence of the vast spiritual destiny of America. To those who are not unmindful that genealogy has a place in the affairs of the world, it will be of interest to note that Mary Baker Eddy's lineage goes back to those Scotch forbears who were mightily associated with the affairs of their times, for a direct ancestor was a daughter of a king of Scotland, and thus her line is connected with the present royal house of Great Britain, which, as has been recently shown by many authorities, goes back straight in history through Scotland and Ireland to David, King of Israel.

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