Article August 12, 1922 Issue

Great reformers may be misunderstood, misrepresented,...

Peter B. Biggins, Committee on Publication for the Province of Alberta, Canada,

Red Deer News

Great reformers may be misunderstood, misrepresented, and abused for a time, but their work lives on. This is assuredly the case with Mrs. Eddy's work. Step by step, people generally are gaining a better understanding of her meaning; and all will gain it in due time. Many pulpits which opposed her doctrine yesterday are proclaiming it to-day. Even such attacks as the critic has indulged in are stimulating people to learn more of her great achievement. The Daily Globe of Joplin, Mo., has presented in one of its editorials the following fair and thoughtful estimate of Mrs. Eddy's work: "The verdict as to her place in the life-story of the world is stupendous; it 'passeth all understanding.' ... The profound scholarship, for illustration, that has penetrated the depths of the labyrinth of human knowledge, may be accorded belated recognition. Men of letters may apprehend it to be their duty to read the book which, in the artistry of its proportion, the felicity of its expression, the puissance of its logic, its rare grammatical purity, the splendor of its visions, and the sweetness of its message, is, in simple truth, a book of books. And as men of letters may do honor to her scholarship, so philosophy may lay aside its pride and its intolerance and pay homage to a service that retrieved contentment from the world's lost arts."

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