Article November 21, 1925 Issue

In your recent issues, under the caption, "Personal Health Service,"...

Hugh S. Hughes, Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,—Madison

State Journal

In your recent issues, under the caption, "Personal Health Service," by William Brady, were two references to Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, a religion now taught and practiced in every part of the civilized world, whose followers comprise the best class of citizens. The undignified references made by your contributor to Mrs. Eddy are offensive to large numbers of Christian Scientists, who love and respect their Leader, Mrs. Eddy, a New England gentlewoman, at whose passing in 1910 the press of the United States and some foreign countries united in acknowledging her as one of the greatest women of her time, even though they did not accept her teaching. I do not know from what source your contributor obtained his concept of Mrs. Eddy, but would respectfully refer him and your readers to "Editorial Comments on the Life and Work of Mary Baker Eddy," and "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy" by Sibyl Wilbur, both obtainable at public libraries or at the Christian Science Reading Rooms.

The Chicago Post, among others, paid tribute to Mrs. Eddy at the time of her passing as follows:

"The passing of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy brings to a close a life story that is one of the most wonderful that this country of unlimited possibilities has to show. Out of nothing that is physical, no great fortune, no industrial invention, no inherited opportunity, Mrs. Eddy built up a great career. It is the greater because its greatness was not for herself but for the church which she founded. She took from the Bible one of the fundamental commands which modern Christianity had overlooked, the solemn injunction to 'heal the sick.' This, with an inspiration that burned steady and serene for long years, she put into a faith and a creed that has brought happiness and health and the active religious spirit to thousands upon thousands of her fellow-beings. This accomplishment cannot be denied her, even by those to whom Christian Science is most distasteful."

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