Article February 13, 1926 Issue

In mentioning, in a recent issue, the ages at which certain...

Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,—Long Beach

Sun

In mentioning, in a recent issue, the ages at which certain well-known people had accomplished successful undertakings, an article stated that "Mrs. Eddy was a failure at fifty." Some of your readers who are not acquainted with Mrs. Eddy's life may be interested to know that she had been a frail, delicate woman,—an invalid for many years,—and that when she was nearly forty-five years of age she suffered from the effects of an accident which the physicians and her friends considered might be fatal. She had from childhood been a consecrated student of the Scriptures, and in her extremity she turned to her Bible and opened it at Matthew 9:2. The truth found therein, relating to the healing by Jesus of the man sick of the palsy, came to her so clearly that she was instantaneously healed, arose, and dressed herself. She then withdrew from the public for about three years to find and give to the world the rule of her healing. The outcome was the founding of the Christian Science Cause and the writing of its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Mrs. Eddy continued to direct the development and growth of the Christian Science movement and its publications, including The Christian Science Monitor, and was active in her work until she passed on at the age of eighty-nine.

Our Master, Christ Jesus, said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." This promise was literally fulfilled in the life of Mary Baker Eddy. The laws of God, good, and the understanding of the spiritual idea, destroyed invalidism, established her usefulness and activity, and practically doubled the span of her years.

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