Article June 1, 1929 Issue

A writer to your columns, in referring to the last illness...

Israel Pickens, Committee on Publication for the State of Alabama,—Birmingham

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A writer to your columns, in referring to the last illness of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, stated in your issue of the 20th that "at the last there may have been something a little the matter with her mind."

The statement quoted carries an inference that is likely to prove harmful, if left uncorrected. Please permit me to give the following facts: Mrs. Eddy was at all times in the full possession of her mental faculties. Her wise leadership of a great religious movement of world-wide scope was wonderful evidence of her mental capabilities. Much of her work in this connection was done after she had reached the age of eighty. Thus, when she was in her eighty-seventh year she moved from Concord, New Hampshire, to Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, in order to be closer to the headquarters of the Christian Science movement. It was at this time that she established The Christian Science Monitor, an international daily newspaper, and also actively directed the affairs of the Christian Science church.

It is a well-known fact that Mrs. Eddy was mentally alert and active up to the time of her passing on. Her last illness, to which your correspondent refers, was very brief; she took her usual daily drive until two days before her passing on; and had lived to the venerable age of eighty-nine.

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