Items of Interest December 1, 1934 Issue

Items of Interest

Those who are interested in marking important events and phases in the life of Mrs. Eddy no doubt were pleased to read in The Christian Science Monitor on October 15, 26, and 29, and in some editions on the following days, news items telling of the erection of bronze tablets identifying the places where she lived as a girl and young woman in Tilton, New Hampshire, and the Congregational church which she attended. The news stories were entitled respectively, "Tablet Honoring Mrs. Eddy Placed on Tilton Church," "Tilton Tablet Marks Site of House Where Mrs. Eddy Resided," and "Third Bronze Tablet Marks Farm Home of Mary Baker Eddy."

The erection of these tablets is significant because it marks the first action of The Christian Science Board of Directors toward identifying sites connected with Mrs. Eddy's experiences—an action which will be appreciated by visitors to Tilton. The tablet which was kindly permitted to be erected on the front of the Congregational church at Tilton reads, "Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, was a member of this Congregational Church from July 26, 1838, to June 13, 1875." This act of Christian fellowship on the part of the church in which Mrs. Eddy listened appreciatively to its pastors and taught in its Sunday school, was gratefully acknowledged by the Directors. Here our Leader, as a girl, listened to the counsel of the Rev. Enoch Corser and the Rev. Corban Curtice, whom she remembered and in later years mentioned in her Message to The Mother Church for 1901. Regarding them she said (p. 32), "Their convictions were honest, and they lived them; and the sermons their lives preached caused me to love their doctrines."

The second tablet, mounted on bronze supports in front of a large elm tree, marks the site of the house in which Mrs. Eddy, then Mrs. Glover, lived with her parents from 1848 to 1850. The third, erected on a huge native boulder, marks the site of the farmhouse in which she lived from the time of the removal of her family Bow in 1836, when she was a girl of fifteen; and there she continued until 1848, except for a brief residence in the South in 1844. Regarding this house, our Leader records in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 6), "The needly were ever welcome, and to the clergy were accorded special household privileges."

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