Article July 15, 1944 Issue

Scaling "the pinnacle of praise"

ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG

The writings of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science disclose her fluent command of the English language. Mary Baker Eddy was, as her biographers tell us, decidedly better educated than were most women of the period in which she grew up, but that type of education could scarcely account for the breadth and scope of her unusual vocabulary.

In Sibyl Wilbur's book, "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy," we learn that when she was quite young Mary told her brother Albert, to whom she was ardently attached, that she wanted to be a scholar, "because when I grow up I shall write a book; and I must be wise to do it."

This dear hope must have remained with our Leader throughout the years and stimulated her studies. She was always an attentive and earnest pupil, but her deep study of the Bible made of her a profound scholar. Words, she knew, were the necessary vehicle through which the great message of universal salvation that had been revealed to her in her hour of dire need must be presented to the world.

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