The Ledger Album of Celebrities

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That ably conducted and high-toned monthly publication The Ledger Monthly of New York for August, 1901, publishes what it calls "The Ledger Album of Celebrities." The album consists of portraits of President and Mrs. McKinley; Mark Twain, the American humorist; Michael J. Pupin, the father of ocean telephoning; Mary Johnston, the American novelist; Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the Founder of Christian Science; J. Pierpont Morgan, banker; Charles M. Schwab, President of U. S. Steel Company; James J. Hill, the great railroad builder; Edward VII., King of England; Alexandra, Queen of England; Sir Thomas Lipton, yachtsman and merchant; Gen. Christian De Wet, commander of the Boers; Count Tolstoi, Russian author; Signor Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy; Edmond Rostand, the French dramatic poet; Ignace Paderewski, pianist and composer, and Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist, these portraits being arranged on opposite pages, the Americans appearing on the first and the foreigners on the second page. We have given them in their order.

The portraits are admirable reproductions, evidently from approved photographs.

This number also contains an article entitled, "The Founder of Christian Science," which is as follows:—

"It was in 1866 that Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy discovered the system of religious healing known as Christian Science. In the year following she won her first disciple and began the work of spreading her new ideas. The movement received its first real impetus in 1875, when Mrs. Eddy published her book called Science and Health. A year later she founded and became president of the first Christian Science Association, in 1879 founding the first Christian Science Church, and in 1881 opening in Boston the first school for the promulgation of her teachings, which she called the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, where she personally taught over four thousand students. The first magazine devoted to the subject was established in 1883.

"These are the mile-stones in the progress of one of the most remarkable religious movements of modern times, a movement that in the past decade gained more new members than all the orthodox sects combined. The present number of followers of Mrs. Eddy's teachings is over a million, and over two hundred thousand copies of her book, Science and Health, have been sold.

"Mrs. Eddy is greatly beloved by her students and followers, and there are now over twenty thousand members of The First Church in Boston."

Accompanying this article is a neat little sketch of Pleasant View, Mrs. Eddy's home. Christian Scientists are not vain, or at least they sincerely strive against vanity, because all their teachings are to that effect, but nevertheless all Scientists and friends of Science will be gratified that The Ledger Monthly has extended to Mrs. Eddy and Christian Science so favorable a presentation to the world.

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