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MRS. EDDY TALKS
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I have one innate joy, and love to breathe it to the breeze as God's courtesy. A native of New Hampshire, a child of the Republic, a Daughter of the Revolution, I thank God that He has emblazoned on the escutcheon of this State, engraven on her granite rocks, and lifted to her giant hills the ensign of religious liberty — “Freedom to worship God.”


Spring Greeting

Beloved brethren all over our land and in every land, accept your Leader's Spring greeting, while

The bird of hope is singing
A lightsome lay, a cooing call.
And in her heart is beating
A love for all —
“’Tis peace not power I seek,
’Tis meet that man be meek.”


[New York Herald, May 1, 1901]

[Extract]

Mrs. Eddy Talks

Christian Science has been so much to the fore of late that unusual public interest centres in the personality of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of the cult. The granting of interviews is not usual, hence it was a special favor that Mrs. Eddy received the Herald correspondent.

It had been raining all day and was damp without, so the change from the misty air outside to the pleasant