0.0 – Christian Science Author – Sibyl Wilbur – Biography and Publication Index

     It was about the year 1905, when we were living in Boston, that SIBYL WILBUR and I became friends. At that time the press was quite unfriendly toward Christian Science, and was especially antagonistic to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. But God was with us, and raised up a champion to defend Mrs. Eddy, and this champion was none other than our friend, Sibyl Wilbur.

     She was eminently fitted for this task, for she was a gifted writer. She was a newspaper woman, and was engaged at that time as a reporter for one of the leading newspapers of Boston. Her keen sense of justice and honesty caused her to doubt the
truth of the malicious statements that were being published in some of the newspapers at that time and she resolved to investigate these things herself. One of her first steps toward this,  ........  was to call upon Alfred Farlow, who was the Publication Committee in Boston, and he encouraged her and did all he possibly could to arrange a meeting for her with Mrs. Eddy. But this was rather difficult, because other reporters had been given the same privilege, but had abused it, and had written such unkind things about her that Mrs. Eddy was very reluctant to see another newspaper woman.

     However, after many delays an invitation came for her to visit Mrs. Eddy in her home in Concord. This proved to be a very important meeting, for it led eventually to the writing of Mary Baker Eddy's Life by Sibyl Wilbur. Mrs. Edoy received her graciously, and Miss Wilbur recognized at once that she was in the presence of a woman of vastly superior spiritual attainments. Mrs. Eddy saw in Miss Wilbur a woman she could love and trust. 

     I feel that I am very fortunate to have in my possession an old textbook in which I pasted a short article which Mrs. Eddy wrote at that time describing Miss Wilbur's visit with her. I shall read this article, and I am sure you will all be glad to hear what Mrs. Eddy had to say about Miss Wilbur and her call. From the Boston Herald. Show all