[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 15 (Tuesday, January 28, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E87]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




IN HONOR OF THE OPENING OF AN EXHIBIT HONORING MARY BAKER EDDY AT PACE 
                               UNIVERSITY

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                          HON. JERROLD NADLER

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 28, 2003

  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the opening of 
an exhibit honoring Mary Baker Eddy at Pace University in downtown New 
York City. Today, Pace University will host a reception honoring ``This 
is Woman's Hour . . .,'' a nationally acclaimed exhibit that has 
traveled around the country educating Americans about the extraordinary 
life of Mary Baker Eddy, one of the 19th century's greatest women 
pioneers.
  I am pleased to welcome this exhibit to my Congressional district. 
Mary Baker Eddy may not be as widely known as Susan B. Anthony and 
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but she was well known to them. As an author, 
religious leader, and health reformer, Mary Baker Eddy was one of the 
first American women to live the life envisioned by the leaders who 
gathered at Seneca Falls in 1848 for the First Woman's Rights 
Convention. Commenting on Eddy's success as a spiritual leader, Susan 
B. Anthony said, ``for nineteen hundred years . . . man has been much 
occupied establishing faiths and formulating creeds for woman to follow 
. . . . When woman does write her creed, it will be one of right 
actions, not of theological theories.'' Eddy's major work, published in 
1875, was honored over a hundred years later by the Women's National 
Book Association as ``one of 75 books by women whose words have changed 
the world.'' In 1908, at the age of 87, Eddy founded The Christian 
Science Monitor, which is known today around the world for its 
commitment to excellence and journalistic integrity.
  Mary Baker Eddy has been honored by the National Women's Hall of Fame 
and the National Foundation for Women Legislators, and the exhibit now 
open at Pace University has received the praise of leaders in every 
city and state it has visited. It is now my pleasure to welcome this 
exhibit to Manhattan. It is fitting that this exhibit opens just a few 
blocks away from where the World Trade Center once stood; as we come 
together to envision the kind of future we hope to create, in our city, 
our country, and around the world, it is wise to remember Mary Baker 
Eddy's words: ``The right of woman to fill the highest measure of 
enlightened understanding and the highest places in government is 
inalienable . . . This is woman's hour.''

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