It would have been much better if she had signed the telegram "Mother Baker"; then there would have been no Biblical competition, and, of course, that is a thing to avoid.

But it is not too late, yet.
I wish to break in here with a parenthesis, and then take up this examination of Mrs.Eddy's Claim of January 17th again.
The history of her "Mother Mary" telegram--as told to me by one who ought to be a very good authority--is curious and interesting.

The telegram ostensibly quotes verse 53 from the "Magnificat," but really makes some pretty formidable changes in it.

This is St.Luke's version: "He hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich He hath sent empty away." This is "Mother Mary's" telegraphed version: "He hath filled the hungry with good things, and the sick hath He not sent empty away." To judge by the Official Report, the bursting of this bombshell in that massed convention of trained Christians created no astonishment, since it caused no remark, and the business of the convention went tranquilly on, thereafter, as if nothing had happened.
Did those people detect those changes?
We cannot know.

I think they must have noticed them, the wording of St.Luke's verse being as familiar to all Christians as is the wording of the Beatitudes; and I think that the reason the new version provoked no surprise and no comment was, that the assemblage took it for a "Key"-- a spiritualized explanation of verse 53, newly sent down from heaven through Mrs.Eddy.For all Scientists study their Bibles diligently, and they know their Magnificat.