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It appears from a recent article in your paper that the...

Nils A. T. Lerche, Committee on Publication for Norway,—Stavanger (translation)

Rogaland

It appears from a recent article in your paper that the writer has been misinformed as to Mrs. Eddy and Christian Science.

It was in 1907, when all kinds of rumors were current about Mrs. Eddy, that the Cosmopolitan Magazine requested Arthur Brisbane to interview her. It had been reported that she suffered from decrepitude, was deaf, blind, etc. I quote a few lines from Mr. Brisbane's description of the interview:

"Beside a writing-desk, in an armchair, sat a white-haired woman who rose and walked forward, extending her hand in friendly greeting to a stranger. That was Mrs. Eddy, for whom many human beings in this world feel deepest reverence and affection, and concerning whom others have thought it necessary or excusable to write and to say unkind and untruthful things.

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