Article February 16, 1899 Issue

Falsehoods Refuted

with contributions from Eugene Greene, Mary Baker G. Eddy, Mary H. Philbrick, Alex. H. Trowbridge, E. A. Thompson, A. D. Morgan, W. P. Morgan, A. R. Rutten, E. J. French, M. Anna Osgood, J. A. D. Adams

The article "From Mrs. Eddy's Pen" in this article was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany: My. 306:21-308:4

The article "Refutation of another Falsehood" in this article was later republished in Pulpit and Press: Pul 74:4-75:12

In view of the recent revival of the old, and, as we had hoped, outworn falsehoods as to the authorship of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," we herewith republish certain articles heretofore published in the Boston Post and the Christian Science Journal.

The Rev. Mary Baker Eddy is so generally known and so universally recognized as the author of Science and Health, that it seems incredible that persons at this late day should have the hardihood to raise any question relative to such authorship. Nevertheless, there are those who are persistently publishing, in newspapers and elsewhere, the ancient fable that Dr. P. P. Quimby is the originator of Christian Science, and that Science and Health is a plagiarism of his writings.

It is true that the origin of this fiction is traceable, in every instance, to those too wicked and dishonest to meet the strict demands of Christian Science, or whose ambitions have been thwarted because they have not been able to carry out their purposes within the ranks of Christian Science, and have, in consequence, broken away therefrom, in the hope of building up for themselves a personal following. The desire for leadership, independently of the leadership divinely bestowed on Mrs. Eddy and by virtue of her labors and achievements—such leadership growing out of the very necessity of the situation—lies at the root of the varied and persistent attacks of a personal kind upon Mrs. Eddy. This is the mainspring of the malicious fabrications which have been so industriously put into circulation in the past, and which are again coming to the surface from a similar source.

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