Article June 1, 1899 Issue

An Amazing Statement

We have read somewhere a most remarkable statement to the effect that the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy ostensibly gave up her college and retired to Concord, N. H., at the very period when a Massachusetts district attorney was looking for evidence of that institution's illegally conferred degrees, of which there were thousands, punishable with a fine of five hundred dollars for each offense. This statement is followed by the query : "It this the reason that for ten years Mrs. Eddy has not visited Boston on a week-day, when she would be subject to arrest?"

It is a sufficient answer to the above anomalous query, that Mrs. Eddy has visited Boston on week-days within the time mentioned. Her visits have been in connection with the Mother Church, and have been limited for time, not for any such reason as that insinuated in this query, but because of her busy life and the necessity of her early return to her duties at Concord. Nevertheless, as we have said, she has been here on week-days.

A very conclusive answer to the above inuendo is the fact that all the certificates ever issued by Mrs. Eddy as President of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, were authorized by a charter granted to her by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; hence, all her certificates were legal, and the supposition or charge that they were not is the merest fiction.

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