Article June 22, 1899 Issue

Do Not Deify Mrs. Eddy

Boston Herald

At the recent great meetings of Christian Scientists in Boston the repetition of their interpretation of the Lord's Prayer by members of that Church caused the impression to go out that Mrs. Eddy was deified by her followers. This report annoyed all Christian Scientists, and, to correct the impression, Mr. Henry D. Nunn makes this authorized statement:—

The founders of this republic did not rebel against government, but against government in accordance with the ideas of King George III. Most people who call themselves atheists, agnostics, etc., are not in rebellion against God, but against the various conceptions of God presented to them by the different schools of theology.

Some of those who were eye-witnesses of the proofs Jesus was continually giving of the goodness and helpfulness of God by healing the sick and comforting the broken-hearted closed their minds against the true knowledge of Him which the Master could have imparted, by misinterpreting his words. He spoke of God as his Father, and of himself as the son of God. At once certain ones supposed that Jesus was trying to usurp the place of the Almighty, although he often spoke such words as these: "Why callest thou me good? none is good save one, that is, God" (Luke, 18: 19).

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