Article August 24, 1899 Issue

From the Religious Press

with contributions from Septimus J. Hanna

Objection is made to Mrs. Eddy's conduct of the Christian Science movement because she makes a vast income out of it. But probably her income is not larger than that of Mr. Moody. The defence made by her friends is the same as is made by the friends of the great revivalist. The income in both cases is probably ten times that of the most highly paid city minister. The defence is that in both cases the money received is administered as a trust and spent for the benefit of the cause they serve. If the people who give the money know what they are doing, no one else has any right to complain.

Christian Register (Unitarian).

In view of the publicity now given to Mrs. Eddy's large charities, it will not again be charged by fair-minded people that she is a mercenary person. Her charities during the last three years have averaged $88,987 per year. This statement is furnished by her bookkeeper and taken verbatim from her books. With her economical mode of living she could readily be a millionaire, but it gives her more pleasure to do good than to make money. She now seldom gives to beggars, having learned from sad experience the effects thereof. She never gives to be seen of men, but to such persons as she knows to be needy and to such objects as are worthy.

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