Editorial June 13, 1901 Issue

Mrs. Eddy's Successor

Editor with contributions from Mary Baker G. Eddy

This article was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany: My. 346:18-347:5

We desire to correct an error which inadvertently appeared in the following statement by Mrs. Eddy as it was published on page 604 of the Sentinel for May 23, 1901. In the fourth line from the bottom, we failed to capitalize the word "his." This destroyed Mrs. Eddy's meaning, as she referred to God and not to the Christ.

In a recent interview which appeared in the columns of the New York Herald, the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, stated that her successor would be a man. Various conjectures having arisen as to whether she had in mind any particular person when the statement was made, Mrs. Eddy gave the following to the Associated Press, May 16, 1901:—

"I did say that a man would be my future successor. By this I did not mean Mr. Alfred Farlow nor any other man to-day on earth.

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