Article November 7, 1903 Issue

Christian Scientists Deny Certain Reports

CHARGES MADE TWO YEARS AGO ARE DECLARED UNFOUNDED AND ARGUMENT IS MADE TO SUSTAIN THE GROUNDS.

with contributions from GEORGE S. BAKER, MARY HATCH HARRISON

To the Editor.

At no better time than now, when the whole country is recognizing the steady progress of Christian Science and admitting its interest in the movement as shown by the fair attitude of the press everywhere, could we ask you to give your readers the following communication. It will put before them some interesting facts concerning Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy and some incidents of her life in North and South Carolina, which might not have been known but for a criticism derogatory to the character of this good woman, which was published in your paper in August, 1901.

I presume we should not be surprised that a noteworthy follower of our Lord should be maligned, since the great Master himself was scandalized, and he prophesied that his followers would be so treated. The calumniator who informed you in this instance locates Mrs. Eddy in Wilmington in 1843, thus contradicting his own statement, since Mrs. Eddy was not then a resident of Wilmington. A local Christian Scientist of your city, whose womanhood and Christianity are appreciated by all, assisted by a Mason of good standing there and a Christian Scientist of Charleston, S. C., carefully investigated the points concerning Major Glover's history which are questioned by this critic, and has found Mrs. Eddy's statements relating to her husband (whom she states was of Charleston, S. C., not of Wilmington, but who died there while on business in 1844, not 1843, as claimed in your issue) are sustained by Masonic records in each place as well as by Wilmington newspapers of that year. In "Retrospection and Introspection" Mrs. Eddy says of this circumstance,—

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