Editorial July 22, 1905 Issue

Mrs. Eddy's Requests

Editor with contributions from Mary Baker G. Eddy

The Boston Herald

This article was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany: My. 280:26-14

The following article is copied from The Boston Herald of July 13, and we take pleasure in republishing it so that there may be no excuse for misunderstanding our Leader's position respecting this important matter. The article appeared in the Herald as follows:—

During the annual business meeting of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, through a written message, requested her Church to make special prayer in behalf of the peace of nations. Later she issued another request, advising that this special prayer be discontinued.

The second request evoked a great deal of comment from the public press and other sources, which indicated that it had been taken to mean a cessation of prayer for peace rather than a cessation of the special prayer which the first request enjoined. Mrs. Eddy has issued the following, presumably in explanation of her real attitude:—

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