Article October 26, 1907 Issue

In a recent issue of your paper you refer to a sermon...

Rosemary Anderson

New London (Conn.) Globe

In a recent issue of your paper you refer to a sermon delivered by Bishop H. C. Morrison in Frankfort, Ky., before the annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in which you state that the bishop made a bitter attack upon Mrs. Eddy and referred to her as a "fakir who claimed that while Christ had only part of the truth, she had the whole truth." Such a wilful misrepresentation of the truth of Mrs. Eddy's teaching can but reflect upon the person who made the statement, since an honest perusal of her book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," would prove such accusation absolutely without foundation or justification.

The bishop is also quoted as having charged Mrs. Eddy of being guilty of various crimes, and giving as his authority a man who has been defeated in every attempt to villify Mrs. Eddy and her followers. That a man representing a religious body and holding an office which in itself should command respect and reverence, should have permitted himself to become a mouthpiece for an unjust and bitter attack upon one who stands acknowledged by a great body of intelligent men and women, representing every profession and walk of life, as their revered and honored Leader, shows in itself a deporable state of mind and an utter lack of that Christly charity which should characterize his high calling. No form of religion suffered more from cristicism and unjust attacks than Methodism in its early history, and it would seem that such experience should tend to restrain its adherents from employing a like attack upon a Christian peo ple, especially in this twentieth century of religious liberty and tolerance.

Later, in your issue of the 28th instant, you quote from an address by Rt. Rev. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Lord Bishop of London, in which the worthy bishop is reported as referring in an uncomplimentary way to the healing work of Christian Science as being wild and extravagant, yet the theme of the bishop's discourse set forth a necessity for the reestablishment of Christian healing as a fundamental of the Church.

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