Article September 14, 1907 Issue

The suit of the "next friends" to secure an accounting...

Rocky Mountain News

The suit of the "next friends" to secure an accounting of the fortune of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, and to inquire into her sanity, was withdrawn yesterday [Aug. 21] by the senior counsel for that side, former Senator William E. Chandler.

The News believes that this action will be a surprise to very few and a disappointment to still fewer. For ourselves we are frankly glad that Mrs. Eddy has come so well out of it and that the fortune she has amassed will remain under her own personal control. Not that the News is a Christian Science journal. Very far from it. We simply feel that Mrs. Eddy's public life has been one to entitle her to decent treatment, and that it was not decent treatment for her relatives, who had done absolutely nothing to help her in the work that has built up her fortune, to seek to prove her insane because she did not distribute it to their liking. And that, so far as we could see, was about the basis of the suit.

And the funniest part of all this proceeding was to attack Mrs. Eddy's business accounts for the purpose of proving her mental incompetence. If there is any point on which Mrs. Eddy is not only not insane, but is saner than the vast majority of us can ever hope to be, it is in the handling of her business. Mark Twain, who is by no means an unduly favorable judge, and who has won and lost several fortunes himself, soberly declares his belief that Mrs. Eddy has the best business head of any woman on earth; that her judgments are as near flawless as it is given human things to be.

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