Editorial November 13, 1909 Issue

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

The Christian Science Board of Directors

As there seems to be an effort to misrepresent the motives of Virgil O. Strickler, First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York, in connection with the investigation by the Christian Science Board of Directors of the methods and practices of members of that church, it is proper to state that Mr. Strickler appeared before this Board with great reluctance, and only after he had pleaded with Mrs. Stetson to abandon the practices and teachings which he, with others of her students, saw to be entirely inconsistent with Christian Science. Mr. Strickler hoped that Mrs. Stetson could be induced to see and acknowledge what was manifestly erroneous in her teachings and practices, and to this end he begged the Board to withhold its action, until his efforts along this line had proved unavailing.

Mr. Strickler, as well as all other witnesses who testified before this Board, appeared in response to its summons, and those who frankly disclosed the proceedings in the so-called "practitioners' meetings" were actuated only by the Christian motives of duty and truthfulness.

The Christian Science Board of Directors. Boston, Nov. 9. 1909.

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