Article March 25, 1916 Issue

Formerly the members of Mrs. Eddy's household and many...

Judge Clifford P. Smith

The Boston (Mass.) Post

Formerly the members of Mrs. Eddy's household and many Christian Scientists spoke to her or of her as "Mother," but in 1903, owing to public misunderstanding of this usage, she made a request that it should be discontinued. This request was published in the Christian Science Sentinel, and it has been observed by all Christian Scientists. The words "Mother Eddy" were never used by Mrs. Eddy's friends, except by mistake, as in the case of an item in the Post.

Mrs. Eddy's first husband, George W. Glover, was not "a brick mason at Charleston, S. C.," as the Post has been erroneously informed, but he was, as the Post has rightly said, a contractor and a man of large affairs. As a youth in Concord, N. H., he learned one or more trades which relate to building. Then he became a contractor and builder in Boston, and subsequently continued the same business at Charleston, S. C.

The statement by Mrs. Eddy's son which the Post has quoted, to the effect that she was surrounded by unworthy persons who took complete charge of her affairs, was one of several averments made by her son, or by his counsel, from mere suspicion or supposition and without basis in evidence or fact. All such statements were completely refuted by the outcome of the suit in which they were made, it being withdrawn before the defense was completed. This case was entirely separate from the one in which Mrs. Eddy's son and adopted son contested her will. This latter case was brought to a decision by the highest courts in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire. In neither case was any point of fact decided in favor of the contestants, nor any point of law which affirmed their alleged rights.

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