Article July 28, 1917 Issue

The article in a recent issue on Calvin A. Frye, who was...

Judge Clifford P. Smith

Philadelphia (Pa.) Press

The article in a recent issue on Calvin A. Frye, who was for many years secretary to Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, was composed in large part of exaggerations and fictions. The viewpoint from which it was written can be made perfectly plain by contrasting Mrs. Eddy's former residence, "Pleasant View," with the description thereof in that article.

The house which Mrs. Eddy occupied on the edge of Concord, N. H., was, in fact, an unpretentious frame dwelling that probably cost less than seven thousand dollars. The grounds were spacious and beautiful, but the house was neither so large nor so costly as several others at Concord, and it could be duplicated in any town in New Hampshire. Yet the article in question depicted it as "one of the great residences of the Granite State," a "stately pile of granite" with a "marble gateway." the fact is that Mrs. Eddy's residence in New Hampshire was extraordinary only by reason of the distinguished person who inhabited it.

What the same article contained about Mr. Frye called for a discount of about the same per cent. The simple and evident facts are that he was a secretary and a servant to Mrs. Eddy just as other men and women were her secretaries and servants. He no more had charge of her affairs than they had. She instructed him or another with whatever service she needed, according to their abilities and her convenience. She had no use for a mystery and never furnished occasion for hatching one.

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