Article January 24, 1920 Issue

The clergyman whose remarks on Christian Science have...

Peter B. Biggins

Coronation (Alberta, Canada) Review

The clergyman whose remarks on Christian Science have been published in the Review tells us that his discourse was delivered in response to several inquiries concerning Christian Science. It is to be expected that a clergyman should be receiving inquiries of this sort; but it is rather unfortunate that he should give to sincere seekers for truth, information that is inaccurate, mistaken, and untrue.

He asks why Mrs. Eddy gave to Mr. Frye "her money and property, including her personal jewels and a hundred thousand dollar house on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston." The answer is simple. She did not. Mrs. Eddy left the bulk of her estate to The Mother Church in Boston. Mr. Frye received a bequest under her will. He was given the privilege of selecting some keepsakes or mementos up to the value of five hundred dollars. He was also given the privilege of occupying two furnished rooms in Mrs. Eddy's house at 385 Commonwealth Avenue, which is occupied by the First Reader of The Mother Church. Mrs. Eddy, as the active Leader of a world-wide religious movement, required many assistants to aid her in her work, and Mr. Frye was one of them. He was not a "liveried lackey," but a trusted helper.

Mrs. Eddy never was a spiritualistic medium, as the critic says. She was throughout her career consistently opposed to the teachings of spiritualism. She has devoted an entire chapter in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" to this subject, and therein makes clear that spiritualism is the polar opposite of Christian Science.

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