Article February 21, 1925 Issue

The statement in a recent issue of your paper is another...

Arthur J. Chapman, Committee on Publication for the State of Louisiana,—Shreveport

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The statement in a recent issue of your paper is another effort to make it appear that Mrs. Eddy was a spiritualist. Fortunately she has left a very complete record in her various writings as to her attitude toward spiritualism; and if any one will take the trouble to read what she has said on the subject, he must conclude that she was opposed to it. In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 71), she says, "I never could believe in spiritualism." She was once asked, when making a public address, to reply to the question whether or not she was a spiritualist; and her reply was: "I am not, and never was. I understand the impossibility of intercommunion between the so-called dead and living. There have always attended my life phenomena of an uncommon order, which spiritualists have miscalled mediumship; but I clearly understand that no human agencies were employed,—that the divine Mind reveals itself to humanity through spiritual law" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 95).

It seems strange that any one should try to disparage the life-work of one through whose ministrations unnumbered thousands have been healed of sin and disease. We are reminded in this instance of the loving rebuke from the Master to John, one of his disciples, as set forth in the ninth chapter of Mark, which reads as follows: "And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us; and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.... But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me."

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