Article May 23, 1925 Issue

The writer who referred to Mary Baker Eddy as a...

Salem A. Hart, Jr., Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,—Toledo

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The writer who referred to Mary Baker Eddy as a medium for spiritists, as he termed it in a letter to the editor in your issue of recent date, evidently has received his impressions of Mrs. Eddy and her teachings from unreliable sources. Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has left a complete record in her various writings as to her attitude toward spiritualism. These writings are available to all; and if any one will read what she has said on the subject, he must conclude that she was opposed to it. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 71) she says, "I never could believe in spiritualism." When once asked whether or not she was a spiritualist, she replied (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 95): "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."

Mrs. Eddy's life-work was so far removed from spiritualism that any statement made classing her as a spiritualistic medium is a misrepresentation. The critic's conclusion, that a certain town "and its vicinity is infested with the workings of mediums and so-called seers," might give your readers the impression that students of Christian Science, being followers of Mrs. Eddy's teachings, come under this class. It seems almost incredible that any one would attempt to disparage the consecrated efforts of these students, whose daily ministrations are aiding in comforting the sick and sinning in strict obedience to the Master's injunction to his disciples: "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give." One of our western newspapers, in an editorial commenting on the life of Mrs. Eddy, said in part: "It is not for one who does not comprehend her to judge of her, but it is only justice to say she wrought a marvelous work on earth; gave peace and serenity and health to tens and hundreds of thousands of homes."

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