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It is not the duty of a Christian Science Committee on Publication to reply to "everything displeasing to the church authorities." On the contrary, his duty is "to correct in a Christian manner impositions on the public in regard to Christian Science" and injustices done to Mrs. Eddy or members of The Mother Church (Church Manual, p. 97). Furthermore, having had charge of this work for over fifteen years, I know and declare positively that these Committees do not employ any such means as threatening editors with loss of advertising or subscriptions.
Most of the protests against the biography of Mrs. Eddy mentioned in your editorial of November 30 have been made by individual Christian Scientists acting on their own initiative. Here and there one of them, or a Committee on Publication, may have exceeded the bounds of propriety, but the author of the book in question (Mr. Dakin) and its publishers (the Messrs. Scribner) have furnished plenty of reasons for persuasive protests. For instance, they have advertised it as "unbiased," which it emphatically is not.
A large pamphlet could be filled with proofs that Mr. Dakin's biography of Mrs. Eddy is not unbiased, but I ask you to let me mention only two. The book in question is divided into parts, of which two are headed as follows: "A Woman becomes a Deity," "The Twilight of God." These headlines allude to Mrs. Eddy. And I submit to the fairminded readers of the Christian Leader that they are about as unjust and offensive to her and to Christian Scientists as anything that could be imagined.
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December 28, 1929 issue
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Loving God's Law
MABEL REED HYZER
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Naturalness of Good
LONGLEY TAYLOR
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"Let there be light"
CONSTANCE CHOISY
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"There should be time no longer"
ADELINA LONGAKER KRANZ
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Salvation
OLIVIA A. HOMER
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"Arise, let us go hence"
JAMES C. THOMPSON
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Love's Channels
RUTH GLAZIER
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It is not the duty of a Christian Science Committee on...
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The Mother Church, Boston, Massachusetts,
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Will you kindly allow me to make a brief reply to a...
Miss E. Mary Ramsay, Committee on Publication for Midlothian, Scotland,
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Recent communications in the Morning Press have questioned...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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I read with interest an article in the News of Thursday...
Thomas A. Wyles, Committee on Publication for South Australia,
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The articles which have appeared in the Star and other...
Oscar Graham Peeke, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri,
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Love's Likeness
CHARLES LOUIS REINERT
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Motes and Beams
Albert F. Gilmore
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The Right to Freedom
Duncan Sinclair
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Loving the Stranger
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Reginald Hewitt, Lena V. Ayres
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I have had many healings in Christian Science, and one...
Walfrid M. Wogman
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Through the study of the Bible and our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...
Almeda Van Hoose Cooper
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During the eighteen years that I have been studying...
Harriet M. Ross
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About three years ago Christian Science came to me...
Albertina Vaupel
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I desire to offer my tribute of gratitude to God for Christian Science
Ida Pasche with contributions from Frederic Pasche
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I submit this testimony with the desire to help anyone...
John Andrew Quarrie
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After my mother passed on, in 1912, I realized that happiness...
Elizabeth Marshall
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For some seventeen years I have had no physician other...
Angeline Blanchard
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Before Christian Science came to me I read and loved...
Elsie Dudley Page
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Our Sufficiency
EDITH ARMSTRONG TALBOT
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from James H. Snowden, Floyd W. Tomkins