Article December 12, 1931 Issue

A number of articles regarding the proposed memorial...

C. Augustus Norwood, Committee on Publication of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,—Newburyport, Massachusetts

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A number of articles regarding the proposed memorial to the late Miss Sarah Osgood Bagley, of Amesbury, which have appeared in recent issues of your paper have been noted with interest by Christian Scientists because of their various references to the early work of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.

Some of the articles contained statements which were not entirely accurate, but since it appears that those who are representing the Sarah O. Bagley associates do not desire to misrepresent the work which Miss Bagley did, I feel sure that these inaccuracies were not intentional. However, the article which appeared in your issue of November 3 is misleading as to certain facts, and therefore I should like to offer the following observations to your readers.

It is stated in this article that Mrs. Eddy (then Mrs. Patterson) lived with Miss Bagley in Amesbury "while she was revising the Quimby manuscripts." These manuscripts are also referred to as being "the basis of the celebrated "Science and Health' first published by Mary Baker Eddy in 1875." It is to be noted that George Quimby, the son of Phineas P. Quimby, wrote in a letter dated 1901 as follows: "As far as the book 'Science and Health' is concerned, Mrs. Eddy had no access to father's MSS. (save 'Questions and Answers') when she wrote it, but that she did have a very full knowledge of his ideas and beliefs is also true. The religion which she teaches certainly is hers, for which I cannot be too thankful; for I should be loath to go down to my grave feeling that my father was in any way connected with Christian Science' " (The Quimby Manuscripts, by H. W. Dresser). George Quimby was a mature man before his father passed on, and he wrote the above carefully considered statement after the controversy as to the Quimby manuscripts had been under discussion for some time.

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