A while ago there appeared in your paper several articles...

Orwell Bradley Towne, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,—New York (translation)

New Yorksky Dennik

A while ago there appeared in your paper several articles by a clergyman attacking Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and purporting to "expose" this religion as a dangerous doctrine. In justice to the many readers of your paper, I ask the privilege of space in which to make a brief correction.

It is evident that the writer of these articles has been misinformed. In fact, he seems to have secured about all his material from books, in no way authoritative or correct, whose authors have possessed none of the qualifications necessary to evaluate the life and work of such a great woman as Mary Baker Eddy.

The statement that Mrs. Eddy "knew very little about writing correctly" does not stand in face of the facts that she was made an honorary member of the Victoria Institute in London. It may be added that, in recognition of its merit, the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," was accorded a full chapter in "The Cambridge History of American Literature."

Surely the clergyman cannot be serious in his statement that Christian Science is a "denial of every religion and all morality"! This religion is Christian by all the requirements of dictionary definitions, and no moral standard is higher than that held up by Mrs. Eddy as an example for all profitably to follow.

In reply to the writer's statement that "all the miraculous healings of Mrs. Eddy are the lowest fraud," he has only to note that the members of the twenty-five hundred and more churches and societies scattered over the glove have received healing in Christian Science. He may also remember that Martin Luther himself healed his friend, Philipp Melanchthon, by spiritual means.

Mrs. Eddy says on the very first page of the Preface of Science and Health, "The time for thinkers has come."

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