I noted with interest a recent number of your monthly,...

Hendrik Fennema, Committee on Publication for the Netherlands,—Santpoort (translation)

Eenheid

I noted with interest a recent number of your monthly, which contained a short report of a lecture on Christian Science. There is in it, however, a passage which is incorrect, and I should be glad to be allowed to correct it.

From years elapsed between the temporary healing of Mrs. Eddy during a visit to Mr. Quimby in the year 1862 and the discovery of Christian Science in the year 1866. Moreover, Mrs. Eddy denies in her autobiography, "Retrospection and Introspection," that there was any connection between Mr. Quimby and her doctrine. The son of Mr. Quimby, too, has declared that the religion which Mrs. Eddy taught was her own, and that his father had in no manner been connected with Christian Science.

After her marvelous healing of the effects of an accident in the year 1866, Mrs. Eddy withdrew herself from the world and searched the Bible for three years. Later she published her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." No connection exists between what Mr. Quimby, as magnetic healer, had in view and the spiritual law which Mrs. Eddy discovered to be behind the precepts and healing works of Christ Jesus, to which discovery she gave the name of Christian Science.

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