Article August 1, 1953 Issue

LETTERS TO THE PRESS FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION

Stephen J. Sametz

Free Press

Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

At the end of an interesting article relating to women's freedom found and held through spiritual ability [in your issue of recent date], I find a statement which may give an erroneous impression about the Discoverer of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. Your report of an interview with a woman minister states that the "New Thought" movement stems from the teachings of the late Dr. Phineas Quimby, ... with whom Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of Christian Science, studied. ... Mrs. Eddy's right to her writings on Christian Science as her own and not another's was upheld by decision of the United States Circuit Court in Boston, Massachusetts, in April, 1883.

As to any supposed study with Dr. Quimby before her own discovery of what she called the Science of Mind and before she published her work "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" in 1875, let me quote her own words (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 378):

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