Article December 2, 1933 Issue

Item of Interest

Our periodicals have from time to time printed several items commending the exercise of caution before accepting as genuine manuscript letters and articles in circulation from hand to hand, which are supposed to have been written by Mrs. Eddy. That these warnings have borne fruit is shown in the fact that The Christian Science Board of Directors is frequently consulted by correspondents in regard to the authenticity of various papers of this character. Now there is need to ascertain the authenticity of other items, in addition to purported correspondence, which are advertised as associated in some way with Mrs. Eddy and so are regarded by the would-be sellers as worthy of big prices.

In the Sentinel of September 10, 1932, in this column, there was related the history of a letter, which actually was written to a patient by a Christian Science practitioner and teacher in New York, but copies of which had erroneously borne Mrs. Eddy's initials.

Recently, additional information has been collected which throws light upon the source of another much-traveled paper on the "Money Thought." For some years this manuscript has been circulating in the United States of America and abroad. Its copies have varied noticeably, and the Directors of The Mother Church have uniformly pronounced them "unauthentic." Now it is known that this article in its original form appeared in a magazine edited and published by a dismissed member of The Mother Church and an associate, who gave this item the caption, "Notes kept by one of Mrs. Eddy's early students from her teaching on the money thought." Advertised in this magazine were various books, among which were some whose authors had been dismissed from The Mother Church because their writings did not accord with the requirements of the By-Laws in respect to literature on Christian Science. To the thoughtful, it is obvious that the printed caption used in this magazine, designed by its sponsors to present their particular brand of metaphysical teaching, is misleading.

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