The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03
HEAVY SUITS FOR M
lave Been Filed Against n. 4,
Scientists.
MRS. WOODBURY. OF Bos1o, ,..,
OF Attacks Which H.x.
on Her by the peopl. 80 =, !.
Has Been Fighting. ~
Especial to The Post, ,

| Boston, Mass, August 80
Inc Curtis Woodbury. of this c,,, '' :. ss's !
lor years conducted an active nv, :, VAC "
against the Christian sclepc. ~, ..opssaaa|
and Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy !, saulla'las
has brought her opposition d '.u'uli'
mead by suing Mrs. Eddy ana 4. r'sas'|
tors for total of nearly hal, Nsef|
of dollars in damages for aI,a.., nilss|
There are seven different suI,, .'s y
winch are based on passages !, :, Z
nddy's message on communist, : ~
June a. at the four meetings MA s '.
I1rst church of Christ, Scientist, !. :
nection with the annual satherlns We
These suits are MS fo,low.. ~,
Baker Eddy is sued for sl5oooo i. Z ~
Church of Christ, scleutlst. n, "a. y.
Ira G. Knapp. William R. Jobn.o, ' nv
Armstrong and Stephen A. Cbas. ..r '
lively, as directors Of the cbu,cs NY
Soo'Ooo; septlmus ]. Hanna, for "a i
William p. Mckenzie, Thomas NJ r'.'
and Joseph B. Clarke, trustees ana ,.s
gers OF the publication businos. !.
church, collectively, for sp5ooa. =. y
Armstrong, business manager NJ X. s ~
tian Science journal, for s95 0oa ~, vss'
w. Breeder for $4,000. 80 S'a ''ti
Frederick Peabody, Mrs. Woodhu,,,. !.
torney, says: u
Mrs. Eddy and her friends ss.,, .
nave been particularly incensed ~ NY
Wocdbury's calm and irrefulahle s, An
ure of so-called "Eddyism,, shieH :
only another name for Christian scs,.s
and her husbands death, within ,wo os s..a
thereafter. is by many so-csllea .es,.s
lists" believed and even declared i, NM
swift and just punishment Of Mrs W.,
bury for having told what she knew ~.
Christian Science-that is to suy n, h.,
ing dared to tell the truth rapa din, a.
most monstrous humbug OF this d =,
age. -
when Mrs. Woodbury. was still ,rusSA
beneath the weight of her great sorm,
before she had time fully to .eali,s a,
extent of the loss she had sustained N 4.
death of the noble man who had .,n N,
stanch friend and devoted husband n
twenty-five years, Mrs. Mary Baker Elt,
brought the years of prosecution 10 u.
max and carried out her definite wits
threat by making upon Mrs Woodbury N
most cruel, the most atrocious attack M
made public upon woman, and inm,i.
ately her paid retainers seized upu
1t and with satanic zeal sent 1t b1sdtn.
over the country.
In Mrs. Eddy's annual address, raj
at the four communion services in b.
First Church of Christ. Scientist, in Ba..
ton, Sunday, the 4th of June last, in thilly
yelled language. the founder OF Chrsda
Science, which is said TO be religion 4
love, thus displayed her hatred q wonn
she could no longer cajole:
The doom of the Babylonish vcnu
referred TO In Revelation is being IT,
filled. This woman, drunken with u
blood of the saints and with the rloM Il
the martyrs of Jesus" voal
enter even the church. and .rtaiahi
and the purpose Of the dearw
ing angel, pour wormwood into the wittr
the disturbed human mind-to DION
every strong swimmer struggling for ID
shcre-aiming for truth--and II posssi
poison such as drink OF the living atef'