Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-06-25
MRS. EDDY MAKES ANSWER
She Gives Brief Account of Her
Career and Position.

NoLocI anu GOS1rlOQ.
Concord, n. H., June 7. 1905
Recent claims that Ralph VALID
Emerson is the author of Christia,
) Science has called forth the follow
ing statement from Mrs. Mary Bake
g. Eddy:
TO WHOM 1T CONCERNS
II was early the pupil of Miss
Sarah j. Bodwell, the princina1 ri
Sanbornton Academy, of New
Hampshire, and finished my course
OF studies under Prof. Dyer II. San.
porn, author of Sanborn's Grammar.
Among my early studies were Com
STOCKS Natural Philosophy, Chem
lstry, Blair's Rhetoric, Whatelev,s
Logic, Watts 'On the Mind and
Moral Science.'
Al sixteen years of age I began
writing for leading newspapers. and
for many years wrote for the hest
magazines in the South and North.
L nave lectured in large and crowd |
ed nails in New York City, Chicago.
Boston, Portland and at Watervilla
college, and have been invited to
lecture in London and also Edin-
burg.
''In 1888 I started the Christian
Science Journal, and fo,~sevara1
years was the proprietor ano> sole
edltor OF that Journal. In 1893
Judge s. J. Hanna became editor Of
the Christian Science Journal. and
Tor ten subsequent yesfs he knew
my ability as an editor. In his rec
7nt lecture at Chicogo, he said, Mrs. I
EDDY is, from every point of view. a
woman Of sound education and 1ih
raj culture
Agasslz, the celebrated naturalist q
no author, wisely said, Every b
reats scientific truth goes throuoh
hree stages. First, people say it "
onnlcts with the Bible. Next, thew =
ay 1t has been discovered before
'astiy, they say they have ALWAYS q
elieved it, bs
Inc hrst attack upon E1e was.- pl
lrs. Eddy misinterprets the Scrip- st,
lres; second, she has stolen the con- -
nts of her book Science and Heal+b
1th Key to the Scriptures from ~
le T. t. Quimby lan obscure. un-
lucated man, and he is the foun- WI
r OF Christian Science. FAILING in m,
ese attempts, the calumniator has +b,
sorted TO Ralph Waldo Emerson,s
llosophy as the authority for
l11s5lan Science! Lastly, the de- oo'
ner VIII declare as honestly (0 Il In
We always known it, lig
In Science and Health, edition tag
l. page IS, paragraph 3, 1 briefly car
press myself Enthusiastically on blu
subject of vulgar metaphysics. +, tiol
the manuscripts and letters in ent
possession which vulgar defam- I
nave circulated stand in evi. the
OIAO NO uOG KNOW who IS dST
erred to as 'an ignorant woman in me-
W Hampshire.' Many of the na- @
as best and most distinguished are
n AID women were natives of tba cor,
ante State. ASST
am the author of the Christian rooi
7nce textbook, Science and ovel
attn with Key to the Scriptures. unk
the demand for this book in brar
'ses, and the book is already in be S
274th edition of one Thousand Ear
les each. I am rated in the Ma man
al Magazine Q9os) as standing give
eighth in list of twenty-five Of deta
foremost living authors after
claim no special merit of anv and
l. All that L am in reality God facul
made me. I still wait at the and
to learn definitely more from TT
great Master, but not of the was
ek nor of the Roman schools delie
'ly how to do His deeds.n float,
Pleasant View, spaci
N. H., June 4. 1908. soon
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