Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-11-10
REV. MRS. EDDY is STRONG AND
VIGOROUS.

ishment at the wolfish tendency eX-
hibited by some newspapers and in
dividuals towards Mrs. Eddy, the high
priestess of the Christian Science cult
From time to time reports have been
widely circulated that Mrs. Eddy was
dead or in the last stages of an in
evitably fatal illness. Truths re-
marks were called out by a recent re
port widely circulated through the
newspapers and otherwise that Mrs
Eddy was at the point of death from
an incurable cancer. Since then we
are in receipt of newspaper, The
Concord, N. H., Evening Monitor,
which in the most convincing way
gives "the lie" to those reports, which
seem to have originated with the
New York World, which for long
time has made a speciality of attack.
ing Mrs. Eddy. Charles r. Corning,
mayor of Concord, New Hampshire
and other prominent citizens deny
over their own signatures the state,
ments of the World and others.
A few extracts from the New Hamp-
shire paper, read as follows:
Cruel Falsehoods Promptly Re-
futed.-Concord Citizens Come For
ward with Alacrity to Speak for Mrs.
Eddy.-Mayor Corning tells of Inter
views with Christian Science Leader
Sunday ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Streeter
was Present Also.-Both Say That
Mrs. Eddy was in Good Health and
Fine Spirits.-New York Newspaper
Sensationalism Feryently Condemned
by Concord People who Know the
Facts.
Mrs. Eddy is keen of intellect and
strong in memory. She Is a surpris
ing illustration of longevity; bright
eyes, emphatic expression, and an
alertness rarely to be encountered in
so venerable person. Mayor Charlie
r. Corning"
Mrs. Eddy has no cancer, or any
chronic or organic or functional dis
ease.-Calvin A. Frye"
Mrs. Eddy herself hes driven in
her carriage daily, with the exception
of one day in the early spring, when
the roads were so bad that she did
not go out.-Lewis c: Strang."
81 have seen Mrs. Eddy's carriage
on State street almost daily. The &C.
cupant has always been Mrs. Eddy
herself.-Hermann S. Herring"
81 most emphatically say that Mrs
Eddy is in every way capable of con.
Quoting her business affairs.-Fred N
Iadd, Treasurer Loan and Trust Saw
ings Bank"
81 can state from personel knowl
edge that it is Mrs. Eddy, and no 9th
err person, whom I see riding in her
carriage.-Josiah E. Fern9ld, Presi-
dent National State Capital Bank"
81 came to Pleasant View on the
10Th Ct January 1906 ard since the
middle of March, 1906, one of my du
ties has been to hand Mrs. Eddy into
her carriage daily and adjust the car
riage robes about her. Since the mid
die of March, she has not failed but
one day to go on her daily drive. She
did not go one day on account of the
roads breaking up in the early spring
81 have been in the house with Mrs.
7 eonard day after day while Mrs. Ed
dy was on her drive, and know that
Mrs. Leonard has never in any way,
shape or manner impersonated nor
attempted to impersonate Mrs. Eddy.
"While I have been at Pleasant
View, neither Mrs. Eddy nor anyone
in the house has used any form of
stimulant or remedies of a materia
medica nature. There is no galvan' C
battery in Mrs. Eddy's room, in the
house or about the premises, nor has
there ever been while ] have been
here Mrs. Eddy herself has never