The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-09
VIGOROUS DENIAL
BY SCIENTISTS
Local Members of the Church
of Mrs. Eddy Receive
Communication.
CONTROVERSY is BEGUN
THE DECLARATION is MADE
THAT PICTURE PUBLISHED IN
MAGAZINE WAS NOT THAT OF
MRS. EDDY.

H. r. MarIatt the Richmond rep
resentatiye of the publication com
mittee Of the Christian Science
church has made public the follow
ing statement, given out in Boston BY
Alfred Farlow general manager of
the committee:
McCIure's magazine in the Deem
Der issue, published a picture which
is represented as a photograph OF
Mrs. Eddy taken in 1882. It is not
a picture Of Mrs Eddy, but is likli-
by the affidavit Of Mrs. Chcvaillicr.
who formerly lived in Boston, and
who died in California two years ago.
This fact is incontestably established
by the affidavit of Mrs Chevallier,
which we have just received from her
son. and which is an exact duplicate
OF the one used by McClure's
@In connection with this portrait,
McClure's publishes an editorial an
nouncement OF story relating to the
Rev. Mary Baker G.. Eddy the discov
erer and founder of Christian Scien-
ce II is stated that as a result of
careful investigation their story is
probably as near absolute accuracy
as history ever gets Indeed the in
PRODUCTION i'm question lays great
stress upon the accuracy of its pro
posed history. Again it is said:
practically no assistance can be OBJ
tanned from Christian Scientists
themselves that she, Mrs. Eddy re-
fused to be consulted personally on
the main facts of her own life
1T should be stated that according
to the custom, McClure's representa-
tive who applied to Mrs. Eddy for an
interview was referred to the COM
mitteee on publication. who is special
~ appointed for the purpose of rem
dering any assistance in his power to
the representatives of the public
press who may be gathering data on
the subject of Christian Science and
its leader.
Offers Not Accepted.
I'm conversation with members
of McClure's staff, several months
ago, ] informed them that If they
would submit their data TO me would
be pleased to assist them in their ver-
ification. giving them as my reason
that their were documents in circula-
tion and rumors afioat which We're
not genuine. They have not availed
themselves of my offer.
Notwithstanding the facts which
we have stated. we find in this edi-
torial announcement a picture of an
other woman which is represented by
McClure's as a portrait of Mrs. Mary
Baker G.. Eddy taken in Boston in
1882. The picture does not in any
point resemble Mrs Eddy.
No Reply Received.
"On November 9. and before the
December number of McClure's was
placed on the news stands. I wrote
to the managing editor of McClure's
apprising him of this error, but re-
ceived no reply. My letter follows:
7 have just been looking at the
advertisements which you have in
Ridgway's of the 18th inst In the
center of the page is a picture which
/ assume is represented as a portrait
of Mrs. Eddy | hasten to inform you
that this is not picture of Mrs. Ed
dy: there is nothing about it that
would remind one of her. | have
seen Mrs. Eddy frequently during the
past Twenty-Five years and know her
face we'll enough to draw a likness
OF III III L were an dFIlSI--tneTt1OTe L
speak from positive knowledge.
1T was my fear that you might
be imposed upon by just such coun-
terfeits that impelley me TO suggest
that Your manuscript relating to
Mrs. Eddy be submitted to some one
thoroughly posted concerning the ev
ents of her life
Misuse of Signature.
Directly underneath the Mcclure
portrait is a modern signature of
Mrs. Eddy. which might give the inn
preston that it had been written on
this photograph by Mrs. Eddy. This
of course could not possibly be true
since the portrait is not likeness of
Mrs. Eddy and never was in her
hands. Beneath one of the genuine
portraits appended TO this statement,
We publish facsimile of Mrs. Eddy's
signature as she wrote il in 1852
When called upon TO produce the
photograph from which the picture
was made. and TO give the name of
the photographer, the editor of Nc
clure's declined. saying he would
give what information he could few
days later
II then went to work 10 obtain evil
dence. by which | could disprove Nc
Clure's allegation, and show the pub
lie that another face had been substi-
tuted for that of Mrs. Eddy