The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-11
easeIess Charges Refuted.

Baseless Charges Refuted.
Both the Monitor and the Patriot-the
only daily papers published in Concord
protest against the baseless attack which
has been made upon Mrs. Eddy. The fol-
lowing extract Is from the Monitor
1.-The Worlds story, as we are told, is
the result of long Investigations in Con-
cord by the Worlds representatives. If
this is SO, their time here was ill-spent;
for no honest investigator could have
stayed here even SO short a time a
single day without learning from indis-
putable sources that Mrs. Eddy is alive
and very keenly alive-to all that takes
place in the world, and that she is con-
stantly alert and thoughtful to do good
to everybody, especially to the city Of
/, Concord.
For more than fifteen years Mrs. Eddy
has made her home among us; and she
leads a simple and well-ordered life as
BELTS one who has daily routine filled
with great duties to a great cause. That
she fulfills these duties to the last de-
gree is evidenced by the growth and ad-
vance of the movement which she heads;
and that she finds time for other good
WORKSHOP charity, for helpfulness and
for philosophical cooperation in the af-
fairs of the community where her home
is fixed-thousands of Concord people are
ready cheerfully to attest And they
have now come forward with glad alac-
rity to refute the falsehoods of the New
York World.
Some of these refutations we are pub
fishing in our news columns today. To
them we can add our personal testi-
mony.
THE editor of this paper has enjoyed
the privilege of Mrs. Eddy's friendship
for more than ten years. During that
time he has met her frequently, and mas
correspondent with her almost contlnu-
ously. Her conversation and her letters
numbering hundreds and written almost
entirely with her own pen-are pulsatlng
with but one desire, the desire to do
good-to do good to individuals, to com
munities. and to the human race. With
in very short time the editor OF this
paper has seen Mrs. Eddy and with her
taken counsel upon public affairs in Con
cord She was then in strength of
spirit, mind and body far beyond what
any one would have a right to expect
from Il woman of her age. Her words
were direct and simple, her discernment
acute and sympathetic, her manner cor
dial and unaffected Since then the writ
er has met her carriage almost daily
upon our streets, and it's distinguished
occupant has never failed to return a
smiling greeting of recognition. This has
happened within four days, when, in a
certain we met the real Mrs. Eddy, the
Mrs. Eddy we have known for years,
almost face to face. We knew her ana
we were known by her
I'VE are moved to believe that testi-
mony of this sort which arises spontan-
eously on every hand in Concord. is more
enduring and worthy than that of any
newspaper investigators, whose work
shows only too clearly that they trust to
their own or to somebody elses imagina-
ton for their facts. Concord people may
buy the New York World, but they do
not believe what it says. When any one
tells Concord that Mrs. Eddy is not one
of our busiest most helpful, and most be-
lived and respected citizens, in full pos
session of her illustrious faculties of mind
and in bodily strength beyond what her
wears warrant. Concord has prompt and
rmpregnable answer:
1--WE all know better.
The following is from the Patriot:
I'm substance the story Of the World
is false from beginning to end, and the
manner of ceiling 1t most vicious.
THE writer, the editor of TINS paper
talked with Mrs. Eddy in her home three
years ago, he talked with her again in
her home two years ago, ana talked
with her again in her private room much
less than a year ago. He has seen her
in her carriage and bowed to her, ana
has had his SdlutdtiOnS reLulHeu many,
many times within the last six months,
and within as recently as four days ago.
''He knows Mrs. Eddy well; knows her
face and form; would pick that face and
form in a glance, from among the faces
of millions, and he has not been imposed
upon IN any way by any substitute which,
as the World claims, has been riding In
her carriage
I AT different times when he has had
the pleasure of talking with Mrs. Eddy,
there was no marked evidence of falling
health or departing faculties, in one of
her years but, on the contrary, she
showed a quick familiarity with current
events and wonderfully vivid recollec-
ton of happenings long passed as well
as a SURPRISING skill in foreshadowing
the future.
During the last five years he has had
MANY letters from Mrs. Eddy, some OF
quite recent date and there has never
been doubt in his mind as to the per-
sonal autograph of the writer, and the
letters themselves carry with them no
evidence of an enfeebled condition, mental
or physical.
.But few months ago, at her invita-
ton. he visited her in her private room.
When he entered, she was standing In
the bay window with her back to the
door. AS soon as she realized his pres
ence. she turned from the desk at which
she was standing, walked toward the
middle of the room with form as erect
as the ordinary woman of forty, and
shook hands in a way that Indicated any
thing but feebleness or physical break