Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-05
MRS EDDY's LETTERS.
Mother of Christian Science Anxious
 to Get Them All Back.

10 6et Incm All BACK
 But for her indulgence in letter writing Mrs Eddy might have gone down to posterity | much simpler l character than she now appears. | She seems to have realized her mis- [ take in letter 10 her son quoted in the May McClure's. She writes: The enemy to Christian Science is by the Wickedest powers of hyDno- | tism trying to do me all the harm possible by acting on the minds or people to make them lie about me and my family. In view of all this herein and hereby ask this favor of you I have done for you what have asked but once before this a favor of my only child Will you send to me by express all the let ters of mine that I have written to you? This will be a great comfor. to your mother if you do it. Send all-all of them. Be sure of that, If you will do this for me I will make you and Mary some presents of value, I assure you. Let no one but Mary and your lawyer, MT Will son, know what I herein write to Mary and you. With love,
 MOTHER, M. E. B.'G. EDDY I"
 Tn other respects, however, Mrs Eddy appears to have been very much in charge of her own affairs.
 Mrs Stetson and Laura Lathrop had built up strong churches in New York. Mrs Ewing was pastor of a fiourishing church in Chicago, Mrs Leonard of another in Brook lyn, Mrs Williams in Buffalo, Mrs Steward in Toronto, MT Norcross in Denver. These pastors naturally become leaders among the Christian Scientists in their respective com munitfes, and came to be regarded as persons authorized to 'expound Science and Health and the doc trines of Christian Science. Such a state of things Mrs Eddy consid- cred dangerous, not only because of the personal influence the pastor might acquire over his flock, but be- cause pastor might, even without intending to do so, give personal color to his interpretation of her words. In his sermon he might ex- pand her texts and infinitely im- provise upon her themes until grad ually his hearers accepted his own opinions for Mrs Eddy's. The church in Toronto might come to empha- size doctrines which the church in Denver did not; here was possi- ble beginning of differing denomina- tions. z.s-. s.4 a
 "So, as Mrs Eddy splendidly puts it, In 1895 ordained the Bible and science and health with key to the scriptures, as the pastor, on this planet, of all the churches of the Christian Science denomination. That is what Mrs Eddy actually did. In the Journal of April, 1895. she announced, without any previous warning to them, that her. preach CTS should never preach again; that there were to be no more preach CTS; that each church should have instead first and a second reader, and that the Sunday sermon was to consist of extracts from the Bible and from Science and Health read aloud to the congregation. In the beginning the first reader read from the Bible and the second reader from Mrs Eddy's book. But this she soon changed. The first reader now reads from Science and Health and the second reads those passages of the Bible which Mrs Eddy says are correlative. This service Mrs Eddy declares, was authorized by Christi ,
 When Mrs Eddy issued this in- junction, every Christian Science preacher stepped down from his pull pit and closed his lips. There was not an island of the sea in which he could lift up his voice and sermon ize; Mrs Eddy's command covered this planet. Not one voice was raised in protest. Whatever the pas tors felt, they obeyed. Many of them kissed the rod"