The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-06-08
mrs. EODY SAYS
CHARGE IS FALSE
Christian Science Leader Answers
Statement That She Is Either
Dead or Mindless Puppet."

bdheT VI. Euuy, ueeu OF the SnElslldil
Science church. gave TO the United
Press today a signed statement In re-
ply to the attack made upon her by
Mrs. Della NJ. Gilbert, who declared
that Mrs. Eddy was either dead or a
mindless puppet." Mrs. Gilbert. In a
sensational article printed In a New
York newspaper. said she would call
conference OF members OF the Chris
tan Science church and reveal fraud
and trickery" 10 ''perpetuate fiction IN
an unseen and unseeable leader She
is convinced, she said. that the man
she met at Mrs. ELdy's home was I'M
able TO produce leader In the flesh. T"
Mrs. Eddy's statemenS follows:
Chestnut Hin. Mass. June Z. 1909.
To Whom IL May Concern:
1 have the pleasure 10 report 10
one and all or my beloved friends
and followers that l exist In the
flesh. and am seen daily by the
members OF my household and by
those with whom l have appoint
ments.
Above all this fustlan OF either
denying or asserting the personal
ity and presence OF Mary Baker
Eddy stands the eternal fact OF
Christian Science and the honest
history OF its discoverer and foun-
der. IL Is self evidence that the
discoverer OF an eternal truth can
not be a temporal fraud
The cause OF Christian Science Is
prospecting throughout the world
and stands forever as an eternal
and demonstrable science. and | do
not regard this attack upon me as
a trail for when these things cease
TO bless they will cease to occur.
And we know that all things work
together for good 10 them that love
God. TO them who are called &C
cording to His purpose. What shall
we then say TO these things IL
God be for Us, who can be against
us?'
BY her order, Mrs. Eddy today per-
mitted a select company OF newspaper
men to enter her new home in Brook
line. They saw her depart in her car
rage for her daily drive. They in.
spected her home. saw the furnishings
that had been brought from Concord
and the study OF the aged leader-but
there was no public interview. The
were permitted to see
her, TO note that she is more feeble
and on her behalf a statement was
given out setting forth her position.
Mrs. Eddy Is a feeble woman. That
is not surprising when II Is remem'
bered that she is So years old. But
while her bodily health is feeble her
mind is apparently still active. Her
eye Is as clear as ever. and so far as
one could Judge by outward appear
ance. she knew all that was going on
N her home.
Mrs. Gilbert, in New York. issued an
open letter to all Christian Scientists,
asking their cooperation in a cam
paign OF exposure and publication.
Her letter reads in part:
Those in control OF the mother
church In Boston and OF that house CT
mystery in Brookline-the falsely
avowed home OF living and thriving
Mary Baker G. Eddy-cannot refute
successfully this assertion:
Mrs. Eddy is either dead or help
less, mindless puppet IN the hands or
constituencies men,
This truth has been revealed to me,
and in humble obedience 10 the VIII
OF God I now openly declare the facts.
In this message appeal to all honest
Christian Scientists TO cooperate With
me for a publication o: our church.
| am not writing rashly or acting
DdSIlII.
I have been within the so-called home
OF Mrs. Eddy and have studied at close
range the fraud, the trickery and the
revolving mystery by which the Boston
seeks TO perpetuate the
pernicious fiction CT an unseen and UNI
seeable leader.
This profane mockery will continue
indefinitely unless honest Christian
Scientists who worship God and not
the fetish OF poor old woman's name
combine to expose and exterminate
the fraud The very life OF Christian
Science is involved, and 1t is In the
name OF Christian Science-the faith
which alone can lift humanity out OF
the slough OF error-that I call upon
you to act.
LAS preliminary step ask you to
confer with me without delay either IN
person or by letter. To each Of you
will fully reveal every fact In my pos
session bearing uron conditions which
surround the fiction OF leadership
maintained at Boston and Brookline.
Il will tell you why there Is no
Christian Science church at the Plaza
hotel In this city, although its organ
ization had been virtually perfected.
Il will lay before you the documen-
tary evidence proving that this church
was throttled and killed by the ma
chine at Boston acting In the name OF
Mrs. Eddy
Il will give you every detail of my
recent Investigations in Boston and
Brookline, OF my conferences with the
directors OF the mother church. of my
dealings with a man known as Mrs.
Eddy's private secretary and OF the
pressure which has been brought upon
me TO keep silent. l will tell you
also Of an appeal made to me in the
parlor Of leaclnf Boston hotel by
the chief executive Of the mother
church, who wept like woman
when | refused TO pledge myself to
silence. There were Witnesses to this
interview and every word Is care.
fully preserved. | told that agent OF
the frightened tricksters in control
at Boston that to see and talk with the
hidden leader was all that | asked
II was then that he wept. asked the
one impossible thing
THE time has come when Christian
Science must purge itself OF dishon
esty. Mary Baker G. Eddy lives now
In history only. The fetish Of her
name Is all that remains"
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