The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-06-07
MRS. EDDY SAYS
CHARGE IS FALSE
Christian Science Leader Answers
Statement That She Is Either
Dead or Mindless Puppet."


Baker G.. Eddy. head Of the Christian
Science church, gave to the United
Press today signed statement In re-
ply TO the attack made upon her by
Mrs. Della M. Gilbert, who declared
hat Mrs. Eddy was either dead or
mindless puppet." Mrs. Gilbert. In a
sensational article printed In a New
York newspaper, said she would call
4 conference OF members OF the Chris
ian Science church and reveal fraud
and trickery" to 'perpetuate fiction III
an unseen and unseeabie leader. She
Is convinced, she said. that the man
she met at Mrs. Eidy's home was un'
able to produce leader In the flesh.
Mrs. Eddy's statement follows:
Chestnut Hill. Mass. June Z. 1903.
To Whom II May Concern:
have the pleasure to report to
one and all OF my beloved friends
and followers that / exist In the
members OF my household and by
those with whom ! have appoint
ments.
denying or asserting the personal
ity and presence OF Mary Baker
Eddy stands the eternal fact OF
Christian Science and the honest
der. II 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 l do
not regard this attack upon me as
trail for when these things cease
10 bless they will cease 10 occur.
And we know that all things work
together for good 10 them that love
God. TO them who are Called ac
cording to His purpose. What shaI,
We then say to these things! II
God be for us, who can be against
us2"
1Signed) MARY BAKER EDDY.
BY her order, Mrs. Eddy today per-
mitted a select company OF newspaper
men 10 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-put
there was no public interview. me
were permitted to SEQ
her. TO note that she Is more feeDie
and on her behalf statement was
given out setting forth her position.
Mrs. Eddy Is feeble woman. Tnat
is not surprising when II is remem'
bered that she Is 88 years old. But
while her bodily health Is feeble ner
mind is apparently still active. her
eye Is as clear as ever, and so Iar DIS
one could Judge by outward appear
ance. she knew all that was going on
In her home. ,.l&
Mrs. Gilbert. in New YORK. issued an
open letter to all Christian SCIENTISTS
asking their cooperation In q cam
paign OF exposure and purincatioh'
Her letter reads in part:
Those In control OF the mother
church in Boston aud Of that house or
mystery In Brookllne-the falsely
ivowed home OF living and thriving
Mary Baker G.. Eddy-cannot refu'e
successfully this assertion:
Mrs. Eddy Is either dead or help
ess. mindless puppet in the hands OF
men. ~
This truth has been revealed to me.
md in humble obedience to the Will
If God now openly declare the facts.
IN this message I appeal to all honest
Christian Scientists to cooperate with
ne for a publication OF our church.
I am not writing rashly or acting
hastily. Within the last three weeks
have been within the so-called home
IF Mrs Eddy and have studied at close
-ange the fraud, the trickery and the
revolving mystery by which the Boston
seeks to perpetuate the
fiction Of an unseen and un-
,eeable leader.
This profane mockery will continue
unless honest Christian
Scientists who worship God and not
he fetish OF o 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 Eft humanity out OF
the slough OF error-that | call upon
you to act.
"As a preliminary step I 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 poI-
session bearing uron conditions which
surround the fiction Of leadership
at Boston and Brookline.
"I will tell you why there Is no
Christian Science church at the Plaza
hotel in this city, although It's organ
ization had been virtually perfected.
II 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
OF my conferences with the
directors of the mother church. OF my
dealings with man known as Mrs
Eddy's private secretary and OF the
pressure which has been brought upon
ME to keep silent. will tell you
also of IN appeal made to me In the
parlor of a leacinf Boston hotel by
the chief executive OF the mother
who wept like a woman
when refused TO pledge myself to
silence. There were witnesses to this
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 WIS 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 q. Eddy lives nov
I'm history only. The fetish of hel
name is all that remains"
Prisoner Is Shot Dead.
ST. LOUIS, Mo June 7-Fref