The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-08
Mrs. Della M. Gilbert Declares
She Is Either Dead Or
Helpless.
AN open LETTER
To The SCIENTISTS
Declaration That the Christian Science
Church Is Without Living Spiritual
Leader.


NEW YORK, June S.-The New
York World prints the following: Pro
claiming Mary Baker G. Eddy to be
either dead or a helpless, mindless
puppet, and charging the managers
of the Mother church with falsehood,
trickery and fraud, Mrs. Della NJ. Gil
bert, in an ouen letter to all Christian
Scientists, asks their cooperation in
a campaign of exposure and purifica-
ton. Mrs. Gilbert holds a foremost
position among the Christian Scien-
fists of this city and is believed 10
be the mouth piece of an influential
element pledged to her support. Her
open letter, issued to the press of the
country reads:
New York, June 5, 1909.
ITO all Christian Scientists:
The Christian Science church is
without a spiritual leader in the
flesh These in control of the mother
church in Boston, and of that house
of mystery in Brookline the falsely
avowed home of living and thriving
Mary Baker G. Eddy, cannot success
fully refute this assertion.
Mrs. Eddy is either dead or help
less, mindless puppet in the hands
of constituencies men. The truth has
been revealed to me and in humble
obedience to the will of God | now
openly declare the facts. In this
message | appeal to all honest Chris
tian scientists to cooperate with me
for a publication of our church. l am
not writing rashly or acting hastily.
Within the last three weeks l have
been within the so-called home of Mrs.
Eddy and have studied at close range
the fraud, the trickery and the re-
voting mystery by which the Boston
organization seeks to perpetuate the
pernicious fiction of an unseen and
unseeable leader. This profane mock
cry will continue indefinitely unless
honest Christian Scientists who wor'
ship God and not the fetch of a poor
old woman's name, combine to expose
and exterminate the fraud
The very life of Christian Science Is
, involved and it is in the name c!
Broolline. | will just tell you VA
there is no Christian Science. In thI'
city although its organization Ia
been virtually perfected. | will lay
before you the documentary evidence
proving that this church was killed
by the machine at Boston acting IL
the name of Mrs. Eddy.
I will give you every detail of NJ!
recent investigation in Boston ant
Brookline of my conferences with the
directors of the mother church, o
nv dealings with a man said to Dc
Mrs. Eddy's private secretary, and o
\ the pressure which has been brough
upon me to keep silence. | will tel
YOU also of an appeal made to me II
the parlor of a leading Boston hote
| bv the chief executive of the mother
church who wept like a woman wher
refused to pledge myself to silence
there were witnesses to his interview
and every word is carefully preserved
I told that agent of the frightened
tricksters in Boston, to see and tall
with the hidden leader was all that
asked.
1t was then that he wept. l then
asked the one impossible thing. The
time has come when Christian Science
must purge itself of dishonesty. Mary
Baker G. Eddy lives now in history
only. The fetish of her name is all
that remains. That name honored
bv all of us has become the breast
works of falsity and fraud. | say in
deepest loyalty to the cause of Chris
tian Science and in truest devotion to
the memory of the woman through
vhom God revealed the truth and
rave TO the world the science OF
,ealing. But the hour is at hand for
reorganization of the faith on lines
( honesty, unity and purity. There
,ust be a living spiritual head, not
fetish manipulated by schemers
.orking solely for financial results.
arnestly pleading for your co-opera-
ON In this important duty, which