Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-21
TEACHING PERN|C|OUS,
SAYS MRS. EDDY'S SON
Christian Science Declared to
Be a Business Contrary to
Public Policy.

Chandler has filed with the superior
court as counsel for George w. Glover,
in the suit WHICH seeks TO set aside the
will of Mary Baker Eddy Glover's mother,
as 1t is ordered to be administrated by
Henry NJ. Baker executor, interesting
amendments allowed by the court
In the amendment George W. Glover.
as plaintiff, says the directors of the Bos-
ton church, Alfred Farlow and others,
have been for many years exercising
certain practices based on certain notions
which in no sense whatever. in fact or in
law, are a charity or a beDevolence, so
that money given therefore cannot be
considered a charitable trust, but, on the
contrary, those practices. although de-
scribed in the residuary bequest of Mrs.
Eiddy's will as the religion OF Christian
Science as taught by me are pernicious
and hostile to organized society, and con-
stitutes a business which is forbidden
and made void by public policy and the
laws OF the land.
Described as a Menace.
Speaking of the textbook of the Chris
tian Scientists the amendment says:
1T teaches system Of faith cure
which is primarily dependent for its sue
cess upon the total extirpation and OBJ
liberation from the mind of the patient
and his attendants of all knowledge of
the human structure and system of all
physical and mental laws and of the evil
dence presented TO the mind by the
senses.
I'm the void created by this process in
the minds of the believers the system in
stalls a fanatical belief in its own EN-
tacy in the cure of all disease, which be-
lief the patient must hold to despite all
the protests of the senses and of reason.
said book and the system of said
testatrix as shown by all her writings
the religion of Christian Science as taught
by her-teaches those who are well to
neglect all useful precautions against
sickness and those who are sick to fore
60 all appropriate relief. 1t teaches par
ents and others upon whom children and
helpless persons are dependent to neglect
the health and sacrifice the lives of these
dependents
1.-THE healers of the system are usu-
ally ignorant of the cause and cure of
disease. Of anatomy, physiology and ny
Eiene. and they are taught to earn their
livelihood by the practice of criminal
negligence, sometimes amounting to man.
slaughter upon sick and dependent peo-
pie and children
Vehicle for Sale Of Book.
1.-THE religious system of the feature
furnish. as 1t does. the element of the
supernatural. which is so essential as
stimulus to belief and faith in all sys-
TENS of faith cure, is but a vehicle for
the sale OF the book and the practice of
healing according to its system"
The principles and practices of the five
directors and the mother church, at BoS-
ton. and other practitioners. are set forth
as follows:
1T is fundamental principle of Chris
tan Science, as taught by the five di-
rectors, that by mental treatment not
only may sickness be cured. but also
that disease and death may be thereby
caused; that the malpracttioners may
poison their enemies and did poison and
put to death Mrs. Eddy's husband, Asa
Gilbert Eddy. all this by virtue of the
malicious animal magnetism
The amendment further states that the
directors concealed Mrs. Eddy's property,
claiming that il only aggregated $4,000,
when as a result of the. next friend
suit they were compelled to make dis
closures of more than a million dollars.
The document concludes as follows:
The plaintiff therefore now AYERS that
the residuary bequest of substantially all
Mrs. Eddy's property to the First Church
Of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass, was
procured by the five directors of said
church by concealment from her of the
unlawfulness of the bequest and by I'M
due influence over a feeble and deluded
testatrix. and that said Request is void"