Smyrna times., 1911-01-04
MRS. STETSON'S
PROPHECY Denied
Scientists Ignore Resurrection
Of Mrs. Eddy.
FACTI0Nal STRIFE RENEWED
New York Leader Says There Is Moth.
ing In Their Teachings to Make
Mrs. Eddy Equal With cd.

N9" W |TauS' says mere Is Moth
ing In Their Teachings to Make
Mrs Eddy Equal With cd.
The declaration made by Mrs An
gusta E. ST son. the ex-commuricated
leader Of tie First Church of Christ
Scientist. In New York city. that if
is her con iction and also that of
many Chris ian Scientists tbron,bont
the country, Of the imminence of tho
resurrection in fieshly form of Mary
Baker Eddy the founder of the Chris.
tian Science cult, had the effect of
forcing the directors of the motbor
church OF the faith in Boston info va-
hement denial of the orthodoxy of Mrs
Stetson's doctrines and those Of ber
followers who believe with her that
Mrs. Eddy will make demonstration
OF her triumph over death, even as Je-
sus Christ did in Palestine 2G0O wears
ago
II also became evident that direc.
tors of the mother church in Ro-ton
who have been left as supreme arbi.
tiers of the faith which Mrs. EDDY dis
covered and built up have been forced
to meet distinct line of cleavage in
the ranks of Christian Scientists
throughout the country by their ar.
ton' quickly seized upon by Ms. Stet-
son, III dropping from the manual of
the mother church the name and tit,e
OF Mrs. Eddy as pastor emeritus of
the parent church in Boston.
BY their action the directors have
declared themselves in the matter of
an ecclesiastical difference of oDinion
in a way which threatens to omen
wider the breach between the "practi-
CAL and the visionary" devotees of
the faith.
Eugene R. Cox, the mouthpiece of
the directorate in Boston. said that
Mrs Eddy's name had been droprea
from the roll of the officers of the
mother church because she was no
longer pastor emeritus. That portion
oI the church which believes with Mrs.
oletSOn looks upon this action of the |
directors as indicative of rank lack of |
lalth since to their notion Mrs. Eddy |
sun lives and still is pastor emeritus. |
or leader, over her pupils.
There also appeared the first definite
Indications that the crystallization OF
Mrs. Stetson's views concerning the
inevitable demonstration OF Mrs. Eddy
ID the Hesh forecasts a renewal of the
strife between the factions in the First
Church of Christ, Scientist, in New
lork, when the annual election for
trustees shall take place in January.
Mrs. Stetson's beliefs have won TO her
party in the church a large number
OF converts, and the issue of the fu.
lure control of the large congregation
VIII be fought out at the election that
Is to come within the month.
The publication in the papers OF
Mrs. Stetson's unusual beliefs concern
ing the resurrection of Mrs. Eddy has
stirred Eugene r. Cox, who is the pub
lcation committee of the Christian
science church for the state of New
York, into unusual activity. He said:
There is nothing in the teachings
81 Christie Science nor the writings
1f Mary F1ker Eddy, it's discoverer
and founder, to justify any statements
looking to physical resurrection, and
any tendency or thought in that direc-
ion is abnormal in a Christion Scien-
list, as it takes account of the person
atty of Mrs. Eddy, which she depre-
,ated.
TO atterrpt to defy her, or mal
Ter equal W tn God or Jesus the Christ
S equally repugnant to the normal
eachings of Christian Science When
isked if shN were the second Christ,
Yrs. Eddy said: Even the question
hooks me. What l am is for God to
leclare in lis infinite mercy. There
vas and is and ever can be but one
iod. one Jesus of Nazareth"