The Cairo bulletin., 1914-11-30
Christian Science Committee on Pub
llcation Of Illinois Replies to
Rev. Eells.
SAYS ACCUSATIONS ARE
ALL MIS- STATEMENTS
Christian Scientists Prove Their
SEnstianity by Their Works
Rather Than Their Words.

Permit me to submit a few facts
in refutation OF Eeries of charges
against Christian Science and it's
founder made in a sermon by Rev.
Alfred NJ Eells as quoted in your
issue Of Noyembe. %, to the extent
of several columns His statements
would be astounding to any one ec-
quainted with the facts were it not
that they have all been made in
Vulnerable times before in the last
quarter of a century and as many
times shown to be false, so that the
one surprising fact is that minlste
OF the gospel would stoop to collect
ing and repeating without proof of
their accuracy SO many of the falsi-
ileations which have been concocted
In the last generation about Ers
Eddy and the Church she founded.
propose here to merely indicate
as briefly as ] can in the face of SO
much misinformation what Mrs
Eddy's was and to show the nature
of her religious teaching and its
relations to the founder of Chris
tianity. While ] should be entirely
willing to submit again the facts to
disapprove the long list OF misstate-
ments one by one, it is not necessary
70 do so. If Mrs. Eddy is not the
lespicable creature he pictures her
md her religious system not fraud,
hen his entire argument falls to the
evel Of mere defamation and the Sc
les of statements by which he tries
support it do not require further
refutation.
A great religious movement with
history covering more than forty
Years Of constant growth, during
which it has extended not merely to
he confines of its native state but
every state in the Union, was not
ounded upon Ignorance nor reared
ipon dishonesty and greed nor char
,cteri2ed by selfishness and sham
or carried forward upon ideas stolen
rom another. That the Christian
science Church founded by Mary
Baker Eddy and based upon an un-
lerstanding of the teachings of
resus, acquired after years of patient
tudy of the Bible, should be so dis
ribed nothing but willful blindness
. facts of common knowledge can
ny.
Jesus made it clear that grapes
,annot be gathered Of thorns nor figs
If thistles, and human experience has
onfrmed this statement. Hence it
absolutely for one not intelligent.
owing, pure, and unselfish to have
founded and led a movement which
after several decades of practical
DpCi dIlOh IOAAtIhuCS W dpptdi " tic
most intelligent as well as to the
lowliest members of the community
and inspires them to greater purity,
unselfishness and brotherly love.
Mary Baker Eddy was prominent
ly in the public eye for more than
two score years. The character of
her life is we'll known, and our
critic, had it been his purpose to do
her justice, could have learned that
she was held in high esteem and that
it has not left to Christian Science
alone to honor her. The Governor of
the State of New Hampshire, in
whose capital she lived for years,
referred to her as New Hampshire's
foremost woman, and when she
moved from Concord to Boston, the
Concord city council saw fit to meet
and pass resolutions of regret at her
departure and of appreciation of the