The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-12-16


ity to secure a stenographer to pre-
pare reply to the article by Louis p.
Scholl, which appeared in last weeks
Courier Reporter, / submit as my re-
ply the attached, which was prepared
at the time of my campaign in Spo-
kane and refused by the Spokesman
Review both as news and as advertis-
ing matter. 1t practically covers the
points in question and / would appre-
ciate your publishing same:
want to say, Mr.. Scholl, in the
very first place, that you are prac-
ticing what / would call as a lawyer,
suit in avoidance. You have not
touched the merits of the case at all,
nor replied to the important things
which said about your cult. This is
the twenty-fourth time in Christian
Science replies that some of you have
used that same old text of Jesus cast
ing out devils: ."And we forbade him,
because he followed not u.s." don't
see why you use such text, as Mrs.
Eddy says there is no devil to be cast
out. The fundamental principles OF
the text, therefore, you can not be-
lieve; I would stop quoting it.
You said at Spokane that Rev. Bull
gin has gone up and down the line
delivering TRADES against Christian
Science, and invariably resulted In an
increase in your church and sales for
your literature. According to your
admission, ! wish you would send me
my per cent, for such publicity result
ing in your favor, to do justice to an
agent, you should give me what is
Justly coming my way.
Secondly, if you are right in this
statement, why are you 50 anxious to
reply to my utterances, seal my mouth
and condemn me for this great help
"Oh, consistency, chou art a jewell"
You say that Congregational min
lister in California commended your
excellent creed. God pity that Con-
gregationalist. I think, Npossibly a
little investigation will show that he
was a Unitarian Congregationalist
He is at liberty to do as he pleases
| if he desires to call himself an ORTIZ
odox Christian and then be liberal
and broad enough to take in those who
deny the Diety Of his Lord, the blood
atonement for sin, personal devil,
the Bible doctrine Of hell and punish
ment for the wicked, and give up bap-
tism and the Lords supper. When all
this is done why call yourself Chris
tan at all?
It. seems, Mr.. Scholl, that it is very
hard for you to let go of the remarks
made of the Inconsistency of the
Christian Scientist who denies feeling
and pain. You have made a great
struggle over that. / should think If
the Savior were on earth again he
would call your attention to straining
at a gnat and swallowing a camel.
Let us look at the camel and not the
gnat. You do deny pain and suffer-
| ing; you do deny feeling; you do teach
your followers even at funeral OF
their own beloved dead not to- weep,
but in perfect complacency to sit as
cold as any Indian savage, or the
heather mother as her child goes into
the Ganges. The sweetest thing to
me about my Savior's life is HE was
touched with the feelings of our in
firmities" and "Jesus wept."
Your attempted reply of trying to
Justify Mrs. Eddy's claim in being the
author of the book now called Science
and Health. is very weak one.
If you will consult such works. Mr..
Scholl, as Haldeman, of New York
City, very gifted Baptist preacher
and an honored gentleman, and IT you
will consult Frederick w. Peabody, a
man who has had twenty 1.-two law suits
with Mrs. Eddy and her people in Bos-
ton, and who makes over ninety chal-
lenges regarding this woman, Mrs.
Baker Eddy, and her dishonesty In
business and deception in life, and de-
fies them to prosecute him for GRIM
inal libel, you will not have to go to
Sibyl WILDER who was a hired agent
of your cult to write Mrs. Eddy. OF
course, we would expect good report
from her, but why don't you go to the
eminent Episcopal clergyman, Rev.
Kenneth Mackenzie, d. D., P. II. D.,
l.. L. D., and consult some of these
authorities, and you will find out that
it is no evangelistic made-up story
that Mrs. Eddy stole her manuscript
and then claimed to get them from
God in Heaven.
You say that Quimby was both ig-
norant and illiterate and that no proof
of this oft-repeated statement HAS
ever been presented. will call your
attention to McClure's Magazine Of
February, 1907, article entitled, "Mary
Baker C. Eddy and Phineas Parkhurst
Quimby." (You will find it in your
public 1ibrary.) You will find in this
article that in 1861 Mr.. Quimby wrote
his manuscripts and in 1864 Mrs. Eddy
borrowed and copied those manu-
scripts. You will also see published
in the same magazine, on page 349,
letter from Mrs. Patterson, later
Mrs. Eddy, written on September IA,
1864, to Dr.. Quimby, which is as fol-
lows: "Angel visits, absent treat
ments. would like to have your om-
nipresence visit me at 8 o'clock this
evening. + wish to be treated for
small beliefs, stomach trouble, back
ache and constipation" signed, "Mrs.
Patterson" showing that she was un-
der his treatment.
You will also see an affidavit pro,
cured by Mcclure Of the hours and
Jo.,. xyho, Mrc Eddy was having COP