The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-11
SCIENTIST SPIES ARE
ACCUSED IN CHURCH
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had been subjected to campaign OF
| defamation and falsehood.
| "All this was due" he said, Ito the
efforts of an organized spy system es-
| tablished in the church and which has
for its object the dragooning OF any one
| who may object to the intolerant and
autocratic methods of the high officials
OF the church. So Virulent have these
| attacks been of late that ON November
| 20 last I was compelled to address
sharp letter of protest to the First
| Church of Christ. Scientist, of this city,
following which action I resigned from
| the church In which l have held office as
| first reader In my letter of resigna-
| ton / found 1t necessary to state that
when Christian Scientists resort to
burglary, conspiracy and libel IN their
efforts to injure fellow being 1t is time
for the adoption of such methods as VIII
give such practices pause.
Boston Troubles Shift Here.
The statement continues:
1.-THE present issue in the church OF
New York Is but an outgrowth of the
situation in Boston, where a great legal
battle is now being fought in the Su-
preme Court to determine whether or
not the directors of the church shall re-
main in supreme autocratic control or
the tremendous revenues and activities
of the church throughout the world. The
income of the church until recently has
been in excess of a million dollars a
year and the five directors have been
In absolute control of it. A tremendous
machine Of arbitrary power has been
built up, and any one who falls under its
displeasure will be disciplined In man
ner that can only be compared to the
ia TnuIfigitinn
II do not hesitate to say that the pres
ent situation in the Christian Science
Church throughout the world only lacks
the more venomous material features of
the 1nquisition to establish the parallel
The auto da fe Is absent, but only be-
cause the laws forbid it.
There is no doubt whatever that the
Christian Science delegates. headed by
Martin T. jackson, former chaplain, is
voluntary agent Of the directors of the
church in Boston. Mr.. Jackson is ac-
tive In the disciplinary methods adopted
by this self-appointed aggregation Of
apologists for the authorities of the
church in Boston. Some months ago 1t
was necessary for me to complain to the
church authorities of his vicious and I'M
principled attacks made upon the Roman
Catholic Church, in plain violation Of the
bylaws and principles Of the Christian
Science Church, but only an evasive re-
ply was returned. Albert F. Gilmore
the publication committee for this State
Is or course paid agent of the authori-
ties in Boston.
THE present trouble in First Church
has been brewing for ten years 1t has
little or nothing to do with the situation
In Boston, save that 1t was carried out
at the direct instigation Of those authori-
ties. My own views as to Mrs. Stetson
are well known. 1 have been unalter-
ably opposed, to the policies which re-
suited in her dismissal from the First
Church here and from the Mother Church
in Boston, and L am still opposed to
them.
THE attack made upon me, and upon
others in this city, is due solely be-
cause l have objected to the CONNER
cialism OF the Church as it is being
carried out. The trouble is based upon
the fact that the Christian Science
Church has become too prosperous: too
well fed and too powerful. The indi-
cations of this are clearly seen In the
action Of the five directors Of the church
In Boston. during October. 1917 when
they secretly raised their salaries 500
per cent. and did their best to keep the
fact from the membership of the church.
The statement has been made that l am
associated with the Publishing Society
OF the church.
Tenets of Church Discarded.
I'm justice to the religion established
by Mary Baker Eddy. wish to say that
none OF these things I have referred to
In the least affect her teachings, nor
have they anything to do with Christian
Science. Indeed, they are the result of
wide departure from the tents of the
church.
THE democratic government of the
church has been recklessly cast aside
and an absolutism that would make the
Russian regime blush with shame has
taken its place. To-day the high crime
is to differ with those in authority that
difference at once becomes heresy. and
In each church in this city to-day there
is small group under fire because thew
refuse to bow their necks to the yoke
or the directors as they demand. Years
ago Mark Twain forecasted the present
situation. asserting that in time the
Christian Science Church would estab-
lish an organization machine more auto
cratic than anything yet known to re-
ligion.
There is M 0ttaation 49,.