New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-02

COuAc years ago you SLAVeu All
writing that you would, on reason
able notice, remove this fence.
whenever the Church was ready to
extend the westerly wall of the
garage in a southerly direction"
also acknowledge receipt Of your
letter Of September 2, 1921, refusing
my written request of August 20, 1921,
that | be supplied with copy Of my
written statement, mentioned in the
above quotation.
My statement, to which you refer,
was an immediate reply to a commu-
nication from a former board of trus-
tees, and was written before I recalled
a contract between myself and the trus-
tees who built the Church and dedicated
it in 1908, and which mutually involves
their and my honor and interests
Therefore / cannot give my consent to
your proposition.
Under date of April 19, 1920, I wrote
letter to Mrs. Sheldon. then Clerk of
the Church, in response to her letter OF
April Is, 1920, in which somewhat
different request, regarding my fence,
was made Of me- In my reply to her
letter | stated:
The entire land, the Church edi-
flee which stands upon it,, and the
home are one ADMINISTRATIONS
gift from my Father Mother God,
and He will protect and defend it.
until the day Of the restitution Of
all things My dear Mrs. Sheldon
this is my final reply TO any
further communications leave it
all with God"
| feel that you do not have before you
my letter Of April 10, 1920, to Mrs.
Sheldon, or that you have not read it
uNderstonding{y, and am therefore
appending copy of it for your infor-
nation.
am advised, and your letter to me
OF August "a, 1921, intimates, that YOU
are also cognzant Of the fact, that the
Church cannot legally compel me TO re-
move The fence, which was properly
placed in its present position by me and
my students, who erected the tribute to
Mrs. Eddy
The present members of First Church
of Christ, Scientist New York City,
cannot, without my consent. remove the
fence, nor build such wall as they pro
pose, on the easterly side Of my home,
by means of which the openings, to
which the Church agreed before I con-
sented to build, would be closed. The
proposed action would violat; the ex-
press terms of the agreements entered
into between myself and the Church at
the time my home was built, and would
greatly decrease the value Of nv PROP
erty.
Your proposed changes pertain only
to the delivery, or service entrance to
the Church, which I, with the trustees
and members who built First Church.
and who we're all my students, made az
q delivery, or service entrance for the
convenience of the employees of our
Church. The four entrances-tlree on
Central Park West and one on Ninety
sixth Street-wele intended for the
congregation, and the delivery, or scr
vice entrance was for the employees. or
church officials, If they preferred to en-
IS suitable entrance to the Church
@SAiA ANAACt ,Y-SAAII tCtICtt, ana L0lS is
only few feet distant from the site of
the proposed new entrance, or covered
passageWay, mentioned in your letter
Again I repeat The execution Of the
plans you propose would greatly iniure
me. by Closing openings previously con-
sented to by the Church, and by cutting
off my enjoyment of light and air, the
right to which belongs to me by agree
ment and purchase; and the permission
you ask cannot be granted
Your proposed plans form a parallel
case to an attempt Of some members of
the material organization to take down,
or change the architecture Of the orig
inal edifice Of The Mother Church in
Boston, or to erase, by another struc-
ture, Mrs. Eddy's first demonstration,
or type and symbol Of The Mother
Church, the Church Triumphant The
great Leader Of Christ's Christiarity.
or Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy.
forbade this Spiritual sense revealed
to her, and to her advanced students.
that nothing could be taken from nor
added to a scientific demonstration. or
revelation Of spiritual idea. The
same suiYitual aninlus that ena h]nA bor