Evening star., 1921-03-06

vision. The only facts that have thus far
come to light, are contained in an official
report, which explains that Mrs. Eddy
| had collected a series Of articles which
| had appeared from her pen, and which
| she entitled Miscellany. On August Il,
! 1909, Mrs. Eddy sealed these prepared
| articles in a package, and wrote on the
| wrapper, Nobody shall open this or read
its contents during my lifetime without
my written consent"
In March. 1913, the Christian Science
board OF directors turned certain manu-
scripts over to the publisher Of Mrs
Eddy's writings, with instructions to pre-
pare a volume for publication, to be
entitled The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, and Miscellany. Subsequently.
the report states, the directors inserted
| additional material, all Of which, it is
claimed, was written by Mrs. Eddy.
An examination of the above evidence
leads to the following conclusions:
l. That Mrs. Eddy had prepared, in a
package, the writings that she desired to
be published in Miscelluny and had sealed
the package and dated it August y, 1909.
A fair inference from this action, which
should be drawn by any obedient student
of Mrs. Eddy, is that Mrs. Eddy desired
the material inside her sealed package to
compose the volume to be published; and
also, because Of her care in sealing it.,
that she did not desire anything else to be
| inserted in the volume.
2 Between the date in December, 1910,
when Mrs. Eddy rose beyond material
sight, and March, 1913, this sealed pack
age came into the hahds of the Christian
Science board of directors, the body of
which had subjected me to the so-called
trial." mentioned above. There is moth
ing on record to show that the writings,
as handed by the board of directors to the
publishers, were the identical writings
within the sealed package On the con,
trary, as Indicating the mental attitude OF
| the directors toward their moral and sci
entific obligation to publish the contents
of Mrs. Eddy's sealed package, exactly as
she left it, there appears in the official
report a definite admission that they In
serted other matter. Mrs. Eddy had re
corded in this sealed package, what she
wished to give to her followers
| have in my hand at this moment a
letter from Mrs. Eddy to me, and which
appears in Miscellany, with much of it
left out. l have never believed one
statement that has been attributed to
Mrs Eddy, in Uiscellany. which contra
diets her teachings her statements to me
during more than twenty y-fve years and
which reverses and traduces her courage
GUS character. She always had the cour-
age to do her approving and reproving
and never assigned to others her respon-
sibility, nor prerogative, to counsel, eau
ton, warn, censure, or advise her faith
full students, whom she had chosen to
20 into the world and preach, teach, and
demonstrate Christian Science, or Christs
Christianity.
The burden Of proof that these. and
some other Of the messages and kilograms
purporting to have been written by
Mrs Eddy, are authentic, rests upon those
officials Of I'll. material organization.
through whose hands this package. which
had been sealed by Mrs. Eddy herself,
passed.
That Mrs Eddy did not see all her mail,
nor reply to it, is shown in the testi-
mony of the 18th day of the trial now at
issue in the Massachusetts, courts, between
the board Of directors and the trustees
Of the publishing society, as printed ver-
batim in THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
MONITOR. Mr.. Adam Dickey, chairman
Of the board Of directors and one Of the
defendants in the litigation, was asked:
@. What was your work?
A. That Of secretary to Mrs. Eddy.
@. In your work Of secretary did you
handle the incoming mail?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Did you reply to some Of the letters?
A. Many Of them.