Mary Baker Eddy to Samuel J. Elder, February 17, 1902

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Mary Baker Eddy

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Samuel J. Elder

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Calvin A. Frye

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February 17, 1902

Manuscript Description: Typewritten for Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper, with handwritten edits by Eddy and Calvin A. Frye.

Editorial Note: According to Calvin A. Frye, a duplicate of this document was sent to Samuel J. Elder, an attorney for Mary Baker Eddy during the Woodbury lawsuit. The document consists of refutations of charges against Eddy made by Josephine Curtis Woodbury and her attorney, Frederick William Peabody.

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[*]Editorial Note: Begin delineated handwritten text. ⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. FryeDuplicate of this was sent to Mr. Elder

Feb 17, 1902[*]Editorial Note: End delineated handwritten text.

⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddySEPARATING HUSBANDS AND WIVES.

It is historic that she has preserved unity in the marriage relation. Last summer a student wrote Mrs. Eddy that she had left her husband and did not intend to live with him again. Mrs. Eddy counselled her to return home and live with him and she immediately returned to him. Mrs. Eddy always counsels husbands and wives to bear and forbear with each other and to "dwell together in unity."Ps 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

See chapter in Science And HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy on "Marriage" and quote from it what you please for this occasion.

SPIRITUALISTIC MEDIUMAs Written:MEDUIM.

Mrs. Eddy never was a spiritualist never gave a seance and was distinguished for her gentle opposition to spiritualism explaining it away in her lectures and writings.

SEE DR. ASA G. EDDY'S PROSECUTION IN "SCIENCE AND HEALTH," THIRD EDITION.

SEE CASE OF INFRIGNMENT OF "SCIENCE AND HEALTH," IN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE History Editorial Note: See Infringement of "Science and Health," Etc.—Decision of the United States Circuit Court by Mary B. G. Eddy on pages 1-2 of the October 1883 issue of The Christian Science Journal (Journal of Christian Science). See also Glossary: Eddy v. Arens.

DEIFICATION OF MRS. EDDY.

See "Pulpit and Press pages 108, 109.

"TEARING HEARTS OUT."

Mrs. Eddy is distinguishedAs Written:disguished for her tenderness and sympathy. In rebuking a students Mrs. Eddy has used this expression "You would tear my heart out and trample on it". Hence the attempt to turn the very expression in an opposite direction , by a slight change such as has been made in some articles published

"SHE-DEVIL" IN LYNN.

The people in Lynn honor Mrs. Eddy. They have purchased the house, 8 Broad street, in Lynn, where she used to live, and intend to keep it as a memorial of her.

MERCENARY As Written: MERCINARY .

Her charities are proverbial. On an average, in three years, she gave away over $80,000Editorial Note: 80 000 each year (See Christian Science HistoryEditorial Note: This was a book written by Septimus J. Hanna and published in 1899.)

CHURCH LOT.

The mortgage was bought by Mrs. Eddy, and the property redeemed by her and conveyed in trust to the Christian Science Board of Directors for the benefit of the Mother church. She owns not a dollars worth of ethat property, and paid all expenses entailed As Written: intailed in the abovenamedAs Written:above named transaction from her private funds.

From infancy HER MORAL CHARACTER IS UNSTAINED .

MALICIOUS ANIMAL MAGNETISM; whereby people are killed.

Of her 5000 students, the average of four thousand nine hundred and fifty would testify that she never taught them to harm anyoneAs Written:any one. If the remaining fifty testifies oppositely their motive is apparent [*]Editorial Note: Circled punctuation..

Read WHAT JUDGE EWING AND OTHERS say in their lectures about her. Also Lord Dunmore's article published in papers within the last years: and others; name the honor she receives in her native stateEditorial Note: New Hampshire from the governors, Associat[*]Gap: letter.Reason: page edge. Judge of the Supreme Court (Judge Walker) and others, down to the children in the streetEditorial Note: In the years 1901-1910 Eddy provided shoes to children and some adults in need through Concord shoe stores, such as W. A. Thompson’s store. Sometimes as many as 600 to 700 pairs were distributed at a time. .

She is Honored and beloved by ministers and Christians in the old church of which she became a member at about twelve years of age.

(See Christian Science History for material for the above facts)

There is not a single statement made in P's bookEditorial Note: Josephine Curtis Woodbury's attorney for her lawsuit against Mary Baker Eddy was Frederick William Peabody. He produced an attack on Eddy in 1901 in the form of a lecture, then published as a pamphlet, titled A Complete Expose of Eddyism .or Chrisitan Science and the Plain Truth in Plain Terms Regarding Mary Baker G. Eddy. from beginning As Written: begining to end that is true.

NO photographs have been made by her from crayons.

HER SECOND HUSBAND Dr. Patterson was in Littleton New HampshireAs Written:N. H., when, in 1873, she obtained a divorce from him for adultery.

HER BOOKKEEPER C. A. FRYE, DOES NOT OWN ONE DOLLAR OF HER PROPERTY, REAL ESTATE As Written: EASTAE OR PERSONAL

HER FIRST HUSBAND COL. G. W. GLOVER died of yellow fever, in its worst type. The funeral service was conducted by his brother Masons, in the most honorary manner, he was highly esteemed as a brother and a Christian; but owing to fear of contagion the remains were taken in charge by the health authorities of the city. ⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. FryeHe was a Master Mason a membr of St. Andrew's Lodge No 10 of Charleston South CarolinaAs Written:S. C.

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[*]Editorial Note: Begin delineated handwritten text. ⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. FryeDuplicate of this was sent to Mr. Elder

Feb 17, 1902[*]Editorial Note: End delineated handwritten text.

⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddySEPARATING HUSBANDS AND WIVES.

It is historic that she has preserved unity in the marriage relation. Last summer a student wrote Mrs. Eddy that she had left her husband and did not intend to live with him again. Mrs. Eddy counselled her to return home and live with him and she immediately returned to her home him. Mrs. Eddy has had repeatedly always counselleds this student and her husbands and many others and wives to bear and forbear with each other and to "dwell together in unity."Ps 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

See chapter in Science And HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy on "Marriage" and quote from it what you please for this occasion.

SPIRITUALISTIC MEDUIMCorrected:MEDIUM.

Mrs. Eddy never was a spiritualist never gave a seance and was distinguished for her gentle opposition to spiritualism by her explaining it away spiritualism in her lectures and writings.

SEE DR. ASA G. EDDY'S PREOSECUTION IN "SCIENCE AND HEALTH," THIRD EDITION.

SEE CASE OF INFRIGNMENT OF "SCIENCE AND HEALTH," IN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE History JOURNAL, OCTOBER 1883. Editorial Note: See Infringement of "Science and Health," Etc.—Decision of the United States Circuit Court by Mary B. G. Eddy on pages 1-2 of the October 1883 issue of The Christian Science Journal (Journal of Christian Science). See also Glossary: Eddy v. Arens.

DEIFICATION OF MRS. EDDY.

See "Pulpit and Press pages 108, 109.

"TEARING HEARTS OUT."

Mrs. Eddy is disguishedCorrected:distinguished for her tenderness and sympathy. In rebuking a students Mrs. Eddy once has used this expression by saying in substance to the student "You would tear one's my heart out &c and trample on it". Hence the attempt to turn the very expression in an opposite direction and declare that she threatened to do this., by a slight change such as has been made in some her articles published

"SHE-DEVIL" IN LYNN.

The people in Lynn honor Mrs. Eddy. They have purchased the house, 8 Broad street, in Lynn, where she used to live, and intend to keep it as a memorial of her.

MERCINARY Corrected: MERCENARY .

Her charities are proverbial. On an average, in three years, she gave away over $80,000Editorial Note: 80 000, each year (See Christian Science HistoryEditorial Note: This was a book written by Septimus J. Hanna and published in 1899.)

CHURCH LOT.

The mortgage was bought by Mrs. Eddy, and the property redeemed by her and conveyed in trust to the Christian Science Board of Directors for the benefit of the Mother church. She owns not a dollars worth of thethat property, and paid all expenses intailed Corrected: entailed in the above namedCorrected:abovenamed transaction from her private funds.

From infancy HER MORAL CHARACTER IS UNSTAINED, FROM INFANCY.

MALICIOUS ANIMAL MAGNETISM; whereby people are killed.

Of her 5000 students, the average of four thousand nine hundred and fifty would testify that she never taught them to harm any oneCorrected:anyone. If the remaining fifty did so testifyies oppositely their motive is apparent [*]Editorial Note: Circled punctuation.. their statement would be false.

QUOTERead WHAT JUDGE EWING AND OTHERS say in their lectures about her. Also Lord Dunmore's article published in papers within the last years: and others; and name the honor she receives in her native stateEditorial Note: New Hampshire from the governors, Associat[*]Gap: letter.Reason: page edge. Judgejude of the Supreme Court (Judge Walker) and others, down to the barefooted children in the streetEditorial Note: In the years 1901-1910 Eddy provided shoes to children and some adults in need through Concord shoe stores, such as W. A. Thompson’s store. Sometimes as many as 600 to 700 pairs were distributed at a time. .

She is Honored and beloved by ministers and Christians in the old church of which she was a member of before became a member of whenat about twelve years of age.

(See Christian Science History for material for the above facts)

NO photographs have been made by her from crayons.

HER SECOND HUSBAND Dr. Patterson was in Littleton N. H.Expanded:New Hampshire, when, in 1873, she obtained a divorce from him for adultery.

HER BOOKKEEPER C. A. FRYE, DOES NOT OWN ONE DOLLAR OF HER PROPERTY, REAL EASTAE Corrected: ESTATE OR PERSONAL

HER FIRST HUSBAND COL. G. W. GLOVER died of yellow fever, in its worst type. He was buried under Masonic honors The funeral service was conducted by his brother Masons, in the most honorary manner, [?] Unclear or illegible by whom he was highly esteemed as a brother and as a Christian; but owing to fear of contagion the remains were taken in charge by the health authorities of the city. ⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. FryeHe was a Master Mason a membr of St. Andrew's Lodge No 10 of Charleston S. C.Expanded:South Carolina

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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy See Infringement of "Science and Health," Etc.—Decision of the United States Circuit Court by Mary B. G. Eddy on pages 1-2 of the October 1883 issue of The Christian Science Journal (Journal of Christian Science). See also Glossary: Eddy v. Arens. 80 000 This was a book written by Septimus J. Hanna and published in 1899. Circled punctuation. New Hampshire In the years 1901-1910 Eddy provided shoes to children and some adults in need through Concord shoe stores, such as W. A. Thompson’s store. Sometimes as many as 600 to 700 pairs were distributed at a time. Josephine Curtis Woodbury's attorney for her lawsuit against Mary Baker Eddy was Frederick William Peabody. He produced an attack on Eddy in 1901 in the form of a lecture, then published as a pamphlet, titled A Complete Expose of Eddyism .or Chrisitan Science and the Plain Truth in Plain Terms Regarding Mary Baker G. Eddy. Begin delineated handwritten text. End delineated handwritten text.