MARY BAKER EDDY
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] , SIIL-1 really must protest against the attitude of your reviewer towards the founder of Christian Science in the latest " Life 7 of Mrs. Eddy. No one ignorant of her could guess from his article that she spent the last thirty years of her life healing the sick, teaching her students to perform cures as remarkable as her own, and exhorting the world to turn to Cod and the Bible for all physical and moral trouble. She has left us a new coeicepthin of God and a book which has led more people to study the Bible than any other book ever written. To call the authdr of Science and health ill- educated and illiterate as her critics do is puerile. The hot:di as literature is uneven, but it contains passages, like the " Statement of Being," of inspired prose worthy of the bible, For more than sixty years its enemies have been trying to explain away Christian Science. Having failed, they turn. wills petty malice on the memory of the founder. True, over, two hundred and fifty churches own her as their " beloved leader," but she under-stated her age on the occasion of her third marriage. True, thousands have" testified their gratitude to her. How 'she has taught them to turn to God and raised Chem from a bed of sickness ; but once, worn out with work and years, she called in a doctor to give her an opiate. What of it ? Every human life MIS its failures as Well as successes. We are judged by our works. If Mrs: Eddy had not been, more saint than sinner the seed she plaided would never have grown into a tree. How lucky for St: Paul that he lived.and died in a pre-biographical jcianialiStie age. I can imagine, how, sixty years after his martyrdOm, the Dittemoic of the era would have with. unctuous rectitude published the " docu- mented truth " about hint; and the Ensor, reviewing it, gleefully exposed the " truth " of his sordid, squalid life in. the pages of the Rome Spectator.—I am, Sir, &e.,
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