Show regarding mrs eddy salt lake city utah nov ath 1906 ed tor reporter on bet there appeared in the new york world two pages of an ait el upon science the details of wh eh were wired broadcast tl rong hout the country I 1 est your may have be n led by ahe cubile detail of these charges to place credence in I 1 he reports given I 1 aek the privilege of bome 0 yo ir space to e t coith the facts as made evident by the testimony of some of the most citizens of concord N 11 the home of mrs baker G eddy who is the leader of the chichan science church abe orld charges that mrs addy was dying of a malignant cancer and iad been bed ehden toi three year abit during ih s time she had been impersonated in her dally d ivee ty mrs pamel a J leonard that a cancer specialist had been called from boston to treat her and that old school physicians hd also been in attend ance apon her that mrs eddy was physically and mentally incapacitated from attending to her own affairs and tl at were administered by a cab inapt of the baders of jhb organization it being insinuated that the motive of this deception was to be found in the dis position of an immense fortune claimed to have belonged to her in contradiction to thee charges the concord evening monitor of oct ath p ie and which would seem ve to anyone who will tons der the matter without b aa mayor char ear coining gays As I 1 bad heard mach concerning the pre carious condition ondi tion of mrs eddy e health I 1 feared chrt there might be somi foundation tor such reports but the fact was entirely different I 1 spoke to mrs eddy and listened for nearly half an hour to her conversation sha is keen of intellect and strong of mem ry ig a ing 1 ongel eyes i caf tic i i I 1 an aler lute rarely to be ia one so yen anble ati era rank streeter the for M re eddy says in part the charge that mrs eddy has been physically in aad to leave her room all or a eons d portion of three years and that some one EB d to be mrs leonard waa in her carriage was already from per bonal observation known by me to be falee mayor charlea R corning drove with me to pleasant view about 4 clock th s afternoon I 1 sent a note to MM eddy that we be permitted to call on her aud the request was almost ironed lately granted she arose and most cordially greeted the mayor and myself exhibiting no appearance of meanness but a physical activity not ordinarily to be found in pel sons many years younger the conversation covered a variety of subjects she spoke briefly without b tt erness of the false statements being circulated with reference to her hea th and even death and said she was in the hands of an infinite god in whom she had perfect trust and that he would care for her advanced years her i hys eal appears substantially the same as when I 1 last talked with ter something over a year ago As shown la her talk today her mind is not only unimpaired bat she exhibits the clearness and vigor wh eh have so lone distinguished her mr calrin J iye who the position of amanuensis and confidential secretary in mrs addy s household and is not the mere footman ascribed in the wo id a story testifies under oath as follows the sensational report published in the new york world of bunday to the effice that mrs eddy ie physically and mentally incapacitated that for many months she has not left her room that she does not drive daily and that she is impersonated in her car nage by mrs pamelia J leonard or by any one else is unqualifiedly false ahe conducts her own affairs finan emi and otherwise to day as she always has and the that mrs eddy la dominated or moll oiled by any sort of a cabinet or combination is positively false absurdly so to any one who is ae qua anted with mrs eddy s extraordinary ab lity as an execute ve mis camalia J leonard ed with impersonating mrs eddy says ander oath the statement ahat I 1 have impersonated mrs eddy nd ridden in her carriage in her place ie entirely false for I 1 jave never stepped inside hea carnage and have never even looked inside of it I 1 deny most emphatically that mis eddy has any such disease as cancer or that she has any other disease As I 1 ain and have been in da ly contact with her seeing her many time a day I 1 am in a position to knew what I 1 am stating and she has not palsy of the hand the story that a physician fram boston is at tending her is without foundation as no physician from anywhere attending mrs eddy nor has there been while I 1 have been in her home mr george H moses editor of the evening monitor says I 1 have had the pleasure of knowing mrs eddy for more than 10 years and have had frequent oe casion to correspond with her and to meet her with reference to mattere of public importance to this community these relations with her till continue and within a very choit time I 1 have re long letters written from beginning to end in her own which from long is etly ta tome and that she is undoubtedly alive both physically and mentally la well at tested by these communications moreover I 1 see mrs faddy driving in her carnage through our street almost every day and I 1 have within a very few days met her carnace and spoken to her as she drove past ahat the occupant ot the carriage was irs eddy in persona r accurate testimony which I 1 am very glad to biye and had any of the newspaper to hom you allude taken the e to call upon u durick their stay I 1 aou d have fiegly told them as I 1 cow w ite ou athile it w ild te futile to assert that mr eddy 1 without critics or concord it is la of a curacy to say that by tie vast t our people an meet emphatically emphatic by thoe who by in the are en titled to that ble v n ch we call public opinion she la re easily 8 foremost lie numerous good lr constant and charities here her keen interests in all abich makes for the betterment of the om and her blameless laborious life amona ill contribute to her beloved aad re specter by the eople of concord and we ull hope stat she may live ion in her present full possess ou of mental and spiritually power to continue her bood work among us these testimonies and of like character are freely g yen not by chris tian eta alone but by Con grega Unita nans and baptists and by those having opportune opp know what takes place in concord may be relied upon to state facts publication committee toe utah |