Show ANNOYED AT THE HEADLINES MRS STETSON WRITES STORY Former First Reader in Christ Sd Scientist Scientist Church Refutes Statements Made by Strickler s New Ne York Nov 7 Annoyance at a headline in a morning mornin paper which said Mrs Stetsons followers defy the mother church today toda prompted Mrs Irs Augusta E B Stetson the former first reader of the First Church of Christ Scientist to write her own newspaper story and her own headlines The latter read Mrs Stetsons answer Declares her loyalty to the mother church Emphatically denies d nies Mr interpretations of her teachings tea These captions appear on a typewritten statement which Mrs Stet Stetsons Stetsons Stetsons sons secretary distributed tonight In her home on Central Park West adjoining the church of which she was the recent leader From that position she was de deposed deposed posed because of alleged alleg d mental mal malpractice malpractice malpractice practice Of this charge she was at aC aCquitted quitted by a board of inquiry and the tho 1 verdict of exoneration was endorsed last week by the congregation of the church but the controversy continues Mrs Stetson reaffirms her allegiance to the mother church In th the following words I wish to state here most m st Continued on Page 2 ANNOYED AT HEADLINES Continued from Page 1 ly that I do not deny the mother church neither do my followers Answering the charges that she had attempted to Invoke evil erU by thought upon the heads of certain persons she says of Virgil O 0 Strickler the present first reader and her opponent I r was surprised that lie 11 Strickler seemingly could not grasp graBp the metaphysical metaphysical points that there titers is a e between be between between tween mental malpractice and sede tense I will give as an Illustration what I understood the difference to be between malpractice and Indispensable defense or If I felt sure that I was being attacked either Ignorantly or ma rae maliciously maliciously by any person I fill flU my thought with the qualities of ot God truth and love which alone render one Invincible InvincIble ible to whatever proceeds s from th the carnal mind From this fortress of defense I should speak to the person addressing addre him by name and then speak to the er error error error which might be operating through the human mind for which he has been an avenue Then I should declare that malicious animal magnetism In all its phases and forms was powerless to work through his bis human personality using him as an avenue to injure me mo or any anyone anyone anyone one or to hinder the progress of Chris Christian Christian Christian tian Science It is the superiority ot of spiritual power over material sense and andIs Is ts not liot malpractice |