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Show ATTACKS WILL OF HIS MOTHER George W. Glover Declares Christian Chris-tian Science Is Not a Iteligion but a Business. CONCORD. N. 11.. Nov. 13. Affidavits alleging that Christian Science is not a religion, but a privately owned business conducted (for money profit, were Hied In the superior court today in the cane of. George Vr. Glover of Load. S. D., who seeks to havo set aside thc residuary bequest made by his mother, Mrs. Mary Dakcr Eddy, founder of the denomination, denomina-tion, to tho First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston. The plaintiff in his petition, which, if allowed would causo Ihe bequest estimated esti-mated at $11,000,000, to revert to tho natural hulrs, says in part that "Christian "Chris-tian Science is not il religion, but a. world business; a privatcly-owncd business conducted con-ducted by its oivnui'3 for money prollln to themselves, and thai thc execution of said attempted trust will result, :ind wai Intended by thc creator of 'said atlomptcd trust to result, In the private pecuniary profit of the owners of said business "That tho business described In the forcglng. viz." Tho owning, vending and practicing of thc no-called 'religion of .Christian Science,' as taught by Mrs. Liddy. by said lugalon and Its members, has on ihe whole been grievously harmful harm-ful to the health of tho people of tills state and In tho future will continue to bo harmful, and particularly so If promoted pro-moted and extended by means of Mrs.. Eddy's residuary gifts." |