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Show REV. MRS. EDDY IS STRONG AND1 VIGOROUS. I I Last week Truth expressed astonishment aston-ishment at the wolfish tendency exhibited ex-hibited by omo newspapers and Individuals In-dividuals towards Mrs. Eddy, the high priestess of the Christian Science cult. From time to time reports havo been widely circulated that Airs. Eddy was fc dead or In the last stages of on In evitably fatal Illness. Truth's remarks re-marks were called out by a recent re port widely circulated through the newspapers and otherwise that Mrs. Eddy was at tho point of death from an incurable cancer. Since then we arc In receipt of a newspaper, Tho Concord, N. H Evening Monitor, which in tho most convincing way gives "the. Ho" to those- reports, which seem to havo originated with tho New York World, which for a long time has made a specialty of attacking attack-ing Mrs. Eddy. Charles n. Corning, mayor of Concord, Now Hampshire and other prominent citizens deny 9i over their own signatures tho state- ments of tho World and others. ? A few extracts from the Now Hamp- , shiro paper, road as follows: "Cruel Falsehoods Promptly Ro- ' fitted. Concord Citizens Como For- j ward with Alacrity to Speak for Mrs. j Eddy. Mayor Corning tells of Inter views with Christian Science Leader Sunday Afternoon. General Streoter was Present Also. Both Say That Mrs. Eddy was In Good Health and Flho Spirits. New York Newspaper' Sensationalism Ferv.ently Condemned by Concord People who Know the Facts. . "Mrs. Eddy Is keen of intellect and strong In memory. She U a surpii?- 1 ing Illustration of longevity; bright eyes, emphatic expression, and an alertness rarely to bo encounterel in fo venerable a person.-Mayor Charle: n. Corning." "Mrs. Eddy has no cancer, or any chronic or organic or functional dls- j ease. Calvin A. Frye." I "Mrs. Eddy herself bfs driven in her carriage daily, with tho exception ' of one day In the early spring, when the roads were so bad that she did not go out. Lewis C: Strang." "I have seen Mrs. Eddy's carriage on State street almost da'ly. The occupant oc-cupant has always been Mrs. Eddy herself. Hermann S. Horlng." "I most emphatically say tint Mrs Eddy is In every way callable of conducting con-ducting her business affair". Fred N I I add,- Treasurer Loan and Trust Sav- i ings Bank." "I can state from persoml knowl i odgo that It Is Mrs. Eddy, nnd na oth er person, whom I see riding In her carriage. Josinh E. Fornild, President Presi-dent National State Capital Bank." "I came to Pleasant View on the 2!Hh rt .Tnuuarv iflOH aid since the middle of March, 190C, ono of my du ties has been to hand Mrs. Eddy Into her carriage daily and adjust tho carriage car-riage robes about her. Since tho middle mid-dle of March, she has not failed but one day to go on her dally drive. She 1i did not go ono day on account of the ronds breaking up In the early spring "I havo been In the lions' with Mrs. I eonard day after day while Mrs. Eddy Ed-dy was on her drive, and know that Mrs. Leonard has never In any way, shape or manner Impersonated nor attempted to Impersonate Mrs. Eddy. "While I havo been at Pleasant View, neither Mrs. Eddy nor anyone In the house has used any form of stimulant or remedies of a materia modlca nature. There is no galvan'c battery In Mrs. Eddy's room, in the j house or about the promises, nor has there ever been whilo I have been here. Mrs. Eddy herself has never f,t ,- used stimulants while I havo been !' jj. hero, and she has never used any sort J of an electric battery. . "Thero Is no truth In any claim that physicians havo been In attendance . hero or that any specialist of any sort Vmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i has been called from Boston or elsewhere. else-where. Mrs. Eddy Is In unusual good health fcr a woman of her years. She has, as far as my knowledge is concerned con-cerned (and I have seen her dally, almost al-most hourly during the daytime while I have been at Pleasant View) no chronic, organic nor .functional disease of nny sort. Mrs. Eddy Is active, about the house moro or less dally, goes up and down stairs at least once a day when she goes to her drive and generally mere usually twlee a day. She usunly goes down stairs In the afternoon. "I was present at the interview with tho N. Y. World reporters, Messrs. Slnght and Lithchild and Professor Kent. Professor Kent stood between Mrs. Eddy and myself, so that It would havo been Impossible for me to have reached my arm about Mrs. Eddy to Ttnrrrt her pj alleged by the article in tho N. Y. World. "Lewis C. Strang." "Stnto of New Hampshire, "Merrimack ss. "October 29, 100G. "Personallv appeared before mo Lewis C. Strang, who being duly sworn deposes and says that tho abovo statement made and signed by him is true. "Josiah E. Fernld, "Notary Public." o |
