Show I LOYAL WORD OF CH CHRISTIAN RISTIAN SCIENTIST Salt Sal Lake Oct OcL 30 Editor Edior Republican n In the issue of your our paper pcr of Sunday the I read nn an article artcle purporting to be a telegram rm from New York ostensibly sent out b by byThe byThe The World orld which telegram propagates propagates gates the report of the 8 serious condition condi condi- ion tion ton and approaching approaching decease c of or Mrs Mary Iary B. B G. G Eddy the Discoverer of or Metaphysical Healing leader of the Christian Science Movement and PastOl Pas- Pas tOl of the Mother Church The First church of oC Christ Scientist I i in Boston Ma Mas q Reports of this kind Mr Ir Editor Ellor arc are very er frequent and It Il Is strange that most of t these reports should hourd have originated ted In New cw York City so common is the report that It I has become hoar hoary with age se and Is now relegated to the closet shelf shelt with wih old chestnuts chestnut It I Is by no mio means true that thal Mrs Irs Ell Eddy y I Is sick or has a a. 0 cancer can cun or 0 that her he malady Is incurable Mrs Mr Eddy is the tho Very CIT picture of robust ro ro- ro- ro bust womanhood her features are arc more those of oC a middle aged ged woman and though her hem hair of which she sho has hus hasa husa a great quantity rivals the snow In its Is whiteness yet she manifests no signs e cf son senility 1 t or Infirmity Her activity of mind her cl elasticity of ot step her agility In movements her vivacity In speech her keenness of eye cye all al be betoken betoken be- be token tolen that she Is enjoying the tho very best of health and all ni these conditions a am at manifested In her hem are arc more those thos of ot cung woman th than n those of one dying dy 11 ing of an incurable cancer mc r. r That part parlor of the report In the telegram ole tele gram grm referring to the dally daily daly drive Implies Im ira- plies piles ples that a gross fraud Is being perpetrated per per- by tho the followers of this truly noble and good woman Those who are arc Inside the fold Cold know more than Ihan the they who sho are arc not not It I Is not true that somebody very much resembling Mrs Eddy goes goe out hi In her carriage e for COl the dally daily caly drive thereby endeavoring to hide the fact of Mrs Eddys Eddy's critical 1 condition This lie le was circulated two or 01 01 three years ears ago but as it I had no foundation to stand on on It fell down and was lost When the time shall I have come for COl our Revered Leader Mrs Edd Eddy to experience this change called caled death death when when she shall cross cros the thc stream which may tho ho Divine Father Jathel and amid Giver of all al good the devout and loving followers of this truly noble woman will wi first be In Informed In- In formed ormed of ot such a change and then there will wili wi be no necessity lv for or contradicting contra contra- dieting reports made mado current current through h he e Il e 1 motives and by unprincipled and amid unscrupulous men No Mrs Edd Eddy takes her dally daily al drive and does docs not ask Mrs f An Anybody body else t to sit in her place crowds to to fool the Inquisitive I have occasion to know leow that the thc thelast thelast last part palt of the New York telegram II Is as false raise and amid slanderous as the earler earlier ear ear- lier ler parts of at that message Mrs Edd Eddy Is not nol dictated to by Mr tr C. C A. A Fr Frye e nor does doc he In any wa way in influence In- In fluence her to do what he thinks or 01 desires On the contrary Mr Ir Fryc Frye Is Isher isher her ier amanuensis her chief secretary and not her master muster He does her bidding bid bid- d ling ding In looks after arel correspondence at attends attends at- at tends to her business but only after she herself has given Iven him Instructions In n these matters mater He Is a gentleman genteman a man of pf culture and nd nd education no not it I i flunkey or a a n footman When Ir Mrs l Eddy dd engages a as Us her see see- she sho pays pas him for tor this service the she he respects him In his position she confides In him relics reiles upon his ils honor but she docs doc not expect him hint tf n I be her footman or her steward or her gardener ardener I am a Christian Christan Scientist and I am proud to sa say so I write this In dence de- de fence nce of her hel who has opened open a neway ne new way for or mortals who has for forty Corty years urs proved to the world that thal spirit spirits Is s all al that matter mater is Js nothing anti and who ha has lived one of or the noblest purest most self seU sacrificing lives ever eer lived on omi earth Truth can cn never die lie Falsehood Falsehood False- False hood lood is the refuge of ot knaves and cowards cow cow- ards arda ards Yours Your rF F. F J. J Vincent I |