Show PICTURE OF Or CHRISTIAN SCIENCE E lEADER j Photograph of Mrs of Texas Advertised I As Mrs Mary J Baker Boke Eddy u uTHE THE PORTRAIT DISCREDITED Swo Sworn n Statements to Prove PIove that Magazine Picture is not a aLikeness aj Likeness of Mrs Eddy Boston Dec Dee i I. I I lOG 1000 f loston 1 S A Alfred r Fa Farlow low General Manager of the Committee on for the Christian Science Church to today ay gave I out the following statement tat McClures s 's Magazine In lii the time Decem- Decem her I suell a n picture which Is J ns as n a photograph Of r ln Mrs I Eddy tal ln In ll It is not miot a pic- pic lure tre tire of or Mrs Mis In E Eddy tI but Is IH a likeness of or Mrs Irs Sarah Sam Sarh C. C who formerly form torm- erly Ive lived In Beaton an and who lied died In California two years cams ars ago asu This Title fact Is IB Ubly established by the time affidavit af at- of Mia Mis tn son which oPI appear U In hip article Wo We have in out our OU possession o e lon time the picture of Mrs Che- Che whIch we have Just received i from flom r hi-r hII son Run an and which hm 1 IH is an an exact duplicate of the one us used d by es lires In 1 In im connection with this title portrait os o's publishes an editorial an announcement an- an nn- nn of a 0 story relating lo to the thc Hc v lle Mary LalY Baker G. G Edd Eddy the Discoverer Dis Dis- coverer an and amid Founder of or Christ Christian Ian Science It I is iN stated that as a a result of oC a n careful careful Investigation In their story stOl Is b probably as as s near absolute accuracy ey eya as a history ever gets Indeed the intro intro- I ill lT IT question lays great stress upon the Ow accuracy of ot its It proposed hl history J Again It It- It Ib Ik no nu u assistance l lance can enn be obtained nerl from front 11 lan Scientists themselves that she clue h Mrs l Eddy dy refuses to tu be 10 he cop cop- suited personally on nfl th th- maIn facts of h hyi r own lre life hIre It I should be slated elated l that to time the custom McI lc Mc- Mc I f lures representative who sho appl applied t to toMus toMis Mis Mus I. I 1 Eddy hJ for fr I an aim nl interview w was p M- M e er 1 r red fiM-red ii I lo In time the committee on publication form tion ton who in is it specially appointed tom for the of rif rendering any assistance In Iii hi his power in to tn the tH re of or time the public press pi-ess who may ma be gathering lain dala on I the subject su of or Christian Cl Se Science and I Its Leader In a conversation with will members rs of t. t bluff at several months ago I informed thorn fum that hint I if they would submit submit sub sub- mit mi their data to me I would be he pleased to assist aMIl th them m in hum their Pitch verification cation caton giving them as aR my reason r-eason that there w C ere re documents in iii circulation antI and rumors s afloat which were Werf not genuine They have havo not l al availed theme beta selves of or my mimy offer Notwithstanding the facts which we have lave stated we fn find In this editorial 1 t J I I I II IJ I J I I S SS S r i c u or Mrs s 1 Edily jiu Ir n 1881 I II announcement a picture of oC another I I woman which Is represented by McClure's McClures Mc Mc- dunes Clure's as os a portrait of or Mrs Mr Mary Baker G. G.- Eddy Eddy taken in 11 DO Boston lon in 1882 1382 Time The picture does docs not in any point resemble le Mrs Eddy On Nev Ne 9 9 and before the December December December Decem Decem- ber number of o McClures McClure's s 's was placed I on the thc news stands I wrote to lo the thc managing e editor of If McClures McClure's apprising log ing him of ot this om ert-om but r received O n nci InG reI reply I My letter follows I have ha just been looking at ot the n advertisement ad ad- which you OU have In Ridge JUdge ways way's of the Instant In th the tho centre centra of or the page Is n a 1 picture which J 1 assume Is 11 represented as 05 a n trait portrait o or of lr Mrs Eddy I hasten to Inform you that this I Is not lol a picture e of Mrs Mus El Eddy y there theme Is nothing about It that would remind of her r t have seen sen Mrs Eddy frequently during huing the past 22 years NUI an and know her hem hf face well wel enough to lo draw a n likeness of it it if I were an nn artist therefore artist therefore I speak from positive post post- pos pos- Live tive knowledge It I was vat Wt my fear that you might be bc imposed upon ly by just such counterfeits counter counter- felts feits Cell that Impelled me to lo suggest thai that your manuscript t relating to Mrs Mus E Eddy t be tie submitted to someone thoroughly posted concerning the events of oC her lien ur life Directly underneath the port nil i is u a 1 modern signature of r Mrs hs Edd Eddy which might Rive give the thc Impre impression lon that hat ll It I had hut been written wm on oum this timis photograph photo graph by Mrs s. ArM E Eddy dy This Thin of course could not nol possibly be true sluice since the portrait Is I not a likeness of Mrs gd Eddy lw y and novel nover was In h her I hands leno ah one Olin IW of of- the genuine appended to lo th lb this is statement we We publish a facsimile fat fac simile h ie of oC Mrs Iid Eddys Eddy's ys y's signature as M she a wrote It I in 1882 1 When ca coiled called I NI upon uon to pro produce uee the I photograph from which the picture was ivas made mode and to give the timm tw name of the photographer Phi hi editor of McClure's McClures declined saying he Ime Ip would woul give what Information he could a few da days s 's later 1 I I 1 then lien went to work to obtain evl- evl vl leuice dence by which I J could disprove McClures Mc- Mc CIUs allegation ant show and how the thc pubIc pub pub- Hc ic that another l fat fae-e ale JaM had been for that of ol Mrs g Eddy The rim e rol following i I t-i t ng t ts and phi photo photo- 0 to- to graphs arc tho result of or Ion lon 1 my imi II S a t FI 4 r Picture or 0 iv J ali t. t C I. I ii hed b iy sich es and amid m AIl AI- AI f it 1 Bi f l bj hy J I tim lit Ill to 11 be ht a PJ- PJ I. I turo tun of Mi 1 Jj JI I r In iii II 1882 |