Science & Health___chapters 9, 10, and 11 (original) (raw)
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Science & Health....the 1875 Christian Science Gospel-reader
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name of Mary Baker Eddy, but on behalf of her sons George Glover and Foster Eddy and others (her putative "Next Friends") to wrest control of her estate, because of her alleged mental incompetency to manage her own affairs. 1 A confluence of forces, motivated by professional rivalry, personal animosity, and simple greed and cupidity, were responsible for this assault upon Mary Eddy, and, implicitly, the religion she had founded. The professional rivalry emanated from Joseph counter these charges, Pulitzer decided to resort to legal action. He or his agents contacted William Chandler, an attorney and former U.S. Senator, who opposed the ideas of Christian Science on a philosophical level, and the people Mary Eddy entrusted her legal and business affairs to, on a professional level. 3 Chandler, in turn, courted Mary Eddy's sons, George Glover 4 and Foster Eddy 5 After a number of months of maneuvering by both sides, both in the courts and the popular press, the case was brought to trial on August 13, 1906. Chandler, in his opening, made it clear that he was planning not only to put Mary Eddy on trial, but the entire belief system of Christian Science as well, contending that anyone who subscribed to, wrote about, and promulgated such beliefs, must be delusional. However, on the second day of the trial, Mrs. Eddy's attorneys were able to convince the court that matters of religious belief were irrelevant and outside the scope of the suit, and that the only material issue was Mary Eddy's competency to control her own finances.
Apparently another monument to Abraham Lincoln, the lawyer & Christian, who'd have loved this book.