Religion: Mrs. Eddy Rediviva

Those orthodox Christian Scientists who read the New York World were vexed to discover great spaces in one of that newspaper's last week's editions given over to Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson. To orthodox Christian Scientists Mrs. Stetson, for 35 years the close friend and co-worker of Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, has been a renegade, a pariah. In 1909 they expelled her from their church, because they, considered her extensions of their Leader's teachings subversive to those theories. Since then she has been a many-barbed thorn in their flesh, and lately, since...

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