All who are interested in the work of Christian Science will recollect the severe letter of denunciation written by Rev. A. J. Gordon, D.D., of this city, and read a few weeks since by Rev. Joseph Cook, from the platform of the Monday lectureship in Tremont Temple. On Monday, the 16th ult., as will be seen by what follows, Mrs. Mary B. G. Eddy was presented to Mr. Cook's audience, and permitted ten minutes in which to reply to that letter of condemnation, which reply was taken in full by a short-hand reporter who was present, and is transcribed below.
Mrs. Eddy responding said: "As the the time so kindly allotted me is insufficient for even a synopsis of Christian Science, I shall confine myself to questions and answers.
Am I a spiritualist? I am not, and never was. I understand the impossibility of intercommunion with the so-called dead. There have always attended my life phenomena of an uncommon order, which spiritualists have miscalled mediumship; but I clearly understand that no human agencies were employed. That the divine Mind reveals itself to humanity through spiritual law, and to such as are waiting for the adoption, to wit: the redemption of the body, Christian Science reveals man's salvation from sickness and death, as wrought out by Jesus, who robbed the grave of victory, and death of its sting. I understand that God is an ever present help in all times of trouble, have found him so, and would have no other gods, no remedies in drugs, no material medicine.
