A. F. L. writes: "Is Mrs. Clara E. Choate a Christian Scientist, and did Mrs. Eddy after promoting her to a teacher, procure her expulsion from the Church and Christian Scientist Association?"
Your question is in substance what she and her family are alleged as reporting. Instead of that being true, it was Mrs Eddy's influence with the Church and Association that had induced their forbearance with Mrs. Choate many years and until last Febuary, when Mrs Eddy, seeing what would be done, advised Mrs. C. to ask for a dismission. Mrs. Choate addressd a letter to her Pastor, Mrs. Eddy, the Church and Association, asking their forgiveness: A thorough, deliberate investigation of the charges brought against her was made, and they were found valid: no real reform being apparent she was expelled from both those bodies. Mrs. Eddy has prepared her for teaching no farther than all of her students: she recommended her to teach on trial, but afterwards, on examination of some whom she had taught, advised her, and received her promise, to stop teaching until she was fit for it. This advice was occasioned by no feeling, but that of a deep interest in her welfare. Individuals who knew the facts were astonished at Mrs. Eddy's charity and forbearance; but they had seen this exercised before when some student was departing from rectitude and truth.
A. L. asks: "Are both prayer and drugs necessary to heal?"
