This clear and consistent statement of our Leader; appeared in The New York Sun of June 15, in the distorted form which we publish below.
It will be seen that the word discover has been supplied for the word dissever, in the second line of the second paragraph, and that Mrs. Eddy is thus made to say precisely the opposite of what she did say. The injustice of this misstatement of her thought is the more marked in view of the fact that the article was an explanation, and was made by one whose words receive the closest attention of hundreds of thousands of readers, and we protest against the wrong that has been done our Leader and our Cause under circumstances which so greatly augment its seriousness.
Those who are acquainted with Mrs. Eddy, who have been unspeakably blessed by the ministry of her life, and who know how unjustifiable was the charge which evoked her explanation, can but feel a sense of indignation that her effort to define her position was subject to this perversion.
