Mrs. Henrietta N. Cole is also a very prominent member of the church.  When seen yesterday she emphasized herself as being of the same theory as Mrs. Copeland.  Mrs. Cole has made a careful and searching study in the beliefs of Scientists and is perfectly versed in all their beliefs and doctrines.  She stated that man of himself has no power, but that all comes from God.  She placed no credit whatever in the reports from New York that Mrs. Eddy has been accredited as having been deified.  She referred the reporter to the large volume which Mrs. Eddy had herself written, and said that no more complete and yet concise idea of her belief could be obtained than by a perusal of it.

(New York Herald, February 1, 1895.)

MRS. EDDY SHOCKED.

[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.]

CONCORD, N.H., February 4, 1895.—­The article published in the HERALD on January 29, regarding a statement made by Mrs. Laura Lathrop, pastor of the Christian Science congregation, that meets every Sunday in Hodgson Hall, New York, was shown to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the Christian Science “discoverer,” to-day.

Mrs. Eddy preferred to prepare a written answer to the interrogatory, which she did in this letter, addressed to the editor of the HERALD: 

“A despatch is given me, calling for an interview to answer for myself, ‘Am I the second Christ?’

“Even the question shocks me.  What I am is for God to declare in his infinite mercy.  As it is I claim nothing more than what I am, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, and the blessing it has been to mankind which eternity enfolds.

“I think Mrs. Lathrop was not understood.  If she said aught with intention to be thus understood, it is not what I have taught her, and not at all as I have heard her talk.

“My books and teachings maintain but one conclusion and statement of the Christ and the deification of mortals.

“Christ is individual, and one with God, in the sense of Divine Principle and its compound divine idea.

“There was, is and never can be but one God, one Christ, one Jesus of Nazareth.  Whoever in any age expresses most of the spirit of Truth and Love, the Principle of God’s Idea, has most of the spirit of Christ, of that Mind which was in Christ Jesus.

“If Christian Scientists find in my writings, teachings, and example a greater degree of this spirit than in others, they can justly declare it.  But to think or speak of me in any manner as a Christ, is sacrilegious.  Such a statement would not only be false, but the absolute antipode of Christian Science, and would savor more of heathenism, than of my doctrines.

“MARY BAKER EDDY.”

(The Globe, Toronto, Canada, January 12, 1895.)

EXTRACT.

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS.

Dedication to the Founder of the Order of a Beautiful Church at
Boston.—­Many Toronto Scientists Present.