Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1909 — THIS WIDENS EDDY BREACH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THIS WIDENS EDDY BREACH

New York Christian Scientists Uphold Titular Head of Church. New York, Nov. 5. —Fourteen hundred members of the First Church of Christ Scientist accepted the report of a committee of inquiry on the seven Charges of abuse of power and malversion of doctrine brought against Mrs.

Augusta E. Stetson, the titular head of the church, by the board of directors of the mother church in Boston and upon which she was forbidden further to teach or tp practice as a healer In the faith. The report acquitted Mrs. Stetson upon each of the counts and censured Virgil O. Strickler, the first reader of the church in New York, for what was termed his unscientific bias. It is declared that In the history of the church founded by Mrs. Eddy this is the first time any action by the direction of the mother church has been reviewed.

MRS. AUGUSTA E. STETSON.