Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1901 — VICTORY FOR MRS. EDDY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

VICTORY FOR MRS. EDDY.

Verdict for the Defense in the Famous Christian Science Libel r'uit. Mrs. Eddy will not have to pay Mrs. Woodbury $150,000 or any other sum. The Judge took the case away from th«

jury because there was no evidence to show that the defendant, when speaking of “the Babylonish wo - man,” meant the plaintiff. The famous Boston libel suit of Mrs. Josephine Woodbury against the founder of Christian Science came to a sudden and almost dramatic conclusion, when the jury, without leaving their seats,

returned a verdict for the defendant. From the very first it seemed apparent that it was a hopeless task to prove that some particular person was intended to be stigmatized by a quotation of one of the highly figurative passages of Revelation, and after vainly trying to extract something that would help their cause from unwilling witnesses, the prosecution threw up its hands, so to speak, and the judge called time, declaring that no case had been made out against Mrs. Eddy. Therefore this litigation has served only to give employment to some distinguished lawyers who have charged well

for their services, and to make many peoplee who have not been in the habit of reading their Bibles carefully study closely the Book of Revelation. When they were told that it was alleged that Mrs. Eddy had accused Ytrs. Woodbury of being the woman St. John saw sitting up-

on a scarlet-colored beast with seven heads and ten horns, they took down their Bibles and read all about that woman. When the statement was made by Mrs. Woodbury’s friends .that Christian Scientists saw in Mrs. Eddy the woman spoken of by St. John, who was clothed with the gun, had the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, Revelatioif was searched to discover all it had to say about the woman thus strangely appareled. This libel suit has resulted in a great deal being said about these two singular women whom John saw in a vision, but it has thrown no light on their personality.

MRS. EDDY.

MRS. WOODBURY.