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.otanding of the Aliness of God and th. SCIENTISTS FIGHT FOR MRS, STETSON AS CHURGH HEAD Excommunicated Leader in| Formal Statement Denies Any Part in Movement. CRITICISES DIRECTORS. (Questions Their Powers to Judge Her and Again Pledges Loyalty to Church, A campaign ts on to destroy the power Of tne directors of the Mother Church in Boston’ nd make Mrs. Au- gusta E, Stetson chief spiritual adviser in carte‘an Sctence. Tt te argued by leaders in the mov ment that Mrs, Mary Baker G. Eddy never intended that the Mother Chureh organization survive her, and they quote that the Boston directors have served the pur- pose of their organization and should dissolve, their reign to be “succeeded by Love, Truth and Divine Light as radiated Sy those who have become spiritually fit." Mra. Stetson Is regarded by her fol- lowers, of cou: as pre-eminently in the lead of the ritually fit." One thing considered in her favor is that she has always maintained her loyalty to Mrs, Eddy and her teachings, although not friendly toward the direc- tors, who have always been credited with being afraid of her power. The first authorized statement of Mrs. hunicated by the Christian Sclence ard of Directors was made public to-day, She denies knowing anything|Whose every word has avout plans to disorganize t or to elevate her in {ts councils. No Fight With Church. “None of my students and friends," she say that I aim at leadership in the Christian Science organization, because I have never said it, nor do I aspire to any such position, I aim only to be a worthy epresentative and practical demon- ator of the teachings of Christian clence as discovered and founded by|t ur revered leader, Mary Baker Eddy. I know of no efforts % made to organize the Christian Science Church, 1 cannot be responsible for the words, opinions and desires of the many in his city and elsewhere who have be- ome my would-be defenders and ends, but I solemnly protest against he affirmation that 1 am engaging | ny effort to interfere with the Chris- ion Science organizatio) or with the inectors of the Mother Church. I stand se loyal giance to my forever eader, Mary Baker Eddy, and strir adherence to chings. 1 stand or unfaitering faith in my God-given oility to interpret and demonstrate iep by step in the line of spiritual nfoldment, the truth of Christian Scl- ence. This is my inalienable right which God grants and defends.” Threats Cannot Terrify. ‘The statement siiows her attitude to- ward the Boston directors, and that she | does not recognize the power of “morta: + possessed by the di ors “to terrify the standard bearer of truth by tire and invectives. She goes on in her ent, which is prepared some tl ‘0 In the fora of a letter to @ man prominent in Chris- tian Belence: “My opponents declare that my teace g {is erroneous because It conilicts ith their interpretation of Science ant Health from their standpoint, which I» that they are mortal now, but in the hereafter, they wili gain immortality. \ declare that ‘Now we are the sons God;' that now 1s man a divine ema: tion of Spirit, and in the words of Jesus, ‘He that believeth on me hath eterne. Mfe' ‘This understanding will destroy the belief in a power opposed to God— called mortal mind, Sufficient for Hour, “To ve a follower of Christ, a true Christian Scientist, nds not alone profemsion bu: demonstrati "L velleve 1 am demor Ing the spiritual law, or power of omalpotent Love against opposing forces in the realm of mortal mind, I believe 1 am obedient to the law of divine Mind, be- vause I have demonstrated the power f the Christ Mind over nearly every ‘iseage to which flesh is helr. During the twenty-four years in this city, as 4 demonstrator of the power of divine alind, 1 have r.sen above seemingly in- urmountable gostacles in building a hureh edifice and tn building char- ers on the rock of spiritual under close rdingness of owed to God, evil, To-day it is a question of ec control oF despotiam-—official dom jon oF tateriai sense, 4s opposed to ual understanding and spiritual suppositional power op- called mortal mind or ‘In my closely: teaching and practice 1 am following the text book of ‘hristian Scien as I have ¢ twenty-five 5 This be Hy con- Unually unfolding to me the wonders | idden from the foundation of the vorld in the law of God, but now made nanifest in the operation of that law or mind force to those who can dis- cer it, who Work for it and uttize ik 1 gaining ir freedom from the bondage of vin, sickncss and death | Only the works will prove whet 1 or the Directors of ‘The Mother | Church who understand this law suf ficiently to demonstrate tt. Mrs. Eddy Never Condemned Her. hile In Boston, under the great for one moment I said, ‘I may| but I thought I was Instantly 1 oh was immediately dispelled, and T knew that my teachings and interpretations of Science and Health were and had | been absolutely correct, and I could | not be incuced to admit that I was wrong, although excommunication was @eclared to friends before my trial. I new that my students and my churuh Friends Urge Her as Successor Of Mother Eddy in Science Church would have to meet the test of my ex-) Communtoation, which wound tx eveir| POULTRY SHOW OPEN faith and understanding. ways been taught by me to ivve anc obey our and the co} rectors) Stetson's position since she was excom-| “Yet tituted authorities (the Di- between Truth my teaching 0} ver heard me say| CREW SAFE B BUT MAROONED. With Exkimos in Greeniand. PHILADELPHIA, been received here from London that mous fleet of erve 6445 bv be wUlKhuw, 4Uanww aL, verb bn ai, iviu, i ! | his ankle, and a | had been locked up | police station and were arraigned in Court. | teen, of No. Mrs. AUGUSTA 5 pe n, of No, STETSON. Chryatte who fel They had al-| Yesterday IN ‘MADISON SQUARE. Leader, Mrs, Exd ome at ond-story window exhibits, ° Heriea pi cons | one o. the} socks of every | not. gone out. ho sung out, Iversen!” Dec, 21.—Word has the last of the fa- te carriers that for n Philadelphia and lost, as had been at Arsuk on the The Alkaline left & cargo of it aburr 1 to #eck ’ bird section| in a low voice, is of al! hybrids. | In the poultry and pet stock exhibit | there are 1 cl 4,200 entr Bull's ages, with a total of | In the cat classes there will ‘of the Poultry Association | Pain: the Ice had’ are T. A. Havemeyer, President; James that It was Forsythe, President; C. M. Grif-| boy followed. fing, Treasurer; H. V. Crawford of N. J., 18 Secretary and Super- nden’ © officers of the Atlantic Cat Club) President fdent; Miss asurer, and Mrs ’. Furness, Secretary, Eskimos. c be able to spout. He was thought Olaf Iversen, companions took up the cry for police. | there was a pistol shot and a yout) rolled down the stairs groaning with Two others rushed out the rear second in the Butler atroe, this morning they the Buter Stree: arren street; of No FOUND BURGLARS WHEN HE WENT —-OMEFOR MUSIC Young Bull laterrupted First Housebreaking Expedition of Four Brooklyn Youths. The first house-breaking expedition of | ° four juvenile burglars of Brooklya came | to an abrupt asd woeful night when a youth who had forgotten me music needed to round out a) Christmas entertainment, suddenly re. turned to the house th One of the young burglars tumbled out of a second story rear window and broke ending were looting was shrough the hand by a vhird. While the boy with the broken ankle Was being bandaged up in the Long | Island College Hospital, panlons walked in to have the injured his three com. They described themselves as Jose; Chrystie, seventeen years old, of | 71 Columbia street; Josepa Kenny, elgli- f moved some months ago to 290 o'bl00 rigger bet New Yersey. At 129 o'otock Cotes progress Thomas -—-—. - the "shadow dance.” Tt liad teen ar-| 1204 Eighth ranged to ocegin the “shadow dance’ m Delehanty, elgh nry street. It m the window and —— \ Mulvaney who was shot. Forgot His Music. afternoon Capt. Batt of the tugboat Preceptor left hte 29 President street with The twenty-second annual exhibition ale wife and six children to take Christ- ; RADWAY'S READY _ REL + Pigeon and| mas dinner with a brother, who lives | “29 Was arrested after he had cle this before me, I pet pened to-day |two blocks away. out Johnson's home with a re , een to me the) nue until ne night. The | year-old son, James, was called upon | PURiiars home last night and ‘asked | Counter reltant know, and therefore ures [voice of Wisdom and Love. She has fishth annual sh antic Cat |to play a duet with his aister, and when | 240m, Told tat the Mash y pace; the best embrocation t can be shure ever, during this crisis in the warfare) fin to-morrow and will FUN) he found he had not brought hie music| drawn’ a revolver and. searched the used In Neuralgia. Rub {t on the part and error, = owen RH ceabon era labeer han | ania he would hurry nome and get it.| house while the Johnson family fled affected, and keep flannels soaked On the way he met two companions, Frank Matheson and Waldorf Anderson, who accompanied him. A bright light was seen from a sec- and young made prisoner and a boarder, hat A’ he opened tho doo — “Merry Christmas, but got no response. A sl | started up the stairway some one sald This is Mr. son,” but the youth knew that Ivers ls of canaries, goldfinches and | was a bachelor, and he shouted for help. heard him and Presently door Into the yard and the wounded None of Jewelry Found. When the police arrived they found a lad lying on his face in the yard, begged to be taken to a hospital, and said he had tumbled from a window while trying to craw! down a Andrew Iversen’ turned over to Ambulance Surgeon Bader. The Ball famtly found that about $100 worth of Jewelry was missing None of | this Was found, and the prisoners denied PLAN 10 SHOOT (IP that they had taken anything. Tho re- volver found In Delehanty's coat pocket, he said, he had taxen from Captain Hull's bureau drawer and had accident ally dropped it in his Might _—— MYSTERY OF LOST BOY SOLVED BY EVENING WORLD. Uncle of Little Chap Found in Doorway Recognizes Him From Story. Owen J. Donohue of No. Ossining, Central Gangsters Arrested They Attempt Gun Raid at Segesta Club, Just as 4 State who works at the) Station, real in The ng World to-day a story of ar ven-year-old mystery who was being cared for In the rooms of the! jast | BFooklyn Children's Society, and from the description recognized the lost youngster as his nephew, Harry Thompson of Tenafly, N. J, The uncle Md not know the lad was missing un til he saw the newspaper account. He went at once to the Kast Fifty- Arst atreet station and over tho tele- gho: | Phone arranged for securing custody jof the boy and returning him to-nteht to his parents. The little fellow start- ed ith a grown wp relative last Wedtnesday for the home of an aunt in Long Island City, He got separated An elaborate plan to shoot up the ball of the Segesta Pie. Swaben Hall, Knickerbocker and Myr tle avenues, Williamsburg, was spoiled early to-day when Detectives O'Connor, Patton and Cunneen of the Hamburg avenue station made a round-up and ed revolvers were thrown out win. | dows during the stampede of the young gangsters to got out. The Segesta Pleasure Club Is an or- ganization of the better class of Ital- fans, None of the disordorly element vad been invited to the ball, ribution of tickets an In the efforts was hand of the lad who. aa. aor al 4, | from his guardian and wandered about a ee tl lad who was shot dressed. | inti @ policeman found him crying in| Ade to Keep them out of the hands ie doctors promptly telephoned the | way. of certain young men woo were known : The delay In the proper tdentifiea-| in e bad moe hia Within fifteen minutes the quartet tion of the ttle fuloe gh id ae aes ie S oe fehters. his own mistakes, He insisted on cal!-+ q¢ waa learned last gg himself “Pokoney,”” whi lhe oper) he ing lifmself “Pokoney,” which Is really vow as the name of his stepfather, and ie precaution had failed and that cut of «so declared that he lved at No, 14 revenge the excluded — undesirables ccond street, would attempt to shoot up place CHAUFFEUR WENT GUNNING at that hour, when all the lights would wis| FOR FIGHTER JACK JOHNSON, te turned low When th CHICAGO, Deo That Jack Jonn-| saw t son's champlonship heavy ce ees came nearly being ended by a bulle’ became known here to-day wi the big pugilist appeared to presecute Gaston Lefait, his former chauffeur, un sought to in terror to the street When detec-| with it on the seat of the pain un tives arrived on the scene the chauffeur |eage 18 obtained, which will usually had vanished. Later it ts said he re-'he in the course of ten or fifteen turned In a taxicab to @ corner near minutes. the Johnson home, supposedly to “lay for the pugilist, There he was arrested. Ask for Radway's Bull Mr. 8 he Stern Brothers In their Greatly Enlarged Women’s Shoe Department Third Floor, New Building, will be found large assortments of the best makes of Walking and Dress Shoes and Evening Slippers in correct and Fashionable Shapes. Slipper Trimmings and Buckles in new and effective designs. n He in- WEST THIRTY-FOURTH, STREET (Just West of Waldorf) Annual! Clearance Sale of Women’s Tailored Suits Our First Great Reduction Sale in the New Store THE REDUCTIONS ARE DEEP AND DECISIVE, AS THE FOLLOWING FIGURES WILL INDICATE;— EVERY GARMENT—NOTHING RESERVED— Suits up to $28.00 Reduced $14.00 Suits up to $32.50 Reduced 17.00 Suits up to $39.50 Reduced 21.00 Suits up to $45.00 Reduced 26.00 Suits up to $49.50 Reduced 29.00 Suits up to $55.00 Reduced 34.00 Suits up to $65.00 Reduced 39.00 Suits up to $79.00 R 47.06 Suit $85.00 Rec 54.00 All Our Street, Afternoon and Evening Dresses, French Model Gowns, Coats, Wrays, &c., Included in This Sale ced up to ced at Corresponding Reductions WE RECOMMEND EARLY PURCHASES JOHN FORSYTHE Ws sis 22-24-26 Also To-morrow, Wednesday, Annual Sale of Women’s Fine Button Shoes in Black and Tan Russia Calf, Patent Leather, Black Buckskin and Lustre Kid, Formerly $5.00 Pair, at $3.25 “6,00 to 8.00 Pair, « 4.00 Special Off-ring of Desirable Ribbons Taffeta, 5 ins. wide and Satin Taffeta 4 ins. 18° va. Moire and Satin Taffeta, 6 inches wide, 25¢ Yd. Dresden Taffeta, 5 and 6 inch, 25° & 37° Ya. To-morrow and the Remainder of the Week | Clearance Sale of Young Men’s and Boys’ Clothing At Decided Reductions | Norfolk, Double-breasted, Sailor and Russian Suits, at $3.75, 5.50, 6.75 Values $5.00 to 8,75 Norfolls and Double-breasted Suits, . of fine ( mere ‘orsteds and Cheviots, at $7,50, 8,50 Values $10.50 and 12.75 Children’s Reefers and Overcoats, of Fancy Mistures and Chinchillas, 3 to 10 year at $5.50, 6.75, 7.50, Values $7.50 to 12.75 Boys’ Long Overcoats, Regular or Convertit Hlar,9to17 yrs, °S,50, 6.7 7 OSL Values $7.£0 to 12.75 Youths’ and Small Men’s Overcoats and Suits, 33 to 38 in, chest measure, $9,78, 11,50; 14.75 Values $12.50 to 21.50 Boys’ Fur Trimmed Overcoats 3 to 10 year at $3.50 Value: $10.50 and 12.7 West 23d anu 22d Streets “SHADOW DANCE” ro Club at) In charge of the ball! ke Ho Substitutes | 4 young man accepted what wax tn the y drawer. js ran out of the hotel and drorp exclude fling In they called up the Hamburg avenue station and asked for protection, The three detectives were Sene there and they walted In anctugion |&, pale, Of falas wilaker! OH be | unt ton minutes before the time fet) room on Harrison avenue later |for the “shadow dance.” Then they! when he was identified by the clerk to- | saw the group of bad men coming to-|day admitted the holdup. He was held | wether and charged them with drawn /|n $,00 and will te gi en @ h aring wune and “Ddilly«”" | late Tho bad men didn’t seem fo bad then, | stampeding wild’ for the exite and tossing their hardware out the win- dows, The four who were nabbed didn't get an opportunity to crow away their | pistols, When they arrived at the Ham- burg avenue station the prisoners sald they were Amada Fortainta, sixteen years old, of No. 188% Gates avenue; Rosarto Morra, twenty-three, of No. 10% Skilman avenue; Salvator La fa, twenty-one, of No. if atreet; M Jo, twenty-three, of No. 14% Avenue B. Manhattan When arraigned im the Manhattan | Avenue Police Court the young men were eld for trial in Special Sessions jon a oharge of carrying concealed weapons, dow | WANTED TO SEE | NEW YORK. Excase of Hotel mi oy Who tod t tell a 1 robb d the e rics cite oe he te! ot ws fl Griddle Cakes yeeordsy mmog En mt ked an Clerc sald tt eo not @ opens — tie | racy . Gove Attracions Are Their Low Pric » away at Oth Ay stn to 35th St. | FINE FURS FOR WOMEN At Unusually Low Prices. + v., we. Coats, Neckpieces and Muffs of quality Russian Pony Coats, three-quarter and full length models, shawl collar, soft satin lining. eves, $39.74 348.74 Caracul Coats, full length, semi-fitting; handsome 354.75 brocaded lining Moire Pony Coats, 52 inches tong, made of aah 356.75 369.75 well-marked skins, brocade lining. . French Seal (Coney) bess Chapelle full 339.74 319.74 length....... a Moire Pony Coats, 52 inches jong, the selected skins 319.74 328.74 choice of etn beautifully Maried: silk brocade lining, chats OHS Black Fox Set, aebed scarf and lee pillow shaped muff....... wae Natural Skunk Shawl Scarf, trimmed with tabs . .. $28.74 An snequatted ‘sdection of superlor ics for women, up lo the finest Mink Coats at $1,224.00 CHILDREN’S COATS & DRESSES REDUCED Two hundred and seventy-five Coats and two hundred Dresses in this sale, mainly broken lines. Panama and Serge Dresses, high or low neck, some trimmed with taffeta, embroidered collars, guimpes, or otherwise; 4.96 $% sizes 6 to 14 years, formerly $7,94, now reduced to. ... Other Dresses up to $39.74. Fancy Mixture and Cheviot Coats, self or velvet cellars, flannel lining throughout; sizes 8 to 14 years, former! y 35.74 down revers or high collars; sizes sizes 8 to 14 years, values up to $18.74, reduced to 310.74] $8.74 and $9.74, now reduced to Mpa ehoeahes lined and unlined, with turn- ly $11.74 and $12.74, now reduced to Lobe Other Coats, including those made of fur, up lo $55.73 Pillow Muff to match... bisa ba Gee kote 108 Natural Raccoon Scarf, choice dark skins, made up into several styles .. Pillow Muffs to match, styles 2d FL, o0th me, Cheviot and Melton Coat: dee } to 14 years, former- 37.74 Cheviot and Broadcloth Coats, light and dark colors, HB. Altman & Mn. FURS AND FUR GARMENTS VERY GREAT REDUCTIONS HAVE NOW BEEN MADE IN THE PRICES OF HIGH-COST FUR GAR- MENTS FOR WOMEN, INCLUDING COATS OF RUSSIAN AND HUDSON BAY SABLE, CHINCHILLA, ERMINE, MINK, ALASKA SEALSKIN, KARAKUL, HUDSON SEAL AND PERSIAN LAMB. SETS OF RUSSIAN AND HUDSON BAY SABLE, ALSO FUR-LINED CARRIAGE AND EVENING WRAPS OF CLOTH, SILK AND VELVET. MOTOR COATS AND CHILDREN'S FURS AT VERY LOW PRICES, AS WELL AS MOUNTED FLOOR RUGS. Filth Avenue, I4th and 35th Strects, Nem York.