CHAPTER XVIII
AUTHORSHIP OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH
THE following statement, which was published in the Sentinel of December 1, 1906, exactly defining her relations with the Rev. James Henry Wiggin of Boston, was made by Mrs. Eddy in refutation of allegations in the public press to the effect that Mr. Wiggin had a share in the authorship of “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.”
Mrs. Eddy's Statement
It is a great mistake to say that I employed the Rev. James Henry Wiggin to correct my diction. It was for no such purpose. I engaged Mr. Wiggin so as to avail myself of his criticisms of my statement of Christian Science, which criticisms would enable me to explain more clearly the points that might seem ambiguous to the reader.
Mr. Calvin A. Frye copied my writings, and he will tell you that Mr. Wiggin left my diction quite out of the question, sometimes saying, “I wouldn't express it that way.” He often dissented from what I had written, but I quieted him by quoting corroborative texts of Scripture.
My diction, as used in explaining Christian Science, has been called original. The liberty that I have taken with
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