Samuel S. Mathews (1847-1910) was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a Congregational minister who was ordained in 1874 and served as the pastor of the Boylston Church in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston (1879-1887). In May 1885, at a meeting of Congregational ministers in Boston, Mathews was critical of Christian Science and his comments were later published in The Sun, a New York City newspaper.

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