,the ,religio-,medical ,masquerade ,a ,complete ,exposure of ,christian ,science ,by ,,frederick ,w4 ,,peabody1 ,,ll4,b4 ,,of ,,the ,,boston ,,bar ,,the ,,hancock ,,press ,,boston1 ,,mass4 ,copyright1 #aiaj ,,by ,frederick ,w4 ,peabody ,the price of this book is #a4jj4 ,mailed to any address upon receipt of price and eight cents in stamps for postage4 ,the ,hancock-,press1 ,post-,office ,box #bghi1 ,boston1 ,mass4 ,,contents ,introduction ,i4 ,the ,sacrifice of ,children ,,ii4 ,the ,detached ,heart ,,iii4 ,pretended ,equality with ,jesus ,,iv4 ,the ,faked 8,revelation0 ,v4 ,the ,fiction of ,god's ,authorship ,,vi4 ,a ,sham 8,religion0 ,,vii4 ,a ,bogus ,healing ,system ,,viii4 ,immeasurable ,greed ,,ix4 ,the ,eddy ,autocracy ,x4 ,the 8,string0 on the ,gifts ,,xi4 ,the ,eddy ,ban on ,marriage ,,xii4 ,christian ,science ,witchcraft ,introduction ,christian ,science is the most shallow and sordid and wicked imposture of the ages4 ,upon a substratum of lies a foundation of false pretense has been laid1 upon which has been built a superstructure of outward beauty in which multitudes of credulous people gather to glorify the founder as ,god's chief anointed4 ,never before has the world witnessed a masquerade like that of ,christian ,science4 ,being everything that ,christianity is not1 it puts on the garb of ,christianity and seizes the name of ,christ the better to attract and the more strongly to hold people of shallow mind1 but sincere heart4 ,having nothing in it remotely worthy of the name of science1 it meaninglessly appropriates scientific terms and phrases in order to parade before the world with an air of learning4 ,the founder of this pretended religion1 this bogus healing system1 audaciously and irreligiously professing equality of character and of power with ,jesus1 has1 throughout her whole long life1 been in every particular precisely antithetical to ,christ4 ,sordid1 mercenary1 unprincipled1 the consuming passion of her life has been the accumulation of money1 and she has stopped at no falsehood1 no fraud and no greater wickedness that seemed to put her in the way of adding to her accumulations1 or overcoming her supposed enemies4 ,jesus condemned nothing so forcefully as the mercenary spirit4 ,with a whip he scourged the money changers from the ,temple1 and in language that burned as flaming fire he denounced the hypocrites and liars of his time as 8like unto whited sepulchers that are indeed beautiful outward1 but within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness40 ,if the language of this book seem severe1 if its denunciations are emphatic1 if things are called by their right names and facts handled without the least equivocation1 if contrasts are drawn between the founder of ,christianity and the founder of ,christian ,science that seem to border upon the irreverent1 let it not be assumed that there is in the heart of the author the slightest particle of personal animosity1 or in his attitude toward real ,christianity and ,christ anything but the most complete reverence4 ,it is time the plain facts should be stated in plain terms1 that the hand of truth should ruthlessly tear away the mask of falsehood from the face of hypocrisy and expose to the horrified gaze of mankind the hideous lineaments upon which are indelibly and unmistakably written the craft and insincerity of utter selfishness and monstrous greed1 and the hardness of a cruelty almost unbelievable4 ,without egotism1 ,i may say that no other man knows1 as ,i know1 the true inwardness of ,christian ,science1 because no other man has come face to face with it again and again on so many occasions as ,i have1 and no other has been in the position ,i have to force from the lips of reluctant witnesses1 under the sanction of an oath1 unwilling and discrediting testimony4 ,ten years ago ,i knew nothing and cared less about ,christian ,science1 assuming it to be a sincere1 but deluded1 manifestation of the childish credulity to which the human race is prone4 ,but ten years of investigations and repeated professional employments1 in which it became my duty as a lawyer to get at the actual facts with the aid of legal process1 have qualified me1 as no other not having had my experience can be qualified1 to set forth the amazing story in utter nakedness4 ,in order that it may appear that ,i am talking from a basis of knowledge1 and not of rumor or gossip or speculation1 let me briefly narrate the professional experiences above referred to4 ,my first encounter with ,christian ,science came about through an employment by the ,arena ,company1 publishers of the ,arena magazine1 in #ahii4 ,in the ,may number of the magazine for that year an article by ,mrs4 ,josephine ,c4 ,woodbury1 that was in the nature of an expos of ,christian ,science1 was published1 and instead of bringing suit against ,mrs4 ,woodbury or the magazine for the statements contained in the article1 an endeavor was made1 in ,mrs4 ,eddy's interest1 to suppress the magazine by a suit in equity to restrain its publication based upon the incorporation in the article of a photograph of ,mrs4 ,eddy said to have been copyrighted4 ,the ,arena ,company retained me to represent its interests in the litigation1 and during that employment ,i was brought in contact with the author of the article1 and from her got my first inkling of the real character of ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy1 and her religio-medical-commercial system4 ,mrs4 ,woodbury had been a ,christian ,scientist for many years1 during a long portion of which time she enjoyed ,mrs4 ,eddy's confidence as one of her leading lieutenants4 ,she had accumulated many letters from ,mrs4 ,eddy1 and all her published utterances1 whether in book or pamphlet form1 from the beginning of the movement down to that time4 ,mrs4 ,woodbury was a woman of forceful1 dominating personality1 of much greater culture than ,mrs4 ,eddy and the rank and file of her following1 and in course of time she attracted to herself a personal popularity and influence that so threatened ,mrs4 ,eddy's1 that it became important1 if her ascendency was to be maintained unimpaired1 that ,mrs4 ,woodbury be cast into outer darkness and her influence wholly destroyed4 ,occasion was readily found for this and1 in due time1 without warning1 without a notice of the charges made against her1 and without an opportunity to be heard1 ,mrs4 ,woodbury was excommunicated from the ,boston ,christian ,science ,church and cut off from fellowship with the faithful4 ,this placed her in a position where rational reflection was forced upon her1 and she speedily came to the necessary conclusion that she had been duped4 ,arriving at this conclusion1 with a courage much to be admired ,mrs4 ,woodbury wrote and published in the ,arena magazine the article to which ,i have referred1 and in unmeasured terms laid open the sinister and sordid quality of the whole movement1 and exposed the consummate selfishness and greed in the heart of its 8founder40 ,the article went forth in the ,arena1 and ,christian-,sciencedom was up in arms4 ,mr4 ,septimus ,j4 ,hanna1 then editor of the ,christian ,science ,journal1 ,mrs4 ,eddy's organ1 hastened to ,concord1 ,new ,hampshire1 to confer with ,mrs4 ,eddy regarding ways and means of meeting it1 and the method of squaring the account with ,mrs4 ,woodbury was considered and determined4 ,let it be remembered that the article in the ,arena was published in the ,may1 #ahii1 number4 ,almost immediately after the appearance of the article1 ,mrs4 ,woodbury's husband1 to whom she had been much devoted1 died and pans of rejoicing went up from the ,christian ,scientists that the ,judge of all the world had thus righteously punished one who had dared to assail the sanctified personality of 8,god's voice to this age40 ,mrs4 ,eddy's personal opportunity came in the month of ,june1 #ahii1 when1 in her annual message to the 8,mother ,church0 in ,boston1 she undertook to dispose once and for all of ,mrs4 ,woodbury4 ,in language1 seldom or never before equaled for cruelty and brutality1 ,mrs4 ,eddy assailed ,mrs4 ,woodbury4 ,pretending1 herself1 to be the woman 8clothed with the sun10 spoken of in the ,book of ,revelation1 ,mrs4 ,eddy denounced ,mrs4 ,woodbury as the ,babylonish woman there referred to4 ,she said3 8,the doom of the ,babylonish woman referred to in ,revelation is being fulfilled4 ,this woman1 drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of ,jesus1 drunk of the wine of her fornication1 would enter even the church and retaining the heart of the harlot and the purpose of the destroying angel ''' poison such as drink of the living water40 ,and further3 8,and a voice was heard saying1 come out of her my people and hearken not to her lies that ye receive not her plagues1 for her sins have reached unto ,heaven and ,god hath remembered her iniquities4 ,double unto her double1 according to her work3 in the cup which she hath filled1 fill to her double4 ,for she saith in her heart ,i am no widow4''' ,therefore shall her plague come in one day1 death1 mourning and famine3 for strong is the ,lord ,god who judgeth her4 ,that which the revelator saw in spiritual vision will be accomplished4 ,the ,babylonish woman is fallen3 and who shall mourn over the widowhood of lust1 of her that hath become the habitation of devils1 and the hold of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean bird40 ,i make no defense of ,mrs4 ,woodbury's absurdities when she was a ,christian ,scientist4 ,she went the limit4 ,nothing could have exceeded her confidence in ,mrs4 ,eddy's teachings and her zeal for the cause2 but ,i am absolutely certain that there was nothing in ,mrs4 ,woodbury's life in the slightest degree justifying the reflections upon her chastity1 and ,mrs4 ,eddy's attack was utterly baseless and wanton and purely vengeful4 ,immediately upon publication of this message and its public reading in the 8,mother ,church0 in ,boston1 all ,christian ,scientists recognized the person thus assailed4 ,either from native shrewdness1 or by advice of friends or perhaps of lawyers1 ,mrs4 ,eddy had abstained from using ,mrs4 ,woodbury's name in the message2 but no ,christian ,scientists anywhere had any doubt that ,mrs4 ,woodbury was the subject of ,mrs4 ,eddy's attack and1 on every hand1 ,christian ,scientists openly expressed their gratification that ,mrs4 ,woodbury had thus been finally suppressed4 ,the next day after the publication1 ,i asked a ,christian ,scientist with whom ,i was intimately acquainted1 whom ,mrs4 ,eddy referred to in the passage quoted from her message4 ,the unhesitating response was1 8,why1 that vile ,mrs4 ,woodbury1 of course40 ,the acquaintance1 begun with ,mrs4 ,woodbury through my employment by the ,arena ,company1 developed into the relationship of attorney and client after the publication of ,mrs4 ,eddy's message2 and it was determined to bring suit against ,mrs4 ,eddy for this attack and against other ,christian ,science officials responsible for its publication4 ,before beginning1 ,i advised ,mrs4 ,woodbury that1 as she was not named in the article1 her identity at the trial could only be established by persons who understood her to be referred to1 and ,i asked her if she believed that prominent ,christian ,scientists1 who had openly avowed such an understanding1 could be relied upon to tell the truth upon the witness stand4 ,she assured me of her confident belief that they could and that none of them would go upon the witness stand and deliberately commit perjury2 but at the time of the trial1 having called as witnesses only those close to ,mrs4 ,eddy who had made avowal of their understanding that ,mrs4 ,woodbury was the subject of ,mrs4 ,eddy's attack1 none of them admitted that1 at the time of the publication1 they had any such understanding4 ,as the language was wholly unintelligible to any one but ,christian ,scientists1 the suit necessarily failed2 but it would not have failed if1 at that time1 ,i had had the familiarity ,i now have with ,mrs4 ,eddy's private correspondence2 for ,i should have been able to introduce in evidence letters of hers clearly showing that ,mrs4 ,woodbury was the ,babylonish woman of her message4 ,in the course of the preparation for the trial of this case1 all of ,mrs4 ,woodbury's letters from ,mrs4 ,eddy and all of ,mrs4 ,eddy's published utterances from the beginning down to that time1 including every edition of her book1 8,science and ,health10 and every number of the ,christian ,science ,journal1 were turned over to me by my client and studied with most thorough and painstaking care4 ,then it was ,i learned that ,christian ,science was a deliberate fraud foisted upon mankind by ,mrs4 ,eddy in the name of religion for the mere purpose of extorting money from credulous people4 ,since that time ,i have been intensely interested in following the matter up and adding to my store of facts1 until now ,i am confident that no man can read this book1 no man and no woman who has not parted with every scrap of sanity and who retains elemental decency in his or her heart1 and not be in entire accord with my conclusions4 ,some time after the ,woodbury-,eddy litigation1 ,i was retained by ,rev4 ,minot ,j4 ,savage1 then of ,new ,york ,city1 to collect for him1 and at his expense1 in legally evidential form1 the facts showing unmistakably ,mrs4 ,eddy's false pretense and fraud1 and in pursuance of this employment ,i examined numerous individuals and took their statements under oath for ,mr4 ,savage4 ,later1 when ,mc,clure's magazine undertook the publication of the facts of ,mrs4 ,eddy's career1 ,i was employed to procure the sworn statements of many individuals in support of the magazine's story1 and shortly thereafter ,i was retained by ,mrs4 ,eddy's two sons1 ,george ,w4 ,glover1 born to her by her first husband1 and ,edward ,j4 ,foster1 her son by adoption1 to cooperate with their other lawyers1 ,hon4 ,william ,e4 ,chandler1 ,ex-,united ,states ,senator from ,new ,hampshire being senior counsel1 in the prosecution in the courts of ,new ,hampshire of a suit in equity for the appointment of a receiver to have charge of their mother's large estate for her benefit1 upon the ground that1 through old age mental weakness and delusions1 if not actual insanity1 she was incompetent to have the care of it4 ,this litigation never reached a determination in the courts1 but the family controversy was ultimately settled by a family settlement in which the two sons were paid approximately #cjj1jjj for a relinquishment of their prospective interest in their mother's estate and an agreement not to contest any will or other instrument disposing of her property4 ,as the ,massachusetts attorney in this litigation1 it became my duty in the ,city of ,boston to examine1 under oath1 many of ,mrs4 ,eddy's most intimate friends1 and the highest officials of organized ,christian ,science1 who1 by legal process1 were compelled to produce many hundreds of personal letters received by them from her4 ,this last professional experience completed my understanding of ,christian ,science1 and the facts herein set forth are1 almost without exception1 based1 either upon ,mrs4 ,eddy's own published utterances1 her private correspondence1 the sworn testimony of witnesses1 or the admissions under oath of her most confidential friends and followers2 and ,i give my book to the world with a full understanding of the responsibility ,i assume and a complete willingness to justify in any legal tribunal every statement ,i make4 ,let it not be supposed1 however1 that ,i am presenting the spectacle of a cowardly man attacking a weak and unprotected woman4 ,mrs4 ,eddy is the head and front of a powerful and rich organization1 the leader of a movement that numbers many thousands of adherents1 amongst them some thousands of more or less masculine men4 ,she is ,christian ,science1 and ,christian ,science is ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,anything that money can buy or fanaticism give is constantly at her disposal1 and back of her1 as behind the greatest and the humblest1 stands the sovereign law4 ,whoever offends another1 is accountable to the law2 and if anything ,i say offend against her right to enjoy the reputation warranted by her life1 ,i can and should be called to speedy and strict account4 ,if the contents of this book are not true1 ,i1 myself1 proclaim that the severest legal penalty would inadequately punish me for its publication4 ,if1 on the other hand1 what ,i say be true1 as ,i am confident there can be no doubt in any honest mind that follows me to the end1 then decent people1 men or women1 can no longer afford to give the slightest countenance to ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy and her impostures1 be they called by the name of religion1 or be they pretended cure-alls for the ills to which our human flesh is heir4 ,i challenge ,mrs4 ,eddy and the whole ,christian ,science combination to dare to prosecute me for libel1 and ,i affirm and shall continue to affirm that their omission so to do is an acknowledgment of the truth of every statement ,i make4 ,she knows ,i am telling nothing but the truth1 and that the whole truth1 to be brought out upon a judicial investigation1 would be more damning than the truth as ,i have presented it4 ,the whole truth cannot be told outside of a judicial tribunal4 ,in presenting the substance of this book in the form of a lecture to the people of the country1 from one ocean to the other1 the only response has been slander and defamation of me1 the last resort of the accused who can make no defense2 but nobody has met my facts with anything like evidence1 or undertaken in any serious manner to disprove the truth of my most damaging charges4 ,i beg every one who reads this book not to be diverted from the facts by any personal abuse of me that may follow its publication4 ,it is the only response that has been or can be made to my presentation1 and ,i am accustomed to it from the paid spokesmen of a cult that1 so far as its ruling spirits are concerned1 more resembles an organization of outlaws banded together for plunder1 than a religious establishment based upon the sublime teachings of the ,man of ,sorrows4 ,the knowledge ,i possess ,i could not suppress without making myself a party to one of the greatest crimes ever perpetrated against the human race2 and ,i will not1 by my silence1 permit myself to become an ally with ,mrs4 ,eddy and her associates in that crime4 ,history is but repeated in ,christian ,science4 8,we have seen10 said ,macaulay1 8an old woman with no talents beyond the cunning of a fortune teller1 and with the education of a scullion1 exalted into a prophetess and surrounded by tens of thousands of devoted followers1 many of whom were1 in station and in knowledge1 immeasurably her superiors1 and all this in the nineteenth century1 and all this in ,london40 ,marveling as he thus did at the success of ,joanna ,southcott's parody upon religion in the early part of the last century1 what would ,macaulay have thought of ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy's utterly unintelligible hodge-podge1 which she falsely calls both a discovery and a revelation1 a science and a religion1 and what would he have thought of her following8 ,mrs4 ,eddy is in no respect superior to ,miss ,southcott in the matter of origin and education4 ,one was as obscure and as unlearned as the other4 ,in one respect at least the ,southcott woman was superior to the ,eddy woman4 ,the former was at least honest2 she believed in her mission4 ,there is no evidence that she built up a pretended religion upon a foundation of lies4 ,she was1 at the worst1 an unbalanced creature with a form of religious mania4 ,she did not grow rich out of her followers4 ,she did not use her supposed revelation as a business asset and sell it for what it would bring4 ,she did not take out a copyright on her 8religion10 and monopolize its sale for extraordinary profit4 ,there was no taint of commercialism about her frenzies4 ,she died poor4 ,the founder of ,christian ,science1 on the contrary1 is everything that ,joanna ,southcott was not4 ,she is mercenary1 insincere1 shameless1 and bold to a degree surpassing that of all other persons who have duped mankind4 ,upon theft and falsehood she has laid the foundations of the 8religion0 by the sale of which she has accumulated a fortune4 ,f4 ,w4 ,p4 ,the ,religio-,medical ,masquerade ,chapter ,i ,the ,sacrifice of ,children ,at the very outset of a candid consideration of ,christian ,science1 ,i feel the necessity1 if not of an apology1 at least of an explanation4 ,i shall with entire freedom discuss a woman and a combined religio-medical-commercial system of which she is the founder4 ,i shall handle the one and the other without the least regard for anything but the truth4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy is the woman1 and ,christian ,science1 so called1 is the system2 but they are inseparable1 identical4 ,they have arisen and they will go down together1 and ,i predict that they will go down much more rapidly than they have ascended4 ,i am going to hold up for the inspection of mankind the soul of a woman1 of a woman eighty-eight years of age1 and ,i am going to do it without regard to the fact that she is feminine and aged4 ,there is no other way to present ,christian ,science in its true aspect4 ,it rests exclusively upon ,mrs4 ,eddy's representations and ,mrs4 ,eddy's character4 ,if everything she has claimed regarding herself and ,christian ,science as a religion and healing system be absolutely false1 then there is no justification for the existence of ,christian ,science as a religion1 or a healing system1 every church erected in its honor is but a monument to the 8,queen of frauds and hypocrites10 and every worshiper at its shrines the dupe of a designing old woman who has laughed in her sleeves at the ease with which she has gulled them4 ,while this is unmistakably true1 it is1 notwithstanding1 most distasteful to a man1 if he be half a man1 publicly to assail the character of a woman1 and nothing under heaven can justify it1 if she be in private life and not putting forth nor seeking to put forth an influence upon the lives of others2 but if she have constituted herself sponsor for a religion of lies and a medical system that is a fraud and a shame1 if she profess ,god imparted knowledge of everything needful for human bodies and souls1 if she reach out her influence to all parts of the land and seek to govern hundreds of thousands of people in every detail of their daily lives1 and if her influence be harmful and only harmful1 it is the duty of a man1 who knows the facts1 to make them public1 regardless of sex or age or anything whatever but the public good4 ,and so ,i ask my readers to believe that while for ,mrs4 ,eddy1 the feeble and palsied old woman tottering on the very verge of the grave1 ,i have feelings only of compassion2 for ,mrs4 ,eddy1 the charlatan and adventuress1 for ,mrs4 ,eddy1 the impious pretender to equality with ,jesus1 the fraudulent claimant of exclusive and immediate revelation from ,god1 for ,mrs4 ,eddy1 upon whose altar of greed have been sacrificed the harmony and happiness of marriage1 the natural love and tenderness of parents and the sweet lives of ,god only knows how many children1 for ,mrs4 ,eddy1 the heartless and avaricious despot of multitudes of despoiled and demented dupes1 for that woman1 as there is no sympathy in my heart1 so there shall be no charity in my speech4 ,now1 who is ,mrs4 ,eddy1 and what is this strange thing called ,christian ,science8 ,as ,i understand her1 ,mrs4 ,eddy is the inventor and sole proprietor of the greatest get-rich-quick concern ever conceived4 ,her business--there is no religion about it1 and her writings may be searched from end to end without finding a line about the worship of ,god--her business converts into cash the very highest emotions of the human soul by an appeal to religious feeling and extorts huge sums of money from multitudes of credulous people for healing them of nothing but the delusion that there is something the matter with them4 ,christian ,science never cured any one of anything but imaginary illness2 it never relieved any one of any real evil--but his money4 ,mrs4 ,eddy1 boldly professing to have received a revelation from ,god1 and to be the equal of ,jesus ,christ1 has made upwards of a million and a half dollars out of her enterprise that she calls ,christian ,science since she reached sixty years of age2 and1 if some be inclined to infer therefrom the possession by her of extraordinary genius1 ,i cannot agree with them4 ,mrs4 ,eddy has succeeded1 not because of her greatness1 but because of the avidity with which unreasoning people swallow the most monstrous absurdities1 the shamelessness with which men and women will intellectually prostrate themselves before the coarsest vulgarity and the most patent fraud4 ,let me illustrate this1 if ,i can4 ,it is no part of my undertaking to account for ,mrs4 ,eddy's following4 ,the fact that she has some thousands of followers does not1 of itself1 prove the truth of any of her teachings or pretensions4 ,there was never any religious pretender yet1 who could not1 with slight effort1 obtain a hearing and a following4 ,i recently observed1 in one of our daily papers1 an account of an amusing incident of this character in ,oklahoma4 ,a man1 believing himself to be the incarnation of ,almighty ,god1 started out to convert the world to his belief1 and considered it to be his mission1 in the first instance1 to persuade mankind to divest themselves of clothes4 ,the first man he encountered was his next-door neighbor and the first woman his next-door neighbor's wife1 and they were easily persuaded of the man's divine mission1 and that it was ,god's wish that they should revert to primitive nakedness4 ,so the three doffed the attire of civilization and perambulated into the adjoining town1 naked as they came into the world4 ,a police officer1 who encountered them upon the street1 with averted eyes hustled them into a van and carted them off to the nearest police station1 where they were compelled to assume at least the outward garb of decency and sanity4 ,this only shows how true it is that the religious impostor has no difficulty in making converts1 and that the first person he converts is usually the first he encounters4 ,i am continually met with the inquiry1 8,if ,christian ,science is an absolute fraud1 how do you account for the fact that so many intelligent people are ,christian ,scientists80 ,in the first place1 many people may be intelligent enough about the ordinary affairs of life1 and utterly imbecile upon religious matters4 ,history has again and again shown that in no respect are people so easily credulous and so readily victimized as in respect to religious things4 ,doubtless there are intelligent people in ,christian ,science2 but the whole cult is not numerous1 and the intelligent minority is a negligible quantity4 ,in the latest bulletin of religious statistics1 published by the ,federal ,government in #aiji1 the total number of ,christian ,scientists is given as #he1gag2 but it is stated that a large portion1 at least half1 of the membership of the 8,mother ,church0 in ,boston is counted twice in this estimate2 for the #da1fcd membership of this ,boston church is largely composed of non-residents1 who are also members of other churches4 ,so at least #bj1jjj must be deducted from the total of #he1gag in order to get at anything like an accurate estimate1 which cannot be far from #fe1jjj4 ,these are the government's figures for #aijf1 although ,mrs4 ,eddy definitely stated that there were a million ,christian ,scientists as long ago as #ahhc4 ,now1 admitting that amongst this #fe1jjj people there are intelligent persons1 ,i make the affirmation boldly that not one of them ever went into ,christian ,science because of his intelligence but notwithstanding and in spite of it4 ,let me make plain this non-intelligent attitude of its devotees toward ,christian ,science4 ,the religious service in a ,christian ,science church contains no original utterance from the pulpit4 ,there is no preacher connected with any ,christian ,science church1 and the individuals officiating from the platform are called readers1 the first reader being a man1 who reads from ,mrs4 ,eddy's book1 and the second reader being a woman1 who reads from the ,bible4 ,the sermon consists exclusively of the alternate reading1 by the second reader of passages from the ,bible1 and by the first reader of alleged interpretative passages from ,mrs4 ,eddy's book1 8,science and ,health10 which is called by her1 8,the ,key to the ,scriptures40 ,mr4 ,arthur ,g4 ,frisbie of ,cleveland1 ,ohio1 an absolutely sincere and honest man1 was for many years the first reader of the leading ,christian ,science church in that city4 ,he became1 however1 convinced1 as every sincere and honest person1 who retains any remnant of analytical power sooner or later must1 that the thing was a monstrous fraud1 and he now denounces it in no less unmeasured terms than my own4 ,mr4 ,frisbie tells me that during all the time he was officiating as first reader in the church and read from ,mrs4 ,eddy's book1 try as hard as he might he could discover no slightest relation between the ,bible passages read by the second reader and the 8,science and ,health0 interpretative passages read by himself4 ,any one who cares to make the experiment may demonstrate this for himself if he will get a copy of the ,christian ,science ,quarterly in which the so-called ,sermon ,lessons are outlined4 ,such a test will show that there is no more connection between the ,biblical passages and those selected and read from ,mrs4 ,eddy's book than there would be if 8,mother ,goose0 or 8,robinson ,crusoe0 were used as interpreters of the ,scriptures4 ,and yet ,i have sat in a ,christian ,science church and seen thousands of the faithful1 with nothing less than ecstatic expressions upon their countenances1 listening to readings that were absolutely unintelligible to both readers and hearers4 ,so ,i say that the only possible way to be a ,christian ,scientist is to completely subordinate intelligence to feeling and approximate as nearly as possible the ideal condition pictured by ,mrs4 ,eddy when she says1 8,the less mind there is manifested in matter1 the better40 ,before passing from this point1 ,i can't refrain from incorporating here1 for the benefit of mankind1 the sage summary of a man whom ,i regard as the very wisest of living estimators of human qualities4 ,i refer1 of course1 to ,mark ,twain4 ,his opinion of why ,mrs4 ,eddy has so many followers is most informing4 ,in a letter to me some few years ago1 ,mr4 ,clemens said3 8,have ,i given you the impression that ,i was combating ,xn ,science8 or that ,i am caring how the ,xn ,scientists #8hail' my articles8 ,relieve yourself of those errors4 ,i wrote the articles to please ,,myself2 and it had not occurred to me to care what the #8,scientists' might think of them4 ,i am not combating ,xn ,science--,i haven't a thing in the world against it4 ,making fun of that shameless old swindler1 ,mother ,eddy1 is the only thing about it ,i take any interest in4 ,at bottom ,i suppose ,i take a private delight in seeing the human race making an ass of itself again--which it has always done whenever it had a chance4 ,that's its affair--it has the right--and it will sweat blood for it a century hence1 and for many centuries thereafter4 8,it distresses me a little to hear you talk about #8sanity in the affairs of men4' ,so far as ,i know1 men have never shown any noticeable degree of sanity in their affairs1 and to me it seems rather large flattery to intimate that they are capable of it4 8,see them get down and worship that old creature4 ,a century hence1 they'll all be at it4 ,sanity--in the human race6 ,this is really fulsome40 ,there is no other possible explanation than this of ,mrs4 ,eddy's success4 ,it is based1 as ,mark ,twain says1 upon the irresistible propensity of the human race to make an ass of itself every time it gets a chance4 ,it is astounding1 but it is a fact1 that by many thousands of people in the ,united ,states in the year of grace #aiaj this aged1 illiterate1 unprincipled1 vulgar woman is regarded as the agent and representative of the ,almighty ,god4 ,i do not know how many times ,i have been told that because ,i have endeavored to make the people of the country understand that ,christian ,science is based wholly upon ,mrs4 ,eddy's falsehoods1 ,i am therefore irreverently assailing the ,almighty upon ,his throne4 ,i confess ,i am not much disturbed by this particular criticism1 because ,i feel that1 if it be a fact1 the ,almighty will deal with me indulgently1 knowing the integrity of my motives1 and that1 however aggressive ,i may become1 the ,almighty is in no danger4 ,the more ,i have studied and learned of the life of this strange creature and the more closely ,i have observed her effect upon the lives of those who come under her sway1 the more strongly ,i am convinced of the harmfulness of her influence4 ,it is literally derationalizing thousands of people1 it is turning multitudes from the pursuit of knowledge and steeping them in a superstition worse than that of the ,middle ,ages4 ,it is remorselessly separating husband and wife1 parent and child4 ,it is the mother and promoter of a new-old witchcraft which has so taken possession of the minds and lives of people that they live in constant terror of its supposed baneful work4 ,this ,christian ,science witchcraft has reached the proportion amongst the faithful almost of panic1 and of it more hereafter4 ,but of all of the harmful influences of this alleged medical science1 which is an unmitigated nonsense or deviltry1 and of this alleged religion which1 so far as its founder is concerned1 is the very quintessence of irreverence and hypocrisy1 of all of the evil consequences of the life and work of this monumental imposture1 the unrelieved suffering of helpless children is the worst4 ,mrs4 ,eddy teaches and her followers believe that ,god has revealed to her1 as absolute truth1 that sickness1 pain and suffering do not in reality exist1 and many are the deluded mothers upon whom this belief has taken so fast a hold that they permit their helpless children to suffer and to die without the slightest effort to alleviate the suffering1 and with the continued iteration and reiteration of the insane notion that the child cannot be sick and cannot suffer1 because sickness and suffering are unreal4 ,meantime the sickness of the child is real1 the suffering terribly real1 and after protracted suffering it dies without the turning of a hand to relieve its pain or to save its life4 ,those sane parents who have endured the anguish of seeing their child suffer1 say from abscess in the ear1 or from any one of the other forms of torture with which nature stretches our little ones upon beds of pain1 will appreciate the enormity of this crime4 ,i recently talked with a lady who had been visiting her ,christian ,science sister whose little boy1 eight or ten years of age1 became sick during my friend's visit4 ,he went to his mother and said1 8,mother1 ,i have a terrible pain and feel very sick1 and think ,i ought to have a doctor40 ,what did the ,christian ,science mother do8 ,did she coddle the little fellow1 take off his clothes and put him to bed and tell him the good doctor would soon be there and that he would be all well again very shortly8 ,nothing of the kind4 8,richard10 she said1 8it is very wrong of you to talk that way1 when you have that error of belief4 ,you know you are not sick1 ,richard1 and cannot be sick2 you know how to treat yourself when you have that false belief4 ,treat yourself1 run away and play1 and don't bother me any more40 ,little ,richard turned from his ,christian ,science mother and resumed his play1 so long as he could stagger about on his little feet and keep up the sad pretense4 ,and when he could not keep on his feet any longer1 he sat down upon the floor with his toys about him1 moaning with pain and holding his hand upon his side4 ,meantime his ,christian ,science mother busied herself about her family duties1 totally ignoring him4 ,the time came when little ,richard could not any longer sit up and completely lost interest in his toys2 and then he fell over upon the floor1 and died--died with his clothes on1 died with his toys about him1 died absolutely neglected by his mother in his extremity1 died without the slightest sane endeavor to save his life4 ,and so it is everywhere in ,christian ,science families throughout the length and breadth of this land4 ,nothing but the employment of a fool-man or a fool-woman1 called a ,christian ,science healer1 to administer a ,christian ,science treatment1 which consists only of the inaudible repetition of ,mrs4 ,eddy's meaningless jargon1 can be done by a ,christian ,science parent to save the life of his child without repudiating ,mrs4 ,eddy's fundamental teaching that sickness is unreal and giving the lie to her 8inspired0 insanity that there are no such things as pain and death4 ,who has not1 for years past1 read such items as these in the daily papers8 8,christian ,science parent arrested4 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,goodwin's twelve years' old child died without medical attendance40 ,again3 8,jail term for ,christian ,scientist ,brine1 who let his six-year-old child die without medical attendance40 ,again3 8,no medicine for dying boy4 ,public prosecutor to take up case of year-old son of ,frank ,a4 ,black1 who died on ,saturday without medical attendance40 ,again3 8,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,edwin ,m4 ,watson1 ,christian ,scientists1 convicted of voluntary manslaughter for failure to provide medical attendance for their seven-year-old child1 ,granville40 ,again3 8,little ,esther ,quimby1 the seven-year-old daughter of ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,quimby1 ,christian ,scientists1 allowed to die of malignant diphtheria without attendance of a doctor40 ,there was in this country in the neighborhood of #e1jjj advertising ,christian ,science healers1 so called1 and their patients are largely women and children4 ,if each of them has but one patient a day1 there are over a million and a half lives annually placed under their senseless and impotent ministrations4 ,as they doubtless average many more than one a day1 their patients are in the aggregate many millions a year1 largely women1 still more largely children4 ,there are no statistics showing the mortality of such patients1 for it is the practice of these healers to conceal their operations by calling in a physician at the last moment to qualify him to give the necessary death certificate1 in order that there may be no investigation of their criminal practices4 ,it cannot be doubted1 however1 that the sacrifice of child life to this stupid and cruel monster runs up into the hundreds1 if not the thousands1 annually4 ,could anything be more hideous8 ,but what1 may ,i ask1 does ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy care about the sacrifice of children1 so only that her bank account continue to grow and grow and grow8 ,her concern for children generally may be somewhat judged by her regard for the only child she ever brought into the world4 ,mrs4 ,eddy1 when she was ,mrs4 ,glover1 in ,september1 #ahdd1 gave birth to her only child1 a son1 whom she named after his father1 ,george ,washington ,glover4 ,as a young infant1 ,george lived at his aunt's house with his mother1 who1 however1 frequently sent him on long visits to the family of ,john ,varney1 the hired man 7in whose lap it was her custom1 when a young widow1 to be rocked to sleep at night71 and also to ,mahala ,sanborn1 who had attended her at the boy's birth4 ,when he was seven years old1 ,miss ,sanborn1 who had become ,mrs4 ,cheeney1 took him1 at his mother's request1 permanently to live with her in ,north ,groton1 ,new ,hampshire1 where he was from #ahea to #aheg1 when the ,cheeneys moved to ,enterprise1 ,minnesota1 taking ,george with them4 ,during the larger part of his life in ,north ,groton1 ,mrs4 ,eddy lived in the same town1 but she seldom saw him1 and did nothing for him4 ,she abandoned him1 in other words1 to an entirely illiterate person who had lived as a servant in her father's family4 ,as her father said1 she acted 8just like an old ewe sheep that would not own its lamb40 ,mrs4 ,eddy now pretends that she was obliged to give up her child because her second husband1 ,patterson1 would not have him in the house4 ,this seems to me a poor reason for a woman to abandon her infant child1 but it is not true in ,mrs4 ,eddy's case1 because she did not acquire ,mr4 ,patterson until years after she had permanently abandoned her child4 ,so complete was her neglect1 so utter her abandonment of him that at the age of sixty-five this man1 born of ,new ,england parents1 can neither read nor write6 ,a mother who is so unmotherly as ,mrs4 ,eddy was toward her only child when it was little more than a baby1 cannot be expected to give herself great concern over the sacrifice of the children of strangers that is incidental to the accumulation of her fortune4 ,if the adult prefer foolishness to wisdom1 if he prefer suicide to life1 by the ,christian ,science or any other method1 he may enjoy his preference4 ,it is no business of mine to come between him and the grave2 but no man and no woman has any right1 whatever be the motive or the relation1 to stand silently by and permit a child needlessly to suffer and needlessly to die4 ,the laws of the land should provide1 as they do in some ,states1 for the punishment of such cruel offences2 and to the extent that my opposition and my protest may avail1 no man and no woman shall be permitted to murder little children by a wilful neglect that is based upon an insane belief in the wicked teachings of a wicked woman1 in her cruel1 greedy fraud1 in her brazen1 murderous lies4 ,if any one be disposed to feel that my language sounds extravagant thus early in the narrative1 ,i beg that judgment may be suspended until ,i have concluded1 when the moderation of my speech will1 ,i think1 be cause for wonder4 ,chapter ,,ii ,the ,detached ,heart ,mary ,baker ,glover ,eddy was born in the town of ,bow1 ,new ,hampshire1 on ,july #af1 #ahba1 of good ,new ,england parentage2 but never received anything but the most rudimentary education4 ,the stories of her higher education are all fables4 ,she pretends to have studied the classic languages1 and to have been familiar with ,hebrew4 ,she has never known anything of any of these languages1 and any one who has been compelled1 as ,i have1 to peruse her unedited personal correspondence knows that she has never been on any1 but the most distant of speaking terms1 with her mother tongue4 ,she was graduated1 she says1 from ,dyer ,h4 ,sanborn's ,academy at ,tilton1 ,new ,hampshire2 but her old schoolmates1 still living1 say there was no such academy1 although ,sanborn did teach a few children each year in a room over the district school4 ,there was no regular course of study and were no graduations4 ,according to these same schoolmates1 ,mary ,baker completed her education upon reaching long division in arithmetic1 and her culture1 in advanced years1 may be somewhat gauged by her written attribution in her seventieth year1 when1 if ever1 one's education may be assumed to have made some little progress1 of the authorship of ,irving to the ,pickwick ,papers of ,charles ,dickens4 8,the language is decaying as fast10 she says1 8as that of ,irving's ,pickwick ,papers40 ,one may be moved1 by this reflection upon our poor speech1 to something like commiseration for the language that has been so useful to us for centuries past4 ,but it is consoling to reflect that the race may have access1 throughout coming ages1 to ,mrs4 ,eddy's exhaustless well of ,english undefiled as it appears in her various immortal publications4 ,her private correspondence1 it must be admitted1 however1 does not exhibit any considerable degree of excellence in the matter of spelling1 punctuation1 grammar and capitalization2 but an inspired person may be excused for a little carelessness in the use of words4 ,mrs4 ,eddy accounts for her amazing deficiency of education and entire lack of culture by an ingenious fairy tale4 8,after my discovery of ,christian ,science10 she says1 8most of the knowledge ,i had gleaned from school books vanished like a dream4 ,learning was so illumined1 that grammar was eclipsed40 ,if any scraps of knowledge were ever possessed by this peculiar creature1 vanished1 dreamlike or otherwise1 they surely did2 and without quite assenting to the illumination of learning hypothesis1 ,i find no ground for dissenting from the view that1 at some time or other1 grammar underwent total eclipse4 ,the first fifty years of her life were lived in great poverty and complete obscurity4 ,before her alleged discovery of ,christian ,science1 ,mrs4 ,eddy at one time eked out a precarious existence in and about ,boston as a ,spiritualist medium1 giving public seances for money4 ,sweet converse with the illustrious dead could be had of ,mrs4 ,eddy at any time by any one who had the price4 ,her interest in the dead seems to have been strictly confined to the illustrious departed4 ,in ,december1 #ahdc1 when twenty-two years of age1 she married ,george ,w4 ,glover1 a young bricklayer by trade1 and with him1 shortly after the marriage1 went to ,wilmington1 ,north ,carolina1 where wages were somewhat higher than in ,new ,hampshire4 ,there ,glover1 three months after the marriage and six months before the birth of her only child1 died of yellow fever4 ,he was buried in ,wilmington1 but the spot is1 to this day1 unknown even to his widow4 ,mrs4 ,eddy has for many years been exceeding rich in this world's goods4 ,in her personal conversation1 and in her published works1 she has spoken in terms of the highest praise of this her first husband1 8whose tender devotion to his young wife was remarked10 she says1 8by all observers40 ,he was the father of her only child1 yet all that is mortal of him has for nearly seventy years lain with the unclaimed1 forgotten and abandoned dead at ,wilmington1 ,north ,carolina4 ,some years ago1 friends of ,mrs4 ,eddy at ,wilmington erected a stone to the memory of ,mr4 ,glover over a grave supposed to be his2 but a descendant of the person really buried there ruthlessly tore the stone from the place he believed it to desecrate1 and poor ,glover's final resting place remains unknown and unnoticed4 ,after reaching the dignity of leader of a great religious movement1 ,mrs4 ,eddy elevated the poor bricklayer husband to the proud position of ,colonel of ,volunteers1 and she thus glorified him for approximately forty years4 ,sad to relate1 however1 he is 8,colonel0 no longer4 ,in the recent litigation1 instituted by ,mrs4 ,eddy's sons1 one of the witnesses ,i was examining produced in evidence a letter from ,mrs4 ,eddy in which she said1 8,i called my late husband0 7she should have said late first husband1 as a second1 a third and perhaps a fourth had then intervened71 8,i called my late husband ,colonel1 because he was connected with the militia1 and ,i had got mixed on his rank40 ,she might just as well have called him ,general for the same reason4 ,as a matter of fact1 if ,glover ever belonged to the militia1 he never arose beyond the dignity of high private and having been a man of simple life and honest purpose would1 no doubt1 if he could know of it1 be a little uncomfortable in his narrow bed at the undreamed military distinction thrust upon him by his famous widow2 but it would sadden him a little to know that1 after having elevated him to the exalted rank of ,colonel1 she should in later years have reduced him to the less imposing position of ,major1 by which military title he now is distinguished in ,mrs4 ,eddy's conversation4 ,as a second matrimonial venture1 ,mrs4 ,eddy in #ahec allied herself with one ,daniel ,patterson1 who in her autobiographical sketches has been completely ignored1 although he shared twenty years of connubial life with her4 ,he does not seem to have left behind him the sweet aroma of the more chivalrous ,glover1 who survived the marriage only three months4 ,patterson was an itinerant dentist of little or no practice1 and life with him does not appear to have been a pathway strewn with flowers4 ,it profits not to dwell upon the ,patterson episode4 ,when he was not pursuing the elusive dollar that perpetually fled away1 he appears to have been chasing the festive bullfrog whose dismal croak jarred upon his wife's sensitive nerves4 ,suffice it to say that ,daniel and ,mary endured one another1 with what serenity and fortitude they might1 for twenty long1 weary years1 when1 in #ahgc1 a divorce was granted her for his desertion4 ,mrs4 ,eddy says the divorce was granted for a different cause1 but the record contradicts her4 ,the record always contradicts her4 ,she has declared herself to be opposed to divorce for any but the single ,biblical cause2 but the record of the ,superior ,court at ,salem shows her to have obtained a divorce from ,patterson for desertion seven years after the time ,god1 as she says1 had revealed to her the final religion4 ,mrs4 ,eddy does not believe in marriage--for others4 ,she was inspired of ,god to teach that it is not good--for others--to marry and she has inspired into the minds of her faithful followers the belief that marriage is of the earth very earthy indeed1 and that life in the realm of spirit is impossible to those in the holy estate of matrimony4 ,but so far as she herself was concerned1 it cannot be denied that she seems to have had a distinct fancy for marriage1 and ,i may go so far as to say something approaching fondness for variety in the marriage state4 ,in any event1 after the termination by operation of law of the second marriage1 that is to say on ,january #a1 #ahgg1 ,mrs4 ,eddy made another and third venture into marriage and conferred upon one ,gilbert ,asa ,eddy the proud and happy distinction of successor to the deceased ,glover and the departed ,patterson4 ,the record of this marriage 7another record1 be it noted7 discloses the amusing fact that ,mrs4 ,eddy's age was given as forty years1 the marriage having been celebrated fifty-six years from the date of her birth2 so that instead of blossoming and blooming in garlands gay for a fair1 young1 winsome thing of forty summers1 the roads were decked with garlands somewhat somber for the third glad nuptials of the blushing bride of fifty-six4 ,but what is a little matter of sixteen years in the life of a person who is superior to time and of whose life here in the flesh there shall be no end8 ,after years of toil and trouble1 of conflict and disharmony1 of stress and strain1 in which some of ,mrs4 ,eddy's early friends strongly sympathized with ,mr4 ,eddy1 who complained that neither he nor ,god ,almighty could please his exacting spouse1 this husband1 too1 was gathered to his fathers and ,mrs4 ,eddy was for a third time a widow4 ,in her efforts to impose upon the credulity of simple-minded people1 ,mrs4 ,eddy has not hesitated to claim the power to triumph over death1 and to have actually restored the dead to life4 ,to her intimates she has claimed to have thus twice restored to life this lamented third husband1 ,asa ,g4 ,eddy4 ,if ,mrs4 ,eddy has1 or had1 this power1 the mind of the incredulous will wonder why the poor man is now dead1 why his potent helpmate did not restore him to life the third time he died4 ,presumably1 ,mrs4 ,eddy reasoned with herself that it was really expecting too much of a woman1 even a woman ,messiah1 that she should recall from death the third husband three times1 and as husbands had become1 to some extent1 a matter of habit with her1 it is not1 perhaps1 remarkable that she consented finally to part with this one after such unmistakable evidence of his persistent desire to be separated from her even by death4 ,mrs4 ,eddy has in her book1 8,miscellaneous ,writings10 modestly given us this husband's estimate of her in these words3 8,perhaps the following words of her husband1 the late ,dr4 ,asa ,g4 ,eddy1 afford the most concise1 yet complete1 summary of the matter1 #8,mrs4 ,eddy's works are the outgrowth of her life4 ,i never knew so unselfish an individual4'0 ,so1 perhaps1 she let ,eddy go1 finally1 out of pure unselfishness4 ,sweet as was his companionship1 she could not keep him by her side when repeatedly assured of his unalterable wish to go hence4 ,the first husband1 ,glover1 survived the marriage but a few months2 the second husband1 ,patterson1 unappreciative wretch that he was1 ran away1 and1 as ,mrs4 ,eddy tells us1 found consolation in the affection of the 8wealthy lady0 who ran away with him 7although it must be said that no corroboration whatever of the 8wealthy lady0 feature of ,mrs4 ,eddy's story exists72 and the third husband1 ,eddy1 after having been twice recaptured1 finally escaped by death's door4 ,there is another singular1 grewsome incident connected with the death of ,mr4 ,eddy1 husband number three4 ,he died of heart disease4 ,there was no manner of doubt about that2 but ,mrs4 ,eddy had professed to have the power to cure heart disease in the most advanced stage1 and she must find an explanation of her husband's death consistent with the possession1 by her1 of such power4 ,so she said that ,eddy did not die of heart disease after all4 ,he died of poison1 of arsenical poison1 that's what he died of2 and he didn't die of arsenical poison mixed with his food or drink or otherwise in chemical form smuggled into his organism4 ,he died of arsenical poison mentally administered1 thought into him by her enemies4 ,now even a woman ,messiah could not be on the lookout all the time against these malicious thoughts directed at her third husband and1 in a moment of inadvertence1 one of them got by and killed ,eddy1 and killed him dead4 ,to confirm her singular notion and prove the presence of the symptoms of arsenical poison in the body1 ,mrs4 ,eddy procured the performance of an autopsy upon her late husband's remains4 ,dr4 ,rufus ,k4 ,noyes of ,boston1 who performed the autopsy1 tells me that1 having removed the diseased organ from ,mr4 ,eddy's breast1 he exhibited it upon a platter to the sorrowing widow1 who craved the ocular demonstration1 and pointed out to her curious and eager inspection the precise cause of death in its diseased condition4 ,and it was after1 and notwithstanding1 her close scrutiny of the physical heart that had so robustly throbbed with love of her1 that1 much to ,dr4 ,noyes' amusement1 ,mrs4 ,eddy gave out the statement1 to the extent of a column or more in the newspapers1 that arsenical poison mentally administered by absent treatment had in fact torn her loved one a third time1 and finally1 from her clinging grasp4 ,how sweet1 how charming1 is the wifely devotion1 that1 kissing the lips of death1 speedily and forever loses track of the sacred ashes of the beloved first husband1 rushes into the divorce court for freedom from the truant second1 and1 having twice restored the adored third to life1 when a third time he thus eludes her refuses1 positively and coldly refuses1 to bring him back and looks with calm and critical eyes upon the formerly attached1 but now1 alas1 detached heart6 ,to the soft impeachment of these three several marriages1 this pronounced opponent of marriage pleads a bashful guilty1 but many are they who believe there was yet a fourth marriage1 and that the widow ,eddy in course of time became1 and is today1 the wife of one1 ,calvin ,a4 ,frye4 ,frye is1 ostensibly1 at least1 ,mrs4 ,eddy's servant1 her man of all work4 ,he is her footman1 and in the livery of a footman rides upon the driver's seat of her carriage when she goeth forth for her daily drives4 ,he is also her private secretary1 who handles her mail1 and1 at his pleasure1 permits her to peruse1 or throws into the waste-paper basket1 communications addressed to ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,he is her major-domo1 master of ceremonies in her pretentious establishment and director of her large retinue of assistant secretaries1 literary experts1 personal healers1 mental protectors and domestic servants4 ,these positions ,mr4 ,frye has adorned1 as a resident member of ,mrs4 ,eddy's family1 occupying an adjoining room1 for upwards of thirty years4 ,but not only is ,mr4 ,frye ,mrs4 ,eddy's servant1 her footman1 her secretary1 her man-of-all work1 he1 strangely it would seem1 has for years at a time held the legal title to the capacious residence in which she has lived at ,concord1 ,new ,hampshire1 and to all the highly cultivated grounds about it1 and to all the personal property upon the place4 ,and not only has ,mr4 ,frye been ,mrs4 ,eddy's servant and secretary1 her footman and the owner of her lands and houses1 her horses and carriages1 the furniture within the houses1 and the crops upon the extensive acres1 he was for years the legal owner of her costly jewels1 of the diamond cross which she wore at her throat4 ,her footman1 owner of the house in which she lived1 of the carriage in which he took her to drive and of the jewels she wore6 ,this condition of affairs was not changed until ,i called attention to it a few years ago1 when ,mr4 ,frye reconveyed to1 shall ,i say ,mrs4 ,frye8 all the property standing in his name4 ,all of these circumstances1 taken with the confident opinion of one long a member of her household that1 if ,mrs4 ,eddy isn't the wife of ,frye1 she ought to be1 are to my mind strong indication that ,mrs4 ,eddy ought to be called ,mrs4 ,frye and her credulous followers not ,eddyites1 but ,fryeites or ,frytes2 and ,i predict that1 if ,frye survive ,mrs4 ,eddy and be not amply provided for by her will or settled with by her executors1 he will go into the ,probate ,court and proclaim himself to be her surviving husband1 entitled to one-third of her estate4 ,i do not state this fourth marriage as a fact1 but offer it as the only possible and creditable explanation of the facts4 ,as has been said1 ,mrs4 ,eddy has one son born to her who was totally and unfeelingly abandoned by her in his early infancy1 who lives in a western ,state1 and seldom or never visits his famous mother4 ,no member of her family ever believed in her1 ever placed the slightest credence in her preposterous pretentions4 ,mrs4 ,eddy also has an adopted son4 ,some years ago she legally adopted a male child1 a medical man named ,foster1 then forty years old1 who1 to acquire a mother by adoption1 took the name of ,e4 ,j4 ,foster-,eddy1 and became a member of ,mrs4 ,eddy's family2 but1 after a too brief period of harmonious cohabitation1 the sweet domestic relation was1 for reasons not made public1 interrupted1 and now he also finds it agreeable to live elsewhere than with his adopted mother and is heard of no more in ,christian-,science-dom4 ,from a humble position of dependence1 ,mrs4 ,eddy has arisen to a proud position of great opulence1 and from complete obscurity1 devoid of influence and power1 has placed herself at the head of the most phenomenal 8religious0 movement of this or any other time1 and made herself believed to be the ,god-anointed successor to ,jesus ,christ1 and ,his equal in attributes and power2 and this she has accomplished through a lie1 a deliberate1 wilful1 wicked lie4 ,chapter ,,iii ,pretence of ,equality with ,jesus ,coming now to what makes it worth our while to consider the career of this remarkable woman1 let me present the facts regarding her relation to the life and to the activities of the world of today1 and how and by what very devious means she has reached and maintains the position she now holds4 ,what does ,mrs4 ,eddy claim to be1 and what is she believed to be by many thousands of people who have made her their religious leader and guide1 and reverence her as the devout ,christian reverences ,christ8 ,mrs4 ,eddy claims that she is the fulfilment of ,biblical prophecy1 that she and her book are specifically referred to and prophesied in the ,book of ,revelation4 ,she says1 8,my attention is especially called to the twelfth chapter of the ,apocalypse or ,revelation of ,saint ,john1 on account of its suggestiveness in connection with this nineteenth century4 ,in this opening of the sixth seal1 there is one distinctive feature which has special reference to the present age1 and the establishment of ,christian ,science in this period4 #8,and there appeared a great wonder in heaven1 a woman clothed with the sun1 and the moon under her feet1 and upon her head a crown of twelve stars4'0 ,with eyes downcast1 with 8bated breath and whispering humbleness10 bashfully pointing to herself1 in low tones that inspire awe1 she says1 8,the woman clothed with the sun1 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy40 ,again1 she says3 8,saint ,john writes in the tenth chapter of the ,book of ,revelation3 #8,and ,i saw another mighty angel come down from ,heaven1 clothed with a cloud1 and a rainbow was upon his head1 and his face was1 as it were1 the sun1 and his feet as pillars of fire4 ,and he had in his hand a little book1 open1 and he set his right foot upon the earth4' ,is this angel1 or message from ,god1 ,divine ,science that comes in a cloud8 ,this angel had in his hand a little book open for all to read and understand4 ,then will a voice from harmony cry1 ,go and take the little book4 ,take up ,divine ,science4 ,study it1 ponder it4 ,it will be indeed sweet at its first taste when it heals you1 but murmur not over ,truth if you find its digestion bitter40 ,the 8little book10 8,science and ,health10 of ,god's authorship1 but copyrighted by ,rev4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy1 and to be had of her publisher in ,boston by any one who has three dollars or more1 according to binding1 to pay for it6 ,intentionally vague as are these oracular utterances1 we cannot but catch her evident meaning3 ,in me behold the woman clothed with the sun2 in my book1 the 8little book0 sent down from ,heaven1 and in ,christian ,science the message from ,god contained in the little book held in the hand of the angel6 ,christian ,scientists get this down without so much as a murmur6 ,this is one of the easy things she has given them to swallow4 ,besides this1 ,mrs4 ,eddy has distinctly authorized the claim in her behalf that she herself is the chosen successor to and equal of ,jesus1 that her mission is to complete the religion of ,christ4 ,in the earlier days she placed her mission above that of ,jesus1 inasmuch as the idea of ,god given by her was1 she said1 8higher1 clearer and more permanent than before40 ,but1 later1 she seems to have been satisfied with equality only1 and says1 8,the second appearing of ,jesus is unquestionably the second advent of the advancing idea of ,god as in ,christian ,science40 ,she1 however1 patronizingly points out the short-comings of ,jesus4 8,our ,master healed the sick1 practiced ,christian healing1 and taught the generalities of this divine principle to his students1 but he left no definite word for demonstrating his principle of healing and preventing disease4 ,this remained to be discovered through ,christian ,science10 and 8,had wisdom characterized all his sayings1 he would not have prophesied his own death and thereby hastened or caused it40 ,while in speaking of herself she said1 8,the works ,i have written on ,christian ,science contain absolute truth and my necessity was to tell it4 ,i was a scribe under orders1 and who can refrain from transcribing what ,god indites80 ,so wisdom did not characterize all of the sayings of ,jesus2 but ,mrs4 ,eddy speaks absolute truth6 ,in the ,christian ,science ,journal for ,april1 #ahhi1 when it was her property and published by her1 and upwards of twenty years after the time she says ,god had selected her to complete the religion of ,jesus1 it was claimed for her1 and with her sanction1 that she was equal with ,jesus1 and elaborate effort was made to establish the claim4 8,now a word about the horror many good people have of our making the author of #8,science and ,health' equal with ,jesus60 says the writer1 and in the first paragraph of the article1 the question is asked1 8,do we1 then1 say that the author of #8,science and ,health' is equal with ,jesus80 ,a little further on appears the statement1 8,jesus demonstrated over all the beliefs of this false sense of life1 even over the belief of death1 the last enemy to be overcome40 ,and further1 8,mrs4 ,m4 ,b4 ,g4 ,eddy has worked out for us1 as on a blackboard1 every point in the demonstrations1 or so-called miracles of ,jesus1 showing us how to meet and overcome the one1 and perform the other0 and1 throughout the article1 its whole clearly apparent purpose is to carry the conviction that in attributes and power ,mrs4 ,eddy is the entire equal of ,jesus4 ,in an illustrated 8poem0 entitled 8,christ and ,christmas10 written by ,mrs4 ,eddy1 and published and copyrighted by her in #ahid1 there is a picture labeled 8,christian ,unity10 in which ,jesus is represented as seated upon a stone holding the right hand of ,mary --,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy4 ,in the left hand of the woman is a scroll bearing the legend 8,christian ,science10 and about the head of each figure1 that of ,jesus and that of the ,christian ,science woman1 there is a halo4 ,the picture is illustrative of these lines on the opposite page3 8,as in blessed ,palestine's hour1 so in our age ',tis the same hand unfolds ,his ,power and writes the page40 ,at the time this book was announced by ,mrs4 ,eddy1 in ,december1 #ahic1 she publicly said of it1 8#8,christ and ,christmas' voices ,god through song and object lesson40 ,the price of the book was three dollars4 ,how convenient to be able to command a market by voicing ,god6 ,how kind ,god has been to ,mrs4 ,eddy's business ventures6 ,at the time of this publication1 ,mrs4 ,eddy1 who claimed to have shared in making the illustrations 7which her man ,hanna called 8exquisite bits of art10 but which are1 doubtless1 the vulgarest products of the art of book-making of many years71 at this time1 ,i say1 ,mrs4 ,eddy unquestionably wished this 8,christian ,unity0 illustration to signify the unity of ,christianity and ,christian ,science1 as represented by the founder of ,christianity and the founder of ,christian ,science1 and about her own head1 as about the head of ,christ1 she hangs a halo6 ,the two ,messiahs1 masculine and feminine1 and representing 8,our ,father and our ,mother ,god10 hand in hand1 absolute equality4 ,christian ,unity6 ,her private correspondence has been full of pretensions to direct meditation with ,god1 and her followers have been induced unquestioningly to comply with her wishes regarding the most trivial things because she but voiced a wish communicated to them through her by ,god4 8,god1 our ,god has just told me10 she says1 8who to recommend to you for editor of the ,christian ,science ,journal10 ,and1 8,no man or woman has told me of this obnoxious feature1 but my ,father has1 and it shall be stopped by ,his servant who has given ,his word to the world40 ,and1 8,god's law #8to feed my sheep1' to give ,science and ,health at once to those hungering for it1 must be obeyed40 7,to those hungering three dollars worth67 ,and1 8,i ought not to have consulted with man on the copyright of ,god's ,book40 ,and1 8,come to see me next ,saturday1 a4m41 on nine o'clock train1 and ,god will settle this matter40 ,and1 8,now what can ,i do1 only to spread ,his word of warning and wait for all students to grow up to understand ,his ways1 and mine when ,god directed40 ,and1 8,god will not let me be silent relative to your business here yesterday1 but demands me to answer1 reminding you of your feelings toward me40 ,and1 8,push the ,book to as fast as possible completion4 ,it is ,god's ,book1 and he says give it at once to the people40 7,at three dollars per copy67 ,and1 8,you know they cannot be made sick for printing and binding ,god's ,book40 ,but ,jove nods2 ,mrs4 ,eddy stumbles4 ,sometimes it is the ,christian ,science devil that1 impersonating ,god1 whispers to her4 8,i regret10 she says1 8having named the one ,i did to you for editor4 ,it was a mistake1 he is not fit4 ,it was not ,god evidently that suggested that thought1 but the person who suggests many things mentally2 but ,i have before been able to discriminate40 ,this incident suggests the importance of one1 who is the channel of wireless telegraphy from ,god1 being able to discriminate between messages from ,heaven and messages from ,hell1 and having the power to prevent satanic interference with the medium of communication4 ,in a late edition of 8,science and ,health0 ,mrs4 ,eddy speaks of ,jesus as 8the masculine representative of the spiritual idea10 and says1 8the impersonation of the spiritual idea had a brief history in the earthly life of our ,master1 but of ,his ,kingdom there shall be no end1 for ,christ's1 ,god's idea1 will eventually rule all nations and people1 imperatively1 absolutely1 finally1-- with ,divine ,science4 ,this immaculate idea1 represented first by man and last by woman1 will baptize with fire10 etc4 ,by 8,divine ,science10 ,mrs4 ,eddy1 of course1 means ,christian ,science1 as the terms are used interchangably with her1 and with characteristic modesty she places herself by the side of the ,master--,he being the first and masculine1 and she the last and feminine1 representative of the 8immaculate idea40 ,what marvelous presumption6 ,what ineffable audacity6 ,the ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy1 who in speaking of a woman she disliked savagely exclaimed1 8,i'd like to tear her heart out and trample it under my feet60 who1 at ,lynn1 because of her abuse of her husband and violent outbursts of temper1 was known as the 8she devil02 who1 four years after the time of her pretended selection by ,god for a divine mission1 being denied hospitality she had abused in the ,wentworth household at ,stoughton1 left in a fury of passion after having1 with obvious intent1 put live coals from her stove upon a heap of newspapers in the closet2 who figured first as a spiritualist medium1 giving public sances for money1 and later as the president of a bogus medical college issuing illegal degrees2 who unfeelingly abandoned the only child born to her1 and looked with unflinching eyes upon the detached heart of her deceased husband2 who has become the champion fraud and impostor of the age2 who in the livery of heaven has for forty years wrought in the direct interest of hell1--this ,mrs4 ,eddy1 the self-constituted representative with ,jesus of the immaculate idea6 this woman and the immaculate ,jesus mentioned in the same breath6 ,chapter ,,iv ,the ,faked ,revelation ,back in #ahgg ,mrs4 ,eddy placed her mission1 as ,i have said1 above that of ,jesus4 ,in a personal letter to a friend1 she said1 8,i know the crucifixion of one who presents ,truth in its higher aspect will be this time through a bigger error1 through mortal mind instead of its lower strata or matter1 showing that the idea given of ,god this time is higher1 clearer1 and more permanent than before40 ,but of late years she has contented herself with claiming only equality1 in all respects1 with ,jesus1 and has not hesitated boldly and in so many words to declare her teachings to have been expressly 8authorized by ,christ40 ,we must go into this matter with some particularity1 and ,i crave indulgence while ,i present certain essential details4 ,i want to leave no doubt in any orderly mind as to just what ,mrs4 ,eddy claims to be1 and shall then show1 with an abundance of evidence that will not permit of the slightest doubt1 just exactly the manner of woman she has been and is4 ,when the most corrupt tree in the orchard brings forth the sweetest and most beautiful fruit of all1 it will be believed that ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy can be the channel through which ,god has revealed ,himself to mankind1 and it will not be believed until then4 ,i am of those who believe that there can be no religion but a religion based upon revelation4 ,either ,god reveals himself to us1 or ,he remains unknown and unknowable4 8,no man by searching can find out ,god40 ,reason alone cannot attain unto ,him4 ,god hides ,himself from the wise1 and the mightiest intellect approaches no nearer to ,him than the simple mind of a child4 ,this great truth has been and is the common belief of mankind1 and every unprincipled person1 who has appealed to human credulity along religious lines1 knowing mankind to so believe1 has faked a revelation from ,god4 ,mrs4 ,eddy has put herself in a class by herself by the boldness1 the irreverence1 the recklessness1 the blasphemy of her pretended intimacy with ,god4 ,in express terms1 the founder of ,christian ,science claims to have received from the ,almighty a revelation which she has incorporated in her book entitled 8,science and ,health1 with ,key to the ,scriptures40 ,speaking of this book1 in ,january1 #aija1 she said3 8,i should blush to write of #8,science and ,health1 with ,key to the ,scriptures' as ,i have1 were it of human origin and ,i1 apart from ,god1 its author1 but as ,i was only a scribe echoing the harmonies of ,heaven in divine metaphysics1 ,i cannot be super-modest of the ,christian ,science ,text-book40 ,nothing could be plainer or more unequivocal than that4 ,there is a distinct avowal that the book entitled 8,science and ,health0 was the work of ,almighty ,god1 and1 preposterous as the claim may seem to any rational being who has ever undertaken to read the book1 slanderous as it is upon ,omniscience1 some thousands of people in the ,united ,states today believe it precisely as made4 ,they believe that ,god literally dictated the contents of this book to ,mrs4 ,eddy1 and that it is in every part as much the word of ,god as the most devout ,christian believes the ,bible to be in any part the word of ,god4 ,this is the sacrilegious lie upon which ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy has reared her whole fraudulent superstructure1 which she had denominated ,christian ,science1 and which has become the religious belief of thousands4 ,it is because of this lie that ,christian ,science flourishes like a green bay tree2 that the old faith does not hold its believers2 that real scientific knowledge in medicine is losing the confidence it ought to enjoy4 ,it is because of this lie that ,christian ,science wives separate themselves from their husbands2 that ,christian ,science mothers abandon their children2 that young women believers put marriage behind them as lustful and unclean and inconsistent with true spirituality of life and character4 ,it is because of this lie1 this cruel and wicked lie1 that children are permitted needlessly to suffer and needlessly to die without any intelligent perception that they are suffering1 and after a resolute withholding by their deluded parents of trained medical skill that would alleviate suffering and save life4 ,and this odious lie1 ,i purpose1 while strength abides with me1 to hold up to the enduring detestation of mankind4 ,i am going to show1 with absolute conclusiveness1 that ,mrs4 ,eddy's claim to revelation is wholly false4 ,and when ,i have shown that1 ,i shall have shown that the 8religious0 phase of ,christian ,science is a fraud and a sham2 ,i shall have shown that it is a veritable parody upon religion1 a caricature upon ,christianity2 ,i shall have shown that every beautiful temple erected for the worship of the ,christian ,science ,god is a monument to ,mrs4 ,eddy's success in imposing upon mankind1 and that all of the thousands upon thousands of pure and simple-minded people1 who acclaim her ,god's messenger1 are the victims of a mercenary old schemer who has amazed herself at the gullibility of her worshipers4 ,i am not dealing in exaggeration4 ,i am not speaking without knowledge when ,i say that no sane person can follow me through this narrative and not agree with me that ,christian ,science as a religion is a sham1 as a healing system is a fraud2 that it kills the sweetest and tenderest emotions in the human heart by rooting out sympathy and charity and compassion2 that there is no other hatred and vindictiveness equal to the hatred and vindictiveness of its founder and her leading votaries2 that there is no other cruelty1 no other greed that can be compared with theirs1 and that the 8inspired0 teaching of ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy regarding the most sacred institution established amongst men1 ,i refer to the institution of marriage1 is so low and so vile that decent people1 when they come to understand it1 must repudiate the woman and the thing from overwhelming shame4 ,insanity is not responsible for indecency1 but those ,christian ,scientists who have not parted with their sanity1 and are not ,christian ,scientists for revenue only1 will turn with horror from the woman and her work when they know what they are4 ,i say that ,mrs4 ,eddy's claim to having received an inspiration from ,god is fraudulent4 ,now1 what are the facts8 ,that ,god had nothing to do with ,mrs4 ,eddy's book is abundantly proven by the book itself1 to any person of sufficient understanding to be at large outside of ,bedlam4 ,who but a person of weak or disordered mind could believe that ,god is the author of this1 8,the condition of the stomach1 bowels1 food1 clothing1 etc41 is of no serious import to your child08 ,can any not absolutely insane parent believe that ,god communicated that 8absolute truth0 to ,mrs4 ,eddy8 ,again3 8,the less we know of or think about ,hygiene1 the less we are predisposed to sickness40 ,that is to say1 the more we know about how to keep well and how to avoid conditions breeding disease1 the more likely we are to be sick4 ,again3 8,treatises on anatomy1 physiology and health sustained by what is termed material law1 are the promoters of sickness and disease4 ,it is proverbial that as long as you read medical works you will be sick40 ,we have all observed the truth of this inspired utterance in the fact that the physicians1 as a body1 are almost constantly in bed of one disease or another4 ,the wonder is that any of them ever survive the courses of preparatory study4 ,again3 8,not because of muscular exercise1 but because of the blacksmith's faith in muscle1 his arm becomes stronger40 ,all one has to do to develop his biceps is to have faith that his biceps will develop1 if ,mrs4 ,eddy really speak by inspiration of ,god4 ,again3 8,you say or think because you have partaken of salt fish that you are thirsty1 and you are thirsty accordingly2 while the opposite belief would produce the opposite result40 ,that is to say1 you may partake of all the salt fish you please2 but if you persistently say and believe it cannot cause thirst1 thirst is the last sensation that will afflict you4 ,again3 8,question4 ,do not brains think and nerves feel1 and is there no intelligence in matter8 ,answer4 ,not if ,god be true and mortal man a liar40 ,in other words1 if ,god be true1 brains do not think and nerves do not feel4 ,that brains do not think1 ,mrs4 ,eddy1 when she contemplates her foolish following1 may have some reason to believe2 but she will have some difficulty in satisfying the rest of us that brains do not possess the function of thought4 ,i think1 therefore ,i am not a ,christian ,scientist4 ,again3 8,the blood1 heart1 lungs1 brain1 etc41 have nothing to do with life40 ,when this impressive passage was first presented to my darkened mind1 ,i was inclined to believe it to contain no element of truth2 but ,i am persuaded that there is a grain of truth in it4 ,i have sat in a ,christian ,science church repeatedly and have seen some thousands of people with open mouths and ecstatic expressions listening to material from the platform wholly unintelligible to those who read it and wholly unintelligible to every person in the building who heard it2 and ,i have come slowly1 very slowly and regretfully1 to the conviction that it is true1 that amongst large masses of people there are times when the brain has absolutely nothing to do with life4 ,as to the blood1 heart and lungs1 ,i am still of my early prejudice that they have something to do with life1 notwithstanding ,mrs4 ,eddy's affirmation that ,god has informed her to the contrary4 ,again3 8,gender also is a quality1 a characteristic of mind and not of matter40 ,it is all in your mind4 ,you are a man or a woman according as you think you are a man or a woman1 and not otherwise4 ,if a man thinks he is a woman1 and if a woman thinks she is a man1 that settles it2 they are4 ,again3 8,the less mind there is manifested in matter1 the better4 ,when the unthinking lobster loses his claw1 it grows again4 ,if the science of life were understood1 it would be found that the senses of mind are never lost and that matter has no sensation4 ,then the human limb would be replaced as readily as the lobster's claw40 ,this makes it plain that1 from ,mrs4 ,eddy's standpoint1 the less mind1 the better2 the less mind1 the more ,christian ,scientists2 the more ,christian ,scientists1 the more revenue2 the more revenue1 the greater glory for impostors and charlatans4 ,and1 oh1 wonder of wonders6 ,god here informs us1 if ,mrs4 ,eddy speak the truth1 that the loss of a human leg will be but a temporary inconvenience when man has advanced to the high stage attained by the wholly mindless lobster6 ,again3 8,man is the same after1 as before1 a bone is broken or a head chopped off40 ,and so1 the head follows the lungs1 and the blood1 and the heart1 and the brains1 and the stomach1 and the bowels1 as useless members of the human body1 if ,mrs4 ,eddy speak the words of truth and inspiration4 ,again3 8,that life is sustained by food1 drink1 air1 etc41 that it is organic or in the least dependent upon matter or sustained by it1 is a myth40 ,mrs4 ,eddy teaches that there is no reality in matter4 ,when she sits down at her table three times a day and puts into her immaterial and nonexistent stomach unrealities in the shape of bread and butter and beef steak and tea and coffee1 and so on1 life is sustained by the belief that the food sustains life1 and not by the food itself4 ,it would be interesting to have ,mrs4 ,eddy demonstrate in her own daily life that the partaking of what we grosser persons regard as food indispensable to the survival of the physical organism could be wholly dispensed with and life1 notwithstanding1 continue4 ,and1 finally1 and ,i commend this precious gem of truth to those of my readers who are parents1 be they fathers or mothers1 and who agree with me that the loveliest of all lovely things in the world is the wholesome baby enjoying his morning bath3 8,the daily ablutions of an infant are no more natural or necessary than would be the process of taking a fish out of the water every day and covering it with dirt1 in order to make it thrive more vigorously thereafter in its native element40 ,to bathe a baby is the same thing as to grab a fish out of the water and rub it all over with mud6 ,if it were of mere 8human origin10 ,mrs4 ,eddy would 8blush0 to deliver herself of that beautiful and 8absolute0 truth4 ,this twaddle inspired of ,god6 ,and these selections1 taken at random from ,mrs4 ,eddy's book of which1 she says1 not she but ,god was author1 are of a piece with the thing as a whole4 ,i am told1 as ,i have said1 that there are intelligent persons in ,mrs4 ,eddy's following1 and yet such things as those ,i have quoted slap intelligence in the face from every page of her book2 and her friends1 nevertheless1 persist in affirming1 8,lo1 the ,lord's anointed1 ,god's voice to this age60 8,i cannot see10 says ,mark ,twain1 8how any one contemplating ,mrs4 ,eddy's career can deny to the ,divine ,being the possession of a sense of humor40 ,god is so amused by ,mrs4 ,eddy's accomplishments that ,he is provoked to laughter1 and ,christian ,science thus escapes the consuming fire of ,divine wrath4 ,chapter ,v ,the ,fiction of ,god's ,authorship ,god1 we are told1 is without variableness or shadow of turning1 and yet1 if ,he were the author of ,mrs4 ,eddy's book1 ,he would be as changeable as a weathercock1 for the book1 throughout its numerous editions1 has in the past thirty-five years undergone continuous change and revision at the hands of the literary expert1 and the final product is so unlike the original as to be almost unrecognizable4 ,chapters have been dropped1 chapters have been added and chapters have been shifted about from one place to another1 and the book has been as coherent at the end as at the beginning of the process4 ,early editions1 with compromising contents1 have been suppressed at great expense1 and the book1 as now published1 is ,mrs4 ,eddy's work only in part4 ,she says herself that read backward it has1 in part1 as much meaning as read forward2 and those of you1 who have attempted to read it forward1 have discovered that1 so read1 it has precisely as little meaning as if read backward4 ,james ,henry ,wiggin1 an ex-,unitarian minister1 recently deceased1 was for years ,mrs4 ,eddy's literary expert1 putting all her productions1 including her book1 into good ,english1 and into as coherent a form as she would permit4 ,he wrote a sermon for ,mrs4 ,eddy to preach1 which she preached as her own1 and subsequently incorporated1 with some easily perceptible additions that conspicuously marred ,mr4 ,wiggin's work1 in her ,god-inspired book1 as a chapter entitled 8,wayside ,hints40 ,this chapter is left out of the latest editions1 but it was given to the world with the rest in the 8thirty-sixth0 edition1 as of ,god's authorship4 ,mr4 ,wiggin's story of the manner in which a sermon of his became a part of her inspired volume is not a little amusing4 ,while acting as ,mrs4 ,eddy's literary friend and guide and helper1 an edition of 8,science and ,health0 was prepared for publication1 completely written and completely set up in type and electrotyped2 but as it contained a chapter that ,mr4 ,wiggin regarded as in the nature of a libel upon several living persons1 who were referred to and attacked by name1 he endeavored to prevent the publication until that chapter had been eliminated4 ,as the whole book had been electrotyped1 the fifteen pages composing this chapter could not be taken out1 unless fifteen others were inserted in their place1 without involving new plates of all the succeeding pages1 and a large consequent expense4 ,so the publication was withheld1 until in some manner fifteen pages could be furnished in substitution for the objectionable chapter4 ,just at this time it happened that ,mr4 ,wiggin prepared a sermon for ,mrs4 ,eddy to preach4 ,he attended the service at which the sermon was delivered by ,mrs4 ,eddy as her own composition1 although she read it from a manuscript furnished by him4 ,as ,mrs4 ,eddy attempted to read without spectacles1 which she never used in public and always used in her private intercourse with ,mr4 ,wiggin1 her rendering of the sermon was1 in ,mr4 ,wiggin's opinion1 halting and ineffective1 and it irritated him not a little that a production of his should be subjected to such handling in public4 ,but after the service was over1 ,mr4 ,wiggin1 walking down the aisle to speak with ,mrs4 ,eddy1 on every hand heard exclamations of approval in more or less superlative terms4 8,wasn't it grand6 ,wasn't she inspired today6 ,how beautiful her sermons are60 and so on1 until ,mr4 ,wiggin's irritation was quite allayed1 and he concluded ,mrs4 ,eddy had not done badly after all4 ,reaching the platform1 ,mrs4 ,eddy leaned over and whispered1 8,how did it go off80 8,splendidly10 said ,mr4 ,wiggin1 8,i have an idea40 8,what is it80 inquired ,mrs4 ,eddy4 8,this sermon is just what we need for those fifteen pages4 ,all of these people have heard you preach it today1 it will be assumed that you wrote it1 and it will just about fill the space we want to fill in the book1 and the publication need be no longer delayed40 8,fine idea60 said the preacher of ,mr4 ,wiggin's sermon4 8,will you make it fit in those fifteen pages1 so it can just take their place80 ,he said he would4 ,he did1 and it appeared as a chapter entitled 8,wayside ,hints10 in the thirty-sixth and some later editions4 ,many a time have ,i heard ,mr4 ,wiggin say1 with a chuckle of amusement1 that it was a source of much mirth to him to hear from time to time ,mrs4 ,eddy's devotees exclaim1 with pious earnestness1 that the chapter he had written1 at so much per word1 was the very most divinely-inspired portion of the divine volume4 ,mrs4 ,eddy does not hesitate to declare herself the authorized interpreter of the ,bible1 authorized expressly by ,christ himself4 ,the rules of the ,christian ,science organization and the 8,mother ,church0 were all formulated by ,mrs4 ,eddy as under divine guidance1 and she reaches so far into the proceedings of the so-called branch churches all over the land as to dictate every detail of the religious services1 and has required that every so-called sermon in a ,christian ,science church shall be preceded by the following declaration3 8,the canonical writings1 together with the word of our text-book her book 8,science and ,health01 corroborating and explaining the ,bible texts in their spiritual import and application to all ages1 past1 present and future1 constitute a sermon undivorced from truth1 uncontaminated and unfettered by human hypotheses1 and authorized by ,christ40 ,that is either true or false4 ,if it is true1 all mankind should know it4 ,if it is false1 it is as wicked a falsehood as was ever told4 ,having lectured to immense crowds upon ,christian ,science from one end of this country to the other1 ,i have repeatedly had occasion to demand of official ,christian ,scientists in the audience1 especially first readers1 so called1 in ,mrs4 ,eddy's churches1 who as such had read the declaration ,i have just quoted1 standing face to face with them1 that they arise and give some scintilla of warrant or authority for the making of the declaration that ,mrs4 ,eddy's book was 8authorized by ,christ0 as an interpretation of the ,bible2 but ,i have never had the slightest response1 for the reason1 of course1 that no evidence can in any form be produced of the truth of this declaration falsely formulated and by her sacrilegiously required to be publicly read at every ,sunday service in every ,christian ,science ,church4 ,all of these official ,christian ,scientists know that this declaration is without warrant1 all of them know it is utterly false2 and ,mrs4 ,eddy herself makes it1 deliberately knowing it to be untrue1 knowing that she has and can produce no scrap of any kind of warrant for it1 and she makes it and compels its repetition in her churches only to carry out her fraud and imposition that there is a sacred character to1 and a ,christian warrant for1 her utterly bogus 8religion40 ,this1 ,i think1 is one of the most audacious things this utterly unprincipled woman in her whole career has dared to do2 and ,i cannot conceive of any real ,christian entertaining toward her1 because of it1 feelings other than those of pronounced resentment and indignation4 ,nothing but an insane mind1 a degenerate mind or a mind possessed of an overmastering passion to perpetrate a monstrous fraud upon the human race could1 with the aid of the literary expert1 have written 8,science and ,health10 and then have declared ,god to be its author2 and no one but an utterly irreligious1 irreverent1 wicked person could invent the fiction of ,christ's authorization and compel its promulgation at 8religious0 services4 ,but ,mrs4 ,eddy has done precisely these things and her followers believe her irreverent and audacious claims4 ,truly1 8,the absurdity the human race can't swallow1 hasn't been invented yet60 ,after ,eddyism it may be assumed1 ,i think1 that man's greatest ingenuity is unequal to the invention of an absurdity so immense as to exceed human gulpability4 ,the more monstrous it is1 the more eagerly it is clutched2 and the more unintelligible it is1 the greater is the certainty that it must have emanated from the ,all-wise4 ,but let me do ,mrs4 ,eddy full justice4 ,i think ,i have read everything she has written1 and one sentence does indeed stand out vividly by itself1 a solitary and perfect star of purest ray serene4 ,apropos of her basic contention 7upon which the whole ,christian ,science superstructure rests1 and without which it would fall to the ground7 that there is no sensation in matter1 she deprecates the spanking of children1 because1 she wisely says1 8the use of the rod is virtually a declaration to the child's mind1 that sensation belongs to matter40 ,impossible as ,i have found it to reach the understanding of ,christian ,scientists by arguments addressed to their intelligence1 ,i strongly incline to the idea that the spanking process would be likely to induce more or less vague impressions that sensation does actually reside in the material of which these living bodies are composed2 and ,i respectfully submit that it would seem to follow that the most effective way of reaching ,mrs4 ,eddy's childish followers and curing them of their strange distemper would be the considerate1 not too vigorous1 application1 all around1 after the manner of the old woman who lived in a shoe1 of the corrective maternal slipper4 ,chapter ,,vi ,a ,sham 8,religion0 ,mrs4 ,eddy describes herself1 and has made her followers believe her to be1 the 8discoverer and founder of ,christian ,science40 ,it is very easy to disprove her claim to discovery1 and to show her foundation stones to have been theft and falsehood and fraud4 ,as a pretended 8religion0 it is all hers1 and no one else lays claim to it2 as a mental healing system1 it is none of it hers and her pretensions to originality are wholly fictitious4 ,let it be remembered1 always1 that on the first page of her book1 8,science and ,health10 as published in #ahih1 and in many other editions1 ,mrs4 ,eddy makes her claim to originality and revelation in the following unequivocal terms3 8,in the year #ahff ,i discovered the science of metaphysical healing and named it ,christian ,science4 ,god had been graciously fitting me during many years for a final revelation of the absolute principle of scientific mind healing40 ,if1 prior to #ahff1 ,god had been 8graciously fitting0 her during many years for the 8final revelation10 it appears that1 years afterwards1 ,god's work was not quite completed and her character entirely sublimated4 ,some of her friends in ,lynn1 in #ahha1 fifteen years after the date of her alleged revelation1 became of the opinion that she was not1 even then1 absolutely perfect and withdrew from her church there1 giving1 in writing1 as their reason1 8her departure from the straight and narrow road which alone leads to growth of ,christ-like virtue1 made manifest by frequent ebullitions of temper1 love of money and the appearance of hypocrisy40 ,how accurate was this early estimate of the woman as shown by every known act of her life6 ,the writer of the series of articles in ,mc,clure's ,magazine on ,christian ,science told me she had heard the criticism that it contained only the bad things about ,mrs4 ,eddy1 and she had been asked why she had not incorporated such good things as might be said of her4 ,she assured me she had searched the whole of ,mrs4 ,eddy's life for a kindly1 a generous1 an unselfish1 a fine womanly deed1 and would have been only too glad to have recorded it1 but had not found one--not one such act in the long life of more than fourscore years4 ,mrs4 ,eddy claims discovery1 and commits herself not only as to the time of her 8discovery10 but as to the manner of it1 and each claim1 that of discovery1 that of the time and that of the manner1 is wholly and demonstrably false4 ,in ,october1 #ahfb1 ,mrs4 ,mary ,m4 ,patterson 7now ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy7 placed herself in the hands of ,dr4 ,phineas ,p4 ,quimby of ,portland1 ,maine1 for treatment1 with the result described by herself over her own signature in the ,portland ,evening ,courier1 of ,november #g1 #ahfb1 as follows3 8,three weeks ago ,i quitted my nurse and sickroom en route for ,portland4 ,the belief of my recovery had died out of the hearts of those who were most anxious for it4 ,with this mental and physical depression1 ,i visited ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby1 and in less than one week from that time ,i ascended by a stairway of one hundred and eighty-two steps to the dome of the ,city ,hall1 and am improving ad infinitum4 ,this truth which he opposes to the error of giving intelligence to matter and placing pain where it never placed itself1 if received understandingly1 changes the currents of the system to their normal action and the mechanism of the body goes on undisturbed4 ,that this is a science capable of demonstration1 becomes clear to the minds of those patients who reason upon the process of their cure4 ,the truth which he establishes in the patient1 cures him 7although he may be wholly unconscious thereof71 and the body1 which is full of light1 is no longer in disease40 ,this was ,mrs4 ,patterson-,eddy's professed understanding of ,dr4 ,quimby's 8science10 in #ahfb1 after having been three weeks under his treatment1 and any one familiar with ,christian ,science will not need to be told that it is the same thing4 ,this 8truth10 which ,mrs4 ,patterson-,eddy in #ahfb said ,quimby opposed to the 8error0 of placing intelligence in matter and which1 when established in the patient1 cured him1 is the very same 8truth0 which in her book1 with tireless iteration1 ,mrs4 ,eddy opposes to the very same alleged 8error10 which thereupon effects the same alleged 8cure40 ,every 8,scientist0 will at once recognize the ,a ,b ,c of 8divine science40 ,dr4 ,quimby1 who is spoken of by a lady1 who knew him well at the time ,mrs4 ,patterson-,eddy was taking his treatment and stealing his system1 as a man of 8absolute sincerity and purity of thought and life10 died in ,january1 #ahff1 and ,mrs4 ,eddy1 then ,mrs4 ,patterson1 not having conceived the plan of appropriating to herself the ideas and theories she had learned from him1 almost immediately after his death wrote and published some verses about him1 in which she compared ,quimby with ,jesus4 ,she now speaks of him as a vulgar mesmerist or magnetic healer whose scribblings she put into grammatical form2 she then1 in #ahff1 glorified him as the ,christian glorifies only the ,saviour4 ,these verses1 as here presented1 are copied from a copy in ,mrs4 ,eddy's own handwriting1 now in the possession of ,mrs4 ,sarah ,crosby of ,waterville1 ,maine1 to whom1 in #ahff1 upon the death of ,dr4 ,quimby1 she sent them3 8,lines on the ,death of ,dr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby1 who ,healed the ,sick as did ,jesus1 in contradistinction to all ,isms4 8,did ,sack-cloth clothe the sun1 and day grow night1 ,all matter mourn the hour with dewy eyes1 ,when ,truth receding from our mortal sight1 ,had paid to error her last sacrifice8 8,can we forget the power that gave us life8 ,shall we forget the wisdom of our way8 ,then ask me not amid this mortal strife-- ,this keenest pang of animated clay1 8,to mourn him less6 ,to mourn him more were just1 ,if to his memory 'twere a tribute given ,for every earnest1 solemn1 sacred trust1 ,delivered to us ere he rose to ,heaven4 8,heaven but the happiness of his calm soul1 ,growing in stature to the throne of ,god2 ,rest should reward him who hath made us whole1 ,seeking1 'tho tremblers1 where his footsteps trod40 ,m4 ,m4 ,patterson4 ,comment cannot add to the force of these verses4 ,inferior as poetry1 they constitute proof and argument not all the falsehoods and sophistries in the imagination of ,mrs4 ,eddy and her corps of official defenders can meet and overcome4 ,in #ahff1 ,mrs4 ,eddy reverently declared that ,dr4 ,quimby had 8healed the sick as ,jesus did20 today speaking slightingly of the good old man1 she says1 8his healing was never considered anything but mesmerism40 ,then she gratefully acknowledged that he had made her 8whole02 now she says that his mesmeric treatment gave her but slight1 temporary relief4 ,then1 not having contemplated the great theft1 she spoke of the 8earnest1 solemn1 sacred trust0 delivered to her and others by the trustful man2 now she repudiates him altogether1 and denies that she received any helpful suggestion from him4 ,then she spoke of herself as 8seeking1 though a trembler1 where his footsteps trod20 now she scornfully says1 8,i used to take his scribblings and fix them over for him and give him my thoughts and language which1 as ,i understand it1 were far in advance of his40 ,can anything ,mrs4 ,eddy says be believed1 after this8 ,could ingenuity contrive a more violent contradiction in human speech8 ,standing absolutely alone1 would anything more be needed to convict her1 out of her own mouth1 of the basest ingratitude and the most reckless fraud8 ,but this is only one of a thousand items in the accumulated proof6 ,if ,christian ,science healing is1 as ,mrs4 ,eddy and all other ,christian ,scientists claim1 a revival of the method employed by ,jesus1 then ,mrs4 ,eddy here1 in her own handwriting1 admits that she learned it from ,quimby4 ,there is no possible escape from one horn or the other of the dilemma--either it is not ,christian1 or it is not ,mrs4 ,eddy's4 ,it requires even less intelligence than ,mrs4 ,eddy's friends bring to bear upon her teachings to comprehend the conclusiveness of this demonstration4 ,mrs4 ,eddy did not discover the ,christian ,science method of attempting to heal4 ,let me make this a little clearer by demonstrating the falsity of her story as to the manner in which she made the discovery4 ,dr4 ,quimby died on ,january #af1 #ahff1 and the first day of ,february1 #ahff1 ,mrs4 ,patterson-,eddy1 then living in ,swampscott1 a suburb of ,lynn1 fell upon the icy sidewalk and injured herself2 and she now fixes upon her alleged miraculous recovery from this injury as the precise way in which she made her great discovery and received her revelation4 ,in a sketch1 published by her concern1 ,the ,christian ,science ,publishing ,society of ,boston1 and endorsed and approved by her as an authorized statement1 is the following account of how ,mrs4 ,eddy discovered ,christian ,science3 8,the manner of the discovery has been vividly described4 ,in company with her husband1 she was returning from an errand of mercy1 when she fell upon the icy curbstone1 and was carried helpless to her home4 ,the skilled physicians declared that there was absolutely no hope for her1 and pronounced the verdict that she had but three days to live4 ,finding no hope and no help on earth1 she lifted her heart to ,god4 ,on the third day1 calling for her ,bible1 she asked the family to leave the room4 ,her ,bible opened to the healing of the palsied man1 ,matt4 ix4 #b4 ,the truth which set him free she saw4 ,the power which gave him strength she felt4 ,the life divine which healed the sick of the palsy restored her1 and she rose from the bed of pain healed and free40 ,in her autobiography1 8,retrospection and ,introspection10 she says3 8,it was in ,massachusetts1 ,february1 #ahff1 and after the death of the magnetic doctor1 ,mr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby1 whom spiritualists would associate therewith1 but who was in no wise connected with this event1 that ,i discovered the science of ,divine ,metaphysical healing1 which ,i afterward named ,christian ,science4 ,the discovery came to pass in this way4 ,during twenty years prior to my discovery ,i had been trying to trace all physical effects to a mental cause2 and in the latter part of #ahff ,i gained the scientific certainty that all causation was ,mind1 and every effect a mental phenomenon4 8,my immediate recovery from the effects of an injury caused by an accident1 an injury that neither medicine nor surgery could reach1 was the falling apple that led me to the discovery how to be well myself and how to make others so4 8,even to the homeopathic physician who attended me1 and rejoiced in my recovery1 ,i could not then explain the modus of my relief4 ,i could only assure him that the ,divine ,spirit had wrought the miracle1 a miracle which later ,i found to be in perfect ,scientific accord with divine law40 ,unfortunately for her reputation for veracity and fortunately for the truth of history4 ,dr4 ,alvin ,m4 ,cushing1 the physician who attended ,mrs4 ,eddy1 or ,patterson1 upon this particular occasion1 is still living and as an honored member of the profession is now practising in ,springfield1 ,mass4 ,dr4 ,cushing expressly1 and under oath1 denies that he at any time believed or said that ,mrs4 ,patterson was in a critical condition1 or that there was no hope for her1 or that she had but three or any other limited number of days to live1 and he1 with great positiveness1 says that she did not1 on the third day or any other day of her illness1 say1 or suggest1 or pretend1 or in any way whatever intimate that she had miraculously recovered or been healed1 or that1 discovering or perceiving the truth of the power employed by ,christ to heal the sick1 she had1 by it1 been restored to health1 and he further says that1 on the contrary1 on the third day and later days of this illness1 he himself gave her medicine1 and again in ,august of the same year called upon her four or five times and gave her medicine4 ,dr4 ,cushing still has his record book in which he1 at the time1 recorded each visit1 every symptom and every particular of his treatment4 ,it must be a peculiar type of mind that can believe ,mrs4 ,eddy's story of this illness and recovery1 after having the disinterested version of the attending physician4 ,there is no reason why ,dr4 ,cushing's version should be doubted4 ,there is no reason whatever why ,mrs4 ,eddy's should be believed4 ,but ,mrs4 ,eddy herself furnishes1 as usual1 the most conclusive evidence of the falsity of this story of her miraculous cure4 ,her inventive faculty has ever been more remarkable than her memory1 and what she has forgotten contradicts her4 ,on 8the third day10 according to her latest version1 she 8arose from the bed of pain1 healed and free10 but in a letter dated ,february #ae1 #ahff1 two weeks after the accident and while she was still suffering from its effects1 she complained that she was then 8slowly failing10 and implored ,mr4 ,julius ,dresser1 to whom the letter was written1 to help her4 ,here is her story of the incident as written at the time3 ,lynn1 ,feb4 #ae1 #ahff4 8,mr4 ,dresser1-- 8,sir3 ,i enclose some lines of mine in memory of our much-loved ,friend1 which perhaps you will not think over-wrought in meaning1 others must of course4 8,i am constantly wishing that you would step forward into the place he has vacated4 ,i believe you would do a vast amount of good1 and are more capable of occupying his place than any other ,i know of4 8,two weeks ago ,i fell on the sidewalk and struck my back on the ice and was taken up for dead1 came to consciousness amid a storm of vapors from cologne1 chloroform1 ether1 camphor1 etc41 but to find myself the helpless cripple ,i was before ,i saw ,dr4 ,quimby4 8,the physician attending said ,i had taken the last step ,i ever should1 but in two days ,i got out of my bed alone1 and will walk1 but yet ,i confess ,i am frightened1 and out of that nervous heat my friends are forming1 spite of me1 the terrible spinal affection from which ,i have suffered so long and hopelessly4''' ,now can't you help me4 ,i believe you can4 ,i write this with this feeling3 ,i think ,i could help another in my condition1 if they had not placed their intelligence in matter4 ,this ,i have not done and yet ,i am slowly failing4 ,won't you write me if you will undertake for me if ,i can get to you8''' 8,respectfully1 8,mary ,m4 ,patterson40 ,not to comment upon the singularity of the administration of chloroform and ether to an unconscious person1 it sufficeth to call attention to the manner in which again ,mrs4 ,patterson contradicts ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,she furnishes the most effective kind of corroboration of ,dr4 ,cushing1 and the whole thing is clearly seen to be an invention1 so far as any unusual or peculiar or miraculous features are concerned4 ,it is clear that ,mrs4 ,eddy did not discover ,christian ,science in the manner claimed4 ,so much for that particular1 and particularly silly perversion of the truth1 and invention of the fictitious4 ,mrs4 ,eddy has herself made it especially easy to prove her revelation to be a fraud and has supplied us with a form of proof especially convincing4 ,it is conceivable that a claim to revelation1 however intrinsically idiotic1 might be made1 the legal disproof of which might be difficult2 but if ,i today say ,god revealed something to me a year ago1 and if you find many persons of excellent character who tell you that three1 four1 five1 six and seven months ago ,i openly1 by word of mouth1 and in writing1 times without number1 admitted having learned the whole thing from ,john ,smith1 it will be impossible to believe that ,god revealed it to me and to me alone4 ,this is precisely the case with ,mrs4 ,eddy and her ,christian ,science 8religion40 ,her oft-repeated admissions of appropriation disprove her 8revelation0 completely4 ,absolutely conclusive evidence of the fraudulent character of ,mrs4 ,eddy's claim to originality1 either by discovery or revelation1 has come to light1 and any one1 who will take the trouble to examine it1 will have no difficulty in arriving at positive certainty in the matter4 ,now1 remembering ,mrs4 ,eddy's claim to discovery by revelation from ,god in #ahff1 let us see what she was doing in #ahfg1 #ahfh1 #ahfi and #ahgj1 the years immediately following her alleged discovery4 ,some years ago ,i delivered an address in ,boston upon ,christian ,science that was extensively reported in the newspapers1 and a day or two following the delivery of the lecture a gentleman called at my office and introduced himself as ,horace ,t4 ,wentworth of ,stoughton1 ,mass4 ,he asked me if ,i knew that in #ahfh1 #ahfi and #ahgj ,mrs4 ,eddy had lived with his mother1 ,mrs4 ,sally ,wentworth1 at ,stoughton4 ,i assured ,mr4 ,wentworth that ,i had not heard of it1 and asked him what she was doing while there4 8,why1 she was teaching my mother ,dr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby's system of mental healing10 said ,mr4 ,wentworth1 8and ,i have in my pocket my mother's copy of the manuscript from which ,mrs4 ,eddy taught40 ,mr4 ,wentworth pulled the manuscript out of his pocket and handed it to me4 ,it was entitled1 on the front page1 8,extracts from ,dr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby's ,writings40 ,i glanced through the manuscript and discovered that it was copiously corrected and interlined in ,mrs4 ,eddy's handwriting and contained an introduction signed by her name4 ,perusal of it showed it to be in every particular precisely the same thing as ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,christian ,science teachings regarding the cure of disease4 ,this was a most interesting discovery1 and ,i carefully investigated the whole situation1 made several trips to ,stoughton for the purpose1 and talked with many residents of the place who had known ,mrs4 ,eddy well1 and were perfectly familiar with her history while there4 ,i subsequently procured the whole story in writing1 under oath1 by those who knew it personally4 ,since then1 others following my published accounts1 have detailed the ,stoughton episode and ,mc,clure's ,magazine published it in full4 ,it appears that in #ahfg1 ,mrs4 ,eddy1 then ,mrs4 ,patterson1 went to ,stoughton to live4 ,she had separated from her second husband1 ,daniel ,patterson1 and not having then married her third husband1 ,eddy1 called herself1 and was known by the name of her first husband1 ,mary ,m4 ,glover4 ,mrs4 ,glover first lived at ,stoughton with one ,hiram ,crafts1 and taught ,crafts from manuscript a system of mental healing she told ,crafts she had learned from ,dr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby4 ,after learning it1 ,crafts undertook to practise it and had announcements printed and circulated declaring his system to have been the discovery of ,dr4 ,quimby4 ,but ,mrs4 ,glover and ,mrs4 ,crafts did not seem to find one another's society especially enjoyable1 and for a time1 ,mrs4 ,crafts left ,mrs4 ,glover in possession4 ,in #ahfh1 upon the invitation of ,mrs4 ,sally ,wentworth1 ,mrs4 ,glover moved to the ,wentworths' house at ,stoughton1 where she continued to live until #ahgj4 ,mrs4 ,eddy's writings will be searched in vain for any reference to ,mrs4 ,wentworth1 or to the fact that she spent about three years in the ,wentworths' house at ,stoughton2 but1 in characteristic fashion1 she hides the facts under this obscure and oracular utterance3 8,i then 7#ahff71 withdrew from society1 about three years1 to ponder my mission1 to search the ,scriptures1 to find the ,science of ,mind that should take the things of ,god and show them to the creature1 and reveal the great ,curative ,principle1 ,god40 ,mrs4 ,wentworth invited ,mrs4 ,glover to live with her and teach her the ,quimby science of mind healing1 and that is what ,mrs4 ,glover did during the three years she was a member of ,mrs4 ,wentworth's family4 ,she 8pondered her mission10 etc41 by avowedly teaching ,dr4 ,quimby's alleged science of mind healing1 and she gave ,mrs4 ,wentworth a copy of her1 ,mrs4 ,glover's1 manuscript copy of ,quimby's writings4 ,this copy of ,mrs4 ,eddy's copy of what she then said were ,quimby's writings1 in ,mrs4 ,wentworth's handwriting and containing corrections and interlineations in the handwriting of ,mrs4 ,glover-,eddy1 is the manuscript now in the possession of ,mrs4 ,wentworth's son1 ,horace ,t4 ,wentworth of ,stoughton1 ,mass4 ,during ,mrs4 ,glover's sojourn at ,mrs4 ,wentworth's1 the household consisted1 besides ,mrs4 ,wentworth and her guest1 of her husband1 ,mr4 ,alanson ,c4 ,wentworth1 and their two children1 ,lucy and ,charles ,o4 ,wentworth4 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,wentworth died in #ahhb1 but ,lucy and ,charles ,o4 and ,horace ,t4 ,wentworth are still living1 and they1 with their cousin1 ,mrs4 ,catherine ,i4 ,clapp1 who was much at their house during ,mrs4 ,glover's visit1 have stated the facts under oath and in such a manner that they must be believed4 ,lucy ,wentworth1 now ,mrs4 ,arthur ,l4 ,holmes1 was about seventeen years of age when ,mrs4 ,glover left her mother's house4 ,mrs4 ,holmes1 who still lives at ,stoughton1 says that she well remembers ,mrs4 ,glover's visit1 and that she was teaching her mother a system of mental healing she said she had learned from ,dr4 ,quimby4 8#8,it wasn't safe for anybody to say anything to me against ,mrs4 ,glover1' says ,mrs4 ,holmes4 #8,she spent all her time teaching my mother her new science4 ,i was around her constantly1 would rather be with her than with any one else1 and ,i often used to hear her say1 8,i learned this from ,dr4 ,quimby40 ,it is one of the distinct recollections of my childhood4'0 ,charles ,o4 ,wentworth1 now of ,avon1 ,mass41 says he1 too1 well remembers ,mrs4 ,eddy's visit during the years #ahfh1 #ahfi and #ahgj1 and that he many times heard her say she had learned her mental science from ,dr4 ,quimby4 ,he says she avowed it openly1 and always spoke of it as ,dr4 ,quimby's system4 ,horace ,t4 ,wentworth1 who was married and so not living at home with his parents1 but who was often at their house1 adds his positive testimony4 ,he says3 8,never at any time during the years she was at our house1 from #ahfh to #ahgj1 did ,mrs4 ,glover give the slightest hint that any one other than ,dr4 ,quimby had had any share in the origin of the system of mental healing she was teaching my mother4 ,it could not then have entered her mind to claim it for herself4 ,that was an afterthought4 ,i heard ,mrs4 ,glover over and over again say she got it all from ,quimby40 ,mrs4 ,clapp's statement is even more specific than the others4 ,she is own cousin to the ,wentworths and frequented their house at the time ,mrs4 ,glover was visiting them1 and knew that ,mrs4 ,glover was teaching ,mrs4 ,wentworth the ,quimby system4 ,when ,mrs4 ,clapp was recently asked if she had ever heard ,mrs4 ,glover-,eddy say that she learned her system from ,dr4 ,quimby1 she replied3 8,yes1 and ,i am not likely to forget it4 ,it is fixed in my memory by a very reprehensible proceeding of my own4 ,you see1 ,mrs4 ,glover used to say this to everybody who came in4 ,she wasn't content with mentioning once or twice that she had learned this from ,dr4 ,quimby1 she repeated it so often that we girls got deadly tired of hearing it4 8,now ,mrs4 ,glover not only said it to the point of wearying us1 but she had a peculiar way of saying it1 and ,i am ashamed to say that ,i used to mock her--,i1 a young lady grown1 who ought to have known better than to make fun of a person so much older4 8,she always tried to be very gracious to everybody and she tried so hard that it gave her graciousness a ridiculous touch4 ,she would fold her hands softly in her lap1 smile gently1 nod her head slowly at almost every word1 and say in a sweet voice1 #8,i learned this from ,dr4 ,quimby and he made me promise to teach it to at least two persons before ,i die4' 8,well1 this tiresome iteration1 always with the same emphasis and the same exaggerated graciousness1 used to excite the derision of the girls1 and when ,mrs4 ,glover wasn't in hearing1 ,i would take her off4 ,i would say1 #8,i learned this from ,dr4 ,quimby1' etc41 at the same time nodding my head with a great exaggeration of ,mrs4 ,glover's gentle inclination1 and putting tremendous emphasis on the words she emphasized1 and wearing a fixed smile4 8,i know it was an awful thing to do10 added ,mrs4 ,clapp1 penitently1 8especially for a grown-up girl1 but it used to make my cousins laugh and that made me feel that ,i had done something clever4 ,anyway1 you see how it has fixed it on my memory40 ,mrs4 ,clapp well remembered seeing ,mrs4 ,wentworth copy ,mrs4 ,glover's copy of ,dr4 ,quimby's writing4 8,i once went to the ,wentworths' to get something10 she said1 8and ,mrs4 ,wentworth was busy copying this manuscript4 ,i went to the buttery to get what ,i wanted1 but couldn't find it1 and called ,mrs4 ,wentworth4 ,she got up to get it for me1 but before doing so she put ,mrs4 ,eddy's copy of the ,quimby manuscript in the desk and locked it4 ,i suppose ,i looked surprised that she should take such pains when she was only stepping across the room1 for a moment1 and she noticed my look1 and said1 #8,mrs4 ,glover made me promise never to leave this manuscript even for a moment without locking the desk4'0 ,while ,mrs4 ,wentworth was copying the ,quimby manuscript1 ,mrs4 ,clapp was employed by ,mrs4 ,glover to copy a manuscript of her own for publication4 ,this manuscript contained the first expression of the ideas subsequently given to the world by ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,when the book was completed1 ,mrs4 ,glover paid ,mrs4 ,clapp for the work and took it to ,boston1 but could not get a publisher to accept it4 ,mrs4 ,clapp was quite familiar with the appearance of the ,quimby manuscript from seeing ,mrs4 ,wentworth copying it--she was ,mrs4 ,wentworth's niece--and also from seeing ,mrs4 ,glover take it out to correct some of the work which ,mrs4 ,clapp was doing4 ,that would happen in this way4 ,mrs4 ,clapp would complete the copying of a page of ,mrs4 ,glover's book4 ,mrs4 ,glover would appear to be dissatisfied with it2 she would take from her desk the original ,quimby manuscript1 the one from which ,mrs4 ,wentworth had been copying1 and compare this original with the work ,mrs4 ,clapp had done4 ,then she would tear up ,mrs4 ,clapp's page and write it all over again1 consulting the ,quimby manuscript as she did so1 and ,mrs4 ,clapp would have the copying to do over again4 ,the unmistakable inference was that ,mrs4 ,eddy was making her book out of the ideas contained in the original ,quimby manuscript4 ,mrs4 ,clapp1 with the irreverence of girlhood1 had scant respect for the weighty ideas contained in the ,quimby-,glover book1 and there was one particular idea which she used to scoff at and make fun of to her intimates4 ,it was to this effect3 8,the daily ablutions of an infant are no more natural or necessary than would be the process of taking a fish out of water every day and covering it with dirt to make it thrive more vigorously thereafter in its native element40 ,years afterward1 ,mrs4 ,clapp picked up a copy of 8,science and ,health10 and opened it to this identical sentence which had so often excited her girlish derision4 ,it is on page #da1 edition of #ahih4 ,when ,mrs4 ,wentworth died1 in #ahhb1 and the property was divided1 the son ,horace laid claim to the copy of the ,quimby manuscript4 ,he wanted it because it was in his mother's handwriting 7with the exception of ,eddy's corrections71 and it would be a souvenir of her4 ,he kept it with no other thought until now4 8,but of late years10 said ,mr4 ,wentworth1 8as ,i have seen the amazing spread of this delusion1 and the way in which men and women are offering up money and the lives of their children to it1 ,i have felt that it is a duty ,i owe to the public to make it known4 8,i have no hard feelings against ,mrs4 ,eddy1 no axe to grind1 no interest to serve1 ,i simply feel that it is due the thousands of good people1 who have made ,christian ,science the anchorage of their souls and its founder the infallible guide of their daily life1 to keep this no longer to myself4 ,i desire only that people who take themselves and their helpless children into ,christian ,science shall do so with a full knowledge that this is not a divine revelation1 but simply the idea of an old-time ,maine healer40 ,it may be assumed then1 as proven1 that as in #ahfh1 #ahfi and #ahgj ,mrs4 ,glover 7,eddy7 was teaching a system of mental healing she1 at the time1 said she had learned from ,dr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby1 she couldn't have discovered it herself in #ahff4 ,it now becomes interesting to know if there is any similarity between what we may call ,quimbyism and ,christian ,science1 between the teaching of ,mrs4 ,glover-,eddy in #ahgj and her teaching now4 ,on the outside1 this ,quimby-,glover manuscript is entitled1 8,extracts ,from ,doctor ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby's ,writings10 and at the head of the first page1 on the inside1 it is further entitled1 8,the ,science of ,man1 or ,the ,principle ,which ,controls all ,phenomena40 ,there is a preface of two pages with ,mary ,m4 ,glover's name signed at the end4 ,the 8,extracts0 are in the form of fifteen questions and answers1 covering about thirty large pages1 and are labeled1 8,questions by ,patients and ,answers by ,dr4 ,quimby40 ,the document contains an elaboration of ,dr4 ,quimby's mental healing system as taught by ,mrs4 ,eddy1 by her own acknowledgment1 as late as #ahgj4 ,the contents of this ,quimby-,glover manuscript having been communicated to ,mr4 ,george ,a4 ,quimby of ,belfast1 ,maine1 son of ,dr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby1 he says1 having compared it with his father's writings in his possession1 that it is a precise copy of them4 ,he further says that an opportunity was afforded ,mrs4 ,eddy to copy his father's writings1 as his father was accustomed to lend his manuscript to his patients1 one of whom ,mrs4 ,eddy was4 ,a perusal of this manuscript in comparison with ,mrs4 ,eddy's 8,science and ,health0 shows1 that every basic idea of ,christian ,science as a healing system was bodily appropriated by her from ,dr4 ,quimby's manuscripts and not obtained1 as she says1 by revelation from ,god4 ,as contained in the manuscript and as taught by ,dr4 ,quimby1 there was no suggestion of a religious character to his teachings2 the religious phase was an afterthought of ,mrs4 ,eddy's1 as a means of facilitating the sale and distribution of her profit-yielding1 copyrighted and 8inspired0 writings4 ,it may be here remarked that1 at the outset1 ,mrs4 ,eddy especially deprecated the giving to ,quimbyism1 or ,christian ,science1 a religious character1 as ,i shall hereafter show in more detail1 and she goes so far as to criticise the disciples of ,jesus for founding1 as she says1 religious organizations and church rites4 ,thus1 at first1 healing was the only phase of ,christian ,science4 ,the religious feature was a subsequent invention4 ,quimbyism1 as contained in ,mrs4 ,wentworth's copy of ,mrs4 ,glover's copy of ,dr4 ,quimby's 8,science of ,man10 as revised and corrected in ,mrs4 ,glover's own handwriting1 is compared with ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,christian ,science as contained in her 8,science and ,health0 in the following parallel passages from the two4 ,a glance will show ,dr4 ,quimby's system of mental healing1 as taught by ,mrs4 ,glover1 later ,mrs4 ,eddy1 in #ahgj1 to be no other than the 8,science of ,metaphysical ,healing0 that ,mrs4 ,eddy1 formerly ,mrs4 ,glover1 now says was revealed to her in #ahff3 ,quimby3 ,from ,quimby's 8,science of ,man10 as ,expounded by ,mrs4 ,eddy at ,stoughton1 #ahfh-fi-gj4 8,if ,i understand how disease originates in the mind and fully believe it1 why cannot ,i cure myself80 ,disease being made by our belief or by our parents' belief or by public opinion1 there is no one formula of argument to be adopted2 but every one must fit in their particular case4 ,therefore it requires great shrewdness or wisdom to get the better of the error40 4444 ,eddy3 ,from ,mrs4 ,eddy's 8,science and ,health10 the ,text-,book of the 8,christian ,science0 ,she now ,claims to have ,discovered in #ahff4 8,disease being a belief1 a latent delusion of mortal mind1 the sensation would not appear if this error was met and destroyed by ,truth40--,page #fa1 edition of #ahih4 8,science not only reveals the origin of all disease as wholly mental1 but it also declares that all disease is cured by mind40--,page #fb1 edition of #ahih4 ,quimby3 8,i know of no better counsel than ,jesus gave to ,his disciples when ,he sent them forth to cast out devils and heal the sick1 and thus in practice to preach the ,truth1 #8,be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves4' ,never get into a passion1 but in patience possess ye your soul1 and at length you weary out the discord and produce harmony by your ,truth destroying error4 ,then it is you get the case4 ,now if you are not afraid to face the error and argue it down1 then you can heal the sick40 ,eddy3 8,when we come to have more faith in the ,truth of ,being than we have in error1 more faith in spirit than in matter1 then no material conditions can prevent us from healing the sick and destroying error through ,truth40--,page #cfg1 edition of #ahih4 8,we classify disease as error1 which nothing but ,truth or ,mind can heal40--,page #dbg1 edition of #ahih4 8,discord is the nothingness of error4 ,harmony is the somethingness of ,truth40--,page #agb1 edition of #ahih4 ,quimby3 8,the patient's disease is in his belief40 8,error is sickness4 ,truth is health40 ,eddy3 8,sickness is part of the error which ,truth casts out40--,page #dgh1 edition of #ahih4 ,quimby3 8,in this science the names are given2 thus ,god is ,wisdom4 ,this ,wisdom1 not an ,individuality but a principle1 embraces every idea form1 of which the idea1 man1 is the highest1--hence the image of ,god1 or the ,principle40 ,eddy3 8,god is the principle of man2 and the principle of man remaining perfect1 its idea or reflection--man--remains perfect40 --,page #dff1 edition of #ahih4 8,man was and is ,god's idea40--,page #bca1 edition of #ahih4 8,man is the idea of divine principle40--,page #dga1 edition of #ahih4 8,what is ,god8 ,jehovah is not a person4 ,god is principle40--,page #afi1 edition of #ahha4 ,quimby3 8,understanding is ,god40 ,eddy3 8,understanding is a quality of ,god40--,page #ddi1 edition of #ahih4 ,quimby3 8,all sciences are part of ,god40 ,eddy3 8,all science is of ,god40--,page #eac1 edition of #ahih4 ,quimby3 8,truth is ,god40 8,there is no other ,truth but ,god40 8,god is ,wisdom40 8,god is ,principle40 ,eddy3 8,truth is ,god40--,page #ahc1 edition of #ahih4 8,truth1 ,god1 is not the ,father of error40--,page #dfi1 edition of #ahih4 ,quimby3 8,wisdom1 ,love and ,truth are the ,principle40 ,eddy3 8,how can ,i most rapidly advance in the understanding of ,christian ,science8 ,study thoroughly the letter and imbibe the spirit4 ,adhere to its divine ,principle1 and follow its behests1 abiding steadily in ,wisdom1 ,love1 and ,truth40--,page #dia1 edition of #ahih4 ,quimby3 8,error is matter40 8,matter has no intelligence40 8,to give intelligence to matter is an error which is sickness40 8,matter has no intelligence of its own1 and to believe intelligence is in matter is the error which produces pain and inharmony of all sorts2 to hold ourselves we are a principle outside of matter1 we would not be influenced by the opinions of man1 but held to the workings only of a principle1 ,truth1 in which there are no inharmonies of sickness1 pain1 or sin40 8,for matter is an error1 there being no substance1 which is ,truth in a thing which changes and is only that which belief makes it40 8,christ was the ,wisdom that knew ,truth dwelt not in opinion and that matter was but opinion that could be formed into any shape which the belief gave to it1 and that the life which moved it came not from it1 but was outside of it40 ,eddy3 8,matter is mortal error10--,page #afi1 edition of #ahha4 8,the fundamental error of mortal man is the belief that matter is intelligent40--,page #abb1 edition of #ahha4 8,laws of matter are nothing more or less than a belief of intelligence and life in matter1 which is the procuring cause of all disease2 whereas ,god1 ,truth1 is its positive cure40--,page #abg1 edition of #ahha4 8,there is no life1 truth1 intelligence1 or substance in matter40--,page #dfd1 edition of #ahih4 ,it will be seen that every idea contained in this last passage1 ,mrs4 ,eddy's famous 8scientific statement of being10 the mental repetition of which constitutes ,christian ,science 8treatment10 is taken from ,dr4 ,quimby's writings4 ,this paralleling of ,eddyism1 or ,christian ,science1 with ,quimbyism shows that1 as late as #ahgj1 ,mrs4 ,eddy professed to have learned from ,quimby1 that error is sickness2 that belief is sickness2 that discord is sickness2 that there is no life1 truth1 intelligence1 or substance in matter2 that matter is error2 that the belief of intelligence in matter is the cause of all disease2 that ,truth is ,god2 that there is no other truth but ,god2 that ,god is ,principle2 that ,wisdom1 ,love and ,truth are ,principle2 that ,truth is health and cures sickness2 that harmony1 by destroying disharmony1 cures disease2 and1 finally1 that all disease originates in mind and is cured by mind alone4 ,and this is the sum total1 the beginning and the end1 of that strange thing ,mrs4 ,eddy calls ,christian ,science1 as it is contained and set forth in her book1 8,science and ,health40 ,if the founder of ,christian ,science could be expected to give a candid answer to a plain question1 might not some such respectful inquiry as the following at this point be pertinently propounded3 ,if ,mrs4 ,patterson1 or ,mrs4 ,glover1 afterwards ,mrs4 ,eddy1 in #ahfh1 #ahfi and #ahgj openly avowed that the 8scientific mind healing0 she then taught was the discovery of ,dr4 ,p4 ,p4 ,quimby1 when and how did ,mrs4 ,eddy1 formerly ,mrs4 ,patterson and ,mrs4 ,glover1 discover that she had discovered it herself in #ahff8 ,but the question will not be answered for the reason that the sworn evidence of the ,wentworths and ,mrs4 ,clapp1 together with the paralleling of ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,christian ,science of today with her version of ,quimbyism of #ahgj shows1 as clearly as words can show anything1 that ,mrs4 ,eddy's claim to having received1 in #ahff1 a final revelation from ,god1 who for many years had been fitting her to receive it1 is an invention1 a fiction1 a fraud1 a lie that for wickedness and cruelty surpasses any lie ever invented by hypocrisy and greed4 ,the only person living who can meet this testimony and answer it is ,mrs4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy4 ,her newspaper puppets of the 8,publication ,committee0 knew nothing about her at the time to which it relates4 ,they have no knowledge whatever of the facts stated4 ,they will affirm or deny anything they are told to affirm or deny2 but their principal has maintained and will maintain discreet silence4 ,she will not venture to deny that she wrote the letter to the ,portland ,courier1 that she wrote the verses upon ,dr4 ,quimby glorifying him as a second ,jesus1 that she lived at the ,wentworths' house during the years #ahfh1 #ahfi and #ahgj1 and that she then taught from a copy of ,quimby's writings a mental healing system she then said she had learned from him4 ,mrs4 ,eddy is bold1 but not so bold as to give the lie direct to the sworn statements of ,horace ,t4 ,wentworth1 ,catherine ,isabel ,clapp1 ,lucy ,holmes and ,charles ,o4 ,wentworth1 all highly respected residents of the town of ,stoughton4 ,mrs4 ,eddy will dare much2 but she will hardly dare to dispute the evidence furnished by her own hand4 ,and silence is confession1 and confession is acknowledgment of theft and falsehood and fraud1 and hypocrisy beyond comparison4 ,not upon such stones did the ,jesus ,christ1 ,whom ,mrs4 ,eddy professes to emulate1 construct the religion that bears ,his name2 and there can be no greater irreverence than ,mrs4 ,eddy's calling her pretended religion 8,christian10 and no greater absurdity than her calling it 8,science40 ,my purpose in showing ,dr4 ,quimby's authorship of ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,christian ,science is to establish the falsity of her claim that ,god revealed it to her4 ,the thing itself1 as ,dr4 ,quimby's1 is of no greater weight and of no more consequence than as ,mrs4 ,eddy's4 ,dr4 ,quimby and ,mrs4 ,eddy were evidently upon the same intellectual plane1 both uneducated and crude4 ,he was a good and sincere and unselfish and trustful man1 and she appropriated his ideas4 ,they knew nothing of philosophy nor of science1 and whether ,christian ,science be his or hers is of slight importance1 except as the establishment of his authorship proves her to be the author of a fraud whose large proportions and successful workings challenge the kind of admiration one feels for the criminal whose great crime proves him to be a man of immense mental fertility and of profound understanding of human weakness4 ,when it is said that ,mrs4 ,eddy stole her system from ,dr4 ,quimby and then falsely pretended that she received it by revelation from ,god1 her only response has been that the matter has been adjudicated by the courts1 and it has been definitely settled that the charge is false4 ,the adjudication in the courts had no bearing whatever upon this charge4 ,one ,edward ,j4 ,ahrens1 a ,german adventurer1 at one time an intimate of ,mrs4 ,eddy's1 published copious extracts from her book1 and1 having been sued by her for infringement of copyright of her revelation and having failed to make any defense1 the court adjudged his publications infringements of her copyright4 ,i am not aware that anyone has pretended that ,mrs4 ,eddy did not write 8,science and ,health0 in its crudest1 original form1 and is not entitled to the protection of copyright upon the book1 but the fact that the court has decided that she is entitled to the protection of copyright1 is no answer to the charge that certain claims and pretensions made in the book are false4 ,the copyright1 in her case1 simply means that no one else has a right to publish her lies without her consent4 ,to the simple minded1 it may seem a little peculiar that ,mrs4 ,eddy should insist upon exclusive rights to publish and sell1 by procuring copyright1 a book of which she says1 not she1 but ,god1 was author and which she calls 8,god's ,book10 at a profit1 not to ,god1 but to her1 of #ejj per cent2 but1 as in the case of her three hundred dollar fee for twelve or seven lessons1 to which ,i shall presently call attention1 the worldly wisdom of her course has appeared in multitudinous ways1 likewise multitudinous dollars6 ,it would seem like a waste of time to contend that ,god is not the author of 8,science and ,health20 that ,god1 the ,all-wise1 the ,all-loving1 the ,all-powerful1 did not wait nineteen hundred years after the death of ,christ to complete the revelation of ,himself made through ,jesus2 that of all the personalities who have lived upon this earth since the time of ,jesus1 the one selected by ,god to lead the world unto ,him should be this uncultivated and vulgar woman1 whose variegated career has been somewhat presented1 and whose whole energies have been devoted to utilizing her pretended revelation for pecuniary profit4 ,i say1 it would seem to be an utter waste of time1 were it not for the pathetic fact that thousands--sixty or seventy thousands--perhaps more--of the people of this country believe that ,almighty ,god so acted4 ,it now being perfectly clear that ,mrs4 ,eddy did not1 as she says1 receive ,christian ,science by revelation from ,god1 she clearly has no warrant for pretending it to be a religion4 ,as a religion1 ,christian ,science is the shallowest fraud and imposture4 ,it has no conceivable right to the name 8,christian10 and every one of the beautiful churches erected in its honor is a monument simply to ,mrs4 ,eddy's deception and hypocrisy and lies and to the limitless gullibility of the human race1 and every one of the many thousands of sincere and simple-minded people who at its services lift up their hearts in worship to ,god are the victims of an old woman's insincere1 mercenary appeal to their religious feelings4 ,no sane person can have followed this narrative thus far and not agree with me that1 as a religion1 there is no warrant for ,christian ,science1 and those who will continue to the end will further agree with me that1 as a healing system1 it is just as fraudulent2 that it kills the sweetest and tenderest emotions in the human heart by rooting out sympathy1 charity and compassion2 that there is no other hatred and vindictiveness equal to the hatred and vindictiveness of its founder and her leading votaries2 that there is no other cruelty1 no other greed1 that can compare with theirs2 that the so-called malicious animal magnetism1 the witchcraft feature1 is as wicked an invention as the human mind ever conceived1 and that its attempted use for veritable assassination is as devilish as anything that could possibly emanate from the depths of hell2 and1 finally1 that the inspired teaching of the three-or-four-times-married ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy1 regarding the most sacred and fundamental institution established among men1 ,i refer to the institution of marriage1 is so low and so vile that self-respecting people1 when they come to understand it1 must repudiate it from overwhelming shame4 ,insanity is not responsible for indecency2 but those ,christian ,scientists who have not parted with their sanity1 and are not in ,christian ,science for revenue only1 will turn with horror from the woman and her work1 when they know precisely what they are4 ,surely one may be pardoned some warmth of indignation at the assumptions of this vulgar adventuress1 this mercenary charlatan6 ,it is difficult to think of them without impatience2 it is impossible to speak of them without anger4 ,chapter ,,vii ,a ,bogus ,healing ,system ,of course the successor to and equal of ,jesus must perform miracles1 and ,mrs4 ,eddy has a stock of miracles on hand suited to the large1 the very large1 the extraordinarily large1 swallowing capacity of those who ache for something real hard to take in and digest4 ,nothing could be too hard for her worshipers1 and she gives free rein to her inventive faculty in suiting the miracle to the need4 ,mrs4 ,eddy has ever been noted for her modesty1 her retiring disposition and proneness to underestimate herself and her powers4 8,has ,mrs4 ,eddy lost her power to heal80 she asks1 and with characteristic bashfulness and self-depreciation she replies1 8,has the sun forgotten to shine and the planets to revolve around it80 ,sooner shall the light of the sun pale1 sooner the planets fly from their orbits1 than ,mrs4 ,eddy part with her power to heal6 ,so great was the healing influence that radiated from her personality that she sometimes healed unconsciously4 8,it was not an uncommon occurrence in my own church10 she says1 8for the sick to be healed by my sermons4 ,many pale cripples went into the church leaning on crutches1 who went out carrying them on their shoulders40 ,what an inestimable blessing it would be1 if a person possessing such power should make a visit to the hospital in ,boston for crippled children1 and preach a little sermon there to the young unfortunates6 ,mrs4 ,eddy has but to step into her automobile and in twenty minutes she may be at this hospital1 and by putting forth the power she says she has and healing the pale little cripples1 as she says she has healed others1 bring the whole world to her feet4 ,in a letter to a friend written in ,march1 #ahif1 she says over her autograph1 but speaking of herself1 as she often does1 in the third person3 8,while ,mrs4 ,eddy was in a suburban town of ,boston she brought out one apple blossom on an apple tree in ,january1 when the ground was covered with snow2 and in ,lynn demonstrated in the floral line some such small things40 ,that isn't so remarkable as if an orange blossom had been brought out on the apple tree 7as it would doubtless have been if ,mrs4 ,eddy had thought of it71 but it was quite an accomplishment1 nevertheless4 ,mrs4 ,eddy's 8treatment10 probably of the 8absent0 variety1 sent a summer's warmth through the earth's frozen surface and tingling with animation the sap in the roots sent it by leaps and bounds through the trunk into the ice-laden branches1 and1 presto6 a tender1 pink-white blossom1 pushing its way through the ice1 appeared4 ,mrs4 ,eddy is too reticent and too diffident4 ,why does she not tell us of the other equally well authenticated occasion upon which she brought out a few stars in the sky when the sun was at high noon1 and 8demonstrated0 in the astronomical line some such large things4 ,i have called certain of ,mrs4 ,eddy's representations lies1 and the word 8lie0 is a very disagreeable word4 ,it is bad enough to have to use it in characterization of the utterances of a man2 but it is still worse to apply it in all its brutality to a woman4 ,i have endeavored to find another word1 meaning precisely the same thing1 that isn't so intrinsically offensive2 but there is no other word that suits my purpose and the occasion as does this word 8lie10 and so ,i am compelled to adhere to it1 even at the risk of being charged with lack of gallantry in my attitude toward a woman4 ,gallantry really has nothing to do with my undertaking4 ,truth and lies are sexless1 and the only question is1 has ,mrs4 ,eddy told the truth8 ,but further word about lies4 ,there are some lies that are not so bad as other lies1 and there have been lies that have called forth commendation4 ,i recall in that wonderful story1 ,victor ,hugo's 8,les ,miserables10 the incident of the lie told by the ,sister ,superior of the convent in order to save from the brutal grasp of the law incarnate1 as represented by ,javert1 the sublime personality of the transformed ex-convict1 and ,hugo's beautiful eulogy of that lie and that woman3 8,oh1 holy woman1 it is many years since you were upon this earth2 you have rejoined in the light you sister1 the virgins1 and your brothers1 the angels2 may that falsehood be placed to your credit in ,paradise60 ,there are lies arising merely out of a tactful wish to spare people's feelings1 and there are the little white lies of social life that nobody especially reprobates2 but there are lies that are intrinsically of an infamous character1 and ,i can conceive of no falsehood more infamous than that which1 proceeding from a wholly mercenary motive1 is deliberately planned and put forth in order to alienate people from a religion in which is the hope of salvation and immortality1 and from a scientific medical system in which is the hope of bodily health and life4 ,these are the precise kind of lies of which this woman is most prolific1 and which she distributes most lavishly4 ,the passage ,i am now to quote is taken from a communication signed by ,mrs4 ,eddy and published by her in the ,new ,york ,sun for ,december #af1 #ahih1 and it contains the boldest and wickedest of these most bold and most wicked lies4 ,in this letter ,mrs4 ,eddy said3 8,i challenge the world to disprove what ,i hereby declare4 ,after my discovery of ,christian ,science1 ,i healed consumption in its last stages1 that the ,m4,d4's1 by verdict of the stethoscope and the schools1 declared incurable1 the lungs being mostly consumed4 ,i healed malignant tubercular diphtheria and carious bones that could be dented by the finger1 saving them when the surgeon's instruments were lying on the table ready for their amputation4 ,i have healed at one visit a cancer that had so eaten the flesh of the neck as to expose the jugular vein so that it stood out like a cord40 ,she manufactured new lungs1 offhand4 ,she healed carious bones1 instantaneously4 ,she put forth the divine power ,god had conferred upon her1 and at one visit healed that most frightful of all diseases1 a malignant cancer4 ,this statement is either true or false4 ,if it is true1 the whole world should know it1 for its truth would prove ,mrs4 ,eddy to have the power to triumph over death1 and when the king1 or the queen1 of death shall come to earth1 all knees will touch the ground4 ,no one can love another very much and not be willing to go upon his knees before the man or the woman who can protect that loved one forever from the hand of death2 and ,i should want to be the very first to prostrate myself in all humility and gratitude before the conqueror of death4 ,and if1 on the other hand1 ,mrs4 ,eddy's statement is false1 absolutely false1 a fiction made out of whole cloth1 then it is important that such falsity should be clearly shown1 and shown throughout the world that all mankind may know the wickedness of her falsification4 ,i affirm1 and shall show1 it to be false in every particular4 ,mrs4 ,eddy's statement gives no names1 dates1 localities1 nor any substantial thing to enable any one to investigate any of these professed miracles1 and every effort to induce her to particularize ended1 as always1 in failure4 ,there would have been as much1 and as little1 sense in a challenge to the world to disprove the green-cheese hypothesis of the structural composition of the moon4 ,in the issue of the ,sun of ,january #a1 #ahii1 ,dr4 ,charles ,a4 ,l4 ,reed1 a prominent physician of ,cincinnati1 published a challenge to ,mrs4 ,eddy to prove the truth of her miraculous cures4 ,he offered to furnish her cases identical with those she said she had healed1 and he said that1 if she would heal any one of them1 he would proclaim her omnipotence from the housetops2 and if she would cure all or half of them1 he would cheerfully crawl upon his knees that he might but touch the hem of her garment4 ,but dumbness possessed ,mrs4 ,eddy from that time forth4 ,probably she didn't want to be glorified from the housetops2 she didn't wish to have any mere medical man crawling at her feet4 ,as ,mrs4 ,eddy furnishes no specifications1 it is impossible1 of course1 to meet her allegations in the ordinary way2 but ,i purpose1 nevertheless1 to satisfy every intelligent mind that there is not an atom of truth in her professed miracles4 ,if you have the power over life and death here claimed by ,mrs4 ,eddy1 when do you employ it8 ,you employ it1 do you not1 when some one you greatly love is suffering1 when some one dear to you is approaching the grave8 ,if you have the power to save human life1 you save the life1 first of all1 of those whom you most love2 and if you know those you dearly love to be suffering torture from frightful disease and that1 if the progress of the disease is not stopped1 the hand of death will inevitably snatch them1 if you know these things and put forth no particle of power1 make no effort to allay the suffering or stay the progress of the disease1 then it becomes clear that you have no such power1 or that you are a monster of inhumanity1 does it not8 ,this is the case with ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,if she has had the power she claims1 she has the most unfeeling heart that ever beat in a human breast2 for she has never put forth the power to save those she most loved as they stood on the very edge of the grave4 ,in the summer of #aijb1 there died in the city of ,boston1 after seven years of illness1 ,mrs4 ,mary ,ann ,baker1 the widow of ,mrs4 ,eddy's deceased brother1 ,samuel ,baker4 ,the relations between the sisters-in-law had1 for years1 been most cordial1 and ,i have seen and read ,mrs4 ,eddy's autograph letters in which she professed1 only a few days before her sister's death1 the greatest affection for her4 ,mrs4 ,baker's disease1 of which ,mrs4 ,eddy from the beginning to the end was fully informed1 was cancer of the breast1 and her suffering during the seven years of illness from that awful disease may be better imagined than described4 ,at ,mrs4 ,eddy's request1 ,mrs4 ,baker had submitted to ,christian ,science 8treatment10 the healer selected by ,mrs4 ,eddy being ,mrs4 ,janette ,e4 ,weller1 a close friend of ,mrs4 ,eddy and her confidential representative in ,boston2 but ,mrs4 ,baker derived no benefit from it whatever1 and died in the care of ,dr4 ,h4 ,s4 ,dearing of ,boston4 ,from one end of the country to the other ,i have asked ,christian ,scientists this question3 ,if ,mrs4 ,eddy1 for hire1 had healed1 at one sitting1 a cancer that had so eaten into the neck of a stranger that the jugular vein stood out like a cord1 why1 ,i ask1 why in the name of ,god1 did she not1 for her love's sake1 stay the progress of the loathsome disease that for seven years ate into the breast of the sister she loved8 ,until ,mrs4 ,eddy or one of her professed disciples has answered that question1 let her not look for followers amongst people who know of this incident and have hearts2 for she hadn't the power or she hadn't the wish to save her sister1 and the want of power would prove the baseness of her falsehoods1 as the want of a wish would prove the adamantine quality of her heart4 ,if ,mrs4 ,eddy possessed this miraculous power1 why did she permit her third husband to die of heart disease by her side1 when one treatment of hers would have saved him8 ,why did she not reach out her all-powerful hand and save her own granddaughter1 the child of her only son1 when piteous appeal to her was made by the child's father8 ,why1 instead of putting forth the slightest personal effort1 did she recommend the employment of a ,boston healer1 so called1 a retired sea captain1 one ,joseph ,eastaman by name1 to give absent treatment in ,boston to the poor girl dying in ,south ,dakota8 ,imagine a retired sea captain sitting in his office in ,boston1 closing his eyes1 placing his aged hand upon his vacant forehead and trying to think health and life into ,mrs4 ,eddy's granddaughter nearly two thousand miles away6 ,if ,mrs4 ,eddy could have saved her own flesh and blood and did not1 what must have been the condition of that thing ,mrs4 ,eddy calls her heart8 ,who that has human feeling in his heart would not give his life for his child or his grandchild8 and this woman1 posing as the successor to and as like unto ,him who said1 8,suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not1 for of such is the kingdom of ,heaven10 and claiming to have performed miracles equal to any ascribed to ,him in the ,gospels1 did absolutely nothing to save the life of her granddaughter6 ,if ,mrs4 ,eddy had been the miracle worker she claims to have been1 why did she turn poor1 devoted ,mrs4 ,leonard1 herself a renowned healer of the cult1 who had slaved in her household for years1 and had for months and years been dying of diabetes under her very eyes--why did ,mrs4 ,eddy turn ,mrs4 ,leonard out of the house at ,concord1 ,new ,hampshire1 shortly before her death of that distressing disease8 ,was it because ,mrs4 ,eddy didn't wish the striking discredit of her professed powers that would follow ,mrs4 ,leonard's death upon the ,eddy premises8 ,having the power to save her life1 as she claims1 all ,mrs4 ,eddy did for ,mrs4 ,leonard was to ask her1 when death became imminent1 to be so good as to go away and die elsewhere4 ,mrs4 ,eddy estimates values in terms of dollars and cents1 and yet1 possessing the mastery over death1 she put forth no effort to save the life of ,joseph ,armstrong1 her close friend of many years1 a director in her church from its foundation1 her personal business manager who had made a fortune for her1 and yet departed this life of pleurisy with effusion in the summer or fall of #aijg4 ,if ,mrs4 ,eddy could save any human life1 she would have saved this one1 so pecuniarily precious above all other lives to her4 ,if she had such marvelous power1 why did she allow her personal coachman1 the man who had sat on the seat of her carriage as she took her daily drive1 to die in her house of a disease of which he had been 8completely cured0 by ,christian ,science8 ,why did she let her close1 personal friend1 her leading lecturer and proselyter1 ,edward ,e4 ,kimball1 die in the prime of life and at the height of his usefulness to her cause8 ,why has she turned a deaf ear to the prayers that have been addressed to her by broken-hearted parents who have so often journeyed to her home to beg her to exert her ,god-like power to save from the grave their dying child8 ,why has she for thirty years and more refused to even try to heal any one1 to attempt to allay any pain however fearful1 or save any human life however beautiful and however precious8 ,if ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy has the power she boldly claims to have1 and if she has wrought the miracles she says she has wrought1 she has that power1 then1 ,i say1 she has the heart of a very fiend2 for not once in thirty years has she consented to try1 out of ordinary humanity1 to prevent suffering or to save life4 ,the truth is1 ,mrs4 ,eddy's miraculous cures are all frauds1 every one of them1 and the failure of attempted healings would prove them to be frauds1 and she does not wish to so discredit herself4 ,she never healed any one of any serious disease4 ,she never in her life had any curative power whatever1 and she has been wise indeed not to advertise the fact by attempting to cure4 ,her man1 ,alfred ,farlow1 the official1 highly paid and carefully coached spokesman of her cult1 and its leading press agent1 admitted1 in response to my questioning and when testifying recently under oath and subject to cross examination1 that he did not know of any cure ever having been made by ,mrs4 ,eddy of any organic disease in her life1 but stiff leg2 and he said that1 in his understanding as a high practitioner of the ,christian ,science art of healing1 a stiff leg is an organic disease4 ,when ,i entered upon my investigation of the matter1 ,i believed in the reality of some of the professed cures of ,christian ,science1 even of organic disease1 but closer acquaintance with the subject has satisfied me that they are1 without exception1 false pretensions or honest delusions4 ,i have known of the most honest1 but erroneous1 belief in cure by ,christian ,science1 ,i have known people so resolutely to deny to themselves the reality of disease1 that they have come to believe in its unreality2 and one case has come to my notice of a poor woman's insistence with her dying breath that she had been healed of an incurable disease and was then perfectly well1 while her death within a few hours was the sad witness to the delusive character of her 8cure40 ,perhaps the most impressive case of this delusive cure of incurable disease is that of the ,earl of ,dunmore4 ,he was ,christian ,science's show convert4 ,his personality was always in the foreground1 he always sat in the front row upon the platform and his name was always in the papers4 ,in ,march1 #aijg1 he published in the ,cosmopolitan ,magazine an account of his conversion to ,christian ,science1 which was due1 he said1 to his having been healed by it of a disease an eminent ,london surgeon had pronounced incurable4 ,the ,earl of ,dunmore1 when he published that article1 doubtless believed it was true4 ,he was perfectly sincere1 but his death1 within a few weeks after the publication of his conversion through cure1 his death of the very disease pronounced incurable by the ,london doctor1 was pathetic and convincing testimony to his mistaken opinion that he had been cured and to the accuracy of the medical diagnosis that his disease was incurable4 ,again and again the most persistent effort has been made to induce ,christian ,science healers to give some reasonable proof of their powers2 but they as persistently refuse to submit any alleged cures to anything like scientific scrutiny4 ,there has never been a scientifically established ,christian ,science cure4 ,the 8healers0 confess that they are1 nay even boast that they are1 incompetent to diagnose disease4 ,if they can't determine the presence of disease1 how then can they determine its cure8 ,mrs4 ,eddy herself goes so far as to say that ignorance of all departments of the science of medicine is an aid in the cure of disease1 according to her system4 ,what value then is to be attached to anything any of them say about disease1 if they are completely ignorant concerning it8 ,and it being a fundamental article of their faith to deny the reality of disease1 how can they admit its reality1 however manifest in their patients1 without stultifying themselves8 ,is it not superlatively absurd to be in the slightest degree influenced by anything any of these monomaniacs1 or fakers1 can possibly say upon a subject of which they openly profess to know1 and boast that they know1 absolutely nothing8 ,besides1 and let me emphasize this statement1 there is not a ,christian ,science healer1 in good and regular standing anywhere in the world1 who tells the truth1 or tries to tell the truth1 or could tell the truth if he tried4 ,they know that suffering is real1 they know disease is real1 they know that death is the most positive of all realities1 and yet they perpetually affirm the unreality of all these things4 ,every former healer1 who has reformed1 or recovered his sanity and given up pretending to heal by denying the reality of a condition he is attempting to change1 will tell you he lied perpetually when practising so-called ,christian ,science2 for to admit the reality of disease or suffering or death1 however confident of its existence1 is to deny the faith and pronounce ,mrs4 ,eddy to be a fraud4 ,let me here1 parenthetically1 call attention to another phase of this thing4 ,not only are these unrealities proclaimed1 but the reality of sin is in like manner denied4 ,if sin is unreal1 to commit sin is nothing1 and no iniquity is so great as to be morally reprehensible4 ,there is no such thing as morality or immorality1 if sin is unreal2 and any one who proclaims the unreality of sin1 if he have any influence in the community1 is about as harmful a member of society as can exist4 ,the denial of suffering and death1 the denial of poverty and sin1 have had a markedly observable effect in ,christian ,science circles in drying up the springs of the sweetest and tenderest of human feelings4 ,if none of these things really exist1 there can be no occasion for charity1 for compassion1 for sympathy1 and to give expression to any of these sentiments is to admit the reality of the things ,mrs4 ,eddy affirms to be unreal4 ,one cannot be a ,christian ,scientist and have in his heart the ,christ-like emotions of sympathy and charity and compassion4 ,it is said that the faces of ,christian ,scientists wear a perpetual smile4 ,it is the stereotyped smile of affected cheerfulness and it covers a heart from which the most humane and attractive qualities have been1 as nearly as may be1 rooted out4 ,but to return to the healers4 ,i know a woman who was a successful healer for fifteen years and as conscientious as any of them1 and she is now frank enough to say that she never healed any one of any real disease or serious indisposition in all that time1 and doesn't know of any other healer who did4 ,they simply fool themselves and their patients by denying the reality of disease so long as there is breath in the body1 and when death occurs and actually confronts them1 they deny the reality of death4 ,could absurdity further go8 ,perhaps it is due to their belief in the unreality of death1 that they permit no funerals in their churches2 perhaps1 also1 it may be due to their unwillingness1 from a business standpoint1 to admit that ,christian ,scientists1 young and old1 die just as do the benighted people who have not bowed down to ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,surely1 if the healings of ,christian ,scientists were realities1 once a convert would mean always a convert2 but it is a fact that people are coming out of ,christian ,science as rapidly as they are going in1 and the more intelligence they have the more quickly they abandon the thing when they come to understand what it is4 ,if you are all right in the region of the brain and all right in the region of the heart1 you won't tarry very long in the ,christian ,science camp4 ,i know many ex-,christian ,scientists who denounce it as roundly as ,i do and declare it to be a fraud in all its aspects4 ,i could name hundreds of people1 formerly zealous followers of ,mrs4 ,eddy1 who now repudiate her with scorn and contumely4 ,would they do this if she were in fact the miracle worker she claims to be1 and if ,christian ,science were in fact the sovereign antidote to sickness1 sin and death8 ,the following is taken from a letter recently received from a gentleman of exceptional intelligence3 8,i have been connected with that church for five years and have lately had my eyes opened to the most cold-blooded skin game conceivable under the guise of a religion4 ,having conducted a ,christian ,science sanitarium for three years1 ,i am in possession of facts unknown to any but ,christian ,scientists1 and to only a few of the inner circle of grafters4 ,i was a student of medicine at ,harvard in the #gjs1 am a ,b4,a4 of the ,university of ,new ,brunswick1 ,canada1 and ought to have known better--but there are others40 ,christian ,science is a 8skin game0 and the powers that be in ,christian ,science are the 8inner circle of grafters06 ,strange language this to be applied to a 8religion0 and its leading officials by a former believer2 but it is precisely as former ,christian ,scientists1 men and women1 speak of the thing and the people they have repudiated4 ,cures of real or imaginary illness are sometimes effected in very extraordinary ways4 ,being recently in ,san ,francisco1 ,i talked with a friend1 a lawyer1 there who had gone through the experience of the earthquake4 ,the house in which he was born and in which he lived was burned to the ground after its contents had been dragged out and heaped up upon a vacant lot1 and he turned from his law office1 his library shelves crowded with books1 no one of which he had an opportunity to save from the devastating flames4 ,the experience was an intensely distressing and exhausting one4 ,for two days and two nights he did not get a wink of sleep4 ,prior to the earthquake and fire1 he had been a constant sufferer from the most excruciating headaches4 ,not a headache has he had since6 ,cured by earthquake6 ,i talked with another gentleman1 and he told me that his mother-in-law had been bedridden for five years1 and not once in that time had put her foot upon the floor4 ,she had not attempted to walk because she was positive she was unable to walk and her death was daily expected4 ,as the flames approached the region of her residence1 my friend and his wife started off in different directions to find some form of conveyance to carry their mother to a place of safety1 and when they returned1 in about an hour1 she had vanished4 ,unaided1 she had gotten up1 dressed herself1 and walked between two and three miles6 ,cured by conflagration6 ,marvelous cures these1 almost in the nature of miracles2 and yet even a ,christian ,scientist would smile disdainfully if earthquake and conflagration were seriously prescribed for headache and paralysis4 ,no doubt people have recovered of illness while under ,christian ,science treatment2 just as they have when under no treatment2 but the ,christian ,science inane treatment was no more the cause of the recovery than was the absence of treatment of any kind4 ,there is a great deal of delusive sickness1 which is easily cured by a putting away of the delusion1 and there was never yet any1 but a delusive1 cure by ,christian ,science of an organic disease-- not one4 ,will ,mrs4 ,eddy and all her healers and followers throughout the world be able to add one moment1 one breath1 to the life of ,mrs4 ,eddy herself1 when the hour of her death has arrived8 ,no1 deny the reality of disease and death as they may1 it comes to them one and all1 just as to others1 when the angel of death approaches and beckons from the darkness that closes upon their drooping eyes4 ,i am sure that there can be no doubt in any honest1 clear-thinking mind that has followed me thus far1 that all of these monstrous and irreverent pretensions of the leader and founder of ,christian ,science are wholly false1 and ,i am equally confident that ,i shall establish in the mind of those who go with me to the end of my showing1 that ,mrs4 ,eddy's frauds have had their incentive in a purely mercenary motive2 that she has claimed to have received a revelation from ,god and equality with ,jesus and the performance of miracles for the purpose alone of fooling people into placing an extraordinary value upon her valueless teachings for which she has made extortionate charges2 that she has claimed to be the fulfilment of ,biblical prophecy1 8the woman clothed with the sun10 and that her book1 8,science and ,health10 was the little book held in the hand of the angel1 that she is herself the feminine impersonation1 as ,jesus was the masculine impersonation1 of the immaculate idea1 and that1 not she1 but ,god was the author of her book1 solely and only that she might build up a powerful organization and a large fortune4 ,money and power are the explanations of ,mrs4 ,eddy's frauds1 her lies1 her blasphemies1 ,i will even say of her crimes1 for when crime could1 as she believed1 be accomplished through mental effort1 maliciously employed for the destruction of her enemies1 she has not hesitated so to seek its accomplishment1 and her whole career1 for thirty or forty years past1 has been the crime of obtaining money by false pretenses4 ,chapter ,,viii ,immeasurable ,greed ,let us now go with some particularity into these charges that ,i make against ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,i charge that she has been and is wholly mercenary2 that her pretended revelation1 her pretended exceptional character as successor to ,jesus1 her pretended marvelous curative powers1 are dishonestly invented and put forth1 first1 as a means of making money1 and then as a means of acquiring despotic power4 ,first1 as to the mercenary motive4 ,mrs4 ,eddy's activity as a teacher of ,christian ,science began in the year #ahgj1 after leaving ,stoughton and going to ,lynn1 ,massachusetts4 ,she was then in her fiftieth year1 and from the time of her marriage to ,glover in #ahdc had been extremely poor4 ,christian ,science1 at the very outset1 took on a money-making character4 ,her familiarity with ,quimby's teachings1 transformed into a discovery of her own1 and then into a revelation from ,god1 became with her a business asset to be utilized for revenue only4 ,in the introduction to her 8,science and ,health10 published in #ahih1 ,mrs4 ,eddy says that her 8first pamphlet on ,christian ,science was copyrighted in #ahgj1 but it did not appear in print until #ahgf1 as she had learned that this science must be demonstrated by healing before a work on the subject could be profitably published40 ,i emphasize the word 8profitably40 ,at the very start there was the resolution in the woman's heart that this 8science10 ultimately to become a 8religion10 was not to be given to the world until it could be published with profit to her1 and from the beginning1 until now1 profit has been her first and main consideration4 ,in the ,banner of ,light1 the organ of the spiritualists1 of ,july #d1 #ahfi1 and three years after the date she now claims as the time of the 8revelation10 ,mrs4 ,eddy1 then ,mrs4 ,glover1 published the following advertisement3 8,any person desiring to learn how to heal the sick can receive of the undersigned instruction that will enable them to commence healing on a principle of science with success far beyond any of the present modes4 ,no medicine1 electricity1 physiology or ,hygiene required for unparalleled success in the most difficult cases4 ,no pay is required unless the skill is obtained4 ,address ,mrs4 ,mary ,b4 ,glover1 ,amesbury1 ,mass41 ,box #fa40 ,one is reminded of the flaunting advertisements of the cut-rate drug stores1 guaranteeing a cure by a liberal use of patent medicines or a return of the money4 ,mrs4 ,eddy started out with the guarantee system1 no skill imparted1 no money required2 but it may be believed that the guarantee system was speedily abandoned4 ,there was no money in a guarantee of skill to heal disease through ,mrs4 ,eddy's teachings1 and a change was speedily made to the permanently-adopted system of 8cash in advance40 ,it appears that1 as to teaching1 there was a progressive scale of charges4 ,first it was whatever she could get2 then #ajj in advance1 with ten per cent royalty on the students' subsequent income from practice1 and #a1jjj if1 having learned the system1 he did not care to practise it2 then #cjj for twelve lessons1 cash 8strictly in advance10 and ultimately #cjj for seven lessons1 8cash strictly in advance40 ,i have examined the court record in two litigations instituted by ,mrs4 ,eddy 7years after ,god had1 as she says1 selected her for her divine mission71 for the recovery of money alleged by her to be due upon a contract reading as follows3 8,we1 the undersigned1 do hereby agree1 in consideration of instructions and manuscripts received from ,mrs4 ,mary ,b4 ,glover1 to pay her #ajj in advance1 and ten per cent annually on the income that we receive from practicing or teaching the same4 ,we also do hereby agree to pay the said ,mary ,b4 ,glover #a1jjj in case we do not practice or teach the science she has taught us40 ,the ,banner of ,light advertisement was dated ,july #d1 #ahfi1 and one of the contracts is dated ,august #ag1 #ahgj1 so it will be seen how brief was the duration of ,mrs4 ,eddy's guarantee system of operating4 ,i think1 in all her lawsuits for the recovery of tuition ,mrs4 ,eddy never prevailed after a hearing upon the merits1 and in one of them1 the ,judge1 who tried her case1 after having heard her testimony in full1 said3 8,i do not find any instruction given by her nor any explanations of her #8science' or #8method of healing1' which are intelligible to ordinary comprehension1 or which could in any way be of value in fitting the defendant as a competent and successful practitioner of any intelligible art or method of healing the sick4 ,and ,i am of opinion that the consideration for the agreement has wholly failed1 and ,i so find40 ,this finding of the court is interesting as a judicial estimate1 based upon her own sworn testimony1 of the value of ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,christian ,science1 which has never been any more intelligible to any one else than it was to the learned ,judge4 ,in #ahha1 ,mrs4 ,eddy established what she called the ,massachusetts ,metaphysical ,college1 which was an institution for the turning out of ,christian ,science healers4 ,her adopted son and husband1 with herself1 constituted the faculty of this remarkable institution1 and the entire college course consisted of twelve lessons4 ,the following is taken from an advertisement in the ,christian ,science ,journal1 ,mrs4 ,eddy's personal organ1 for ,september1 #ahhf1 under the heading1 8,massachusetts ,metaphysical ,college1 ,rev4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy1 ,president1 #ega ,columbus ,ave41 ,boston1 ,mass403 8,the collegiate course in ,christian ,science metaphysical healing includes twelve lessons4 ,class convenes at #aj a4m4 ,the first week1 six consecutive lessons4 ,the term continues about three weeks4 ,tuition1 three hundred dollars4 ,tuition for all strictly in advance40 ,remember that this was ,mrs4 ,eddy's charge fifteen years after ,god had1 by revelation1 as she says1 freely imparted to her what she was here advertising to sell at the rate of twenty-five dollars per lesson1 cash 8strictly in advance40 ,mrs4 ,eddy's was a strictly cash business1 no trust1 no 8revelation0 ,c4,o4,d41 or on the installment plan1 and no money returned however dissatisfied with the purchase4 ,referring to this charge of three hundred dollars for twelve lessons1 ,mrs4 ,eddy1 in her book1 8,retrospection and ,introspection10 has perpetrated one the funniest passages to be found in all literature3 8,when ,god impelled me to set a price on ,christian ,science mind healing10 she says1 8,i could think of no financial equivalent for the impartation of a knowledge of that divine power which heals2 but ,i was led to name three hundred dollars as the price for each pupil in one course of lessons at my college2 a startling sum for tuition lasting barely three weeks4 ,this amount greatly troubled me4 ,i shrank from asking it1 but was finally led by a strange ,providence to accept this fee4 ,god has since shown me in multitudinous ways the wisdom of this decision40 ,the idea of setting a price on ,christian ,science mind healing never occurred to ,mrs4 ,eddy until ,god called it to her attention and impelled her to it4 ,unaided1 it was impossible for her to have thought of or wished to establish a financial equivalent for the impartation of a knowledge of that 8divine power which heals10 but1 led by ,divine ,providence1 she finally consented to name three hundred dollars as the price4 ,god1 from his seat at the center of the universe1 turning ,his attention from the laws that hold the spheres in their orbits1 leaning earthward1 whispered in the attentive woman's ear1 8,mary1 a price should be charged for my word4 ,it is a private snap1 all your own1 and three hundred dollars is about the proper figure40 ,so troubled was this diffident person by the divine command1 that she positively shrank1 retreated before it with her hands clasped tight behind her4 ,how persistent must the ,almighty have been to have overcome such hesitancy6 ,how ,he must have labored to convince the woman that ,his revelation was expressly designed for her pecuniary profit4 ,but ,god triumphed and ,mrs4 ,eddy yielded1 and subsequently in multitudinous ways ,providence demonstrated to her the wisdom of her decision--multitudinous ways--and multitudinous dollars4 ,so shrinkingly did ,mrs4 ,eddy prevail upon herself1 finally1 to accept this ,god-ordained financial equivalent for 8impartation of the divine power that heals0 to those who could afford to pay in advance for it at the rate of twenty-five dollars per hour1 that a large imagination may possibly conceive of the struggle with herself necessary to enable her to bring suit in the courts to recover from those she had been foolish enough to trust1 notwithstanding her noble resolution to carry on a strictly cash business2 and surely it will be quite impossible for any one1 however gifted with imaginative faculty1 to realize what the poor creature must have suffered to overcome the 8shrinking0 that possessed her modest soul so far as to enable her to increase her charge by almost a hundred per cent1 as she did in a couple of years4 ,if we may judge by results1 it must be admitted that the wisdom1 the commercial wisdom1 of her decision1 whether shown by ,god or not1 was quite clearly demonstrated1 as ,mrs4 ,eddy says that 8during seven years some four thousand students were taught by me 7her7 in this college40 ,four thousand students1 at three hundred dollars per student1 for a 8college0 course of twelve lessons6 ,four thousand times three hundred equals one million two hundred thousand1 and one million two hundred thousand dollars may be said to be fairly reasonable compensation for instruction1 even in ,christian ,science1 covering a period of seven years1 especially as it was all in the family4 ,a family of three1 even three adults1 as frugal and thrifty as these1 could comfortably provide themselves with the necessaries of life upon an income of one hundred and seventy thousand dollars a year4 ,mrs4 ,eddy has put herself to some trouble to show that she got the full three hundred dollars from every one of the four thousand students4 ,i don't think she did1 but ,i have no doubt she tried to4 ,however1 she says she did1 in these words3 8,i wrote #8,science and ,health1 with ,key to the ,scriptures1' taught students for a tuition of #cjj each and seldom taught without having charity scholars1 sometimes a dozen or upwards in one class4 ,afterwards1 with touching tenderness1 those very students sent me the full tuition money4 ,however1 ,i returned this money with love2 but it was again mailed to me in letters begging me to accept it1 saying1 #8,your teachings are worth much more to me than money can be4'0 ,god had decided that three hundred dollars was a financial equivalent for the teaching2 but the grateful students deemed its value beyond financial computation4 ,presumably the payment of the large tuition was1 in itself1 a means of grace and power1 just as those who have paid the healers' bills most promptly have recovered most speedily4 ,according to its founder1 8,christian ,science demonstrates that the patient who pays whatever he is able to pay for being healed is more apt to recover than he who withholds the slight equivalent for health40 ,pay well1 extremely well1 for teaching if you aim to become a great healer2 and impress upon your patients the pronounced curative properties of prompt and liberal payment of their bills for treatment6 ,president ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy and her faculty1 which1 when it did not consist of herself alone1 included her third husband and adopted son1 do not seem to have needed a bargain counter for marked down educations4 ,marked up educations in ,christian ,science were the ones that sold best1 as ,mrs4 ,eddy wisely foresaw4 ,so1 after only a couple of years of the ,god-established rate of three hundred dollars for twelve lessons1 ,mrs4 ,eddy and her learned faculty concluded to set aside ,god's judgment and raise the rates4 ,they thriftily1 and 8shrinkingly10 of course1 resolved that three hundred dollars for so many as twelve lessons1 although advised by ,god1 was in truth not a fair 8financial equivalent for an impartation of a knowledge of that divine power which heals10 and in the ,christian ,science ,journal for ,december1 #ahhh1 twenty-two years after ,god had1 as she says1 freely revealed it to her1 ,mrs4 ,eddy published the following notice3 8,having reached a place in teaching where my students in ,christian ,science are taught more during seven lessons in the primary class than they were formerly in twelve1 and taught all that is profitable at one time1 hereafter the primary class will include seven lessons only4 ,as this number of lessons is of more value than twice this number in times past1 no change is made in the price of tuition1 three hundred dollars4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy40 ,three hundred dollars for seven lessons1 forty-two dollars per lesson1 from each person in the primary class of unalloyed humbug1 by a rank impostor6 ,over two thousand dollars for each single lesson to classes of fifty1 and thousands of people living in the most enlightened portion of the world1 in the latter part of the nineteenth century1 willing to pay it6 ,verily there is ground for humbleness of spirit in such a display of credulity1 not to say imbecility1 or1 as ,mark ,twain would say1 asininity1 in this so-called enlightened age6 ,does not1 in all sincerity1 ,i ask1 does not ,mrs4 ,eddy's 8shrinking0 suggest in an impressive and beautiful way the chaste hesitancy of the hungry pig as he scrambles on all fours into the replenished trough6 ,recall the picture of the haloed ,mrs4 ,eddy standing by ,his side and holding the ,saviour's hand1 as illustrative of equality and 8,christian ,unity02 and imagine1 if imagination be equal to the task1 ,jesus availing ,himself of ,his communion and kinship with the ,father to accumulate money4 ,fancy ,his ,sermon on the ,mount being imparted1 after the payment to ,him by each disciple of a financial equivalent of the proportions of the ,eddy exaction4 ,see ,him crowding into the courts those poor unfortunates who were unable to pay1 and by the employment of legal process seeking to wrest it from them4 ,imagine ,his requiring all ,his disciples to sign a contract to pay so much in advance1 such a percentage of their annual income from healing1 and one thousand dollars forfeit if they were indisposed to heal after having been taught4 ,hear ,him instructing ,his disciples to go into all the world1 teach the gospel to every creature for cash strictly in advance1 to lay hands upon the sick and assure them that they would be more likely to be healed after having paid whatever they were able to pay for the service4 ,again1 may we hear the burst of divine indignation at the impious and infamous pretensions of this sordid creature6 ,again the words1 8,ye serpents1 ye generation of vipers6 ,how can ye escape the damnation of hell06 ,but teaching was not ,mrs4 ,eddy's only bonanza1 and her income from teaching was only a fraction of her total income4 ,in #ahge1 or thereabouts1 ,mrs4 ,eddy had a book on her hands that she had most laboriously written1 and for which she must create a market4 ,the book was the veriest rubbish and1 with only her name to back it1 was utterly without value to any one4 ,in course of time1 it not selling readily1 the idea seems to have dawned upon her that1 if she could make people believe that this book1 this crude1 incoherent jumbling together of meaningless terms1 was in very deed the ,word of ,god1 the ,infallible1 the ,all-wise1 and that its mere perusal would cure disease1 a market would be created for it and her fortune would be made4 ,acting upon this theory1 little by little she advanced the idea that the contents of the book came to her by revelation1 and she soon reached a point where she did not hesitate to declare that it is1 in its details and in its completeness1 the 8,word of ,god0 in precisely the same sense and to precisely the same extent that the ,christian believes the ,scriptures to be the word of ,god4 ,she would blush1 she says1 to speak of 8,science and ,health0 as she does1 8were it of human origin0 and she 8apart from ,god its author10 and 8,no human pen or tongue taught me the ,science contained in this book and neither tongue nor pen can overthrow it20 and she boldly affirms it to have been expressly 8authorized by ,christ0 as an interpreter of the ,bible4 ,referring to its curative properties1 she said1 8,the perusal of the author's publications heals sickness40 ,with these affirmations the humbug was consummated and the book placed upon a parity with1 nay1 upon a higher plane than1 the ,bible1 for ,i think it has never been said that the mere reading of the ,bible cures disease2 but never for a moment did the shrewd woman relax her hold upon her copyright or permit the publication1 outside the covers of her copyrighted books1 of even so much as her so-called spiritual interpretation of the ,lord's ,prayer or the tenets of the faith4 ,everybody must pay her a royalty for access even to her prayers and her creed4 ,mrs4 ,eddy has been wise in her day and generation4 ,she knew how large a part of the public likes to be fooled all the time1 and she has fooled and now fools a very considerable part to the very top of its bent4 ,many hundreds of thousands of copies of this book have been sold at three dollars and upwards per copy4 ,it is entitled1 8,science and ,health1 with ,key to the ,scriptures10 although the only parts of the ,scriptures touched upon by the alleged 8,key0 are the first chapter of the ,old ,testament and the last chapter of the ,new1 ,genesis and ,revelation4 ,to the intervening goodly portions ,god does not1 through ,mrs4 ,eddy1 appear to have furnished us any 8,key40 8,a ,christian ,scientist10 says ,mrs4 ,eddy 8requires my work #8,science and ,health' for his text book1 as do all his students and patients20 the soul's salvation and body's health being dependent upon the purchase and perusal thereof4 ,the organization of the ,massachusetts ,metaphysical ,college1 so called1 which1 let me again affirm1 was a sham affair from start to finish1 without college building1 classrooms1 faculty1 curriculum or entrance or graduating examinations1 this institution was a valuable agency for the distribution of ,mrs4 ,eddy's inspired and curative and copyrighted and costly writings1 and so have been the ,first ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 in ,boston1 the ,mother ,church1 so called1 and all the other ,christian ,science churches1 of which the book itself has been1 by her decree1 constituted the impersonal 8pastor40 ,every member of every church and every student at the 8college0 must have a copy of the inspired 8,science and ,health10 at three dollars per copy1 for the cheapest editions4 7,there is good profit in three dollars for a book costing not over fifty cents to publish--five hundred per cent profit47 ,every teacher of ,christian ,science and every teacher's student must have a copy of 8,science and ,health0 properly to teach and to understand ,mrs4 ,eddy's 8,science40 ,every one of the five thousand advertising ,christian ,science healers must keep a stock of the books on hand and sell them to their patients1 who are made to believe1 or to try to believe1 ,mrs4 ,eddy's absurd pretension that its mere perusal cures disease1 at prices ranging from three to six dollars1 according to binding4 ,and1 finally1 chapters having been transposed1 the most trivial additions made or a different picture of the author inserted1 all hands are invited1 no matter how many copies may already be upon their shelves1 to again step up and buy another copy1 the revised edition1 containing matter said to be of the greatest importance to their bodily and spiritual welfare1 and all obediently accept the invitation4 ,in the words of our friend1 ,colonel ,sellers of joyful memory1 8,there's millions in it0666 ,it would be difficult to convince any one of the boundless audacity employed by ,mrs4 ,eddy to promote the sale of this worthless book1 if the authoritative evidence over her own signature were not available2 but she has convicted herself1 has proven in her own hand over her own signature that the author of this book1 the founder of this alleged religion and the pretended successor to ,jesus is the arch impostor of all time4 ,before ,i quote the grabber of money against the 8founder0 of a 8religion10 let me remind you that it was and is a part of ,mrs4 ,eddy's claim that her teachings complete the teachings of ,jesus2 that her 8religion0 completes the religion of ,christ2 that1 as ,jesus said1 8,no man cometh unto the ,father but by ,me10 so ,mrs4 ,eddy1 in effect1 says1 8,no man cometh unto the ,father but by ,jesus1 and me40 ,to come unto the ,father is to obtain knowledge of the ,father1 and1 according to ,mrs4 ,eddy1 while incomplete knowledge may be obtained through the teachings of ,jesus1 complete knowledge of the ,father is attainable only through ,jesus and her4 ,she has established and organized ,the ,first ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 in ,boston1 ostensibly to lead into complete knowledge of the ,father those who seek ,him in spirit and in truth4 ,bearing this in mind1 note what follows1 taken from the ,march1 #ahig1 ,christian ,science ,journal1 signed by ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy1 and published just as her book1 8,miscellaneous ,writings10 was placed upon the market and for the sole purpose of promoting its sale4 ,she says3 8,christian ,scientists in the ,united ,states and ,canada are hereby enjoined not to teach a student of ,christian ,science for one year1 commencing on ,march #ad1 #ahig4 8,miscellaneous ,writings is calculated to prepare the minds of all true thinkers to understand the ,christian ,science text book more correctly than a student can4 8,the ,bible1 #8,science and ,health with ,key to the ,scriptures1' and my other published works1 are the only proper instructors for this hour4 ,it shall be the duty of all ,christian ,scientists to circulate and to sell as many of these books as they can4 8,if a member of ,the ,first ,church of ,christ1 ,scientists1 shall fail to obey this injunction1 it will render him liable to lose his membership in this church4 ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy40 ,at this time there were upwards of twenty thousand members1 resident and non-resident1 of this church1 and every one of them was by this decree required to become a canvasser for the sale of ,mrs4 ,eddy's books4 ,twenty thousand unpaid vendors of her worthless patent medicine1 upon which there was a profit of five hundred per cent6 ,is it not enough to make other manufacturers of proprietary concoctions turn green with envy6 ,this compulsory sale of her books was in #ahig1 when ,mrs4 ,eddy was seventy-six1 but she is the same woman today1 at eighty-eight years of age4 ,with only a few steps between her and the grave1 she reaches out her withered1 palsied hand to grab1 grab1 grab4 ,one of her latter-day schemes for bleeding the faithful has been1 as ,i have indicated1 to publish frequent 8revised0 editions of her great work1 8,science and ,health10 with the announcement of additions to its text necessary to growth in 8,science40 ,everybody must buy a new book and add a new profit to ,mrs4 ,eddy's coffers4 ,in ,february1 #aijh1 over her signature1 she published this3 8,take ,notice 8,i request ,christian ,scientists universally to read the paragraph beginning at line thirty of page #ddb in the edition of #8,science and ,health1' which will be issued1 ,february #bi4 ,i consider the information there given to be of great importance at this stage of the workings of animal magnetism1 and it will greatly aid the students in their individual experiences4 8,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy40 ,shortly after the time of the publication of this notice 7the litigation brought by her sons being still pending7 ,senator ,chandler1 their senior counsel with whom ,i was associated1 happened to be in ,boston4 ,as the ,senator was particularly interested in keeping tabs on ,mrs4 ,eddy's mental attitude toward so-called 8animal magnetism10 he asked me if ,i would procure for him a copy of this edition1 as her notice seemed to indicate a possible change in her point of view on that subject4 ,after protesting mildly that ,i hated to put any good money into that fake enterprise1 ,i went to the publication office in ,boston and asked for a copy of the edition of 8,science and ,health0 published on ,february #bi4 ,the clerk in attendance informed me that the edition was completely exhausted1 but that another edition containing those alterations and others could be had4 ,insisting that no other edition than the one of ,february #bi would answer my purpose1 a somewhat worn copy was finally produced as the only one in the place and ,i was told ,i could have it1 if ,i didn't object to its condition4 ,turning to page #ddb and running my eye down to line thirty1 where there was a little paragraph of two lines1 ,i returned the book to the clerk and said it was not what ,i wanted1 as it didn't appear to contain the new matter of 8great importance0 referred to by ,mrs4 ,eddy's published notice4 ,upon his assurance1 however1 that it was the volume published on ,february #bi and that the paragraph of two lines1 at line thirty1 page #ddb1 was the paragraph referred to in ,mrs4 ,eddy's notice1 ,i tucked the little gold brick under my arm1 reluctantly parted with my three good dollars and1 returning to the ,parker ,house1 handed it to ,senator ,chandler without a word4 ,turning to page #ddb1 the ,senator paused at line thirty long enough to read the paragraph of two lines1 and then1 looking up1 exclaimed3 8,what a swindle6 ,do you suppose any one can be of so little intelligence1 who buys that book in consequence of ,mrs4 ,eddy's notice and reads this paragraph1 that he does not feel1 as we feel1 that he has been swindled80 ,i assured the ,senator that1 in my judgment1 ,mrs4 ,eddy's following was largely made up of people who dearly loved to hand their money over to her1 that nothing else gave them quite such joy and that they would be only too delighted and satisfied to be told by ,mrs4 ,eddy that they must be a law unto themselves in order to be protected1 sleeping or awake1 from the foul fiend of animal magnetism4 ,as ,mrs4 ,eddy says her students said of her teachings for which they had rapturously parted with three hundred dollars1 8it was worth more to them than money could possibly be40 ,what was this information1 of 8great importance10 which 8would greatly aid the students0 and which ,christian ,scientists 8universally0 must buy a new book to read8 ,it was just two lines inserted in a blank space at the end of a chapter and necessitated the change of no other plate of a single page in the book4 8,christian ,scientists1 be a law to yourselves1 that mental malpractice can harm you neither when asleep nor when awake40 ,only this and nothing more4 ,it is senseless1 and yet it cost many thousands of ,christian ,scientists from three to six dollars apiece to find out1 if they could find anything out1 that the 8revelator0 had sold them a 8gold brick40 ,and even since the edition of ,february1 #aijh1 another edition1 with only one line added1 has been foisted upon the faithful4 ,what is the meaning of these things8 ,here is a woman claiming the succession to ,jesus1 claiming to have received an exclusive revelation from ,almighty ,god necessary to salvation1 and1 having organized a church ostensibly to lead unto the ,father1 she requires1 as a condition of continued membership in the church1 that its members shall 8circulate and sell0 as many of her copyrighted books1 upon which there is a profit of five hundred per cent1 8as they can02 and1 year in and year out1 she palms off upon the believers new editions of the old stuff upon the false pretense of new material important to their spiritual growth4 ,nobody ever went at a thing in a more round-about1 indirect fashion1 and nobody ever resorted to trickery more shamelessly than has the ,reverend ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy4 ,nobody ever assumed with so much boldness the complete asininity of the human race1 as has this woman who professes to be the successor to ,jesus ,christ4 ,in the fall of #ahii suits were brought 7as explained in the ,introduction7 against ,mrs4 ,eddy and some of her leading supporters for the libel upon ,mrs4 ,woodbury1 in which damages1 approximating half a million dollars1 were asked4 ,mrs4 ,eddy and her friends were much alarmed and prepared for the most strenuous defence that could possibly be made4 ,it was denied that ,mrs4 ,woodbury was in any way referred to in the passage complained of2 but numerous lawyers were retained to contest her endeavor to show that the denial was false4 ,mrs4 ,eddy retained four different firms of lawyers to represent her1 three prominent ,boston firms and the leading firm in ,new ,hampshire1 where she then lived4 ,she thus found herself involved in enormous and unexpected expense1 and money became the burning question of the hour4 ,mrs4 ,eddy well knew1 from experience1 that all she had to do to procure the money necessary1 was to ask the faithful to give it to her2 but she1 naturally1 didn't care to make an open appeal for it4 ,she resorted1 as ,i believe1 to the strangest and most audacious trick ever employed by any human being to get money out of honest and trusting people4 ,four days before ,christmas1 #ahii1 when it was safe to assume that the customary ,christmas offerings were in the mail on their way to her1 she published in the ,christian ,science ,sentinel the following3 8,a ,card4 8,beloved3 ,i ask this favor of all ,christian ,scientists4 ,do not give me on1 before1 or after the forthcoming holidays1 aught material except three tea jackets4 ,all may contribute to these4 ,one learns to value material things only as one needs them1 and the costliest things are those that one needs least4 ,among my present needs material are these three jackets4 ,two of darkish heavy silk1 the shade appropriate to white hair4 ,the third of heavy satin1 lighter shade1 but sufficiently sombre4 ,nos4 #a and #b to be common sense jackets for ,mother to work in1 and not over trimmed by any means4 ,no4 #c for best1 such as she can afford for her drawing room4 8,mary ,baker ,eddy40 ,when this 8,card0 was published ,mrs4 ,eddy must have believed that there were upwards of a million ,christian ,scientists1 for years before she had said1 8,in #ahhc a million of people acknowledge and attest the blessings of this mental system of treating disease40 ,so she must have expected approximately a million people to make some response to her request4 ,it will be noted that the 8,card0 doesn't ask for tea jackets2 it asks for contributions for tea jackets4 ,mrs4 ,eddy had no expectation that a million or more garments would be received in response to her statement that she needed two of heavy silk1 the shade appropriate to white hair1 and one of heavy satin lighter shade but sufficiently sombre4 ,if she had wanted the tea jackets and not contributions1 she would have given waist and bust measurements1 with length of sleeve and skirt4 ,no1 there was no room for doubt that what she wanted from all her 8,beloved0 was contributions and not jackets1 and as she hadn't designated anyone to receive the contributions1 all were asked to make for ,mother's benefit1 there was nothing to do but send the contributions straight to ,mother4 ,all had contributed many times and all were given another precious chance to show how 8easy0 they were4 ,there was never any publicity given to contributions received for the two common sense jackets for ,mother to work in1 and the more elaborate one such as she could afford for her drawing-room2 but who1 that has any familiarity with the exceeding eagerness of ,mrs4 ,eddy's followers to contribute1 can have any doubt that none would think of sending her less than five dollars4 ,how lovely6 ,there were not more than fifty thousand ,christian ,scientists at this time1 but1 if each chipped in five dollars toward ,mother's jackets1 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars dropped into her lap4 ,i am only giving my interpretation of ,mrs4 ,eddy's strange request1 when ,i say that clearly what she wanted was not tea jackets1 but money to finance her very elaborate and expensive preparations to contest ,mrs4 ,woodbury's suits4 ,she wanted money1 she wanted it at once1 and so she asked for it immediately4 ,the request was made for a ,christmas present1 and it was made four days before ,christmas4 ,my understanding that what ,mrs4 ,eddy was after was money and not tea jackets1 is confirmed by her own subsequent statement that she didn't really want the garments after all4 ,she gave her 8,beloved0 a whole week to decide how much the contribution should be and to make it4 ,a minute was time enough1 and she graciously gave them a whole week2 and then she withdrew the request altogether4 ,on ,december #bh1 #ahii1 a week after the publication of the first 8,card10 ,mrs4 ,eddy published another1 which is a perfect gem of characteristic ambiguity4 ,it follows3 ,a ,card4 ,beloved3 ,i accept most gratefully your purpose to clothe me1 and when ,god has clothed you sufficiently1 ,he will make it easy for you to clothe one of his little ones4 ,give yourselves no more trouble to get the three garments called for by me through last week's ,sentinel4 ,mary ,baker ,eddy4 ,pleasant ,view1 ,concord1 ,n4,h41 ,dec4 #be1 #ahii4 ,mother had asked for contributions for three tea jackets1 and now accepts most gratefully the purpose of her 8,beloved0 to clothe her2 and modestly puts it by4 ,when ,god has clothed them sufficiently1 ,he will make it easy for them to clothe one of ,his little ones4 ,there speaks the oracle for you with true ,delphic vagueness4 8,give yourself no more trouble to get the garments called for by me through last week's ,sentinel40 ,one thing1 at least1 is plain4 ,she hadn't called for jackets1 but for contributions for jackets2 and a week had been accorded her dear followers to contribute4 ,after everybody from whom a contribution could be expected1 had sent it along1 they are informed that the tea jackets were not wanted and that when ,god had sufficiently clothed them1 ,he would make it easy for them to clothe one of ,his little ones4 ,mother concluded that the common-sense jackets were not necessary to her work and that she could sufficiently grace her drawing-room without the help of the ,beloved2 but it has not appeared that any of the solicited contributions were returned4 ,i cannot say what an impression the loyal ,christian ,scientists may have received from this performance on the part of their leader2 but ,i am very certain that any man of common sense1 who had sent money in response to ,mrs4 ,eddy's first card1 when he perused the second would speedily come to the conclusion that he had been buncoed4 ,i cannot leave this subject without giving one more illustration of ,mrs4 ,eddy's commercial spirit4 ,those of us who were brought up in the old school of medical practice do not forget the utility of spoons in that connection2 and ,i vividly recall being made1 in the spring-time1 to stand in line with my numerous brothers and sisters and to march unflinchingly upon a spoon overloaded with sulphur and molasses4 ,but what earthly connection there can be between the purely mental treatment of ,christian ,science and the purely physical thing1 spoon1 is not at first glance perceptible4 ,it is plain1 however1 that spoons were a feature of ,mrs4 ,eddy's business4 ,she was engaged in the exploitation of revelations and spoons1 and1 pursuant to her successful method of extorting money1 made an appeal to the credulity of her people1 utilizing the old gag of the dissemination of ,truth to promote even the sale of spoons4 ,the following is her command to the faithful3 8,christian ,science ,spoons--,on each of these most beautiful spoons is a motto in bas-relief that every person on earth needs to hold in thought4 ,mother requests that ,christian ,scientists shall not ask to be informed what this motto is1 but each ,scientist shall purchase at least one spoon1 and those who can afford it1 one dozen spoons1 that their families may read this motto at every meal and their guests be made partakers of its simple truth4 8,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy40 ,this1 it will be seen1 is not an appeal1 a request or a suggestion1 but a command4 8,each ,scientist shall purchase at least one spoon1 and those who can afford it1 one dozen spoons40 ,there is a motto on the spoon1 of whose simple truth1 with their meals1 it is urged that the families of the faithful may be given an opportunity to partake1 and 8,mother0 especially requests that ,christian ,scientists shall not ask to be informed what this motto is4 ,to be informed of the motto1 would enable her following to partake of its simple truth without purchasing one dozen spoons or even a solitary spoon2 and the sale of spoons1 and not the consumption of truth1 was the plain purpose of ,mrs4 ,eddy's command4 ,the price of spoons was three dollars apiece for the plain silver and five dollars apiece for those with gold plated bowls2 and ,i know a gentleman in ,washington1 ,d4,c41 then a professed ,christian ,scientist1 who parted with sixty good ,american dollars for one dozen ,christian ,science spoons4 ,truly1 are not ,mrs4 ,eddy's followers the very easiest 8easy marks0 that any bunco-steerer ever went up against6 ,how naturally we fall into the slang of the street or into the language in which the operations of common swindlers are characterized1 when we discuss this 8religion0 and its high priestess6 ,is there any possible doubt of the basic motive of this woman8 ,did any one ever hear of anything approaching the audacity of this brazen creature8 ,is it now clear1 beyond possibility of cavil1 that all of ,mrs4 ,eddy's absurd and irreverent pretensions have been merely unique business methods utilized to the utmost to give a fictitious value to her foolish and harmful teachings1 and to extend the sale of her foolish and harmful writings8 ,is the founder of ,christian ,science in very truth anything more than a peddler of 8revelations20 a huxter1 who makes a commodity of 8religion02 as ,mark ,twain says1 a shameless old swindler who reaches out her irreligious hand and grabs the sacred name of ,jesus the more easily to cheat and rob poor confiding creatures while looking to her for health to their aching bodies and peace to their troubled souls8 ,is there a blasphemy1 a mendacity1 a cruelty1 beyond that of ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy8 ,is there a greed that approaches hers8 ,chapter ,,ix ,the ,eddy ,autocracy4 ,money and power are the explanations of ,mrs4 ,eddy's life4 ,we have seen how greedily she has accumulated wealth4 ,let us1 for a moment1 consider the way in which she has extended her power4 ,nearly twenty years ago1 ,mrs4 ,eddy established the ,first ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 in ,boston1 which is called the 8,mother ,church0 and stands in the relation to the other churches1 as she says1 of the vine to the branches4 ,it has been ,mrs4 ,eddy's repeatedly expressed wish that all ,christian ,scientists everywhere should belong to the ,mother ,church1 and ,mr4 ,hanna1 then her chief representative in the organization1 argued at length that this expressed wish of ,mrs4 ,eddy's was the revealed will of ,god2 and no real ,christian ,scientist hesitates to do ,god's will1 as revealed through ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,of course1 membership in anything or connection with anything in ,christian ,science costs money1 and every member1 resident or non-resident1 of the ,first ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 in ,boston1 is required to pay an annual tax of at least one dollar4 ,the present total membership of this church1 resident and non-resident1 in which ,mrs4 ,eddy's arbitrary will is absolute law1 is upwards of fifty thousand1 and embraces all of the really devout and loyal ,eddyites everywhere in the world4 ,here is1 in itself1 an income of some fifty thousand dollars annually of the ,first ,church in ,boston4 ,if to this be added pew rents1 church collections1 the voluntary offerings of the faithful and the profits on the official periodicals1 the aggregate will doubtless reach a total of considerably over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per annum4 ,can any other church in the country show such revenues8 ,truly1 the ,church of ,st4 ,bunco1 as ,mr4 ,gordon ,clark has happily named it1 is a paying institution6 ,mrs4 ,eddy is the head of this church4 ,she constituted and calls herself pastor emeritus2 but her relation to the organization is the reverse of what her title implies4 ,instead of being honorary merely1 it is most positive and active4 ,she has been the final authority on all matters in the church1 dictated all its actions and ceremonies and formulated its rules and by-laws4 ,by these rules and by-laws1 which ,mrs4 ,eddy has made1 she has conferred upon herself the power to remove from office any officer of her church in ,boston1 without cause1 and to excommunicate forever1 without assigned cause1 any of the fifty thousand members4 ,by these rules1 which ,mrs4 ,eddy has made1 she has conferred upon herself the power to remove the readers--the first and second readers1 who take the place of ministers--of all ,christian ,science churches in the ,united ,states and foreign nations4 ,no member excommunicated from the ,first ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 in ,boston1 may hold a membership in any other ,christian ,science church anywhere in the world and is cut off from fellowship with the faithful1 and cast into outer darkness forever4 ,by these rules and by-laws1 which ,mrs4 ,eddy has made1 she has provided that the president and directors of the church may only be appointed subject to her approval2 that no board of trustees of the church may ever be constituted except by her1 and that the first members1 or governing body1 of the church may be appointed only with her approval4 ,indeed1 only recently1 with one stroke of her pen and without a word of explanation1 she swept this governing body1 the first or executive members1 completely out of existence4 ,no sermons shall ever be read in the churches1 no original work of any first reader or minister is permitted 7it would detract somewhat from ,mrs4 ,eddy's own writings7 and the service is limited1 by ,mrs4 ,eddy's rules1 to the ,bible and ,mrs4 ,eddy's published and copyrighted and profit-yielding works1 announcements of the name of the author of the latter always being required while publicly read4 ,hypnotists1 so called1 must be excluded upon her complaint2 and the editors and publishers of the ,christian ,science ,journal and the other organs of the sect and the president of the ,massachusetts ,metaphysical ,college may be only persons of whom she expressly approves4 ,any teacher who dares to take a student of ,mrs4 ,eddy's into her class without ,mrs4 ,eddy's written consent 8shall be0 7not may be7 8shall be excommunicated from the church40 ,mrs4 ,eddy's rule1 conferring upon ,mrs4 ,eddy the power to remove officers of all ,christian ,science churches1 is as follows3 8,the pastor emeritus of the ,mother ,church 7,mrs4 ,eddy7 shall have the right1 through a letter addressed to the individual and the church of which he is a reader1 to remove a reader from this office in any ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 both in ,america and foreign nations1 or to appoint the reader to fill any office belonging to the ,christian ,scientists denomination40 ,this by-law is followed by the further provision that it can neither be amended nor annulled except by ,mrs4 ,eddy's consent4 ,mrs4 ,eddy's rules provide that membership of the church is only possible to those familiar with ,mrs4 ,eddy's copyrighted1 five hundred per cent profit earning publications2 that the ,bible and her book shall be the pastor--the impersonal pastor--of the ,mother ,church2 that every member of the church1 when publicly reading or quoting from the books of ,mrs4 ,eddy1 must first announce the name of the author2 that teachers shall instruct their students how to defend themselves against mental malpractice1 the witchcraft of ,christian ,science2 that a degree of the ,massachusetts ,metaphysical ,college is a necessary preliminary to the teaching of ,christian ,science 7and these degrees cost money72 that any member of the church1 working against what ,mrs4 ,eddy believes advantageous to the church and the cause of ,christian ,science1 shall1 upon her complaint1 be dropped forever from membership2 that a member of the church who shall use written formulas1 or permit his patients or his students to use them1 shall be excommunicated2 that any member daring to give advice on church matters1 outside of the meetings1 shall be dropped from membership1 and so on1 as ,mark ,twain says1 8more ways to get out than to stay in0--the autocrat1 the egotist1 and the tradesman in every line4 ,and this woman1 who has accumulated a fortune by the methods stated1 and imposed upon the credulity of many thousands of religious people to build up a powerful organization of which she has made herself the whimsical and imperious autocrat1 is the woman1 forsooth1 whom the ,creator of the universe selected to be the successor to ,jesus6 ,i lately stood at the threshold of the ,holy of ,holies of the 8,mother ,church10 and with a crowd of worshipers patiently waited for admittance to the hallowed precincts of the 8,mother's ,room40 ,over the doorway was a sign informing us that but four persons at a time would be admitted2 that they would be permitted to remain five minutes only1 and would please retire from the 8,mother's ,room0 at the ringing of the bell4 ,entering with four of the faithful1 ,i looked with profane eyes upon the consecrated furnishings4 ,a show-woman in attendance monotonously announced the character of the different appointments4 ,set in a recess of the wall and illumined with electric light was an oil painting the show-woman seriously declared to be a life-like and realistic picture of the chair in which the 8,mother0 sat when she composed her 8inspired0 work4 ,it was a picture of an old-fashioned1 country1 haircloth rocking chair1 and an exceedingly commonplace-looking table with a pile of manuscript1 an ink-bottle and pen conspicuously upon it4 ,on the floor were sheets of manuscript4 8,the mantelpiece is of pure onyx10 continued the show-woman1 8and the bee-hive upon the window sill is made from one solid stone4 ,the rug is made of a hundred breasts of eider-down ducks1 and the toilet room you see in the corner is of the latest design1 with gold-plated drain pipes4 ,the painted windows are from the ,mother's poem1 #8,christ and ,christmas1' and that case contains complete copies of all the ,mother's books40 ,the chairs1 upon which the sacred person of the ,mother had reposed1 were protected from sacrilegious touch by a broad band of satin ribbon4 ,my companions expressed their admiration in subdued and reverent tones1 and at the tinkling of the bell we reverently tiptoed out of the room to admit another delegation of the patient waiters at the door4 ,there are no other proselyters like the ,christian ,scientist2 for there is no other 8religion0 that is at the same time a source of large revenue to its promoters4 ,the more money that comes into the coffers of the central organization in ,boston1 the more liberal salaries may be voted to the workers4 ,the organization publishes the periodicals1 and there is a corps of salaried lecturers constantly distributed over the country4 ,the ,christian ,science ,journal1 a monthly periodical1 and the ,christian ,science ,sentinel1 a weekly periodical1 were for many years the only organs of the cult2 but lately a more pretentious effort has been made and a daily newspaper has been established in ,boston1 called the ,christian ,science ,monitor4 ,the ,journal and the ,sentinel reach practically all of the sixty or sixty-five thousand ,christian ,scientists1 and large numbers of them are regular subscribers to the daily newspaper4 ,of course1 outside of ,boston the paper cannot reach its subscribers in time to be anything but stale as a news agency4 ,but what of that6 ,to buy it helps the cause2 and to help the cause puts money into the capacious pockets of the managers4 ,all over the country copies of these various publications are distributed free1 and in nearly every railroad station and waiting room throughout the length and breadth of the land copies of the weekly and monthly periodicals may be found in conspicuous places4 ,the newspaper has little or no paid circulation outside the ranks of the believers1 but many1 many thousands of copies are daily delivered to people who pay nothing whatever for it4 ,of course1 all of this costs a great deal of money1 and the money comes out of the pockets of the believers1 and goes into the pockets of the exploiters4 ,chapter ,x ,the 8,string0 on the ,gifts ,mr4 ,farlow1 ,mr4 ,hanna and other paid agents of ,mrs4 ,eddy from time to time meet these various accusations with the response that1 while ,mrs4 ,eddy has made a great deal of money1 she has given away a great deal2 and1 while she possesses the powers aforesaid1 she lives in retirement1 at ,concord1 ,n4,h41 and lets the organization run itself4 ,let us see what there is in these defenses4 ,has ,mrs4 ,eddy given away many thousands of dollars8 ,mr4 ,hanna quotes ,mrs4 ,eddy as having said1 8,i could have been worth many millions of money4 ,my college alone was an annual income of forty thousand dollars2 but ,i managed to give away enough to balance my account with conscience40 ,it may be inferred from this that1 but for what ,mrs4 ,eddy has given away1 she would today be worth many millions2 consequently that she has given away millions4 ,she has given away money1 with reservations1 but whenever she has so given it1 it has been to enhance her comfort1 to extend her power1 or to add to her glory2 and again and again1 by herself and her chosen representatives1 by ,mr4 ,hanna and ,mr ,farlow1 have false representations been made of the amounts given by her4 ,this is important4 ,let me give a view of ,mrs4 ,eddy's character as displayed in these business transactions4 ,much has been made of ,mrs4 ,eddy's gift of the land upon which the ,first ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 in ,boston1 stands4 ,in her book entitled 8,pulpit and ,press10 copyrighted by ,mrs4 ,eddy1 and published in #ahie1 is the statement that the cost of the ,first ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 in ,boston1 8is two hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars1 exclusive of the land1 a gift from ,mrs4 ,eddy1 which is valued at some forty thousand dollars40 ,valued at some forty thousand dollars6 ,mrs4 ,eddy1 of course1 here intends to convey an impression that this gift of the land was a gift by her of some forty thousand dollars' worth of real estate4 ,in none of her many published references to this peculiar transaction has ,mrs4 ,eddy told the truth1 or any material part of the truth4 ,the land upon which the church stands was originally owned by a society known as ,the ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 in ,boston1 and it was originally mortgaged for nine thousand dollars to ,mr4 ,nathan ,matthews4 ,this original society1 by contributions1 fairs1 etc41 raised enough money to reduce the amount of the mortgage to about five thousand dollars1 when1 according to ,mrs4 ,eddy's statement in her book 8,pulpit and ,press10 8,owing to a heavy loss1 they were unable to pay the mortgage2 therefore ,i paid it1 and through trustees gave back the land to the church40 ,mrs4 ,eddy did not pay the mortgage4 ,she did not give back the land to the church4 ,what she did was quite other than what she says she did4 ,through her agents1 she took an assignment of the mortgage for the balance of five thousand dollars due upon it1 foreclosed it1 crowded out all of the original contributors1 members of the ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 acquired the title herself1 and gave it to trustees for a new organization1 ,the ,first ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 reserving to herself a right to re-enter and repossess herself of the land with any church that might be constructed upon it4 ,and this cost ,mrs4 ,eddy five thousand dollars1 not forty thousand1 as she would have us understand1 and as ,mr4 ,farlow has represented2 nor even twenty thousand1 as the more modest ,hanna intimates4 ,real-estate men in ,boston would wonder how it was possible for ,mrs4 ,eddy legally to acquire1 for the sum of five thousand dollars1 by the proper foreclosure of a mortgage1 property upon which ,mr4 ,nathan ,matthews had been willing to lend nine thousand dollars4 ,indeed1 it is remarkable that ,mrs4 ,eddy should1 at an open foreclosure sale1 have been able to buy for five thousand dollars a property hundreds of men in the city of ,boston would have been only too glad to have paid1 at the time1 upwards of ten thousand dollars for4 ,was this foreclosure regular1 or was it fraudulent1 as were so many of ,mrs4 ,eddy's transactions8 ,to one who has delved into her methods1 as ,i have1 it would seem as if everything that she touched became tainted with fraud or false pretense2 and it is simply incredible that here in the city of ,boston1 after due advertisement1 and at a legal public auction1 a piece of real estate could be purchased for but little more than half the money so sagacious an investor as ,mr4 ,matthews was willing to lend upon it4 ,and what of the owners of the equity in this land1 who were ,mrs4 ,eddy's own friends and followers1 and whom she thus despoiled8 ,they had contributed about #g1jjj and were left nothing1 while ,mrs4 ,eddy for #e1jjj acquired all4 ,mrs4 ,eddy1 herself1 says1 8the property was transferred in a circuitous and novel way1 the wisdom of which a few persons have since scrupled10 and that her intent1 while 8spiritually inalienable10 was 8materially questionable40 ,it is interesting to note that the instruments employed by ,mrs4 ,eddy for the executing of the 8materially questionable0 transaction were two ,boston lawyers who have since been disbarred4 ,again1 in the ,christian ,science ,journal for ,february1 #ahih1 is an editorial statement1 evidently prepared by ,editor ,hanna under ,mrs4 ,eddy's direction1 in which an effort is made to meet the criticism upon ,mrs4 ,eddy's mercenary methods1 he refers to three instances which he calls 8evidences of a generosity and self-sacrifice that appeal to our deepest sense of gratitude1 even while surpassing our comprehension40 ,now1 what are these evidences of this extraordinary 8generosity and self-sacrifice08 ,the first is the gift of the land to the church4 8,years ago10 says ,mr4 ,hanna1 8she donated a lot of ground in ,boston1 on which to erect the ,mother ,church1 that was then valued at twenty thousand dollars1 and now estimated to be worth more than double that sum40 ,mr4 ,hanna1 it should be observed1 does not say1 8which cost her five thousand dollars10 but which 8was then valued at twenty thousand dollars02 and he does not say anything about the reserved right to re-enter and repossess herself of the land and all the buildings that might be constructed upon it1 which right she secured for not more than #e1jjj4 ,if it was 8then valued at twenty thousand dollars10 as ,hanna says1 or at forty thousand dollars1 as ,mrs4 ,eddy's book says1 how did ,mrs4 ,eddy get it for five8 ,perhaps ,mr4 ,hanna can tell4 ,mr4 ,hanna can tell many things1 if he will4 ,he has sworn that--so help him ,god6--he is completely ignorant of the belief of the members of the church of which he was the first reader1 or minister1 regarding the founder of the alleged religion he pretends to profess and professes to expound1 so we may not ask him anything about that2 but he may be able to tell us how his 8generous0 and 8self-denying0 leader secured for five thousand dollars ,boston real estate worth twenty or forty thousand4 ,it is a trick some of our real-estate speculators would be glad to learn4 ,another of these evidences of a 8generosity and self-sacrifice0 surpassing ,mr4 ,hanna's comprehension is a conveyance in perpetuity to the ,first ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 in ,boston1 of the real estate of the ,christian ,science ,publishing ,society2 to wit1 the lots and buildings known as #ie and #ig ,falmouth ,street1 8valued10 says ,mr4 ,hanna1 at 8not less than twenty-two thousand dollars40 ,again the wily ,hanna gives us what he calls the value and not the cost to ,mrs4 ,eddy2 and again1 like a true disciple of his cautious teacher1 he suppresses the fact that the property in question was conveyed to ,mrs4 ,eddy three days before she conveyed it to the church1 by the ,christian ,science ,publishing ,society1 for the nominal sum of one dollar4 ,mrs4 ,eddy always reserves very substantial rights1 and here she reserved to herself the right to use and occupy as much room1 conveniently and pleasantly located1 as she might require for her own publishing business4 ,if1 at any time1 she shall require the whole of the premises for her publishing business1 she has the right1 under her deed1 to occupy the whole1 and this right she acquired for one dollar1 and did not part with4 ,mr4 ,hanna is a great stickler for values when contending for ,mrs4 ,eddy's great generosity4 ,it sounds rather better1 and makes a better showing for his patron1 to say that her gift 7to which she reserves1 if she wishes it1 the exclusive use7 is valued at #bb1jjj1 than to state the cold truth that it cost her the sum of one dollar4 ,another of these evidences of unselfishness on ,mrs4 ,eddy's part1 too great for ,mr4 ,hanna's understanding1 is the transfer to the church in perpetuity of the ,christian ,science ,journal1 ,quarterly1 and all the literary publications of the society1 and every right and privilege whatsoever connected therewith1 saving only the right to copyright the ,journal in her own name2 and these properties the astute ,hanna again 8values0 at fifty thousand dollars4 ,again he says nothing about what they cost ,mrs4 ,eddy1 and again he says nothing about the right she reserved to herself4 ,these properties1 as in the case of the real estate1 were acquired three days before she gave them to the church1 by ,mrs4 ,eddy1 from the ,christian ,science ,publishing ,society1 for the large sum of one dollar1 and she reserved not only the right to copyright the ,christian ,science ,journal1 which was the only value the ,journal possessed1 but she reserved the right to withdraw the ,journal from the trust and from the church at any time she pleased4 ,in other words1 she procured title to the ,journal1 with a subscription list of #bj1jjj and over1 for #a4jj and did not give the ,journal to the church or the society at all4 ,what she did give to the church1 according to the official record1 cost her nothing1 and what she acquired was a prosperous periodical with a paying subscription list of #bj1jjj or more4 ,these wonderful beneficences1 which fairly startle ,mr4 ,hanna1 and which cost ,mrs4 ,eddy #e1jjb1 and ,hanna says were 8worth0 #ij1jjj1 left her with a right1 under certain circumstances1 to take absolute possession of the land and the church1 which cost her nothing and cost others over two hundred thousand dollars1 guaranteed to her pleasant and permanent business quarters without expense of any kind1 gave her complete control1 amounting to ownership1 of the ,christian ,science ,journal1 and made her the dictator and authoritative head1 if she wishes to be1 of the business end of ,christian ,science as conducted at the headquarters of the ,christian ,science ,publishing ,society in ,boston4 ,this was ,mrs4 ,eddy's own benefit from her outlay of #e1jjb1 and yet the ,honorable ,septimus ,j4 ,hanna1 with upturned eyes1 piously exclaims3 8,let us endeavor to lift up our hearts in thankfulness to ,god for ,his goodness to us and our cause and to ,his servant1 our ,mother in ,israel1 for these evidences of a generosity and self-sacrifice that appeal to our deepest sense of gratitude1 even while surpassing our comprehension40 ,in a published statement1 ,mr4 ,farlow has said3 8,as to ,mrs4 ,eddy's wealth1 ,i want to say she has given away1 during the past five years1 more than double the sum total of the entire profits from the sale of her books from their first publication to the present time40 ,i denounce this statement of ,mr4 ,alfred ,farlow's as utterly false1 and ,i defy him to name the beneficiaries of these hundreds of thousands of dollars he says his employer has given away4 ,i challenge this official prevaricator of ,mrs4 ,eddy's religio-commercial enterprise to give the public the particulars of these alleged gifts4 ,he cannot give them4 ,they do not exist1 and his falsehood is only one of many fabrications boldly put forth to bolster the tottering structure that has so long afforded him and his colleagues in fraud a comfortable financial refuge4 ,the public will be wise if it decline to accept1 without verification1 any statement that ,mrs4 ,eddy or ,mr4 ,hanna or ,mr4 ,farlow may make4 ,mrs4 ,eddy1 it would seem1 cannot tell the truth1 and ,messrs4 ,hanna and ,farlow1 it would seem1 are paid to tell lies4 ,but the story is only half told1 and what follows is more damning than what has gone before4 ,chapter ,,xi ,the ,eddy ,ban on ,marriage ,i have said that ,mrs4 ,eddy's influence as the founder of ,christian ,science is not confined to the religious activities of her followers1 but extends into their domestic and marital relations and even their business affairs4 ,one of the harmful results of ,mrs4 ,eddy's 8inspired0 teachings consists in the estrangement so frequently caused between husband and wife where either one or the other of them is a ,christian ,scientist4 ,if both happen to be fast in the faith1 the occasion for disharmony between them is not so great2 for then the marital relation is suspended by mutual consent4 ,i cannot say that ,i have found very much sympathy on the part of husbands1 even nominal ,christian ,science husbands1 with ,mrs4 ,eddy's views upon the marriage relation2 but ,i do know of many cases in which they have so influenced wives as to lead to the complete destruction of anything like real marriage4 ,mrs4 ,eddy disapproves of marriage altogether4 8,these words of ,st4 ,matthew10 she says1 8have special application to ,christian ,science1 namely1 #8,it is not good to marry4'0 ,in the first place1 ,st4 ,matthew never said anything of the kind2 and1 in the second place1 if he had said it1 it would have been only so much to his discredit4 ,no sane and sincere person has ever denounced marriage2 and not only did ,st4 ,matthew not disapprove of it1 but1 in his ,gospel1 ,jesus is quoted as having said3 8,for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife3 and they twain shall be one flesh40 ,and the beautiful affection of ,jesus for children is sufficient evidence of his high approval of marriage4 ,mrs4 ,eddy1 having been married three or four times1 now emphatically disapproves of marriage1 and a marriage between ,christian ,scientists is decidedly objectionable4 ,there has never been a marriage in a ,christian ,science church4 ,there is no ,christian ,science marriage ceremony and no ,christian ,science official authorized to perform a marriage4 ,the marriage relation1 as such1 is regarded as sensuous and impure1 and the marriage of an official of the church in any part of the country would mean instant loss of power and influence together with his office and its emoluments4 8,is marriage nearer right than celibacy80 asks ,mrs4 ,eddy4 8,human knowledge inculcates that it is1 while science indicates that it is not40 ,science is thus distinguished from human knowledge4 ,mrs4 ,eddy's science is a thing imparted to her by ,omniscience1 and ,omniscience1 she says1 indicates that marriage is not nearer right than celibacy4 ,it is a part of ,mrs4 ,eddy's teaching and the teaching of her students1 that a woman cannot be an effective healer1 if she really love a man and be a true wife1 and that a man cannot accomplish the best results in healing through ,christian ,science if he really love a woman and be a true husband4 ,with this objection to marriage goes also the objection to children1 so that the birth of children in ,christian ,science families is of rare occurrence and is regarded as evidence of unspiritual living and is decidedly discrediting4 8,sensual and mortal beliefs1 material suppositions of life10 ,mrs4 ,eddy calls children4 ,the effect of this teaching is shown in the difference between ,christian ,science ,sunday ,schools and ,christian ,sunday ,schools4 ,the membership of the ,methodist1 ,baptist and ,presbyterian ,sunday ,schools is about the same as their church membership2 while in ,christian ,science ,sunday ,schools there is but one child for every five church members4 ,mrs4 ,eddy's objection to children does not appear to be to children themselves1 but simply to children begotten and born as they have been from the beginning of man's existence until now and will be until the end4 ,it is a part of ,mrs4 ,eddy's inspired doctrine that1 when ,christian ,science has made a conquest of the world and the 8spiritual creation is discerned10 there will be no more marriage and the human race be propagated without regard to sex4 8,until it be learned10 she says1 8that generation rests on no sexual basis1 let marriage continue10 and 8until time matures human growth1 marriage and progeny will continue unprohibited in ,christian ,science10 and 8,to abolish marriage at this period and maintain morality and generation1 would put ingenuity to ludicrous shifts1 yet this is possible in ,science40 ,insane as this teaching is1 ,mrs4 ,eddy's alleged 8intelligent0 following believe it to be the teaching of ,infinite ,wisdom1 and as such make it the desire of their lives4 ,charming doctrine this for civilized people to make the regulator of their lives6 ,oh1 charming6 ,but ,mrs4 ,eddy goes further and denounces marriage in the roundest and almost unprintable terms4 ,the most impressive and conspicuous incident in ,christian ,science history was the dedication in ,june1 #aijf1 of the 8,mother ,church0 in ,boston1 a beautiful building that cost upwards of two million dollars4 ,in order to get her views regarding marriage before the faithful1 in the most impressive manner1 ,mrs4 ,eddy incorporated them in her message which was read at the church dedication ceremonies4 ,she took the bit in her teeth1 as it were1 and notwithstanding efforts to dissuade her or induce her to modify her statement1 insisted upon getting her views before her following in their most extreme and obnoxious form1 characterizing marriage as 8synonymous with legalized lust40 ,it has been denied by ,mrs4 ,eddy's press agents that she gave utterance to this opinion of marriage2 but it will be found in her dedication message as published in the ,christian ,science ,sentinel for ,june #af1 #aijf1 and the ,christian ,science ,journal for ,july1 #aijf4 ,to one not insane or degenerate1 to all noble souls1 marriage is the sweetest and purest relationship imaginable and fatherhood and motherhood are nothing less than divine2 but this three-or-four-times-married woman gives us to understand that1 so far as she knows it1 marriage is 8legalized lust40 ,i should think a so much married woman would deliberate a long time before she would give public utterance to such a view of the marriage relation4 ,far be it from me to dispute her own experience4 ,her whole teaching regarding the institution shows that it is impossible for her to conceive of what marriage means to a noble man and a noble woman who have found unity in its sacred bond2 and when she applies that vile epithet to society's fundamental institution1 ,i tell her1 though she pretend to voice ,god ,himself1 that she lies and the truth is not in her4 ,how is it possible for a husband who loves and respects his wife1 or a wife who loves and respects her husband1 or parents who adore their children1 to have anything but contempt for this woman and her odious teachings8 ,if ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,god were1 in fact1 the true ,god1 and if ,christian ,science were a revelation from ,him1 and if all the miracles they pretend to have performed had been performed1 ,i should still not bow down to their ,god nor worship him2 ,i should not prostrate myself at their shrines nor have fellowship with them1 so long as the attempt is made to place the stigma of impurity upon the purest of all pure things in the world to me1 my child4 ,yes1 this is the twentieth century4 ,no1 we are not living in the year #ejj nor yet in the year #ajjj4 ,the ideas and doctrines1 the beliefs and practices of ,mrs4 ,eddy's ,christian ,science belong to the darkest period of the dark ages1 but they are very real and very potent things in the lives of many thousands of people upon whom the light of the world's highest civilization shines4 ,chapter ,,xii ,christian ,science ,witchcraft ,let us now pass to consideration of another phase of ,mrs4 ,eddy's influence1 more astounding1 perhaps1 than any we have considered1 and more discreditable1 if possible1 to the age in which we live4 ,i refer to the belief in what ,i have called the new-old witchcraft2 that is to say1 to the belief1 taught by ,mrs4 ,eddy as inspired truth1 and accepted by her followers as revealed of ,god1 that a maliciously disposed person has the power1 by absent treatment1 through his or her mind to cause any form of sickness1 the most horrible of deaths1 and complete domestic1 social or business disaster to others4 ,i shall quote somewhat liberally from ,mrs4 ,eddy's own statements in this regard1 in order that there may be no question that ,i represent her correctly1 and of these statements ,i invite thoughtful consideration4 ,in her first edition of 8,science and ,health10 published in #ahge1 ,mrs4 ,eddy said1 on page #abc3 8,in coming years the person or mind that hates his neighbor will have no need to traverse his fields1 to destroy his flocks and herds1 and spoil his vines2 or to enter his house to demoralize his household2 for the evil mind will do this through mesmerism2 and not in propria person be seen committing the deed4 ,unless this terrible hour be met and restrained by science1 mesmerism1 that scourge of man1 will leave nothing sacred when mind begins to act under direction of conscious power40 ,on page #chb1 ,mrs4 ,eddy says3 8,the silent argument used in his own behalf1 as he manipulates the head1 the malpractitioner would blush to make audibly4 ,suppose he has a juror for a patient1 and establishes the mesmeric connection between them1 he can influence more than law or evidence1 the verdict of that honest juror40 7,possibly this accounts for the presence in the court-room1 at the trial of a case in which ,mrs4 ,eddy was defendant1 of a large number of the most potent ,christian ,science hypnotists47 ,on page #agg of the #acth edition of 8,science and ,health10 ,vol4 ,,ii1 ,mrs4 ,eddy says3 8,mesmerism is practiced both with and without manipulation2 but the evil deed without a sign is also done by the manipulator and mental malpractitioner4 8,the secret mental assassin stalks abroad1 and needs to be branded to be known in what he is doing40 ,on page #age1 ,mrs4 ,eddy says3 8,if the right mental practice can restore health1 as is proven beyond a question1 it is self-evident that a mental malpractice can impair the health of those ignorant of the cause and how to treat it40 ,on page #agi1 ,mrs4 ,eddy says3 8,the evidence of the power that ,mind exercises over the body has accumulated in weight and clearness until it culminates1 at this period1 in scientific statement and proof4 ,our courts recognize the evidence that goes to prove the committal of a crime2 then1 if it be clear that the so-called mind of one mortal has killed another1 is not this mind proved a murderer1 and shall not the man be sentenced whose mind1 with malice aforethought1 kills8 ,his hands1 without mortal mind to aid them1 could not murder2 but it is proven that this mind1 without the aid of his hands1 has killed40 ,in 8,science and ,health10 thirty-sixth edition1 published in #ahhh1 ,mrs4 ,eddy says1 on page #bbj3 8,it is hoped that eventually our laws will take cognizance of mental crime40 ,on page #eae1 she says3 8,this malicious animal-power 7of which the ,dragon is the type7 seeks to kill his fellow-mortals1 morally and physically1 and then to charge the innocent with his crimes40 ,on page #eaf1 she says3 8,the highest degree of human depravity1 which is to be found in this propulsive will power1 or ,animal ,magnetism40 ,in 8,miscellaneous ,writings10 published in #ahig1 on page #bbb1 ,mrs4 ,eddy says3 8,the crimes committed under this new regime of mind-power1 when brought to light1 will make stout hearts quail4 ,its mystery protects it now1 for it is not yet known40 ,in a long article entitled 8,malicious ,animal ,magnetism10 written by ,mrs4 ,eddy and published as hers in the ,christian ,science ,journal for ,february1 #ahhi1 when the ,journal was her property1 she lays down her inspired teaching on that subject with unwonted clearness4 ,she says3 8,one of the greatest crimes practiced in1 or known to1 the ages is mental assassination4 ,a mind liberated from the beliefs of sense1 to do good1 by perverting its power becomes warped into the lines of evil without let or hindrance4 ,a mind taught its power to touch other minds by the transference of thought1 for the ends of restoration from sickness1 or1 grandest of all1 the reformation and almost transformation into the living image and likeness of ,god--this mind1 by misusing its freedom1 reaches the degree of total moral depravity4 8,does the community know this criminal8 ,he sits at the friendly board and fireside2 he goes to their places of worship2 he takes his victim by the hand1 and all the time claims the power and carries the will to stab to the heart1 to take character and life from this friend who gives him his hand in full trust1 and has1 perhaps1 toiled and suffered to benefit and bless him4''' 8,it is no longer possible to keep still concerning these things --nay1 it is criminal to hold silence and to cover crime that grows bolder and picks off its victims as sharpshooters pick off the officers of an attacking force4 8,these secret1 heaven-defying enormities must be proclaimed1 or we become guilty before ,god as accessory after the fact4 ,if a friend were fallen upon and maltreated or murdered before our eyes1 should we hold ourselves guiltless1 should we count ourselves men and women1 if we buried the secret of the violence and our knowledge of the assassins8 8,are we such cowards1 knowing the facts that we do know1 as to turn and run8 ,shall we see the evil1 the deadly danger that threatens our brother1 and1 to hide ourselves1 flee away not warning him8 8,the ,science of mind uncovers to ,scientists secret sin1 even more distinctly than so-called physical crimes are visible to the personal senses2 crime is always veiled in obscurity1 but ,science fastens guilt upon its author through mind1 with the certainty and directness of the eye of ,god ,himself4 8,human laws will eventually be framed for these criminals that now go unwhipped of human justice4 ,human law even now recognizes crime as mental1 for it seeks always the motive4 ,rude counterfeit as it is of ,divine ,justice1 it metes out punishment or pardons according as it finds1 or finds not1 the evil intent1 the mental element4 ,the time has come for instructing human justice so that these secret criminals shall tremble before the omnipotent finger that points them out to the human executioner40 ,if that isn't witchcraft1 ,i don't know what witchcraft is4 ,the ,omnipotent finger will point out these criminals1 who operate through silent and invisible mental influences1 and justice will be meted out to them by the human executioner6 ,in a personal letter to a student ,mrs4 ,eddy said3 8,the mental malpractitioners or mesmerists employ the argument of poison to kill people4 ,they cause you or your patients to suffer from arsenical poison in the blood or stomach1 mercurial poison1 morphine or any other form of mineral1 vegetable or animal poison which they may name in their arguments40 ,in the latest editions of her book1 and in formal communications to her followers1 ,mrs4 ,eddy reaffirms her belief in this malicious power of mind1 and again warns her followers against it4 ,her personal teaching to her students was even more extravagant than the language of her published works1 and it was a common occurrence for her to frighten young girls and children nearly into fits with the dreadful fear that a malicious mind was seeking to cause them unspeakable disaster4 ,she has taught that the malicious action of mind alone might1 of itself1 cause1 and had caused1 the pregnancy of woman1 with consequences ,i must leave to your imagination4 ,and all this damnable doctrine is accepted and believed by ,mrs4 ,eddy's 8intelligent0 followers as the truth revealed by ,god through the founder of ,christian ,science--believed with a belief that trembles4 ,i have talked with a gentleman who1 years ago1 with his family1 lived for some six months in the house with ,mrs4 ,eddy2 and he said to me with great earnestness3 8,i lived there six months1 and ,i tell you1 sir1 ,i would rather spend ten years in hell than another six months in ,mrs4 ,eddy's company4 ,she nearly drove my children into frenzy with her malicious animal magnetism business40 ,malicious animal magnetism is the name by which ,mrs4 ,eddy now calls her witchcraft4 ,it has been also a regular part of the teachings of that bogus institution1 the ,massachusetts ,metaphysical ,college1 of which ,mrs4 ,eddy was president1 that malicious minds may1 and today are1 causing sickness1 death and disaster to ,christian ,scientists and their families4 ,i know it to be a fact that the lecturer there literally taught that ,mrs4 ,josephine ,c4 ,woodbury1 whom he named1 possessed this power1 and used it to the detriment of ,christian ,scientists and the cause2 and to such an extent has this teaching regarding this particular lady spread that ,i think it would be hard to find a ,christian ,scientist in the ,united ,states who did not1 or had not1 believed ,mrs4 ,woodbury had possessed and had exercised this power4 ,a ,christian ,scientist healer1 guilty of an unpardonable impropriety with young lady patients1 is called to account by their father1 and1 acknowledging his offence1 says that he can only account for it on the ground that ,mrs4 ,woodbury made him do it1 by malicious animal magnetism4 ,an aged lady1 a ,christian ,scientist in a distant city1 having fallen unaccountable several times upon the street1 explains to her daughter that the cause of it is 8that vile ,mrs4 ,woodbury of ,boston40 ,the child of a member of the ,first ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 dies1 and the grief-stricken mother entertains the firm conviction that ,mrs4 ,woodbury killed it4 ,the husband of a member of ,mrs4 ,eddy's church has been sick for years here in ,boston1 and for years1 without having known or seen ,mrs4 ,woodbury1 such has been the teaching at the ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist1 in ,boston and of the alleged 8,college10 that she has had no doubt that ,mrs4 ,woodbury caused her husband's illness1 and she has continually sought to protect her husband by a mental effort to throw the illness back upon ,mrs4 ,woodbury4 ,meantime ,mrs4 ,woodbury is1 of course1 utterly unconscious of all of these happenings and entirely innocent of any such criminal purposes and deeds4 ,and all this deviltry as revealed by ,god6 ,all this medieval witchcraft in the name of ,christ6 ,out upon it6 ,i say4 ,let it no longer be tolerated amongst us6 ,three hundred years ago1 some nineteen or twenty estimable people in the town of ,salem in the ,commonwealth of ,massachusetts1 because of the finding of a ,court that they were witches1 were legally hanged by the neck until they were dead4 ,and should the inspired and infallible founder of ,christian ,science prevail in her benevolent intention of 8instructing human justice so that these secret criminals shall tremble before the omnipotent finger that points them out to the human executioner10 the supposed offences of malicious animal magnetism1 the invention of her disordered imagination1 would be atoned upon the gibbet or at the stake4 ,in her published work ,mrs4 ,eddy has expressly justified the employment of this alleged power for retaliation or defense4 ,she says3 8,it was years after we were personally attacked by mental malpractice before we defended ourselves or taught our students self defence4 ,until this attack was aimed at our life1 we never resisted or even investigated it thoroughly and so discovered the full purpose and extent of a mental malpractice4 ,but we gave our attention to it and found how to save the scattering remnants of our ,christian students that had been mown down like grass4 ,we resolved in the strength of ,god to save them and others from the hands of these murderers and to find1 as sure defence1 the ever present help4 ,since ,god has shown us our way in ,christian healing1 our mind often heals involuntarily4 ,the malpractitioners know this and often have asked us about their patients to direct our thoughts to them1 knowing the benefit therefrom4 ,they know1 as well as we1 that it is impossible for science to produce sickness1 but science makes sin punish itself4 ,they should have feared for their own lives in their attempts to kill us4 ,god is ,supreme and the penalties of their sins they cannot escape4 ,turning the attention of the sick to us for the benefit they may receive from us1 is another milder form or species of malpractice that is not safe2 for if we feel their sufferings1 not knowing the individual1 we shall defend ourselves and the result is dangerous to the intruder40 ,the retaliatory method of mental treatment devised by ,mrs4 ,eddy consisted in an endeavor mentally to hurl cancer back upon the person she believed to be attempting to afflict her with cancer1 or tumor upon the person attempting mentally to transmit tumor to her1 or consumption upon the evil one thinking consumption at her1 and the various forms of chemical poison upon those endeavoring to think mercurial1 arsenical or other forms of poison into her organism4 ,she told her students that she had the power of discerning such malicious mental activity on the part of those she believed to be her enemies1 and that the way to protect her was to hurl the malicious thoughts backward and cause them1 as it were1 to recoil upon and destroy their authors4 ,when ,mrs4 ,augusta ,stetson of ,new ,york was accused of attempts at mental murder1 she justified or tried to justify such endeavors on the ground that they were defensive and1 as such1 taught and sanctioned by ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,whatever ,mrs4 ,stetson and other ,christian ,scientists know about the power to commit murder by mental means1 they have learned from ,mrs4 ,eddy2 and if it be an offence against the ,christian ,science ,church1 as was decided in the case of ,mrs4 ,stetson1 to attempt to cause disease and to kill through the employment of mental powers1 then ,mrs4 ,eddy herself should follow ,mrs4 ,stetson into exile from the communion of the saints4 ,mrs4 ,stetson's excommunication is an interesting sequel to an incident that occurred in ,concord1 ,n4,h41 in ,april of #aijg4 ,mrs4 ,eddy was then living at ,concord1 and the litigation by the sons had been commenced in the preceding month4 ,it had been the talk of the newspapers1 from time to time1 that ,mrs4 ,stetson was nourishing an ambition to succeed ,mrs4 ,eddy in the leadership of ,christian ,science upon ,mrs4 ,eddy's demise1 and it had even been said that1 expecting ,mrs4 ,eddy's death to occur at a particular time1 ,mrs4 ,stetson had come to ,boston prepared with a most magnificent costume for attendance upon ,mrs4 ,eddy's ascension4 ,it was pretty generally known in ,christian ,science circles that ,mrs4 ,stetson was maneuvering to succeed ,mrs4 ,eddy as the official head of the movement1 and doubtless the report reached ,mrs4 ,eddy's ears4 ,at this time one ,herman ,s4 ,herring was the first reader of ,mrs4 ,eddy's church at ,concord and ,h4 ,cornell ,wilson was acting as one of her secretaries at her home at ,pleasant ,view4 ,by some means1 through the ,new ,york ,world1 possession was obtained of a letter written by ,herring to ,wilson1 dated ,april #bg1 #aijg1 in which he asked ,mr4 ,wilson if 8it would not be well to protect ,mrs4 ,eddy from the ,stetson argument specifically1 or are the workers doing so80 ,the meaning of this1 of course1 is that ,herring assumed ,mrs4 ,stetson was1 by malicious mental endeavor1 operating adversely to ,mrs4 ,eddy1 either to cause ,mrs4 ,eddy to designate ,mrs4 ,stetson as her successor1 or to hasten ,mrs4 ,eddy's departure1 by ascension or otherwise1 from the world2 and the 8workers0 referred to are the corps of ,christian ,science mental practitioners always maintained by ,mrs4 ,eddy at her home by concentrated mental effort to erect and maintain a mental bulwark around her that shall be impenetrable by ,mrs4 ,stetson's or any other malicious mental bullets4 8,it has troubled me10 said ,herring1 8but helped me1 to hear that ,frye was a channel for that diabolism40 ,mrs4 ,eddy has always contended that she herself was so immaculate that malicious animal magnetism could not immediately approach her2 but injury to her might be effected through some less pure personality close to her4 ,as no one was closer than ,frye1 it appears that he was believed to be the medium through which ,mrs4 ,stetson was supposed to be operating1 or attempting to operate1 against ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,the newspaper reports of the ,stetson trial and excommunication did not1 so far as they came to my attention1 contain any intimation that judgment had fallen upon ,mrs4 ,stetson because of her mental attacks upon ,mrs4 ,eddy2 but there can be no doubt that ,mrs4 ,eddy believes she had been the target of such attacks1 and that the excommunication was ,mrs4 ,eddy's own act of retaliation upon ,mrs4 ,stetson4 8,the highest degree of human depravity10 ,mrs4 ,eddy calls this alleged power to cause sickness and to cause death1 which1 when successfully employed1 should be expiated upon the scaffold2 and1 deliberately and solemnly1 with full understanding of the meaning of my language1 ,i affirm and ,i charge that ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy1 the founder of ,christian ,science and the pretended successor to1 and equal of1 ,jesus1 has again and again and again sought to exercise it2 that she1 herself1 has repeatedly thus sought to cause sickness1 sought to cause death1 and this1 as everything else ,i have alleged1 ,i will prove by legal evidence whenever ,mrs4 ,eddy may be pleased to require it4 ,to bring out clearly the effect upon ,mrs4 ,eddy's daily life of her genuine belief in this diabolical thing she calls malicious animal magnetism1 and her efforts to avail herself of the supposed power of mind to cause disease and death1 the following letter1 received from a gentleman1 now a practising physician1 who in his earlier manhood was attracted to ,mrs4 ,eddy and her teachings1 is incorporated here3 8,i lived in the #8,college' with ,mrs4 ,eddy and her family for nearly a year1 and had ample opportunity to observe all the things ,i now tell you2 ,i shall not make a statement without knowing that it is absolutely true4 8,as you desire information in regard to her teachings of malicious animal magnetism1 ,i will confine myself mostly to that subject4 8,nearly two-thirds of the time of her class lectures was taken up with teaching us how to #8meet the enemy1' as she called ,richard ,kennedy1 ,edward ,ames1 ,clara ,choate1 and her mother1 ,mrs4 ,childs4 ,we were taught that ,richard ,kennedy1 especially1 was the #8,arch ,enemy' of ,christian ,science1 and of ,mrs4 ,eddy herself2 that he had learned the art of using #8malicious animal magnetism' on ,mrs4 ,eddy and her students2 that he had #8secret service' men and women who watched every movement of ,mrs4 ,eddy1 and of each one living with her2 that we could not go out without some one following1 and watching us1 reporting to #8the ring of enemies1' namely1 ,kennedy ,ames1 ,choate and ,childs4 ,we were taught that by being aware of all our movements--just how we looked1 and who our patients were--they had the mental power to so mesmerize our minds as to cause us to meet with defeat in all our attempts to heal2 that they were informed of the diseases and weaknesses from which we had been healed1 and by malicious thoughts and concentration upon us could cause us to relapse into our old forms of disease4 8,mrs4 ,eddy was constantly having attacks of illness 7always in the night74 ,we were often called up about eleven o'clock at night to treat her1 and were obliged to remain up until about two o'clock a4m4 ,these attacks1 we were told1 were brought on by the #8enemy1' working through us1 as her students4 ,she claimed that the only way the #8enemy' could reach her was through her students1 she being so strong and so pure that their #8malicious animal magnetism' could not reach her in any other way4 ,so we used to go into the parlor1 after breakfast and supper1 each day1 and mentally #8take up the enemy4' ,we were taught to recognize the error1 and treat ourselves and the #8enemy1' so that they 7#8the enemy'7 could have no power over us1 or our patients2 and every time we gave the treatments we were taught to first #8treat the enemy4' 8,the result of all this was1 that ,mrs4 ,eddy was always full of fear2 as the #8enemy' were supposed to have power to prevent all kinds of desired results1 not only in healing1 but in business1 as well4 8,i was taught that the postal clerks were so mesmerized that letters to and from the ,college would never reach their destination unless certain conditions were complied with2 also that the telegraph operators were so under this malicious influence that a message sent by telegraph would not reach the person to whom it was sent unless certain precautions were taken4 ,i was once sent from her house to ,west ,newton to forward a telegraph message to ,chicago1 so that it would be sent by way of ,worcester1 instead of ,boston1 as all ,boston operators were supposed to be so mesmerized by the #8enemy' that no message from ,mrs4 ,eddy could reach its destination1 if sent through their hands4 ,and so ,i might run on for hours1 giving you facts about such things4 8,i was told to treat the #8enemy' 7,kennedy1 ,ames1 ,choate and ,childs7 to cause their #8old beliefs' to return1 #8and prostrate them at once6' #8,old beliefs' meant former diseases1 from which they had been healed1 in some cases even tumors and cancers4 8,i could write pages of things said and done1 to show that insane idea of the power of malicious men and women to nearly1 if not quite1 kill people4 ,we were taught that they had killed several students of ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,i was taught that ,kennedy and ,ames knew how to treat people in a way to cause #8sixty symptoms of arsenic poisoning4' 8,i was often called in the night to treat ,mrs4 ,eddy1 as she was sick4 ,i have been sent to the homes of other students to call them in the night to help her out of her fears and spasms4 8,i was sent in the month of ,may1 #ahhd1 at two o'clock a4m41 to call lawyer ,roberts to make her will1 as it seemed she could not live till morning--all caused by #8malicious animal magnetism1' or #8,m4,a4,m4' as we were in the habit of abbreviating it4 8,i found ,mrs4 ,eddy a strong-willed1 obstinate1 and arbitrary woman4 ,her business was obliged to be conducted as she dictated1 whether right or wrong4 8,i was one of four students told by ,mrs4 ,eddy to treat certain clergymen of ,boston to come into her classes and endorse ,christian ,science4 8,the following incident might be of interest at this time3 8,in the summer of #ahhd1 ,mrs4 ,eddy taught her first class in ,chicago4 ,for several weeks before going there she was constantly in a state of worry1 or fear1 that ,mrs4 ,choate would #8prostrate her1' and so prevent her from going there1 as she thought that ,mrs4 ,choate herself wished to go and teach a class4 ,calvin ,a4 ,frye had purchased ,mrs4 ,eddy's ticket1 and engaged a private compartment for her1 and a berth for himself 7to accompany her to ,chicago71 when1 the night before she was to start1 she was taken very ill 7the work of ,mrs4 ,choate1 she believed it to be7 and was not able to go the next day1 as she had intended to do4 ,she called in her students1 at the ,college with her1 to treat against ,mrs4 ,choate1 to prevent her mesmerism from prostrating her 7,mrs4 ,eddy71 and by the second day she was able to go to ,chicago4 ,we afterwards learned that at the same identical time1 ,mrs4 ,choate was ill1 and thought that ,mrs4 ,eddy was sending #8malicious animal magnetism' to prostrate her1 and called in a former student of the college to treat against ,mrs4 ,eddy's mesmerism4 8,so you see how fear controlled ,mrs4 ,eddy 7even at that distant day7 and every one connected with her1 and has continued to control every one taught by her1 who has not escaped from the bondage of that teaching4 8,this is only a fragment of what ,i might tell you in regard to ,mrs4 ,eddy and her teachings at the time ,i was with her2 but it is enough to show you what she taught and practised then1 as well as now40 ,could anything be more insane than the condition of ,mrs4 ,eddy's household as indicated in this letter8 ,or could anything be more diabolical than her attempt1 to which this gentleman and others are willing to make oath whenever they are called upon1 by concerted mental operations to afflict her enemies with tumor and cancer8 ,but to be somewhat more specific4 ,some years ago ,mrs4 ,eddy regarded ,mr4 ,daniel ,h4 ,spofford1 who had been one of her students and friends1 as an enemy1 and it was her determined and expressed purpose that he should in some manner be disposed of4 ,the cause of ,mrs4 ,eddy's violent antipathy to ,spofford is not quite clear1 except perhaps upon the theory that all of her antipathies have been violent4 ,it may be in some measure due to his unwillingness to pay her money he did not believe was due her1 and to the failure of various litigations brought against him by her4 ,mrs4 ,eddy brought suit against ,spofford upon one of her early contracts for #ajj for teachings1 ten per cent royalty on income1 and #a1jjj for omission to utilize the teachings2 and she failed to recover in the courts4 ,she actually caused a suit in equity to be brought against ,spofford in the ,superior ,court at ,salem1 ,mass41 in which the court was asked to issue an injunction to restrain ,spofford from using his mind to cause the illness of her patient1 who was said to suffer physically from his malicious mental activity4 ,it is interesting to note that this singular proceeding was brought in the same jurisdiction in which1 some hundreds of years ago1 certain individuals were arraigned and tried for the crime of witchcraft1 found guilty and hanged by the neck until they were dead4 ,mrs4 ,eddy acted as attorney in fact for the plaintiff in this suit and the power of attorney is still of record in the case4 ,the strange bill of complaint is as follows3 8,humbly complaining1 the plaintiff1 ,lucretia ,l4 ,s4 ,brown of ,ipswich1 in said ,county of ,essex1 showeth unto your ,honors1 that ,daniel ,h4 ,spofford1 of ,newburyport1 in said ,county of ,essex1 the defendant in the above entitled action1 is a mesmerist and practices the art of mesmerism and by his said art and power of his mind influences and controls the minds and bodies of other persons and uses his said power and art for the purpose of injuring the persons and property and social relations of others and does by said means so injure them4 8,and the plaintiff further showeth that the said ,daniel ,h4 ,spofford has1 at divers times and places since the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five1 wrongfully and maliciously and with intent to injure the plaintiff1 caused the plaintiff by means of his said power and art great suffering of body and mind and severe spinal pains and neuralgia and a temporary suspension of mind1 and still continues to cause the plaintiff the same4 ,and the plaintiff has reason to fear and does fear that he will continue in the future to cause the same4 ,and the plaintiff says that said injuries are great and of an irreparable nature and that she is wholly unable to escape from the control and influence he so exercises upon her and from the aforesaid effects of said control and influence40 ,naturally ,mrs4 ,eddy could find no lawyer sufficiently besotted1 or shameless1 to argue this case for her when it came up for hearing4 ,she was present and such argument as was made was by one of her then dear friends1 who afterwards became1 as she believed1 one of her dearest foes2 but upon the filing of the demurrer by ,mr4 ,spofford's lawyer1 raising the legal point that the bill of complaint did not set forth any cause of action1 the court sustained the demurrer and threw the case out1 declaring with a smile that it was not within the province of the court by its writ of injunction to control the operations of ,mr4 ,spofford's mind4 ,whatever may have been the cause of ,mrs4 ,eddy's hatred of ,spofford1 she wished him killed1 and to that end instructed her students to sit together daily1 at noon and in the evening1 and by concerted mental concentration hurl disease into ,mr4 ,spofford4 ,i do not contend that ,mrs4 ,eddy1 or ,christian ,scientists or others1 ever killed or can kill or afflict with disease any other person by absent mental treatment1 and one of my strong reasons for this confident belief is that ,i am still permitted to walk the earth4 ,i only seek to show the murderous purpose in the heart of the woman who is pretending to be the voice of ,god to this age and the equal of ,jesus ,christ4 ,failing in her effort mentally to dispose of ,spofford1 did this vindictive woman endeavor to accomplish her purpose by any other method8 ,i cannot precisely say1 but what ,i can say is this3 ,in ,december1 #ahgh1 after a hearing in the ,police ,court in ,boston 7in which one of the witnesses testified she had heard ,mrs4 ,eddy say ,spofford was a bad man and ought to be put out of the way71 by which they were held for the grand jury in #c1jjj bail1 and after an examination by the ,suffolk grand jury of some six or eight witnesses1 one ,edward ,j4 ,arens1 and one ,asa ,g4 ,eddy1 third husband of ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy1 and then living with her as her husband1 were duly indicted for a conspiracy to commit murder4 ,to commit murder upon whom8 ,upon ,daniel ,h4 ,spofford1 the same ,spofford ,mrs4 ,eddy had solicited her followers to kill by mental means4 ,there were two counts in the indictment4 ,the first read3 8,that ,edward ,j4 ,arens and ,asa ,g4 ,eddy of ,boston aforesaid1 on the #bhth day of ,july in the year of our ,lord1 one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight1 ,boston1 aforesaid1 with ,force and ,arms1 being persons of evil minds and dispositions did then and there unlawfully conspire1 combine and agree together feloniously1 wilfully1 and of their malice aforethought1 to procure1 hire1 incite and solicit1 one ,james ,l4 ,sargent1 for a certain sum of money1 to wit1 the sum of five hundred dollars1 to be paid to said ,sargent by them1 said ,arens and ,eddy1 feloniously1 wilfully1 and of his1 said ,sargent's malice aforethought1 in some way and manner and by some means1 instruments1 and weapons1 to said jurors unknown1 one1 ,daniel ,h4 ,spofford1 to kill and murder4 ,against the law1 peace and dignity of said ,commonwealth40 ,what connection there was between the failure of ,mrs4 ,eddy's efforts to kill ,spofford or to have him killed by mental means and her husband's alleged efforts to have him killed by physical means1 ,i do not positively know4 ,i did not hear ,mrs4 ,eddy say to ,mr4 ,eddy3 ,asa1 we have tried and tried and tried to kill that man ,spofford1 but he is a tough proposition1 and we have made no progress4 ,now you pay ,sargent #ejj to lie in wait for him with a club and we will see if that won't settle him4 ,that was the charge against ,eddy4 ,nothing mental about the club form of treatment6 ,i did not hear ,mrs4 ,eddy say that to ,eddy1 but ,i very much doubt if he would have found himself in the position in which he was placed1 if his dominating helpmeet had offered any objection to the thing of which he was accused4 ,i do not know that ,mrs4 ,eddy knew anything about ,asa ,g4 ,eddy's undertaking to have ,spofford killed2 but ,i do know that what ,i have stated is true1 and ,i do know that the human mind necessarily makes deductions from circumstances2 and ,i do not doubt every human mind that believes the facts to be as ,i have stated them1 will make the same deduction that my mind makes4 ,for some unexplained reason this indictment was never prosecuted2 but1 upon the payment of costs by ,eddy1 was nol prossed4 ,there was no disproof of the sworn testimony given in the ,police ,court4 ,eddy never asked for a hearing1 he never insisted upon the vindication only a trial could give4 ,he put his hand into his pocket and paid a considerable sum to escape a trial2 and ,mrs4 ,eddy and her friends call that a vindication4 ,does an innocent man accused of serious crime pay money to escape a trial1 or does he demand a full hearing and establish his innocence8 ,and ,spofford is not the only assumed enemy the good 8,mother0 of ,christian ,science has sought to dispose of by mental murder4 ,richard ,kennedy and ,clara ,e4 ,choate1 both now living in ,boston1 and ,edward ,j4 ,arens1 also fell under the ban and at ,mrs4 ,eddy's instigation received so-called mental treatment designed to relieve them of the burden of the flesh by divers diseases4 ,another one of her early friends1 whom ,mrs4 ,eddy ceased to love and grew to hate1 was ,richard ,kennedy4 ,he had been one of her earliest pupils1 studying with her when she lived at the ,wentworth house in ,stoughton in the sixties2 and they had carried on a sort of co-partnership at ,lynn1 ,mrs4 ,eddy doing the teaching and ,kennedy the healing4 ,but she had had a falling out with ,kennedy as with her other early friends1 ,spofford and ,arens1 and she had dragged him into court as she had dragged them1 ,kennedy was a young man and an easy victim4 ,he gave ,mrs4 ,eddy his promissory note for a thousand dollars for her teachings1 and after he had paid two hundred and fifty dollars on account she brought suit against him for the balance1 seven hundred and fifty dollars1 but again she lost her case4 ,after a time1 somehow or other1 the strange notion got into ,mrs4 ,eddy's head that ,kennedy was the most malicious and ,satanic of all her enemies1 who were1 by mental means1 seeking her destruction4 ,he was the very incarnation of the mind's hellish power in its most malignant and effective form2 and she denounced him in the following lurid language3 8,the ,nero of today1 regaling himself through a mental method with the tortures of individuals1 is repeating history and will fall upon his own sword and it shall pierce him through4 ,let him remember this when1 in the dark recesses of thought1 he is robbing1 committing adultery1 and killing2 when he is attempting to turn friend away from friend1 ruthlessly stabbing the quivering heart2 when he is clipping the thread of life1 and giving to the grave youth and its rainbow hues2 when he is turning back the reviving sufferer to her bed of pain1 clouding her first morning after years of night2 and the ,nemesis of that hour shall point to the tyrant's fate1 who falls at length upon the sword of justice40 ,and in one of the editions of her book ,mrs4 ,eddy went so far as to expressly accuse ,kennedy of the crime of murder in the following extraordinary language3 8,the husband of a lady who was the patient of this malpractitioner poured out his grief to us and said3 #8,dr4 ,k---- has destroyed the happiness of my home1 ruined my wife1' etc42 and1 after that1 he finished with a double crime by destroying the health of that wronged husband so that he died4 ,we say that he did these things because we have as much evidence of it as ever we had of the existence of any sin4 ,the symptoms and circumstances of the cases1 and the diagnosis of their diseases proved the unmistakable fact4 ,his career of crime surpasses anything that minds in general can accept at this period4 ,we advised him to marry a young lady whose affection he had won1 but he refused2 subsequently she was wedded to a nice young man1 and then he alienated her affections from her husband40 ,all of this1 of course1 by absent mental treatment6 ,it is a matter of record in the ,superior ,court of the ,state of ,new ,hampshire1 by sworn testimony1 that ,mrs4 ,eddy sought to relieve herself of the imagined malicious mental treatment of ,mr4 ,kennedy by instructing her friends to sit together at stated times daily and1 holding his lungs in a diseased condition in their minds1 hurl consumption at him with all the power of concentrated malevolent thought4 ,kennedy1 who is living today1 and with whom ,i am well acquainted1 is as gentle and kindly a person as can be imagined2 and1 while ,mrs4 ,eddy was working herself into a frenzy over his supposed malignity1 and having consumption mentally hurled at him1 was pursuing the even tenor of his way without thought of her except as an occasional memory of a bitter experience4 ,mrs4 ,eddy hated ,kennedy as she hated ,spofford1 and she wanted ,kennedy killed as she wanted ,spofford killed2 and1 as in the case of ,spofford1 she solicited her friends and students to undertake by mental coperation to terminate his mundane career4 ,it may relieve the minds of some to know that ,mrs4 ,eddy's kindly purpose did not succeed with any of the persons whose illness was sought1 as ,i have related4 ,spofford1 ,kennedy and ,mrs4 ,choate did not succumb to the malicious absent treatment1 but are still present with us in the flesh4 ,arens died1 ,i am told1 but some time after ,mrs4 ,eddy had given him up as hopelessly tenacious of life4 ,but one more incident and ,i have done--,i have kept the worst until the last4 ,a sad and tragic episode in connection with the litigation instituted by her sons in reference to ,mrs4 ,eddy's mental condition1 was the suicide at the ,parker ,house1 in ,boston1 on ,april #bj1 #aijg1 of ,miss ,mary ,c4 ,tomlinson1 sister of ,irving ,c4 ,tomlinson1 a former ,universalist minister1 but then and now a ,christian ,science healer1 and of ,rev4 ,vincent ,tomlinson1 a ,universalist minister of ,worcester1 ,mass4 ,miss ,tomlinson had lived with her brother ,irving at ,concord1 ,n4,h41 and had been a ,reader in the ,christian ,science ,church there and an ardent disciple of ,christian ,science and of ,mrs4 ,eddy1 being much in company with her and absolutely devoted to her service4 ,after the law suit by ,mrs4 ,eddy's sons began1 all the closest friends of ,mrs4 ,eddy in ,concord 7as well as elsewhere7 were called upon to defend her from the attack1 and1 by the peculiar method of absent and silent mental treatment1 both ,mr4 ,glover and his senior counsel1 ,mr4 ,chandler1 were pressed by the so-called 8workers0 to the utmost of the powers they supposed themselves to possess4 ,miss ,mary ,c4 ,tomlinson was not in the least degree unwilling to exercise her powers of absent treating of persons in order to repel the ,stetson argument2 nor even unwilling to treat ,glover and ,chandler in the ordinary way1 trying to make them abandon the lawsuit2 but when the decision was made at ,concord1 to treat ,mrs4 ,eddy's own son and his lawyer in hostile fashion--by sending arsenical poison into their veins1 or otherwise putting them to death1 ,miss ,tomlinson's whole nature revolted4 ,she had implicit faith in ,christian ,science1 she worshiped ,mrs4 ,eddy1 she believed in the existence of malicious animal magnetism and its devilish power and in the methods of counter-working to prevent its evil work2 but she had never before seen an attempt made to use absent treatment diabolically--by putting to death the enemies of the ,church of ,christ1 ,scientist4 ,when she opened her eyes to the enormity to be practised in the name of a revengeful church1 her mind revolted4 ,she determined to leave ,concord1 to renounce ,mrs4 ,eddy and all her works and to denounce the system to which she had been so earnest a servant4 ,indeed the intense revulsion of feeling seems to have upset her mental balance4 ,following up her determination1 she went to ,boston on ,april #ai and wandered about1 uncertain what to do with herself1 at last finding her way to the ,parker ,house in the hands of a ,christian ,scientist1 where her two brothers1 being telegraphed for1 came to take charge of her4 ,here the tragedy begins4 ,the ,parker ,house manager wished her to be seen by ,dr4 ,payne1 the hotel physician2 but did not succeed in getting him admission to her rooms4 ,he did1 however1 send to her a nurse from ,boothby ,hospital1 a ,miss ,telfair1 who arrived about nine p4m4 ,later1 ,mr4 ,vincent ,tomlinson1 the ,universalist minister1 came and with the nurse took charge of his sister4 ,about eleven o'clock ,mr4 ,irving ,c4 ,tomlinson1 the ,christian ,science healer1 arrived and at once took controlling charge of ,miss ,tomlinson--saying that he understood the case and knew what to do4 ,mr4 ,vincent ,tomlinson left the rooms and took a room down the corridor which his brother had engaged4 ,the nurse was not allowed to stay in the room with ,miss ,tomlinson but was placed out in the corridor1 while ,mr4 ,irving ,tomlinson took off his shoes and coat and laid down in a connecting room4 ,about one o'clock in the morning there was the sound of a window being raised in ,miss ,tomlinson's room and the nurse entered quickly from the corridor as ,irving came in from his room4 ,they found she had opened the window1 and she said to ,irving1 when he remonstrated1 that she wanted to look out4 ,they induced her to go back to bed and ,irving then locked on the inside the door from her room into the corridor and took out the key and kept it4 ,miss ,telfair went into the corridor again and ,irving went into his own room4 ,about three a4m41 ,miss ,telfair heard the door connecting with ,irving's room shut and locked by ,miss ,tomlinson4 ,again she heard the window opened1 but1 having been locked out1 could not get to ,miss ,tomlinson4 ,she called for the porter and they finally got into ,miss ,tomlinson's room by breaking down the door connecting it with ,irving's4 ,they found the window wide open and the room empty4 ,miss ,tomlinson had thrown herself down four stories to the street4 ,she was brought back to her room1 but never spoke1 and died about five a4m4 ,she had worshiped ,mrs4 ,eddy4 ,she had been one of the most devoted of her disciples1 and when she came to a realization of the infamies being practised in the name of ,christ1 life lost every ray of light and every particle of charm1 and she dashed herself to death upon the stones of the streets of ,boston4 ,small matter for wonder that1 when the bruised and mangled body had been carried to the chamber ,miss ,tomlinson had occupied1 the ,universalist minister1 standing by his dead sister1 should solemnly say to his brother1 the renegade ,universalist minister1 the ,christian ,science healer1 8,irving1 the blood of our sister is upon the skirts of ,mrs4 ,eddy60 ,the story is now completely told4 ,of those who have followed me to the end1 ,i ask1 was it incumbent upon me1 knowing the facts as ,i know them and as ,i have here presented them1 to crowd them down into my soul and by suppressing them become a party to ,mrs4 ,eddy's monstrous imposition8 ,just because the author of all of this fraud1 falsehood1 hypocrisy1 blasphemy and attempted crime is a woman1 now an aged woman1 should ,i therefore stand silently by and permit her longer to masquerade before mankind as like unto the pure and holy ,jesus8 ,i think not4 ,that has not seemed to me to be my duty in the matter4 ,i have done my duty as ,i have seen it1 and ,i will stand by the position taken and the facts affirmed4 ,is it possible for any decent person1 man or woman1 to peruse this book and then acknowledge himself or herself a disciple of ,mary ,baker ,g4 ,eddy8 ,is it conceivable that any sane man or woman1 with full knowledge of the facts of her life1 can honestly profess belief in her disgusting imposture8 ,can any one who feels1 as ,i do1 that ,jesus is the common glory of all who bear a human heart1 without resentment and without anger witness the endeavor of this vulgar creature to place herself by ,his side8 ,can any devout ,christian have any other feeling than one of abhorrence for the blasphemous woman and the bunco game she dares to say is 8authorized by ,christ08 ,if ,i have made good1 if ,i have accomplished what ,i set out to accomplish1 ,i ask every man and every woman who reads this book to lose no opportunity to show this hateful thing1 miscalled ,christian ,science1 in its true light to those with whom they come in contact4 ,let it have no quarter4 ,hit it every time you have a chance and hit it as hard as you can4 ,it is not entitled to respectful treatment4 ,nothing is more impossible than to love ,jesus1 even a little1 and to have the slightest1 the very slightest1 tolerance for ,mrs4 ,eddy and her frauds4 ,a ,christian ,science speaker recently1 in a suburb of ,boston1 in concluding an address exhorted her hearers to 8follow ,mrs4 ,eddy1 as ,mrs4 ,eddy follows the ,saviour40 ,not follow the ,saviour1 but follow ,mrs4 ,eddy in ,mrs4 ,eddy's way of following the ,saviour4 ,as ,mrs4 ,eddy follows the ,saviour4 ,by faking a revelation from ,god8 ,by stealing the ideas of another and ascribing them to ,god's voice in her private ear8 ,by putting on the cloak of religion in order to pick the pockets of those whose hands are clasped in prayer8 ,by copyrighting a 8religion10 and suing those who infringe her copyright8 ,by fixing1 under the pretended guidance of ,god1 upon the extortionate sum of three hundred dollars for twelve lessons in 8the divine power that heals08 ,by invoking the aid of the courts to compel poor creatures to pay her1 at the rate of twenty-five dollars per hour1 for telling them of ,god1 and ,his ,christ8 ,by organizing a church in which membership is made dependent upon activity in the sale of her puerile and profitable wares8 ,by denouncing as vile debauchery the sweetest and purest and noblest relation of men and women8 ,by declaring the children1 in whom our souls delight1 to be the offspring of 8legalized lust08 ,by refusing to put forth her professed ,godlike power to soothe any pain1 even that of the sister she loved1 to save any life1 even that of her own grandchild8 ,by constituting herself the veritable autocrat of the ,bedlamites and reigning with despotic sway over the multitudes of her self-abased dupes8 ,by never telling the truth1 unless there was money in it1 and never hesitating at a lie that would add one simple soul to the number of her victims or one soiled dollar to her bulging exchequer8 ,by living a life of unvarying deception and uncleanness1 and professing1 with eyes rolled heavenward1 to be 8as pure as the angels08 ,by seeking1 with ,satanic zeal and hatred1 the destruction of her fancied enemies1 through the attempted mental infliction of disease and suffering and death8 ,as ,mrs4 ,eddy follows the ,saviour8 ,not thus1 not thus1 ,o ,saviour of mankind6 not thus have followed in the royal road which thou hast trod ages of worshipers6