Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) THE CHURCH OF ST. BUNCO A DRASTIC TREATMENT OF A COPYRIGHTED RELIGION--UN-CHRISTIAN NON-SCIENCE BY GORDON CLARK THE Abbey Press PUBLISHERS 114 FIFTH AVENUE London NEW YORK Montreal Copyright, 1901, by THE Abbey Press CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE Preface 7 I. A Bird's-eye View of the Thing 11 II. The Origin of the "New Thought" 15 III. Dr. Quimby's most Distinguished Patient 41 IV. A Great "Metaphysical" Novel 59 V. A Soft Set of Critics 74 VI. "The Precious Volume" 78 VII. "Key" to the Eddy Scripture, Science and Health 95 VIII. "Christian Science" Organizing Forces 108 IX. The One True "Mother Church" 120 X. A Martyr to "Science" 131 XI. Metaphysics 155 XII. Further Analysis of the Universe 165 XIII. A Special Look at Space and Time 180 XIV. Creative Mind Further Probed 186 XV. The Genesis of "Transcendental" Ideas 193 XVI. The Grand Result of Dissecting Phenomena 196 XVII. Some Sequences of Absolute Idealism 206 XVIII. Various Schools of the "New Thought" 219 XIX. An Advanced Healer of To-day 232 XX. Conclusion 248 PREFACE. The purpose of this book is not to deny the power of mind over matter, or of the human mind over the human body, but to show that the foolish and pestilent thing termed "Christian Science" is a leech fastened upon these great truths, mostly, if not wholly, to batten on them. There is no use of saying this to "Christian Scientists" themselves--an obedient chain-gang in hypnotic servitude. But people who are not already "in Science" (to use the shibboleth of those who are), ought to be prompted not to get there. The best way in general, I think, is to show that even the historical and biographical claims at the base of the movement are false. If the personal veracity of the head of a church cannot be trusted, "divine revelations," "miracles" and "mental medicine," proceeding from such a source, will naturally be accepted only by the very soft, or else by the very hard for solid considerations.