The Religio-Medical Masquerade A Complete Exposure of Christian Science By FREDERICK W. PEABODY, LL.B. OF THE BOSTON BAR THE HANCOCK PRESS BOSTON, MASS. Copyright, 1910 BY Frederick W. Peabody The price of this book is $1.00. Mailed to any address upon receipt of price and eight cents in stamps for postage. The Hancock-Press, Post-Office Box 2789, Boston, Mass. CONTENTS Introduction I. The Sacrifice of Children II. The Detached Heart III. Pretended Equality with Jesus IV. The Faked “Revelation” V. The Fiction of God’s Authorship VI. A Sham “Religion” VII. A Bogus Healing System VIII. Immeasurable Greed IX. The Eddy Autocracy X. The “String” on the Gifts XI. The Eddy Ban on Marriage XII. Christian Science Witchcraft Introduction Christian Science is the most shallow and sordid and wicked imposture of the ages. Upon a substratum of lies a foundation of false pretense has been laid, 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 anointed. Never before has the world witnessed a masquerade like that of Christian Science. Being everything that Christianity is not, 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 mind, but sincere heart. Having nothing in it remotely worthy of the name of science, it meaninglessly appropriates scientific terms and phrases in order to parade before the world with an air of learning. The founder of this pretended religion, this bogus healing system, audaciously and irreligiously professing equality of character and of power with Jesus, has, throughout her whole long life, been in every particular precisely antithetical to Christ. Sordid, mercenary, unprincipled, the consuming passion of her life has been the accumulation of money, and she has stopped at no falsehood, no fraud and no greater wickedness that seemed to put her in the way of adding to her accumulations, or overcoming her supposed enemies. Jesus condemned nothing so forcefully as the mercenary spirit. With a whip he scourged the money changers from the Temple, and in language that burned as flaming fire he denounced the hypocrites and liars of his time as “like unto whited sepulchers that are indeed beautiful outward, but within are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.”