The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian SciencePeabody, Frederick William
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The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian Science
Peabody, Frederick William
Christian Science -- Controversial literature
It is a matter of record in the Superior Court of the State of
New Hampshire, by sworn testimony, that Mrs. Eddy sought to
relieve herself of the imagined malicious mental treatment of Mr.
Kennedy by instructing her friends to sit together at stated
times daily and, holding his lungs in a diseased condition in
their minds, hurl consumption at him with all the power of
concentrated malevolent thought.
Kennedy, who is living today, and with whom I am well acquainted,
is as gentle and kindly a person as can be imagined; and, while
Mrs. Eddy was working herself into a frenzy over his supposed
malignity, and having consumption mentally hurled at him, was
pursuing the even tenor of his way without thought of her except
as an occasional memory of a bitter experience. Mrs. Eddy hated
Kennedy as she hated Spofford, and she wanted Kennedy killed as
she wanted Spofford killed; and, as in the case of Spofford, she
solicited her friends and students to undertake by mental
coöperation to terminate his mundane career.
It may relieve the minds of some to know that Mrs. Eddy’s kindly
purpose did not succeed with any of the persons whose illness was
sought, as I have related. Spofford, Kennedy and Mrs. Choate did
not succumb to the malicious absent treatment, but are still
present with us in the flesh. Arens died, I am told, but some
time after Mrs. Eddy had given him up as hopelessly tenacious of
life.
But one more incident and I have done—I have kept the worst until
the last.
A sad and tragic episode in connection with the litigation
instituted by her sons in reference to Mrs. Eddy’s mental
condition, was the suicide at the Parker House, in Boston, on
April 20, 1907, of Miss Mary C. Tomlinson, sister of Irving C.
Tomlinson, a former Universalist minister, but then and now a
Christian Science healer, and of Rev. Vincent Tomlinson, a
Universalist minister of Worcester, Mass. Miss Tomlinson had
lived with her brother Irving at Concord, N.H., and had been a
Reader in the Christian Science Church there and an ardent
disciple of Christian Science and of Mrs. Eddy, being much in
company with her and absolutely devoted to her service. After the
law suit by Mrs. Eddy’s sons began, all the closest friends of
Mrs. Eddy in Concord (as well as elsewhere) were called upon to
defend her from the attack, and, by the peculiar method of absent
and silent mental treatment, both Mr. Glover and his senior
counsel, Mr. Chandler, were pressed by the so-called “workers” to
the utmost of the powers they supposed themselves to possess.
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