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
Miss Mary C. Tomlinson was not in the least degree unwilling to
exercise her powers of absent treating of persons in order to
repel the Stetson argument; nor even unwilling to treat Glover
and Chandler in the ordinary way, trying to make them abandon the
lawsuit; but when the decision was made at Concord, to treat Mrs.
Eddy’s own son and his lawyer in hostile fashion—by sending
arsenical poison into their veins, or otherwise putting them to
death, Miss Tomlinson’s whole nature revolted. She had implicit
faith in Christian Science, she worshiped Mrs. Eddy, she believed
in the existence of malicious animal magnetism and its devilish
power and in the methods of counter-working to prevent its evil
work; but she had never before seen an attempt made to use absent
treatment diabolically—by putting to death the enemies of the
Church of Christ, Scientist. When she opened her eyes to the
enormity to be practised in the name of a revengeful church, her
mind revolted. She determined to leave Concord, to renounce Mrs.
Eddy and all her works and to denounce the system to which she
had been so earnest a servant. Indeed the intense revulsion of
feeling seems to have upset her mental balance. Following up her
determination, she went to Boston on April 19 and wandered about,
uncertain what to do with herself, at last finding her way to the
Parker House in the hands of a Christian Scientist, where her two
brothers, being telegraphed for, came to take charge of her.
Here the tragedy begins. The Parker House manager wished her to
be seen by Dr. Payne, the hotel physician; but did not succeed in
getting him admission to her rooms. He did, however, send to her
a nurse from Boothby Hospital, a Miss Telfair, who arrived about
nine p.m. Later, Mr. Vincent Tomlinson, the Universalist
minister, came and with the nurse took charge of his sister.
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