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
About eleven o’clock Mr. Irving C. Tomlinson, the Christian
Science healer, arrived and at once took controlling charge of
Miss Tomlinson—saying that he understood the case and knew what
to do. Mr. Vincent Tomlinson left the rooms and took a room down
the corridor which his brother had engaged. The nurse was not
allowed to stay in the room with Miss Tomlinson but was placed
out in the corridor, while Mr. Irving Tomlinson took off his
shoes and coat and laid down in a connecting room. 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 room. They found she
had opened the window, and she said to Irving, when he
remonstrated, that she wanted to look out. 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 it. Miss
Telfair went into the corridor again and Irving went into his own
room. About three a.m., Miss Telfair heard the door connecting
with Irving’s room shut and locked by Miss Tomlinson. Again she
heard the window opened, but, _having been locked out_, could not
get to Miss Tomlinson. She called for the porter and they finally
got into Miss Tomlinson’s room by breaking down the door
connecting it with Irving’s. They found the window wide open and
the room empty. Miss Tomlinson had thrown herself down four
stories to the street. She was brought back to her room, but
never spoke, and died about five a.m.
She had worshiped Mrs. Eddy. She had been one of the most devoted
of her disciples, and when she came to a realization of the
infamies being practised in the name of Christ, life lost every
ray of light and every particle of charm, and she dashed herself
to death upon the stones of the streets of Boston.
Small matter for wonder that, when the bruised and mangled body
had been carried to the chamber Miss Tomlinson had occupied, the
Universalist minister, standing by his dead sister, should
solemnly say to his brother, the renegade Universalist minister,
the Christian Science healer, “Irving, the blood of our sister is
upon the skirts of Mrs. Eddy!”
The story is now completely told. Of those who have followed me
to the end, I ask, was it incumbent upon me, knowing the facts as
I know them and as I have here presented them, to crowd them down
into my soul and by suppressing them become a party to Mrs.
Eddy’s monstrous imposition? Just because the author of all of
this fraud, falsehood, hypocrisy, blasphemy and attempted crime
is a woman, now an aged woman, should I therefore stand silently
by and permit her longer to masquerade before mankind as like
unto the pure and holy Jesus? I think not. That has not seemed to
me to be my duty in the matter. I have done my duty as I have
seen it, and I will stand by the position taken and the facts
affirmed.
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