The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian Science — John Shaqi
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
To the soft impeachment of these three several marriages, this
pronounced opponent of marriage pleads a bashful guilty, but many
are they who believe there was yet a fourth marriage, and that
the widow Eddy in course of time became, and is today, the wife
of one, Calvin A. Frye.
Frye is, ostensibly, at least, Mrs. Eddy’s servant, her man of
all work. He is her footman, and in the livery of a footman rides
upon the driver’s seat of her carriage when she goeth forth for
her daily drives. He is also her private secretary, who handles
her mail, and, at his pleasure, permits her to peruse, or throws
into the waste-paper basket, communications addressed to Mrs.
Eddy. He is her major-domo, master of ceremonies in her
pretentious establishment and director of her large retinue of
assistant secretaries, literary experts, personal healers, mental
protectors and domestic servants. These positions Mr. Frye has
adorned, as a resident member of Mrs. Eddy’s family, occupying an
adjoining room, for upwards of thirty years. But not only is Mr.
Frye Mrs. Eddy’s servant, her footman, her secretary, her
man-of-all work, he, strangely it would seem, has for years at a
time held the legal title to the capacious residence in which she
has lived at Concord, New Hampshire, and to all the highly
cultivated grounds about it, and to all the personal property
upon the place. And not only has Mr. Frye been Mrs. Eddy’s
servant and secretary, her footman and the owner of her lands and
houses, her horses and carriages, the furniture within the
houses, and the crops upon the extensive acres, he was for years
the legal owner of her costly jewels, of the diamond cross which
she wore at her throat. Her footman, owner of the house in which
she lived, of the carriage in which he took her to drive and of
the jewels she wore! This condition of affairs was not changed
until I called attention to it a few years ago, when Mr. Frye
reconveyed to, shall I say Mrs. Frye? all the property standing
in his name.
All of these circumstances, taken with the confident opinion of
one long a member of her household that, if Mrs. Eddy isn’t the
wife of Frye, she ought to be, are to my mind strong indication
that Mrs. Eddy ought to be called Mrs. Frye and her credulous
followers not Eddyites, but Fryeites or Frytes; and I predict
that, if Frye survive Mrs. Eddy and be not amply provided for by
her will or settled with by her executors, he will go into the
Probate Court and proclaim himself to be her surviving husband,
entitled to one-third of her estate.
I do not state this fourth marriage as a fact, but offer it as
the only possible and creditable explanation of the facts.
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