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
In the _Christian Science Journal_ for April, 1889, when it was
her property and published by her, and upwards of twenty years
after the time she says God had selected her to complete the
religion of Jesus, it was claimed for her, and with her sanction,
that she was equal with Jesus, and elaborate effort was made to
establish the claim. “Now a word about the horror many good
people have of our making the author of ‘Science and Health’
equal with Jesus!” says the writer, and in the first paragraph of
the article, the question is asked, “Do we, then, say that the
author of ‘Science and Health’ is equal with Jesus?” A little
further on appears the statement, “Jesus demonstrated over all
the beliefs of this false sense of life, even over the belief of
death, the last enemy to be overcome.” And further, “Mrs. M. B.
G. Eddy has worked out for us, as on a blackboard, every point in
the demonstrations, or so-called miracles of Jesus, showing us
how to meet and overcome the one, and perform the other” and,
throughout the article, its whole clearly apparent purpose is to
carry the conviction that in attributes and power Mrs. Eddy is
the entire equal of Jesus.
In an illustrated “poem” entitled “Christ and Christmas,” written
by Mrs. Eddy, and published and copyrighted by her in 1894, there
is a picture labeled “Christian Unity,” in which Jesus is
represented as seated upon a stone holding the right hand of Mary
—Mary Baker G. Eddy. In the left hand of the woman is a scroll
bearing the legend “Christian Science,” and about the head of
each figure, that of Jesus and that of the Christian Science
woman, there is a halo. The picture is illustrative of these
lines on the opposite page:
“As in blessed Palestine’s hour, so in our age
’Tis the same hand unfolds His Power and writes the page.”
At the time this book was announced by Mrs. Eddy, in December,
1893, she publicly said of it, “‘Christ and Christmas’ voices God
through song and object lesson.” The price of the book was three
dollars. How convenient to be able to command a market by voicing
God! How kind God has been to Mrs. Eddy’s business ventures!
At the time of this publication, Mrs. Eddy, who claimed to have
shared in making the illustrations (which her man Hanna called
“exquisite bits of art,” but which are, doubtless, the vulgarest
products of the art of book-making of many years), at this time,
I say, Mrs. Eddy unquestionably wished this “Christian Unity”
illustration to signify the unity of Christianity and Christian
Science, as represented by the founder of Christianity and the
founder of Christian Science, and about her own head, as about
the head of Christ, she hangs a halo! The two Messiahs, masculine
and feminine, and representing “Our Father and our Mother God,”
hand in hand, absolute equality. Christian Unity!
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