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
“The daily ablutions of an infant are no more natural or
necessary than would be the process of taking a fish out of
water every day and covering it with dirt to make it thrive
more vigorously thereafter in its native element.”
Years afterward, Mrs. Clapp picked up a copy of “Science and
Health,” and opened it to this identical sentence which had so
often excited her girlish derision. It is on page 41, edition of
1898.
When Mrs. Wentworth died, in 1882, and the property was divided,
the son Horace laid claim to the copy of the Quimby manuscript.
He wanted it because it was in his mother’s handwriting (with the
exception of Eddy’s corrections), and it would be a souvenir of
her. He kept it with no other thought until now.
“But of late years,” said Mr. Wentworth, “as I have seen the
amazing spread of this delusion, and the way in which men and
women are offering up money and the lives of their children to
it, I have felt that it is a duty I owe to the public to make
it known.
“I have no hard feelings against Mrs. Eddy, no axe to grind, no
interest to serve, I simply feel that it is due the thousands
of good people, who have made Christian Science the anchorage
of their souls and its founder the infallible guide of their
daily life, to keep this no longer to myself. I desire only
that people who take themselves and their helpless children
into Christian Science shall do so with a full knowledge that
this is not a divine revelation, but simply the idea of an
old-time Maine healer.”
It may be assumed then, as proven, that as in 1868, 1869 and 1870
Mrs. Glover (Eddy) was teaching a system of mental healing she,
at the time, said she had learned from Dr. P. P. Quimby, she
couldn’t have discovered it herself in 1866. It now becomes
interesting to know if there is any similarity between what we
may call Quimbyism and Christian Science, between the teaching of
Mrs. Glover-Eddy in 1870 and her teaching now.
On the outside, this Quimby-Glover manuscript is entitled,
“Extracts From Doctor P. P. Quimby’s Writings,” and at the head
of the first page, on the inside, it is further entitled, “The
Science of Man, or The Principle Which Controls all Phenomena.”
There is a preface of two pages with Mary M. Glover’s name signed
at the end. The “Extracts” are in the form of fifteen questions
and answers, covering about thirty large pages, and are labeled,
“Questions by Patients and Answers by Dr. Quimby.” The document
contains an elaboration of Dr. Quimby’s mental healing system as
taught by Mrs. Eddy, by her own acknowledgment, as late as 1870.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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