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
She manufactured new lungs, offhand. She healed carious bones,
instantaneously. She put forth the divine power God had conferred
upon her, and at one visit healed that most frightful of all
diseases, a malignant cancer.
This statement is either true or false. If it is true, the whole
world should know it, for its truth would prove Mrs. Eddy to have
the power to triumph over death, and when the king, or the queen,
of death shall come to earth, all knees will touch the ground. No
one can love another very much and not be willing to go upon his
knees before the man or the woman who can protect that loved one
forever from the hand of death; and I should want to be the very
first to prostrate myself in all humility and gratitude before
the conqueror of death. And if, on the other hand, Mrs. Eddy’s
statement is false, absolutely false, a fiction made out of whole
cloth, then it is important that such falsity should be clearly
shown, and shown throughout the world that all mankind may know
the wickedness of her falsification. I affirm, and shall show, it
to be false in every particular.
Mrs. Eddy’s statement gives no names, dates, localities, nor any
substantial thing to enable any one to investigate any of these
professed miracles, and every effort to induce her to
particularize ended, as always, in failure. There would have been
as much, and as little, sense in a challenge to the world to
disprove the green-cheese hypothesis of the structural
composition of the moon.
In the issue of the _Sun_ of January 1, 1899, Dr. Charles A. L.
Reed, a prominent physician of Cincinnati, published a challenge
to Mrs. Eddy to prove the truth of her miraculous cures. He
offered to furnish her cases identical with those she said she
had healed, and he said that, if she would heal any one of them,
he would proclaim her omnipotence from the housetops; and if she
would cure all or half of them, he would cheerfully crawl upon
his knees that he might but touch the hem of her garment.
But dumbness possessed Mrs. Eddy from that time forth. Probably
she didn’t want to be glorified from the _housetops;_ she didn’t
wish to have any mere _medical_ man crawling at her feet.
As Mrs. Eddy furnishes no specifications, it is impossible, of
course, to meet her allegations in the ordinary way; but I
purpose, nevertheless, to satisfy every intelligent mind that
there is not an atom of truth in her professed miracles.
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