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
If she had such marvelous power, why did she allow her personal
coachman, the man who had sat on the seat of her carriage as she
took her daily drive, to die in her house of a disease of which
he had been “completely cured” by Christian Science? Why did she
let her close, personal friend, her leading lecturer and
proselyter, Edward E. Kimball, die in the prime of life and at
the height of his usefulness to her cause? Why has she turned a
deaf ear to the prayers that have been addressed to her by
broken-hearted parents who have so often journeyed to her home to
beg her to exert her God-like power to save from the grave their
dying child? Why has she for thirty years and more refused to
even try to heal any one, to attempt to allay any pain however
fearful, or save any human life however beautiful and however
precious?
If Mary Baker G. Eddy has the power she boldly claims to have,
and if she has wrought the miracles she says she has wrought, she
has that power, then, I say, she has the heart of a very fiend;
for not once in thirty years has she consented to try, out of
ordinary humanity, to prevent suffering or to save life.
The truth is, Mrs. Eddy’s miraculous cures are all frauds, every
one of them, and the failure of attempted healings would prove
them to be frauds, and she does not wish to so discredit herself.
She never healed any one of any serious disease. She never in her
life had any curative power whatever, and she has been wise
indeed not to advertise the fact by attempting to cure. Her man,
Alfred Farlow, the official, highly paid and carefully coached
spokesman of her cult, and its leading press agent, admitted, in
response to my questioning and when testifying recently under
oath and subject to cross examination, that he did not know of
any cure ever having been made by Mrs. Eddy of any organic
disease in her life, but stiff leg; and he said that, in his
understanding as a high practitioner of the Christian Science art
of healing, a stiff leg is an organic disease.
When I entered upon my investigation of the matter, I believed in
the reality of some of the professed cures of Christian Science,
even of organic disease, but closer acquaintance with the subject
has satisfied me that they are, without exception, false
pretensions or honest delusions. I have known of the most honest,
but erroneous, belief in cure by Christian Science, I have known
people so resolutely to deny to themselves the reality of
disease, that they have come to believe in its unreality; and one
case has come to my notice of a poor woman’s insistence with her
dying breath that she had been healed of an incurable disease and
was then perfectly well, while her death within a few hours was
the sad witness to the delusive character of her “cure.”
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