The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian Science — John Shaqi
The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian SciencePeabody, Frederick William
Religion
The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian Science
Peabody, Frederick William
Christian Science -- Controversial literature
Some time after the Woodbury-Eddy litigation, I was retained by
Rev. Minot J. Savage, then of New York City, to collect for him,
and at his expense, in legally evidential form, the facts showing
unmistakably Mrs. Eddy’s false pretense and fraud, and in
pursuance of this employment I examined numerous individuals and
took their statements under oath for Mr. Savage. Later, when
_McClure’s_ magazine undertook the publication of the facts of
Mrs. Eddy’s career, I was employed to procure the sworn
statements of many individuals in support of the magazine’s
story, and shortly thereafter I was retained by Mrs. Eddy’s two
sons, George W. Glover, born to her by her first husband, and
Edward J. Foster, her son by adoption, to cooperate with their
other lawyers, Hon. William E. Chandler, Ex-United States Senator
from New Hampshire being senior counsel, in the prosecution in
the courts of New Hampshire of a suit in equity for the
appointment of a receiver to have charge of their mother’s large
estate for her benefit, upon the ground that, through old age
mental weakness and delusions, if not actual insanity, she was
incompetent to have the care of it. This litigation never reached
a determination in the courts, but the family controversy was
ultimately settled by a family settlement in which the two sons
were paid approximately $300,000 for a relinquishment of their
prospective interest in their mother’s estate and an agreement
not to contest any will or other instrument disposing of her
property.
As the Massachusetts attorney in this litigation, it became my
duty in the City of Boston to examine, under oath, many of Mrs.
Eddy’s most intimate friends, and the highest officials of
organized Christian Science, who, by legal process, were
compelled to produce many hundreds of personal letters received
by them from her. This last professional experience completed my
understanding of Christian Science, and the facts herein set
forth are, almost without exception, based, either upon Mrs.
Eddy’s own published utterances, her private correspondence, the
sworn testimony of witnesses, or the admissions under oath of her
most confidential friends and followers; and I give my book to
the world with a full understanding of the responsibility I
assume and a complete willingness to justify in any legal
tribunal every statement I make.
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