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
Every one of the five thousand advertising Christian Science
healers must keep a stock of the books on hand and sell them to
their patients, who are made to believe, or to try to believe,
Mrs. Eddy’s absurd pretension that its mere perusal cures
disease, at prices ranging from three to six dollars, according
to binding. And, finally, chapters having been transposed, the
most trivial additions made or a different picture of the author
inserted, all hands are invited, no matter how many copies may
already be upon their shelves, to again step up and buy another
copy, the revised edition, containing matter said to be of the
greatest importance to their bodily and spiritual welfare, and
_all_ obediently accept the invitation.
In the words of our friend, Colonel Sellers of joyful memory,
“There’s millions in it”!!!
It would be difficult to convince any one of the boundless
audacity employed by Mrs. Eddy to promote the sale of this
worthless book, if the authoritative evidence over her own
signature were not available; but she has convicted herself, has
proven in her own hand over her own signature that the author of
this book, the founder of this alleged religion and the pretended
successor to Jesus is the arch impostor of all time.
Before I quote the grabber of money against the “founder” of a
“religion,” let me remind you that it was and is a part of Mrs.
Eddy’s claim that her teachings complete the teachings of Jesus;
that her “religion” completes the religion of Christ; that, as
Jesus said, “No man cometh unto the Father but by Me,” so Mrs.
Eddy, in effect, says, “No man cometh unto the Father but by
Jesus, and me.” To come unto the Father is to obtain knowledge of
the Father, and, according to Mrs. Eddy, while incomplete
knowledge may be obtained through the teachings of Jesus,
complete knowledge of the Father is attainable only through Jesus
and her. She has established and organized The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, ostensibly to lead into complete
knowledge of the Father those who seek Him in spirit and in
truth. Bearing this in mind, note what follows, taken from the
March, 1897, _Christian Science Journal_, signed by Mary Baker G.
Eddy, and published just as her book, “Miscellaneous Writings,”
was placed upon the market and for the sole purpose of promoting
its sale.
She says: “Christian Scientists in the United States and Canada
are hereby enjoined not to teach a student of Christian Science
for one year, commencing on March 14, 1897.
“Miscellaneous Writings is calculated to prepare the minds of
all true thinkers to understand the Christian Science text book
more correctly than a student can.
“The Bible, ‘Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,’
and my other published works, are the only proper instructors
for this hour. _It shall be the duty of all Christian
Scientists to circulate and to sell as many of these books as
they can_.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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