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 a member of The First Church of Christ, Scientists, shall
fail to obey this injunction, it will render him liable to lose
his membership in this church_.
Mary Baker G. Eddy.”
At this time there were upwards of twenty thousand members,
resident and non-resident, of this church, and every one of them
was by this decree required to become a canvasser for the sale of
Mrs. Eddy’s books. Twenty thousand unpaid vendors of her
worthless patent medicine, upon which there was a profit of five
hundred per cent! Is it not enough to make other manufacturers of
proprietary concoctions turn green with envy!
This compulsory sale of her books was in 1897, when Mrs. Eddy was
seventy-six, but she is the same woman today, at eighty-eight
years of age. With only a few steps between her and the grave,
she reaches out her withered, palsied hand to grab, grab, grab.
One of her latter-day schemes for bleeding the faithful has been,
as I have indicated, to publish frequent “revised” editions of
her great work, “Science and Health,” with the announcement of
additions to its text necessary to growth in “Science.” Everybody
must buy a new book and add a new profit to Mrs. Eddy’s coffers.
In February, 1908, over her signature, she published this:
“Take Notice
“I request Christian Scientists universally to read the
paragraph beginning at line thirty of page 442 in the edition
of ‘Science and Health,’ which will be issued, February 29. I
consider the information there given to be of _great
importance_ at this stage of the workings of animal magnetism,
and it will _greatly aid_ the students in their individual
experiences.
“Mary Baker G. Eddy.”
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