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
Another of these evidences of unselfishness on Mrs. Eddy’s part,
too great for Mr. Hanna’s understanding, is the transfer to the
church in perpetuity of the _Christian Science Journal_,
_Quarterly_, and all the literary publications of the society,
and every right and privilege whatsoever connected therewith,
saving only the right to copyright the _Journal_ in her own name;
and these properties the astute Hanna again “values” at fifty
thousand dollars. Again he says nothing about what they cost Mrs.
Eddy, and again he says nothing about the right she reserved to
herself. These properties, as in the case of the real estate,
were acquired three days before she gave them to the church, by
Mrs. Eddy, from the Christian Science Publishing Society, for the
large sum of one dollar, and she reserved not only the right to
copyright the _Christian Science Journal_, which was the only
value the _Journal_ possessed, but she reserved the right to
withdraw the _Journal_ from the trust and from the church at any
time she pleased. In other words, she procured title to the
_Journal_, with a subscription list of 20,000 and over, for $1.00
and did not give the _Journal_ to the church or the society at
all. What she did give to the church, according to the official
record, cost her nothing, and what she acquired was a prosperous
periodical with a paying subscription list of 20,000 or more.
These wonderful beneficences, which fairly startle Mr. Hanna, and
which cost Mrs. Eddy $5,002, and Hanna says were “worth” $90,000,
left her with a right, under certain circumstances, to take
absolute possession of the land and the church, which cost her
nothing and cost others over two hundred thousand dollars,
guaranteed to her pleasant and permanent business quarters
without expense of any kind, gave her complete control, amounting
to ownership, of the _Christian Science Journal_, and made her
the dictator and authoritative head, if she wishes to be, of the
business end of Christian Science as conducted at the
headquarters of the Christian Science Publishing Society in
Boston. This was Mrs. Eddy’s own benefit from her outlay of
$5,002, and yet the Honorable Septimus J. Hanna, with upturned
eyes, piously exclaims:
“Let us endeavor to lift up our hearts in thankfulness to God
for His goodness to us and our cause and to His servant, our
Mother in Israel, for these evidences of a generosity and
self-sacrifice that appeal to our deepest sense of gratitude,
even while surpassing our comprehension.”
In a published statement, Mr. Farlow has said:
“As to Mrs. Eddy’s wealth, I want to say she has given away,
during the past five years, more than double the sum total of
the entire profits from the sale of her books from their first
publication to the present time.”
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