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
In the latest editions of her book, and in formal communications
to her followers, Mrs. Eddy reaffirms her belief in this
malicious power of mind, and again warns her followers against
it. Her personal teaching to her students was even more
extravagant than the language of her published works, and it was
a common occurrence for her to frighten young girls and children
nearly into fits with the dreadful fear that a malicious mind was
seeking to cause them unspeakable disaster. She has taught that
the malicious action of mind alone might, of itself, cause, and
had caused, the pregnancy of woman, with consequences I must
leave to your imagination. And all this damnable doctrine is
accepted and believed by Mrs. Eddy’s “intelligent” followers as
the truth revealed by God through the founder of Christian
Science—believed with a belief that trembles.
I have talked with a gentleman who, years ago, with his family,
lived for some six months in the house with Mrs. Eddy; and he
said to me with great earnestness: “I lived there six months, and
I tell you, sir, I would rather spend ten years in hell than
another six months in Mrs. Eddy’s company. She nearly drove my
children into frenzy with her malicious animal magnetism
business.” Malicious animal magnetism is the name by which Mrs.
Eddy now calls her witchcraft.
It has been also a regular part of the teachings of that bogus
institution, the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, of which
Mrs. Eddy was president, that malicious minds may, and today are,
causing sickness, death and disaster to Christian Scientists and
their families. I know it to be a fact that the lecturer there
literally taught that Mrs. Josephine C. Woodbury, whom he named,
possessed this power, and used it to the detriment of Christian
Scientists and the cause; and to such an extent has this teaching
regarding this particular lady spread that I think it would be
hard to find a Christian Scientist in the United States who did
not, or had not, believed Mrs. Woodbury had possessed and had
exercised this power.
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