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 AN APOSTASY FROM 
 
 SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY 
 
 A COURSE OF LECTURES 
 
 DELIVERED BY 
 
 REV. CYRIL BUOTICH, O. F. M. 
 
 IN ST. BONIFACE CHURCH 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 
 
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AN APOSTASY FROM 
 
 SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY 
 
 A COURSE OF LECTURES 
 
 DELIVERED BY 
 
 REV. CYRIL BUOTICH, O. F. M. 
 
 IN ST. BONIFACE CHURCH 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 
 
COPYRIGHT. 1916 
 
 BY 
 
 CYRIL BUOTICH. O. F. M 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 The lectures herewith presented were deliv- 
 ered during the services of the Pious Union of 
 St. Anthony. They appear in their present 
 form in response to the request of Superiors 
 and the inquiries of many who were in attend- 
 ance. 
 
 If their style prove unpalatable to some lit- 
 erary critic, I can only plead the excuse that 
 it is mine, and that I. could devote to the revi- 
 sion of notes only the uncertain moments 
 snatched from the more pressing duties of the 
 priestly ministry. 
 
 If severity be given expression to, I offer no 
 apology. These lectures were prepared to be 
 spoken not coldly, but with the intense desire 
 of striking — ^not at the individual Christian 
 Scientist, who may be an honest victim of a 
 gigantic swindle — but at the movement of 
 Christian Science, which is not a harmless fad, 
 but a distinct form of religion, appropriating 
 the name of Christian, yet insidiously inimical 
 to Jesus Christ, professing to relieve the suf- 
 ferings of humanity, yet, if universally ac- 
 
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 cepted, bound to increase those sufferings a 
 hundredfold. If Mrs. Eddy has been made an 
 object of attack, it is because, as F. W. Pea- 
 body observes, Mrs. Eddy is Christian Science, 
 and Christian Science is Mrs. Eddy. 
 
 Among the books and lesser publications I 
 read and used in preparing these lectures I 
 desire to mention "Christian Science in the 
 Light of Holy Scripture, ^^ by Dr. I. M. Halde- 
 man; "The Eeligio-Medical Masquerade," by 
 F. W. Peabody, LL. B.; "Christian Science 
 against Itself," by M. W. Gifford, Ph. D.; 
 "What Is Christian Science?" by P. C. Wol- 
 cott, B. D.; "Hypnotism," by Dr. A. Moll; 
 "Psychotherapy," by J. J. Walsh, M. D., 
 LL. D.; "Pastoral Medicine," by A. E. San- 
 ford, M. D. 
 
 Unless otherwise stated, the 1913 edition of 
 "Science and Health" is quoted. 
 
 Fr. Cyril, 0. F. M. 
 
Imprimi potest 
 
 Fr. Hugolinus Storff, 0. F. M., 
 Min. Provlis. 
 
 Imprimatur 
 
 ^Eduardus J. Hanna, 
 
 ArcMepiscopus Sancti Francisci. 
 
INTRODUCTORY LECTURE 
 
 "But though zve, or an' angel from heaven, preach a gospel 
 besides that ivhich we have preached to you, let him be 
 anathema." Gal. 1:8. 
 
 It was on the blessed day, when Jesus Christ, 
 standing on the mountain in Galilee, addressed 
 to His assembled apostles the momentous 
 words, ''All power is given to Me in heaven 
 and on earth. Going therefore, teach ye all 
 nations, '^ that the Catholic Church received her 
 commission to be the Oracle of truth and the 
 Teacher of mankind, and to pass down the 
 ages bearing in one hand for the children of 
 men the sacred scroll of the Gospels and in the 
 other the blessed fruits of the redeeming death 
 of the Divine Savior on the cross. 
 
 Glorious Career of the Divinely Instituted 
 Church. 
 
 How faithfully she has heeded that com- 
 mand, and what magnificent triumphs she has 
 achieved in the interests of Christ as well as 
 for the welfare of men, her record today after 
 a career of nineteen centuries bears glorious 
 
and undying testimony. In every cycle and 
 century she has proclaimed the teachings of 
 Christ as she heard them from His own sacred 
 lips; to every race and generation she has 
 carried the tidings of redemption; in every 
 clime and country she has erected altars of the 
 unbloody sacrifice, whence flow the graces of the 
 crucified Savior into the souls of those who 
 adore Him as their God and Redeemer. What 
 marvel, then, that millions have learnt lovingly 
 to gaze upon her as their Mother, and rever- 
 ently to honor her as the Spouse of Jesus 
 Christ, bearing the fourfold mark of unity, 
 sanctity, catholicity and apostolicity. 
 
 Unrelenting Antagonism. 
 
 Yet I bid you to gaze back over her history 
 and judge what violent opposition and agony 
 of keen rivalry have been her portion, from 
 the very day she first set forth to accomplish 
 her mission to this very hour and moment. 
 The Christ-hating emperors of Rome un- 
 sheathed the sword of persecution ; the jealousy 
 of pagan religions and pagan philosophy 
 heaped upon her ignominy and slander; and 
 the blood of thousands, of millions, of her 
 mangled children soaked the hot sands of the 
 arenas of antiquity. The blood of martyrs, 
 however, became the seed of new Christians, 
 and the arms of the tiger-hearted emperors of 
 
Rome sank exhausted and paralyzed to their 
 sides. The cross was raised aloft over the 
 ruins of Paganism, and shone forth in trium- 
 phant glory. 
 
 False Prophets and False Christs, Old 
 and New. 
 
 But, alas, the respite of peace and calm was 
 short-lived. There arose other enemies, not 
 violent but the more dangerous, because the 
 more insidious. There appeared in the field 
 new religions, — religions, that usurped the 
 name of Jesus, falsely claimed divine commis- 
 sion and illumination, and, to bear out their 
 contention, hesitated not to appeal to wonder- 
 ful cure and prodigy. 
 
 They lived their day; but bearing within 
 themselves the germs of error and falsehood, 
 they eventually sank into the dust of the grave, 
 and, we would hope, into unceasing oblivion. 
 But, alas, no! The spirit of Neo-platonism 
 and Gnosticism has come to life again. Today 
 also have appeared intruders and counterfeits, 
 philosophers and hierophants, with honeyed 
 words upon their tongues and poison beneath 
 their tongues, presenting to the world strange 
 ^4sms" and new religions, garbed, indeed, in 
 the robes of Christian truth and Christian 
 charity, yet replete within with deceit and 
 cruelty. Such ' a masquerading impostor we 
 
charge the form of worship and healing system 
 founded by Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy to 
 be, which she called Christian Science and 
 described as ''based on teachings of Scripture 
 which it interprets, giving the Christ principle 
 in divine metaphysics which heals the sick and 
 the sinner/' 
 
 The Appearance of Christian Science. 
 Its Progress. 
 
 Having discovered Christian Science as the 
 result of scriptural research (as I understand 
 her), Mrs. Eddy first began her active propa- 
 ganda in 1867. In the year 1875 appeared her 
 bible and authoritative textbook, "Science and 
 Health." Within the space of twenty years, 
 Mrs. Eddy witnessed her religion pass in a 
 triumphant march from the Atlantic Coast to 
 our own Western shores, spreading the seeds 
 of her teachings broadcast over the land and 
 conquering the hearts of thousands of the 
 American people. In the wake of its victories 
 have arisen Christian Scientist churches in 
 every city of size and importance, and in Bos- 
 ton, Massachusetts, towers aloft today the 
 Scientists' "Temple," representing an expen- 
 diture of millions of dollars. 
 
 Quality of Membership. 
 The magnificence of the majority of these 
 structures and their grandeur of architecture, 
 
as well as the luxurious limousines parked in 
 their vicinity, lead us to believe that those who 
 attend Christian Science services, are not men 
 and women of very humble means, much less 
 down-and-outs of the slum districts who, for 
 soup and lodging, affiliate each succeeding 
 night with a different Church, but representa- 
 tives of the so-called circles of society and 
 aristocracy of wealth. 
 
 True, an abundance of wealth among Chris- 
 tian Scientists does not necessarily connote an 
 abundance of gray brain-matter and intelli- 
 gence. We doubt not at all, that the larger 
 number of the adherents of Christian Science 
 is formed of that class of people, for whom, it 
 may be feared, ''a little learning is a danger- 
 ous thing,'' people who are sufficiently educated 
 to rant and rave over mystical and oracular 
 paradoxes, yet not learned enough to detect 
 sophistry and shallowness of argument. . Still 
 the further fact remains true, amazing as it is, 
 that into the fold of Christian Science have 
 wandered also persons of acknowledged intel- 
 lectual power and culture, men who are the 
 avowed exponents of the very sciences which 
 Christian Science tends to supplant and de- 
 stroy, men of eminence in the legal and educa- 
 tional professions; and it is this spectacle of 
 intelligence and sincere human endeavor sacri- 
 ficed before the idol, reared by a comparatively 
 
uncultured and absolutely unsympathetic 
 woman, that fills us with disgust and renders 
 us sick at heart. 
 
 Explanation of Mark Twain. 
 
 Witnessing this phenomenon, Mark Twain 
 in a personal letter written to F. W. Peabody 
 of the Boston Bar offers the following expla- 
 nation: ''At bottom I suppose I take private 
 delight in seeing the human race make an ass 
 of itself again — which it has always done when- 
 ever it had a chance, — so far as I know men 
 have never shown any noticeable degree of san- 
 ity in their affairs, and to me it appears rather 
 large flattery to intimate that they are capable 
 of it. See them get down and worship that 
 old creature [meaning Mrs. Eddy]. A century 
 hence they'll be at it. Sanity — in the human 
 race! This is really fulsome." 
 
 These are the words of Mark Twain, and not 
 ours. We have conceived and retain too high 
 a regard of the dignity of human nature. Shall 
 we ridicule and jest? No, the hour is too ear- 
 nest and the sacrifice too appalling. Shall 
 our words be those of contempt and sneer and 
 scoff? No, we feel only pity; and even in the 
 supposed truth of Mark Twain's assertion, we 
 could not bring ourselves to a chuckling with 
 delight over the sight of the human race mak- 
 ing an ass of itself. 
 
Element of Truth in All Erroneous Systems. 
 
 But, as a matter of fact, we do not think 
 asininity, as alleged by Mark Twain, to be the 
 secret of the wide success of Christian Science 
 in gaining converts. No, we prefer to propose 
 another explanation — an explanation based 
 upon the theory that there is no absolute and 
 unmitigated error, but that in every heresy, 
 grotesque and egregious though it be, there is 
 an element of truth, and that it is this element 
 precisely, presented in novel form and fashion, 
 which constitutes an attractive feature. 
 
 According to this theory, then. Christian 
 Science has struck upon and drawn from the 
 past some principle, some truth, that lay long- 
 obscured and much neglected, and it is by 
 means of this truth that it today wields an 
 immense influence. 
 
 True Principle in Christian Science. 
 
 There can be no doubt that we have been 
 quite thoroughly saturated with medicine. The 
 gold-lettered '^M. D.'^ signs staring down at us 
 from- a hundred windows in every street, the 
 drug stores with their long rows of brightly 
 colored patent medicines, labeled to cure every 
 sickness, ill, infirmity, bruise, stiffness, lacera- 
 tion, are quite sufficient evidence that we have 
 become a medicine-soaked and an over-drugged 
 generation. Moreover, many have not only 
 
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 been steeped in medicine, but also in the errors 
 of materialism. The scalpel of the surgeon 
 cannot reach the soul; therefore, the existence 
 of the soul has been denied. Mrs. Baker Eddy 
 appeared, — and undoubtedly for many as an 
 angel of light. When they lay in the throes 
 of the hideous nightmare of materialism, she 
 awoke them to the fact and truth of the exist- 
 ence and superiority of spirit. When they pos- 
 sessed, at best, a ghastly, despiritualized form 
 of Christianity, she brought them a creed which 
 in some measure produced in their souls a sense 
 of spirituality. 
 
 Nay, she has done more. She has reduced 
 the truth of the superiority of mind over mat- 
 ter to practice. She has demonstrated that 
 under certain conditions the soul can exercise 
 control over the body for the obtaining of 
 health, having conquered hypochondria in a 
 vast number of cases, bettered the condition 
 of many whose ailment depended upon the 
 nervous system directly, nay, it is possible, 
 won triumphs in the realm of disease whose 
 connection with the nervous system, though 
 not fully apparent, was none the less real, 
 although indirect. 
 
 Finding hope, when hopeless, and cure, when 
 abandoned, ''no wonder, '' to use her own 
 words, ''the American spirit, unquiet in a 
 
drug-soaked body, arose with joy at the sug- 
 gestion of a new evangel.'' 
 
 Whif Do We Quarrel with Christian Science? 
 
 Right in Some Affirmations — Wrong in 
 
 Thousand Negations. 
 
 In view of these facts, why should we quar- 
 rel with Christian Science? Why? Because 
 we have considered only the ounce of truth 
 contained in Mrs. Eddy's system, and not as 
 yet touched upon the large admixture of error 
 and falsehood. For though Christian Science 
 is, indeed, correct in some isolated affirmations, 
 it is wrong, damnably wrong, in a thousand 
 negations. It has truthfully reasserted against 
 Materialism the superiority of mind over mat- 
 ter, but at the same time it has swung like a 
 pendulum to the opposite extreme and lapsed 
 into a stultifying form of Idealism ; it may pro- 
 fess belief in the existence of God, yet it con- 
 ceals within itself the vagaries of Pantheism; 
 it may impart a taste of the spiritual, yet it 
 crams down bulging mouthfuls of blasphemy; 
 it may have effected, by virtue of the principle 
 of control of mind over body, cures in a few 
 isolated cases, yet there are scores of others, 
 where innocent children and duped adults have 
 
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 been victimized and sacrificed to fanaticism 
 and ignorance. 
 
 Will Perish. Whilst It Endures Will Prove a 
 Menace. 
 
 Shall we, therefore, let Christian Science 
 alone? Shall my voice fail to ring in denunci- 
 ation and invective against it? No! Convinced 
 though I am, that eventually it will die the 
 same inglorious death and share the same fate 
 as its foundress, now mouldering in the ceme- 
 tery of Mt. Auburn, yet I realize that, whilst 
 it continues to wear the masque of bluff and 
 hypocrisy, it will entice vast numbers into its 
 clutches and crush the Christian life and spirit 
 out of them upon its bosom. 
 
 Deliberately, therefore, have I made those 
 charges against Christian Science, and it shall 
 be my endeavor during the course of these 
 lectures to sustain and prove them, — not ex- 
 actly with the purpose of discharging a duty 
 of truth-telling towards Christian Scientists 
 (for genuine investigation has been boycotted 
 and forbidden to them, and demonstration falls 
 dead upon deaf ears), but from a sense of duty 
 towards those who are sincerely perplexed and 
 are wandering towards error, and, most of all, 
 to sound the tocsin of warning to Catholics, 
 lest some of them forsake the bosom of their 
 Mother Church and be decoyed by a religion, 
 
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 that wears but the masque of Christianity, a 
 religion, that promises them fruit from the 
 tree of knowledge and life, yet in reality otf ers 
 them Dead Sea apples, beautiful from without, 
 but filled with ashes and corruption, poison 
 and death. 
 
MATTER NOT A REALITY 
 
 "In the beginning God created heaven, and earth." Gen. 1:1. 
 
 EiGHTLY and aptly has gratitude ever been re- 
 garded as the noblest adornment of the human 
 soul, whereas mgratitude has at all times been 
 abhorred as the mark of a mind, ignoble and 
 mean. It was our endeavor in the course of 
 the last lecture to escape the ignominy of the 
 latter and to merit the glory of the former. 
 Frankly we conceded that Christian Science 
 has lent its efforts towards thwarting the prog- 
 ress of Materialism, one of the most groveling 
 forms of error and yet one of the favorite 
 philosophic systems of the closing years of the 
 past century. We know that the Catholic 
 Church, divinely constituted the Teacher of 
 truth and endowed with never-dying power, is 
 as vigorous today and as confident of obtaining 
 ultimate victory over every foe, as she was 
 in centuries gone by. Yet why should we not 
 welcome and hail with delight the advent and 
 co-operation of every ally, promising to strive 
 against falsehood and uphold truth in its orig- 
 
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 inal purity! Hence we could not but give 
 expression to our sentiments of rejoicing and 
 gratefulness, faint though they were, that Mrs. 
 Baker Eddy, by virtue of her practical demon- 
 strations, recalled many from perhaps the 
 darkest cavern of error to the glorious con- 
 sciousness, that there lives a spark of immortal 
 fire, that all within us and about us is not mat- 
 ter, but that in our bodies of flesh and blood 
 resides a spiritual soul, holding and wielding 
 influence for good. 
 
 We Recoil from Mrs. Eddy. 
 
 But had Mrs. Eddy only ceased there! Had 
 she not, unsteadied and unguided by the hand 
 of the Spouse of Christ, rushed to the other 
 extreme! The Materialist shocked us, by af- 
 firming that all is matter. Mrs. Eddy would 
 insult our intelligence, by telling us that all 
 is mind. And now, — we recoil from her. She 
 proposes a philosophy, which would delude us 
 into the belief, that we and all our ancestors 
 to the cradle of the race, have been in throes 
 of a nightmare, when we asserted the existence 
 of body and limb, nay, of sky and sun and 
 universe, a philosophy which would convince us 
 that our five senses, those God-given mediums 
 of the human soul through which it obtains its 
 
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 knowledge of the outside world, are so many 
 lying mediums. 
 
 Testimony of the Senses False. No Matter. 
 
 Sweepingly she assails their testimony in 
 the following words : ' ' The five physical senses 
 are the avenues and instruments of human 
 error, and they correspond with error. ' ' 
 (^'Science and Health,'' pg. 293.) ^'Christian 
 Science reveals man as the idea of God, and 
 declares the corporeal senses to be mortal and 
 erring delusions." (''Science and Health," 
 pg. 477.) Having denied their evidence, she 
 then apodictically establishes as the fundamen- 
 tal tenet in the metaphysics of Christian Sci- 
 ence the following proposition: ''Matter seems 
 to be, but is not." ("Science and Health," pg. 
 123.) "Divine Science, rising above physical 
 theories, excludes matter, resolves things into 
 thoughts." ("Science and Health," pg. 123.) 
 "Matter and death are mortal illusions." 
 ("Science and Health," pg. 289.) 
 
 Human Body a Concept of Mortal Mind. Bones 
 Have Only the Substance of Thought. 
 
 Hence, according to this woman clothed in 
 the rays of wisdom, the very pews of oak, 
 which you this moment occupy, are thoughts. 
 You are sitting upon "spiritual ideas." You 
 may reassure me, you feel the hardness of the 
 
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 wood, and see the gloss and brilliancy of the 
 varnish. But that avails you nothing. Mrs. 
 Eddy has declared your senses are so many 
 false witnesses and you are the victims of their 
 illusions. Moreover, your bodies exist only in 
 false belief. Your eyes, now fixed upon me, 
 your ears now listening, your hands resting 
 upon your knees, the very bones which serve 
 as a frame for your build of flesh and veins 
 and blood — all are unreal in the system of this 
 woman, who writes (in ''Science and Health, '^ 
 pg. 177): "Matter or body, is a false concept 
 of mortal mind.'' (And pg. 423): "Bones 
 have only the substance of thought which 
 formed them. They are only phenomena (ap- 
 pearance) of the mind of mortals." 
 
 Question of Weight, One of Mind. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy anticipates, when you are inclined 
 to argue. She puts the question, "How can 
 I believe there is no such thing as matter when 
 I weigh over two hundred pounds and carry 
 this weight about daily T' (Misc., pg. 46, 
 quoted by I. M. Haldeman) and then answers: 
 "By learning that matter is manifest mortal 
 mind. You entertain an adipose belief of 
 yourself as substance." (Misc., pg. 47, quoted 
 by I. M. Haldeman.) Accordingly, weight is 
 not a matter of scales but of imagination. Ac- 
 credit yourself the weight of a battleship and 
 
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 you will weigh tons, or, by a broad jump to 
 the opposite extreme, with a fine taste for the 
 delicate, fancy yourself as light as the feather 
 whirled about by the breeze, and you average 
 not the weight of a letter transmitted through 
 the mails for a two-cent stamp. Pity 'tis, Mrs. 
 Eddy herself made not practical use of this 
 hint during the last years of her life, if we are 
 to credit the descriptions of her personal ap- 
 pearance ! 
 
 Man or Woman — Your Choice!! Material 
 Order of Generation Rendered Silent. 
 
 Finally she makes an assertion regarding the 
 anatomy of the human body and the mysteries 
 of life, that I would loathe to express, were it 
 not, that an adequate treatment of the subject 
 demands it. With serious mien Mrs. Eddy 
 assures us, "Gender is a quality of mind, not 
 of matter." ("Science and Health," pg. 201, 
 74 ed., quoted by I. W. Haldeman.) There is, 
 therefore, in her teaching no physiological dis- 
 tinction of sex. The Almighty created them 
 not male and female. Your being a man or a 
 woman depends upon your subjective belief. 
 Stunning as may be this piece of absurdity 
 that issued from the pen of a woman, whom 
 thousands revere as the Light and Truth, gasp 
 not for breath till you hear the further conclu- 
 sion that she draws, namely, "Generation rests 
 
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 on no sexual basis" ("Science and Health," 
 pg. 274, 74 ed., quoted by I. W. Haldeman)^ 
 but "The so-called substance of bone is formed 
 first by the parent's mind, through self^ 
 division. Soon the child becomes a separate, 
 individualized mortal mind, which takes pos- 
 session of itself and its own thoughts of 
 bones." ("Science and Health," pg. 424.) 
 Mrs. Eddy, Married Three Times, Believes Not 
 in Marriage. 
 
 This is appalling. Quite readily do we now 
 understand how this same woman could write: 
 "To abolish marriage at this period and main- 
 tain morality and generation, would put in- 
 genuity to ludicrous shifts; yet this is possible 
 in science (Christian Science), although it is 
 today problematic." (Misc., pg. 286, quoted 
 by C. E. Locke.) We are not unprepared to 
 accord belief to the statement that, at the dedi- 
 cation of "Mother Church" in Boston, Mrs. 
 Eddy characterized marriage as "synonymous 
 with legalized lust." Christian Scientists 
 strongly deny this, yet Mr. Peabody of the 
 Boston Bar assures us that it can be found in 
 the Christian Science Sentinel for June 16, 
 1906, and in the Christian Science Journal for 
 July, 1906. 
 
 The Universe, a Construction of Mind. 
 
 But to return from our digression — you will 
 pass out and wander into the night. The vault 
 
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 and dome of the firmament above is studded 
 with a thousand burnished lights. In yonder 
 quarter of the heavens the moon rolls in cloudy 
 grandeur. Her rays fall softly upon the bosom 
 of the bay, and her silvery glow bathes the 
 city in glory. The words of the Psalmist rise 
 spontaneously from your heart, ''The heavens 
 show forth the glory of God." But no ! Chris- 
 tian Science will ruthlessly awaken you from 
 your revery. Vain man, cease your wonder- 
 ing! Marvel not over mortal error! For all 
 you behold is not the universe, as you and your 
 forefathers conceived it — matter hanging in 
 space — but all a construction of mind based 
 upon the fallacy of false-belief. We have 
 learned to pity Hamlet in the paroxysms of 
 his madness. But he was not mad. He raved 
 not. He spoke the sober and absolute truth, 
 when he said, "This goodly frame, the earth, 
 seems to me a sterile promontory, — this majes- 
 tical roof fretted with golden fire, why it ap- 
 pears no other thing to me than a foul and 
 pestilent congregation of vapors." Poor Ham- 
 let ! We thought him raving and mad. Lo, he 
 was but an advanced Christian Scientist. 
 
 You may think that I am with deliberate 
 intent poking fun at the system of Christian 
 Science and rendering it ludicrous and ridicu- 
 lous. But I protest, I am not. If there be any 
 nonsense, to which expression has been given, 
 
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 it lies solely in what Mrs. Eddy has asserted 
 and in the inference obviously to be drawn 
 from it. 
 
 Theory and Practice of Christian Scientists. 
 We know full well that Christian Scientists 
 do not fashion their lives and actions after the 
 teachings of their system. Mrs. Eddy may 
 deny the existence of matter, but we know that 
 she as well as her followers take special care 
 to avoid a headlong collision with a locomotive, 
 turn in the fire alarm when their houses are 
 wrapped in flame and fire, make careful distinc- 
 tion between dollars and cents. They may 
 deny the existence of body, yet we understand 
 that they, too, sit at the table three times a 
 day, and partake not of the products of imagi- 
 nation, but of the products of the pastures, 
 fields and meadows. Furthermore, Mrs. Eddy 
 may assert that a diversity of sex exists only 
 in the mind and its belief, yet we notice that 
 followers of Christian Science exercise particu- 
 lar care to marry an ^'idea,'' opposite in gen- 
 der from themselves, and in the case of Mrs. 
 Eddy not once but twice and thrice a male 
 ^4dea." 
 
 Arguments Afford No Justification to 
 Catalogue of Negations. 
 Yet what Christian Scientists do, engages 
 not at present our attention. Since it is evi- 
 
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 dent that the foundress of Christian Science 
 has negated the existence of matter and has 
 formally rejected the testimony of the senses, 
 what interests us now is to ask what proofs 
 does Mrs. Eddy offer in justification of her 
 sweeping negations. Formally she offers al- 
 most none, and substantially none at all. She 
 may rightly contend that God is an omnipres- 
 ent spirit, yet wrong and unwarranted is her 
 further statement that hence His existence ex- 
 cludes the existence of matter. God is an 
 infinite Spirit, and, as such, must not be con- 
 strued as a space-filling bulk. Moreover, the 
 senses may have erred in some instances, yet 
 why should their testimony be accounted false 
 in every instance! And if, from uncritical and 
 narrow observation, men, crediting their senses, 
 did entertain in the past the erroneous belief 
 that the earth is flat and stationary, still were 
 not those very same senses employed later on 
 in gaining the necessary evidence that cor- 
 rected the erroneous inference regarding the 
 stellar system! Finally, vain is the appeal of 
 Mrs. Eddy based upon the fact that the mind 
 can conjure imaginary objects. True, I can 
 imagine a fleet of ships riding in proud array 
 at anchor. Yet affords this an argument that 
 ships and bay exist not? Does not the very 
 fact that I can conceive in my imagination 
 ships and bay, argue that at some time I have 
 
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 perceived the realities of both! The shadow 
 presupposes the existence of the reality. And 
 is it not just because there are realities which 
 obtrude themselves on every normal mind pre- 
 cisely as realities, that men can distinguish per- 
 ceptions of the senses from mere ghostly 
 products of a heated and feverish mind? Some 
 Christian Scientists assert that their system 
 negates the existence of no object, but only 
 affirms it to be mental. This contention, how- 
 ever, is equally absurd. The untutored savage 
 of the forest primeval will tell you, that there 
 is a difference between the deer, which he fol- 
 lows in his dream, and the deer, which he de- 
 tects grazing in the forest depths. The latter 
 exists, and is real. The former is merely an 
 idea of a deer. And an idea of a deer is not a 
 deer either in the mind or in the forest. 
 
 Two classes of individuals appear to be un- 
 able to perceive the distinction between objects 
 oF reality and those of fancy. One we meet in 
 the D. T. wards of our hospitals, and the other, 
 if we are to believe their words, in the circle 
 of Christian Scientists. 
 
 Ch7^istian Science Destructive of the Physical 
 Sciences. 
 
 Such then is the fundamental and first plank 
 in the platform of Christian Science — perfo- 
 rated with error and falsehood. Men of sci- 
 
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 ence, of different religious persuasion than 
 our own, with particular delight and relish 
 point the finger of scorn at our Mother Church, 
 and designate the centuries of her sway as 
 ^'dark ages/' Why do they not now turn the 
 outpourings of their indignation upon the mod- 
 ern Prophetess of New England'? This time 
 their wrath would prove righteous. Mrs. Eddy 
 teaches, ^'matter is nothing, and nothing is 
 matter." It is her '^ plank." Now, rest upon 
 this plank the efforts and achievements of men 
 of science of every age — and then hearken to 
 the crash! For if matter exists not, then all 
 the properties of matter, weight, porosity, ten- 
 acity, etc., are vaporous dreams; attraction, 
 electricity, sound, heat, etc., are childish fan- 
 cies. What remains, therefore, of the natural 
 sciences and the teachings of physics'? What 
 further purpose serves chemistry in the cur- 
 riculum of our colleges, since all the tedious 
 work of experiment deals with the discovery of 
 ''inverted thought"? We thought chemical 
 properties exist whether discovered or not by 
 mind, yet, according to Eddyism, they ema- 
 nate from mortal mind. Ye astronomers, in- 
 vert — destroy your telescopes ! Scan not the 
 skies by night! Those twinkling stars and 
 wheeling orbs possess no substantiality. They 
 are mere fireflies flitting across the empty 
 spaces of mind. Ye plain and common people, 
 
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 arise in indignation and raze to the ground the 
 colleges of medicine and surgery! For within 
 those walls are being carefully trained the men, 
 who will swindle you into the belief that bone 
 is mostly lime, and that flesh and blood are 
 chemical compounds, whereas (as teaches Mrs. 
 Eddy) lung and liver, stomach and heart are 
 but forms of mortal error and false belief. 
 Nay (pardon the digression), ye housewives, 
 hang up your brooms and dusters! There is 
 no dust on your parlor table, — the cobwebs 
 hang not in the corners of your rooms, but in 
 the corners of your mind ! You may have been 
 ignorant of this fact in the past, and exerted 
 useless effort, but then you knew not ^'Sci- 
 ence. ' ' 
 
 Christian Science Contradicts the Bible 
 Narrative of Creation. 
 
 Veritably Carrie Nation displayed not a 
 more destructive temper in wrecking saloons, 
 than does Mrs. Eddy in assailing the edifice of 
 science. Her attacks on the Bible and its 
 author, however, recall the ignominious mem- 
 ory of Eobert Ingersoll. Moses writing under 
 divine inspiration opens the Book of Genesis 
 with the solemn words, ''In the beginning God 
 created heaven, and earth.'' Minutely and 
 graphically he describes the formation of the 
 universe, the separation of the dry land from 
 
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 the waters, the enriching of the former with 
 flower and fruit, the filling of the latter with 
 fishes that wander "through the paths of the 
 sea." In the last place he records the creation 
 of Adam and Eve, so that if is evident that 
 matter existed and was fashioned into design 
 and order long before deluded individuals with 
 mortal minds even existed. So plain are the 
 inspired writer's words, so manifest is his 
 intention to record a creation of matter, so 
 clearly does his record convey a condemnation 
 of the theories of Christian Science, that Mrs. 
 Eddy could not escape, but growing desperate, 
 had no other refuge than to call Moses an 
 ignoramus. For she writes, ''Spiritually fol- 
 lowed, the Book of Genesis is the history of 
 the untrue image of God, named a sinful mor- 
 tal." (''Science and Health," pg. 502.) "The 
 translators of this record (the Genesis record 
 of creation) entertained a false sense of be- 
 ing." Why? Because they contradicted Mrs. 
 Eddy — "they believed in the existence of mat- 
 ter." ("Science and Health," pg. 545.) In- 
 spired or uninspired, by God or angel or devil, 
 anyone presuming to contradict Mrs. Eddy is 
 unqualifiedly ignorant. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy Blasphemes. 
 
 In her insolence she proceeds farther. You 
 recollect the scene in Paradise. The first par- 
 
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 ents of the human race had listened to the 
 overtures of the Ambassador of Evil. They 
 virtually had declared, ^'We shall not serve. '^ 
 Upon them the angered Sovereign and Creator 
 passed the appalling sentence, '^Dust thou art 
 and unto dust thou shalt return.'^ The evi- 
 dent meaning of the text is: Thy body, which 
 is formed originally of the slime of the earth 
 (dust), shall again, through the natural forces 
 of dissolution, pass into dust. But Mrs. Eddy 
 would correct even the Almighty God. She 
 would cause Him to say, '^Dust (nothingness) 
 thou art, and unto dust (nothingness) thou 
 shalt return. '^ (^'Science and Health," pg. 
 545.) What meant then the infinitely wise 
 God? Has He imposed sentence upon noth- 
 ing, and decreed that nothing should be reduced 
 to nothing! Either Mrs. Eddy in her negation 
 of the existence of matter and body is wrong, 
 damnably wrong, or the All-wise God, of whom 
 the Apostle, St. Paul, speaks in rapture, '^0, 
 the depth of the riches of the wisdom and 
 knowledge of God!'* has spoken in the sense- 
 less babble of a child. 
 
 Mrs. Baker Eddy professedly has made a 
 '' discovery, ' ' and proffered it to the world 
 under the names of '^Science" and ^'Christian- 
 ity''; but witnessing her in unhesitating and 
 unqualified terms reject the evidence of the 
 senses testifying to the existence of the uni- 
 
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 verse, witnessing her in consequence sweep 
 from under all the natural sciences their very 
 foundations, witnessing her, in mad endeavor 
 to maintain her proposition, assail the Word 
 of God, I beg of you to pass judgment if Chris- 
 tian Science be not in truth an apostacy from 
 Science and Christianity. 
 
MAN IS NEVER SICK 
 
 "And He healed many that were troubled with diverse dis- 
 eases." Mark 1 :34. 
 
 In the solenm and silent hour of midnight 
 wander into the hospital and through the 
 wards, where on couches, white and well- 
 ordered, lie the city's sick and wounded. From 
 our innermost heart we thank heaven for the 
 beautiful charity, exhibited by the white-clad 
 figure, silently moving from one sufferer to 
 another, soothing fever and thirst in turn. 
 
 We depart with the heart's most tender 
 cords deeply stirred, and with the firm resolve, 
 that, if millions were our portion, we would 
 employ them in erecting for those sufferers the 
 most comfortable shelter and the best equip- 
 ment that art and science can devise and erect 
 — thus in some slight measure to lift the heavy 
 hand of pain and agony, weighing upon the 
 human race on account of its first transgres- 
 sion. 
 
 Disease Unreal. 
 
 From the far off days, when Christ healed 
 the sick in the hamlets of Galilee, to the pres- 
 
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 ent hour, such have ever been the sentiments 
 of those who glory in His blessed name and 
 call themselves Christian. However, there is 
 one bold exception, namely, the Christian Sci- 
 entist. He has sat at the feet of Mrs. Eddy. 
 In his heart now no sentiments of commisera- 
 tion and charity dwell. Not only is it his con- 
 tention that hospital of brick and steel would 
 prove a phantasmal structure of deluded mind, 
 but having been taught that human body also 
 exists not, from this premise he draws the 
 farther conclusion, cruel and merciless in its 
 logic, that all the sad and sorrowful drama of 
 the world's disease and sickness is but one 
 huge mistake of mortal mind. There is no heart 
 to suffer valvular leakage; there are no eyes 
 to be blind, no ears to be deaf, no lungs to be 
 corroded with tuberculosis. Hence Mrs. Eddy 
 writes, ^'A self-evident proposition in the sci- 
 ence of mind-healing, is that disease is unreal." 
 C^No and Yes," pg. 4.) ^'Some time it will be 
 learned that mortal mind constructs the mortal 
 body with this mind's own mortal materials. 
 In Science, no breakage nor dislocation can 
 really occur." (''Science and Health," pg. 
 402.) ''All that we term sin, sickness, and 
 death is a mortal belief." ("Science and 
 Health," pg. 278.) 
 
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 The Message of Christian Science to Grieving 
 Parents. 
 
 Such is the message (consolatory or distract- 
 ing, I know not) that Mrs. Eddy would bring 
 the youthful mother, as she beholds her first 
 born wither and waste upon her bosom like the 
 bruised flower of spring; such is the philosophy 
 that Christian Science would offer the silent 
 and sorrowing father, as he bends over the bed 
 and contemplates the wasting form of him, 
 upon whom he once centered hope and pride, 
 but whom he now sees in the clutches of the 
 skeleton-god, shortly to bear him to the grave. 
 Such also is the assurance that the consistent 
 Eddyite would offer you when, as a spectator, 
 you witness the harrowing scene of a man 
 dragged from beneath the wheels of a trolley 
 car — his lower limbs ground into an unsightly 
 pulp of blood and bone and rags. "No break- 
 age nor dislocation can really occur.'' ("Sci- 
 ence and Health," pg. 402.) 
 
 The man writhing in his blood may appeal 
 to his exposed and quivering nerves, that he 
 feels the pain, — the pale spectators may argue 
 that with their eyes they see the mutilated 
 limbs. But, foolish mortals! therein precisely 
 lies the fatal error. "Realize that the evidence 
 of the senses is not to be accepted in the case 
 of sickness, any more than it is in the case of 
 sin." ("Science and Health," pg. 386.) 
 
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 All Disease the Result of Education. 
 Therefore, we are not ill, we are not racked 
 with pain, we are not wounded by the assas- 
 sin's bullet, nay, we are not even stretched out 
 a lifeless corpse as the deadly missive speeds 
 through the center of the heart — no, victims of 
 false belief, we imagine it all. For teaches 
 Mrs. Eddy: ''Damp atmosphere and freezing 
 snow empurpled the plump cheeks of our an- 
 cestors, but they never indulged in the refine- 
 ment of inflamed bronchial tubes. They were 
 as innocent as Adam, before he ate the fruit 
 of false knowledge, of the existence of tuber- 
 cles and troches, lungs and lozenges." (''Sci- 
 ence and Health," pg. 175.) "All disease is 
 the result of education." ("Science and 
 Health," pg. 176.) Nay, even horse-diseases 
 are "the result of education," for Mrs. Eddy 
 writes : ' ' You can even educate a healthy horse 
 so far in physiology that he will take cold with- 
 out his blanket, whereas the wild animal, left 
 to his instincts, sniffs the wind with delight. 
 The epizootic is a humanly evolved ailment, 
 which a wild horse might never have." ("Sci- 
 ence and Health," pg. 179.) 
 
 Christian Science Would Cure Disease by 
 
 Denying Its Existence. 
 Belief and education! Upon their truth or 
 falsity depends either the "glowing exuberance 
 
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 of health" or the '' wasting of dire and ravag- 
 ing disease." False belief inaugurated into 
 the world the drama of sickness and wretched- 
 ness, of blood and death. Now, correct that 
 erroneous belief, invert the idea of sickness, 
 ^'turn his gaze from the false evidence of the 
 senses to the harmonious facts of Soul and 
 immortal being. Tell him that he suffers only 
 as the insane suffer, from false beliefs" (*^ Sci- 
 ence and Health," pg. 420), and behold the 
 wondrous change and glorious result! The 
 demon spectre of plague absconds, the rattling- 
 skeleton of death, with the scythe upon his 
 shoulder, scampers away, and the golden days 
 of Paradise burst anew, where neither pain 
 does hurt, nor fever burn. But, alas, methinks 
 it is all a dream. 
 
 Unconscious Patients Incapable of False Belief. 
 
 Have you watched the babe contort and 
 twitch its infant features in pain? The fright- 
 ened mother will summon the physician, who 
 will administer medicine for colic. The Eddy- 
 ite, however, will say it is a case of false belief. 
 But how can that infant, in whose mind not 
 even the first rays of intelligence have as yet 
 burst, exercise belief, true or false? 
 
 On his bed the typhoid-stricken patient rolls 
 and tosses. Again, ^' false belief"! But how 
 can that mind, maddened with raging fever 
 
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 and stupefied into nnconsciousness, exercise 
 belief, correctly or erroneously? 
 
 Down the hatchway of the lumber-schooner 
 the stevedore falls. He is picked up a limp 
 and unconscious form, with a fractured skull. 
 Again perhaps, ''false belief"! With brain 
 deranged, the gray matter perhaps oozing 
 through the rift, and in the 'soul the darkness 
 of absolute insensibility reigning, how can that 
 man think that his head is split open! 
 
 Unconscious Patients Incapable of Correcting 
 False Belief. 
 
 Now, these patients sometimes recover. To 
 the infant a dose of catnip is given, and the 
 paroxysms of pain disappear. On the steve- 
 dore an operation is performed, the surgeon 
 with deft hand lifting the bone of the skull 
 resting on the brain, and consciousness returns. 
 We assert the recovery was due to the efficacy 
 of the medicine and to the science of surgery. 
 The Christian Scientist, however, will argue, 
 no, the patient merely corrected his belief, dis- 
 engaging himself from the erroneous idea that 
 he was afflicted. But how can an unconscious 
 patient correct his belief, argue himself into a 
 state of health? Then it must have been due 
 to the faith that the patient reposed in the 
 medicine, namely, in its curative virtue. But, 
 I ask, was not the medicine administered, the 
 
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 operation performed, whilst the patient was 
 still incapable of thought and volition? How 
 could he elicit an act of faith that the medicine 
 would give him a new lease on life? 
 
 Drugs Produce Effects by Imputed Virtue. 
 
 But granted that the patient were conscious 
 and capable of thought, why, as a matter of 
 fact and undeniable observation, will a small 
 dose of arsenic benefit him, whilst a large dose 
 proves his undoing? Depends that also on 
 faith? Dr. Marston writes: ^'The not uncom- 
 mon notion that drugs possess absolute, inher- 
 ent, curative virtues of their own involves an 
 error. Arnica, quinine, opium could not pro- 
 duce the effects ascribed to them except by 
 imputed virtue. 
 
 "Men think they will act thus in the physical 
 system, and consequently they do. The prop- 
 erty of alcohol is to intoxicate ; but if the com- 
 mon thought had endowed it with a nourishing 
 quality like milk, it would produce a similar 
 effect." 
 
 Intoxicated at the Buttermilk Counter. Suicide 
 by Swallowing Cough-Medicine! 
 
 Accordingly, if the general belief prevailed, 
 that milk were an intoxicant and alcohol a 
 nutrient, men after a long sitting at the butter- 
 milk counter would reel homewards in the same 
 
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 zigzag course as after leaving the corner saloon 
 in the early hours of the morning, whereas if 
 a growing child or an emaciated convalescent 
 would swallow an otherwise staggering dose 
 of alcohol, it would prove to be a true tonic, 
 feeding the nerves and giving fresh vigor. Or, 
 to apply the same principle to other drugs and 
 medicines, if catnip were conceived to be a 
 deadly poison, then its taking would produce 
 the same fatal results as a dose of strychnine 
 or perhaps carbolic acid. But now let us ask 
 — suppose one person with suicidal intent swal- 
 lows, by mistake, cough-medicine for strychnine 
 and another person, to relieve a slight cold, 
 takes strychnine for cough-medicine, why then 
 should not the effect upon the body in both 
 cases correspond to the belief that is attached 
 to each respectively? Yet we know, aside of 
 a slight dizziness, the small dose of quinine 
 will leave the one of unrequited love quite hale 
 and sound, whilst the strychnine, though taken 
 by mistake, likely will mean a free transporta- 
 tion to the city morgue. 
 
 Majority Opinion Rules. Majority Opinion 
 Enters Not into the Matter. 
 
 But Mrs. Eddy, unruffled, presses the further 
 explanation, and we think to more glowing ab- 
 surdities, saying, ''In such cases a few persons 
 believe the potion swallowed by the patient to 
 
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 be harmless, but the vast majority of mankind, 
 though they know nothing of this particular 
 case and this special person, believe the arsenic, 
 the strychnine, or whatever the drug used, to 
 be poisonous, for it is set down as a poison 
 by mortal mind." (''Science and Health," pg. 
 177.) Hence, similarly as in political elections, 
 majority rules — the thought of the larger part 
 of mankind pitted against and preponderating 
 over that of the lesser part. But, I ask, how 
 can the majority opinion enter into the matter 
 at all! It knows not even of the existence of 
 the particular drug. Concede that a chemical 
 deterioration has occurred, why loses the medi- 
 cine the potency it formerly possessed? Neither 
 you nor I nor the rest of men were aware of 
 the fact of the change; and yet the medicine 
 that formerly possessed all the virulence lurk- 
 ing in the poison bags of a rattlesnake, now 
 perhaps is as harmless as the water of a moun- 
 tain brook. 
 
 Why argue further? Mrs. Eddy has sweep- 
 ingly denied the existence of body and disease, 
 medicine and poison. With what consistency 
 can she speak of recovery or of death, attrib- 
 ute health to medicine or death to poison? 
 Consistency, however, appears to be a minor 
 virtue among the Eddyites. I know from per- 
 sonal statements, that in this city Christian 
 Scientists visit a certain herb specialist. They 
 
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 proffer the explanation that God created the 
 herbs. But are not finally the majority of 
 medicines extracted from herbs? And are not 
 herbs, even when prepared by Chinese special- 
 ists, still medicine? Moreover, Arthur Preuss, 
 in the issue of his Review for August, 1902, 
 writes that Mrs. Eddy had a tooth drawn. In- 
 deed, there is nothing extraordinary in an old 
 woman having a decaying molar extracted. 
 But knowing the position of Christian Science 
 relative to the existence of tooth and pain, we 
 marvel over Mrs. Eddy's conduct. We can 
 hardly believe that she was so vain in her last 
 days, as to submit to the painful operation 
 merely for the purpose of increasing her 
 beauty ! 
 
 We do not criticise Christian Scientists for 
 seeking the services of a dentist. It demon- 
 strates that, despite Christian Science, they 
 still retain some of the common sense they in- 
 herited from their grandparents. But we ask 
 them, how can they hold a philosophy assert- 
 ing that tooth and forceps and dentist are 
 folly, and still ask the dentist to employ those 
 same forceps on their jaws, or, what is more 
 puzzling, how, after the material tooth has been 
 extracted and they have the ideal state of 
 nothingness existing in its place, can they be- 
 come so enamored of matter as to feel the need 
 
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 of having an artificial tooth inserted? (A. C. 
 Dixon.) 
 
 Mechanical Injuries to the Body. The Un- 
 thinking Lobster, a Perfect Christian 
 Scientist. 
 
 But to return from the digression — let us 
 consider the theory of Mrs. Eddy regarding 
 mechanical injuries to the body. In ''Science 
 and Health," page 423, she writes: ''Bones 
 have only the substantiality of thought which 
 forms them." And on page 472 (74 ed., 
 "Science and Health") : "When the unthinking 
 lobster loses his claw it grows again. If the 
 science of health were understood, it would be 
 found that the senses of the mind are never 
 lost, and that matter has no sensation. Then 
 the human limb would be replaced as readily 
 as the lobster's claw — not with an artificial 
 limb, no, but with a genuine one." We are 
 not so envious as to begrudge the blushing- 
 lobster the eulogy that Mrs. Eddy bestows 
 upon him for being a perfect Christian Scien- 
 tist, still we are constrained to ask, how can a 
 lobster lose a claw, since claw is matter, and 
 matter is nothing? and how can he be equipped 
 with a new and second one, since the newly 
 acquired member also would be matter, and 
 again matter is nothing? Lose nothing, and 
 
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 replace it with nothing? Thus equivalently 
 Mrs. Eddy. 
 
 In Christian Science the Insane Are Immune 
 from Disease and Accident. 
 
 But accepting the lobster illustration, the 
 conclusion is evident that all who are as irra- 
 tional and dumb as the snapping lobster are 
 immune from every disease and sickness, and 
 accident. Hence, all degenerates, lunatics, 
 idiots, ought to be able to sever their hands 
 and feet, nose and ears, at will — and replace 
 them with new ones. Pity 'tis, we all are not 
 lobsters! Still all of us can leap from the 
 dizzy heights of a precipice, fall from Zeppe- 
 lins, roll under the grinding wheels of the loco- 
 motive, for says Mrs. Eddy, '^ bones have only 
 the substance of thought,'' — and you cannot 
 grind a thought even under the ponderous 
 wheels of a locomotive. 
 
 Insane Asylums — Temples of Hygeia. 
 
 Accept, then, the teachings of Christian Sci- 
 ence and every insane asylum becomes a temple 
 of Hygeia; for lunatics, in whom reason has 
 been dethroned, exercise no belief — they are 
 quite similar to the ''unthinking lobster." 
 Christian Science Puts a Premium on Igno- 
 rance. Blots Out Knowledge of Sani- 
 tation, Medicine and Surgery. 
 
 Accept the teachings of Christian Science, 
 
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 and all the proud and marvelous progress that 
 knowledge and sanitary science have made, is 
 but retrogression; knowledge is simply a curse, 
 and a premium is to be set upon ignorance. 
 
 Accept the teachings of Christian Science, 
 and the city of San Francisco has exploited 
 your hard-earned money by rearing the City 
 and County, the Emergency and the Detention 
 Hospitals. They are indeed magnificent build- 
 ings, yet they serve only to foster a popular 
 and fatal delusion. Systems of sanitation, 
 the flushing of streets, proper sewerage, are 
 sources of worthless expenditure and wasted 
 funds. Microbes of smallpox and typhoid are 
 but ^'bugs" in your deluded minds; reeking 
 and pestilential marshes are as sweet and 
 healthy as dew-laden flowers glistening in the 
 morning sun. 
 
 Christian Science Contradicts the Bible. 
 
 Bereft of every shred of sense or logic, this 
 mountebank, like so many others who prey 
 upon public credulity, must steal the name of 
 Jesus and the cloak of Christianity! Yet, 
 there is not an inspired scriptural writer, from 
 Moses who recorded the punishment inflicted 
 upon a fallen race, to the Seer of Patmos who 
 predicted the various plagues, that Mrs. Baker 
 Eddy does not antagonize and contradict, — 
 thus rendering the Bible, with its continuous 
 
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 tale of woe and pain, one long tale of lie and 
 imposition. 
 
 St. Paul Not a Christian Scientist. 
 
 St. Paul, whom I consider every bit as thor- 
 ough a Christian as Mrs. Eddy, writes to 
 Timothy, his disciple, ''Use a little wine for 
 thy stomach's sake." Did the Apostle suffer 
 an acute attack of false belief in the existence 
 of wine and stomach, or was he positively so 
 unprincipled as to confirm his disciple in error, 
 and lend credence to a falsehood for genera- 
 tions to come! 
 
 Christian Science Destroys the Proving Poiver 
 of the Works of Christ. 
 
 Unchristian as is "Christian Science," it is 
 also positively anti-christian. The disciples of 
 St. John the Baptist asked the Savior, ''Art 
 Thou He, who art to come, or shall we look 
 for another!" Christ answered, "Go, relate 
 to John, what you have heard and seen. The 
 blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are 
 cleansed, ' ' etc. Now, why pointed the God-man 
 to these phenomena? Were they not works 
 that by reason of their miraculous and super- 
 natural character were calculated to prove be- 
 yond argument His claims to the Messiahship? 
 Did not He Himself issue the challenge to the 
 doubting bystanders, "If you do not believe 
 
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 Me, believe My works?" But, if according to 
 the teachings of Christian Science, those men 
 in the Gospel were not lame and blind, then the 
 fact that they walked and saw, was most un- 
 miraculous and quite natural. The supernatu- 
 ral and extraordinary, namely, the cures ef- 
 fected by Christ, presupposes the existence of 
 the natural and ordinary, namely, of diseases. 
 Thus Mrs. Eddy impudently would destroy the 
 proving power that Christ attaches to the 
 works He performed among the people of 
 Palestine. 
 
 Jesus Christ the Good Samaritan. Christian 
 Science the Proud Priest. 
 
 Christian Science claims to be the religion 
 of Jesus Christ. But what bears it in common 
 with suffering humanity's greatest Friend, to 
 bear out its claim? Jesus Christ is the good 
 Samaritan who, touched with compassion, 
 bound the wounds of the man fallen among 
 robbers, and bore him to a haven of rest and 
 peace. Eddyism, however, like the haughty 
 and supercilious priest and levite, passes by 
 the afflicted and unfortunate traveler on the 
 way of life, without a tear or throb of pity, 
 without moving a hand to close his bleeding 
 wounds, without administering a particle of 
 medicine to revive his drooping strength, with- 
 out an asylum or hospital to its credit to house 
 
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 him during the days of convalescence. For the 
 dictum of Christian Science is, "Sympathy 
 with sin, sorrow, and sickness would dethrone 
 God.'' 
 
 The most that Christian Science does is to 
 induce man to say, "There is no pain, there is 
 no death." This, however, compels him to 
 play the hypocrite, stultify his intellect, forfeit 
 the service and aid of anaesthetics and surgery, 
 thus a hundred fold to increase his sufferings, 
 and for all this misery to pay hard cash. 
 
 Now judge ye, if this system that closes its 
 ears to the cry of sick children dying on their 
 mothers' bosoms, that dries up the fountains of 
 sympathy and love for your sick and invalid, 
 that, if it could obtain full dominion, would 
 change a civilized and Christian land into a 
 pagan India with the horrors of the Kiver 
 Ganges, be the religion of Jesus Christ,^ — or if 
 it be not preparing itself for the curse that 
 .will fall from His own sacred lips on the 
 final day: "I was hungry, and you gave Me 
 not to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me not 
 to drink; I was a stranger, and you took Me 
 not in; naked, and you covered Me not: sick 
 and in prison, and you did not visit Me." 
 (Matt. 25:42, 43.) "Depart from Me you 
 cursed into everlasting fire." (Matt. 25:41.) 
 
 Finally cast one more glance upon the system 
 of Mrs. Eddy as far as she claims it to be 
 
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 *' Science." Not only did Mrs. Baker Eddy, 
 during the days when as a gray-haired, stiff- 
 jointed, old and palsied woman, she hid herself 
 from public gaze, prove a living embodiment 
 of the errors of her teachings, but now above 
 all does her corpse, lying in the cold and moul- 
 dering grave at Mt. Auburn, prove to absolute 
 conclusiveness that her "Science" also is des- 
 tined to the same fate of decay and oblivion. 
 
MAN IS INCAPABLE OF SIN 
 
 "If we say that we have no sin, zve deceive ourselves, and 
 the truth is not in us." I John 1 :8. 
 
 In the Garden of Eden man first sinned. 
 Direful and terrible was the punishment that 
 fell upon him from the lips of the angered 
 Almighty. But did man profit by its infliction! 
 No! Despite the fact that he was exiled by the 
 avenging angel to wander over the barren 
 wastes of the plain and through the valleys, 
 replete with thorns and thistles, still his record 
 quite consistently has been one of rebellion and 
 transgression and sin. 
 
 In the Past Sinning Man Bemoaned His Fall. 
 
 Still if in times gone by man sinningly erred, 
 he was ashamed of his transgressions. The 
 first parents after their fall sought conceal- 
 ment in the shrubbery of the Garden; Cain, 
 haunted by the cry of his brother's blood, in 
 remorse wandered over the face of the earth. 
 David bemoaned his sins in ashes and sack- 
 cloth. Nay, even the renegade Apostle con- 
 fessed, ^'I have betrayed innocent blood," and 
 
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 maddened by the enormity of his guilt sus- 
 pended himself with a halter. 
 
 In This Age Some Deny Their Guilt. 
 
 Through the centuries the drama of sin and 
 crime continues. Today also men sin, yield to 
 the seductions of the lying serpent, transgress 
 the Law Divine. But behold, some in this late 
 age even go farther. They not only violate 
 the Commandments, but in their insolence and 
 anarchy turn to the Almighty Lawgiver and 
 Sovereign God, and declare they have not 
 sinned. 
 
 Man Incapable of Sin. 
 
 Thus spoke in New England a woman, who 
 declared in her book ("Science and Health," 
 pg. 459, 74 ed.) : ''Man is incapable of sin." 
 (Pg. 480): "Evil is an illusion. It is false 
 belief." "The only reality of sin is the awful 
 fact that unrealities seem real." ("Science 
 and Health," pg. 456, 74 ed.) 
 
 The tragedy of sin, accordingly, that in our 
 belief, has filled the world with moan and sigh, 
 destroyed in man the bloom of innocence and 
 streaked the pages of history with the scarlet 
 of crime, and rendered the world a stench in 
 the nostrils of Jehovah, so that only the life- 
 blood of His Son shed in sacrifice saved it from 
 being hurled into perdition — is not real, but a 
 
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 mere pliantasmal picture thrown upon the 
 screen of the imagination. 
 
 Christian Science Not Irksome. 
 
 Need we now marvel that in this age, chaf- 
 ing under the yoke of the Commandments, 
 snarling at the restraint of spirit over passion 
 and flesh, assailing the lofty ideals of morality, 
 as superstition born of priestcraft, such a doc- 
 trine should find wide acceptance! For if ^^man 
 is incapable of sin," then he never sins. If 
 he never sins, then there is no guilt. If there 
 is no guilt, then no just condemnation is pos- 
 sible. 
 
 The Tendency of the Doctrine of Christian 
 Science Relative to' Sin. 
 
 Not for a moment will I affirm that Chris- 
 tian Scientists love not virtue, cherish not 
 chastity, exalt not honesty. Still if they are 
 chaste and honest and pure, it is not by means 
 or because of Christian Science, but rather, 
 and I shall not hesitate to utter it, in spite of 
 Christian Science. For beguiled oftentimes by 
 the specious promise of obtaining health of 
 body and serenity of soul, they have unfor- 
 tunately hearkened to the voice of a teacher, 
 announcing a doctrine, which, if literally re- 
 duced to practice and consistently carried out, 
 would break down every barrier and restraint, 
 
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 eliminate every boundary line between virtue 
 and vice, open the flood gates of impurity, and 
 give free rein to degeneracy and crime. 
 
 Christian Science Destructive of the Ethical, 
 Moral and Judicial Sciences. 
 
 We have witnessed Mrs. Eddy, maintaining 
 the non-existence of matter and sickness, assail 
 the physical, psychological and medical sci- 
 ences. In denying the reality of evil and sin 
 she has formed a new plank, and with it she 
 threatens destruction to the ethical and judicial 
 sciences. 
 
 If there exists no line of demarcation be- 
 tween good and evil, if man is incapable of 
 exercising free choice for good or evil, and, 
 consequently, is not a moral and a responsible 
 being, if sin is not only not a fact, but not so 
 much as a possibility, what remains of the 
 science of ethics and morality? 
 
 Upon the human heart nature has impressed 
 the rudiments of the moral law. From these 
 primary laws the Sages of antiquity, the 
 Fathers of the early Christian centuries, the 
 Schoolmen of the medieval ages, the teachers 
 in modern theological seminaries and colleges 
 of law, have drawn further conclusions, more 
 minute and defined, and have elaborated a code, 
 calculated to make the world and mankind more 
 honest and gentle and pure. But if the tenets 
 
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 of Mrs. Eddy be correct, then the moralists 
 have contributed their time and energy in 
 rearing sciences whose foundations rest upon 
 illusions — nay, we could charge them with 
 having placed all the world under the tyran- 
 nical sway of an erroneous and false con- 
 science. 
 
 Nor is this all. If ' ' man is incapable of sin, ' ' 
 what purpose and object is there in judicial 
 science? For if there is no sin, there can be 
 no guilt. Where then the sense of endeavoring 
 to establish guilt? Moreover, if there is no 
 guilt, where the right and the guarantee to 
 pass condemnation and inflict punishment? If 
 the whole world be as crimeless and sinless as 
 Mrs. Baker Eddy conceives it, why should civ- 
 ilized lands maintain at an enormous expense 
 judiciary systems? All fail of object and pur- 
 pose. 
 
 If the Criminal Be a Christian Scientist. 
 
 A few weeks ago there was perpetrated in 
 the city of San Francisco a damnable outrage, 
 that bespattered with blood the pavement of 
 Market Street and littered it with shattered 
 bone and bleeding limbs. A mingled feeling of 
 horror and indignation arose from every normal 
 heart. Every effort that commonwealth can 
 exert, was made to apprehend the villain and 
 
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 to convict him of his crime in order that sen- 
 tence may be passed upon him. 
 
 I am expressing no opinion as to the identity 
 of the culprit. But if he or she be a consistent 
 Eddyite thus may the case be argued: ''Those 
 bystanders, hale and sound that afternoon, but 
 now lying in their graves, were neither maimed 
 nor killed. Whyf Because 'no breakage nor 
 dislocation can really occur' ('Science and 
 Health,' pg. 402) and 'there is no death.' 
 ('Science and Health,' pg. 426, 74 ed.) More- 
 over, though I constructed and set off that 
 infernal machine, I committed no sin and con- 
 tracted no guilt. Why I Because 'man is in- 
 capable of sin.' ('Science and Health,' pg. 
 459, 74 ed.) Hence you cannot judge me guilty 
 nor impose a penalty." That man may be 
 convicted by the testimony of a thousand wit- 
 nesses ; he may confess his deed and crime with 
 his own lips; yet if Christian Science be 
 adopted, thus he may argue ; and if Mrs. Eddy 
 be also our teacher, we must accept his argu- 
 ments and conclusions, and bestow upon him 
 the kiss of peace. 
 
 Justice Blinded — Anarchy Rampant. 
 
 With bated breath and harrowing sense of 
 fear we witness to what lengths the theories of 
 Mrs. Eddy would lead us. Not a murderer or 
 villain, not a degenerate or adulterer, not a 
 
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 robber or embezzler, but with whom we should 
 fraternize and whom we should clasp in loving 
 embrace as our innocent brother. Not a prose- 
 cuting attorney, but who is obtaining money 
 under false pretenses. Not a judge, who inflicts 
 punishment, but who is inflicting suffering upon 
 the innocent, and should be stripped of his 
 ermine. Not a criminal behind prison bars, 
 but who, though his hands be reddened with 
 the blood of his brother, and though he may 
 have robbed woman of her fairest flower, may 
 not plead that the prison doors be flung open 
 and liberty be granted him. Not a State peni- 
 tentiary, but whose walls should be razed and 
 reduced to smouldering ruins. Thus from her 
 pedestal the heroic figure of justice, upholding 
 the scales and the sword, would be hurled to 
 fragments on the pavement below. The de- 
 mand of the creditor would be in vain, the 
 pleading of the orphaned and helpless disre- 
 garded, the cry of outraged innocence choked, 
 — and grim-visaged and bloody-eyed sin would 
 hold reign in this night of license. 
 
 There lurk in the dark haunts of the city, 
 there stalk about past the midnight hour, some 
 who would welcome this advent of anarchy, — 
 but we and, we doubt not, all respectable 
 Christian Scientists are stricken with horror 
 at its mere possibility. Yet thither would soci- 
 ety hasten, if despite the testimony of our con- 
 
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 science the tenets of Mrs. Baker Eddy, viz., 
 ''man is incapable of sin" and ''evil is an illu- 
 sion," were accorded belief, and were to be- 
 come the norm and standard of our lives and 
 actions. 
 
 The Ten Commandments Not a Joke. 
 
 But besides the catastrophe that would ensue 
 upon the adoption of the tenet of Eddyism re- 
 garding sin, there are further reasons, namely, 
 scriptural, that should impel us forever to re- 
 ject the teaching that sin is an illusion. Above 
 reigns a Sovereign Lord and God, whose wis- 
 dom and omnipotence fashioned and made us. 
 We are His creatures and dependents. On 
 Mt. Sinai, amid the blinding flash of lightning 
 and deafening peal of thunder, He gave the ten 
 Commandments engraven upon two tablets of 
 stone. Now, to transgress those Divine Com- 
 mandments, is either a sin or not a sin. If it 
 is a sin, then Mrs. Eddy's theory, viz., "Man 
 is incapable of sin," and "Evil is an illusion," 
 is false. If it is not a sin, and Mrs. Baker 
 Eddy is correct, then the Almighty Legislator 
 must have been in jesting mood, and the heav- 
 ens lighted up with lightning flashes, with the 
 old prophet of the past Dispensation trembling 
 with awe, merely a dramatic setting to empha- 
 size the farce. 
 
 But why did not the Divine Legislator and 
 
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 His prophet tell ns that merely a joke was 
 being passed upon the human race? Why did 
 not Moses returning from the Mount proclaim 
 to the sons of Israel that the ten Command- 
 ments were merely plays and outbursts of 
 humor on the part of Jehovah? Why, on the 
 contrary, did he inscribe them in the Bible, the 
 most serious book ever written? Why did God 
 Almighty Himself instill the fear into our 
 heart, that every time we transgressed those 
 Commandments, we committed sin, we incurred 
 His displeasure and were rendering ourselves 
 liable to the flames of hell? Why? Because, 
 as matter of fact, and despite Mrs. Eddy, they 
 are not a joke, but as seriously made and im- 
 posed as God alone could make and impose 
 them. The God of omnipotence, justice, sanc- 
 tity — jesting with and fooling His creatures!! 
 The High Priestess of Concord may endeavor 
 to reduce the Almighty God to this humiliating 
 position, by telling us, we incur no sin when 
 we transgress His commands and are foolish 
 for experiencing pang and scruple. But we 
 regard her action as blasphemy. We recoil 
 from it. We shudder at the mere thought of 
 it. We believe that God Almighty was serious, 
 nay, intensely serious. 
 
 Why Punishes God the Sinner? 
 Moreover, if sin is an illusion, why does God 
 
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 inflict punishment for its commission! The 
 pages of the Bible burn, nay, curl and turn 
 crisp with the fire and wrath breathed upon 
 those who thwart the will of the Creator and 
 break His Commandments. In the 13th chap- 
 ter of the Book of Isaias, the Prophet predicts 
 the desolation to descend upon the city of 
 Babylon in the following words: ''Behold, the 
 day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and 
 full of indignation and of wrath and of fury, 
 to lay the land desolate, and to destroy the sin- 
 ners thereof out of it." In the 19th chapter 
 of Genesis is described the storm of fire and 
 brimstone, that swept over the cities of the 
 plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, leaving direful 
 devastation in its wake. 
 
 Why Suffer the Damned f 
 
 But why speak of the flames of earth? Could 
 we but thrust aside the curtains of eternity, 
 and gaze into those fiery depths where languish 
 the disembodied souls ! Why that holocaust — 
 why those lurid flames — why those soul- 
 harrowing torments'? Those, that suffer there- 
 in, lived their days upon the earth. They, 
 indeed, transgressed the Commandments Di- 
 vine, deprived the widow of her portion, 
 plunged the cold steel into their brother's 
 heart, spent their nights in ribaldry and las- 
 civiousness. But, if Mrs. Eddy's contention is 
 
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 true that man is incapable of sin, and that evil 
 is an illusion, evidently they incurred no guilt. 
 Why then were they condemned! Why upon 
 them was passed the irate sentence, '* Depart 
 from me ye accursed into everlasting fire"? 
 Has God lost His sense of justice and stripped 
 Himself of mercy? Like fiend and monster 
 does He gloat over the sufferings of those who 
 were "incapable of sin"? No. 
 
 Ah, those very agonizing souls in the flames 
 proclaim His justice. Could once their voice 
 be heard rising from that pit of fire and dun- 
 geon of hell, they would proclaim to us whether 
 or not sin is a reality. In the mad paroxysms 
 of their crimes they may have declared to God 
 Almighty and boasted to man, ''Sin is false 
 belief," but the flaring fires of hell have en- 
 lightened them to know better, namely, that sin 
 is reality, nay dread reality. 
 
 Why Died Christ on Calvary? 
 \^ Mrs. Eddy Beneath the Cross? 
 
 I close this lecture with the scene on Mount 
 Caivary. The sun has slightly passed the 
 meridian. A cry startles the appalling still- 
 ness, "My God, my God, why hast Thou for- 
 saken me?" Nailed to the Tree of shame 
 hangs the Son of God. His sacred head is 
 encircled with thorns. His countenance is 
 swollen and His eyes are shot with blood. 
 
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 From ^ve deep and gaping wounds gushes 
 forth in crimson streams His life-blood. Oh! 
 that Priestess of New England who nineteen 
 centuries later proclaimed a religion in His 
 name and exploited the love we bear Him 
 for commercial aggrandizement, — oh! had she 
 stood that hot sultry afternoon beneath that 
 cross, with the hot and ruddy drops from the 
 veins of the dying God-man trickling, nay, 
 gushing forth and drenching her garments, 
 would she from beneath that cross, I ask, have 
 proclaimed to the world that He, the Son of 
 the living God, was dying for "mere nothing- 
 ness,'' for a "false belief"? 
 
 So bitter was the chalice into which had been 
 pressed the sins and iniquities of the world, 
 that even His own stout heart quailed, and 
 from His own sacred lips escaped the cry, 
 "May this chalice pass from me," so intensely 
 hated His Heavenly Father sin, that He hesi- 
 tated not to smite with His wrath His only 
 begotten Son, so deeply had sin outraged the 
 Divine and Supreme Majesty that only then 
 was the anger of the Father of Heaven Ap- 
 peased when the thorn-crowned head of His 
 Son bowed in death, and still Mrs. Baker Eddy, 
 the foundress of Christian Science, declared to 
 the world that sin is an illusion. Oh ! may that 
 blood that she contemns as having been spilled 
 for a mere illusion cry not out against her on 
 the day of wrath and judgment. 
 
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. THE CULT OF 
 THE INFIDEL 
 
 "Your eyes shall be opened; and you shall be as Gods." 
 Gen. 3:5. 
 
 Men, denying the truth of the creation of 
 the universe, have erred in either of two direc- 
 tions. They have either denied the existence 
 of God, or have exalted the universe to the 
 supreme plane of the Deity. 
 
 Both, so to speak, stand on a high and com- 
 manding promontory, jutting out from some 
 lofty mountain. Below them they behold the 
 deep and wide valleys, the rolling plains and 
 prairies, the sparkling lakes and winding 
 rivers, the cities and hamlets, with the thou- 
 sands that there live and labor. Both men 
 affirm that all the magnificent panorama of sky 
 and land and water below them, is uncreated 
 and self-existent. The one, however, denies 
 there is a God, spiritual and infinite in nature, 
 and exclaims, ^'God created man? No such 
 thing. The monads developed him. The heav- 
 ens declare the glory of God? No such thing. 
 They declare only the glory of the astronomer. 
 
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 We have no need of the hypothesis of God. 
 The divine existence is not only unnecessary, 
 but absolutely unreal — a creature of the human 
 imagination.'^ Thus has spoken the atheist 
 and materialist. The other, however, maintains 
 that all that they behold is God. This man is 
 a pantheist. Both, denying the record of the 
 Scriptures, are manifestly at variance with the 
 teachings of Christianity and are unquestion- 
 ably infidels. 
 
 Infidelity! 
 
 Infidelity! a stinging and mean charge, and 
 emphatically such if we predicate it of one 
 claiming to possess a superior understanding, 
 and professing to come in the name of God for 
 the alleviation of woe and misery oppressing 
 mankind. True, Mrs. Eddy stoutly cast back 
 this charge, and her disciples today hotly 
 resent our making the imputation. We do not 
 desire to stir up their wrath and indignation, 
 but if we study the teachings of Christian 
 Science regarding God and His nature, we 
 are constrained to make the above-mentioned 
 charge. 
 
 Christian Science, Dangerous Form of 
 Pantheism, 
 
 Quasi-parodoxical expressions, quasi-philo- 
 sophical terms, nugatory statements, flat con- 
 
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 tradictions form one amazing mass of tangle 
 and confusion in the writings of Mrs. Eddy. 
 We read and endeavor to understand, but the 
 mind grows bewildered, and is overwhelmed 
 with a feeling similar to that which neuritis 
 produces in the body. Still, if at the conclusion 
 the reader retains the use of his faculties and 
 is not hypnotized, he lays down the book with 
 the conviction that, though it is labeled ^'Chris- 
 tian," it nevertheless contains an admixture of 
 Brahmin Theosophy, ancient Gnosticism, Mani- 
 chseism, and, forming the largest portion, Hin- 
 doo Pantheism. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy's Egregious Blunder. Her Arbi- 
 trary Definition of Pantheism. Pan- 
 theism Correctly Defined. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy answering the question, whether 
 or not Christian Science is pantheistic, affirms, 
 ''Christian Science refutes Pantheism, finds 
 Spirit neither in matter nor in the modes of 
 mortal mind.'' ("No and Yes," pg. 15, 
 95 ed.). Mrs. Eddy frames a novel and" 
 a convenient definition of her own, and then 
 quite readily frees herself from the charge of 
 being a pantheist. She indicates that panthe- 
 ism is the belief of spirit and intelligence 
 existing in matter. Now, if this be pantheism, 
 it is evident that Christian Science, denying 
 matter and hence intelligence in matter, is any- 
 
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 thing but pantheistic. But Mrs. Eddy has elab- 
 orated an arbitrary, and not only that, but a 
 wrong definition of pantheism. Any culprit 
 before the bar could frame his own defini- 
 tion of a crime and then demand that he be 
 declared innocent. For instance, a robber 
 could assert that theft means the slaying of a 
 man, — and then argue, "I have killed no man, 
 — therefore, I am no thief.'' We would have 
 no mercy on that man, but judge him according 
 to the definition which really sets forth the 
 nature of the crime. So also Mrs. Eddy must 
 answer to the charge of pantheism, not as she 
 defines it, but according to that what all men 
 believe it to be, namely, the doctrine which 
 asserts that God is the only substance, of which 
 the universe and man are only manifestations, 
 — the doctrine, accordingly, which identifies 
 God and the universe, and is accompanied with 
 the denial of God's personality. Some panthe- 
 ists maintain and assert the existence of mat- 
 ter; others, as idealist pantheists, deny it. 
 However, they all agree that all that exists, 
 whether it be material or not, is God. 
 
 Pure Pantheism. 
 
 Hence if Mrs. Eddy declares, ''Nothing pos- 
 sesses reality or substance, except Mind, God,'' 
 how can she escape the charge! In "Science 
 and Health," p. 466, she asks the question, 
 
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 ''What are spirits and souls!" She answers, 
 '/To human belief they are personalities con- 
 stituted of mind and matter, life and death, 
 truth and error, good and evil. The term 
 souls or spirits is as improper as the term 
 gods. Soul or Spirit signifies Deity, and noth- 
 ing else. There is no finite soul or spirit." 
 According to her own words, therefore, there 
 is only one soul or spirit, "since the term souls 
 or spirits is as improper as the term gods." 
 This one soul or spirit is not finite (there is 
 no finite soul or spirit), but "signifies the 
 Deity, and nothing else." Do we grasp the 
 meaning of Mrs. Eddy's words? If so, what 
 do they embody but pantheism, bald and bla- 
 tant, pantheism that echoes the error of cen- 
 turies before Christ, namely, "Brahma is all, 
 and all is Brahma, and whatever is not Brahma 
 is a dream and an illusion"? 
 
 Christian Science Denies God's Creation. 
 
 In the teachings of Mrs. Eddy there lives 
 only one being — uncreated and uncreating; un- 
 created — because if that one being were cre- 
 ated, his creation would demand the existence 
 of a being who created him, and hence there 
 would be two beings; uncreating — because if 
 the uncreated being created, then his creature 
 would mean the existence of another being, and 
 hence, again, there would be two beings. Mrs. 
 
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 Eddy, therefore, necessarily must eliminate the 
 ideas of creator and creature. 
 
 The Term "Expression'' — Pantheistic. 
 
 Christian Science writers, in the endeavor to 
 save their "Mother'' from the ugly charge and 
 conviction of being pantheistic, attempt the 
 explanation that the universe is an expression 
 of the Divine Mind. But what meaning can 
 the term "expression'' have in Mrs. Eddy's 
 system! Christian Science negates the exist- 
 ence of matter, and teaches that all is "Spirit," 
 and whatever is not this "Spirit," is unreal. 
 Consequently the term "expression" when ap- 
 plied to man and the universe can only mean 
 that man and universe form a certain mode of 
 being of this one and only existing "Spirit." 
 They are, so to speak, what bubbles are on 
 the bosom of the ocean. But as waves and 
 bubbles and ocean form in reality only one 
 being, namely, ocean — so also whether the uni- 
 verse be called an expression or not, it and 
 God form only one being, and according to the 
 declarations of Christian Science this being is 
 God. "God is all, and all is God." 
 
 Appalling Absurdities. Man Is God. 
 
 To what appalling absurdities the pantheism 
 lurking in the teachings of Eddyism would lead 
 us, we need not indicate: Mrs. Eddy does it 
 
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 herself. Writing in ' ' Science and Health, ' ' pg. 
 619 of Index (74 ed.), she says, ^'He is self- 
 existent and eternal, like God." Man, accord- 
 ingly, has neither origin nor beginning. Be- 
 fore he stepped upon this globe, he pre-existed. 
 ''If man did not exist before the material or- 
 ganization began, he could not exist after the 
 body is disintegrated. If we live after death 
 and are immortal, we must have lived before 
 birth, for if Life ever had any beginning, it 
 must also have an ending, even according to the 
 calculations of natural science." (''Science 
 and Health," pg. 429.) He had neither a 
 father, who begot him, nor a mother, of whose 
 flesh he was conceived, and who bore him. He 
 never was young nor does he grow old. "He 
 has neither birth nor death." ("Science and 
 Health," pg. 244.) 
 
 If through some form of mortal error you 
 believe yourself at some time to have rested 
 as an infant upon your mother's bosom, you 
 were not one fraction of a moment younger 
 than you are at this present moment, even 
 though the snows of life's winter be fast gath- 
 ering over your brow. "Man in Science is 
 neither young nor old. He has neither birth 
 nor death." ("Science and Health," pg. 244.) 
 What wonder that Christian Science has grown 
 so popular! Surely a happy find for those 
 ashamed of their age. For Christian Science 
 
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 says : ' ' Never record ages. Chronological data 
 are no part of the vast forever. Time-tables 
 of birth and death are so many conspiracies 
 against manhood and womanhood. " (^ ^ Science 
 and Health/' pg. 246.) 
 
 God Is One. All Men Form One Being. 
 
 Vain and false is also every census. The 
 human family never added a new member, nor 
 did it ever lose one. In fact, in Christian Sci- 
 ence we dare not speak of a human family. 
 For a family presupposes a plurality of per- 
 sons, whereas in ''Science,'' since all men are 
 God and God is only one, there is only one 
 being. Accordingly, just and unjust are only 
 one; saint and sinner are only one; wise and 
 unwise are only one; rich and poor are only 
 one. Thus, Cain and Abel were not separate 
 individuals, but identical; Caesar and Brutus 
 were not distinct, but identical; Jesus and 
 Judas were not distinct, but identical; nay, the 
 Kaiser of Germany and the Czar of Russia are 
 not separate individuals, but identical; finally, 
 Mrs. Eddy and you and I are only one — and 
 this one being is the one Divine and Infinite 
 Spirit. 
 
 Accordingly, when Cain slew Abel it was the 
 one being both killing and being killed; when 
 Judas betrayed Christ, it was the one being- 
 betraying and being betrayed. When Mrs. 
 
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 Eddy pronounces her teachings scientific and 
 Christian and I designate them as humbug and 
 blasphemy, it is the one being simultaneously 
 calling them truth and error. 
 
 God Is Man. 
 
 Thus far we have predicated of man the at- 
 tributes that belong to God. But since man 
 and God are identical, we may pursue a differ- 
 ent course of argument and attribute to God 
 all that pertains to man. 
 
 Blasphemy! Appalling! 
 
 Accordingly, God is the grim-visaged mur- 
 derer; God is the glib-tongued liar; God is the 
 smooth-shaven adulterer; God is the cactus- 
 bearded villain of Mexico. Moreover, since 
 God is identical with all these men, it follows 
 that all their actions also are those of God. 
 When the murderer, therefore, dips his hands 
 in the blood of his fellow man, it is God who 
 murders; when the adulterer crosses the 
 threshold of a home and there spreads the 
 slime of his impurity, it is God that commits 
 adultery; when the villains in Mexico dese- 
 crate sanctuaries, mutilate men and violate vir- 
 gins, it is God who commits those outrages. 
 Hence all the misery, all the woe, all the im- 
 morality that has filled the world with shame 
 and despair, have emanated from the one Infi- 
 
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 nite Being. Behold the God whom Mrs. Baker 
 Eddy would set up for veneration and love to 
 those who follow her voice. Perhaps she does 
 it not intentionally, but it is a necessary con- 
 sequence of her teachings. 
 
 Moreover, since '^God is all, and all is God,'' 
 when man is sick, when the typhoid patient 
 raves in delirium, when the leper smells with 
 the malodor of the grave, when the soldier is 
 shot and torn by shell and bullet on the battle- 
 field, when the suicide turns the gun upon him- 
 self, God it is who is sick, who is stricken with 
 fever, who is wounded, who commits suicide, 
 who is killed. 
 
 ''Mortal Mind'' Theory Offers No Refuge, 
 
 Christian Science may try to rally to the 
 defense and insist, ' ' Hold ! sin and sickness and 
 death are mere illusions of the mortal mind." 
 But now that '' mortal mind" either exists or 
 does not exist. If it does not exist, how can it 
 harbor illusions'? If it does exist, then, since 
 "God is all, and all is God," it is identical with 
 Mind, God. Mrs. Eddy may have the alterna- 
 tive of choosing either for glaring nonsense or 
 for shocking blasphemy. 
 
 The God of Christian Science a Monstrosity. 
 
 Candidly — I think, were the teachings of 
 Mrs. Eddy urged to their ultimate conclusion, 
 
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 we should discover that Christian Science has 
 no God at all, but that it is a system absolutely 
 Godless. For — in the light of Christian Sci- 
 ence — regard Him as a Principle, and He is a 
 Principle self-contradicting, at once right and 
 wrong, a nonentity as impossible of being as a 
 circle round and square ; regard Him as a per- 
 son, and He is a monster with truth and error 
 simultaneously upon His tongue, breathing hot 
 and cold in the one and the same breath, with 
 virtue and vice simultaneously in His heart. 
 
 Christian Science Impudently Assails the 
 Dogma of the Trinity. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy has set forth the dictum, ''God 
 is all, and all is God," as the cardinal teaching 
 of her system — and you have beheld what she 
 has made of God. And yet she dares to assail 
 the supreme dogma of our Christian religion, 
 namely, that of the Blessed Trinity, saying, 
 "The theory of three persons in one (that is, 
 a personal Trinity or Tri-unity) suggests poly- 
 theism, rather than the one ever-present 'I 
 am.' 'Hear, Israel: the Lord our God is one 
 Lord.'" ("Science and Health," pg. 256.) 
 But who is she that would insinuate that we, 
 washed in the waters of regeneration in the 
 name of the Father and of the Son and of the 
 Holy Ghost, that we, believing in the Trinity, 
 are like the heathens and pagans of old who 
 
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 believed in and worshiped a multiplicity of 
 gods? Who is she that, raising her finger in 
 correction, would point to our belief in the 
 plurality of persons in the Deity as ^' basic of 
 idolatry''? No! we are not heathens, nor do 
 we worship three gods. But more readily 
 would I prostrate myself before three gods 
 like the pagan in the darkness of the forest, 
 than follow the voice of Mrs. Baker Eddy and 
 worship no God at all, — or rather worship 
 every man, including herself, whom she has 
 deified. 
 
 Christian Science Dethrones God. 
 
 But as a matter of fact we worship one God 
 only, in whom there are three Divine Persons 
 possessing the one Divine Nature. We con- 
 fess we cannot fathom or comprehend this 
 mystery of three persons possessing one Divine 
 Nature. We accept it with whole-souled faith, 
 we bow our intellects before it. Why? Be- 
 cause God has revealed it, because the Scrip- 
 tures contain it, and because the Church of 
 Jesus Christ proposes it to our belief. 
 
 But what cares Mrs. Eddy of New England, 
 who founded her own Church, for the Church 
 of Jesus Christ? What cares she for the Scroll 
 of God's Word when she contemns it as a 
 dusty text-book "no more important to our 
 well-being than the history of Europe and 
 
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 America'"? Nay, what cares she for God, Him- 
 self, when she has dethroned Him, reduced 
 Him to an impersonal thing, called Principle, 
 heaped upon Him all the world's huge pile of 
 crime and sin and sickness — and then sub- 
 merged and drowned Him in the ocean of crea- 
 tion! I conclude this lecture with the words 
 of C. A. Dixon: '^It (Christian Science) is 
 guilty, so far as it can be, of deicide." 
 
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. THE CULT OF 
 THE UNCHRISTIAN 
 
 "Behold thou shalt conceive in thy zvomb, and shalt bring 
 forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall he 
 great, and shall be called the Son of the most High." Luke 
 1:31, 32. 
 
 During the course of the last few decades 
 advertisement has developed into a fine art. 
 Men of business readily recognize its value, 
 and its progress has paved the way to some 
 of their most colossal successes. A medium, 
 indifferent in its nature, it has been employed 
 in the interests of truth, as well as in the serv- 
 ice of fraud. Mrs. Baker Eddy evidently was 
 not a woman to lack the shrewdness of grasp- 
 ing the value of this medium and of utilizing 
 it to raise a towering fortune. To a people, 
 to whom no name on earth or above earth is 
 more sweet and dear than "Jesus," to a 
 people, for whom no figure in history lives 
 more cherished than the Savior soothing the 
 afflicted and sorrowful of Israel, — shrewd and 
 sly Mrs. Eddy realized that she could sell her 
 ''copyrighted" religion with the largest success 
 and profit, if she clothed it in the cover of 
 
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 Christianity and promised to bring back Christ 
 Jesus into their desolate hearts and mournful 
 souls. 
 
 Christian Scientists Should Lament As Did the 
 So rroiu ing Magdalene. 
 
 But, ah, methinks she has cruelly and ruth- 
 lessly deceived and duped them. Mrs. Eddy 
 has labored to convict us of teaching men to 
 hug delusions. But having listened to this 
 woman's teachings regarding the nature of 
 God, regarding the human body, regarding suf- 
 fering and death, I should say it is she who 
 has attempted to foist upon men a mere delu- 
 sion, and who has cruelly swindled from out of 
 their lives the true Christ, so that in truth and 
 fact those who have listened to her voice and 
 followed her teachings, should lament as did 
 the sorrowing Magdalene at the door of the 
 emj)ty tomb, because her Lord had been taken 
 away. 
 
 Jesus Christ the Mental Offspring of a Perfect 
 
 Christian Scientist. Incarnation of 
 
 Christ Not Miraculous. 
 
 The two chief mysteries in the life of the 
 God-man are undoubtedly His Incarnation and 
 His Death of atonement. Mrs. Eddy, indeed, 
 retains the belief that Jesus Christ was born 
 of a woman who had known no man, and that 
 
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 His birth was virginal. But forthwith disillu- 
 sion your mind, that she consequently regards 
 it in the same sacred light as St. Luke records 
 it in his Gospel, and as we celebrate the event 
 on Christmas Day. No, in the bible of Mrs. 
 Eddy He was but the son of an advanced 
 Christian Scientist. '^ Jesus," she writes, '^was 
 the offspring of Mary's self-conscious com- 
 munion with God." (''Science and Health," 
 pg. 30.) Jesus Christ! — the mental offspring 
 of a woman's consciousness! The Blessed 
 Mother merely caught a gleam of Eddyism! 
 She possessed sufficient ''Science" to create a 
 child by mental generation and thus to "put 
 to silence the material law and its order of 
 generation." Her virginal delivery must be 
 considered precisely the same as that of any 
 other woman who obtains an adequate knowl- 
 edge of Christian Science and can become a 
 virginal mother. Hence there is neither mys- 
 tery nor miracle surrounding the birth of 
 Christ. "Generation rests on no sexual basis." 
 ("Science and Health," pg. 274, 74 ed.) "The 
 so-called substance of bone is formed first by 
 the parent's mind, through self-division. Soon 
 the child becomes a separate, individualized 
 thought." This suffices. This moment Mrs. 
 Eddy should divest herself of the robes of a 
 Christian. She has stolen them. 
 
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 Jesus Is Not the Christ. Dual Personality. 
 In Christian thought and sentiment we wor- 
 ship the Divine Savior as a Divine Person, who 
 to the Divine Nature, that He possessed from 
 all eternity, joined the human nature, which in 
 time He assumed of the Virgin Mary. He gave 
 us assurance for this belief, perhaps, at the 
 most solemn moment of His mortal life. Stand- 
 ing before the Sanhedrim, the supreme religious 
 tribunal of the Jewish nation. He was asked by 
 the High-priest the precise and unequivocal 
 question: "I adjure Thee by the living God, 
 that Thou tell us if Thou be the Christ, the 
 Son of the living God." And Jesus answered 
 him, ^'Thou hast said it." To this categorical 
 affirmation He added, "Hereafter you shall see 
 the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the 
 power of God and coming in the clouds of 
 heaven." Then the High-priest rent his gar- 
 ments, and said, ''He has blasphemed." Why 
 does not Mrs. Eddy also rend her garments? 
 In her estimation, too, that man Jesus standing 
 there, clad in a body of flesh and blood, was not 
 ''the Christ, the Son of the living God." She 
 writes and confesses this, saying, "Jesus, as 
 material manhood, was not the Christ." (Misc., 
 pg. 84.) 
 
 JesurS Is Not God. 
 Jesus, therefore, is not regarded by Mrs. 
 
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 Eddy as God, for she says, ^'A portion of God 
 could not enter corporeal mortal man, . . . 
 God can only be reflected by spiritual, incor- 
 poreal man." (''Science and Health," pg. 231, 
 74 ed.) We can now comprehend how she 
 could write, ''At the time when Jesus felt our 
 infirmities He had not conquered all the beliefs 
 of flesh, or His sense of material life, nor had 
 He risen to His final demonstration of spiritual 
 power." ("Science and Health," pg. 209, 74 
 ed.) Jesus, accordingly, a plain mortal like 
 ourselves, was steeped in materialism and an 
 individual deluded by mortal error. Very 
 reverential words, Mrs. Eddy ! 
 
 Compliments of Mrs. Eddy to Christ. 
 
 On the same page in "Science and Health" 
 she writes, "To accommodate Himself to im- 
 mature ideas of spiritual power, Jesus called 
 the body — He raised from the grave, 'flesh and 
 bones.' " On page 396, she added, "These in- 
 stances show us the concessions which Jesus 
 was willing to make to popular ignorance." 
 For instance, "He sometimes called a disease 
 by name." ("Science and Health," pg. 396, 
 74 ed.) Mrs. Eddy evidently concedes that at 
 a later period the knowledge of "Science" did 
 dawn upon and enlighten the soul of Jesus; 
 but it seemingly improved not His morals. For 
 though Jesus at that precise time was better 
 
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 informed, still He possessed not the courage of 
 His convictions. For He yielded and made 
 concessions to popular ignorance. Nay, He 
 positively deluded the people by deliberately 
 lying to them, for though He full well knew 
 that flesh and bone were merely dreams of 
 fancy, He, nevertheless, solemnly assured His 
 disciples, ''flesh and bones such as you see Me 
 to have." (Luke 24:29.) 
 
 Mrs. Baker Eddy has, therefore, given elesus 
 Christ the lie. We must associate her with 
 the motley throng and mob that with perjured 
 oaths clamored for His condemnation, because 
 "He perverted the nation.'^ 
 
 If in the Mob before the Tribunal of Pilate 
 There Had Been an Eddyite! 
 
 The drama of the passion opens. From 
 Pilate to Herod, and from Herod to Pilate 
 they have dragged Him. The Eoman Gov- 
 ernor in a final attempt to secure the release 
 of Jesus presents Him to the people with the 
 piteous appeal, "Behold the man!" But from 
 a sea of upturned faces, white as the ocean 
 froth with hate, rises the thunderous cry, like 
 the voice of many waters, "Crucify him! cru- 
 cify him!" Pilate yields and passes the sen- 
 tence of death upon the Savior of mankind. 
 But the Eddyite would rush in and cry out, 
 "Hold! — Crucify whom! Christ, the Divine 
 
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 Idea! Crucify an idea! Absurd! Crucify the 
 corporeal Jesus! Body is an illusion. Crucify 
 an illusion! Equally absurd!" 
 
 But enough, of Christian Science; the steel 
 hammers driving- the gruesome nails awaken 
 us only too painfully to the fact that the scene 
 on Mt. Calvary is grim reality. Fastened to 
 the cross He hangs between heaven and earth. 
 In sacrificial agony He quivers, He moans, 
 He suffers; finally crying in a loud voice, ''It 
 is finished!" He bows His thorn-crowned head 
 in death. 
 
 It is finished! Oh! ye, who love and adore 
 that mangled body even in death, hearken to 
 that cry still echoing down the centuries ! What 
 is finished! You and I and all who worship 
 Him as the Redeemer and the Savior, believe 
 that finished and fulfilled is the promise that 
 He made in eternity before His angered 
 Father's throne, the promise, to lay down His 
 life in sacrifice and atonement for us sinners, 
 and to wash away our iniquities in His blood. 
 
 Christian Science Denies Christ's Atonement. 
 
 But from beneath that crimson stream of 
 redeeming blood one of the sin-stained children 
 of Adam withdraws. It is Mrs. Baker Eddy, 
 the mother of Christian Science. Denying the 
 reality of sin and that our souls were ever 
 stained or soiled, denying the fumes and flames 
 
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 of hell, denying the reality of nails and wood 
 and cross and flesh, she denies also Christ's 
 death, atonement and sacrifice. In the death- 
 like stillness of Calvary she gazes back over 
 the career of the dead Jesus, and beholds in it 
 not the mission to save men from sin, but from 
 the belief in sin, not to lead men to repent of 
 sin, but to deny sin, for she writes, 'Mesus 
 came to seek and to save such as believe in the 
 reality of the unreal! to save them from this 
 false belief.'' (Misc., pg. 63.) Cold and un- 
 moved she looks upon the crimson pool gath- 
 ered at the foot of the instrument of death, 
 and says of that blood that washed away the 
 sins of the world, ''The material blood of 
 Jesus was no more efficacious to cleanse from 
 sin when it was shed upon 'the accursed tree,' 
 than when it was flowing through His veins, 
 as He went daily about His Father's busi- 
 ness." ("Science and Health," pg. 330, 74 
 ed.) Even on the Mount of His bloody death 
 she can bring her heart no farther than to pay 
 Him the tribute (tribute!! save the mark!) of 
 being a "way shower" ("Science and Health" 
 Index, pg. 13, 74 ed.). Mrs. Eddy denies the 
 supreme truths of the Christian faith, and she 
 confesses it, writing, "That God's wrath should 
 be vented upon His Beloved Son, is divinely 
 unnatural. It is a man-made theory." ("Sci- 
 ence and Health," pg. 328, 74 ed.) 
 
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 From the sorrowing group on Mt. Golgotha 
 let us remove the figure of Mrs. Eddy. She 
 belongs not there where the Blessed Mother 
 of Jesus and His Penitent Child are crushed 
 in grief and sorrow. 
 
 The cross yields its burden, and the corpse 
 of the slain God-man rests in the lap of His 
 Mother. In mournful procession He is borne 
 to the rich man's garden. In the hush of night 
 they deposit His mutilated body in the tomb. 
 The seal is affixed on the sepulchre, and the 
 Roman sentry stands guard. But lo ! the dawn 
 of the third day bursts over those Judean hills, 
 and witness! from the tomb of death issues the 
 living Christ, — yes, living, robed in immortality 
 and glorious in the fulfilment of His prophecy, 
 ''Destroy this temple, and in three days I shall 
 rebuild it." 
 
 Christ in the Sepulchre Not Dead. Gave a 
 
 Demonstration of the Healing Efficacy 
 
 of Christian Science. 
 
 St. Paul wrote, ''If Christ be not risen, then 
 vain is our preaching, and your faith is also 
 vain, yea, and we are found false witnesses." 
 For nineteen centuries the Christian world, in 
 the light of the Apostle's words, has regarded 
 the Resurrection on Easter Morn as the key- 
 stone in the arch of Christianity. But now 
 after the lapse of nineteen centuries it re- 
 
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 mained for a woman in New England to insult 
 the Apostle and designate him as a false wit- 
 ness. For teaches Mrs. Eddy, Christ in the 
 sepulchre lay not in the white sleep of death. 
 He was alive, practicing Christian Science. 
 Thus Mrs. Eddy \^riting in ''Science and 
 Health," pg. 44: "The lonely precincts of the 
 tomb gave Jesus a refuge from His foes, a 
 place in which to solve the great problem of 
 being. His three days' work in the sepulchre 
 set the seal of eternity on time. He proved 
 Life to be deathless and Love to be the master 
 of hate. He met and mastered on the basis of 
 Christian Science, the power of Mind over 
 matter, all the claims of medicine, surgery, and 
 hygiene. 
 
 "He took no drugs to allay inflammation. 
 He did not depend upon food or pure air to 
 resuscitate wasted energies. He did not re- 
 quire the skill of a surgeon to heal the torn 
 palms and bind up the wounded side and 
 lacerated feet, that He might use those hands 
 to remove the napkin and winding-sheet, and 
 that He might employ His feet as before.'' 
 
 "His disciples believed Jesus to be dead 
 while He was hidden in the sepulchre, whereas 
 He was alive." ("Science and Health," pg. 
 44.) Hence it was as natural for Him to rise 
 and reappear among E[is disciples, as it is for 
 a man after three days' retirement and rest in 
 
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 the privacy of his chamber to issue out again 
 among his friends. 
 
 Christian Science the Antithesis of Historic 
 Christianity. 
 
 Do you understand the meaning of the wordh 
 of Mrs. Eddy! It is plain and obvious. She 
 has flatly denied the truth upon which your 
 Christian and Catholic faith stands and falls. 
 Eddyism still parades before the world with 
 the title ''Christian" — and I tell you it is 
 the most colossal act of fraud and effrontery 
 of the age. This moment you either sever all 
 connections with Christian Science or call St. 
 John, who witnessed Jesus, dead and buried, a 
 dupe or a downright prevaricator, and the 
 Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Mary Magdalene, 
 who came to anoint the body of the Savior with 
 spices, as insanely hysterical women, befogged 
 in materialism. 
 
 After His resurrection, Jesus appeared and 
 spoke with His disciples. On the way to Em-, 
 maus he walked in their company, and in the 
 evening He broke bread with them. He bade 
 the doubting Thomas to insert his finger in 
 the wounds of His hands and feet, and to place 
 his hand in the opening of His sacred side. 
 Why did the Savior insist upon this? To as- 
 sure His disciple of the consoling fact of the 
 fulfilment of the prophecy made in the Gospel 
 
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 of St. Luke (18:33): ''And after they have 
 scourged Him, they will put Him to death; 
 and the third day He shall rise again.'' 
 
 Christ's Tarrying upon Earth, a Campaign of 
 Deception. 
 
 We, therefore, must regard the tarrying of 
 our dear Savior upon earth as the last act of 
 His love, to fortify forever the principal truth 
 upon which He based the Divinity of His mis- 
 sion, and upon which we also rest our hopes 
 and our soul's supreme aspiration. But Mrs. 
 Eddy! All through His mortal life, from crib 
 to cross, she has dogged His steps, stripping 
 His person of every trace of divinity, imputing 
 to Him now ignorance, now positive falsehood, 
 — and now, even after His death and resurrec- 
 tion, she desists not from maligning His char- 
 acter, but continues to assail Him, designating 
 His reappearance in the flesh as a campaign of 
 deception for the purpose of strengthening His 
 disciples in the belief that He possessed the 
 selfsame body, which was stained with blood 
 and pierced with a spear, whereas His body 
 and its wounds were "illusions" and "mortal 
 
 The Savior Merciful. 
 
 Finally on Mount Olivet the heart of the 
 Savior was touched with pity at His followers 
 
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 groveling in error, and He determined to dis- 
 illusion them. He, therefore, permitted His 
 body to melt into nothingness. Thus equiva- 
 lently Mrs. Eddy writing, ''Jesus' unchanged 
 physical condition after what seemed to be 
 death was followed by His exaltation above all 
 material conditions; and this exaltation ex- 
 plained His ascension. ' ' ( ' ' Science and 
 Health,'' pg. 46.) 
 
 The Angels Cruel. 
 
 But ye men of Galilee, we pity you! Jesus 
 on Mount Olivet tried to disengage your minds 
 from error. But, alas, two angels appeared 
 and plunged you back into your former lament- 
 able condition, for they said, "Ye men of 
 Galilee, why stand ye gazing up to heaven? 
 This same Jesus shall come in like manner as 
 you have seen Him go." The disciples be- 
 lieved that Jesus had been clothed in flesh 
 during His mortal life, and now they are led 
 to believe by these messengers from on High 
 that His selfsame body of flesh and blood still 
 endures in the mansions of eternity. 
 
 These men of Galilee descended from Mount 
 Olivet, and departed for different parts of the 
 world. They recorded their impressions in the 
 Gospels, and upon these writings are based the 
 dogmas of Christianity. 
 
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 The Writings of Mrs. Eddy an Antithesis of the 
 Record of the Evangelists, 
 
 Tonight you have heard Mrs. Baker Eddy 
 set forth her views regarding the Divine Sa- 
 vior. She has flatly contradicted the testimony 
 of the men of Galilee, taken a bold and defiant 
 stand against historic Christianity, and ren- 
 dered Jesus Christ a perfect Christian Sci- 
 entist. 
 
 To Whom Shall We Accord Belieff 
 
 To whose voice will you hearken? To the 
 voice of the men of Galilee sounding down the 
 centuries — of the men, who lived and labored 
 with the Messiah during the heat of the day 
 and in the shade of the evening sat at His feet 
 and learned from His own sacred lips His doc- 
 trine divine, or to the voice of Mrs. Eddy, a 
 woman, who, separated from Christ by a space 
 of nineteen centuries, sat at her desk with a 
 Bible and a heap of cheap commentaries before 
 her, and believed herself inspired'? To whose 
 testimony will you accord belief? To the tes- 
 timony of men who confessed their religion 
 before emperor and tyrant and sealed it with 
 the blood of cruel martyrdom, or to the testi- 
 mony of a woman who, shrewdly embodying 
 her religion in a copyrighted book, amassed 
 through its sale a fortune, and spent her days 
 in luxury and ease? Upon whom will you gaze 
 
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 as your spiritual Mother and the Oracle of 
 truth! Upon Mother Eddy, who sank into a 
 grave like any ordinary mortal, and who, de- 
 spite the promise of her disciples that she 
 would rise as a final demonstration of .the truth 
 of her system, still lies mouldering in the 
 grave at Mt. Auburn, or upon the Roman and 
 Catholic and Apostolic Church, who, though 
 she was born on the day when the Holy Ghost 
 descended in pentecostal flames of fire, still 
 lives without spot or wrinkle upon her counte- 
 nance, without the gray or white of age upon 
 her head, without flaw or error upon the record 
 of her dogmatical and moral teachings? 
 
 You Cannot Be a Christian and Christian Scien- 
 tist. Christian Scientists Excommunicated. 
 
 The hour is solemn. Your decision is of tre- 
 mendous, nay, possibly of everlasting impor- 
 tance. Mrs. Eddy shall no longer wear the 
 mantle of Christianity, and no one standing 
 beneath its folds shall be designated as Chris- 
 tian. Now — either declare for Mrs. Baker 
 Eddy and be excommunicated from the com- 
 munion of this Church, before whose altar you 
 tonight worship, or forswear Mrs. Eddy and 
 Christian Science, and live and die — 
 "Within this rock-built Church that wavers 
 never. 
 
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 Here reigns the Shepherd-King, a Father ever 
 
 To him who seeks and loves the light. 
 
 This priestly King shall rule till doom's dread 
 
 day, 
 Then yield the keys to Him who gave this 
 
 wondrous sway." 
 
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SCHEME 
 OF HEALING 
 
 "For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and 
 shall show great signs and wonders, inasmuch, as to deceive 
 (if possible) even the elect." Matt. 24 :24. 
 
 With serious mind we have paid Mrs. Baker 
 Eddy the compliment of having possessed a 
 shrewd and calculating sense of business, a 
 deeply practical understanding of the weakness 
 and foibles of human nature, and of the method 
 how best to turn them to her advantage and 
 favor. She recognized with what self-effacing 
 obeisance men will prostrate themselves before 
 any vagary presented in the name of ^'Sci- 
 ence/' — and to secure for her system the power 
 of enthralling, she called it ^'Science." Quite 
 well did she know that religion rules as one of 
 the dominant passions in the human heart, — 
 and to add to her system the sanction and the 
 theological dignity of a religious cult, she 
 called it ^^ Christian.'* 
 
 Christian Science Divested of Its Masquerade 
 Costume — A Sanitary System. 
 But with Christian Science, inasmuch as it is 
 presented to the world as a system of meta- 
 
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 physics and of theology, we are done. It shall 
 no longer engage our attention, as it is vested 
 in its masquerade costume, and never again 
 shall we with advertence pronounce its name 
 save as the ^'so-called Christian Science.'' We 
 now desire to look upon it in its nakedness. 
 
 Patent medicines often, I might say, gener- 
 ally depend for a wide sale not so much upon 
 their merits as upon bold advertisement. Our 
 eye is caught by some vivid description of an 
 accident or crime, by some interesting observa- 
 tion about religion, history, science, etc. We 
 read on with increasing interest and only near 
 the close do we discover that we have been 
 reading a newspaper advertisement formally 
 urging us to take Peruna, sure cure for coughs, 
 colds, catarrh. 
 
 We read a book entitled '^Science and 
 Health." It is printed and bound in the shape 
 and form of a pocket Bible; it contains scin- 
 tillating metaphors, sophomoric effusions, and 
 lame iambics, all melting into one confused and 
 confusing composition, labeled ''Science." Still 
 if the reader at its conclusion retains the use 
 of his faculties, he cannot lay down the ''pre- 
 cious volume" but with the conviction that 
 the authoress of "Science and Health," in a 
 manner much more clever than patent medicine 
 advertisements, has made a bid to him to adopt 
 Christian Science as a sanitary system — as a 
 
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 panacea for every ill and hurt and pain inher- 
 ited by the children of Adam. 
 
 A sanitary system — such we judge the true 
 nature of Christian Science to be. That we 
 err not, Mrs. Eddy herself testifies, writing in 
 ^'Eetrospection and Introspection,^' page 304, 
 '^The motive of my early years has never been 
 changed. It was to relieve the sufferings of 
 humanity by a sanitary system." It is in the 
 light of this definition that we shall presently 
 consider Christian Science, so called. 
 
 ^^ Science and Health" Reminds of Patent 
 Medicine Literature. 
 
 We cannot resist thinking of Lydia Pink- 
 ham's Compound pamphlets, with the appended 
 testimonial letters from profoundly grateful 
 patients. For in '^ Science and Health" also 
 there has been embodied a chapter entitled 
 '^Fruitage," in which Mrs. Eddy presents a 
 collection of letters "in testimony of the heal- 
 ing efficacy of Christian Science and particu- 
 larly of the vast number of people who have 
 been reformed and healed through the peru- 
 sal or study of this book." ("Science and 
 Health," pg. 600.) 
 
 Patients — Profoundly Grateful, Indeed, Yet 
 
 Perhaps Over -enthusiastic. 
 Organs of Credulity Marvelously Developed. 
 Mrs. Eddy has identified her system with 
 the Holy Ghost, writing, "The Science of God 
 
and man is the Holy Ghost/' ('^ Unity of 
 Good/' pg. 52.) But I prefer to hazard a sin 
 against the Holy Ghost (as Mrs. Eddy con- 
 ceives him) than to accept absolutely and in- 
 discriminately all the letters of testimony 
 quoted by Mrs, Eddy. Some, therefore, I dis- 
 miss unreservedly as absurd and preposterous. 
 Their contents contradict the most palpable 
 experience of our senses and the clearest judg- 
 ments of our intellect. On page 605 (^'Science 
 and Health") we find a letter introduced as 
 ^'A Case of Mental Surgery/' in which a dis- 
 ciple testifies that, lying in the dust with a 
 broken arm received from a fall, he declared 
 to himself the truth that there can be no break 
 in the realm of Divine Love, and forthwith 
 arose with the bone of his arm perfectly knit- 
 ted, mounted his bicycle and rode home. I 
 reject the testimony of this man; nor am I 
 compelled to present an elaborate argument 
 for my action any more than I would be held 
 to oifer proof and reasons for refusing to 
 believe that a man could stop the roll of the 
 waves with a pitchfork. A statement mani- 
 festly absurd needs no refutation. 
 
 Other cases may sound surprising and as- 
 tounding, but we reject them not. They may 
 lie out of the realm of our own personal expe- 
 rience; still they violate not reason, and for 
 their truth we have the testimony and guaran- 
 
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 tee of persons, whose character for knowledge 
 and veracity is beyond impeachment. 
 
 Finally, other cases are produced, which fall 
 under the ken of our own personal observation, 
 and for which we find a parallel every day. 
 
 Therefore, we concede, and we do it frankly, 
 that in the temples of Christian Science some 
 persons have found hope and relief, perhaps 
 even after the doctors had abandoned them as 
 beyond the aid of their efforts, and their close 
 relatives were mournfully calculating the fun- 
 eral expenses. 
 
 Healing Successes Not Due to Religio- 
 ,' metaphysical Theories. 
 
 £ Now, what does the fact that a few cures 
 have been effected, argue I Do they form a 
 physical demonstration of the truth and valid- 
 ity of the religio-metaphysical theories of Mrs. 
 Baker Eddy? This I flatly deny. 
 
 Spiritism also, of which Mrs. Baker Eddy 
 herself remarks, "No greater opposites can be 
 conceived than Christian Science, Spiritism, 
 and Theosophy,'' claims cures equally wonder- 
 ful, or rather seemingly wonderful, and, I judge, 
 as truthfully as Christian Science. In Utah 
 the Mormons are said to effect cures without 
 the administering of medicine. In every neigh- 
 borhood periodically appears the wonder- 
 working evangelist ; he claims to be the Mes- 
 
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 siah, though to some he may be known to have 
 no more conscience than a thieving tom-cat. In 
 the deserts of Arizona over the sick Indian the 
 medicine-man chants his weird incantations; 
 he believes not in Christian Science, and yet 
 missionaries inform us that his rude efforts are 
 often attended with marvelous results. 
 
 How shall we explain the cures effected by 
 these various religious healers'? Shall we say 
 that the devil aids them? No. To the devil 
 too much credit is already given. Has Heaven 
 granted them some preternatural power? No. 
 Their character and methods preclude such a 
 possibility. Is it in virtue of the truth of their 
 respective theories regarding the nature of the 
 Supreme Being and metaphysics (if by a 
 stretch of the imagination we can associate 
 metaphysics with a war-painted Indian) ? No. 
 Their teachings contradict and antagonize one 
 another, and among contradictories some are 
 evidently false. 
 
 Mind Controls Body. 
 
 There must be some other fact that explains 
 their therapeutic successes, and it is this : they 
 all— the Utah Mormon, the itinerant evangelist, 
 the red Indian and Mrs. Baker Eddy — have 
 laid hold of the truth that mind can control 
 body, and surrounded it with a mass of fan- 
 tastic, weird and mutually contradicting terms. 
 
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 They cure, not because their respective relig- 
 ious teachings are true, for these are absurd 
 and nonsensical, but because they succeed in 
 gaining influence over the mind (whether by 
 telling the truth or falsehood matters not), and 
 through the mind over the body. 
 
 Do we doubt this control of mind over body? 
 Witness how friend affects friend, the joy or 
 sorrow of one producing happiness or gloom 
 in the other. But where find we friends more 
 intimately connected and closely allied than the 
 soul and the body? In the moment of concep- 
 tion the hand of the Creator interlocks them, 
 and through life they pass, so to speak, hand 
 in hand. What wonder, then, that the condi- 
 tion of one affects the disposition of the other. 
 Is the soul enkindled with anger? Does it 
 burn with revenge? Witness the body also 
 affected — the eyes blaze fire, the lips grow blue 
 and quiver, the cheek is hot and scarlet. 
 
 Is the soul seized with fear? Hovers over 
 it some calamity? Threatens it dire punish- 
 ment? Witness the body also influenced — the 
 face is pale and haggard, the lips tremble, the 
 mouth is parched and dry. 
 
 Finally witness the man who thinks his best 
 efforts blighted. His eyes lose lustre. Keen 
 disappointment gnaws away his life. But when 
 to his surprise he beholds a change, and his 
 
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 work blossoms forth into success, those eyes 
 glisten again with new life and ambition and 
 pride. 
 
 Indigestion Due to Mental Attitude. 
 
 These instances from daily life exemplify the 
 control of mind over body-. Shall we marvel, 
 then, that it can exercise the same control in 
 the sphere of therapeutics? The most crude 
 function in the human body is that of digestion 
 of food, and yet J. J. Walsh, M. D., informs us 
 that it is largely under the control of the 
 soul. As an illustration he quotes the story 
 of a European traveling in China. On his first 
 day out from Hongkong he was treated to a 
 stew of dark meat, which he relished im- 
 mensely. Desirous of learning its name and 
 not understanding Chinese, he pointed to the 
 dish and very suggestively said, '^ Quack! 
 quack!'' But the waiter negatively shook his 
 head and added, ''Bow! wow!" It was a most 
 unfortunate answer to a very unfortunate 
 question. Undoubtedly the result was pain- 
 fully unhappy. Still it illustrates that the 
 attack of indigestion was merely consequent 
 and due to a mental attitude. 
 
 The same observation may be made of other 
 organs in the body. Prof. Oppenheim (quoted 
 by J. J. Walsh, M. D.) writes: "The heart 
 rebels, as it were, against this surveillance. 
 
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 which not only accelerates, but may even in- 
 hibit its action and render it irregular. 
 
 ^^And so it is with all the organs of the body 
 which act spontaneously (automatically or me- 
 chanically, like a clock) ; they get out of order 
 and become functionally defective, if, as the 
 result of the attention and self -observation 
 directed towards them, impulses flow to them 
 from the centers of consciousness and will in 
 the same way as they flow to the organs (e. g., 
 the muscles) which are normally under the 
 control of the will. 
 
 ^'Whenever you succeed in controlling the 
 action of your heart by means of introspection, 
 there flows from your brain to your heart a 
 current of innervation which disturbs the auto- 
 matic movement of the organ. You know whom 
 you have to thank for the irregularity in the 
 action of your heart. I have frequently proved 
 this to myself in your case: if I succeeded in 
 feeling your pulse without your becoming 
 aware of it, holding your attention by a con- 
 versation which interested you, the action of 
 your heart was always absolutely regular. If, 
 however, I tried it under your control, whilst 
 your attention was anxiously directed to your 
 heart, its action at once became irregular, and 
 you experienced the very unpleasant sensation 
 of palpitation.'^ 
 
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 Change of Mental Attitude Produces Cure of 
 Body. 
 As a summary, therefore, we state: An ab- 
 normal condition of the mind — caused by fear, 
 disappointment, morbid introspection, worry, 
 etc. — produces an abnormal condition of the 
 body. Such is the nature, generally speaking, 
 of nervous and hysterical disorders. The 
 functions of the organs have been interfered 
 with; and this functional derangement we call 
 a disease. All that is necessary to cure a dis- 
 ease of this nature is, that the abnormal condi- 
 tion of the mind be removed. 
 
 Enter the Practitioner, 
 
 Bearing these facts in mind, let us now 
 watch the Christian Scientist practitioner ex- 
 ercise his art. ''With steady, solemn, silent 
 step'^ he enters the sick room and approaches 
 the patient. He impresses upon the mind of 
 the sufferer that his sickness is an illusion; he 
 removes the disquieting fear of symptoms; he 
 reanimates that wavering heart with courage 
 and resistance and hope of recovery. He con- 
 tinues this ''treatment" until the mind is really 
 soothed and calmed, and quite naturally he 
 often succeeds in curing the body. 
 
 Conclusion Not Warranted. 
 
 Now, does this justify the Eddyite to jump 
 up, and, his face lighted up with triumph, to 
 
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 exclaim, '^ Behold a cure! a demonstration of 
 the trnth of Christian Science!" Not at all. 
 Not so fast, my man ! The attitude of the mind 
 has been changed. Vain fears have been dis- 
 sipated; but whether it was accomplished by 
 telling the truth or the falsehood, is quite a 
 different question. 
 
 Use Christian Science — Prescribe Fire Engine 
 for Cure of Headache! 
 
 You and I are aware that many shrewd 
 mothers soothe the pain of a crying infant by 
 handing it a circular cracker with the assur- 
 ance that it is the moon, — ^that oftentimes doc- 
 tors cure heartache and headache by prescrib- 
 ing sugar-pellets and telling the patients that 
 they are taking powerful drugs. Moreover, 
 a splitting headache may be torturing you 
 through the hours of the night, but once your 
 house begins to burn, and you hear the rumble 
 of the arriving fire engines, the clanging of the 
 bells, the hoarse shouts of the firemen, you 
 forget your head and its ache. Will you now 
 seriously prescribe a fire engine for the cure 
 of a headache! 
 
 The metaphysical and theological teachings 
 of Christian Science have as much connection 
 with the therapeutic successes it claims, as 
 have the sugar pills, the conflagration, with 
 the cures enumerated above. In both cases the 
 
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 mind was influenced, and regardless of the way 
 it was done, still a beneficial effect was pro- 
 duced in the body. 
 
 But shall we suffer ourselves to be treated 
 like infants holding a cracker in their tiny 
 hands and believing it to be the moon? Shall 
 we pay the price of an expensive drug for 
 plain water with an admixture of a little table 
 salt*? Shall we swallow morsels of blasphemy, 
 of absurdity? Shall we be duped and fraudu- 
 lently deceived to obtain the benefits of mind 
 cure? Not at all. 
 
 Catholic Church Influences Mind, Beneficially 
 Yet Not Fraudulently. 
 
 I appeal to-yqu t^ <?onsider the Sacraments 
 of the Catholic Church ! Not a Catholic clergy- 
 man but who can testify to the marvelous 
 power they exercise over the mind and, 
 through the mind, upon the body. Witness the 
 man with his soul laden with sin. No man 
 knows of his crime committed in the dark 
 hours of night, yet remorse and keen regret 
 eat away his vitality and vigor. But once that 
 man confesses his sin, and God's minister as- 
 sures him that his soul is purged of guilt, mark 
 the wondrous change! Calm and peace are 
 restored; the haggard and worn look disap- 
 pears; no longer gazes he with furtive and 
 nervous glance, but stands before the world, 
 confident and composed. 
 
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 Again, who, having knelt about the Catholic 
 sick bed, cannot tell of the wonderful effects of 
 Extreme Unction f In every case this Sacra- 
 ment produces hope and peace, calm and con- 
 fidence ; in a considerable number of cases even 
 bodily health is restored, while doctors stand 
 about in wonder. Of course it is to be noted 
 that the Sacraments produce their effect prin- 
 cipally in virtue of their inherent, supernatural 
 power. 
 
 Finally, the precepts, the promises, the 
 heroic example of Jesus Christ! If only we 
 more faithfully carried out the rule of life con- 
 tained in His Grospels, if only we more confi- 
 dently hearkened to His words, ''Be not anx- 
 ious for the morrow!" if only we did not ig- 
 nore the fact that ''whom the Lord loveth. He 
 chastiseth," if only we more often meditated 
 upon the courage and steadfastness with which 
 He bore the cross on the Via Dolorosa, oh! 
 never would we be tempted in order to relieve 
 fretful worries, to drink of the poisonous foun- 
 tain of Eddyism, but in our own religion we 
 would discover there abides the secret of god- 
 liness and the secret of health and contentment 
 as well. 
 
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SCHEME 
 OF HEALING.- Continued. 
 
 "The dissembler with his tongue deceiveth his friend." 
 Prov. 11:9. 
 
 Slander and calumny have attempted to 
 fasten upon tlie Jesuits the iniquitous charg-e 
 of having- taug-ht the principle that the end 
 justifies the means, — for instance, that a man 
 in order to acquire a good or avoid an evil jus- 
 tifiably may resort to lying and duplicity. The 
 Order of St. Ignatius, however, ever innocent 
 of the charge, has successfully vindicated its 
 name in the minds of all, if we except the des- 
 picable, big-ot-minded and lantern-jawed editors 
 of the Menace type. In the course of the first 
 few lectures we unmistakably learned that 
 Christian Science, so called, preaches the self- 
 same principle; and in the last lecture we wit- 
 nessed that it also makes practical use of it. 
 The ills of many are intimately connected with 
 an abnormal state of mind. Christian Science 
 quiets the mind and restores to it peace and 
 calm. The consequence often is a return of 
 health to the body. But how has Science 
 
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 soothed the mind? By lying and deceit — by 
 imposing upon that mind an apostasy from 
 every Christian teaching and a travesty on all 
 scientific thought. Still, though we do not 
 approve but utterly detest the method, we 
 cannot gainsay that ''Science" sometimes ob- 
 tains its end, namely, cure of the body. 
 
 But not always do unjust means obtain their 
 end. Often they are employed and no result 
 follows, since they are entirely inadequate. Or 
 a good effect may be in evidence, still it is in 
 no wise due to the evil means, which are inade- 
 quate, but to another factor. 
 
 Cured — Christian Science^ Hoivever, Innocent. 
 
 During the past weeks I have been ap- 
 proached by persons assuring me that within 
 the circle of their acquaintances are persons 
 who have been cured by ''Science" of other 
 diseases than those mentioned in the last lec- 
 ture. I would answer that I doubt not the 
 words of their estimable friends in so far as 
 they state that they have been cured. But if 
 their diseases were different from those I made 
 mention of last week, I positively deny that 
 they can attribute their cure to Christian 
 Science. 
 
 Nature Cures Him. 
 
 Witness the ragamuffin in the street. He too 
 occasionally contracts colds, suffers severe 
 
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 pains, and is affected with fever. Yet he re- 
 covers without the aid of doctor or nurse, medi- 
 cine or attention. Did he use Christian Sci- 
 ence? No. In all probability he possessed not 
 even a clear idea of it. We say that he re- 
 covered ''naturally/' meaning- that nature 
 cured him — and we have voiced the truth. 
 
 The Recuperative Potver of Nature. 
 
 There resides in the human body a certain 
 recuperative power called ''vis medicatrix na- 
 turae." Every living organism of its nature 
 tends to throw off sickness, and to repair the 
 ravages inflicted by disease. Sickness is an 
 abnormal condition of the body, and nature 
 strives to restore the natural condition, the 
 equilibrium of health. 
 
 Sir John Forbes, an eminent English physi- 
 cian, is quoted by Dr. Buckley as saying:. 
 "First, that in a large proportion of the cases 
 treated by allopathic physicians, the disease" is 
 cured by nature, and not by them. Second, 
 that in a lesser but still not a small proportion, 
 the disease is cured by nature in spite of them ; 
 in other words, their interference retarding 
 instead of assisting the cure. Third, that in, 
 consequently, a considerable proportion of dis- 
 eases it would fare as well or better with 
 patients if all remedies — at least all active 
 remedies, especially drugs — were abandoned.'' 
 
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 Again, Sir John Marshall is quoted as say- 
 ing: ''The Vis Medicatrix Naturae is the agent 
 to employ in the healing of an ulcer, or the 
 union of a broken bone; and it is equally true 
 that the physician and surgeon never cured a 
 disease; he only assists the natural processes 
 of cure/' (P. C. Wolcott, B. D.) 
 
 Christian Science Steals Credit Due to Nature. 
 
 From the testimony of these men — authori- 
 ties in their profession — we recognize that 
 many diseases have the tendency to run their 
 course in the system, and then disappear. This 
 fact affords Christian Scientists an opportun- 
 ity to echo a triumph. Just after the disease 
 has reached its crisis and is about to leave the 
 body, the Christian Science practitioner ar- 
 rives. He awards the credit of the cure to 
 Christian Science, and pockets the patient's 
 money. 
 
 The Eddyite may urge that he prescribed no 
 medicine. Why then did he accept the money? 
 He may insist, because he gave him Christian 
 Science treatment. But I tell you Christian 
 Science was totally innocent of the patient's 
 cure. Nature cured the man. 
 
 Finally we must discuss the cases, where 
 Christian Science claims cures, whereas in truth 
 no cure has been effected. 
 
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 Jesus Christ cured the lame and the blind 
 and the deaf and the dumb. Nay, He even 
 commanded Lazarus who lay four days in the 
 dominion of death to issue from the grave; 
 and Lazarus laid aside the cerements of death 
 and came out of the grave — alive. Now, Mrs. 
 Baker Eddy, claiming to be the equal of Jesus, 
 must also claim cures equally as wonderful as 
 were those wrought by Christ. She unhesi- 
 tatingly does this in a communication to the 
 New York Sun for Dec. 16, 1891 (as quoted by 
 F. W. Peabody). She said: ''I challenge the 
 world to disprove what I hereby declare. After 
 my discovery of Christian Science, I healed 
 consumption in its last stages, that the M. D. 's, 
 by verdict of the stethoscope and the schools, 
 declared incurable, the lungs being mostly con- 
 sumed. I healed malignant tubercular diph- 
 theria and carious bones that could be dented 
 by the finger, saving them when the surgeon's 
 instruments were lying on the table ready for 
 their amputation. I have healed at one visit 
 a cancer that had so eaten the flesh of the 
 neck as to expose the jugular vein so that it 
 stood out like a cord." 
 
 Mrs. Eddy Claims Offhand Manufacture of 
 Lungs. 
 
 Mrs. Baker Eddy plainly asserts that in one 
 visit she pulled out a malignant cancer, manu- 
 
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 factured a new pair of lungs, and produced 
 new and solid bone. She evidently employed 
 neither medicine nor knife. Mind healing is 
 her only method. But I tell you it is equally 
 impossible for mind to produce a new pair of 
 lungs as it is for mind to decapitate a man. 
 I challenge all the Eddyites in the world to 
 stand at a respectable distance from me, and 
 merely by power of mind to take my head off 
 my shoulders. It is equally impossible for 
 mind to knit a fractured bone as it is for mind 
 to break that bone. 
 
 A Christian Science Expedition to War-Stricken 
 Europe Suggested. 
 
 Moreover, if present-day Christian Scientists 
 have inherited the power of their '^Mother,'' 
 and if the case of ''Mental Surgery'' recorded 
 in "Science and Health,'' page 605, is based 
 on fact and truth, why do they not embark on 
 an expedition of mercy to war-torn Europe? 
 Shot and shrapnel and bayonet and sabre have 
 wounded and maimed millions of valiant men — 
 husbands and sons. Countries like France and 
 Germany have been converted into vast Red 
 Cross camps. What a wave of rejoicing would 
 not sweep over those lands, what towering 
 monuments, as tokens of gratitude for help 
 accorded in the darkest hour, would not be 
 erected, if a corps of Christian Science healers 
 
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 would pass down between those long rows of 
 beds, where lie the wounded and the mutilated, 
 and send them off, as rapidly as Mother Eddy 
 effected her cures, skipping and rejoicing with 
 new pairs of legs and arms ! If lungs can be 
 completely restored, why not legs? 
 
 Cork Leg, Not Christian Science, Benefited Him. 
 
 A. B. Dixon writes that a certain Christian 
 Science practitioner attempted surgery of this 
 nature in New England, possibly because she 
 believed charity begins at home— on this side 
 of the Atlantic. Noticing a veteran painfully 
 limping past her door morning after morning, 
 she determined to give him absent treatment. 
 Highly gratified, indeed, was this good woman 
 a few days later to see the limp disappear. She 
 informed the veteran that his cure was due to 
 the absent treatment she had administered. He 
 agreed not fully with her, but preferred to give 
 credit for his being better able to walk to the 
 newly acquired cork leg, which he had substi- 
 tuted for his old, clumsy wooden leg. Whether 
 this cure also was heralded in the Christian 
 Science publications as a new triumph for 
 Eddyism or not, A. B. Dixon informs us not. 
 Still even in case it were, it would possess 
 every ounce of sense and truth that scores of 
 others recorded in the patent-medicine-litera- 
 ture chapter, "Fruitage,'^ possess. 
 
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 The species of suggestion used by Christian 
 Science can be of avail only as far as the mind 
 can exercise an influence over the body. But 
 when an organ of the human body is injured, 
 torn, bruised, the mind is completely powerless, 
 and so are all the efforts of Christian Science. 
 
 Symptoms Associated ivith Organic Disease 
 
 Often Disappear with Change of Mental 
 
 Attitude. Organic Disease Remains. 
 
 We are fully aware that with serious organic 
 diseases there are often associated symptoms 
 occasionally more difficult to bear than the dis- 
 ease itself. Upon learning that he is afflicted 
 with an incurable organic disease, the patient 
 often suffers a depression of spirit, loss of 
 hope of recovery, indigestion. These adventi- 
 tious symptoms are often attributed to the 
 organic disease, whereas in fact they are due 
 to the mental condition. Having been caused 
 by the mind, mental healing may aid in remov- 
 ing them. The deplorable fact, however, is, 
 that many persons believe that with the dis- 
 appearance of the adventitious symptoms, the 
 underlying disease also has been cured, — which 
 is false. 
 
 Christian Science Creates for Its Votaries a 
 Fool's Paradise. 
 
 There is truth in the saying that a person 
 can fool himself. No doubt hearing the words. 
 
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 *^There is no body, no sickness/' continually 
 dinned into his ears, many a one begins to 
 believe himself cured, whereas the disease re- 
 mains. P. C. Wolcott makes the statement that 
 this form of suggestion can take on so potent 
 a form, that it results in hypnosis. Under this 
 hypnosis a person may be entirely unaware that 
 his normal psychical balance has been disturbed 
 and still be rendered completely insensible 
 to pain. In the Cosmopolitan Magazine for 
 March, 1907, the Earl of Dunamore, over his 
 own signature, tells how Christian Science 
 healed him of a disease, which the most emi- 
 nent physicians in London had pronounced in- 
 curable. Yet hardly had the magazine gotten 
 into the hands of the subscribers, and just 
 as thousands were reading his statement re- 
 garding his cure, the Earl of Dunamore died 
 of the very same incurable disease. He may 
 have learnt in Eddyism to repeat the equation, 
 ^^ Accident, sickness, sin, disease and pain are 
 equal to zero," but, alas, that made them not 
 zero. 
 
 The Modern Moloch. 
 
 Tragedies of this nature are occurring daily ; 
 and this forms one of the darkest phases of the 
 Christian Science healing activities. Mothers 
 are persuaded not to invoke the aid of a phy- 
 
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 sician when their children are perhaps dying 
 before their eyes ; nay, people gasping on their 
 death beds, are still taught to hug the delu- 
 sion, ''There is no death.'' True, just before 
 the last breath is to be drawn a doctor may be 
 summoned. But why! To obtain the death 
 certificate. If the Society for the Prevention 
 of Cruelty to Animals obtains a warrant of 
 arrest for the miser neglecting to feed his 
 horse and permitting the brute to starve to 
 death, why does not civilized society rise up 
 against these practitioners of fraud, who per- 
 mit hundreds of human beings to perish by 
 wilful and culpable neglect — often equivalent 
 to murder — of the God-given remedies for dis- 
 ease and pain? 
 
 Dr. Stephen Paget Describes the Tragedies in 
 the Shadow of Christian Science. 
 
 I do not deem the words of Dr. Stephen 
 Paget too strong, in presenting this dangerous 
 phase of Eddyism, when he writes: ''They 
 bully dying women, and let babies die in pain; 
 let cases of paralysis tumble about and hurt 
 themselves; let appendicitis go on to septic 
 peritonitis, gastric ulcer to perforation of the 
 stomach, nephritis to uremic convulsions, and 
 strangulated hernia to the miserere mei of gan- 
 grene; watch, day after day, while a man or 
 woman slowly bleeds to death; and compel 
 
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 them who should be kept still to take exercise. 
 To these works of the devil they bring their 
 one deft, wilful and complete ignorance ; and 
 their 'nursing' would be a farce if it were not 
 a tragedy. Such is the way of Christian Sci- 
 ence, face to face, as she loves to be, with bad 
 cases of organic disease. 
 
 ''Seeing the gross and shameful malprac- 
 tices of Christian Science, and the long trail 
 of pain and of death that she leaves behind 
 her, and her impudent concealment of all her 
 failures and worse than failures, and her 
 notion that all diseases alike are mental, and 
 none of them in reality there; and her mad 
 resolve never to examine a case or read a 
 medical book, or look at a specimen, or take 
 a temperature, or listen to a chest, or use a 
 microscope, or acknowledge any difference be- 
 tween ordinary backache and spinal caries, be- 
 tween functional paralysis and organic paraly- 
 sis, between indigestion and cancer of the 
 stomach; between pain in the breast and can- 
 cer of the breast; and her frequent cruelty, 
 especially to small children; and her brutal 
 way of saying that her patients die of want 
 of understanding what she tells them — seeing 
 all these abominations, we ought to prevent 
 even the faintest shadow of them from falling 
 across our church. '^ (Quoted by C. E. Locke.) 
 
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 Mrs. Eddy an Emhodiment of the Falsity of the 
 Teachings of Christia^i Science. 
 
 As a final demonstration of the inability of 
 the Christian Science scheme of healing to 
 make good its extravagant claims, I point to 
 the person of Mrs. Baker Eddy. If she were 
 free from the attacks of disease and inroads of 
 infirmity and age, why during the closing years 
 of her life did she conceal her person from 
 public gaze and view! If Christian Science 
 affords a constant security for interior serenity 
 and peace, why near the end of her days did 
 she give evidence of being either insane or 
 obsessed? Those intimately associated with 
 her testify that she lived her last days in 
 mortal dread of enemies, who she thought were 
 mentally hurling cancer against her. A former 
 student of Christian Science and a resident in 
 the Metaphysical College with Mrs. Eddy, 
 writes: "Mrs. Eddy was constantly having at- 
 tacks of illness (always in the night). We 
 were often called up about eleven o'clock at 
 night to treat her, and were obliged to remain 
 up until about two o'clock a. m. These attacks, 
 we were told, were brought on by the ^ enemy,' 
 working through us, as her students. She 
 claimed that the only way the ^ enemy' could 
 reach her was through her students, she being 
 so strong and so pure that their 'malicious 
 
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 animal magnetism' could not reach her in any 
 other way. So we used to go into the parlor, 
 after breakfast and supper, each day, and men- 
 tally 'take up the enemy/ We were taught to 
 recognize the error, and treat ourselves and 
 the 'enemy,' so that they ('the enemy') could 
 have no power over us, or our patients; and 
 every time we gave the treatments we were 
 taught to first 'treat the enemy.' 
 
 "The result of all this was, that Mrs. Eddy 
 was always full of fear; as the 'enemy' were 
 supposed to have power to prevent all kinds 
 of desired results, not only in healing, but in 
 business, as well. 
 
 "I was taught that the postal clerks were 
 so mesmerized that letters to and from the 
 College would never reach their destination 
 unless certain conditions were complied with; 
 also that the telegraph operators were so under 
 this malicious influence that a message sent by 
 telegraph would not reach the person to whom 
 it was sent unless certain precautions were 
 taken. I was once sent from her house to West 
 Newton to forward a telegraph message to 
 Chicago, so that it would be sent by way of 
 Worcester, instead of Boston, as all Boston 
 operators were supposed to be so mesmerized 
 by the 'enemy' that no message from Mrs. Eddy 
 could reach its destination, if sent through 
 
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 their hands. And so I might run on for hours, 
 giving you facts about such things. 
 
 ^'I was told to treat the ^ enemy' (Kennedy, 
 Arnes, Choate and Childs) to cause their ^old 
 beliefs' to return, 'and prostrate them at once!' 
 'Old beliefs' meant former diseases, from 
 which they had been healed, in some cases 
 even tumors and cancers." (Quoted by F. W. 
 Peabody.) 
 
 Do not the events, recounted above, demon- 
 strate that the mind of Mrs. Eddy was fairly 
 ridden by the witchcraft delusion! Can we 
 imagine anyone acting in the manner described, 
 save a person possessed by the devil or hope- 
 lessly insane? 
 
 The Death of Mrs. Eddy a Proof of the Failure 
 
 of Christian Science. The Spectre 
 
 of Eddyism. 
 
 Finally an attack of pneumonia seized Mrs. 
 Eddy. Whether she employed Christian Sci- 
 ence healing or invoked the aid of a doctor of 
 medicine, I know not. This much is history: 
 Mrs. Eddy perished, was laid out a stiff corpse, 
 was buried, and rose not again from the dead. 
 Her death is the last stab, the mortal blow, to 
 her heartless and cruel fraud. Her own person 
 has refuted its claims, — and over her grave 
 tonight stands the system she has founded, a 
 robber appropriating the science of mind heal- 
 
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 ing, which was already practiced in the land of 
 the Nile when the pyramids were building, a 
 merciless fraud claiming cures when none are 
 effected, an absolute failure, as attested by the 
 hundreds of tombstones that mark the graves 
 of the deluded ones, who until their dying 
 breath clung to Eddyism, turned their faces 
 from the physician, and in their folly met their 
 death. 
 
MORAL BLEMISHES DISQUALIFY THE 
 CLAIMS OF MRS. EDDY 
 
 "And through covetousncss shall they zvith feigned zuords 
 make merchandise of you." II Peter 2:3. 
 
 The creatures, whom God in love created, 
 rose in defiance and rebellion. The light of 
 God's countenance, in consequence, was with- 
 drawn from them, and men wandered into the 
 darkness of error and superstition, many fall- 
 ing by the wayside, fatigued and dying. 
 
 "Which of You Can Convince Me of Sinf" 
 
 Before His Father's throne stepped the Son 
 of God. His resolve, as noble as only a God 
 could conceive it, was to become our Redeemer. 
 He came in appearance as the Son of Joseph, 
 the carpenter, — and yet men of unprejudiced 
 will have accepted Him as the Messiah. Why! 
 Because He raised the infirm from their beds 
 of sickness, and called the dead from the sleep 
 of the tomb; because He preached a dogmatic 
 and moral teaching in which blend the beauty 
 of truth and the sweetness of charity; because, 
 finally. His life and conduct in unrivaled man- 
 
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 ner corresponded with the sublime ideals Ho 
 propounded, so that His bitterest and most 
 malignant enemies could not answer the chal- 
 lenge, * ' Which of you can convince Me of sin ? ' ' 
 
 Mrs. Eddy Claims a Divine Revelation. 
 
 Wellnigh nineteen centuries later appeared 
 Mrs. Baker Eddy. In no uncertain terms she 
 laid claim to having received a special divine 
 revelation, writing of herself, '^God had been 
 graciously preparing me during many years 
 for the reception of this final revelation of the 
 absolute divine Principle of scientific mental 
 healing." (''Science .and Health,'' pg. 107.) 
 ''No human pen nor tongue taught me the 
 Science contained in this book, 'Science and 
 Health'; and neither tongue nor pen can over- 
 throw it." ("Science and Health," pg. 110.) 
 
 This final revelation she intimates to be 
 superior to the teachings of Christ, when she 
 writes: "Our Master healed the sick and 
 taught the generalities of His Divine Princi- 
 ple; but He left no definite rule for demon- 
 strating His Principle of healing and prevent- 
 ing disease. This remained to be discovered 
 through Christian Science." ("Science and 
 Health," pg. 98, 1898 ed.) As a consequence 
 Mrs. Eddy designated her gospel and religion 
 as the completion and plenitude of God's reve 
 
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 lation, and identified it with the Holy Ghost. 
 ''The ego is revealed as Father, Son, and Holy 
 Ghost; but the full truth is found in divine 
 Science, where we see God as Life, Truth, and 
 Love. The Science of God and man is the 
 Holy Ghost.'' ("Unity of Good," pgs. 51 and 
 52.) 
 
 Conduct Not Indifferent to the Claims of 
 Mrs. Eddy. 
 
 Conduct and character cannot be indifferent 
 relative to the mission claimed by Mrs. Baker 
 Eddy. We shall, hence, briefly consider Mrs. 
 Eddy's life, and witness, whether or not she 
 was qualified to be God's ambassador "to pro- 
 claim His doctrine to this age." ("Science 
 and Health," Preface XL) 
 
 Hears Voices, When Not Called. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy was born near Concord, N. H., 
 in 1821. As a child she is described by Sybil 
 Wilbur to have been precocious, emotional and 
 argumentative. When she was twelve years 
 old she began to hear voices and fancied her- 
 self called by her mother when she was not. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy informs us that when a girl she 
 was graduated from Dyer H. Sanborn's Acad- 
 emy. But, according to her old schoolmates, 
 the "institution" which Mrs. Eddy dignified 
 with the name "academy" was merely a large 
 
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 room over a district school, where the children 
 received little instruction, — never in fact get- 
 ting beyond the three R's. (F. W. Peabody.) 
 
 Mrs. Eddy Lays Claim to a Classical and 
 Philosophical Education!? 
 
 Mrs. Eddy claims to have received a classi- 
 cal education, telling us that her brother 
 taught her Latin, Greek and Hebrew. She 
 was, according to her own testimony, at the 
 tender age of twelve also a student of philos- 
 ophy, — ethics and logic being the branches of 
 predilection. But the least we can say is, that 
 her progress in these various branches must 
 have come to a sudden stop. Logic above all 
 is exceedingly conspicuous in her writings — by 
 its absence. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy Visits Dr. Quimby. She Eulogizes 
 Him. 
 
 After dabbling in Spiritism and Mesmerism, 
 and practicing clairvoyance, she formed an 
 acquaintance with Doctor (doctor by courtesy 
 only) Phineas Quimby. 
 
 Dr. Quimby 's method of healing was a spe- 
 cies of suggestion. Besides the practical part 
 of his system, Dr. Quimby had elaborated a set 
 of abstract doctrines, both metaphysical and 
 theological. Mrs. Eddy describes the first visit 
 she paid Dr. Quimby and the cure he wrought 
 
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 in her in an article to the Portland E veiling 
 Courier for Nov. 7, 1862. ''Three weeks ago,'^ 
 she writes, ''I quitted my nurse and sick room 
 en route for Portland. The belief of my re- 
 covery had died out of the heart of those who 
 were most anxious for it. With this mental 
 and physical depression I visited P. P. Quimby, 
 and in less than one week from that time I 
 ascended by a stairway of one hundred and 
 eighty-two steps to the dome of the City Hall, 
 and am improving ad infinitum. This truth 
 which he opposes to the error of giving intel- 
 ligence to matter and placing pain where it 
 never placed itself, if received understand- 
 ingly, changes the currents of the system to 
 their normal action and the mechanism of the 
 body goes on undisturbed. That this is a 
 science capable of demonstration becomes clear 
 to the minds of those patients who reason upon 
 the process of their cure. The truth which he 
 establishes in the patient, cures him (although 
 he may be wholly unconscious thereof), and 
 the body, which is full of light, is no longer in 
 disease." (F. W. Peabody.) 
 
 Mrs. Eddy Scorns Dr. Quimhy. 
 
 About twenty-five years later Mrs. Baker 
 Eddy wrote of this same Dr. Quimby: ''I never 
 heard him intimate that he healed diseases 
 mentally. His healing was never considered 
 
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 or called any thing but Mesmerism." {Chris- 
 tian Science Journal, June, 1887.) 
 
 Why the Change of Sentiment? What Fears 
 Mrs. Eddyf 
 
 Now why this change of attitude on the part. 
 of Mrs. Baker Eddy towards Dr. Quimby? 
 Did she grow afraid that the world would 
 doubt her claim that Heaven had revealed 
 Christian Science to her, and would believe 
 that she had stolen and learnt the- theory and 
 practice of Christian Science from Dr. Quimbyf 
 F. W. Peabody and other writers accuse Mrs. 
 Baker Eddy of this charge. 
 
 God-given, or Stolen from Br. Quimhy? 
 
 Dr. Quimby with the aid of friends managed 
 to set forth his doctrine in a series of essays, 
 which he communicated to his patients, also 
 to Mrs. Eddy. These essays contain in sub- 
 stance what comprises the theorizings of Mrs. 
 Eddy in later years ; their terminology is often 
 identical with that in ''Science and Health"; 
 and in various places Dr. Quimby calls his 
 system "Christian Science." 
 
 Mrs. Eddy's Claims Rejected. She Lacks 
 Truthfulness. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy denies any obligation to Dr. 
 Quimby, but having established a long record 
 
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 for lying regarding her early education, re- 
 garding the cures she alleges in the fictitious 
 chapter entitled ''Fruitage,'' having flipflopped 
 from the position of adoring Dr. Quimby as 
 the one ''who healed as Jesus healed" to the 
 position of scorning him and calling him "a 
 magnetic doctor," how can we take her word 
 relative to the origin of her religion, which 
 she claims to have received as a revelation 
 from Heaven? One of the first requisites that 
 we demand in a person claiming to be an am- 
 bassador of God to men is truthfulness. Is 
 truthfulness, however, apparent in Mrs. Baker 
 Eddy's character! 
 
 Second Feature Deeply Compromising Mrs. 
 Eddy's Moral Record. 
 
 The second feature in Mrs. Eddy's life dis- 
 qualifying her claim to a Divine mission, is her 
 remorseless, rapacious greed. 
 
 Preaches for Cash. 
 
 As stated, Mrs. Eddy announced to the world 
 that she had received from Heaven a doctrine 
 necessary for salvation to all men. The truths 
 of this new revelation she taught at the follow- 
 ing rates: First at whatever price she could 
 exact; then one hundred dollars in advance, 
 with ten per cent, royalty on the students' sub- 
 sequent income from practice, and one thou- 
 
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 sand dollars if, having learned the system, he 
 did not care to practice it; then three hundred 
 dollars for twelve lessons ; and finally three 
 hundred dollars for seven lessons — cash strictly 
 in advance. (F. W. Peabody.) 
 
 Fifty-cent Book Sold at the Price of Three to 
 Six Dollars. Neiv Editions Periodically. 
 
 Moreover, Mrs. Eddy also wrote a book in 
 which she embodied her '' God-given'' doctrine. 
 From three to six dollars, according to bind- 
 ing, was continuously the charge for the book. 
 Each teacher of Christian Science and each 
 teacher's student was required to procure a 
 copy. Mrs. Eddy was accustomed to receive 
 new gushes of inspiration. This meant a new 
 edition of ''Science and Health"; whereupon 
 every loyal Christian Scientist was expected 
 to discard the old copy and procure the latest 
 edition. Thus in February, 1908, was pub- 
 lished, over the signature of Mrs. Eddy, the 
 following notice (quoted by F. W. Peabody) : 
 
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 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 
 
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 of animal magnetism, and it will greatly aid 
 the students in their individual experiences. 
 
 ''Mary. Baker G. Eddy." 
 
 The new edition came forth. What was the 
 new gush of ''inspiration"? This: "Christian 
 Scientists, be a law to yourselves, that mental 
 malpractice can harm you neither when asleep 
 nor when awake." For this bit of information 
 every obedient Christian Scientist procured the 
 latest edition and paid from three to six dol- 
 lars into the coffers of "inspired" Mrs. Eddy. 
 
 Christian Science Spoons. 
 
 Finally Mrs. Eddy imparted Christian Sci- 
 ence by the spoonfuls. The following command 
 was issued (quoted by F. W. Peabody) : 
 "Christian Science Spoons — On each of these 
 most beautiful spoons is a motto in bas-relief 
 that every person on earth needs to hold in 
 thought. Mother requests that Christian Sci- 
 entists shall not ask to be informed what this 
 motto is, but each Scientist shall purchase at 
 least one spoon, and those who can afford it, 
 one dozen spoons, that their families may read 
 this motto at every meal and their guests be 
 made partakers of its simple truth. 
 
 "Mary Baker Eddy." 
 
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 A Consistent Record for Greed Disqualifies the 
 Claims of Mrs. Eddy. 
 
 We have stated the facts : let" us now draw 
 the conclusions. Shall we believe this woman 
 who reduced religion to a business asset, who 
 descended to mammonish expedients to trick 
 her victims, who imparted to them ^^ divine 
 revelation'' by the earfuls and eyefuls and 
 mouthfuls for profit in dollars and cents, shall 
 we believe her, I ask, to be the one selected 
 from among the children of men by God Al- 
 mighty to be His ambassador and teacher in 
 this late age? 
 
 Mrs. Eddy Compared to Jesus Christ, the 
 Savior. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy claims equality with, nay, supe- 
 riority to the Messiah. Now imagine Jesus 
 Christ preaching to the multitudes in the ham- 
 lets of Palestine at a fixed price per hour, — 
 fancy Him healing the wretched and the sick 
 for cash to be paid in advance, — see Him rush- 
 ing them into court if they failed to live up to 
 the contract, — conceive Him instructing His 
 disciples in the truths eternal upon payment 
 of a heavy fee, and then commissioning them 
 to go into the whole world, and to preach His 
 Gospel for gold and silver, a percentage, how- 
 ever, of their earnings to be returned to Him, — 
 finally contemplate Him, not dying in stark and 
 
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 naked poverty on the cross, bnt spending the 
 last years of His life amid a splendor rivaling 
 that of Herod's court, — then I say yon have a 
 faint type of Mrs. Baker Eddy, the religio- 
 medical financier! 
 
 Heaven Inspired Her to Charge a Heavy Fee If 
 
 In ''Eetrospection and Introspection'' (page 
 50) Mrs. Eddy writes: "When God impelled 
 me to set a price on my instruction in Chris- 
 tian Science Mind-healing, I could think of no 
 financial equivalent for an impartation of a 
 knowledge of that divine power which heals; 
 but I was led to name three hundred dollars as 
 the price for each pupil in one course of les- 
 sons at my College, — a startling sum for tui- 
 tion lasting barely three weeks. This amount 
 greatly troubled me. I shrank from asking 
 it, but was finally led, by a strange providence, 
 to accept this fee." 
 
 Tender Soul! Providence to Blame. 
 
 This an inspiration from Heaven? No. It 
 is another sleight-of-hand trick on the part of 
 Mrs. Eddy. She pulls the black cap tighter 
 over the eyes of her victims, thus the better 
 to pick their pockets. Conceive, if you can, 
 the Almighty God bending down from His 
 throne and whispering into the ear of Mrs. 
 Eddy to charge Three Hundred Dollars! Ten- 
 
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 der soul! she draws back. It would bleed her 
 heart to take three hundred dollars. But God 
 persists, and finally, slowly and reluctantly 
 Mother Eddy yields. Later on God showed 
 her, she writes, '4n multitudinous ways the 
 wisdom of this decision.'' True there was 
 wisdom in it — commercial wisdom ! Mrs. Eddy 
 herself writes that within seven years four 
 thousand students were taught by her. Four 
 thousand times three hundred equals one mil- 
 lion two hundred thousand. One million two 
 hundred thousand dollars gained within seven 
 years ! 
 
 The God of Christianity Not the God of 
 Christian Science. 
 
 If God were the God that Mrs. Eddy por- 
 trayed Him to be, — a God who in ten times ten 
 pages contradicts Himself one hundred times, a 
 God who reveals to Mrs. Eddy a doctrine in 
 diametrical contradiction to the dogmatical and 
 moral teachings which He delivered to the chil- 
 dren of Israel through His Prophet Moses, and 
 finally to all the children of the world through 
 His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, I say, if 
 God were such a God, then I hesitate not to 
 believe that He would condescend to give to 
 Mrs. Eddy a gospel that should serve merely 
 for her own pecuniary profit. But such a God 
 is a monstrositv, a God of deceit and falsehood 
 
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 and mammon. Mammon and Power — these 
 were the twin gods before whom Mrs. Eddy 
 worshiped, for whom she lived and labored, and 
 who inspired her. 
 
 No Injustice Done. Evidence Lies in the Open. 
 
 From this world Mrs. Eddy has already 
 passed. Her naked soul has been judged be- 
 fore the tribunal of Him whose love she ex- 
 ploited, namely, Jesus Christ. We wish her 
 mercy at His hands. But for the deeds, the 
 fraud, she inaugurated and which today her 
 successors are perpetuating, words fail me to 
 express contempt sufficiently deep. Harsh 
 words have I uttered regarding Mrs. Eddy. I 
 regret them not nor do I feel constrained to 
 offer an apology. 
 
 No Harsh Words for Christian Scientists. 
 
 For her followers, those, namely, who have 
 been honestly deluded into the snares of Chris- 
 tian Science, we feel only compassion. They 
 have done violence to their reason; they have 
 handed themselves over to Eddyism, bound 
 hands and feet; they have prostrated them- 
 selves before a Christ existing only in the 
 dreams of a scheming woman; and, most piti- 
 able of all, their case is hopeless, for genuine 
 investigation is forbidden to them. 
 
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 Actions Speak Louder Than Words. 
 
 High-browed Scientists may pity us, for the 
 reason that we are not intelligent enough to 
 grasp the deep meaning of Mrs. Eddy's phil- 
 osophy, not spiritual enough to appreciate the 
 blessings that God has entrusted to her for the 
 welfare of mankind. I confess that I experi- 
 ence difficulty in following Mother Eddy in her 
 wild flights of fancy and zigzag course of rea- 
 soning. But if I be unable to grasp the mean- 
 ing of her words, I can at least understand 
 the meaning of her actions. Actions speak 
 louder than words. Would, then, these people 
 — if they dare not question the words of Mrs. 
 Eddy — at least consider her character? ^^No 
 doubt, as a woman of extraordinary nervous 
 tension, she could be rather fascinating in her 
 happier moods. But what could be more fool- 
 ish and aberrant than to permit impressions 
 derived from any superficial self-manifestation 
 to weigh against the moral blemishes with 
 which her career is broadly streaked? Insight 
 into the nature of the actual record must make 
 it appear as one of the most amazing misad- 
 justments in all religious history that this 
 woman should be brought into temples of wor- 
 ship and placed there, as respects the authority 
 of her teaching, on a level with Jesus Christ. '' 
 (H. C. Sheldon.) 
 
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 Final Word to Catholics. Genuine Christian 
 Science. 
 
 To ye, Catholics, one last word I address. 
 You are convinced that Christian Science is not 
 of God, — else this moment you are no longer 
 Catholics. The only allurement that can entice 
 you into the fold of Eddyism is a specious 
 promise of health. But even if Eddyism pos- 
 sessed the monopoly of mental healing, are you 
 prepared for health of body, which like the 
 grass of the field perishes and fades, to sacri- 
 fice your intellect and your faith — your faith 
 that you recognize and love as Divine — and 
 hazard your souPs eternal salvation? 
 
 But, as a matter of fact, every healing expe- 
 dient that Christian Science possesses can be 
 paralleled in your own Church. Not a genuine 
 truth in Christian Science, but which is found 
 in the teachings of the Catholic Church. If 
 you, and the world, be ignorant of this fact, 
 then the fault lies not with the Church, but 
 with your ignorance. 
 
 The Catholic Church teaches that God is the 
 Supreme Good, that His Goodness endowed us 
 with life and being, that '4n Him we live and 
 move and are.^' 
 
 The Catholic Church teaches that God de- 
 scended to this earth and dwelt amongst us, 
 that he imparted to us a doctrine lighting up 
 
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 the way to our eternal destiny, that He insti- 
 tuted external signs, the seven Sacraments, to 
 benefit not only our souls, but also our bodies. 
 The Catholic Church teaches that we are not 
 God, but that God dwells within us by His 
 Holy Spirit and in the Holy Eucharist; that, 
 though we cannot be the sons of God by 
 nature, nevertheless, He calls us to be His sons 
 by adoption, and joint-heirs with Christ. 
 
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