The San Francisco call., 1896-09-13
DR., TEED DEF|ES
ALL HIS CRITICS
Ready TO Confront Them
ALI in Defending His
Belief.
His Religion a Warfare on
SensuaIity, and He Will
Keep 1t Up.
Denounces as Cowards Those That
Employ SlaDder 10 Create Public
Prejudice

DR.. Cyrus R. Teed, the man who has
been accused of wreckiEg homes by teach
ing his peculiar religious beliefs, writes
THE CALL the follo' ing letter defending
his religion and defying both clergy and
laity to meet him openly and publicly dis
credit the principles he advocates:
To the Editor Of the San Francisco Cau-s1R: {:
You have kindly and generously offered your
columns through which to answer some of the
villainous and libelous attacks upon my
character and reputation by the press of
America and the world, which, allow me to
say, is the first opportunity of the kind that
has fallen 10 my recourse in the ten wears In
which have been subj CT to public abuse.
/ have been interviewed 500 times and as
many times have uniformly extended cour-
tesy to press representatives and as many
times, with few. exceptions, have been mis-
represented and y1ii1ed, whether owing 10 the
mediocrity of the news reporter or the per
sistent determination of the daily press TO ruin
nv opportunity to existI will not attempt to
affirm.
1 90 not object to an open square and manly
fight in whicn am at liberty to stand in nv
own defense and am ready to meet the slam
ders of my enemies and Can meet them sue
cessfully If am allowed an equal alopportunity
In reply to the most common charge against
my public effort-nameIy, that / am in the
habit of breaking up families, which the or
dinary reader of the daily paper construes 10
mean that 1t is my custom to meet the wives
of husbands and entiCe them to sever their
marital relations, Say emphaticAlly that
nevsr IN one ins tance in any way private or
public, have suggested or limited at any thing
OF the kind.
Husbands are as liable to become interested
in my re igiOus TEACHINGS wives, and oppo-
sltion to my doctrine is as common to wives as
husbands. A statement to the contrary is a
vii ainous and vicious libel.
No religious system was ever promules ted
and propagaied that did not meet oppos1 ZION
and that has not interfered with the family re-
lati0ns of the world. When the religion of
Jesus the Christ entered any family and
through its zeal wrought upon any member in
conversion to its propaganda it separ rated the
family and brought upon the advocates OF the
religion the anathema OF those of the family to
whom the religious power did not APPEAL.
For this reason the Lord said, when he was
charged with breaking up families II came to
bring asword." 81 came 70 set men nj ysri-
ance-husbands against wives and wives
against husbands, parents against children
and children against parents brothers against
sisters and sisters AGAINST brothers.n The
propagation OF his religion had this effect
upon society. Jesus knew that this would he
its influence, and, therefore, declared In and
for this with other reasons the conseryatiye
church of his day instigated his crucifxion
and murdertd d him. He was led as q iamb 10
the slaug ghter. but not till he mad made a Wig
oIous and aggressive onslaught upon The WI
leinv, hypocrisy and destructive tendencies of
his day did he succumb TO the inevitable
Is ii right Tor me to teach that rum beer
tobacco, profanity and sensualism in the
family or out of il are immoral Influences
Is IL right for me to declare tnat the mental
mediocrity of this age Is largely due to exces.