The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-20
A HUMBUG,
Rev. Mr.. Peede Calls
the Doctrine.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
Gets Hot Shot and Sensa-
sational Charges Made.

''That Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Pat
terson. Eddy is the success that she is
in the propagation of her Christian sci
ence doctrine, shows that the world
likes to be humbugged."
This was the remark Of the Rev. r.
Richard Peede at the South Baptist
Church last evening, in his address
upon ''The origin of Christian science
Rev. Mr.. Peede gave some hard raps
to Christian science, in continuation of
his expose of the ms and outs of the
workings of this sect
In the beginning OF his address, Rev.
Mr. Peede said that he had no apollo
gies to make in attacking this anti
Christian system, which is advancing
in its numbers in this country, and then
proceeded to give the origin of the
system. Rev. Mr.. Peede maintained
that Mrs. Eddy, who is generally ao
cepted as the founder of the sect, stole
the fundamental principles from DIR.
P, P. Quimby of Portland, Maine, and
that this system, stolen at the begin
ming, has carried out its early charac-
ter ever since, and today is humbug
ging the public. Rev. Mr. Peede has
received personal letter from DR..
Palmers son, which sheds sensational
light on the matter.
According to the paper read by Rev.
Mr.. Peede, the generally accepted foun-
der of Christian science, so-called, is
Mrs' Mary Baker Glover Patterson Ed
dy, Her maiden name was Baker, and
cxt4O 7
from her first husband. Mrs. Eddy
claimed that Christian science was re-
vealed to her after three years com
munion with God.
This was in 1866, and throughout her
lifetime God had been gradually fit
ting her for this work. she first taught
the Christian science principles in
Lynn, and at the beginning she had
only one disciple. Her work published
at that time has gone through 100 edi-
tons of thousand volumes each, so
that we can say with Phineas 7. Bar
mum, Mr.. Peede declared, THE people
like to be fooled.
This work of hers as relating to
science and hell as regards the scrip
lures, are the product of the plenary
influence, and as Mrs. Eddy says, they
cannot be overturna ed by tongue or
pen.
After years of dissemination of her
! principles, she founded, in the seven
ties, the first metaphysical college, and
in 1879, the first church known as the
Christian Scientist church, Of which
she was the pastor, until today it has
an actual membership of 400 and a
general utilization of 10000. Now at the
present time the Christian scientists
number throughout this broad and
great land of ours 10000 souls.
Mrs. Eddy is the supreme pontiff,
and Concord, N. H., where she now re-
sides, has been the Mecca of the scien-
lists all over the country. The Rev,
Henry S. Goddard of Clark University
has expressed himself as finding it very
difficult to obtain any information from
Mrs. Eddy or the Christian Science
leaders, they replying to all questions
saying that Christian Science is the
science of health.
| There is another division Of Chris
tian Scientists who call themselves
mental scientists, and they call the
others Eddyites and followers of a
woman's dictatorship. They claim that
Mrs. Eddy obtained her principles
| from DR.. Phineas B. Quimby, a reput-
able physician of Portland, Me.
! Mrs. Eddy denied that she owed any
thing-to DR.. Quimby, but that charge
has been legally met according to Mr..
Peede's statement. She claimed in her
| 1865 and that her principles were not
annunciated until years after in the
seventies, so that she could not have
borrowed them from him. However, it'll
has come out in the light of publicity
that one of DR.. Quimby's most inter
ested and intelligent patients was al
Mrs. Patterson or Mrs. Eddy. Accord
| ing to the witnesses of the timeS this
Mrs. Patterson was very deeply follow
| ing the methods of the doctor
| She went to him as patient as it is
alleged, md George Quimby, the son of
| the doctor. told his father that she was
fraud and came to him to steal his
theory.
This she denied reiterating that her
theory was the result of three years
communion with God. Mrs. Eddy was
divorced from one of her husbands, and
Rev. Mr.. Peede, to get at the truth of
the matter, wrote a personal letter to
George Quimby son of DR.. p. p. Quinn
BY to ascertain if Mrs, Eddy had stolen
his fathers theory. The son is now a
prominent manufacturer in Bidde-
/ ford.
The letter which Rev. Mr.. Peede re-
ceived in reply yesterday is one of the
sensations of the year. The latter
stated in reply to the question whether
/ DR.. Quimbys theory was stolen or not:
Mrs Patterson's Christian Science
ideas she got from him and annexed
religion to it and called it Christian
Science"
This is in a personal letter to Rev
Mr. Peede from the son. George Quinn
by, and those who so wish, may see
it.
Rev. Mr.. Peede then compared the
teachings and principles of the twoI
side by side and showed their identity
Her theory and practice were those of
DR.. Quimby she believed in the scierH9
of truth, and that cures are EFFECTED
through the reception and perception of
the truth.
TENOR FOR OLD SOUTH.