The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30
It Is CIdiDed
p. p. Quimby
Started 1t.

Started IC.
step was to practice mental healing, IN
a tentative fashion which, at the end OF
nine years, all being quteo qt9o on n tiS iS75 Of
tomac, led to her publication, IN 1IonI+ lot9, %
her first edition of Science ana 1IedItI, II
though she had copyrighted II Aas snS
states in her preface to the eoltioH VI
In 1881 Mrs Eddy moved from Lynn to
Boston, living first at 569 ana , aIter"SI4 81
she purchased a house in the fash1onanle
Back Bay district, 3S5 Commonwealth
avenue, near the Left Ericsson statue.
Organizes the Mother Church.
AS soon as she was well settled in the
city she organized Christian Science
church. at first holding services in Haw-
thorn Hall, on Park street overlooking
the common-'the Church of the holy
Elevator" as a newspaper critic pro-
fanely termed it; and later in Chi1cker-
ing Hall, 153 fremont street. About the
same time she established her Metaphy-
sical College and her students associa-
tions, enlarged Science and Health, pub
hshed several smaller books and set In
motion the Christian Science Journal:
In 1882 her fourth husband, DR.. Eddy,
died The physician who conducted tue
autopsy says that the death was the
ease, but Mrs. Eddy declared that it was
the effect of arsenical poisoning, mental
ly administered. At this time Mrs. Eddy
even urged Miss Woodbury. TO represent
to Wendell Phillips, an old family friend,
that DR.. Eddy had been mentally killed
by former students, now antagonistic
rivals whom he had not seen for months
and years.
Ordained by Her own Students.
She soon had herself privately ordained
to the ministry by her own students.
When she preached the hall was crowd
ed, and contribution boxes were much bet
Ia1 ban
often happen, for generally Mrs EDDY
preached only three or four times a year,
and even then her sermons were as ike
each other as dried peas, though the ad-
miring Dorcases, Priscillas, Sapphiras,
Johns Peters, MelchisedekS and keturahs
whispered their rapt alteration to each
other Wasn't she splendid to-day"
ecstatically unconscious that they mad
heard substantially the same address SIX
weeks before.
When others preached she occasionally
attended the church whereof she was
nominally a pastor, and took some part III
the service. Once she held baptsmaI
service without water, though her mem
ory failed her in repeating the formula
prepared by herself, and sometimes there
was a communion service without wafer
or wine Most Sundays, however, she
worshiped God in the privacy of her own
Aome. If wonder was expressed at her
absence the adOring disciples replied,
How could she, the divinely inspired,
bear to hear ordinary preaching?'
Her invisibility increased her repute,
and whoever the speaker, the cOngrega-
tion Joined in her extraordinary version of
the Lords Prayer, replete with turgid
polysyllables from the Latin and be-
wildering. admixture of pronouns and con-
fusion of lenses. If she could not be
present her brief telegram was received
with adulation by hundreds who had
never met her Soon she forbade students
calling their Christian Science teachers
by the name of Mother" as had been
their wont. Herself she styled Mother
Mary" and the behavior of the raptured
throngs rivaled the enthusiasm of the
populace over returned hero.
Illegal Degrees.
Miss Woodbury. alleges that in 1889 Mrs.
Eddy ,ostensibly gave up her college and
riod when a Massachusetts District At
torney was looking for evidence of that
which there We're thousands, punishable
with a fine of $500 for each offense. rs
this the reason. she asks, that for ten
years Mrs. Eddy has not visited Boston on
week day, when she would be subject to
arrest? ?'
From Concord she issues her edicts
and manifestoes. Multitudes go thither
to worship at her shrine and are salts
hed If they do not even touch the hem Of
her garment but only see her from afar,
as a beatific vision, while she speaks
few commonplace words or repeats the
Ninety-tirst Psalm she turns her back
on her visitors. She is accompanied by
her Iveried secretary on her daily drive
in close carriage, keeping off every
draught that might cause her to catch
u.
The mother church grew valiant de-
spite one or two dissolutions, till in 1895
the granite building on Falmouth street
was erected at a cost of some $3.50 900. A
mothers room was elegantly fitted up
here for Mrs Eddy's special occupancy,
though 1t is not always open to ordinary
mortal eyes. Occasionally the pastor
emeritus comes from her rural retreat
when she emerges from her sanctuary.
TO 6less the gazing. adorers, who rise
Again they remain standing after the
benediction, till she re-enters her holy of
holies, where she may hold sacred com
munion with the lifelike picture of the
old chair in which she claims to have
been sitting when writing her inspired
volume, until time for the carriage TO
take her to a special train.
With the opening of the new church
came new commandment, that here
sitter the, Bible and Science and
Health should be it's only pastors. no
original discourses being allowed, only
readings, by man and woman alter
ternately, of presumably corresponding
passages from the two sacred volumes.
Malicious Animal Magnetism"
says Miss Woodbury., sagely, the ra-
tional religion being ever for the hope
less, minority, Dr.. Quimby knew no
devil, since to him all things were divine
ly planned and planted. Christian Sci
ence started without a devil, but Mrs.
Eddy could not control the multitude,
dress and chrstened him Malicious An
imal Magnetism.
This "Mother Church" of Boston has
a roll of II 900 members from all over the
country, but its affairs are lodged in the
hands of the forty first members and
it's control is practically lodged in star
chamber sanhedrim of seven, unless its
manual has been recently changed, as oft
happens.
How is the Christian Science organiza-
ton maintained? asks Miss Woodbury..
Partly, she replies, through the convic-
ton that deeds are right because the
leader does them, rather than that she
acts thus and so because it is right; that
ideas are true because she utters them,
not that she utters them, as Jesus did
because they are true. Buff and blue reb
els are denounced as enemies to Cod
that is, to his chosen wonder in Heay-
en-" and untoward events are attributed
to the hypnotic malice of somebody who
has had wit and courage to leave the
ranks.
Said one of Mrs. Eddy's pastoral COL
leagues: IF ] saw Mrs. Eddy doing some
thing I thought wrong 1 should Know it
was my blunder, not her error for she
can do no wrong" In short. Miss Wood
bury declares that Mary Eddy has no uea
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