The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-16
PROFITABLE BUSINESS
METHODS OF MRS. EDDY no
SWELL HER FORTUNE.
The Gath" Made to Yield Great
Prohts-sharp Old Lady Started
a. q ouack, but Soon Adopted
a Cloak of Religion.

| Ilso ana aged FOUNDER u the Christi an
| Science movement, added more than 81,
10000 to- her private fortune by direct.
| ing thu zeal of her followers and agents
into her caefully oganized money max.
ing system, but tire $500 professional heal,
| ers who ply their business in her name
| charge as much for mental treatment
i as regular physicians.
The chases OF the healers -ange from
| 81 to $40 for each treatment. Assuming
| that the average healer makes IS a day,
| the total earnings ~ tho 5000 Christian
| Science healers aside from free patients
will amount to D.475,0o0 a year.
These millions go into the pockets OF
the healers. Mrs. Eddy's ,present income
| Is largely confined to the sale OF her
books. each Of the TOO Christian Science
churches being an agency for III cir sale,
II the ordinary layman in New York
Should attempt to earn a wing by prac-
ticing any art of healing he would, I'M
less he were a regularly licensed physi-
clan, be liable to fine or Imprisonment.
Yet there are 5000 unlicensed persons en-
gagged In this lucrative business in the
United States.
A Profitable Business.
1t is this powerful organization which
| enables Mrs. Eddy to live on her fine
estate in New Hampshire and defy inves-
tgaticn. From her luxurious residence
| she sends each year a message to the
Mother Church. written after the fash
| ion of the apostolic epistles, but she
carefully refrains from giving an account
| of the enormous private fortune she Is &C.
cumuating.
The fact that there are something like
| $50. 900 members of her 700 churches and.
perhaps, a million ympathizers-the
great majority of them sincere believers
makes one shrink from the task of
frankly characterizing those who are
using religious movement as a cloak for
personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. But every step
along the trail of Mrs. Eddy's work re-
veals the mercenary character of the
close ottker and sHilleul combination
which manages and controls the business
end of Christian Science under the secret
and absolute direction of the shrewd old
lady in New Hampshire.
Mrs. Eddy claims that Christian Science
was revealed to her by God in 1866. There
is in the resplendept Mother Room"
of her church in Boston painting of the
horsehair chair in which she sat when
the divine communication was made. 1t
Is an object of profound reverence to her
followers.
But after this supposed revelation from
God Mrs. Eddy went to live in Stoughton,
Mass, where she claimed to be disciple
of DR.. Quimby, a hypnotic quack, whom
she met In Portland. Me-, in 1854. There
are persons in Stoughton today who bear
witness that Mrs. Eddy made no pretence
in 1865, 1869 o. 1870 IF ha mig had reve-
latien from God. she was II teacher of
DIR. Quimby's system of healing and so
declared herself.
No Religious Cloak at First.
Even IN 1881, Wnen MTS. EOuy eSldD-
lished in Boston what she called the Mas
sachusetts Metaphysical College and
taught -four thousand pupils her art of
healing-at $500 apiece for a three weeks
oourse-she made no attempt to shelter
her business enterprise behind the name
Of religion.
1t was after the stern attitude of the
Boston authorities had forced her to
shandon her eoiese with Its illegal
Church was founded and Mrs. Eddy or
ganized the system through which she
has managed to sell 100000 of her 20 book.
Science AMI Health" the profits on
which have yielded her at least $500 900
not to speak of her other books which
are sold through the church. Its branches.
it's reading rooms and its thousands of
healers.
1 have already printed extracts from
the Church Manual" showing how Mrs.
Eddy compels her followers to buy her
SO book and how the walls of the Chris
tan Science Churches are covered Wth
advertisements for the volume, given In
the style of Scripture texts, and not only
Is every teacher and healer and student
and practicer of Christian Science forced
to read Science and Health.-the proft
on each copy being at least S.5o-but the
Church Manual lays down this law:
Branch churches shall not write the
teuets of the mother church in their
church books, but may place securely IN
CScience and Healthy for the members
to subscribe to. The tenets of the Mother
Church are copyrighted in Science and
Health, with the Key to the SCRIPTURES
Increase Her Profit. &c.,.
The Christian Science Publishing Com
pany. whoce offices ore aim ost next door
to the big church in. Boston, VII Jse STAIN
ed glass windows present the hgures OF
Christ and Mrs. Eddy. was originally her
property She turned the company over
to the Mother Church, of which she. as
the pastor emeritus, is the absolute des-
pot, reserving the right to publish her
books through 1t. In other words she
to print and dstthzut; her volumes. ard
thereby her profits are enormously In
creased.
There is no intention in this article to
criticise any sincere believer In christian
Science. The facts given are for the In,
formation of Christian Scientists as well
as the general public.
Another provision in the Church Man
ual'' which reveals Mrs Eddys business
astut1 ness Is the following:
"Only m smbers of the Mother Church
are qualified to invite and recommend Tor
membership individuals who are known
by them to be Christians ana ialtn1ul,
loyal students of our text book. Science
and Health, with the Key to the Scrip
lures" -
In her earlier efforts to win followers
whom she could reach by expounding the
terrors of a sort of demonology or witch
craft. In 1917 she wrote in the first edl-
ton of the divinely revealed Science and
Health the following extraordinary
working on Peoples Fears.
"In coming years the person or mind
that hates his neighbor will have no need
to traverse his fields, to destroy his fiocks
and herds, and spoil his vines: or TO en-
ter his house to demordlize his household;
for the evil mind will do this through
mesmerism: and not in propr1a personae
be seen committing the decd. Unless
this TERRIBLE hour be met and restrained
by science, mesmerism. that scourge OF
man, will leave nothing sacred when
mind begins to act under direction OF
conscious power.
1.-The silent argument used in his own
behalf as he manipuates the head, the
mal-practitioner would blush to make au-
dible Suppose he has juror for pa
tent and establishes the mesmeric con-
nection between Them he can influence
more than law OF evidence and the Verulct
of that honest juror.
Mesmersm Is practiced both with and
without manipulation; but the evil deed
without a sign is also done by the ma
ntpulator and mental mal-practiuoner.
1.-THE secret mental assassin stalks
abroad, and needs to he branded 10 De
| known in what he is doing.
What "Demonology" Does.
"Our readers may feel an interest to
| learn somewhat of the indications of the
mental malpractice, or demonoiogy. AS
| far as we have traced it 1t has no out
ward signs, such as ordinarily indicate
mesmerism and it's effects are far more
subtle because of this. Its tendency is to
| sour the disposition. to occasion great
| fear of disease dread and discourage
ment and cause a relapse of former dis
| c'ses, to produce new ones: TO create dis