The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03
(By J. w. p. sMTTIIWICK, NJ. d.

near the confines of mortal eXlS-
tence, standing already within the
shadow of the death-valley," she
sought treatment by one DR.. Quin-
by, who was said and thought TO be a
defunct Spiritualist. She progressed to
get relief at his hands and then began
10 study and practice his methods and
beliefs. having access to all his manu-
ScrlpS and books. Soon after she be-
gan lecturing on Quinby's Spiritual
science. and while thus employed she
declared concerning his power, why
even the winds and waves obey him,
showing that she was confident and
enthusiastic pupil. Later on, seeing
the amount of money that could be
gulled out of a credulous public she
stole DR.. Quinby'S doctrine, mixing il
with lot of Oriental Pantheism and
entwining it with certain passages of
the Scriptures mystically interpreted,
couched all in ambiguous and nebul
Gus terms, and presented it under the
new name of Christian Science, claim
ing the whole thing to be special
revelation. Witnesses in Portland and
Lynn testify that Mrs. Eddy was
believer in spirtualism and practiced
mesmeriSm and clairvoyance. In 1876
the Christian Science Association was
organized and a few years later
mind healing church with creeds.
MIS-. EQOy organized the dSSOCIdlIOIl
and was pastor of the church and
also, president of the Massachusetts
Metaphysical College. Ten years later
she had an assistant pastor and her
school was fiourishing with charges
for tuition of over 500 a week.
Its Discoverer.
Mrs Mary Mason Baker Glover
Patterson Eddy is now an old woman
living in Concord, n. H.. In palatial
home, surrounded by liveried SER
wants and all the luXurieS of this ma
terial world that material dollars can
command. She employs mortal law
yerS to look after her material prop
erty interests in Boston and elsewhere
for she is very wealthy, though desti-
tute when she began to teach and
practice her SO-called Christian
Science. AS her name above would
indicate she has been married several
times and her mortal husbands died
just as any ones else would have
done. She even employs and pays
with material dollars mortal doctors
to attend her. Her doctrine is good
enough for a gullible public but it
is not sufficient to alleviate her ach-
ing bones and quiet her restless toss
ings upon a sleepless bed. Her in
come, besides that from her property,
is from the sale of books. spoons and
photographs. About $4,000 copies
of her book, Science and Health,
have been sold at SO copy. She also
sells souvenir spoons, in the bowl of
which is an etching of her home and
on the handle is Mother" (she calls
herself mother) Eddy's sanity coun-
tenance greeting all who buy them.
She asks every Christian Scientist to
buy one for each member of the
family as means of grace and
healing. The gold-plated spoons sell
at So and the silver-plated ones at So.
That profit and her request display
her shrewdneSs in dealing with the
desires of mortal mind and in reach
ing after the material dollars. How
she can harmonic these things with
her teachings, / utterly fail to realize.
The truth of the whole thing as will
be conclusively demonstrated when
the light is turned on, Christian
Science has had a very human and
ordinary origin by a very human and
ordinary woman who has utilized 1t
for the purpose of getting consider
able material of filthy lucre out of it.
It's Teachings.
When one studies the doctrines as
taught by Mrs. Eddy's writings he is
convinced that they sound more like
the decisions of a raving maniac than
the COOL deliberate thoughts of a
person who poses as an inspired
teacher of the truth it is in Jesus In
her teachings she affirms at least five
things:
W. There is no matter.
.. There is no evil.
3.'There is no individual mind.
4. There is no personal God.
5. The Bible teaching is false.
/. In her writings she asserts:
Matter is not real. All is mind and
there is. no matter. God never created
matter for there is nothing out of
which matter could be created. Mat
ter is q finite Illusion" In her book,
The Unity of Good and Unhealthy of
evil, she devotes chapter to the
futile effort to prove there is no mat
ter. She claims that you only feel
a belief in pain and sickness, and
that all forms of disease are finite IL
lusions, dark images of mortal
thought that will flee before the light
of Christian Science. 1 have seen a
devotee of this doctrine, suffering the
pain of a malignant and death-dea
ing cancer, weak and wan from ex-
haustion, vehemently and repeatedly
declare that she was as well as she
ever was, and in less time than a
week she was laid in the grave-a
victim of the false teachings of
Christian Science.
2. Mrs Eddy claims: evil has no
nor thing, it is a belief and delusion.
Evil is an Illusion and error, is a false
belief" This is from an old theology
and will be recognized by many of
my readers. 1t cannot come from
God if we believe the Bible.
8. She states: '"rhere is but one
mind or spirit because there is but
one God. Man only reflects this one
mind, man has no mind of his own.
There is really no finite mind or con-
seriousness. Man is only an idea of
God, the conception of eternal mind,
co-existent and co-eternal with it.
Man to God is what Il knot is to a
log, a part of it in some manner, but
has no Independent or individual con-
seriousness or existence.
4. Mrs. Eddy denies the existence
of a personal God. She says: Mind
is God and God is mind-there is
but one mind. Man shines by bor-
rowed light and his reflection is sub
stance. Matter is substance in error,
spirit is substance in truth" Such
an analysis is about as clear as mud,
yet this same clearness characteriZes
all her writings and teachings. She
continues: God is mind. He is a
divine principle, not person. God is
soul or shirt and not limited mind