Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-02

church delivered a sermon last night,
taking "Some Plain Facts About
Christian Science and It's Founder as
his subject.
He opened his sermon with the state
ment that two lectures had already
been delivered on Christian Science,
and that next Sunday he will answer
the article printed in the journal in
reply TO his first lecture.
81 have not requested that these
articles be printed, and | do not care
whether they are published or not. /
am to deal this evening with the un.
pleasant side of Christian Science.
This is not by my own desire, but is
caused by necessity. ! love, respect
and honor many Christian Scientists,
believing that they are sincere in
their belief. The first question |
would ask is 'Who is Mrs. Eddy2
Who knows anything about this old
woman who is perhaps the richest wo'
man in America t~oday2'"
Rev. Errett then took up his notes,
which were made up from an address
delivered by Attorney Peabody to an
audience of 5000 people in Boston,
Mass, on the subject of Christian Sci
ence, and an attack on Mrs. Eddy. He
read: "Mr. Peabody says that Mrs.
Eddy is a woman SO years of age, but
this address was delivered five years
ago, making her about 80 years old
now and in feeble health. In private
life she would be free from c%ensure,
but she is not in private life, and as
she has thousands of fanatical follow
ers, / do not hesitate to expose her.
The whole truth cannot be told in po'
lite society. Her influence is harmful.
1t is promoting a new form of witch
craft, and keeps many of her follow
ers in a constant state of terror, and
causes sickness and death right here
in Boston. He says that she began
her career as a spiritualistic medium.
Her first husband is buried in the
potter's field at Wilmington, n. G..
Mrs. Eddy does not believe in mar
riage "for others
Mr.. Errett here remarked that If
mil is mind and no matter, marriage
would be impossible. He then read
again from Mr.. Peabody's account,
and told of her three marriages, and
then told of people who believe that
she is now the wife of Mr.. Frye, her
man servant. This Mr.. Frye owns all
of her property, her jewels, horses and
carriages. Perhaps they are not wife
and husband, he said, but these things
lead people to believe they are.
Mrs. Eddy has raised herself from
ipsignifcance to the leadership of the
most fanatical religious movement in
the world, 'all by a monumental le''
Mrs. Eddy is not a fool. She is a
shrewd, keen, commercial m Mrs.
Eddy appealed to the human body, and
to do this she had to appeal to the
human mind. Mrs. Eddy's so-called
revelation from God is not true.
Rev. Errett here quoted from Mrs
Eddy and said she has no use for bath
tubs. She does not believe in keeping
clean. BE said she says that through
your mind you can obtain either male
or female gender or neuter. Mrs. Eddy
has probably obtained the latter
hence her message in regard to mar
riage.
Mrs. Eddy's original book is very
much different from the book in use
now. Many chapters have been
dropped and others picked up. Mr..
a Unitarian minister, wrote
one of Mrs. Eddy's sermon for her,
which she preached as her own and
published with slight variations in the
thirty-sixth edition of her book under
the head of "Wayside Hints, 4" as the
of God. She speaks of Jesus
as the masculine Interpretation of the
spiritual idea.
Mr.. Errett here requested the usher
to raise the windows, as the next state
ment of Mr.. Peabody is a trihe warm.
Mrs. Eddy, in speaking of a woman
whom she disliked said: "I would like
to tear her heart out and trample it
under my feet" Mr.. Errett said
Remember, this is not from the state
ment of a preacher, but from the adj
dress of a lawyer in Boston to 5000