The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-15
DIR. cArcREM BLOWS TaE
BOTTOM OUT OF FDDYISM

! is not q grain of common sense to
| it and it is not consonant with hui
man experience.
But she did not have much success
at first, consequently to add flavor
of the occult and the mysterious as
a drawing card, she made marvel
Gus discovery--the most wonderful
in all the history of the world since
Jesus Christ died on Calvary's noun
tain--she redlscovered the Divine
principle by which Christ healed.
Staggering thought! But she herself
tells it dn her miscellaneous works
and also in her alleged key to the
Scriptures" 1t was one day in 1866,
she says, that she made this re-
markable and astonishing find after
it had been lost for 1900 years. And
then she proceeded to form classes
and retail it, charging each student
5000 for eight lessons-S375 each
per lesson, only. II was in this way
that Mrs. Eddy began making enor-
nous sums of money and at that
time she had no idea of starting
cult which some people now call
church. But she had an eye to
business and the way she bled her
!mpressionable dupes was sight
for the gods. After she piled up d
lot of money by that process she
conceived the notion of making her
and she named it Christian Science.
No man with his eyes open can find
anything Christian about It nor
anything scientific but she drew the
money from the impressionable and
from an occasional convalescent and
cotemporaneously with the wheels in
their heads she started the wheels of
her cult going. And as long as they
will pay her $3.4O for a SLIPS cent
edition of Science and Health, and
ether works correspondingly and as
long as 10000 people will give up
their Intellectual, moral and spiritual
freedom to the caprice and whim of
a crafty and designing woman. this
remarkable band of scientists" viii
get along in the world. But she
has them all tied up in a double
bow knot by VOWS and pledges; she
owns the Boston church property Sc.
cured by craft and has admitted none
but those who will bow down to her;
she has silenced all her preachers
and allows them to say nothing in
their churches but something she
has written or read or her selec-
tions of the scriptures; she radically
advises Mr. Herring and all the other
dried Herringes who want to lecture
and they don't dare say a word of
which she disapproves; she governs
her 10000 followers by means OF her
imposed rules and five
boards, all appointed by herself, as
with a rod OF iron; she is the abso-
lutte arbitor of conscience amongst
her people; she dictates what papers
they may read and what books they
may purchase and 5ne permits no
sermon dn her churches and no pray
ers but the Lords prayer except her
compositions. That is Eddyisrn; how
do you like it?
There Is report that she has been
dead for some time but that Calvin
Frye is still sitting on the box driv-
ing the coachl
But 1t Is fact that Mrs. Eddy
has rediscovtred the principle OF
Divine healing as she teaches in her
books or is it a falsehood? Why do
all her satellites and disciples shy
around that question and refuse to
give categorical answer? The
clear, concise" MIR. Herring makes
an allusion to ii in the following
This necessarily includes dominion
over matter and its faws to which
we are in such bondage. dominion
over evil and its sensation, sin and
sorrow, DOMINION EVEN OVER
DEATH AND ITS TERRORS."
But as the Irishman said the
Lhrouble is tina dhon't" Who has
domonion over death? What Eddyitey
wouldn't that assumption jar you?
Rediscovered the principle OF mirac-
ilous healing and resurrectlng the
dead after fifteen hundred years of
desuetude! Marvellous story! There
Is nothing Iilxa a. In an