The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-04-09
.OENOUNCES EDDY
CULT As A FRAUD
Frederick w. Peabody, OF
Boston, Attacks Work of
the Founder.

Indianapolis, April S.-Frederick !
w. Peabody OF Boston, one of the at
torneys who is seeking TO set aside
the will of Mary Baker Eddy, found
er of the Church OF Christ, Scientists
lectured at Murat temple under the
auspices of the Butler Memorial
church of which the Rev. J. F. Grauel
is pastor. Mr.. Peabodys subject in
the afternoon was An Exposure of
Christian Science" in the evening.
"Eddyism, the Mask Torn OF"
Mr.. Peabody said in part: Il have
asked r. Stanhope Easterday, of the
Eddy publicity bureau to be present.
| sent him a registered letter and if
he is here | want him TO be free to
ask me any questions that have any
bearing on the subject matter of my
discussion. If Mx. Easterday is here
shall PROFOUND certain questions to
him and | predict in advance that he
will not answer. | have asked these
questions of Christian Scientists from
Boston to San Francisco and back
again to Boston without receiving any
answer year ago | delivered this
-
day was in the audience and did not
disclose his presence. | wish some
body would have the manliness or
womanliness to call me to account if
anything | say is not true
If Mr.. Easterday was present he
did not choose to respond.
This is the first time ! have SpOk
en- of Mrs. Eddy since her death. and
there could be no conceivable excuse
for detailing the private life of any
woman, but if she is sponsor of
system of lies, a system that is a
fraud and a sham, that has reached
out over the land and seeks to govern
other lives, | conceive it to be the
duty of a man to state the facts frank
ly if he knows them.
No Sympathy for Sponsor.
For Mrs. Eddy who has sacrificed
on the altar of greed the lives of God
knows how many children, there is no
sympathy in my heart and there shall
be no scrap of charity in my speech.
She was the inventor and proprietor
of the greatest get-rich-quick scheme
ever conceived. Her business con-
verted the religious feelings into cash
and has eXtorted large sums of money
| from credulous people for healing
them of something that was not the
matter with them After she was SIX
ty-five years old she accumulated a
fortune of over $3,OOo.0OO. She has
made money out of religious emotions
of mankind Nobody ever entered
| Christian Science because of his intel
| ligence, but in spite of it. There are
now no preachers in Christian Sci
ence. Though there were until few
years ago. Mrs. Eddy stopped them
because they did not talk about her
exclusively. The services are now con-
Quoted by so-called first and second
readers with alternate passages from
the Bible and from Mrs. Eddy's book.
Arthur G. Frisbie who was first
reader of a Christian Science church
in Cleveland, is now out of it, as ev-
erybody who is intelligent and honest
gets out Of it in course of time. He
said he could not find any relation be-
tween the Bible passages he was read
ing and the passages from Mrs. Eddy's
| DOOk Indt IUC SecOlu TcdueT was Tedu-
ing.
| Mark Twain in a letter to me three
or four years ago. said he was not
combating Christian Science, that he
had merely written the articles TO
please himself. Il have not he said. "a
thing in the world against it. but sam
making fun of that shameless old
swindle, Mother Eddy. At bottom I
take delight in seeing the human
race make an ass of, itself, as it al
ways has done. 1t distresses me to
hear you talk about sanity to men.
They have never shown any sanity.
See them get down and worship that
old woman
Attacks Healing Methods.
"Mrs Eddy is the mother and pro-
moter of the new old witchcraft, mali
cious animal magnetism. OF all the
evils of this imposture the greatest is
that upon the lives and sufferings of
children. Mothers permit their chill
dren to suffer and die without the
turning of hand to save: without do
! ing anything except to ask a fool man
or a fool woman to come in and say
passages to himself or herself from
Mrs. Eddy's book. There are five
thousand Christian Science healers in
this country and if each has only
patient a day-and they have many
more-more than a million and half