The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-10-09
Mrs. Eddy's Power,

We have seen Mrs. Eddy's an
| louncement that failure to sell hel
books would render members of the
church unfit to continue in the com
munion of the saints, and now II ap-
pears that, under Mrs. Eddy's rules
the sacrilege of calling any other
woman than Mrs. Eddy mother
constitutes similar unfitness.
Mrs. Eddy's rule comforting upon
Mrs. Eddy the power to remove Of
ficers Of all Christian Science
! churches is as follows;
"The pastor emeritus of the Moth
er Church MRS. Eddy shall have
the right through a letter addressed
to the individual and church of
which he is the reader, 10 remove
4 reader from this office in any
Church of Christ, Scientisr, 10th in
America and foreiEn nations, or 10
appoint the reader tO fiji any office
belonging 10 the Christian Science
denomination
What does Mrs. Eddy claim TO
be, and what is she believed TO
be by many thousands of people
leader and guide, and who reverence
her as the devout Christian rever-
ences Christ? Mrs. Eddy, in express
terms, claims to have received from
Almighty God a revelation which she
has Incorporated in her book entitled
Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures" Speaking of this
book Mrs, Eddy, in January 1901,
said; 81 should blush to write of
Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures as I have, were it
of human origin, and |, apart from
God, its author but as | was only
scribe echoing the harmonies OF
heaven in divine metaphysics, I can
not be supermodest of the Christian
Science text book"
Mrs. Eddy and God.
Nothing could be palmer than
that. Here is a distinct avowal
that the book entitled Science and
Health" was the work of Almighty
God, and preposterous as the claim
may seem to any rational being who
has ever undertaken to read the
book, slanderous as it is upon On
niscienCe, some $4,000 people in the
United States today believe it pre-
cisely as made by Mrs. Eddy. They
believe that God literally dictated
the contents of this book to Mrs.
Eddy and that it is in every part
as much the word of God as the
Bible is in any part the word of
God. This is the sacrilegious lie
upon which Mary Baker G.. Eddy
has reared her whole fraudulent SUI
perstructre. In 1864, at Portland,
Me, she made the acquaintance of
a man named Quimby-Dr. Phineas
P. Quimby; and being in poor phys
ical condition, she received from him
a treatment which consisted solely
in some form of mental application.
| can prove that all Mrs. Eddy
knows of what she calls the divine
revelation of Christian Science she
got from this DR. Quimby while liy-
ing, and his old voluminous manu-
scripts after he died. And further
more, and worse for her, James
Henry Wiggin, Unitarian minister
recently deceased, was for years Mrs.
Eddy's literary expert putting all
of her productions, including her
books, into good English and into as
coherent form as she would per-
NIT. He wrote a sermon for Mrs
Eddy to preach, which she preach
e1 as her own, and which she sub
sequently Incorporated in some of
her inspired literature. But of all
the harmful influences of this alleg-
ed science, which is unmitigated
nonsense or devlltry, and of this al
legged Christianity, which, as far as
its founder is concerned, is the
Of irreverence and hy-
pocrisy, of all the evil consequences
Of the life and work of this monu-
mental imposter, the unreleived suf-
fering of helpless children is the
worst.
Gods Revelation.
Mrs. Eddy teaches, and her fol-
lowers believe that God has revealed |
10 her as absolute truth that sick
ness. pain and suffering do not in
reality exist; and many are the |
mothers upon whom this belief has !
taken so fast a hold that they per-
nit their children to suffer without |
he slightest effort to alleviate the
and with the continued it |
eration and reiteration of the in
sane notion that the child can not
De sick and can not suffer. because
sickness and suffering are unreal.
Meantime, the sickness is real. the
suffering is real and after protract-
ed suffering the child dies. without
he turning of hand to relieve its
'ain. If the adult prefers foolish
less to wisdom, if he prefers sui
'ide to life, he may enjoy his pref
renee: but no man and no woman
.as any right whatever be the mo-
i've or the relation. 70 stand silently
" and permit a child 10 suffer and
lie. "Whosoeyer shall offend one
# these little ones. it were better
hat a mill-tOne We're hanged about
lis neck and that he was drowned
n the depths Of the sea" Again
n an illustrated book called "Cbrist