The Religio Medical Masquerade

"The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian Science" by Frederick William Peabody. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

"[...]turned over to me by my client and studied with most thorough and painstaking care. Then it was I learned that Christian Science was a deliberate fraud foisted upon mankind by Mrs. Eddy in the name of religion for the mere purpose of extorting money from credulous people. Since that time I have been intensely interested in following the matter up and adding to my store of facts, until now I am confident that no man can read this book, no man and no woman who has not parted with every scrap of sanity and who retains elemental decency in his or her heart, and not be in entire accord with my conclusions. Some time after the Woodbury-Eddy litigation, I was retained by Rev. Minot J. Savage, then of New York City, to collect for him, and at his expense, in legally evidential form, the facts showing unmistakably Mrs. Eddy's false pretense and fraud, and in pursuance of this employment I examined numerous[...]".

Excerpt from The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian Science The founder of this pretended religion, this bogus healing system, audaciously and irreligiously pro fessing equality of character and of power with Jesus, has, throughout her whole long life, been in every particular precisely antithetical to Christ. Sordid, mercenary, unprincipled, the consuming passion of her life has been the accumulation of money, and she has stopped at no falsehood, no fraud and no greater wickedness that seemed to put her in the way of adding to her accumulations, or overcoming her supposed enemies. Jesus condemned nothing so forcefully as the mercenary spirit. With a whip he scourged the money changers from the Temple, and in language that burned as flaming fire he denounced the hypo crites and liars of his time as like unto whited sepulchers that are indeed beautiful outward, but within are full of dead men's bones and all un cleanness. If the language of this book seem severe, if its denunciations are emphatic, if things are called by their right names and facts handled without the least equivocation, if contrasts are drawn between the founder of Christianity and the founder of Christian Science that seem to border upon the irreverent, let it not be assumed that there is in the heart of the author the slightest particle of personal animosity, or in his attitude toward real Christianity and Christ anything but the most complete reverence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"The author, who has been engaged in a number of law-suits against Mrs. Eddy, denounces this founder of a religious sect and her cult in scathing language and unmeasured terms, and presents documentary and other evidence that her claims concerning her inspiration and her power of healing are false, that she has promulgated her method and "religion" for revenue only, and that her tenets are dangerous. He is unsparing in his condemnation of Mrs. Eddy and her tools and helpers. "The book is of interest to all thinking men and women who desire to inform themselves on the reasons for the strange fascination which this woman and her teachings exert on so many well-educated and mentally otherwise well-balanced persons." –The American Journal of Clinical Medicine, Volume 18 [1911] "This contribution, in a very bitter tone, to the controversial literature of "Christian Science" is interesting as coming from a lawyer of standing, who has been engaged in several suits involving Mrs. Eddy and other various members of her sect, and thus made acquaintance with vast amounts of sworn testimony and read many unpublished letters. His conclusions are uncompromisingly stated, and he refuses to be ranked with the weak-minded who think "there must be something in it." He asserts the inventor to be "mercenary, insincere, shameless, and bold to a degree surpassing that of all other persons who have duped mankind. Upon theft and falsehood she has laid the foundations of the 'religion' by which she has accumulated a fortune." He is not content with assertions; he quotes chapter and verse, as in the accounts of the death of Mrs. Eddy's coachman, who expired (in her house) of a disease of which he had been "completely cured," and of the end of her English "show convert," the Earl of Dunmore. The latter had been "healed" after being told by an eminent London surgeon that his disorder was incurable. So he sat on the platform and testified and wrote articles, etc.—the only misfortune in the case being his death of the very disease of which he had been cured. Mr. Peabody's final conclusion is that except the honestly deluded, the whole lot are "in a skin-game" together. " –The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Volume 141 [1911] "There is absolutely no middle ground. Either Mr. Peabody is the most shameless of calumniators or Mrs. Eddy is the basest of charlatans. Mr. Peabody expresses an eager readiness to have this question submitted to any test. His charges run the whole gamut from attempted murder to accomplished theft, with endless lying scattered all along in between. They are not vague, but definite, and every one of them can be settled as true or untrue. Why do the Eddyites wait? The courts are open and until Mr. Peabody is a convicted slanderer no sane or decent person, man or woman, can afford to give any countenance to Christian Science." –The New York Times

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Frederick Forrest Peabody (July 6, 1859 - February 23, 1927) was a prominent citizen of Santa Barbara, California in the early twentieth century. As chairman of the local Board of Education, he oversaw the construction of Santa Barbara High School, and as a philanthropist he contributed generously to the rebuilding of the city after the 1925 earthquake.