A Complete Exposure ofChristian Science
By
FREDERICK W. PEABODY, LL.B.
OF THE BOSTON BAR
THE HANCOCK PRESS
BOSTON, MASS.
Copyright, 1910
BY
Frederick W. Peabody
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Christian Science is the most shallowand sordid and wicked imposture of the ages.Upon a substratum of lies a foundation of falsepretense has been laid, upon which has been builta superstructure of outward beauty in which multitudesof credulous people gather to glorify the founderas God’s chief anointed.
Never before has the world witnessed a masqueradelike that of Christian Science. Being everythingthat Christianity is not, it puts on the garb ofChristianity and seizes the name of Christ the betterto attract and the more strongly to hold people ofshallow mind, but sincere heart. Having nothingin it remotely worthy of the name of science, itmeaninglessly appropriates scientific terms andphrases in order to parade before the world with anair of learning.
The founder of this pretended religion, this bogushealing system, audaciously and irreligiously professingequality of character and of power withJesus, has, throughout her whole long life, been inevery particular precisely antithetical to Christ.Sordid, mercenary, unprincipled, the consumingpassion of her life has been the accumulation ofmoney, and she has stopped at no falsehood, nofraud and no greater wickedness that seemed to puther in the way of adding to her accumulations, orovercoming her supposed enemies.
Jesus condemned nothing so forcefully as themercenary spirit. With a whip he scourged themoney changers from the Temple, and in languagethat burned as flaming fire he denounced the hypocritesand liars of his time as “like unto whitedsepulchers that are indeed beautiful outward, butwithin are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.”
If the language of this book seem severe, if itsdenunciations are emphatic, if things are called bytheir right names and facts handled without theleast equivocation, if contrasts are drawn betweenthe founder of Christianity and the founder ofChristian Science that seem to border upon theirreverent, let it not be assumed that there is in theheart of the author the slightest particle of personalanimosity, or in his attitude toward real Christianityand