p. 6 | Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 31, 1905

Note and Comment

In a press telegram of recent date, is given the following testimony concerning the nature and working of Christian Science, by one who has renounced connection with that church, Dr. C. G. Pease, of New York City:—

Dr. Charles G. Pease has resigned as a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, and also from the mother church in Boston. He renounces the belief as “a fabric of deceit, falsehood, and dishonesty,” and as a “grave danger to the community.” In a book of one hundred and thirty pages he descants upon abuses he alleges exist in the practise of so-called healing, and brings up battery after battery against the ramparts of the system established by Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy.

“Christian Science is nothing more nor less than self-hypnotism,” says Dr. Pease in his book. “Its whole secret lies in the repetition of certain formulae until the subject has brought himself into a state in which he can be affected by other minds. “In Christian Science there is just enough Scriptural truth to float the deceptive, hypocritical, hypnotic, human philosophy of teaching which is a poisonous narcotic to the spiritual perceptive power of the mind. Self-complacency and self-love pass for Christianity; and dishonesty, falsehood, deception, trespass, and oppression in the individual pass as virtue.”

Dr. Pease declares that by Christian Science the conscience is blunted, and that he has reason to believe that with this new thought leavening the world, there is more perjury in the courts than ever before. He says he does not believe that Mrs. Eddy had a full realization of her dangerous teaching, yet that she must have had some idea when she introduced in her book a chapter on hypnotism to nullify the baneful influence of her methods.