The Religio-Medical Masquerade
"The Religio-Medical Masquerade." Cloth. Price $1.00 net; $1.08 by mail. A complete exposure of Christian Science by Frederick W. Peabody, LL.D., of the Boston bar. The Hancock Press, Boston, Mass. Among the blows which Christian Science has been receiving of late, none have been struck with any stronger spirit behind them than those by Judge Peabody in this book which lies before us. He declares that he has placed more study upon it and its inner workings, with better opportunities to learn its inner workings through his legal connection with it, than any other individual in the United States, and he writes the book because he believes that he ought to write it. Mr. Peabody has been engaged in several lawsuits in which Christian Science has been involved. He was one of the attorneys for Mrs. Eddy's son, George W. Glover, in the prosecution in the courts of New Hampshire for the appointment of a receiver of Mrs. Eddy's estate. The chapter headings are: The Sacrifice of Children, The Detached Heart, Pretended Equality with Jesus, The Faked "Revelation," The Fiction of God's Authorship, A Sham "Religion," A Bogus Healing System, Immeasurable Greed, The Eddy Autocracy, The "String" on the Gifts, The Eddy Ban on Marriage, Christian Science Witchcraft. Tremendous denunciations are the very titles themselves. Yet Judge Peabody declares in his introduction: "I challenge Mrs. Eddy and the whole Christian Science combination to dare to prosecute me for libel, and I affirm and shall continue to affirm that their omission so to do is an acknowledgment of the truth of every statement I make. She knows I am telling nothing but the truth, and that the whole truth to be brought out upon a judicial investigation would be more damning than the truth as I have presented it. The whole truth can not be told outside of a judicial tribunal." As to whether these charges are proved truth we must refer the reader to the book.