164 The Fundamentáis away their Lord.” In a letter to Judge Septimius J. Hanna, the founder of Eddyism says: “I have marveled at the press and pulpit’s patience with me, when I have taken away their Lord.” Suppose a minister of the Gospel were to declare that “the true Christ is Calvinism”, or that “Arminianism is the Holy Spirit”, or that “Lutheranism lights the fires of the Holy Ghost”, how long would it take the public to discover that such a man was unworthy of a place among Christian teachers? Yet this woman has gone on perpetrating blasphemies of this sort year after year. And when she and her followers are criticised and their statements denounced, some people are hor rified and talk about persecution. ABSURDITIES In conclusion, let us notice two or three specimen absurdi ties from the pages of “Science and Health”, in addition to those already mentioned. They are taken somewhat at ran dom. “Because the muscles of the blacksmith’s arm are strongly developed, it does not follow that exercise has produced this result. . . . The trip hammer is not increased by exercise. But why not, since muscles are as material as wood or iron?” (pp. 198 and 199, “Science and Health”). “Destructive electricity is not the offspring of an Infinite Good.” Which implies a radical difference between harmful and harmless electricity. When it attends strictly to business and follows the wires, it is a moral agent; but when it breaks away, bums out a fuse, or sets a house afire, it becomes immoral! “The Christian Scientist takes the best care of his body when he leaves it most out of his thoughts.” Therefore, the Spanish beggars and the Italian lazaroni would make ideal members of Mrs. Eddy’s organization.
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