In the Cu
Kingdom
BY
JOHN ELWARD BROWN
" In the Cult
Kingdom"
MORMONISM, EDDYISM AND
RUSSELLISM
BY
JOHN ELWARD BROWN
President
International Federation of Christian Workers
Author of
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INTRODUCTORY
A eertian rather prominent business man of a western
state walked out of the tabernacle, after hearing one of
these talks on the "Isms," and to a man who chanced
to walk by his side, he said, "I am disappointed in that
preacher. I thought he was too big a man too broad
minded, to turn from the great work which he is doing
to make an attack on the religion of other people."
Now, this man voices the unspoken sentiment of
thousands of good men and women in the churches. This
attitude would be the correct one, and the Christian one,
provided these men and women of the Cult Kingdom
were apostles of God's truth, and were turning men and
women into God's paths.
Certainly, no man could be commended in turning'
from the greatest of great tasks that of winning souls
to Jesus Christ to take issue with others engaged in a
like work.
But, there are religions many, and if a man is helping
to promulgate a religious theory that is all out of har-
mony with the fundamentals of God's Holy Word, then
we do him the greatest possible injury by assisting him,
even in silence, in his destructive work.
A man's safety does not depend on whether lie is, or
is not religious, but his safety repends on the sort of a
f'ligion he has.
It is a lie from the pit of perdition, fathered by the
father of lies, and circulated with all possible satanic
cunning, that it doesn't matter what a fellow believes, so
long as he believes something.
Fact is, a fellow may be very religious, ail his days,
< j \en giving all his goods to farther his ideas, and finally
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liivinu bis body to be burned, and then die a Christless
death, lie in a CbrMess i^raye. and live in a ( 'hrist b->.s
eternity.
There can be no neutral ground there can be. no
rempori/injr. or compromising with error, let it come UL
'whatever irarb it will.
'We are warned that in the last days these i
prophets will come, and, if -possible, deceive the very
(Orel.
We are warned that the devil will come as an an^-K
of li<rht. to do many wonderful things.
AYhat attitude are we to take toward these move-
ments ?
"Kor many deceivers are entered into the world, '
''warns St, -John, "who confess not that -Jesus Christ ha.s
come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an anti-ehrisr
If there come any unto you and brini* not this doctrine,
receive him- not "into your house, neither bid him (i(j
speed, for he that biddeth him, (tod speed is partake:
of his evil deeds."
.There is no ground here on which to plead ignorance
no <r rou lid. for a compromise ! . .
. To stand indifferently by,, or t(.) weicome those who
are spreading broadcast false theories, is to become .-?>.
silent, responsible part of this disastrous propaganda-
an unconscious enemy of the truth.
. But, the question, arises/ do. these -movements, namely,
Mormonism, Eddyism, and Ivussellism, make a direct, -or
indirect attack on the fundamentals of the Holy book?
They say "no," and we sa:y "yes," and it is bectiux-
.ol this hopeless disagreement, Itetween those who- father
these movements, and the organized, -accepted church: of
('hrist, that \ve lay before our readers the dangers oi:
t : hese mo\-(!me,nts dangers, as we see them.
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TALK NUMBER ONE
IN our introductory, we undertook to outline something
of what we sought to do in publishing this series.
To be true, the Adventist may think so.
While we are yet dealing with matters in general, a
further word of explanation may not be amiss:
All church movements could be classed under the gen-
eral head of "Isms," should one seek to so class them.
Certainly, it would be very proper to speak of Method-
ism, Congregationalism, Presbyterianism, etc.
In a certain city, a very Godly man came to me with
the request that I include "Seventh-Day Advent ism" in
this series announced for review, and seemed incredulous
when I told him the Church of Jesus Christ had no fight
tn make on "Seventh-Day Adventism. "
There are no fundamental grounds of disagreement
between the organized church -of Christ and the
' ' Seventh-Day Adventist. ' '
The Adventist believes that all other conditions being
met our salvation, or damnation hinges on the day we
observe as the "holy 11 day.
According to the Adventist schedule, the train must
slop on Saturday, instead of Sunday; and fearlessly, and
mdefatigably, he works to save the human family from
the eternal catastrophe toward which it sweeps through
a failure to keep Saturday as the Holy Day.
On all the cardinal doctrines of the Bible the Mira-
culous Conception, -and the Virgin Birth, the Crueifixon,
Resurrection and Ascension, the Deity of Christ, the
Atonement of Christ, and the Second Coming, the Per-
sonality of the Holy Spirit, and the Infallible Bible, the
Seventh-Day Adventist rings as true as steel.
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He may disagree, profoundly so, on a great many dif-
ferent angles of these different lines of teaching but in
the essential parts, he stands with the organized Church
of Jesus Christ.
Now, what is true of Seventh-Day Adventism is true
of many other religious movements, that some folks
would consider deserving a place in such a series as this.
There should be no conflict between religions move-
ments, organized, or unorganized, that seek to be out
fight and downright loyal to the great overshadowing
facts of oivr holy religion.
When you walk up in the presence of Mormonism,
Eddyism and Russellism, you walk up into the presence.
of that which has strange theories to present strange
doctrines to promulgate, all but literally, a "new" GoJ
to worship.
80 radical is the teaching of these movements, that
whichever one you become identified with, you must turn
from the church of your saintly or sainted father and
mother, to renounce and denounce it, and to enter it no
more.
Between such movements as these and the organized
church of Christ there can be no neutral grounds.
If these movements are right any one of them the
church is wrong, God-forsaken and headed for hell, and
the fight these "isms'' are making on the organize*]
church should be kept up, with ever increasing power,
until the whole organized church is a hopeless bankrupt,
loaded, bag and baggage, and tagged for the eternal
scrap heap.
On the other hand, if the church of Christ, with all
her weaknesses, inconsistencies and sins, remains true to
the commission of Christ, and is. God's channel of truth
to this and all ages, then the church must lift her banners
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and declare war against every movement that seeks to
hinder, or destroy her.
THE LAST DAYS
These movements, namely: Morrnonisin, Eddyism and
Russellism, are the outeroppings of the 19th century.
What this 20th century will bring forth, none are far-
sighted enough to definitely predict, but it is a pretty
safe venture, that unless Jesus Christ shall come, the 20th
century will hardly surpass the all but incomparable
record of the 19th.
The 19th century is gone, soon to become a speck in
God's great urn of history, but its fruits abide some to
blefcs, and some to curse.
Side by side with deeper revelations of truth, there
always run the most subtle combinations of falsehood.
With whatever of blessing the 19th century radiates
out to the fartherest reaches of human existence, and
these blessings cannot be overestimated the 19th cen-
tury also produced more than its share of fads and fakes,
that linger, to harm and to hurt.
In the world of religions, the 19th century surpassed
all records, passing over to the 20th century certain
movements that, in a few years, have all but become
world known, and all but world recognized.
Multitudes of devout souls believe we are living hi
the last days.
Europe is bathed in blood, with millions dead and
other millions dying.
The other nations of the world are calling, "To arms!
To arms ! ? '
We have had volcanic eruptions, floods, earthquakes.
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lires, railroad, mine, and steamship disasters, until the
mind reels and the heart is sick.
There has come a great falling away in the church.
Men, who, a few years ago, were preaching an ''in-
fallible Bible,'' a "topless heaven,'' and a bottomless
hell/' a day of final accounting, and "one way" of
escape, and that through the "cleansing blood "-
preaching with soul afire and with judgment-day cer-
tainty and earnestness are now apologetically and
tragically preaching an "uncertain God," a %k fallible
Bible," and a "human Christ."
A far-reaching apostasy is on through the church
world, and every possible effort is being made to pad the
church records to keep them from showing an appalling
loss in membership.
These conditions have offered the most attractive fields
imaginable for every conceivable religious fake.
The foundations are being shaken, and amidst this
great upheaval, and this world-wide unrest, men and
women are turning to whatever religion offers the largest
bonus, or the most beautiful prize.
These last cataclysmic days were to be ushered in with
the coming of "false prophets," and confusion was to
be added to greater confusion, through the fact that
light would be denounced as darkness and darkness be
accepted as light, and everywhere good would be evil
spoken of, and evil- would be eventually crowned and
robed.
Are the last days upon us?
Some profess to be able to see the veil that swings
between the seen and unseen, already beginning to sway
with the coming of Christ !
Satan is here, in every conceivable religious form, to
blind and deceive clothed in the livery of heaven and
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using the language of the church, he parades as an
angel of light.
Never since the world began its long SAving through
space has there been as many "Isms" ami Avith such.
power as today.
Organized, capitalized and supevnatiirally energized
snpernaturally energized from belo\v, Ave believe these
religions sweep the land.
Multitudes are renouncing the faith of their fathers to
take up with these disastrous extremes, in religions, .just
as multitudes of Avomen are renouncing modesty and
decency, to take up with every conceivable extreme in
immodest and immoral dress.
SOME GENERAL FACTS
In reviewing these cults we lun'e purposely placed
them in the order of their ages.
The Christian Scientist probably thinks this is placing
age before beauty, but age must be reverenced. Avher.>
reverence can be giA'en, and where reverence cannot be
given, then deference must be shown.
Because of the worlds of material facts and figures.
that naturally seek a place in such a revieAv as this w n
must condense to the minimum, or eliminate entirely, any
extensive, or extended review of the origination of the
movements, or any interesting episodes having to do Avith
the early days of their founders. These general facts
seem necessary.
Mor monism.
In 1830 the Book of Mormon Avas published, ami in
April of that same year the Mormon church Avas organ-
ized, with six members.
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This organization saw the light of day in Fayette,
Seneca county, New York.
Whether this should be held against Seneca county, we
will not Ifere undertake to say.
This movement was given the euphonious and rather
exclusive title of, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints."
In 1835 twelve apostles were selected and a system in-
augurated that included the "priesthood/'
In the center of this apostleship, or priesthood, and
towering high over all, stood the domineering, driving,
Mormon head, Joseph Smith.
Friend Joseph claimed for himself nothing more nor
nothing less than that of being God's mouthpiece oc-
cupying the place "of an endless priesthood'' and stand-
ing "as God, to give laws to the people."
The Mormon movement centralizes and focalizes about
its "special revelation" the "Book of Mormon" and,
as a movement, it claims to be God's truth to this day
day and age.
Eddyism.
Eddyisin is the next oldest of these isms.
Bddyism was launched in 1875, and Mrs. Eddy, like
the self -elected head of Mormonism, by special revelation,
had herself appointed the ruling head of "Eddyism."
While Eddyism, like Mormonism, was given a form of
organization, with boards, officers, and offices, yet, in the
actual management of the affairs of this newer religious
movement, Mrs. Eddy sat with authority unquestioned.
There has never been a movement launched in the re-
ligious world, with all the outward forms of an organ-
ization, where every law, and rule, and work, and
worshiper, became the submissive servant of one dicta-
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torial, jealous, suspecious, domineering head, as in that
which the ''Scientist' 7 so-called, lived, moved and had
his being, during the days of Mrs. Eddy!
Like Joseph Smith, Mrs. Eddy assumed the modest
(???) position of becoming God's mouthpiece, speaking
(jod's special truth to this age.
Eddyism, like Mormonism, has its book.
The first copy of "Science and Health, With a Key to
the Scriptures," appeared in 1875, and around this
special revelation, was an ordinary mortal, engaged iii
cluster. This book becomes the Christian Scientist's text
book here is to be found the condensed, Simon-pure
truth of these last days "Simon pure, or Simon
Simple!"
Russellism.
o
Russellism is the youngest of this trio, and in some
respects, the most decent.
This movement was launched in 1886, and Mr, Charles
Taz Russell became the proud founder owner and man-
ager of this, to some, very popular religion.
Charles Taz, like Josephus and Sister Mary, before
stepping into the world's limelight, as a bearer of a
special revelation, was an ordinary mortal, engaged in
the ordinary tasks of life.
In turning from ordinary pursuits, to make his debut
into the religious world, he took upon himself the honored
title of "pastor/' though it was claimed that at that
time he had neither church, church bell, or song-book.
Like Mormonism and Eddyism, Russellism centers back
into "its" special revelation its key to the scriptures.
These books were written by Charles Taz and first ap-
peared in three volumes called "Millennial Dawn," but
later, we believe, these books were bound into six vol-
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limes, and given the very modest and very misleading
title of. ''Studies in the Scripture."
Unlike Mormonism and Eddyisin, Russellism. like the
proverbial flea, is inclined to be transitory in operation
and difficult of apprehension in so far as its operations
r.re concerned.
Russellism appears from a great many different sources
and under a do/en or 'more different heads, and it is with
difficulty the church keeps alongside of its rapid shifts
and changing guises.
THEIR NUMBERS
( 'onsidering the number of years these different re-
ligious cults have been before the public, it is probable
that they have won about an e<[iial number, of adherents.
Mormonism lias shown a tendency to he clannish, and
has swarmed about , Sail Lake City, and overflown the
cities and states adjacent thereto.
Certain western states are owned, snout and tail, beak
and talons, hide, hair, horns and hoofs, by the Mormon
church,
The Mormons have their missionaries out across the
nations of the world, and are seeking here and there to
v'oloni/e and organi/e.
Eddyism, like a bad case of the society itch, has run
fast and thick through certain circles of the church and
community life.
There is no question, but what, considered from out-
side appearances, the Christian Scientist has a religion,
compared with these other "isms," that becomes a
* 'flower garden" in the center of a vast desolation!
When it comes to the attractiveness of its
pectus," and the "fluency of speech" characteristi
its agents, Christian Science has these other cults knocked
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in the head, scalded, scraped, cleaned, cut, aud cured. -
In this great religious " bazaar/' over which his ma-
jesty presides, most of the "shoppers" crowd around -the
Christian Science booth.
Many men, and some women, take to Christian Science,
so-called, just like ducks take to water, or just like some
children take to freckles and mud.
Eddyism, like Mormonism, has its missionaries -'far-
flung:, and seeks to win the world to its standard.
Rubsellisin, in so far as churches are concerned, is. the
less conspicuous of the three.
Mr. Russell does not go so much 011 building as on
publicity.
By paid space in newspapers, magazines, and bill
boards by cards, leaflets, circulars, ""booklets and books,
his theories are covering the earth.
Like the plague of lice, in the land of Egypt, try as you
may, you cannot get away from his gush and slush.
Like Mormonism and Eddyism, Russellism, too, has its
workers in all lands, or is rushing them there, and the
world at large the civilized reading world is coming
to know something about "Pastor" Russell.
It would be all but impossible to secure anything like
an accurate statement of the numbers definitely march-
ing in these three armies.
Considering their ages, occupations and "previous
condition of servitude," it is probable that they are hold-
ing each other about neck and neck in their campaign for
recruits.
One day, while studying these movements, their origi-
nation, manipulation, teachings and tendencies, it came
like a flash, that while these religions are the antipodes
of the religious world kopelessly irreconcilable, in that
there is not one fundamental doctrine on which they
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agree yet these movements are identical in every other
essential particular.
It seems, if these movements had been launched by one
wise head, and that wise head had made definite effort to
launeh three movements as wide apart as possible in
every other instance, he could not. have better done the
job.
Mormonism, Eddyism, and Russellism arc identical, in
that:
1st. Each claims to be God's truth to this age.
2nd. Each has its "special revelation." around which
its work and workers cluster.
3rd. Each appeals to a special, distinct class.
4th. Each flows from a very, very questionable source.
5th. Each was founded by men. or women, whose
reputations have been questioned.
6th. Each offers a special bonus, or prize.
7th. Each made its founder, or founders, wealthy.
8th. Each makes an attack on the deity of Christ.
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TALK NUMBER TWO
THE Mormonite would doubtless object, most stren-
uously, to any sort of a classification, that would
link him up with the Eddyite, or the Russellite.
The Eddyite, we know, takes serious exceptions to any
intimation that he belongs to the same breed that the
Mormonite and the Russellite belongs to.
The Russellite, likewise, begs to be excused, when we
suggest that lie take marching position with these other
< ; ults. Despite the earnest, and sometimes heated protest,
made by these religionists, that they have nothing in
common with these other cults, stripped of their doctrinal
differences, they stand in every underlying fact of their
existence enough alike to be triplets.
In origination, manipulation, and doctrinal agglomera-
tion, they are of the same feather crowing, or "cluck-
ing' 7 alike, scratching alike, roosting alike, and eating
alike.
One cannot spend much time ambling through the
''fowl" yards of these noisy religious broods and breeds,
without coming to the conclusion that these three
chickens namely, Mormonism, Eddyism and Russellism,
are from the same nest, and hatched by the same old hen.
It might be suggested, however, that a review of some
of oui' church organizations might bring forth this same*
striking similarity.
This is true, and true in the most wonderful way.
Fact is, whatever of difference there may be between
the organ ixed Protestant churches is wholly a surface
difference.
On the matter of form and ceremony, rites and sym-
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bols. then 1 would be inure or loss of confusion and de-
bate: but the further you go back in the matter of
division amongst the churches, the less conspicuous do
those divisions become.
On the surface of things, the churches of J'esus Christ
are divided, and in that regard are unlike ; but when
you go back to the great pillars that hold up the vast
structure of the Christian hope and faith, there is no
difference there.
On non-essentials, there may be differences of opinion
amongst the Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and the
Methodists, as well as all other evangelical church bodies,
but in the great essentials they stand absolutely agreed.
No one of these churches can claim to be God's special
and exclusive channel of blessing to the world.
No one of these churches professes to have the "origi-
nal key" to the Scriptures, without which we flounder
and founder, unsuccored, and unsolved, and unsaved.
The great, organized church of Christ, though under-
many heads, stands hand in hand about Jesus of Naza-
reth, singing, ''Blest be the Tie That Binds Our Hearts
in Christian Love."
With Mormonism, or Eddy ism, or Russellism, it is a
"new" movement, under a "new" management, an-
nouncing a "new" theory a theory so radical, and so
revolutionary, that if this "new" idea is the correct idea
God's revealed truth then it stands as the plainest
sort of a fact, that for centuries the organized church
has been a cheat, and a swindle, and a lie.
Does any sane man believe that God's truth has been
lost to the world, for the ages past, and that humanity
lias had to stumble its way through unlighted darkness
to death, waiting for a Joseph Smith, or a Mary Baker
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Eddy, or a ('has. Taz Russell, to come with his, or her,
badly written "Key?"
Mormonites say, "Yes."
Eddyites say, "Yes."
Russellites say, "Yes."
And yet. if one has the sure-enough "key." the other
two have a "brass" imitation, and this brass imitation
opens some other door than the one that swings into
heaven.
In the event that one has the truth, and the church
is a swindle, then which of the three lias the truth?
THEIR DISTINCT FIELDS
However skeptical one may be eom-erning the Bible.
an honest reading will force one to the conclusion that
he stands in the presence of a single structure, the com-
pleted work of some one master mind God.
So. too, with these religions no man. however partial
or loyal he may become to either of these movements, can
sit down and review these cults, review them honestly.
and fearlessly, and fully without being driven to the
conclusion, however reluctant he may be in reaching such
a conclusion, that back of Mormonism, and Eddyisin, and
Russellism, there is one scheming, designing, destructive
head the devil.
Men and women who are not acquainted with any of
the facts to which I refer, may feel that this is an un-
waranted assumption, or a biased and un-Christian
charge.
We have passingly referred to certain striking points
of similarity between these movements, and now we wish
to take up these points definitely and at length.
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We will point out some of the less conspicuous and
less damaging: first.
These movements are alike, in that each seems specially
designed for a certain field and for a certain class.
JVlormonism has always flourished best and spread
fastest amongst the ignorant millions of the races.
Salt Lake City, in particular, and the whole Mormon-
dom in general, is just now passing through the greatest
upheaval of its history, and all because light is break-
ing in. The younger generation of Mormons are begin-
ning to examine the foundations of their faith, and they
are finding unquestioned evidences of -shocking fraud.
Wherever light and knowledge go, there Mormonisru
cannot go. With its peculiar appeals, Mormonism be-
comes specially attractive to the religiously inclined, un-
lettered and unthinking multitudes of the race.
Eddy ism swings to the other extreme, and makes its
appeal, almost wholly, to those who have a degree of
learning and a measure of refinement.
Amongst the idle classes, and especially those who de-
sire a religion that carries with it a great deal of show,
but which requires no self denial, Christian Science runs
riot.
Los Angeles is the greatest Christian Science city in
the world, and largely because Los Angeles has more
men and women of wealth and idleness than any city in
the world.
Multitudes of men and women in Southern California
have nothing to do but look up some new "thing" in the
world of religions, and every religious movement that
was ever conceived, or launched, can find some adherents
in Southern California.
Mormonism does not specially flourish in these sun-
kissed cities by the great Pacific, but Eddyism and
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sellism art- adding to their ranks with every pacing day.
Russellism seems specially designed to fit in between
these other two extremes.
Amongst the Russellites, you will find the folk have
been gathered almost wholly from amongst the middle
classes.
In either of these movements you will find the excep
tioiivS some wise amongst the Mormons, and some ignor-
ant amongst the Eddyites, and a few of either extreme
amongst the Russellites; but these exceptions only prove
the general rule.
If the devil had called all his imps in solemn assembly,
and days and days had been spent in planning and
launching three fake religions, with a view of occupying
the whole field, satanie cunning the united wisdom of
hell, centralized and focalized on this one thing, could
not have conceived three movements better adapted for
the whole field, than Mormonism, Eddy ism, and Russell-
ism.
The more one studies them and their adaptation to a
definite end, the more one marvels at the completeness
with which thev cover the field.
EACH GOD'S VOICE
' ' The prophecy came not in old time by the will of men,
but Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the
Holy Ghost."
These holy men of God became the mouthpiece of God,
and their message bore the stamp of the infallible and
the imperishable truth.
These holy men lived and wrought in the constructive,
or creative periods of Old Testament prophecies and
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New Testament fullrillment.
These men were "holy nx'n of (iod. ' St. Peter says.
and they all spoke 1h' 4 language of lieaven. and their
words abide today, and will abide while ceaseless ages
roll.
Ill those days, as now, there were the '"other" voices,
the voices that claimed divine direction and divine sanc-
tion.- -imitation prophets, who prophesied lies, and who
sought to lead the people from the paths which Gbd had
made for their feet.
These other voices are heard in the land, today, in ever
increasing numbers and with ever increasing volume,
until many a perplexed, doubt-laden and sin-cursed soul.
knows not which way to turn, or what voice to heed.
According to the plainly written word of Hod. (iod s
plans, begun before the foundations of the earth were
laid, reached their highest perfection at the cross of
Calvary, and Clod's revelations, in so far as the salvation
of the world is concerned, were (dosed there.
"God who at sundry times and in divers manners,
spake, in times past, unto the fathers by the prophets,
hath, in these last days, spoken unto us by His Son.'' and
when God spoke, through Jesus Christ at the Cross, and
followed the "opening of the Fountain filled with blood,"
with the opening of heaven for the outpouring of the
TToly Spirit, everything was done that heaven could
do, to save the human family from the far-reaching
disasters of the fall.
Morinonisni comes along and teaches thai (iod still
has revelations to make, and that "it" is the exclusive
channel through which God makes these revelations to
these last days.
Kddyism conies along and teaches that (iod still has
some revelations to make, and that ''it" is the exclusive
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channel through which God makes tliese revelations to
these last days.
Russellism eomes along aud teaches that God still has
some revelations to make, and that "it" is the exclusive
channel through which God makes these revelations to
these last days.
Now, while each professes to be the "voice of God"
to these last days, and are similar in that regard, yet
there is no more similarity in the "songs they sing," or
the prophecy they bring than there is similarity in the
bray of a mule and the plaintive bleat of a billy goat.
It just so happened, that in a certain western city, at
the close of one of these talks on the "isms," a special
guide, from each of these vagaries, lingered, to teach me
the "ways of the Lord more perfectly."
This"" would not happen again, possibly, in a life time.
One did not know that the others were lingering, to
bolster up his or her religious hobby.
I spent an interesting and surprising hour, in going
over, to them, controvertible points in discourse.
The Mormon elder, or missionary, was as confident that
ihe Mormon world had the "true key" to the kingdom
of heaven, as I was confident that they had not.
The Eddyite a fine woman insisted that she had
never understood her Bible until she got hold of the
Eddyites' key, and then,_ lo ! all was as clear as the noon
day sun.
The Russellite, likewise, had stumbled about in a hope-
less, despairing way, until at last, "heaven be praised,"
he chanced onto Chas. Taz Russell's six- volume key, and
"hell was gone," and "a second chance was given."
Did each have the truth?
Impossible !
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EACH HAS ITS BOOK
The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is one book.
While the Bible has its sixty-six books, the whole links
into one unbroken chain of sixty-six links.
The Bible opens witli the fall and the promise of the
Restorer. Down through all the books of the Old Testa-
ment there runs the scarlet thread the blood of Jesus
Christ, for sinners shed. When the fullness of time had
come, the manger-cradle received the promised King.
At Calvary the fountain was opened, and following the
crucifixion and the resurrection, there came the ascension
of Christ and the ushering in of the dispensation of the
Holy Spirit.
At Calvary God provided the way.
At Calvary Jesus Christ opened the way.
At Calvary the Holy Spirit shows men the way.
The last books of the Book of Books, have to do, main-
ly, with Christ's return ; and the whole ends with a mag-
nificent picture of the new heavens and the new earth.
The Bible is a complete book the revelation is a closed
revel at .ion.
All that is needed to save the nations of the world is
found there; any added line, or verse, or chapter, would
be a superfluity.
Lest designing men and women would dare lay their
unholy hands on that which God has rounded out and
completed, the flaming sword of warning is found al ihe
closing chapter :
"If any man shall take away from the words of the
book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out
of the tree of life. "
Then there comes the solemn words, iirsi uiven. and
the words that men need to heed, todav. "If any man
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shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the
lagues written in this book."
Along come* Mormonism with its books, "The Book of
Mormon," and "The Book of the Covenants," aud these
books are placed alongside the Bible, and for these spuri-
ous, cheap imitations, equal authority is claimed, and
where there is conflict of teaching, the world is asked to
believe that this Mormon word is (Tod's final utterance
to the race.
Mormonism substitutes for the Bible.
(In a later study we will take up, at length, the
revelation that is just now stirring Mormonism to its
foundations, the revelation that one of the sacred books
of the Mormon hierarchy has recently been proven a
swindle of the most bra/en and damnable sort.)
Along comes Eddyism and lays alongside the Bible its
substitute. "Science and Health With a Key to the
Scriptures," contains God's latest truth to the age, and
where there is any conflict between these newest revela-
tions and the Holy Book, we are to believe that the new-
est revelation contains God's "corrected'' ideas and
plans. Go into a Christian Science service and you will
find that the "First Reader" reads from Science and
Health, and the "Second Reader" reads from the Bible.
The "First Reader" has his name published in the
< 'rhistian Science literature of the nation, but the
^'Second Reader" is not mentioned.
Go into the Mother church, Boston, and you will find
the words of "Ma" Eddy just a little more conspicuously
chiseled' on brick, or stone, than the words of Jesus
Christ.
This conglomerate, ludicrous mess of disjointed gibber-
ings, in the Christian Science Temple and the Christian
Science scheme, takes the chief place.
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Christian Science substitutes for the Bible.
Along comes Russellism, with its books., which like
Mormonism and Eddy ism. are placed alongside the Holy
Book.
For "Millennial Dawn/' or the "Divine Plan of the
A <i:es." or "Studies in The Scriptures." these beine;
some of the titles under which the Russell works are
kiowu. Mr. Russeirs .official organ says: <% If the six
volumes of Scripture Studies are practically the Bible.,
topically arranged, with Bible proof texts given, we
might not improperly name the volumes 'The Bible in an
Arranged Form/ That Is to say, they are not mere
comments on the Bible, but they are practically the
Bible, itself. Furthermore, not only do we find that peo-
ple cannot see the divine plan by studying the Bible by
itself, but we see also, that if anyone lays the "Scripture
Studies" aside, even after he has used them, after h*
has become familiar with them, after he has read them
for ten years if he then lays them aside and ignores
them and goes to the Bible alone, though he. has under-
stood his Bible for ten years, ,our experience shows that
within two years he goes into darkness. On the other
hand, if he had merely read the " Scripture Studies 1 '
with their references, and had not read a page of the
Bible, as such, he would be in the light at the end of two
years, because he would have the light of the Scrip-
tures. 1 "
. Jesus Christ says the revelation is a closed, revelation,
and warns meddlers, and schemers, and sceptics, and
fools, that any attempt to add to or take from, means
that the most fearful judgments shall be visited upon
such tamper ers or such knaves.
t Mormonism says Christ is a liar, and "it." not Christ,
has the final word for .the human family.
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Eddyism says Christ is a liar, and "it." not C
the final word for 1 1n- human family.
Kusseilism makes. Christ a liar, for he taught that t!i-
\\-ay v.-as so plain that fools need not err. and if there wa>
a lack of understanding, the Holy Spirit was to iruide into
all truth, bur Russellism has the eiTrontery. the bra/en
ardacity. to announce to the world that without this cer-
tain Russell exposition, the truth cannot be known, and
that only by its continued companionship can one have
fellowship with Cod and life in His dear Son.
Our readers will see a<rain. how strikingly and damn-
ably similar these movements arc. in that each tries to
lead the human family off after its cheap imitation, or
cheaper complication, and so-called exposition, of tin-
Book of Books.
But we have only be.u'un a review 'of the striking simi-
larities T.f "these threr cults!
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TALK NUMBER THREE
THE DEITY OF CHRIST
IN an ancient legend, St. Martin is described as sitting,
one day, in his monastery cell, studying, when, on a
sudden, he heard a knock at the door.
4 'Enter." was the response of the monk.
The door opened and a stranger, attired as a prim-r.
entered.
"Who art thou?" inquired St. Martin.
"I am Christ,'' was the stranger's reply.
The sage old monk sat for some seconds in deep medi-
tation, undisturbed and unawed by this bold declaration.
At last, St. Martin arose, and approaching the stranger,
he asked, "Where are the prints of the nails?"
The infallible sign of the true Christ was lacking, and
St. Martin knew the man was an imposter and a fraud.
This is a day of many Christs !
We have the Christ of Christian Science, and the
Christ of Mormonism, and the Christ of Russell ism, and
the Christ of Theosophy, and the Christ of the New
Theology, and the Christ of Sociology, and the Christ of
New Thought, with a score more or less of other
Christs who stand knocking at our doors.
Nothing will expose the sham, and the cheat, and the
swindle, of the imposters quite so surely and quite so
effectively, as to demand of these pretenders the "marks
of the nails" "the wounded side" "the open foun-
tain."
There is no fact that has to do with man's destiny that
the devil and his cohorts hate as the fact of the Deity of
Christ and the fountain filled with blood.
Each of these religions, in turn, will parade before you
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its Christ, but n Christ that lacks the necessary creden-
tials.
The religious cults of America, so far as we have been
able to investigate, either directly, or indirectly, make
an attack 011 the deity of Christ, or on the meaning of
His Cross.
One of two things the devil has ever sought to do,
and that is, either to rob Christ of His deity, and thus
cheapen the sacrifice of Calvary, or else to make the
Atonement cover all people, everywhere, without excep-
tion, or without qualification on the part of men.
How successful he has been in these attempts one can
easily guess, when one looks about at the multitudes of
men and women who are turning from the Protestant
churches to these religious fads and fakes fads and
fakes that thus cheapen the work of the cross, or that
preach and teach a universal redemption.
When you drive the pick of your investigation into the
heart of Mormon ism, or into the heart of Eddy ism, or into
the heart of Russellism, seeking to know their attitude
toward this one fundamental doctrine of our holy re-
ligion, you will find that you have uncovered the most
damnably dangerous fact of these fake religions.
Each, in turn, presents a Christ that Christendom does
riot know and a Christ that Christendom can never,
never, never, receive.
These religions are alike, in that each appeals to a
distinct class.
These religions are alike, in that each claims to be
fjod'.s voice to this age.
These religions are alike, in 'that each substitutes for
the Bible.
These religions are alike, in that each makes a direct,
ci?- indirect, attack on the deity of Christ, and each seeks
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1<> eit her cheapen the work of the cross, making it a
human sacrifice, and only that, -or else seeks to make > the
work of the cross cover the whole of the raee. without
conditions or qualification,
When yon rob Christ of His deity, or rob the cros> of
its power, you pull from under the Christian religion its
central props- you take from the nut its kernel, anr
there is nothing left but the empty, meaningless hull.
Several years a^o, llolman Hunt painted a wonderful
picture of the Christ in the carpenter shop.
About Him were the saws. axes, hammers, and nea?
by was the carpenter's bench.
The picture -represents CJirist as rising from His. work,
to wearily stretch His arms, as one does when rising fron.
a cramped position. The. lijyht is so arranged that a>
Christ thus stands with outstretched arms, His body and
His arms throw a picture of the cross on the wall.
Apart from the cross there is no redemption, for " with-
out the shedding of blood ther. is no remission of sins."
If ever there was a time when, men and wome.n q
to ask for the "print of the nails," it is now, for tin
world is overrun with imitation Christs, used by desicrn-
iiij: men and women- to. exploit the race.
-.Over all must lumr the picture of the cross.
MORMONISM VERSUS CHRIST AND THE BIBLE
In rrvinjr to the reading public some of the striking
similarities of these three religions, Mormonism, Eddy-
ism,' and Russell ism, we would lay special emphasis on
the fact that each, in turn, does violence to the New
Testament teachings concerning the Christ. Mormonism,
like Kddyism. and Ilussellism. appropriates to itse*lf
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Christian phraseology and church forms, but practically
denies every fundamental doctrine of the Holy Word.
To give our readers some idea of Mormon teaching,
as we shall seek to give some idea of Eddyism, and
Russellism, let us ponder these facts :
Mormonism would teach the world that there are
gods many.
Mormonism teaches that Adam is the god of this world.
Mormonism teaches that Adam had many wives Eve
was but one of the many.
Mormonism teaches that these many gods were once
TIT en, as^ve are now.
Mormonism teaches that, as men, we may become what
these gods are now.
Mormonism teaches that these gods have been exalted
to their high estate through faithfulness and "fruitful-
ness" here, and that faithfulness and "fruitfulness"
are the sure steps toward a throne for ns.
Mormonism teaches that these many wives, plural
wives, with their progeny', are to constitute the "king-
dom" over which these "faithful" men are to reign.
Woman's welfare depends on her being united to one
of the "faithful."
Mormonism teaches that on the other side we are to
retain our human form and functions, and that the
relationships entered into here between these husbands
and their many wives, are to be continued through
eternity.
The Mormon heaven is a heaven in which carnality pu<l
M-nsuality are sanctified rnd jrloriO.
Mormonism teaches that in the other world there an*
different realms, or spheres, or .states and conditions.
Mormonism divides these different realms into the ter-
restrial, celestial and telestial.
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Mormonism teaches that to die unbapti/.ed by Mormou-
dom is to be lost, unless your loved ones are thoughtful
enough to have the job done for you. Should they be-
come your proxy and pass through certain forms and
ceremonies, there is a possibility that you will manage,
somehow, to pull through.
Mormondom teaches that there are certain sins that.
Ood, Himself, cannot forgive, and that when these sins
are committed there is only one avenue of escape, and
that is by human sacrifice.
Mormonism teaches, or has taught, that you are loving
your friends as Christ taught you to love them, if yon
take these friends who have thus sinned, and shed their
blood; that "the smoke thereof might ascend to God,"
as an offering to appease the wrath that is kindled against
them.
Students of history, of course, recognize in this human
sacrifice teach inc* of Mormondom, the identical teaching
nf ancient Moloch, when men were sacrificed to appease
the wrath of their god.
Mormonism has its own absurd ideas concerning the
return of our Lord.
According to Mormonism. Christ will come and gather
together Israel, including the ten tribes of the Latter Day
Saints of Mormondom, and when He thus comes t.hp
enemies of the "Saints" are to be destroyed.
Mormonism teaches that Christ was the son of poly-
gamous parents.
Mormonism teaches that Christ was not conceived by
the Holy Ghost.
Mormonism teaches that Christ, himself, was a poly-
gamist, that Martha and Mary were His wives, and from
these and other wives he had children.
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Mormonisin teaches that Christ's death on the Cros>
had nothing, whatever, to do with our sins, but had to
do with the sins of Adam.
Mormonism teaches that to get rid of sins, you must
work out your salvation through the teachings, and
forms, and ordinances, of the Mormon church.
Such a religious system, with such astounding, silly
rheories, it seems, would need no refutation and no de-
nunciation, but this crude and lewd humbug is gathering
in dupes by the multiplied thousands.
Mormonism denies the deity of Christ and robs the
Cross of its meaning and power.
The Mormon Christ lacks the "nail prints."
EDDYISM VERSUS CHRIST AND THE BIBLE
In alt- the wide world of literature there is not to be
found such a conglomerate mess of irreconcilable, incon-
sistent, incomprehensive, inconsequential twaddle as that
which is bound up between the covers of that much dis-
cussed book called "Science and Health."
Mrs. Eddy's claims to inspiration are disproved, beyond
cavil, by her own teachings!
She teaches that God is mind and yet without per-
sonality.
Mind, apart from personality, is an absurdity.
She teaches that God has no knowledge of evil, and
then teaches that God inspired her to teach the "moral
mind" theory as an explanation of the existence of evil.
It stands without argument, that God could not have
inspired her to teach a theory about something that He
had no knowledge.
Christian Science teaches that God is not a person, but
a principle, and we are the reflection of that principle.
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Christian Science teaches that the Bible is no more
inspired than the History of England, or of the United
States.
Christian Science teaches that heaven is not a place.
Christian Science teaches that Jesus Christ did not
come in the flesh.
Christian Science teaches that the devil is not a
person.
Christian Science teaches that sin and sinner, alike, are
nothing-ness.
Christian Science teaches that sin is not forgiven.
Christian Science teaches ns that there is 110 day of
final accounting, and no topless heaven, and no bottom-
less hell.
Christian Science teaches that "it" is the "gift" -of
the Holy Ghost.
Christian Science teaches that "it" is the second eom-
jiig of Christ.
Christian Science teaches us that Christ did not die for
the sins of the people, but He died as an example of per-
fect love.
According to Christian Science, there is no sin to be
atoned for, and no need for a ransom to be paid; there-
fore, we are told that the Atonement is the ''exemplifi-
cation of man's unity with God."
"Science and Health" is shot through ai'd through
with the most shocking blasphemy, a sample of which is
found in such declarationsas this: "The true Logos ; s
denmnstrably Christian Science."
If this were true, then the first verse of the gospel by
St. John would read: "In the beginning was Christian
Science, and Christian Science was with God, and
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Christum Science, and without Christian Science was
not anything ma<le that was made."
This blasphemy is not niatelied by the claims that
Christian Science is the gii't of the Holy Spirit and the
second coming of Christ.
If Christian Science is the return of our Lord, then lie
has sadly changed since He went away.
When he was amongst the .Judean hills, in the long-,
long ago, he opened blinded eyes, unstopped deal pat's,
cleansed the leper, healed the lame, and raised the dead,
and with a word, and always without money and wit hoi:
price.
If this hodge-podge and hocus-pocus is Christ re-
turned to earth, then He lias returned as a manipulator
and a money-changer, and the saddest and most tragic,
of failures.
Mornfonism, Kddyism. and Kussellism stand side by
by side as the three most shocking and most bra/rnly
audacious blasphemers of the religious world.
If Christian Science would be honest with the world.
and tell it plainly just what it did believe concerning
Christ's death on the Cross, it would express itself after
this fashion:
"Mortal mind (that never existed) thought thoughts
of evil that were never thought, and did deeds of evil
that were never done, and an impersonal mind, called
Cod. sent to this material world (that never existed) a
living manifestationof Himself, in a material body (that
never existed), that He might be the way-shower, direct-
ing the minds of men (which never had any existence
apart from the one mind, Cod) how to overcome evil
(which never had any existence and of which God had
no knowledge). This living manifestation of God was
known as Jesus Christ. After He had lived in a material
Christian Science was Cod. All things were made bv
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body (which never existed) for more than thirty three
years. Ho was arrested, tried and crowned with thorns
(that never existed), and whipped witli a scourge (that
never existed), and was nailed to a Cross (that never
existed), where Jle died a death which lie did not die.
He was buried in a tomb (that, never existed), and there
in the tomb lie practiced Christian Science and healed
Himself of unreal wounds in his unreal body, which he
had received in His unreal death, lie arose, passed
through some sort of an ascension, and was rejoined to
the one impersonal mind from which lie had never
been separated.
Siicl) is a <i'ood analysis of Christian Science, so-called,
concerning Christ and His Cross.
If matter is non-existent, and sin and the sinner
nothingness, then certainly Christ did not die for the
sins of the people.
Christian Science denies the deity of Christ and the
power of His Cross.
RUSSELLISM VERSUS CHRIST AND THE BIBLE
Russell ism, unlike Mormonism and Eddy ism, teaches
that Christ did die for the sins of the people.
To those who are untaught in the deeper truths of the
Holy Hook, the conclusion is easily reached, that of all
teachers before the world today. "Pastor" Russell is the
most loyal to -Jesus Christ.
Fact is, there is not a religious fake in the wide world
that does j^reater dishonor to Jesus Christ.
Overlooking the general facts of His teachings, which,
as has been often said, are a combination of Cniversal-
ism. 1'nitarianism, Restoration, Second Probationism,
S\vedenbor<_rism, and Annihilat ionism. and approaching
37
the one particular truth just now up for serious consider-
ation, let us see what IJussellism teaches us concerning
our Lord.
To begin with, Russellism teaches us that Christ was
not (Jod, nor was He divine, before the crucifixion and
resurrection.
It teaches us that Christ was a created Spirit, and
that there was a time when He was not.
It. teaches that at the incarnation the %; spirit Christ"
became a man, and only a man.
It teaches us that when the man Christ Jesus walked
tin's earth lie was not divine.
It teaches us that at the crucifixion the man Christ
Jesus was annihilated.
It teaches us that His atonement was the atonement
of man nothing more than a human sacrifice.
He did not arise in the body in which lie died that
body did not rise at all, but was possibly dissolved into
gas,
The ''Man Christ 'Jesus'' no longer exists.
Jesus Christ is only a spirit being; now, but of an order
higher than the anrels.
This is the Christ of Russellism.
Mormonism teaches that Christ's death on the Cross
had nothing, whatever, to do with the sins of the people,
but only had to do with Adam's sin.
Eddyism teaches that Christ's death on the Cross had
nothing, whatever, to do with the sins of the people, but
lie died as an example of perfect love.
Russellism teaches that the Christ who died on the
Cross was only a spirit beinir, and that the man Christ
JesUs was annihilated, which constituted a human sacri-
fice, and only that, and the body of Christ did not rise.
but probably dissolved into iras.
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Mr. Russell teat-lies that Christ returned to earth as
a spirit in 1S74.
He teaches that the saints were raised uj> in 1^7>.
He teaches that both Christ and the saints are now on
earth, and have been since these dates named above.
He teaches that the Christian church, in all her
branches, was rejected of (Jod in 1S7S.
lie teaches, or did teach, that the final 'culmination
would come in October 1!)14.
\Vlien this time drew near, the "Pastor" announced
that the end would come as he predicted, but that there
might be no visible changes for the immediate present.
Russellism, like Mormonism, and Eddyism, is silent of
the personality and work of the Holy Spirit.
Russellism. like Mormonism teaches that there an 1
different levels of existence in the world to 'come, and
.that none will be eternally lost, on the last named point,
Eddyism, also, concurs.
Mormonism. Eddyism and Russellism. then, arc alike,
in that.
Each appeals to its distinct field!
Each claims to lie (lod's voice to this age!
Each substitutes its book or books for the Bible!
Each makes a direct, or indirect attack, on the deity
of Christ!
Mormonism claims it got its "key" from an angel.
Eddyism claims it got its ''key" from the "Supreme
Mind."
Russellism claims it got its "key" from the Bible.
St. Paul says: "Though we, or an angel from heaven,
preach any other gospel unto you than that which we
have preached unto you. let him be accursed."
And what gospel was that?
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"For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also
received, how that Christ died for our sins according' to
tile Scriptures."
AVheu the only Begotten Son of God, with nail pierced
hands, walks up into the presence of Mormonism, and
Kddyism. and Russellism, each in turn will cry for the
rocks and the mountains to fall upon them, to hide them
from His Holv Presence forever.
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TALK NUMBER FOUR
THE "ISMS" AND THE DOLLAR
WHEN money is the principal object of life," says
John Ruskin, "with either man or a nation, it
is both got ill and spent ill; and does harm both
in the getting and the spending. But when it is not the
principal object of life, it and all other thing's, will be
well got and well spent."
To undertake to judge any man or movement by the
dollar standard, is an exceedingly dangerous thing to
do, for the possession of money is not the thing that
contaminates, but the motives and methods through
which and by which money was gathered.
Men may have large holdings that have been accumu-
lated through wise and careful investments, and these
holdings may be consecrated to (Jod and the world of
men, and thus bless the man who built the fortune, honor
God and carry attendant blessings to the world.
Men may die in the poor house and be buried in the
potter's field, and yet, literally, die in want, and be
damned through an all-consuming greed for gain.
It is not the possession of money that becomes the evil,
but the "love" of it the love that drives men to dis-
honest methods and hypocritical pretensions.
The One who is Omniscient, and lie only, can look
into the innermost recesses of the heart, and there read
the motives that send men forth to seek gold and save it.
and lie and He only can pass judgment that is infallibly
correct.
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In the doings of men tin 1 dollar cuts an astonndingly
wide swath.
Xo man can be said to i-e thoroughly tested until he
has been tested on the question of the dollar, and the HIMH
who stands that test stands one of the snpremeM tests oi'
our mundane existence.
When men ste]) out int the realm of the spiritual
and stand 1aee to face with eternal verities, it seems
there, if nowhere else, the dollar should he compelled to
occupy one of the lowest seats amongst the agencies that
have hern created for the services of men.
This must he true and doubly so, in the actual exper-
i- nces of those who stand before the world as (iod s
specially anointed." bearing to the world of sinning,
suffering men some new revelation, some revelation so
momentous that its ushering in is to be marked in God's
great calendar as a distinct and revolutionary dispen-
sation.
While none of the founders of the many great Protes-
tant churches of the world presumed to teach, or preach,
that they had been chosen of (iod to usher in some new
dispensation, and none of them ever even intimated that
they were God's "exclusive" channel of truth, to this
age, yet under (iod. they flung 1 into existence organiza-
tions, world wide, that have literally placed their arms
about the nations of the earth, and the holy deeds of
these holy men have been written in indelible ink in the
hearts and homes of the people, through all generations,
since they lived and wrought.
When these Godly men, founders of these religious
movements men in whose presence Joseph Smith, Mary
Baker Eddy and ('has. Taz Russell would stand as intel-
lectual pigmies and moral runts came to the end of their
42 IN THE CULT KINGDOM
earthly pilgrimage, they turned toward their graves as
men who had given their all to the work they loved and
labored for.
Not alone did they die in moderate circumstances, but
their business dealings, in every regard, were always on
the highest level of the most conscientious, consecrated
Christians.
When we drop back to the three nation-wide "1SMS ? '
that have been under the dissecting knife in these pages,
we find that, added to the fact that each has its distinct
field and each claims to be God's exclusive voice to this
age. and each claims to have a substitute for the Bible,
and each makes a direct, or indirect, attack on the Deity
of Christ, each also, has a questionable record, when it
comes to the matter of money.
While the founders of Mormonism, and Eddyism, and
Kussellism, professed to bring to the world a new reve-
lation from (iod, each in turn had sought by every
means, it seems, fair and foul, to make these professed
revelations pour millions into their coffers!
Never, in the history written history of the world,
have there been three religions launched, in which the
dollar became the paramount issue, as in these three
religions, and never has the dollar end been worked with
such consummate cunning and such brazen audacity.
These religions, in turn, have poured millions of dol-
lars into the hands of their founders making them rich
beyond their wildest dreams of avarice.
MORMONISM AND THE DOLLAR
Several years ago the famous journalist and novelist.
Alfred Henry Lewis, made a tour of Mormondom, and
his investigations covered several numbers in one of
our leading magazines.
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ording to this writer land fit- was of the world,
worldly), Mormonism was growing so rapidly and so
enormously rich, that it was, in his opinion, only a ques-
tion of time until Mormondom would stand as a menace
lo the life and liberty of the nation.
This octopus had already wound its tentacles around
< apital after capital of western states, and, even then,
it was reaching out to seats high and low in both
brandies of the I'nited States congress.
Since Mr. Lewis wrote 'and since 1 he has passed
away, the Mormon influence has grown, and the Mor-
mon power has spread, until with every passing election
the wily, designing tools of Mormondom. in city, state
and national irovernmenl. are being added to in every
increasing; numbers.
Mormonism stands as the sworn enemy of all existi n g
forms of government, and teaches the faithful that the
time will come when the Mormon church, under the Mor-
mon god, or gods, will overthrow every existing form of
manmade government, and their gods, by the Mormon
prophet and through the Mormon people, will rule the
nation and eventually the world.
Back of the Mormon church stands the Mormon Ilier-.
archy, and back of the Mormon Hierarchy stands the:
Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith, the God-man, who
staoids as God's infallible voice, to give laws to the people.
All property interest in Mormondom, like in KddyisiM
and Russellism, when brought back to its final analysis
i> vested in the Mormon head. Joseph Smith controls
banks, mines, railroads, newspapers, hotels, stores, and
manufacturing; industries of all sizes and kinds, and.
added to this, the faithful Mormon world pours into his
coffers the Mormon tithe, an ever growing stream of
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go)d, and for these tithes no accounting is ever asked
or given.
The Mormon church, under the direction of its in-
fallible head, owns, in a political way, many of the
western states, bag and baggage, while in other states it
carries the balance of power, and these facts, added to
the tremendous prestige and leverage which its financial
power gives in the nation, makes it possible for the
Mormon Prophet to handle the politicians of the nations
as- the player at chess handles his figures on the chess
board.
For the power that Mormonism can bestow, or the
favors it can grant, multitudes of politicians stand ready
to deliver the nation, roped, tied and branded, to what-
ever location the Mormon Hierarchy may designate.
Mormonism stands, today, the brazen confessor of a
broken faith, having broken sacred vows made to the
nation, and having placed itself outside the pale of de-
cency and respect, through countenancing and sanction-
ing polygamous practices throughout the church, and yet
so intrenched in the life of the nation, today is Mormon-
ism, through its wily congressional and senatorial tools.
and its millions in gold, that there is no shadow of doubt
or fear, in the heart of Mormondom, that is not abso-
lutely safe from attack, let that attack come from what-
ever source it may.
What Alfred Henry Lewis, in the series of magizine
articles referred to, tried to. tell us concerning Mormon-
ism, several years ago, one of its own men is better tell-
ing us today.
Ex-Senator Cannon, ex-Mormon and the son of a de-
ceased apostle in Mormondom, has recently sent out to
the reading world a startling message, appearing in
book form, under the title of "Under the Prophet in
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rtah," and in this well written book, bearing irrefutable
facts, concerning the whole nauseating history of
Mormon treachery and Mormon indecency!
From the hours of its inception the dollar has occupied
the seat of honor in the Mormon temple.
\Ye do not mean to say that this is true of the rank
and file f)f the Mormon church, but pronouncedly is it
true concerning those who have professed to be (Jod's
voice in the building of the church.
Whatever the revelation, there was never any suggest-
ion in these alleged Cod sent messages, that the Mormon
people were to have any voice or hand in the manage-
ment, or control, of the millions of dollars that Mormoii-
dom was pouring into the Prophet's coffers.
Just as the religious humbug is the humbuggiest hum-
bug that ever humbugged a humbuggy people, so the
religious gull is the gulliest gull that ever was gulled by
a religious guller.
Men and women, who, if they had been converted to
<"'hrist, would have given meagerly of their money and
services to Christ and the church, will if converted to
one of these fads, give all their property and all their
time, and if need he. their lives, to prove their loyalty to
their leader.
Following evidences that are unquestioned, that one
of their so-called sacred books is the cheapest and most
lira/en of swindles, there has come a spirit of question-
ing amongst the younger generations of Mormondom.
and from reports leaking out, these young men are de-
manding, amongst other things, that the Prophet account
to the church for the millions which the people have
placed in his hands.
All is not well in Mormondom.
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EDDYISM AND THE DOLLAR
Mark Twain, in OIK' of his best written hooks, ' Chris-
tian Science." sums up Mrs. Eddy's jrifts and <rreed. in
the realm of money, with the su<>-u-estion, that had she
entered the world railroading, she would have probably
come to control most of the trunk lines of the 'nation.
Mrs. Eddy's ungodly <rreed for lilthy lucre, was
equalled only by her inordinate 1 , insatiable lust tor
power, and plaee, and popularity. When Simon of Sa-
maria offered <rii'ts of <<)! d for the power of the Holy
Spirit, that he mi<rht perform some of the miracles which
St. Peter, by tbe ]>ower of the Holy One, performed, St.
Peter said, "Thy money perish with thee, because thoii
hast thought the rift of (Jod can he purchased with
money.
Biit that surest ion which St. Peter, in horror and in
indignation, denounced as bein.u' of the devil, as by
Christian Science, so-called, not alone heralded as a suir-
jrestion of (Jod, but further, this </ifl. the Holy (Jhost.
was placed in the hands of Mrs. Eddy, as her rijjht.
hedo-(>d about by every possible law, to be sold to those,
and those only, who have money to buy.
Mind you, Mrs. Eddy, and Christian Science, so-called,
teaches that " demonstrably this Science is the Holy
Spirit, and if Simon of Samaria had lived, today, instead
of nineteen centuries a<ro, lie would have found men and
women ready 16 sell him the "(Jift of the Holy (ihost."
and with that jrift the rijyht to perform mii-acles. and to
m?'ke merchandise of that jjift in just so far as the peo-
ple were willing to be made inei'chandise of.
Xo religion, in all the history of the race, has beeii
handled on the-cash-on-delivery basis as has this religion.
While it lays down as its basic doctrine the non-ex ist-
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of matter mid the unreality of all things material,
yet no religion in all the world of fakes and fads, has
demanded that tangible, ponderable, material dollars,
either in currency, gold or silver, be placed on the counter
before the goods are wrapped up. as lias this religion.
While this revelation, according to the Christian Sci-
ence schedule, was given of (iod, through Mrs. Eddy, to
the sinning, suffering millions of the sorrowing race, yet
no religion has been hedged about by copyright and
legal might, by insinuation and denunciation, and ex-
coriation, as has this "science." so-called.
In a later study, we will deal, at least briefly, with the
heartless, venomous and dastardly attacks made by Mrs.
Eddy on some of her associates in the cult, whose only
offense was that of refusing to longer tolerate her dicta-
torial, domineering egotism and selfishness.
For twelve lessons in Christian Science Mrs. Eddy
chargecl $300.
These twelve lessons were finally cut to seven.
With 100 students in class, Mrs. Eddy could give an
hour's lecture and be the richer by about $4000.
For her verbose, ethereal, pithless platitudes she asked
and received her own price, while for "Science and
Health," possibly the best written of the many manu-
scripts of the much discussed P. P. Quimby (which she
doubtless plagarized verbatim and ad finem), which prob-
ably cost her fifty cents a copy delivered from the press,
for this, the key pin of the whole Science temple, from
three to six dollars according to binding was asked
and received.
Xor was this all these different books, placed on the
market at extortionate figures, were not alone to be
bought by the "faithful," but they were to assist in
their sale on threat of ex-communication. In the Chris-
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tiaii Science Journal, and over her signature, Mrs. Eddy
warns the faithful: "Christian Scientists in the United
States and Canada, Science and Health with the Key to
the Scriptures, and my other published works, are the
proper instructors for this hour. It shall be" the duty
of all Christian Scientists to circulate and to sell as
many of these books as they can. If a member of the
First Church of Christ Scientist shall fail to obey this
injunction, it will render him liable to lose his member-
ship in this church/'
Though a revelation direct from God, no revelation has
had to be revised as often as Science and Health the
revised editions running up into laughable and unbe-
lievable numbers.
And why has Science and Health been so often revised ?
In February, 1908, Mrs. Eddy notifies the faithful,
through the Journal, of a soon to appear "revised"
edition :
"I request Christian Scientists, universally, to read
the paragraph beginning at line thirty on page 442. in
the edition of Science and Health which w r ill be issued
February 29th. I consider the information there given
to be of the greatest importance."
And what was this information that was so important
that Christian Scientists, "UNIVERSALLY," were to
purchase a revised edition of Science and Health to get?
Here it is: "Christian Scientists, be a law unto your-
selves, that mental malpractice can harm you neither
when you are asleep nor when you are awake. 7
For that little squirt of meaningless nonsense, a revised
edition of Science and Health was called into existence,
which doubtless netted the Eddy "till" several thousands
of dollars.
Through changing chapters and shifting paragraphs.
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and injecting meaningless phrases, '^revised*' edition,
after "revised" edition was rushed out to the faithful.
and the faithful stood and delivered, until, in the few
years that Mrs. Eddy had this "'gold-brick " to work, she
succeeded in stacking up the neat little fortune of over
two millions of dollars.
According 1 to Science, so-called, she "copy-righted**
the Holy Ghost, and monopolized the "second coining"
of Christ, and sold these out for cash to any fool that
would buy.
RUSSELLISM AND THE DOLLAR
Dr. William T. Ellis, the noted journalist, who at that
time was editor afield for the Continent, made a trip to
Brooklyn to study Mr. Russell and the Russell movement,
first hand.
"T wejit to Brooklyn," Dr. Ellis said, "seekinjr a
prophet and I found a business man ! Instead of a
humble seeker after truth. T found one of the cleverest
propagandists of tin 1 aii'e a man before whom John
Alexander Dowie, Mary Baker Eddy. Madame Blavatsky.
Abbas Effendi. Elijah Sandford and Joseph Smith pale
into puerile ineffectiveness. When it comes to raisinjr
money, most pastors, secretaries, and financial repre-
sentatives of benevolent causes, can sit at Russell's feet."
Tn a little booklet of wide circulation, issued by a
Presbyterian minister in Canada, a minister whom Pastor
Russell has sued for libel, there appear the following
interesting facts :
" 1'nder direct examination by his attorneys, (quoting
from Facts and Move Facts Concerning 'Pastor* Russell)
he was asked. ' Xow. if these charges did appear in the
Brooklyn Eajrle ( charged with beinr connected with
lead, asphalt and turpentine companies.) are anv of
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them true?' 'They are not true,' was Pastor Russell '&
most emphatic answer. But when he was forced into
the witness box by the defense and learned that we had
Ilie facts about the companies at hand and the charters
of them, in our possession, lie made a clean breast of the
whole thin^. lie confessed being a stock holder in the
Pittsburgh Asphaltum Co.. which afterward became the
California Asphaltum Co., the organizer of the Selica
Brick Co.. which he entirely managed from the Bible
House on Arch street, Pittsburgh, the Brazilian Turpen-
tine Co.. of which he had a controlling interest, a eeme-
tery company located in Pittsburgh, the United States
Coal and Coke Co., with a capital stock of $100,000, and
the "Watch Tower and Tract Society, of which he is
president and owner."
When Pastor Russell sued the Brooklyn Eagle, after
it had exposed some of his cheats and swindles, and the
case was brought into court, it was proven, that while
the pastor was predicting the end of the world in Oct-
ober, 1914, and the faithful everywhere were getting
ready for the final consummation some even selling^
their all, and standing ready to pour their money into
the "Pastor's" till, that the "Pastor" was evidently
getting ready for everything but the end of the world.
It was at this trial that the discovery was made that
Pastor Russell Avas president, or controlling factor, in a
whole series of interlocking corporations, through which
he translated his business., and it was there admitted
that one of these organizations had brought him over two
million dollars in ten short years.
Russell ism, like Mormonism and Eddy ism. may give
surface indication of a far-reaching organization, with
officers and directors galore, and to the world these may
appear to have authority and power, but to those who
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stood, or who stand, on tin- inside find under the domin-
ation of a Smith, or an Eddy, or a Russell, then- never
has been, and there never will he, any false notions as
Jo where stood the court of final appeals.
All the millions of dollars that have been poured into
;he .Mormon, or the Eddy, or the Russell till, centralize
and focalize back into the unquestioned control of thr
ones, or the one, \\iio stands as the supreme head.
Through paid space in most of the leadinir dailies .f
this country Mr. Russell has advertised his wares, ai.d
DO more expert advertiser ever entered public print.
His no-hell-ism, and second-chance-ism, appeals and
appeals profoundly to millions of this sin-cursed world,
and the average man. whose life is tyiveu over to pillage
arid plunder, would be glad enough to spend a few dol-
lars, or a few thousands of dollars, if he could have
''Pastor Russell, or any other "pastor,* 5 convince him
tl at those two propositions were true.
Even the papers, however, are beginning to rebel, and
only recently, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago
Herald, each in turn, cancelled its Russell contract, and
followed these cancellations with a public apology for
running the Russell copy, even for pay.
The Tribune, which claims to be America's greatest
daily, in cancelling the Russell contract, offered as a
reason, not that "Pastor" Russell advanced new theories
in the religious world, but the cancellation was decided
upon because of his questionable reputation in the world
of morals and business.
Following this cancellation and. apology to its readers,
the Tribune ran a series of articles, covering a week,
dealing with the seamy side of the "pastor's" life.
The divorced wife of "Pastor" Russell says her
former husband is now seek inn 1 to imitate -John Alex-
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ander Dowic, who, as Elijah the Second, rode up and
down the land in special trains, dressed and conducting
himself like a king-.
Across the continent "Pastor" Kussell has gone on
special trains to be wined and dined, and lauded, and
applauded, by his poor, deluded followers, and always
as the very mouthpiece of God, and the bearer of a new
dispensation to the world.
On the question of the dollar, Mormonism, Eddy ism
and Eussellism, are alike, in that neither of them will
stand the test of honest investigation.
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TALK NUMBER FIVE
THE "ISMS" AND THEIR BONUS
"But th<' religion (or wisdom) that is from above, is-
first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be en-
treated, full of mercy and good fruits, witliout partiality,
and without hypocrisy."
THERE is no word, probably, in the vernacular of
the church, more often used and more often abused
than the word "religion!"
At all sorts of church gatherings the word is passed
from lip to lip, and always used in the same narrow, ex-
clusive and limited sense, in which Christianity is used.
To multitudes, the words, "religion" and "Chris-
tianity" are synonymous, and yet these two words should
be as widely separated as the poles.
To be true, to be a Christian is to be religious, but to
be religious is not necessarily to be a Christian!
Here is the danger in using these two words inter-
changeably men and women come to believe that one's
safety depends entirely on whether one is or is not re-
ligious.
To be religious is to be saved, they think.
Now the Bible, unquestionably and incontrovertibly.
teaches that a man may be the most religious of the re-
ligious, giving his fortune to spread his theories through
th' 1 land, and at last giving his body to the martyr's fire,
and then die a Christless death, lie in a Christless grave,
stand at a Christless judgment bar, and live through a
Christless eternity.
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To insist, as some do. that it matters not whether you
are a Mormon, or an Eddyite, or a Russellite, or a Uni-
tarian, or a Universalist, a Mohammedan, or what not,
to be religious is to be saved, is to advance a theory
that bankrupts the Word of (iod. does away with the
Atonement and makes Cod a liar.
11' it were true that all men and women who are re-
ligious are to be saved, then all men and women would
be saved.
Swing out into whatever realm of human experience
you will, and all the way up and all the way down, you
will find that practically every man or woman, of what-
ever color or kind, has a religion. Even those who are
the most bitter in the denunciation of all religions, are
dominated by superstititions that become to them as real
as life and as awful as death.
There are a hundred different religions abroad in tin 1
land.
Some of tbese religions are in open antagonism to
( 'hrist and His church.
Some of these religions are professedly friendly, but
unlike the religion of Christ in every essential of their
existence.
Some of these religions are claiming to he the genuine
article claiming to be the religion of Christ, dressing
in the livery of Christ's church, and using the language
of Christ's church, and adopting the same form of. wor-
ship as Christ's church, and yet, down underneath all
these pretensions, there are the false doctrines that
brand these religions as the worst sort of fakes!
The more nearly like the real thing a religion may be
come, without being the real thing, the more damnablv
dangerous that movement becomes.
Over against these vagaries of men, (iod throws, with
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the finality of the judgment, the verities of His plainly
written and infallible truth, and if men turn to these
false prophets and worship their false Ghrists, then they
must stand at the Chi istless judgment seat, to be judged
with those who have openly rebelled against the govern-
ment of (Jod !
(rod's word teaches us that there is but one religion
that can wash the heart, elevate and purify and ennoble
the life, and stand us at last faultless before the throne,
and that is the religion, blood bought and blood wrought
the religion of Christ. This religion, James tells us.
"is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be
entreated, full of mercy, and good fruits, without par-
tiality and without hypocrisy."
That these "Tsms," under discussion in this series, do
not stand the test when measured along side of this
standard, goes without saying.
''Pure" they are not. for, as we shall see in coming
studies, neither of them flows from a fountain that is
pure.
"Peaceable" they are not. as Mormonism stands the
sworn enemy of the nation, while the other two present
a ''peace" that is a fake peace, for there can be no
peace where Christ's cross is made of none effect.
"Gentle" and "easy to be entreated" they are not.
as men and women will testify, who have had reason
to question their faith.
"Full of mercy" they are not, as Science, so-called,
teaches that to sympathize with sin and suffering is
to dethrone God as the God of the universe.
"Full of good fruits" they art 4 not. for how can good
fruit grow on a corrupt tree?
"Partial" they are. but possibly no more so than th j
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irreat organized church of Christ, for their partiality
abounds as well.
""Without hypocrisy" they are not. for hypocrisy lies
at the heart of every one of these fads.
Now then, the question arises, if those religious have
their distinct fields, and each claims to ho God's truth
to this age, and each substitutes tor the Bible, and each
makes an attack on the deity of Christ, and each has
made merchandise of the people, and each flows from
a questionable source (as we shall see in coming studies,)
then why do men and women of unquestioned mental
mid moral integrity take up with these cults?
In part at least, the recruits to the ranks of these
"Isms" are there because they were offered something
"extra" by these cults, to turn their time, money and
service that way.
Each of these "Isms" makes an appeal for followers
on the distinct ground that it will do something "big"
for humanity that the church has never offered to do.
This is, in very large part, the secret of the rapid
growth of 'these cults.
Without the "prizes'' which they offer, they would
have never been heard of.
What are their prizes and w r hat is their bonus?
MORMONISM AND ITS BONUS
"There shall arise false Christs, and false prophets,
and shall show great signs and wonders."
America is pronouncedly and confessedly the home of
the bargain seeker.
Here he originated, and here he lives, and here he
propagates his kind.
The nine-cent, and the nineteen-cent, and the
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nine cent, and the thirty-nine rent counters of the aver-
age department store are crowded with all ages, sexes,
colors and kinds.
The stores that offer the greatest bargains liave the
greatest crowds, and around the eounter on which tlie
special bargains are stacked tliere crowd the rich and
poor. the old and young the freaks, and the freckles:,
and tin 1 flips and the flops, and flirts and things. This
bargain hunting, pri/.e seeking. bonus chasing streak
rims through the warp and woof of common humanity.
The devil knows the weakness of the race, as God
knows both its weakness and its strength.
It is the conviction of multitudes that these "Isms"
,were concocted in the lower regions, and each owes its
rapid growth in the world to the fact that each makes
its appeal to this bargain seeking craze that sweeps tli^
land.
. Just as you will find the rich, and the refined and edu-
cated, crowding the harp/a MI counters of America, elbow-
ing their way through poverty, ignorance and vice, so
you will find in these "Isms" all acres, and scattered
through the three, all classes, and they are there for no
other reason under heaven, than that they were offered
"special" inducements for marching with these cults!
Mormon ism. Eddyism and Russellism, have not made
any very irreat headway amonest the other nations of
the world, for the other nations of the world are not
craxed with bargain seeking 1 , and especially is this true.
when it crimes to religion.
The religion of Christ is never placed on exhibition a!
reduced prices, and is never announced for sale sand-
wiched in between rattle boxe^ and teething rubbers.
Hut what are the special inducements that these fake-
religions hold out to their blinded dupes?
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Let us see !
To begin with, Mormonism makes its special appeal
for followers on the ground that salvation can Ve had
by observing rites and forms, and that salvation in Mor-
monism carries with it the prospects of becoming a Cod
in the world to come.
It was with the assurance, "Ye shall be as gods/' Miat
the devil intoxicated our first parents, and led them to
their overthrow.
In Mormondom the assurances are changed from "\e
>b:dl be as gods," to "Ye shall be (iods. "
There are two forces in every human life that must
i.c subjugated and controled one* is the "Pride of L'.iV.
and the other is the "Lust of the flesh."
The world's greatest prophets, and priests, and preach-
ers have been those who have known the struggle of the
angel and the beast, and they have arisen to the highest
levels of service and holiness, because the beast was slain
and the angel permitted to live.
This struggle means a struggle to death, and heaven
the heaven which Christ prepares can only be won by
the conquest of our baser self.
The Mormon heaven is not attained that way.
" Frnitfnlness" in the marriage relations here, which
means polygamy in its most disastrous and damnable
forms which further means a complete reign of the
brute, is the surest way, according to Mormonism, to
attain to the level of a god hereafter.
Eternal life and deification are not to be secured
through faith in Christ and through annihilation of the
beast, but, rather, these boons are to be won through
works that you are able to perform in Mormondom, and
through a free rein to your animal passions.
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The Mormon heaven is a place where husbands live
with their wives continuing the same relationship that
they sustained toward them while here in this life.
The Mormon heaven is a place where sensuality in its
rankest forms is sanctified and glorified.
Then 1 art 1 many *'ods in the Mormon heaven, and what
we arc now these rods once were, and what they are now.
we may some day become.
loin us, is the appeal of Mormondom. and we will let
you work out your salvation.
Join us. is the appeal of Mormonism. and we will leg-
alize and glorify the outr caching of the brute.
Join us, is the appeal of Mormonism. and we will exalt
you to the throne of a deity in the world to come.
"Ye shall be as rods." said the devil.
"Ye shall be as u-ods." says Mormonism.
EDDYISM AND ITS BONUS
"But there were false prophets also amonii' the people,
even as there shall be false prophets anionjr you. who
privily shall brin<r in damnable heresies, even denyinjr
the Lord that bought them
Through covetousness shall they with feiirned words
make merchandise of you."
What is the bonus which Eddyism holds out?
When it comes to the immediate present, the bonus*
which Eddyism offers makes the bonus of Mormonism
and Russelism look like three-cent pieces with holrs
punched in them.
When it comes to the bonus of the Scientist, having to
do with the life that is to come. Mormonism find Russell-
ism run neck and neck with Eddyism.
Mrs. Marv Baker (Jlover Patterson Eddv. in one of her
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published statements, made the claim that nine-tenths
of her followers had been healed in Christian Science.
This was the strength of her movement, she would
claim, and yet it is probable that here is the weakness of
her movement.
A score of religions, within the past century, have
been launched and have grown to rather appalling pro-
portions, religions that have made their one appeal on
the basis of healing for the body.
These religions that wrought such wonders Dowieism
in the past few years, for instance ran their course,
drew thousands out of our churches, went to pieces and
left the sad wrecks of their blasphemy and intrigue
scattered everywhere.
Away back in the days of Job, the devil flung this
challenge into the face of God. "Skin for skin, yea, all
that a man hath will he give for his life
Touch his bones and his flesh, and he will curse thee to
thy face."
God called the devil's challenge and Job was placed in
the fiery furnace of testing, and yet. throughout it all, he
sinned not.
The devil missed his guess on the righteous Job, but
that same test, ninety-five times out of a hundred, will
bring some sad revelations, today.
Let some cult come along, today, promising deliv-
erance from the toothache, ingrowing toenails, corns and
warts, and it matters not what the doctrines it brings,
multitudes of church members will pack their belong-
ings, and land in that cult cam]), bag and baggage.
To become an Eddyite, means to do something more
than curse God to His face.- it means to count the blood
of Christ "the blood of the covenant an unholy tiling*'
- or an unnessary thing.
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"While Eddyism teaches us that a lie is all the devil
there is, .Jesus Christ teaches us that the devil is a liar
and is the father of liars.
More than this, we are warned that this liar is to ap-
pear as an angel of light, and deceive the very elect, if
possible.
Nine-tenths of the Christian Scientists are in Christian
Science because of its promise of health to them or loved
ones.
11 these men and women will be frank with you, they
will tell you that they had to blindfold themselves and
'"'back" into the so-called heaven of the Scientist, and
multitudes of them, even now, will tell you frankly that
they don't understand Christian Science, but it has
"done" so and so in a physical way, and therefore, it's
.f God.
This same old cheat, or swindle has been worked on
the gullible race by most of the religions swindles of the
world, in all the centuries gone.
To the Mormon, the body is all. it is to be gloryfied
and deified.
To the Scientist the body is nothing, it is to be denied
it does not exist.
Enlist with us. is the appeal of Eddyism; matter is
non-existent, and therefore, there can be no suffering, no
sorrow and no death.
Enlist with us. is the further appeal of Eddyism; man
is Incapable of sin, therefore, there can be no judgment,
no hell and no lost souls.
Mormon ism magnifies and glorifies the beast, and
promises, through good works, wrought out in the Mor-
mon faith, one may rise to become a (>od in the world le-
vond.
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EddyiMii. ignores and denies, not alone the power of the
l)east. but the existence of the beast, and calls men away
from intelligent and persistent warfare against sin, to
teach them that all evil, whether phyiscal or moral, is to
be banished through a pi ocess of elevated thinking.
Everthing for which Christ died, according to Christian
Science, is but the fabric of an unpleasant dream, and
whatever of havoc those dreams have brought, to you.
and the world, these bad effects can be erased for time
and eternity, by just denying their reality and their
power.
Eddyism is idealism gone to seed it is idealism ether-
ealixed it is an evanescent concoction of tine spun, im-
practical dreamings, backed up with some rather coarsely
woven scheming, wrapped about with some high sound-
in <r, piously expressed blasphemy, which taken all in all.
makes a very pretty little prize package for men and
women A\ ho seek the bargain counter when thinking (Jod-
\vard and heavenward.
In Mormondom you will find men and women as pure
as those who belong to any church, but they are this
despite their religion.
Mormonism will appeal to the average man more tlrm
to the average woman.
On the other hand, on Eddyism. you will find the large
nrijrrity of worshippers are women.
1 ddyism appeals to women as it does not to men
Amongst Scientists, so-called, there is one noticeable
iact. and that is it becomes a haven for grass widows and
grass widower*, and a rallying place for m.-irried couples
who have no children.
Since sin and the sinner, alike, are nothingness, and
man is incapable of sin. there is no crime, according to the
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Scientist viewpoint, for married couples to evade the
responsibilities of parentage!
Eddyism, like Mormonism, offers its bonus
RUSSELLISM AND ITS BONUS
"A faithful witness will not lie. but a false witness
"will utter lies."
At the lowest extreme stands Mormonism.
At the highest extreme stands Eddyism.
Between the two, swings RusseJlism.
Kussellism does not cast a halo about the lower passion
of men urrin: their sanctih'cation here and their deifica-
tion hereafter, nor does Kussellism swinjr to the other
extreme and teach its followers that these passions, with
the sorrow, and suffering, and heart-ache and heart-break
of a race are not real.
The bonus which Kussellism has to offer its followers is
widely different from that which these other cults offer.
Kussellism stands out distinctively in the world of re-
ligious cults through the fact that it offers to all a
"second-chance' an opportunity beyond the <>'rave for
every man and women, to repent, believe and have life.
According to Kussellism. you can slap God in the face,
do despite to the spirit of j>-raee, and tread under foot
the blood of Christ, die with foul oaths on your lips,
hating God and God's church and God's Christ, and
everything pure and worthy and jrood. and then, after
a rest in the ^rrave. in unconsious sleep, you are res-
urrected, to stand before an open door, ti : ;' opens into
life.
If there you refuse to accept Christ and have life, you
are taken away to be annihilated wiped out root ;md
branch.
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That any, there, will accept annihilation in preference
to Jesus Christ and life, is hardly probable, which means
that all .men and women are to be saved.
Probably ninety-nine out of a hundred of the Bussellite
following were attracted to Russell and the Russell move-
ment through the alleged gospel of a second chance.
This doctrine appeals and appeals profoundly to two
classes of the earth's millions.
The first class lias the sympathy of every riglit minded
person.
These are the men and women who have loved ones
dead loved ones who lived and died outside the Christ-
ian faith.
To these, the Russell gospel, so-called, of a ''second-
chance,'' comes as the one ray of light, flashing into
what seems to be unending, impenetrable darkness.
These men and women grasp at Russellism, with its
second probation, as a drowning man grasps at a straw,
and in the hope that this professed prophet speaks Hod's
message, they are ready to honor him with their money
and their support.
The other class deserves no sympathy either of man
or God.
The second class is composed of those who hate right-
eousness and love vice, and who will persist to the end.
in a viciously immoral state hating (iod and (lod's
church and God's people.
To such as these the so-called gospel of a "second-
chance" comes as a sweet morsel to he rolled beneath
the tongue.
There is no announcement that (Jod could make from
His throne that would the more quickly throw the world
in open rebellion to His government, and plunge the race
the more quickly into every conceivable excess of sin
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and crime, than the assurance direct from His throne,
that every imm and woman, whatever their record here,
was to have another opportunity for accepting Christ
and being saved on the other side of death !
You can take the bonus which each of these religious
cults offers, and without their "special 73 revelations, and
their own "substitution," they would have no semblance
of authority for the promises they make.
To make their fake work, each in turn had to secure
a "special" dispensation, and have ushered in a "new"
revelation and it is this special key that they ask you to
accept as their divine credentials, given them direct from
God.
Each of these religious founders was as ignorant of
the dead languages as a woodpecker, and yet each has
the effrontery to ask the public to believe that they
have gone back to the Scriptures, in their original
languages, Creek and Hebrew, and have given to the
world the "correct" interpretation of these essential
passages.
Over against their assault with an attempt to trans-
late Cod s word from the original, there stands the com-
bined learning of a united church, assuring us that these
abortive attempts at translation are so glaring, crude.
and false, that the joke of it all is sufficiently great to
throw all hell into one loud, lonjr guffaw!
"What 'tools' we mortals be."
Mormon ism runs fastest amongst those who are
ignorant and passion dominated.
Eddyism runs fastest amongst those who want a re-
ligion without the ''shame of the cross" without a
bleeding, dying Savior, who died as a ransom for many.
Russellism runs fastest amongst those who have loved
ones dead out of Christ, or who want to live like -devils
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c and rise to live like angels in the hereafter.
Apart from the special prizes which each offers, these
religions would never have been heard of three removes
from the front door of their own home, and their home
is where all lies centralize and focalize.
"Ye shall be jrocls," says Mormonism.
"Ye shall not be sick," says Eddy ism.
"Ye shall have another chance," says Russellism.
Which lie do yon choose to believe?
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TALK NUMBER SIX
MORMONISM
WE are urged to bury the past in the past, and
let the grave of the past be closed, to be opened
no more forever. If God has forgiven the past,
after the past has been atoned for as best it can be
atoned for, then the wise, ami the sensible, and the re-
ligious thing to do, we are told, is to let the dead past
remain buried forever in the past.
What jnan has wril ten he has written, and that record,
whether good or bad, is down on the pages of his past
history, back to which he could not go, even if he chose,
and a line of which lie could not erase or change.
What (iod has forgiven and forgotten, sinful, erring,
fallible man. should likewise forgive and seek to forget.
Milton's description of a hell hound does not do
justice to the human fiend incarnate who, with no sense
of mercy, or pity, or justice, goes digging into the closed
chapters of a good man's life to parade before the pub-
!;< ira/e any skeleton which (iod and time have buried.
On the other hand, when men and women come knock-
ing at our doors, or come seeking admittance to the
more sacred precincts of the heart coming as God's
special messengers, with God's exclusive message, ordi-
nary discretion, it seems, would demand that we ask
that these professed messengers produce their cre-
< initials.
This is specially true, if these men and women come
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knocking at our doors, professing to he hearers of some
new truth of such a far-reaching and revolutionary char-
acter that their coming is to mark a new period in God's
dealings with the race.
Mormonism, Eddyism, and Russell ism. eome making
tliese claims. These men and women are not to be classed
amongst ordinary teachers, nor are their organizations
to he classed with the average religious organization.
Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy, and Charles Ta/>
"Russell, claim for themselves that which only God's
special prophet or messenger dare claim.
The message that each of these religious founders
brings to the church and to the world is so distinct and
s<< out of harmony with all accepted church teachings,
that to follow the path that either of these points us to,
means that we must break all connection with the.
Church of Christ, in which we were probably born,
cradled, nurtured and reared.
When we stop to consider the exclusiveness and the
import that these leaders claim for their message, it
seems that rubbers-on-the-feet-in-sloppy-weather pru-
dence, would suggest that we demand from these pro-
fessed prophets something of their pedigree.
Unfortunately, each of these cult founders has a past
Uiat will not stand the light of careful investigation.
Tf this man Smith, or this woman Mrs. Eddy, or this
other man Pastor Russell if either of these were an
ordinary Christian teacher, bringing ordinary Bible
truths, their delinquencies in the realm of morals, even
though these lapses came while they were before the
public as religious teachers, might be passed over as
Undeserving even incidental mention in such an article
as this.
Or, if these delinquencies were charged against these
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<ult leader* in the days before they became (iod's special
messengers with (iod's special truth, the question again
might be passed over lightly, but when we take into
consideration what appears to be irrefutable evidence
that much of this dishonesty, improprietry and hypo-
crisy, charged against these cult leaders, is charged
against them after they became, professedly, God's
special messengers, common, everyday wisdom would
suggest, and even demand, that the seeker after truth
investigate the facts.
How any man or woman can make an honest investi-
gation of all the facts having to do with the origination
of these cults and their founders and still believe that
either of these cult leaders is sent of God, and that the
truth he professes to bring is God's special truth, is in-
conceivable to an unbiased mind.
These three-cent-piece-with-a-hole-in-it imitators of
(iod's true prophets go to any ridiculous or dishonest
length to make the world believe that they have little
feathery wings already sprouted, and that only some
freak of fate has kept them from having wings as long
as a telegraph pole.
In fact, if it were not for the tragedy underlying the
whole cult enterprise, the cheap attempts these cult
leaders make to glorify and all but deify themselves
would become a joke sufficiently great to throw all hell
into uproarious laughter.
As we shall see, later, each of these religious cult
builders has a great deal to say of himself, or herself,
and, as we shall see. later, according to "their" reports,
these cult founders were very, very remarkable some-
bodies.
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MORMONISM ITS ORIGINATION
The question is constantly being asked, where and how
did these religious cults begin?
Mormonism is the oldest of the three, and to this
movement we shall give the rest of this article.
In 1809 there came to the little city of Oonneaut.
Ohio, a man by the name of Solomon Spaulding.
This Mr. Spaulding was a graduate of Dartmouth Tol-
Ifge, in New Hampshire, and had served several years
as a pastor in one of our Protestant churches.
Leaving the ministry, Mr. Spaulding had launched in-
to a business career, choosing at that time the promis-
ing but rather uncertain, allurements of the iron busi-
ness.
This man Spaulding was a man widely read in Bible
literature and specially interested in archaeology.
To the Indian mounds in Northwest Ohio his mind
often turned, and it is probable that largely through the
suggestions which these mounds brought there came the
religious romance of which we are to write.
Mr. Spaulding wrote a great deal, and is known to
have produced at least four complete stories, none of
which, we believe, were ever placed in book form.
In one of these stories, called, "Manuscript Found."
Mr. Spaulding undertakes to connect the American In-
dian with the lost tribes of Israel. To this story the
author gave some of the hardest work of his life, and
he believed that he had produced, under the title of
"Manuscript Found,'" one of the strongest and best of
our many religious stories.
To his friends and neighbors, talented and educated
though he was, he became a sort of a pest, through the
fact everyone who visited him was compelled to sit and
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listen while he read to them certain chapters from his
book.
This story contained fifteen hooks, in which the
wanderings and hardships of the Xephites and the Lama-
nites are recorded. These two nations spring from a
colony of the lost tribes of Israel. The wanderings of
these people, according: to this story, were written on
plates of brass, and all through these books these plates
occupy a conspicuous place, until, in 420 A. D., they were
scaled up and hidden away in the Hill of ( 1 umorah. near-
Palmyra, X. Y.
The names Lelii, Nephi, Jarom, Moroni, were so often
used in the story that they became familiar names to
those who heard parts of the story read. These names,
with the quaint phraseology of the work, made a distinct
impression on the minds of those who knew anything
about the book, while the words, ''And it came to pass,"
occurred so often in the story, that the boys of the com-
munity nicknamed Mr. Spaulding i; Old-Came-to-Pass. ' r
These facts chronicled above are placed outside the
realm of controversy, as reliable witnesses, many, testi-
fied under oath to the correctness and reliability of the
above statements.
The witnesses who made oath were John Spauldiiiff,
brother of Solomon Spaulding, and his wife, Martha
Spaulding; Henry Lake, the business partner of Solomon
Spaulding. Added to these were Aaron Wright, Oliver
Smith and Nathan Howard, who were neighbors of
Solomon Spaulding; Mr. Art emus Cunningham, who
spent a night in the home of Solomon Spaulding, and
sat up most of the night listening to the story read.
This story. "Manuscript Found/' was in the hands of
the printers, in Pittsburgh, at the time of the death of
Solomon Spaulding.. Furthermore, this manuscript was
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known to have been in the office of these printers,
Patterson and Lambdin, as late as 1014, and thereafter,
for hoAv long cannot be definitely determined.
Sidney Rigdon, who was one of the three men direct-
ly responsible for launching the Mormon religion, was
the intimate friend of Lambdin. of the ; rinting house
of Patterson and Lambdin, and vfm;iined so up lo 1S:2.">,
when Lambdin died.
Two years before the Book of Mormon appeared,
Rigdon had confided in some of his friends, telling them
that a book was soon to appear, translated from golden
plates, and that this book was to bring about a religions
revolution, and during these two intervening years Rig-
don was preaching some new and startling doctrine
afterwards found in the Book of Mormon, and the Book
of Mormon, to those who know 7 all the facts, is unques-
tionably the Spaulding story, ''Manuscript Found/'
which designing, sinful men, plagiarized and used.
MORMONISM ITS ORGANIZATION
In 1830, the Book of Mormon WHS published, and later
the Mormon Church was organized, with six members.
Before the book was published and the church
launched, the stage had been set and everything placed
in order, and the whole damnable farce or tragedy went
through, from rising curtain to last act, without a hitch.
In the olden times, when one came professing to be
_ God-sent, both the world and the church asked for a
sign, and, no matter how crude the sign, multitudes were
ready to believe and follow.
The human family has not. as yet. been educated
away from the dangers of these outward manifestations
arid demonstrations.
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Mormonism carries with it a touch of the miraculous
find a sufficient amount of mystery to attract a certain
clement of the human family.
Following out the story as Mormonism Drives it, a
colony of the lost tribes of Israel came to America, and
from tliis colony came American Indians. The wander-
ings of these people, and the revelations which God made
Through them, were recorded on plates of brass, and
these plates were sealed up and placed in a hill near
Palmyra, in 420 A. D.
The three men who claimed to be chosen of God f<;
the launching of the Mormon religion, which professed
to bring God's further and final word to a dying race,
but which, in reality, was a crude and lewd humbug, were
Joseph Smith, Parley P. Pratt, and Sidney Rigdon.
To begin with, Sidney Rigdon was an eloquent, polish-
ed, erratic and uncertain character, who, for a time, was
a recognized preacher in one of our Protestant church
organizations, but from this organization he was finally
expelled.
Later, he identified himself with a certain man win
just at this time, was founding a religious movement that
has grown into one of our honored, church socieTie>
Through his wild dreaming, and wilder scheming, and
doctrines, that were positively absurd, there came a hreai-.
between him and this movement, with which he severed.
Ins connections.
Later. Mr. Rigdon declared that if Alexander Campbell
could gain name and fame through launching a new re-
ligions movement, he could gain greater name and great-
er fame by founding a new religion.
When the Mormon religion was finally launched, it
seems all but certain that Sidney Rigdon was the brains
of the movement.
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Parley P. Pratt, the second member of this trio, can
be dismissed from further consideration, in this series,
by the simple statement that he was shot and killed, down
in Arkansas, in an attempt to run away with another
man's wife.
Back of these two men stood the man upon whose
shoulders unquestioned authority and power in the Mor-
mon world was to fall.
As soon as Sidney Ri;don had whipped the spurious
Book of Mormon (a book that was practically wholly
plagiarized from the book. ''Manuscript Found/') into
its present shape, Joseph Smith took the reins of gov-
ernment and every last fragment of ecclesiastical au-
thority and financial power were made to centralize and
focalize in this ; ' professed" infallable mouthpiece of
God.
Joseph Smith finally jrave to the world the story of his
life, and according to this story younu 1 Joseph was a very
precocious child, given to dee]) and serious religious
thinking, and a boy upon whose heart the sins of the
wide world rested, and a boy whose spirit was sadlv rent
and torn through the hopeless division of the Protestant,
churches of America. Of course this was all according
to the Smith story of himself.
Mr. Pomcroy Tucker, editor of the Wayne Sentinel,
and the man on whose press the Book of Mormon was
published, says. "At this period in the life of Joseph
Smith. Junior, or Joe Smith, as he is universally named,
Mid the Smith family, they were popularly regarded as
an illiterate, whiskey-drinking, irreligious race of people,
the first named and the chief subject of this biography
beino- unanimously voted the laziest and the most worth-
less of tin- generation. lie could utter the most palpable
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exaggerations, or marvelous absurdities, with the utmost
apparent gravity.
In 18'->.'j. sixty-two residents of Palmyra made affidavit:
"We, the undersigned, have been acquainted with the
Smith family for a number of years, while they resided
near this place, and we have no Hesitation in saying' that
we consider them destitute of the moral character "which
oujrht to entitle them to the confidence of a community.
Joseph Smith, Senior, and his son, Joseph, were, in par-
ticular, destitute of moral character and addicted to
vicious habits."
While Joseph Smith sought to exalt himself, and evi-
dently succeeded in leading the Mormon world to believe
that he was (iod's special mouthpiece, ushering in a new
dispensation, it is evident that those who knew him best
believed him to be a blasphemous fakir of the most pro-
nounced iype.
MORMONISM SUMMED UP
Mormonism is a blasphemous swindle and a heartless
and cruel cheat.
In evidence that the above statement is true, we offer
the following facts :
Mormonism offers to the world a bogus prophet, in the
person of Joseph Smith.
The real prophet of (rod must come before the world
with a pure heart, and with pure lips, and with pure
hands, and his walk, and talk, and business dealings,
must be above question.
According to affidavits made by many reliable witnes-
ses, Joseph Smith did not measure up to his standard
in any essential and important particular.
According to many unbiased witnesses, Joseph Smith,
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who claimed to stand "as (Jod. to give laws to the peo-
ple," was ignorant, untruthful, unreliable and immoral.
He came from a family of horsetraders and jockeys,
and was looked upon as a man whose veracity was ever
under question.
Joseph Smith, like Mary Baker Eddy, and like every
other money-changer of the world of religious fakes,
made everything bend and everything work toward his
own laudation and material enrichment.
Every published fact concerning Joseph Smith, coming
from sources other than the Mormon source, would lead
nn honest investigation 1o conclude that Joseph Smith
was one of the world's greatest religious fakers.
Again, Mormonism gives to the world a fake Bible.
The Spaulding story, "Manuscript Found," is plagiar-
i/ed. re-arranged, and re-written, and given to the world
as God's infallible truth and his last words to the race.
The Book of Mormon, with the books, "The Pearl of
Greatest Price," and the "Book of the Covenants," is
placed alongside the Bible, and for these brazen blasphe-
mous swindles, divine authority is claimed.
Again. Mormonism gives to the world a fake priest-
hood.
Mormonism, with its rites and ceremonies, and fake
books, and fake priests, stands between the Christ of
the cross and a sinning, suffering world.
According to Mormonism, salvation is not to he had
Hirough simple faith in Christ, but is to be had alone.
through following out the many requirements of the
Mormon church.
For this fake priesthood MOrmonism says, "Those
holding the fullness of the Melchizedek priesthood (and
there is no such priesthood and never was) are kings and
priests of the most High God, holding the keys of power
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and blessing. In fact, that priesthood is a perfect law of
theocracy and stands as God to give la^s to the people." 1
So Monnonism stands before the world, parading a
fake prophet backed up by a fake Bible, and ministered
over by a fake priesthood.
As passingly referred to in a previous article, "The
Pearl of (Greatest Price," which, with the "Rook of Mor-
mon," and the "Hook of Convenants," because the three
inspired books of Mormondom, has been proven to be a
?1 (daring and deliberate fraud.
Mind you. the evidence that the "Pearl of Greatest
Price" is a heartless swindle is so unquestioned that the
Mormon world, which has been made acquainted with the
facts, has become convinced that the book is a swindle.
Around the University of Utah, where these facts have
become known, there has been a tremendous upheaval.
The younger generations of Mormondom are demanding
that the truth be made known, not alone concerning the
"Pearl of Greatest Price,'' but are also demanding to
know what evidence they have to assure them that the
Book of Mormon is not also a swindle.
That there are good men and good women in the Mor-
mon church, goes without saying, and yet. it is all but
definitely certain that these men and women are honest,
r<nd pure, and true, not because of the Mormon religion,
but in spite of it.
Amongst the leaders of Mormonism, men who profess
to be God's special messengers, there have stood some of
the most flagrant and unmitigated liars of the religious
world.
Before the Senate of the United States these Apostles
of God have stood, and, after taking solemn oath to tell
the truth, they have, according to their own admissions,
sworn to some of the blackest and most hideous lies hu-
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imm miml could well conceive, or human lips could give
utterance to.
This is perfectly in keeping- with the declarations of
the Mormon head, Brigham Young;, who, in a published
sermon found in Journal of Discourses, Vol. IV, page 77,
says, " I have many a time, in this stand, dared the world
to produce as mean devils as \ve can. We can beat them
at anything. We have the greatest and smoothest liars
in the world, the cunningest and most adroit thieves, and
any other shade of character that you can mention. We
can pick Klders in Israel, right here, who can beat the
world at gambling, who can handle the cards, can cut and
shuffle them with the smoothest rogues on God's footstool.
T can produce Elders here who can shave their smartest
shavers and take their money from them. We can beat
the world at any game. We can beat them, because we
have here men that live in the light of the Lord ; that
have the Holy Priesthood, and hold the keys of the king-
dom of God."
According to the declarations of the Holy ( ?) head of
the Holy (!) Mormon church, lying is a virtue, and steal-
ing has upon it God's special favor provided, of course,
that lying is done and stealing is done b;' those of Mor-
monism who have the "Light of the Lord/'
No such blasphemy has ever gone into print under the
name of religion.
This is Mormonism.
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TALK NUMBER SEVEN
EDDYISM
BACK in 1007. the McClure's Magazine Company sent
out special investigators with instructions, at what-
ever cost, in time and money, to secure any and all
facts having to do with the organization of Christian
Science and the life of its founder, Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy.
The material gathered covered almost two years as a
serial in McClure's Magazine; this material, consisting of
photographs, newspaper clippings, and affidavits, com-
hines to make a story as weird and as fascinating as ever
the most excitable novel could be.
In 1900, this serial was enlarged, and revised, and pub-
lished in book form, a copy of which is lying before me
write.
AVhen these articles were appearing in this well known
magazine certain of the head officials of the Christian
Science went to Mrs. Eddy with the question. "What
shall we do with these charges they are making?" and
Mrs. Eddy tersely replied, "Nothing; just ignore them."
Since these articles appeared in book form, they have
strangely disappeared from the land. To those who
understand the inner workings of this organization there
is no question, whatever, as to where these books went.
No man or woman, capable of thinking on the lowest
i of truthfulness and sincerity, could read this damn-
-tory and have one iota of respect for the pretensions
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of Mrs. Eddy, or the least of confidence in Christian
Science, so-called, itself.
IVcieHy, we wish to lay before our readers a few of the
many astounding facts produced in this book, and, mind
yon, these are facts, with evidence so conclusive that the.
most skeptical must assent to their certainty.
On February Kith. 1802, in New Lebanon, N. II., 1*.
Quimby was born. Mr. Quimby took no university de-
uree. nor did he study in any school of medicine, yet, by
courtesy of his thousands of admiring friends, he was
called " Dr." Quimby.
In the :0s, when Mr. Quimby had arrived at man's
estate, the first wave of mental science swept over New
England. Mr. Quimby bad developed into an original
thinker of rare mental quality, who read constantly in
philosophv and science, and who was thoroughly at home
and perfectly happy when he could find someone of like
thinking with whom he could converse, or with whom he
could have controversy.
The story of how he became a healer is too long to b ?,
discussed in this short article.
It seems that for several years Dr. Quimby groped
about. Irving many different methods and plans for deal-
ing with the ills of the people. Prominent amongst these,
during his first days as a healer, was mesmerism. Later,
however, everything else was discarded and Mi'. Quimby
entered into what he considered was the greatest dis-
covery of the age.
This discovery, or this system of healing, he refers to
as "Divine Science," or 'M'hrist Science." "The idea
that a beneticent (Jod had anything to do with disease,"
says Quimby, in one of his manuscripts, ''is superstition."
Again he says, "Disease is false reasoning. True scien-
tific wisdom is health and happiness False reasoning is
sickness and death. This is my theory, to put a man in
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possession of a science that will destroy the ideas of the
sick and teach man one living' profession of his own
"identity, with life free from error and disease.
Therefore, to he free from death is to he alive in truth,
for sin. 01- error, is death, and science, or wisdom, is
eternal life, and this is the Christ."
Quimby was thoroughly convinced that he made a dis-
covery that would do away with the ills of the human
family, and that in the course of time all the world
'would come to accept this ideal.
To put his discovery into writing, and to teach it, and
to transmit it to generations then unborn, became the
passion of his life. His one great fear seemed to be that
he might die before he could properly teach his discovery
to ot hers.
In six years Dr. Quimby produced ten volumes of
manuscripts. On the subjects. "The scientific interpre-
tation of various parts of the Scriptures." "The process
of sickness." "The relation of God to man," '"Science."
"Error." "Truth," he wrote copiously.
lie gave all his patients access to these manuscripts
and permitted all who wished to make copies!
Dr. Quimhy's writings, as a whole, were never pub
lished. and many of his manuscripts are now in the hands
of his son; and from the manuscripts that still remained
after Dr. Quimby was dead a complete and detailed
philosophy of life and disease can be built.
Certain of his more enthusiastic followers, chief
amongst them being Mrs. Eddy, compared him with
Jesus Christ, but Dr. Quimby wrote a long dissertation
called "A defense against making himself equal with
Christ."
While Dr. Quimby made no attempts to found a church,
hi- impulses at heart were religious impulses; hi fact,
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it seems that Jesus Christ was ever in Dr. Quimby V?
thoughts, and he sincerely believed that he had re-dis-
covered Christ's method of healing men.
Dr. Quimby died January the 16th, 1866, and, like
many another healer, he died of a disease that his dis-
covery could not cure. In the last days of his illness a
physician was called and Dr. Quimby took the medicines
prescribed, without protest, though it should be said, in
justice to Dr. Quimby, that he consented to call in a
physician only through a desire to satisfy the demands
of his family. It seems, while the family circle had the
utmost confidence in the sincerity of the head of the
! ,ouse. and really loved him dearly, not a member of the
family seemed to have any confidence in Avhat he believed
was a marvelous discovery.
MRS. MARY BAKER EDDY
Tn 1<S()1^. after many vain attempts, Mrs. Eddy, who
was the;i. it seems, a hopeless invalid, succeeded in mak-
ing her way to Portland. Maine, and into the office of
Dr. Quimby, On arriving in Portland. Mrs. Eddy was so
feeble she had to be assisted up the stairs and into the
waiting room of the Doctor.
According to witnesses yet living, who chanced to see
Mrs. 1-ddy at this time, and who were in the room when
Mrs. 1
Mrs. 1
her eyes sunken, bearing all the outward indications of
.-) hopeless consumptive. She was introduced to Dr.
Quimby as an authoress, and. Avith her poke bonnet and
old fashioned dress, it took somewhat of a stretch of im-
'. -iiiation to believe that there was very much of the
literary streak in the woman who stood in their presence,
Idy was presented to Dr. Quimby, it seems that
was emaciated, her face pale and worn and
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It seems that Mrs. Eddy began to improve from the
very first treatment, and in three weeks she was ready
to leave the care of Dr. Quimby, professing to have been
made perfectly whole.
In coming; in contact with Dr. Quimby she had found
something else beside physical healing', however. She
found in Dr. Quimby a man who stimulated her thinking:
and brought to her M vision in which, for a time, she
walked like one in a new world. With all avidity she
seized upon the ideas of this kind hearted benefactor, and
over his manuscripts she spent hours. ,
On this and subsequent visits he permitted her to copy
any or all his manuscripts, and he saw in Mrs. Eddy,
then Mrs. Patterson, a woman who could assist him in
the matter dearest to his heart the spreading of his
doctrine throughout the world, and Mrs. Eddy, it seems,
heeame possessed with a consuming' passion to bring'
Quimby ? s philosophy to the attention of all men and
exalt him in the eyes of the world.
Tn the Portland Courier, of Xovember the 7th, 18(i2,
Mrs. Eddy has a long article which became one of many
such articles in which she lauds Dr. Quimby as the dis-
coverer of the age. in which she likens him to Jesus
Christ.
One of the papers, in an editorial answer to this article,
ridicules the whole appeal and heads the editorial. "P. P.
Quimby Compared to -Jesus Christ." and asks the ques-
tion, "What next?"
Mrs. Eddy again took up the cudgel. She wrote in the
Portland Courier :
;< Noticing a paragraph in the Advertiser, commenting
upon some sentences of mine, clipped from the Courier,
relative to the science of P. P. Quimby. concluding-, * What
next?' we would reply in due deference to the courtesy
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with which they define their position. P. P. Quimby
stands upon the plane of wisdom with his truth. Christ
healed the sick, but not by jugglery or with drugs. Ai.
the former speaks as never man before spake, and heals
(! s never man healed, since Christ, is he not identified
with truth? And is not this the Christ which is in him?
We know that in wisdom is life, 'and the life was the
light of man.' P. P. Quimby rolls away the stone front
: he sepulehre of error, and health is the resurrection:.
?>ut we also know that 'light shineth in darkness and
the darkness comprehendeth it not. 7
When Mrs. Eddy returned to Sanbornton '.Bridge. Dr.
Quimby became the central figure of all her conversation.
She sought, everywhere, to persuade the sick to visit
him. and. in many letters to Dr. Quimby, letters which
;ire now in the possession of George A. Quimby, a son
of the Doctor, she speaks of the Doctor in the most
reverential terms and repeatedly speaks of her great in-
debtedness to him.
\Vlien Dr. Quimby died no one felt greater grief than
Mrs. Eddy, and, in a poem dedicated to the memory of
Or. P. P. Quimby. she refers to her teacher and healer
in the following sentiment:
"Heaven but the happiness of that calm soul,
Growing in stature to the throne of God;
Kest should reward him who hath made us whole,
Seeking, though tremblers, where his footsteps trod.'"
Xine years after the death of Dr. Quimby Mrs. Eddy
published her book entitled: "Science and Health."
and in this work she mentions Dr. Quimby only in a
passing way, and makes no reference, whatever, to her
indebtedness to the Portland teacher.
To those who have all the facts in the case there is no
question but what Mrs. Eddy carried from Dr. Quimby T s
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office tin 1 manuscripts which formed the basis of her
took, "Science and Health."
I'p to the year 187."), when "Science and Health'' ap-
peared from the press, Mrs. Eddy, in public speech,
newspaper article, and private correspondence, constant-
ly lauded Dr. Quimby as a discoverer of a great science
and constantly confessed her indebtedness to him for the
ideas which she sought to bring to others.
When "Science and Health" appeared from the press,
iuid she was charged by the Quimby followers with the
rankest sort of plagiarism, Mrs. Eddy turned and re-
pudiated every statement she had ever made, and sought
by every means, fair and foul, to discredit Dr. Quimby.
In the face of all her published letters and newspaper
articles, she charged Dr. Quimby as being* a faker, and
that lie^vas incapable of connected thinking, and instead
of her receiving- anything from Quimby. whatever Qniin-
1-y had of value was copied from her writings.
To throw around these absurd and false claims some-
thing of the miraculous, she tells how during a perio-i
of suffering, when she was given up to die, this revelation
came direct from heaven, and during its reception she
was instantly made whole. By deluded followers of this
fake high priestess all this story, as given by Mrs.
Eddy, "is steadfastly believed. 77
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ITS ORIGINATION
Christian Scientists, generally, believe that Mrs. Eddy
was made the recipient of this new revelation about
February the 1st. 1866. Mrs. Eddy says, in "Retro-
spection and Introspection" which is her autobiography
and of which we will speak later "It was in Massa-
chusetts, February, 1866, and after the death of the
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magnetic Doctor P. P. t^iiimby. . .
discovered the science of divine metaphysical healing.
I have demonstrated on myself, in an injury
occasioned by a fall, that it did for me what surgeons
could not do. Dr. dishing, of this city, pronounced my
injuries incurable and that I could not survive three
days because of it, when on the third day I arose from
my bed. and to the utter confusion of all I commenced
my usual avocations.'
Of this incident in Mrs. Eddy's life there are half a
do/en different versions, all written by Mrs. Eddy.
Earlier in her life she referred to this incident, giving
the Quimby method the credit for her slow recovery.
Later in her life she claimed that the healing was brought
fibout through Christian Science, so-called, and still later
she claimed that it was during this fatal injury that she
received this revelation from heaven, and in the reception
of this revelation she was instantly made whole.
All these different versions to which I have referred,
are given in full in the life of Mrs. Eddy given by Me
Clure's Magazine.
Now. placed over against Mrs. Eddy's conflicting
stories concerning this revolutionary happening in her
life. Dr. dishing, who is yet living in Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, places his affidavit, with facts to substantiate
his claims, which gives the lie to any and all the stories
that Mrs. Eddy told.
According to the affidavit which Dr. dishing makes,
and which is far too long to even give quotations here,
it seems the facts were about these :
Mrs. Eddy had fallen on the icy sidewalk and when
the Doctor arrived she was found to be in a partially un-
conscious, semi-hysterical condition. Dr. Gushing gave
her medicine every fifteen minutes until she was quiet,
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and then ordered medicine to be Driven every halt' hour.
The next day Mrs. Eddy, who was moved to her home,
:ied to hav<' greatly improved, and while the Doctor
called on her each day for several days, he makes solemn
affidavit that at no time did he sugjrest or even intimate
that Mrs. Eddy was seriously injured, much less fatally
injured. When he finally dismissed her he dismissed her
well and in her normal condition.
He further testifies that there was no miraculous
change in Mrs. Eddy's condition on the third day. nor
did she at any time during: this illness surest that she
had received any new truth or revelation.
Dr. Cushinu- further makes affidavit that he called on
Mrs. Eddy three times ajrain in the month of August,
which was more than seven months after she claimed to
have been instantaneously healed, and that at this time
he treated her for a very serious eourh.
Dr. Cushin<r. with his affidavit, presents the records of
his office witli each of these visits recorded, and with the
symptoms and progress of the case and its treatment.
To take all the facts of this controversy and approach
them with an unbiased mind, is to be forced to the eon-
elusion that Mrs. Eddy's own eontradictorv statements
invalidate her claim, either that God miraculously healed
1 er. or that lie there revealed to her the principles of
Christian Science.
Mrs. Eddy says that in lMi(5 sin 1 named her discovery,
''Christian Science." From the manuscripts of Dr.
Quimby it can In' proven that lie called his discoverv,
"Christian Science" as far back as lS(v>. and how much
ier cannot be said.
Xow the question arises, did Mrs. Eddy deliberately
falsify and mislead her followers by claiming that this
e W;;s not tailffht her bv liiai! '/ PossJMv vo- Cr.T)
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better jiuljre the truthfulness or the falsity of these
claims hv turning from tliis whole controversy to ask
another <|uestion. find that is, "what was Mrs. Eddy's
reputation for veracity?
Til is question we will discuss at length in the last part
of this talk, -hist hero we would surest that our read-
ers ponder these facts: Mrs. Eddy was married throe,
rimes, and it isn't known definitely how many times
divorced. She had one child and was considered a vorv
unnatural mother. At the are of live she sent the child
awa.v and saw it no more for seven years. According to
affidavits, several, .Mrs. Eddy brought trouble into more
than one home, and all but succeeded in separating se\ -
eial husbands and wives.
For the first few years that she stood before the world
as a teacher, she was driven from pillar to post, not be-
cause of the truth that she brought, but because of her
solfish, domineering, jealous and underhanded conduct
hi one home where she had been received and cared for,
without money and without price, she all but succeeded
in breaking up the home, and when, finally, the husband
and wife became reconciled and found that Mrs. Eddy
was at the bottom of their trouble, they ordered her to
leave the home. The day she left the Wont worth family
was away from the house for the day. When they re-
turned they found Mrs. Eddy <'ono. but amongst other
things of a ^hockinir nature, of which tho\ irive record
by affidavit, they say, " \Vo found every breadth of matt-
ing slashed up through the middle, apparently with some
sharp instrument ; we also found the feather bed all cut
to pieces, and when we opened the closet door we found a
pile of newspapers almost entirely consumed, with a-
shovelful of dead coals lyinjr on top of them the
only reason that they had not set the house on fire,
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evidently, was because the closet door had been shut,
and because the newspapers had been piled flat and were
folded tijrht."
Mrs. Eddy was in the Went worth home from 18H8 to
1^70. which was more than two years after she claimed
to have received "Science and Health" direct from (iod.
Mrs. AVentworth testifies that during her stay in then-
home she was often ill and confined to her bed. and that
she often treated her, using the Quimby method of
treatment.
In a revival meeting, in Santa Barbara, T related facts
as recorded above, and especially those having to do
with Mrs. Eddy's attempt to burn the AVentworth home.
and a dear old mother on the front seat arose and said.
"What yon say is true, for this occurred in the home
of my own sister."
MRS. EDDY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Under the title of "Retrospection and Introspection, "
Mrs. Eddy gave to the world, in general, and her church,
in particular, the story of her life.
Like every fake prophet, or prophetess, Mrs. Eddy
tries to add all the frills and flounces that an elastic
imagination could possibly weave, or knit, to bolster up
MT blasphemous claims! The Mormon world has been
sadly deceived through the fake autobiography of Joseph
Smith. Mrs. Eddy, following in the footprints of Joseph
Smith, undertook to put across on her deluded followers
an autobiography that was just as "raw." To give our
readers some idea of how unprincipled and IIOAV utterly
unreliable Mrs. Eddy was, we need only refer to a few
of the proven falsehoods of this autobiography.
To beg-in with, Mrs. Eddy tells how she was received
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into the church at twelve years of age. Sin* tells
standing there in the Holy Place, she had a controversy
with a learned doctor of divinity over certain doctrines
which she, unusual child, could not believe or accept.
It seems Mrs. Eddy had a perfect mania for trying- to
connect up every event oP her life with some striking-
event in the life of Christ. When injured and given up
to die, it was on the "third day" that she was instan-
taneously raised as it were from the dead. It was at
the age of twelve that she stood in the Holy Plaee, and,
like our Lord, who at that age confounded the wise men
of His day, hut just as Dr. dishing makes affidavit that
she was not healed on the "third day," and that nothing-
out of the ordinary happened on the third day, so Mc-
( 'lure's Magazine reproduces the page from the church
record showing that Mrs. Eddy was almost seventeen
years of age, instead of twelve, when she joined the
church.
In her autobiography, she gives the picture of the
liome in which she was born, which was a very beautiful
picture, indeed, and McOlure's Magazine stands along-
side this home the picture of the home in which Mrs.
Eddy was born, and the home in which she was born
was a shanty, compared with the home in which she says
she was born.
In this book, referred to, Mrs. Eddy further says that
as a child she was a very remarkable student; that-
early in life she became fluent in three different lang-
nag-es, namely: Hebrew, Greek and Latin, and that,
when this revelation came from Heaven, all three of these
languages left her, and Mark Twain very aptly says,
"She might have likewise stated, and with all apparent
truthfulness, that the Tinted States English, likewise,
left her."
Again, Mc( 'lure's Magazine produces affidavits from
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her classmates, and from her former instructors, proving
beyond question that Mrs. Eddy was irregular in attend-
ing school, and that when she was in the schoolroom she
lolled in her seat and showed every disposition to tail-
end the procession.
To read "Retrospection and Introspection." apart
from any and all facts having: to do with the life of
Mrs. Eddy, would be to readily conclude that Mrs. Eddy
stood out in the world as one of the unique and one of
the specially favored high messengers of the Holy God.
To turn from these high-sounding phrases and this cun-
ningly woven and beautifully bound volume of false-
hoods, to the plain, uncontroverted and substantiated
stack of facts, one is driven, however reluctantly, to the
conclusion that never before, and probably never again,
will the world witness a more brazen attempt to deceive
a nation, and manipulate and make merchandise out of
religion.
When men and women take this woman with her many
husbands, and her known reputation for dividing homes,
her own literature crammed full of deliberate and
j'-alicious falsehoods, backed up with her egotistical,
domineering, jealous, vindictive and intensely selfish ami
fill-consuming ambitions, and place her, as some do.
alongside of .Jesus Christ of Xazareth. it becomes the
r.'Tnst shocking and damnable blasphemy the world has
eye i- known.
However, it may be said to the credit, or- the discredit
of most Christian Scientists, that they do not know
these facts concerning the origination of their religion
and the life of its founder. And this is pretty largely-
true, through the insistent teaching of the religion itself,
that men and women who enjoy the unbroken inspiration
and glorification of Sscience. so-called, must not read
anything antagonistic thereto.
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In other words, to he a jrood Scientist, you must,
ostrich-like, stick your head in the sand pile of so-called
truth and insist that all else is unreal and incidental!
It is characteristic of the devotees of Mormoiiism,
Kddyism, and Russell ism, that they will not honestly in-
vestigate any facts that would in any way reflect on the
integrity of their cult builder.
To Mormoiiism, Joseph Smith was all that he claimed
to he. a man of such sincerity, and purity, and hio'h pur-
pose, that through this jyreat man God chose to send
out His final saving word to the dyin.ir nations of the
world.
To Eddyism, Mrs. Eddy stands out in the world alone,
as the one woman possessed of such hijrh ideas, such sin-
cerity of heart, and such unselfishness of purpose, that
through Mrs. Eddy God chose to send out His final sav-
ing word to the dying 1 nations of the world.
To the Russellites, Pastor Russell stands out in the
world of men as the one man so humble, so consecrated,
rMid so obedient to the Divine will, that unto this man
God has revealed secrets hidden from the angels, and
through this man God has chosen to send out final revela-
tions to prepare the world for the end.
We have now studied something of the origination
of Mormonsim and the lives of its founders. We have
studied something of Christian Science and the life of its
founder.
Xext we shall take up the question of Hussellism.
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TALK NUMBER EIGHT
RUSSELLISM
RrssELLISAI appears from a great many different
sources and under a <rreat many different heads.
Xo religion ever launched, in so far as name and place
are concerned, ever proved quite so elusive or quite so
transitory.
('has. Tax Russell, the founder and sole owner of this
cult, is one of the wizards of the cult kingdom.
Like the proverbial flea, now you see him. and no\y
you don't, and now you have him, and now you don't.
The church does not more than *et him located under
one head until here he is under another.
Here too. there is a reason.
Russellism, as Russellism without guise or jrarb
does not appear very greatly to the average thinking
member of the church, as most members of the church
"know something of the origination of the cult. But, if
Russellism jrets its subtle and fascinating appeals into
the hands of the people, without their suspecting the
source of these appeals, there is a probability that, once
saturated with the Russell istic doctrine of the second
probation and no-hell, these church members will grease
"Pastor" Russell, take off his shoes, pin back his cars,
and swallow him- shady transactions, divorce court pro-
ceedings and all.
Hence the deliberate attempts of the wily old fox to
shove out his car loads of literature under whataver head
is most likely to catch the unsophisticated and unsuspect-
ing multitudes of the Protestant churches.
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Here are a few of the different heads under which.
Russellism appears:
Zoin's Watch Tower, Pittsburgh. Pa.
The Watch Tower and Tract Society. Brooklyn, N. Y.
The People's Pulpit, Brooklyn. N. Y.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle, Brooklyn, X. Y.
The Bible House and Tract Society.
The International Bible Students' League.
The International Bible Students' Association.
The Bible Study Hub, of Xew York, X. Y.
The International Bible Students' Association of Lon-
don. England.
"Pastor" Russell appears in Canada as President of
the International Bible Students" Association, of London,
England, which, brought back to its last analysis, means
''Pastor" Russell cuffs, and collars, and socks, and "no-
bell" literature.
In London. England, he announces himself as pastor
of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Brooklyn. X. Y. (?) and
many leading pastors understood that announcement to
mean, "Dr." Russell, of course, and pastor of the great.
Dr. Talmage Tabernacle, of Brooklyn, and, before the
fraud was discovered, some leading pulpits in England
had been opened to the "self-appointed" pastor.
At a "great" convention of the International Bible
Students' Association, held in Washington, D. f.. some
few years ago. the announcement was sent out through
flie Associated News service, everywhere, that this great
gathering of Bible students, representing the scholarship
f the land, had voted, without a dissenting voice, that
4 hen- was no hell, and that all pastors, everywhere, of
whatever faith, were called upon by this "august" as-
sembly to so preach -md so teach!
A-aiii. when ihe investigation was made, it \va.s found
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that it was "Pastor" Russell, with his jrrip, and collars,
and cuffs, and socks, and no-hell literature.
Some time a<ro Sunday school teachers were notified,
through neatly printed letters, that a Sunday school
periodical was soon to be published from Xew York, and
that all Sunday school teachers who would send in their
names would receive this periodical six mouths free, and
thereafter, if they wished it, for ten cents a year. In-
vestigation proved that it was the sly old fox dropped
down in Xew York, with his rrip, and collars, and cuffs,
and socks, and no-hell literature.
His main works which appear in several volumes
"books that have had a wide sale, for they sell at a very
nominal cost have likewise been shoved and sold under
different heads.
Under the well known title of "Millennial Dawn,"
these books were circulated throughout the nation.
People were warned by pulpit and press to beware
""Millennial Dawn," and the books were guarded against,
and so the wily "pastor" chano-ed the title to the more
modest and more deceptive title under which they now
circulate, that of, "Studies in the Scriptures !"
Tn Towa a prominent club woman, who held official
position in the club kingdom of that state, told me how,
at their meeting of the Federated clubs, a proposition
had been made to them from some ^reat religions asso-
ciation, that if they as clubs throughout the state
would o-et the papers of local circulation, through the
towns and cities, to agTee to run a religious department
each week, this religious association, of an "interdenomi-
national" type, would furnish plate matter free to these
papers, and for the service which these women rendered
in signing 1 up these papers, one department each month
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would be given to tin* publicity work of these clubs
this Interdenominational Association, of course, setting
the stuff for the women and furnishing the plates, a*
usual free of cost to the papers.
These women were elated over such a magnanimous
proposition, made by this great Interdenominational
Association, and plans were under way to close the con-
tract, when someone, somewhere got suspicious. An in-
vestigation resulted, and, as a result of that investigation
it developed that back of it all there were the whiskers,
grip, collars, and cuffs, and socks, and no-hell literature.
And according to these cultites, the end justifies th^-
means, for once they get their hook into the people, re-
cruits and money flow fast!
More subtle than Mormon ism" and more subtle in
operation than Fddyism. is Russellism.
It appears in many guises and under many heads and.
from many sources and many tongues.
"POSTOR" CHAS. TAZ RUSSELL
Of ''Pastor'' Russell's earlier days very little is known.
He first appears on the horizon of human activity as
the affable custodian of a shoe, shirt and sock foundry,
fjt Allegheny, Pa , which business he had inherited from
his father.
Hack in these days, so rumor has it, he was given to
more or less religious controversy, and so-called religious
investigation.
Like .Joe Smith and Mary Baker Eddy, his schooling-
never advanced beyond the rudimentary commonalities
of Readin', and Ritin ', and Rithmatic.
With grey beard and patriarchal appearance, backed
12 p with pleasing personality and a few well worn and
badly abused Greek phrases, he easily led the gullible.
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untrained multitudes, to believe that all wisdom, man-
evolved and God-created, somehow focalized and central-
ized in that shapely head.
For years he posed as a Greek scholar, and when in
one of his many trials, he was asked the point blank
question, "Are you a Greek scholar?" the answer was
in the" affirmative, and positively so.
When the attorneys for the defense passed over a
Greek alphabet and asked him to read the albhabet, he
had to confess, in great confusion, that he did not even
know the Greek alphabet.
He made the mistake that ''Ma'' Eddy did not make.
"Ma" Eddy says that she was not alone well versed
in Greek, but likewise in Hebrew and Latin, and when
this revelation Christian Science came to her it knocked
the Greek, Hebrew and Latin fillin' out of her, so to
speak, and she could talk them no more, forever.
There was no chance to run "Ma" Eddy into the trap
that "Pa" Russell got into.
Like Joe Smith and "Ma" Eddy. "Pa" Russell had
his disappointments and sorrows in the realm of mar-
riage.
All three of these so-railed "Messengers" had their
episodes before the courts.
The Brooklyn Eagle, one of the great dailies of the
east, issued a special edition which was given wholly to
Pastor Russell and the shady chapters of his rather
eventful career.
The Brooklyn Eagle gave the testimony of the divorce
proceedings in which Mrs. Russell sued her husband for
divorce on the grounds of improper conduct toward
other women.
Her decree was readily granted.
The Brooklyn Eagle gave the court proceedings in
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which "Pastor" Russell was again called before the
bar, through an unlawful attempt to defraud his wife
out of her dowry rights.
The Brooklyn Eagle devotes special space to the great-
est advertising or what was attempted as the greatest
advertising stunt "Pastor" Russell ever pulled off.
The publicity tide was running low, and it is probable
with that decline there was a corresponding decline in
the financial returns of the cult enterprise.
One day the religious and secular world was apprised
of the fact that a certain "'Commission" had been formed
"Interdenominational," of course, to make a tour of
the world in an investigation of "Missions." All that
anyone seemed to know, was that this ''Commission"
had been formed; but by whom, or of whom it was to
consist, no one seemed to know.
Much publicity was given the movement, both at home
and abroad. The writer of these articles has been in one
city, away from the home-land, where this "Commission"
stopped.
Leading church. men met the "Commission" and drove-'
it to schools and mission stations, with no question as
to its reliability and integrity of purpose.
These good people were greatly mortified and cha-
grined when they found it was the Russellitc clique, with
the wily old fox at the head.
Around the world this noted (??) "Commission" went,
and finally this painstaking (???) and far reaching in-
Testigatioii was ended, and the commissioners (????)
were landed back on the home shore.
Through such periodicals as the Saturday Evening
Post, with a whole page ad., which cost a lot of money,
this "Commission" reported out to the churches, and
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the world, the utter, and pitiable, and sickening collapse,
of missionary enterprises in the Mission lands.
And, just as this noted (?ft) "Commission" com-
posed of "Pa" Russell, with whiskers, grip, collars, cuffs,
socks and no-hell literature, backed up by a few flunkies,
or stray dogs of the religious kennel, had finished adver-
tising: its great investigatory tour of all lands, and had
its big balloon greatly inflated, something happened and
the old ''gas-bag" fell to the earth as flat and as dry as
M six-year old strip of snake hide.
What had happened'?
Alas and alack, for that noted F.ffTT) "Interdenomi-
national Commission" the Brooklyn Eagle had wind of
Avhat was being planned, and so, at a great expense, it
delegated a special "Investigator" to take the trial of
this noted (???) "Interdenominational Commission" and
salt down the facts.
These facts the Brooklyn Eagle had ready, and when
that big balloon of publicity was shot up from the Rus~
sellite Street Carnival, the Brooklyn Eagle trained its
gun and pulled the trigger, and there was nothing to do
but bury the remains.
According to affidavits, clippings and illustrations ga-
lore, it was shown that while the "Pastor" reported
back an investigation of missionary conditions in land
after land, that about all this commission did was to
change trains, or go from boat to train, or train to boat,
in these lands.
The whole venture was an advertising stunt, impure
and unwise, and was* never intended as a serious investi-
gation of actual conditions in the mission lands.
To the papers, large and small, throughout the nation,
where, through free space and bought space, the Russell
sermons are weekly published, there was sent the usual
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"Pastor" Russell sermon, with an introductory and ex-
planatory note, telling how ''Pastor 7 ' Russell preached
the following sermon in such and such a city, in such
and such a land, to a great crowd, when facts were, as
produced by the Brooklyn Eagle, in city after city where
this "Commission'' reported back great sermons to great
crowds, "Pastor"' Russell did not preach at all, and
when he did preach, in this great advertising tour, it
was the same sermon, practically, all the way around.
With this fake tour, and with the unsavory proceed-
ings of the divorce courts and its subsequent develop-
ments, added to his "Miracle Wheat" episode and other
questionable transactions, the Brooklyn Eagle made life
miserable to the "Pastor" and his no-hell fraternity, and,
finally, patience ceased to be a virtue, and "Pastor"
Russell sued the Brooklyn Eagle for a large sum of
money. When the case was tried, the attorneys for the
"Pastor" warned the jury that "Pastor** Russell was
known around the world, and followed as a man of God
by hundreds of thousands, and that a verdict for the
Brooklyn Eagle would be tantamount to branding
"Pastor" Russell as a fake and a fraud, and thus would
create doubt in the minds of many, but the jury hastily
returned its verdict, aiid the verdict was in favor of the
Brooklyn Eagle.
"PASTOR" RUSSELL'S CLAIMS
To begin with. "Pastor" Russell announces himself
as an "Interdenominationalist," when facts are. he is an
" Anti-denominationalist."
By announcing himself as an "Interdenominatiorial-
is-. " he strikes a popular chord, for the trend of the
jii 1 is toward interdenominational thought and work.
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Were he to announce himself for what he is an
"Anti-denominationalist" he would scare off the wary,
and erect a barrier between his work and the great
church of Christ, which he seeks to proselyte a barrier
that would practically bar him forever from any inroads
into the church.
So. again, there is a reason why he chooses to call
himself an "Interdenominationalist."
Belonging- to no denomination, and calling upon his
followers to withdraw from the organized church of
Christ, he stands out in the religious world as an "Anti-
denominationalist. ' '
Again, when stepping into the limelight as the origi-
nator of a new and better way, with a copyrighted
schedule for divine action, he worked his usual little
gold-brick stunt, by announcing himself as "Pastor"
Russell.
This honored title, by the church bestowed, was used
as a guise under which to operate.
He had no church of his own, and had never been
ordained or appointed by any church, and the title was
self bestowed, and therefore a travesty on the honored
office to which men of God are appointed by the church.
When scathingly denounced by the indignant pulpit
and press for these hypocritical and false pretensions,
he had a certain little handful of his jumping-jacks to
pass through some sort of a farce or tragedy in appoint-
ing him their "Pastor:" so now he claims to be a legiti-
mate child, in the recognized ministry.
In moving to Brooklyn, X. Y.. "Pastor" Russell did
two shrewd things. In the first place, he called his little
two-by-scantling church, "The Brooklyn Tabernacle' 1
(?) and the Dr. Talmage Brooklyn Tabernacle is known
around the world, and naturally, and as was anticipated,
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"Pastor" Russell, through this effrontery and trickery.
came into much of the publicity fruits of the Dr. Talmage
world-wide ministry.
The second wise thing he did wise from his view-
point and purpose was to buy the old Henry Ward
Beecher home, coining: into another sacred circle that
gave him a leverage under the hearts of the people that
counts for him and counts largely.
To men and women who know all the fa<-ts, ''Pastor""
Russell's attempt to parade in the clothes of a Dr. T.
DeWitt Talmage, or a Dr. Henry Ward Beecher, is just
about as incongruous as it would be for a pismire to
undertake to carry a bale of cotton in its mouth.
Pictures of "Pastor" Russell seated in the chair or
the library of the late Dr. Henry Ward Beecher. or from
the "Brooklyn Tabernacle. New York." will naturally
appeal and appeal profoundly to a certain element of
people at home and abroad, and this is only some more
wise turns of the sly old fox for effective publicity.
As an advertiser, ''Pastor" Russell can give the aver-
age advertising specialist the inside track, with a 100-
yard advantage in the get away, and then beat him under
the wire, and by so great a lead that the other fellow
can only be located by the dust.
Through paid space in magazine, newspaper, by leaf-
lets, tracts, booklets and books, the Russellite appeal is
scattered broadcast throughout the land.
From lakes to gulf and coast to coast, you will find
it rather difficult to find a nook, or corner, or valley, or
mountain, where this literature has not crawled.
The end. again, justifies the means, for once men and
women arc reached and once they are converted to the
Russell cult, there is no church to build, and no paid
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ministry to support, but rather, all gifts and they are
many are turned toward the Brooklyn "till."
The Watch Tower and Tract Society, through which
the business end of the Russell cult is handled, has ac-
c >rd ing to evidence introduced at the Russell trial, re-
ceived over two million of dollars in a few short years.
This organization, according; to this testimony, has 50,-
000 voting shares of stock, representing several millions
of dollars, and, of these 50,000 voting shares of stock,
" Pastor" Russell owns 47,000 shares the other 4,OUO
shares being; divided amongst the few men who give the
movement some semblance of an organization, and who
meet once a year to concur in the re-election of "Pastor"
Russell as president and chief manipulator of the widely
advertised Russell wares.
Like Mormonism, and Eddyism, Russellism has ils
forms of organization and its different "officers and
directors." but when it came to the actual question of
authority these puppets of Mormonism. and Eclilyisin,
and Russellism. have about as much weight as does the
average Arkansas backwoodser, when it comes to the
r-'vision of the tariff, or the building of a merchant
marine.
Russellism makes a world of noise over the fact that
no public collection is ever taken in a Russellite service.
This is true for the simple reason that Russell has
found a better way to get money.
Prophesying the end of the age in October. 1014. multi-
tudes of his followers poured their money into his till,
in ever increasing golden streams, and now that that
event has passed and nothing happened, he will concoct
some other porous plaster, by twisted word, or special
revelation, that will draw the coy dollar from the de-
pleted purses of his deluded dupes.
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According to the evidence of the well known trial of
the noted "Pastor" Russell versus The Brooklyn Eagle,
it was found that this noted no-hell and second propa-
gandist, while predict ing the end, and gathering* the
material emoluments of such a prophecy, was also the
head, or the dominant factor, of more than a half dozen
other corporations amongst them a Rubber company,
and a Turpentine company, and an Asphalt company,
and a Lead company, and a Cemetery company, etc., etc.
"Pastor" Russell has crossed the continent on special
trains of palatial Pullman cars, being lauded and ap-
plauded by the Russellite fraternity as though he were
a king.
All this pomp, and splendor, and glitter, and glamor,
with which this noted "no-hellist" and "Seeond-pro-
bationist" has been surrounded, will one day evaporate
and the world will know him for what he is, a false
prophet, prophesying lies.
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TALK NUMBER NINE
THIS is the United States of North America. This
is the land over which floats the Stars and
Stripes.
This is the land in which every man has the right to
worship God according to the dictates of his own con-
science, and if dissatisfied with the God the Christian
worships, he has the right to build for himself a god
that better suits his conventions or conveniences.
America has been the haven of refuge for the oppressed
of all nations, and into this haven multitudes have
poured, bag and baggage, tags and taggage, with all
their kith and kin.
In a religious sense America has become the melting
pot of the world, and the problems of the church of
Jesus Christ are legion, and these problems of the church
of today will be added to for the church tomorrow, and
there will be a corresponding increase in these problems
on and on, until Jesus comes.
To the several score of variated and variegated re-
ligions that these foreign peoples have brought to these
calm and peaceful ( ? ? ? ?) shores, there has been added
a score or more of cults, and isms, and schisms, and
clans, and cliques, and ticks, that the devil has turned
out of his hastily and rudely constructed cult factories-
hero iii the home land.
Amongst all this jar and jangle, rant and wrangle,
created by conflicting creeds and deeds of the cultites.
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there stands loominir high over all the organized
Church <>f Jesus Christ.
With the problems that confront the church, today,
and with the added problems that are to be placed be-
fore the church, tomorrow, it is of supremest importance
that the church of Jesus Christ arise to the emergency,
and definitely get on the job for Christ, and home, and
native land.
The tragedy is, that while the church looms large over
all, it is often true that she looms large in her mag-
nificence and majesty, as about the most dignified,
ossified, petrified and "classified" institution that the
sun shines upon.
Xo. certainly, we do not mean the whole church, or
any large part of it, but there are churches that are so
worldly, indolent, selfish and inactive, that their pitiable
condition is sufficient to make an angel weep.
This is the one secret of the rapid growth of the cult
world, or kingdom.
If the church of Christ were thoroughly consecrated,
and aggressively evangelistic, ringing out on the whole.
Bible as the inspired truth, there would be very little
soil in which these cliques and ticks could propagate
their species.
With a spirit-filled, and spirit-led, and a Bible-taught
church, these cultites would stand just as little chance
for finding proselytes in the average Christian church,
as a brain specialist would have of finding brains in the
head of the average society girl !
This is the land of liberty, so we sing and so we teach.
Some men and women, however, have ever confounded
liberty with lawlessness, and their ideas of liberty carry
with them the right to re-write the Bible, re-set all the
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nial guide-posts, slap God in the face, and run riot,
ally.
There is such a thing- as "religious intolerance, "
which is destructive to the highest ideas of the Christian
faith.
On the other hand, there is such a thing: as compromis-
lamby-pamby "religious tolerance," that may spell
OUT great disasters in the religions life of a nation.
Christianity restricted, despised and persecuted, h:is
:i Christianity pure and powerful, while Christ-
ianity unrestricted, praised and popularized, has always
Christianity powerless, fruitless, impure an-3
pitiable.
t*ld proverb reads. "God gfives liberty, but the
d-'-vil gives liberties. '"
God intends that men and women should be free with-
in the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount,
and the Thirteenth Chapter of 1st Corinthians; but the
d-'-vil seeks to have old humantiy take liberties with the
'y which God gives.
Thus a million crimes have been committed against
God and humanity under the beautiful cloak of liberty.
These cult builders not alone demand the right to think
act entirely independent of the plainly written
"\Vord of (iod. but they hold it as their right, also, to
take the inspired and infallible truth and manipulate it
and mutilate it as they choose.
Further, they reserve the right to place alongside the
Bible their ludicrous concoction of consummate asinine
falsehoods, and for this ludicrous concoction they have
had the brazen effrontery to claim equal authority with
the Holy Bible.
The attempt of these cultites to substitute for the
Bible is a subtle and satanic effort to discredit the Holv
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Bible and to subvert the faith of the child of God.
Apart from the special revelation which each claims
he or she received from heaven, neither of these cults
would have one word of authority with which to bolster
up its religious framework, or, more correctly called,
"frameup."
Mormonism, Eddyism, and Ilussellism, are the "Laza-
rus-triplets" of the Twentieth century, in that tley are
found lying on every church door step, begging the
passers by, to hear, and heed, and join them, ere they die.
They are the three most notorious proselyters of the
world's history, and, like Lazarus, they actually exist on
the crumbs that fall from the average church table.
Mormonism, and Eddyism, and Russellism, are made
up almost exclusively of men and women who have sifted
and drifted from the organized church of Christ.
THE SURE PREVENTIVE
These three great cults are before the American church.
Practically every community knows something about
sonic of these cults, while most communities know a grear
deal about all three of them.
It is only a question of time until every community
will Irave these proselyting wolves howling in the yard
of the church and standing at the door of the home.
These cults cannot be ignored, for the simple reason
hat they p i fer nothing belter than that they be allowed
to continue i/ieir underhanded work of destruction, with-
out publicity or detection.
Again, if you leave them alone they will not leave you
alone.
In seeking to protect the church from the specious ap-
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peal of these cultites a dram of preventive is worth more
than a whole ocean of cure.
In fact, when a Protestant church member crawls into
the cult hole he usually takes the hole in after him, and
to try to get the saving: Gospel of Jesus Christ through
all the barriers that stand between the soul-saver and
lhat cult convert, is just as fruitless an undertaking
as to try to shoot the Gospel into the benighted heart
of the average cigarette sucking buck or dancing buckess
of the ordinary bung-tung society circle.
When a man or woman swallows "Grandpa" Smith,
oi 1 "Ma" Eddy, or "Pa" Kussell, there is a certain im-
portant part that the devil seems to play, through which
the swallowing process is carried out with very little
suffering to the patient, and after which there seems to
come profound slumber, or stupefaction, that continues
until death.
The prayer that mother taught us is changed, in the
cult kingdom, to read:
"Xow T lay me down to sleep,
\Vhile all around me cultites creep;
If I should die before I wake,
All that remains the cultites take."
\Vhile many thousands of men and women have event-
ually been saved from the ranks of the cultites. to be
received back into the organized church of Christ, most
of them have returned, it seems, not through any appeal
made from the outside, but rather through a disillusion-
ment and an awakening that came throuirh the hypo-
crisies and dishonesties of those of the inside.
Tt is a fact also, and a sad fact, that most of these
returning prodiirals return with faith shattered and must
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bo scut to the hospital of the church, rather than to
the battle front.
The only hope for multitudes in the church is that
teachers and preachers shall bring them the truth con-
e"rninir these cult movements in advance of the coming
<if these workers from the cult kingdom.
This is a forlorn hope in some communities, for if the
cultite should postpone his coming until fifteen hundred
cars after (iabriel blew his horn, he would arrive fifteen
hundred years before some preachers and teachers got
to the people with (jod's truth about these damnable
heresies.
If the seven-year-itch were eternal life, generally pre-
valent and highly contagious, some people in pulpit and
pew would not be able to catch it in a million years.
The eultites cannot get a footing 1 , much less grow, in.
:i community where the people are vaccinated, fumigated,.
and saturated, with the whole Bible and with facts con-
rnimr the snbtlty of these 1 cult appeals.
To begin with, the people must be thoroughly indoctri-
nated with a whole Bible all its fundamental truths.
While it is true that it is often the spiritually minded
who chase off after these fads of the cult world, it is
never the spiritually taught. The spiritually minded
ire always the most susceptible of all religions dupes.
iMiloss their spiritual mindedness is backed up and
j-ed about with an intelligent urasp on the iinchanu 1 -
iiiu 1 and unchangeable verities of (lod's book.
While we are seeking, on the one hand, to teach our
men and women the fundamentals with which the cultite
plays last and loose, we must also kindly and plainly
lay before the people the as1 ound mir and rll but rinbo-
lievable tacts having to do with the origination, manipu-
lation, and propagation, of the cult faith.
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To insist that to warn the unsophisticated of the
household of faith concerning these cunningly con-
structed combinations of falsehood, is to the more quick-
ly alienate men and women from the church and from
Christ, and the more quickly drive men and women to
the cult cliques, is to mouth over the self-worn, moth-
eaten excuses that the average indolent, lazy lout has to
offer who is too preoccupied with society, or too badly
affected with the "setter-itis," to guide the people or
guard their soul's eternal intersts.
There will be more or less of a commotion in the aver-
age church, where scores of men and women are hanging
on the edges of cultdom (and who will eventually go
over to the cult kingdom), when a preacher gets up and
fires into the ranks of these proselyting cult movements;
Imt, those who go out under such a commotion are those
who will eventually go anyway, and they had better be
gotten rid of before they succeed in infecting the whole
church body with their cult virus.
The enemy on the inside is a thousand times more
dangerous than the enemy on the outside.
If I were a pastor, just so soon as I found that any of
my members were infected with the "cult-phobia," I
would seek to isolate them, and if there was no chance
to cure them of their "cult-phobia" I would cut the
diseased part off the church" body, by amputating them
from the church roll.
The pastor who lets these cult workers and sympa-
thizers run unrestricted through the ranks of his church
membership, for fear that to denounce them would be to
offend some men and women who chance to sympathize
with these cultites, is a thousand times less excusable
than the shepherd that refuses to kill the wolves, or inter-
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MMCftOFT UBIABY
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fere with their killing the sheep, for fear that some of
the sheep may he in sympathy with the wolves.
A non-committal attitude on this question may be
chargeable to an honest attempt to do the wise and best
thin"-, but more often is traceable to incompetence, ignor-
ance, or spiritual criminality and sometimes, we fear,
to all three, with indolence thrown in.
The time to lock the door is before the horse is stolen.
There is no use preaching against the dangers of an
unlocked barn, after the barn has been stripped of every
living animal but the chicken mites.
"We do not believe in calling all hands to kill the
wolves, when there are no wolves, but we do believe in
a lecture occasionally on wolves, and a little preparation
for warding ofi attack when they come, especially so if
they are running at will through the land, and reports
indicate that tney are headed our way.
What should the church be taught?
First, the church should be taught that the Bible is a
completed revelation, and all that is necessary to save
the race is written there, where all can read and under-
stand.
Second, the church should be taught that when any
man or woman comes knocking at the door with a pro-
fessed "Newer Revelation" with a so-called "key" with
which to unlock their particular brand of religion, it can
be marked down as an uneontrovertible fact that that
religion is of the devil.
Mormon ism. Eddyism, and Russellism, belong in this
category, and the man with aferage intelligence needs
only to ponder the following facts to be thoroughly con-
vinced of their satanic origin.
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A FINAL REVIEW
We have found that there is no exposition that brings
greater revelation to the average worshiper, or that
more thoroughly convinces the average man that these
""Isms" all flow from one foul source, than that which
stands three great cults side by side with their striking
and damnable similarities exposed.
Preachers, everywhere, should ring out loud and long
on these similarities.
FIRST : The churches, everywhere, should be taught
that each of these cults, has its own distinct field, and,
assiduously and indefatigably, each, in turn, is work-
ing the field that the head of eultdom has assigned each
to work.
These cults could work without perceptible conflict in
the average community, not because they are agreed on
the doctrines they bring, for there is not one essential
doctrine on which they agree, but they could work side
by side, for the simple reason that they have their dis-
tinct classes to which they appeal, and there is a very
little overlapping.
Mormonism appeals to the ignorant, unthinking
masses.
Fddyism appeals to the " high-fly ing r? classes.
Russellism appeals to the people who stand between
these other two extremes.
Each of these cults brings a message that specially
appeals to the distinct class to which it goes, and these
three cults cover the whole of humanity's several levels,
tjs the waters cover the sea !
SECOND: The churches, everywhere, should be
taught, that these cults flow from fountains that are
impure.
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Mormonism flows from a loud smelling fountain.
Eddyism flows from a loud smelling fountain.
Russellism flows from a loud smelling fountain.
A druggist had a barrel of moth balls poured into his
show window with a sign over them "FIVE CENTS
PER POUND."
A darkey entered with, "Boss gimmie 5 cents woff of
th'm brefflets. "'
It is possible that the founders of the cult kingdom
eat moth balls for "brefflets," but even then, it would
take something more than moth balls and lime to cover
up some of the loud-smelling places in the life work of
most of the builders of the cult world and this, too,
after these men and women professed to become God's
special channels of truth to the world.
Can a fountain that is confessedly impure send forth
waters that are pure, and clean, and sweet?
In the cult world the answer is a positive "yes."' but
everywhere else, it is an emphatic "NO."
THIRD: The churches, everywhere, should be taught
that down through the centuries, since Christ died, holy
men of (Jod have taught us that the Bible contains
Uod's saving truth for all ages, and that saving truth
is so plainly written that a "fool need not err therein;"
but each of these cults brings some added revelation,
which places (tod's book in a secondary place, or. re-
arranges Hod's book and rewrites God's book, to fit the
hodge-podge, or hocus-pocus of their cheap imitation.
There is no room for compromise here.
If Mormonism is right, and it brings God's final Avord
of saving truth to the world. Eddyism and Russellism
are malicious and damnable lies.
If Eddyism is right, and it brings God's final word
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of saving truth to the world. Mormonism and Russellism
are malicious and damnable lies.
If Russellism is right, and it brings (iod's final word
of saving truth to the world. Mormonism and Eddyism
are malicious and damnable lies.
And. if God's word is true, just as it stands, bearing
to the world (-{od's saving truth, clearly written, so that
a fool may run and read and understand, Mormonism,
Eddyism, and Russellism. are alike, in that they are
malicious and damnable lies.
There is no use to smooth over and gloss over this
issue.
There must be no meaningless palaver here.
The man who compromises with a cult that attacks
the integrity of the church and the deity of Jesus Christ
is a pusillanimous puppet a betrayer of the church and
the Christ of the church.
FOURTH: The churches, everywhere, should be
taught that each of these cults makes an attack on the
Deity of -Jesus Christ.
In Mormonism, Jesus Christ was one of many Saviors.
We may become a Savior, too. and not alone be instru-
mental in saving the living, but, by being baptized for
the unsaved dead, we can wash away their sins and
prize them into heaven.
Christ's blood, shed on Calvary, was not for our sins,
but for the sins of Adam.
In Eddyism. Christ died as an example of perfect love.
His blood, shed on Calvary's cross, had no more to do
with our sins than when it was flowing in His veins.
In Russellism. Christ's death on the cross was a man's
death, and nothing more.
The man Christ Jesus was annihilated on the cross.
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-and the body did not rise from the dead probably was
dissolved into gas!
Thus these cults not alone substitute for the Holy
Bible, but they substitute for the Christ of God, the
world's Redeemer, whom God has sent.
FIFTH: The churches, everywhere, should be taught
that, while each of these cults profess to bring- God's
saving truth to these last days, each in turn has been
worked to the limit on the question of the dollar, and
each lias turned millions of dollars into the hands, or
the pockets, of its founders.
In each of the cult movements all moneys have centered
back into the pockets, or the hands, of the man, or wo-
man, who founded the movement, and, in all the history
of the world, never have three religions been made mer-
chandise out of or never have the deluded dupes of a
religious movement, been made merchandise out of as
in Mormonism, Eddyism, and Russellism.
With "special" and "exclusive" revelation for sab%
each has had a "gold-brick" swindle with which to work
the "workable" millions of the nation, and through
their "special" revelations they have been able to secure
an all but unlimited supply of cash.
Apart from the "special revelation" which each claims
Mormonism, and Eddyism, and Russellism, would never
have been heard of.
SIXTH : The churches, everywhere, should be taught
that these cults hold out to the, prospective convert a
special bonus that the Bible does not authorize and the
convert never receives.
Mormonism offers what is tantamount to free reign to
lust, a chance to work out our salvation and a chance
to become saviors for men alive and dead, with a heaven
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in which lust is glorified, and in which there is a fine
prospect for one to become a sure enough god.
Eddy ism offers deliverance from all aches and pains,
all sorrows and cares, all fear of death, or judgment,
or hell, or damnation. In fact, anything you want, the
Eddyite will offer you.
Russellism offers a second chance for all, on the other
side the grave, and annihilation if you refuse the second
chance. This offer has a human Christ and a human
sacrifice back of it.
Apart from their tl special revelations," which they
have to sell to the people, of course, they have no au-
thority for their promises which they hold out, but, with
their "special revelation 77 they have the credentials,
sufficiently authoritative for some, with which to back
up tlieit' loud claims.
If a fellow decides that the organized church of Jesus
Christ is a swindle, and the Bible a lie, and the cult
world lias the truth that saves, he has then got to decide
which of these three lias the truth, for they haven't all
got it. for in doctrine they are the antipodes of religious
teaching and thought.
The day of the cult kingdom's overthrow has come,
when the church of Christ gets on the job, w T ith an in-
telligent and continuous campaign having to do with the
subtleties and the blasphemies, and the tragedies, of
the cult world.
Now is the time for the church to act NOW.
