# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1906_S515
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Kirchlich⸗Zeitgeschichtliches. 515

Campbellite-Christian; for Christ will have no partnership in such a
matter. We must give whole-hearted, undivided allegiance to Him, or He
will have none of us. We cannot follow other leaders in religion and follow
Him too.“ Das ist gewiß richtig, daß Gott von keinem Christen haben will,
daß er ein Methodist oder Baptist oder Disciple oder Campbellite sein soll,
weil eben diese und viele andere Sekten falsche Lehre führen. Wohl aber
will Gott, daß jeder ein solcher Christ sei, wie ein rechter Lutheraner es ist,
der eben in allen Stücken der Lehre dem Worte Gottes recht gibt. F. B.

Typical Trick of Eddyism.“ Der Lutheran Watnéess schreibt: Under
this heading the Veth Forh Times of June 28, 1906, has the following to
say: We made reference yesterday, as gently as we could, to the receipt
of several letters that pretended to be spontaneous outbursts of indignation
from old readers at our maltreatment of their “religion.“ There vere
eight of these letters, then, all making precisely the same points. Up to
the moment of writing we have received twelve more of like tenor. In one
of the twelve, perhaps the most spontaneous and indignant of the Iot, the
writer had been careless enough to inclose something that threw almost
blinding light over this sudden increase of our mail. It was a carbon
copy of a typewritten letter of instruetions and read as follows: Write
a letter marked personal on the envelope to. . , editor Veιἀ— Vorl Vimes.
Say that you regret the attacks on C. S. which he allows to appear in
Tye Times. Say that you have not seen similar attacks on other religious
faiths, and that you do not feel that C. S. deserves to be picked out for
attack. Say that you cannot put into the hands of your children à news-
paper which — desirable and pleasing in every other way — attacks the
religion of the family. Tell him that investigation will prove Christian
Seientists to be respectable, law-abiding people, worthy of courteous treat-
ment. Religion is à sacred belief, not to be attacked without violating
the rights of the believer. Ete., etc.— P. S. Add to the letter that you
have asked friends of your owWn and other C. S. churches to write to him.“
And such is Christian Seience,“ and such are Christian Seientists!“
The whole miserable little plot is laid bare by aceident! Mrs. Eddy's
representative in this eity, having vainly tried by direct menace and
appeal to silence our criticism of her and his combination of fraud and
delusion, issues orders to a lot of docile dupes to see what they can do
in the guise of old subseribers and former admirers. He tells them just
what to write and to whom, and they do it. The likeness to a recent trick
played on Congress by the Standard Oil Company is instantly obvious.
Not one of these intelligent“ votaries of truth' — no, „Truth“ — hesi-
tated à moment to attempt to deceive us, not one of them had a single
idea 50 express that had not been supplied by the Eddyite press agent,
and not one of them had the brains to see that in charging us with a
guddenly developed animosity to*Christian Science“ he or she disproved
his or her claim to being an old reader of The Times. We have kept all
these letters as curiosities of literature and morals. We are not eruel
enough to print the names and addresses of the writers — for which utterly
undeserved charity and kindness they owe us sincerest thanks if they
are able to see the humiliation of the situation into which the carelessness
of one of their number has placed them. We remain of the opinion, long
since reached, that everyChristian Seientist“ ought to be in à jail or a
Iunatic asylum.““