The Church of St. Bunco

This book aims to show that the foolish and pestilent thing termed «Christian Science» is a leech fastened upon these great truths, mostly, if not wholly, to batten on them. There is no use in saying this to «Christian Scientists» themselves—an obedient chain gang in hypnotic servitude. But people who are not already «in Science» (to use the shibboleth of those who are), ought to be prompted not to get there. In this book, the author points out that the best way, in general, is to show that even the historical and biographical claims at the base of the movement are false. If the personal veracity of the head of a church cannot be trusted, «divine revelations,» «miracles» and «mental medicine,» proceeding from such a source, will naturally be accepted only by the very soft, or else by the very hard for solid considerations.