The Washington Herald, 1911

"Raps Christian Science"

"Declaring the religion of the Hindoo people to be the philosophical undergirding of Mrs. Eddy's religion, Rev. Dr. Homer Stuntz, of New York, a secretary o the Board of Foreign Missions..."

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"took occasion to bestow several carefully aimed raps at Christian Science last night during the course of a sermon at Douglas Memorial Church, where the Baltimore M.E. Conference held its only official meeting"
"In explaining the faith of the Hindoos, which he described as Pantheism, making God everything and idolizing God, Rev. Dr. Stuntz carefully explained the fundamental principles of Christian Science as founded by Mrs. Eddy"
"He declared that when Mrs. Eddy founded her religion she unconsciously took the very principles of the Hindoo faith and converted them into her own religion"
"Despite her active brain and her foresight, he declared, MRs. Eddy was all the time unconscious that the very foundations of her religion were based on heathen teachings"

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Vermont Telegraph, 1838

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St. Croix Avis, 1921

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The Detroit Times, 1910

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"The dumping place for the scum of the orient and India is San Francisco"

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"From this port the scum is distributed throughout California, Washington and Oregon. The scum of the orient is the Hindu. Dirty, dressed with yards of filthy white, green or blue cotton bound around the head..."
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The Cairo Bulletin, 1908

"LEFT HOME TO JOIN FANATICS"

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"Mystic Yoga Doctrine"

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"His wife, whom he still loves, has 'withdrawn' from the world, her husband and her family to pursue the Yoga philosophy, a mystic teaching said to be imported from India"
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Corvallis Times, 1905

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