Mrs. Plunkett and Mrs. Hopkins are travelling over the land, professedly teaching Christian Science, and deluding their victims with the thought that they possess it, pure and simple. When they consider it be for their advantage, they claim to be Rev. Mrs. Eddy's students; but otherwise, they deny her teachings,— or, worse than that, they vilify her.
To the public be it said, that their journeying is done for the ducats, and not in the interest of the Cause; and the many people taught by them, in the cities and towns of the West, are mourning over a victimized condition, or else loudly proclaiming that Christian Science is a humbug.
It is said that they both belong to a theosophical society. Now theosophy is the very opposite of Christian Science, bearing the same relation to it that mortal mind does to the Immortal Mind. Theosophy is a sense of dominion of the human mind. It is dangerous, because of the claim of this mind to power. Theosophy is only another name for Animal Magnetism. When students of Christian Science enter into fellowship with this error, they cease to be Christian Scientists. Nay, more! they prove that they could never have been true Scientists.
