Christian Science Mind-healing is entirely different from the various forms of mental healing which employ the human will or depend upon the supposed power of the human mind.
The results of Christian Science practice are not accomplished through blind belief or through the operation of suggestion, auto-suggestion, or other phases of hypnotism.
The Christian Scientist does not, as a rule, undervalue the service which the intelligent and self-sacrificing physician renders to his fellow-man, therefore he can read the report of Dr.
The charge that the Christ-healing was the work not of God, but of the devil, was brought long years ago against the great Founder of Christianity himself, and he warned the faithful followers of his time that they too would be relieved, and the good they should do be attributed to Beelzebub.
"And I sought, whence is evil: I set before the eye of my spirit the whole creation: whatsoever we see therein,—sea, earth, air, stars, trees, moral creatures,—yea, and whatsoever there is we do not see,—angels and spiritual powers.
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people are familiar with the story of Peter's attempt to walk on the water, but the Master's gentle rebuke for his failure to continue doing so, is of special interest to Christian Scientists.
