Whether or not the impetus has come from Christian Science,...

New York World

Whether or not the impetus has come from Christian Science, the fact is undeniable that along with an increase of materialistic opinion and counteracting it, there has been a remarkable development of religion on the purely spiritual side. Belief in the efficacy of prayer to cure has become more prevalent, and there is a wider reliance on supernatural healing. The Emmanuel movement is seen, in the light of the proceedings of the Cincinnati convention, to have been symptomatic of a general growth in the church of faith that disease may be cured by spiritual means. Faith-healing was the foundation stone of early Christianity. The return of one element of the church to this original tenet after twenty centuries, and in an age of rationalistic opinion, proves its remarkable vitality as an essential of religion.

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