In two recent issues you gave space to reports of a lecture by one who claims to expound the "difference between real spiritual healing and the healing practiced by various cults, such as New Thought, Christian Science, and the Yogi Philosophers.
Christian Science healing is not brought about by suggestion or auto-suggestion, as is supposed by a contributor, writing in an issue of your paper of recent date.
It is a hopeful sign, indeed, when a prominent clergyman selects the cure of disease as a subject of discourse, for the early Christian church concerned itself very vitally with healing the sick, and the fact that the church in modern times has delegated that function to the medical profession may be more responsible for empty pews than is generally suspected.
The recent lecture against Christian Science strikes the Capital as being about the most offensive display of poor taste that has come to its attention for a long time.
