The Christian Scientist effects the healing of both sin and disease without any dependence upon the "faith" of the patient in his efforts, and most emphatically without the aid of the action of the human mind either upon the mind or the body of the patient.
Unless I misunderstand the critic whose letter I have read in a recent issue, he has given the most logical reason possible for his friend's having turned to Christian Science.
I note in a recent issue the account of a discussion of hypnotism and mesmerism before the Philosophy Club of your city, in the course of which the speaker attempted to explain that the "essential principle of healing is identical in Christian Science, New Thought, and the Emmanuel movement.
The
writer has noticed frequently that those who have received benefits through the understanding of Christian Science are much more willing to relate their experience to a friend than they are to give testimony of the same at the Wednesday evening meetings.
Viewed
in the spiritual light of Christian Science, it is natural and logical for things to take on a much deeper meaning than is generally attached to them, and thus the definition of sin comprehends far more than is meant by the ordinary interpretation of that word.
Twice
a year announcement is usually made in the branch churches of Christ, Scientist, that persons desiring to unite with the Christian Science church will be given an opportunity to do so at the forthcoming communion service.
