One
of the distinctive features of the Christian Science movement, and one which has perhaps done a great deal to attract the attention of the world, is the spirit of wholesome optimism which the adherents of this religion radiate.
Meteorologists
were somewhat interested at one time, it is said, in a possible device for dispelling tornadoes—something to establish a counteraction and prevent or scatter the approaching storm.
The hundreds of thousands of people who constitute the rank and file of the Christian Science movement had given the laws of hygiene and materia medica a fair trial before turning to Christian Science; many of this number had been pronounced incurable by physicians.
As the words "Hypnotism and Christian Science" appear coupled together in a paragraph in a recent issue of Standard, I feel sure you will allow me to state that Christian Science is the very opposite of hypnotism, and to give some of the reasons for this statement.
