Telepathy is defined in the Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia as "the direct communication of one mind with another otherwise than in ordinary and recognized ways; the supposed action of one mind on another at a distance without the use of words, looks, gestures, or other material signs; also, the resulting mental state or affection.
There are in the world today thousands of practitioners, and the healing work of Christian Science proceeds apace, yet the cases of failure are relatively few.
Any attempt to explain Christian Science from the view-point of malicious animal magnetism is analogous to an effort to describe the nature and origin of light by peering into darkness.
I am willing to agree with the gentleman that no cult is able to reach fully the needs of humanity; but Christian Science is not a cult in the sense in which he is using this term; it is a science, and preeminently Christian, as it is based on the teachings of Jesus the Christ.
Religious teachers frequently and perhaps unconsciously take advantage of the fact that the term "salvation" is susceptible of very broad interpretation, at least in a religious sense.
Not
long ago, while speaking with a fellow-teacher about the element of chance which entered into a game that the boys were playing on the school grounds, she remarked, "Well, life is a gamble.
At
the outset of my inquiry into Christian Science I was faced with the apparently unusual use of certain words, and found it impossible to assimilate the teaching which was to be conveyed.
Students
of Christian Science sometimes hamper their earnest efforts to rise above evil by condemning themselves, rather than condemning the various forms of evil which they have not yet outgrown.
