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scientific sense of the healing recorded in the fifth chapter of Mark which has come to me in the measure of my present understanding of Christian Science, I trust may prove as valuable to some one else in the healing of mental disease as it has been to me.
The symposium in a recent issue of The Examiner, in which Christian Science is frequently referred to, is interesting as an evidence of the fact that after forty years of Christian Science practice in this country, during which time practically every kind of functional and organic disease has been healed through divine power alone, the ministers of some of the churches are admitting that the healing of the body as well as the saving of the soul is included in the Christian ministry, and should be practised to-day if the teachings and example of Christ Jesus and his early disciples are to be followed.
In a sermon, a synopsis of which recently appeared in the News, the clergyman is reported as deploring the fact that a young boy and his parents sought God, rather than the medical doctor, in his affliction.
