How often we see it stated in sermons against Christian Science, and in articles criticising its ways and methods, that the healing in Christian Science is done through hypnotic suggestion.
with contributions from Jeremy Taylor, George MacDonald, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Epictetus, Henry James, Tolstoi, George William Curtis, Lowell, Addison, Seneca
A good life is the best way to understand religion and wisdom, because by the experiences and relishes of religion there is conveyed to them such a sweetness to which all wicked men are strangers.
How very many people there are in this world who honestly and sincerely believe that God sends sickness and various kinds of affliction upon them for some reason, they know not what, but out of which they are trying to hope and believe that some good will come if they endure patiently.
Every time some one dies of an incurable disease who has pinned his faith on Christian Science the opponents of that cult put on their war paint and strike out vigorously.
The Christian Scientists, faith curists, and people generally who choose to receive attendance in their own way or go without it when sick, have secured a distinct victory in the liberal state of Illinois, where it is held by the attorney-general that mental methods of treating diseases are not in violation of the law.
Christian Science has won a victory in Illinois where the attorney-general has rendered a decision that no offence is committed by the treatment of a patient by mental or spiritual methods where no medicine is used.
