CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
THE TRIUMPH OF MIND OVER MATTER. "The American crusade against healing by Christian Science is stirred up by the doctors. They find their occupation going.' Thus Mr. William Nicholas Miller, a pillar of the " First Church of Clirist, Scientist," in Bryanston-street, London. A grey-haired, grey-moustached American, immaculately dressed, he spoke frankly and simply of his creed with every appearance of sincerity. "I have ' heen a Christian Scientist for eleven years, and during that time I havs hever paid a shilling for doctors for mysell or for my family," he said. "We have no quarrel with the doctors. We simply believe that their system is wrong. Christiani Science is not faith-healing. _ The radical diflerence is that faith-healing is the influence of one mind over , another, while Christian Science is the power of Godthe One Mintl —through whicli the healing is efiected. Ii I told you that I could cure you myself I should be assuming-to do what God does. We hold, as Huxley held, that there is no matter, only mind. When a man feelspam he feels it in' the mind, not, as he thinks, in the body. A sick person is cured by simply dispelling the idea of the illness oi his mind. I pinched my thumb the othei day. It pained until I dispelled in my mind the idea that I felt pain } and it pained no . longer. Christian Science is just a revival of what was practised by Jesus. His method of healing was in vogue for about 30(! years after the time of Christ, and was only abandoned by reason of the dense materialism of the people. It is the religion of. the future. In America its members are in th« > neighbourhood of a million. There are 301. * members in London, and many adherents : * and the w ork is spreading in the provinces. > Our members are of all classes. Ladies ant servant-maids sit side by side in our churcli, * Lord ana Lady JJ un more attend in Bryan-ston-street; Lady Victoria Murray takei charge of the work in Manchester ; and Lad;j Ashbourue is one of our ' readers,' or pastors I would not be without Christian Science f oi: the world." • • _
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11620, 6 April 1901, Page 3
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