Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding.

  • Feilding, Alice.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dangerous suggestion, for there are doubtless some parents among Mrs. Eddy’s loyal thou- sands who might think themselves justified by the above receipt in attempting development of their ‘ babes ’ in the water as well as on dry land. That the doctrines set forth in Mrs. Eddy’s Key to the Scriptures must be accepted in toto, the following paragraph proves :— ‘ If mathematics present a thousand different examples of one principle, the proving of one example authenticates all the others. A simple statement of Christian Science, if demonstrated by healing, contains the proof of all here said of it. If one of the statements in this hook is true, every one must be true, for not one departs from its system and rule 71 (p. 539). Having thus discussed at sufficient length the tenets of this strange sect, the reader may care to hear something of the origin of the movement—the details of which origin are by no means of insignificant import. Preliminarily, however, I would refer very briefly to the circumstances which gave rise 1 The italics are the author’s.