Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding.

  • Feilding, Alice.
Date:
1899
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    with either in theory or practice; their writings, moreover, display the most hopeless confusion of thought and terminology as regards the relative and the absolute. It should, however, be pointed out that startling results often ensue from their practice, both good and bad ; for there is no doubt that, owing to the vigorous mental activities in- voked, great and far-reaching forces may be called into play often with serious consequences. It is freely admitted also that there are certain comparatively rare cases in which individuals have derived considerable benefit physically as well as mentally from the treatment. Dormant spiritual faculties are sometimes awakened into activity in such a way as to transform both character and health. In many such cases, however, even better results would no doubt have been produced by a similar process directed by a more rational and thorough system, free from the vagaries of ‘ Christian Science.’ An abnormal state of egotism and self-righteousness tending to undermine the ordinary powers of discrimination and judg- ment is often developed by the methods of