Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding.

  • Feilding, Alice.
Date:
1899
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    evidence of my existence’1 (p. 69, Science and Health). I may also add dentistry to the sur- gical limits, as even the most experienced ‘ Science practitioners ’ have to avail them- selves of this branch of a despised and con- demned art when their teeth want repairing, or, being beyond possibility of repair, require abstraction.2 It is a noticeable fact that this limit in cases of bond fide surgical need is common to all ‘ faith healing ’ systems, and it demonstrates the plain fact that all of them attain their results in accordance with and through the 1 Referring to p. 400 of Science and Health, I find the follow- ing statement and explanation: ‘ Christian Science is always the most skilful surgeon, but surgery is the branch of its healing that will be last demonstrated.’ 2 Extract from an article on ‘ Christian Science ’ in the Interior of April 11, 1896: ‘A prominent Boston dentist was called from his bed at two o’clock one morning to go to the relief of a lady who was suffering the agonies of toothache. He went, relieved her pain, and went again during the day to do something more to the teeth. He had not taken much notice of the name given him at his first visit, but on reaching the house the second time, his eye fell on the door-plate, and he found that he had been called in such hot haste to relieve the pain of one who makes a handsome income by teaching that there is no such thing as pain. His patient was a shining light of “ Christian Science,” but she could not cure her toothache.’