Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding.

  • Feilding, Alice.
Date:
1899
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    the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness ; hence, man is spiritual and not material’ (<S*. and H. p. 464). And finally, we come to the second of the prefatory questions which concerns the founda- tion of this novel creed, after which I hope to have somewhat cleared the ground for a con- sideration of the extent to which Mrs. Eddy and her co-religionists can substantiate their claim to call their system first ‘ Christian,’ and secondly a ‘ Science.’ On what then is ‘ Christian Science ’ founded ? On the Scriptures, as illumined to Mary Baker Eddy, whom ‘ God had been graciously fitting during many years, for a reception of a final revelation of the absolute principle of Scientific Mind-healing’ (Science and Health, P. 1). The divinely inspired medium of this revela- tion amplifies the above statement further on by the following— ‘ The Bible has been my only text-book. I have had no other guide in “ the straight and narrow way ” of this Science ’ (p. 20). ‘ I have found nothing in ancient or in F