"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" AND "MIND CURE"
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The patient may be in three different ways. He may be sympathetic; that will help you greatly. He may be apathetic; that is not so good, but better than the next. He may be antipathetic, hostile; then say not a word, but silently "give it to him" till he becomes less "cantankerous" and more Christ-like.—Hazzard.
MIND CURERS versus FAITH HEALERS, MESMERISTS, ETC.
Mrs. Eddy speaks of Mesmerism in this way:
Mortal mind, acting from the basis of sensuous belief in matter, is animal magnetism.... In proportion as you understand Christian Science you lose animal magnetism.... Its basis being a belief and this belief an error, animal magnetism, or mesmerism, is a mere negation, possessing neither intelligence nor power.... An evil mind at work mesmerically is an engine of mischief little understood.... Animal magnetism, clairvoyance, mediumship, and mesmerism are antagonistic to this Science, and would prevent the demonstration thereof.... The Mesmeriser produces pain by making his subjects believe that he feels it; here pain is proved to be a belief without any adequate cause. That social curse, the mesmerist, by making his victims believe they cannot move a limb, renders it impossible for them to do so until their belief or understanding masters his.
Of Spiritualism:
Spiritualism with its material accompaniments would destroy the supremacy of Spirit.
And of Clairvoyance specifically:
Clairvoyance investigates and influences mortal thought only.... Clairvoyance can do evil, can accuse wrongfully, and err in every direction.
Of Faith Cure:
It is asked, Why are faith cures sometimes more speedy than some of the cures wrought through Christian Scientists? Be-
