The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-15
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE"
THE RAPID SPREAD OF A DANGER
GUS CRAZE.
What Some of the Leaders in the Move
ment Say About Themselves-Faith
Healers and Mind Cures-A Profitable
Business for Many Shrewd People.

Healers and Mind Cures-A Profitable
Business for Many shrewd People.
From the New York Post
The recentdeaths of several persons who
have been under the care more or less fire.
quent OF so-calcd faith-healers, Christian
scientists, mind-cure professors, etc, have
directed public attention to the extraordi-
4 nary spread OF the craze which began some
years ago in New England. and found its
chief exponent in Mrs. Mary Baker Gro
yer Eddy, now the president Of the Massa-
chusctts Metaphysical college. In one OF
her books Mrs Eddy says; at was in
Massachusetts,, in the year 1865, that
discovered the science of metaphysical
healing, which aiterward named Chris
tian science. The discovery came to pass
in this way: During twenty years prior
to my discovery had been trying to trace
all physical effects TO mental cause; and
In the January OF 1866 gained the scien.
tific certainty that all causation was mind,
and every effect mental phenomenon.
A still earlier claimant for credit in the
matter of faith healing was one 7. 7.
Quimby, a mcsmerist, who lived in Maine
and who doctored Mrs Eddy Through
classes and through books published upon
the subject, Mrs. Eddy succeeded in max
inga number OF converts in different parts
OF this country, and since the organization,
in 1876, OF the Christian Scientist associa.
ton, and OF the mind-healing church
without crccds, called the Church of Christ,
an active propaganda has been going on
under the direction OF Mrs. Eddy and her
Disciples.
An expert who has gone over the field
pretty thoroughly says that there are now
no less than 5000 persons in the United
States today who profess 10 know all that
is necessary 10 know about Christian
science in order 10 heal the sick and pre-.
serve the well in health. OF these persons.
some OF them calling themselves Christian
scientists, or, in the absurd authorizations
which they themselves use, &. :. 3, faith.
healers, mind-reades, professors, etc.
many devote themselves 10 the work of
Initiating others into the mysteries of the
metaphysical treatment of disease, and
find this field quite as profitable as the
practice OF the profession itself In Boston
there are no less than sixteen schools or
institutes devoted to teaching the different
branches of the science. In Chicago
there are fourteen such schools. In New
York we have twelve, counting the diff.
feent sects into which the original Chris.
tan Science church has been split by
schisms which have affected the name
OF the believers rather than their
theory or practice. Most OF the western
Chi1stinn science schools are founded and
directed by pupils Of either Mrs. Emma
Curtis Hopkins, who manages the Emma
Hopkins College OF Christian Science in
Chicago, or by Ms Mary II. Plunkeit.
Hopkins colleges OF Christian science seem
10 be sprinkled all over the west, Judging
by the advertisements 10 lie found in the
Christian science organs The iaith.healer
have as yet made no Roadway in the
western States, Ms compared with the
Christian scientists who draw their inspira.
ton rom Mn. Eddy or her disciples. OF
the New York iaitli-heales, the chief is
A. Ii. Simpson, formerly pastor of the
Iwenty-third Street Gospel Tabernacle, and
fnow OF the Madison Avenue Tabernacle al
Madison avenue aud forty-fith street, the
church building built for Mr.. IIepworth,
and mon RECENTLY occupied by congrcga.
ton having Mr.. Newman ~ pastor. The
Simpson Banchah-a home formerly Ia
Twcniy-third stpct-is now on Fourth
avenue nj SiXticth street The suicide
there very recently Of Charles w. Squire
was the second death In the building since
the faith-curcrs have occupied IL.
Mr.. Simpson has been preaching his
doctrines far aud wide for the last two
years, and his views are pretty well known
by articles in the newspapers. In The
Gospel OF Healing, which is the textbook
OF the association under his directions, and
~ sold at all the meetings Of the faithful,
the chief articles In the Simpson creed are
oct fourth. Nj simpson finds that man
has a twO-iold nature. material and
spiritual being, and that both natures be-.
ing equally affected by his fll his body
being exposed 10 disease and his soul TO
corruption 10y sin-any complete scheme
Of redemption must include both natures
and provide for the restoration Of the
physical M well ~ the spiritual man.
Such n scheme l. offered hy the l,cdcemcr.
who appears among men holding In one
hand the salvation oi the soul and In the
other the healing 81 the body. This
says, Mr.. Simpson, was the faith once
delivered 10 the saints These and many
more Lessons crowd every page Of the Mas.
tef's life and reveal Ia us the secret
Of his healing power. The causes Of dis.
eaac and suffering arc distinctly traced 10
the inll aud sinful state II man. n sickness
were n part of the natural constitution Of
things, then We might meet Il wholly on
natural grounds and by natural means
But redemption finds H. center In the
croes 81 Jesus Christ, and there We must
look for the fundamental principle oi heal.
ing. The body Of Christ A. the living
fountain ol all our vital strength God has
healed, and all human attempts nj helping
would imply n doubt OF the reality Of the
healing The congregation which guthcn.
NJ Mr. simpsons tabernacle number soy.
eral hundred people many times n week.
and there u every rrason 10 believe that
the gentleman has found the business an
extremely profitable one.
The Christian scientists have only no.
Gently shown much strength In this CITY
year ago last autumn Mn Hopkins rave
some Lectures here In Chickcring hall. and
several classes were begun by pupils oi
Mn. Eddy WHO came on here frum time
70 utne irom Boston. The most systematic
AMI pricntious attempt to organize n
Christian science institute here was begun
few weeks ago by Mr.. II. &. BARROW, Who
opened a house M West Thirty fourth
street a. Christian science institute anil
home. Mr.. Barrow issucs n circular with
the text Eye shall know the truth and the
truth shall make YOU free" The faculty
OF the institute consists Of II. &. Harrow
9. principal. Mn. II. &. Barrow. NJ
~ nov Christian scicriist, ohsietrcian.
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