Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-01
Too Hot for Faith Curists.

TWENTY-FIVE OF THEM CROWDED OUT OF BAP-
TIsr CHURCH IN MINNEAPoLIs.
From the St Paul Pioneer-P Press
The fact that twenty-five members of the
Northeast Minneapolis Baptist church went out
on account of the faith cure edict indicates
that there at least these ideas had gotten quite
a foothold for the twenty-five represented
quite an element in a small congregation. Now.
that is not the only church in the city by any
means which has had either faith cure or mind
cure believers. fair canvass of the field
would indicate that these ideas are all the time
getting new adherents. They donot get into the
newspapers quite as much as they did a couple
of years ago. when the movement first took
the town in earnest. They have their meetings
but they dread publicity and the newspapers.
for the reason, they say, that the ordinary
newspaper reporter makes as bad work with the
very spiritual tenets of their faith as a mad
bull in a china store. There are good many
different shades of belief on the subject but
all seem to unite in the assertion that the per-
feet Christ life can be realized on earth. and
just so far as it Is the ills of the flesh and the
spirit Will disappear. Some assert that they
are simply putting new earnestDess and mean
ing into the opinions they have always enter
tanned as members of Christian churches
Others are also interested in the scientific
phases of the question illuminated bv re-
cent investigations and experiments of scien-
titic experts. notably in the line of hypnotism
III Paris. But, of course, where there are SO
made shades of belief. some of them conflict
ing it is impossible to make general state
ment that will apply to them all.
There is scarcely a church in the city that
has not Christian scientists in its congrega-
ton. Plymouth. Westminster. First Baptist.
all of them, in fact. have something of this Gle
ment though, of course. it cuts no figure The
fact that some minister every now and then
expresses himself pretty thoroughly against
some things in these doctrines indicates that
nf l.nG aIAtn hair
Christian scientist who is a member of Ply
mouth church loaded her pastor up with liter
allure on this subject not long ago. His CONVEX
sion has not been vet reported. While it has not
gone as far in any of the churches as in the
Northeast Baptist church, still good many in
stances are reported where individuals have left
a church where they were too bitterly opposed
on account of their views. Some of the minis
tiers have been influenced more or less. II
was limited to one well-known Presbyterian
clergyman who accepted some of the views of
the Christian scientists that he had better 90 a
little slow. But If this case ever came up in the
presbytery the newspaper reporters never got
hold of il. 1t is pretty ticklish business for a
clergyman to branch out in this direction. from
the fact that he is sure to meet with strong OPP
position in his congregation. Some of the
ministers have experienced this fact. While
none of the Christian ministers hold views that
are probably unscriptural, others do not hold
to anything outside of the line of Christianity
and that fact would preve most of an '.inves-
tigation" in most of the cases. The Rev. r. A
Torrey believes in faith cure, but it does not
seem to affect his standing among the Congre-
gationalists
Joseph Pierce, one of the twenty-five faith
cure members who withdrew from the North
east Minneapolis church, said Yesterday that
the only thing against them was that they could
not work together. One of the expelled twenty
two said she had heard of expelling people
from church for dancing, but never before Tor
being too orthodox