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72. What is the attitude of Spiritualism toward the various Schools and Methods of Healing throughout the land?

Spiritualists find some good in all the systems in vogue but look upon most of them as defective, believing that no system of bodily treatment can be radically and permanently effective. They look upon man as a unity and so long as the real man—the thinking, feeling and willing self—is left out of the treatment, so long will that system prove inadequate and transitory.

73. What is the attitude of Spiritualism toward Christian Science?

Spiritualists generally rejoice in the organization and spread of the Christian Science Movement as an off-shoot of Spiritualism as Mrs. Eddy was a practicing medium for a time in Boston. They rejoice in it also as a large exodus from Orthodoxy toward Liberalism. They gladly recognize the fact that many people are healed and many people rendered happier by the acceptance of Christian Science. They are pleased that such large numbers have escaped from the bondage of the old church teachings and have made a substantial advance toward the fuller and more optimistic teaching of this age.

74. Do Spiritualists accept Mrs. Eddy’s teachings in “Science and Health?”

Only in part. They regard Mrs. Eddy’s denial of spirit return as insincere—her statement that she was never a medium as false—and many of the teachings of “Science and Health” as irrational and contradictory.