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See also:CHRISTIAN See also:SCIENCE , a See also:system of theosophic and therapeutic See also:doctrine, which was originated in See also:America about 1866 by Mrs See also:Mary See also:Baker See also:Glover Eddy, and has in See also:recent years obtained a number of adherents both in the See also:United States and in See also:European countries. Mrs. Eddy (1821–iglu ; nee Baker) was See also:born near See also:Concord, New See also:Hampshire; in 1843 she married See also:Colonel G. W. Glover (d. 1844), in 1853 she married See also:Daniel Patterson (divorced 1893), and in 1877 Dr See also:Asa See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert Eddy (d. 1883). About the See also:year 1867 she came forward as a healer by mind-cure. She based her teaching on the See also:Bible, and on the principles that See also:man's essential nature is spiritual, and that, the Spirit of See also:God being Love and See also:Good, moral and See also:physical evil are contrary to that Spirit, and represent an See also:absence of the True Spirit which was in Jesus See also:Christ. There is but one Mind, one God, one Christ, and nothing real but Mind. See also:Matter and sickness are subjective states of See also:error, delusions which can be dispelled by the See also:mental See also:process of a true knowledge of God and Christ, or Christian science. See also:Ordinary medical science—using drugs, &c.—is therefore irrelevant; spiritual treatment is the only cure of what is really mental error. Jesus himself healed by those means, which were therefore natural and not miraculous, and promised that those who believed should do curative See also:works like his. In 1876 a Christian Scientist Association was organized. Mrs Eddy had published in the preceding year a See also:book entitled Science and See also:Health, with See also:Key to the Scriptures, which has gone through countless See also:editions and is the See also:gospel of Christian Science. In 1879 she became the pastor of a " See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of Christ, Scientist," in See also:Boston, and also founded there the " See also:Massachusetts Metaphysical See also:College " (1881; closed 1889) for the furtherance of her tenets. The first denominational See also:chapel outside Boston was built at See also:Oconto, See also:Wisconsin, in 1886; and in 1894 (enlarged and reconstructed in 1906) a See also:great memorial"church was erected in Boston. Mrs Eddy's publications also include Retrospection and See also:Introspection (1891), Unity of Good and Unreality of Evil (1887), Rudimental Divine Science (1891), Christian Healing (1886), &c. The progress of the cult of Christian Science has been remarkable, and by the beginning of the 20th See also:century many hundreds of Christian Science churches had been established; and the new See also:religion found many adherents also in See also:England. A purely See also:local and congregational See also:form of See also:government was adopted, but Christian Scientists naturally looked to the See also:mother church in Boston, with Mrs Eddy as its guiding See also:influence, as their centre. A monthly See also:magazine, The Christian Science See also:Journal (founded in 1883), and the weekly Christian Science See also:Sentinel are published officially in Boston.
The profession of the paid Christian Science "healer " has been very prominent in recent years both in America and in England; and very remarkable successes have been claimed for the treatment. In some serious cases of See also:death after illness, where a See also:coroner's See also:inquest has shown that the only medical attendance was that of a Christian Science "healer," the question of criminal responsibility has been prominently canvassed; but an See also:indictment in England against a healer for See also:- MANSLAUGHTER (0. Eng., mannslaeht, from mann, man, and slaeht, act of slaying, sledn, to slay, properly to smite; cf. Ger. schlagen, Schlacht, battle)
manslaughter in 1906 resulted in an acquittal. The theosophic and the medical aspects of Christian Science may perhaps be distinguished; the latter at all events is open to See also:grave abuse. But the See also:modern reaction in medical practice against drugs, and the increased study of the subject of " See also:suggestion," have done much to encourage a belief in faith-healing and in " psychotherapy " generally. In 1908, indeed, a See also:separate See also:movement (See also:Emmanuel), inspired by the success of Christian Science, and also emanating from America, was started within the See also:Anglican Communion, its See also:object being to bring See also:prayer to See also:work on the curing of disease; and this movement obtained the approval of many leaders of the church in England.
An " authorized " See also:Life of Mrs Eddy, by Sibyl Wilbur (1908), deals with the subject acceptably to her disciples. "Georgine Milmine's" Life of M. B. G. Eddy, and See also:History of Christian Science (1909), though not so acceptable, is a judicious See also:critical See also:account. A detailed indictment against the whole system, by a competent See also:English See also:doctor (See also:Stephen See also:Paget), will be found in The Faith and Works of Christian Science (1909).
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