cation--The
Churches Lose Authority--Efforts at Reconstruction--An
Age of Doubt and a Twilight-Zone
in History--The Hunger of the
Soul and the Need for Faith--Modern Religious
Cults and Movements: Their Three
Centers About Which They Have Organized
Themselves.

III. FAITH HEALING IN GENERAL 82

The Bases of Faith and Mental Healing--Cannon's
Study of Emotional Reactions--The
Two Doors--The Challenge of Hypnotism--Changed
Attention Affects Physical States--The
Power of Faith to Change Mental Attitudes--Demon
Possession--The Beginnings of
Scientific Medicine--The Attitude of the Early
and Medieval Church--Saints and Shrines--Magic,
Charms, and the King's Touch: The
Rise of the Faith Healer.

IV. THE APPROACH TO CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND MARY BAKER EDDY 108

Mesmerism--The Scientific Investigation of
Mesmerism--Mesmerism in America; Phineas
Quimby an Important Link in a Long Chain--Quimby
is Led to Define Sickness as Wrong
Belief--Quimby Develops His Theories--Mary
Baker Eddy Comes Under His Influence--Outstanding
Events of Her Life: Her
Early Girlhood--Her Education: Shaping Influences--Her
Unhappy Fortunes. She is
Cured by Quimby--An Unacknowledged Debt--She
Develops Quimby's Teachings--Begins
to Teach and to Heal--Early Phases of
Christian Science--She Writes "Science and
Health" and Completes the Organization of
Her Church.

V. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AS A PHILOSOPHY 136

Christian Science a Philosophy, a Theology, a
Religion and a System of Healing--The
Philosophic Bases of Christian Science--It
Undertakes to Solve the Problem of Evil--Contrasted
Solutions--The Divine Mind and
Mortal Mind--The Essential Limitations of
Mrs. Eddy's System--Experience and Life--Sense-Testimony--The
Inescapable Reality of Shadowed Experience.

VI. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AS A THEOLOGY 163

Science and Health Offered as a Key to the
Scriptures--It Ignores All Recognized Canons
of Biblical Interpretation--Its Conception of
God--Mrs. Eddy's Interpretation of Jesus
Christ--Christian Science His Second Coming--Christian
Science, the Incarnation and the
Atonement--Sin an Error of Mortal Mind--The
Sacraments Disappear--The Real Power
of Christian Science.

VII. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AS A SYSTEM OF HEALING AND A RELIGION 185

Christian Science the Application of Philosophy
and Theology to Bodily Healing--Loosen