In The Housekeeper, a well-read sheet, published at Lacquiparle, Minnesota, is an article, entitled Some Mind-cure Notes, but encroaching upon Christian Science, brightly written but not always accurate,—at least so far as New England is concerned.
It affirms that all the healers and healed are women. This is certainly not true in Boston, where among the masculine healers may be found Messrs. Bradley, Bailey, Johnson, Troup, Mason, Crane, Lyons, Harris, Smith, Crosse, Poole, Frye, Linlield, Murphy, Kastaman; while in other places are Messrs. Snider, Manly, Vinall, Dunbar, Hight, Filbert, Day, Adams, Howe, Beach, Wickersham, Lillie, Elliott, Greene, Kidder, Campbell, Coleman, Sherman, Fluno, Dorman. There are gentlemen in every class at Metaphysical College.
As for the healed. Good, solid business-men declare their indebtedness to Christian Science; and a full proportion of males is to be seen in Chickering Hall every Sunday. Strange as it may seem, the lordly masculine mind is really in this movement. God is Father as well as Mother, and the "sons of God" are not wholly (though The Housekeeper evidently thinks so) the ones "of little faith." Moreover, what of it? Was not woman "last at the cross and first at the sepulchre?" Did not a woman judge Israel even in barbarous days? Is not Victoria the Queen of Great Britain? Angels are supposed to be masculine; yet every lover calls his sweetheart an angel.
