In the Worcester Spy we read the following notice:—
Mrs. J. C. Woodbury spoke to a sympathetic audience, in the Art Students' Clubrooms, last evening, on Christian Science. Her notion of the system differs from that commonly entertained. Good, she thinks, is alone real and permanent; evil is transitory and out of joint, and is the cause of all suffering and sickness. Healing is to be secured by removing the cause, which is sin. Christian healing consists in removing sin and the disposition to do wrong. She thinks that mesmerism may cure disease subjectively, by affecting the mind and the belief of the patient; but if the cause be not removed—the disposition to evil—then the cure is only transient, and not in itself even a good, since the natural and right consequence of sin is suffering, and this must follow. Christian healing differs from mesmerism in that it deals with the mind by way of driving out the sin, and with it the disease. Envy, spite, and hatred are the cause of physical disease; and to remove these is to cure the disease effectually. In the course of the lecture, animated discussion arose from questions put by the audience.
