The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories

uack, the wild medicine-man, the educated physician, the mesmerist, and the hypnotist have made use of the client's imagination to help them in their work. They have all recognised the potency and av

ent? When I was a boy, a farmer's wife who lived five miles from our village, had great fame as a faith-doctor-that was what she called herself. Sufferers came to her from all around, and she laid her hand upon them and said, 'Have faith-it is all that is necessary,' and they went away well of their ailments. She was not a religious woman, and pretended to no occult powers. She said that the patient's faith in her did the work. Several times I saw her make immediate cures of severe toothaches. My mother was the patient. In Austria there is a peasant who drives a great trade in this sort of industry and has both the high and the low for patients. He gets into prison every now and th

s. There are the Mind Cure, the Faith Cure, the Prayer Cure, the Mental-Science Cure, and the Christian-Science Cure; and apparently they all do their miracles with the same old powerful instrume

wants to; but the others bar medicines, and claim ability to cure every conceivable human ailment through the application of their mental forces alone. They claim ability to cure malignant cancer, and other affections

hey are not the equals of the Deity; but if the Christian Scientist even stops with being merely the equal of the Deity, it is not clearly provable by his Christian-Science Amen

r did it. This convinces me that Christian Science claims too much. In my opinion it ought to

t and gave him a shilling. Mrs. Fuller brought in an itemised bill for a crate of

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d now she is suing me for substant