Christian Science (essay)
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Published in 1907, '''''Christian Science''''' by [[Mark Twain]] (Samuel Clemens) is a highly critical essay on the beliefs of [[Christian Science|Christian Scientists]]. However, later he seemed to reverse his stance as biographer [[Albert Bigelow Paine|Paine]] wrote:<ref name="Paine">{{citation
| last1 = Paine
| first1 = Albert Bigelow
| authorlink1 = Albert Bigelow Paine
| title = Mark Twain: A Biography; the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
| volume = 3
| page = 1271
| url = http://ia310935.us.archive.org/0/items/marktwainabiogra02988gut/old/mt7bg11.txt
| isbn = 0791045390
}}</ref>
:''I was at this period interested a good deal in mental healing, and had been treated for neurasthenia with gratifying results. Like most of the world, I had assumed, from his published articles, that he condemned Christian Science and its related practices out of hand. When I confessed, rather reluctantly, one day, the benefit I had received, he surprised me by answering:''
:''"Of course you have been benefited. Christian Science is humanity's boon. Mother Eddy deserves a place in the Trinity as much as any member of it. She has organized and made available a healing principle that for two thousand years has never been employed, except as the merest kind of guesswork. She is the benefactor of the age."''
:''It seemed strange, at the time, to hear him speak in this way concerning a practice of which he was generally regarded as the chief public antagonist. It was another angle of his many-sided character.''
==References==
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==External links==
*{{Gutenberg | no=3187 | name=Christian Science}}
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