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A Last Word About Christian Science. 



Hundreds of certified cures have also been wrought far distant from 

 these places by simply using the water or the cement and invoking the 

 pity of the Virgin. 



In Canada, near Quebec, is a hamlet called Sainte Anne de Beaupre, 

 in whose soil are said to be deposited certain relics of Sainte A.nne, 

 the mother of Mary. To this place resort hundreds of the sick and 

 the maimed and the blind, who are miraculously healed, for is there 

 not in the church there a mountain of crutches to witness to the 

 fact ? The pyramid of crutches is twenty-two feet high, divided into 

 six tier3, and crowned with a statue of Ste. Anne. This place has 

 been the scene of miraculous cures for more than two hundred years. 

 In many cases sworn testimony is given to cures of persons who had 

 been pronounced incurable by physicians. 



Another similar method of treatment is the so-called Faith-cure, with 

 its Beth-shan in London under Eev. W. E. Boardman; its numerous 

 " homes " in and about Boston under Dr. Cullis; while in New York 

 its chief exponent is a Eev. Mr. Simpson. Many sick persons recover 

 at these different places, many are not benefited, and some die, but 

 of the two latter no testimonials are published. Bemarkable cures 

 of paralysis, consumption, lameness, etc., are claimed, and letters pub- 

 lished describing them. One of Albany's eminent teachers, while 

 summering at Intervale, IS". H., where is located the summer resi- 

 dence of Dr. Cullis and one of his "homes," wrote a most inter- 

 esting account thereof to the Albany Journal last August ('89). She 

 describes Dr. Cullis as an energetic man of practical business sagacity, 

 whose faith has worked well to secure money and other worldly 

 comforts. He owns at Intervale a tract of many acres, from which 

 he has sold lots conditionally, and derived large profits. The letter 

 goes on to say: " Appropriate texts of Scripture placarded on the 

 trees meet the eye here and there, and might touch the heart if the 

 cry for money did not drown their still small voice. Call this the 

 result of faith in any but the sense in which good men use it ordi- 

 narily in connection with the affairs of this world, and reason re- 

 volts." Pressing appeals for money appear to be the chief feature 

 of his religious services, as also of the publications he sends out. 

 It is stated by good authority that Dr. Cullis resorts to dishonor- 

 able business methods, according to the estimate of business men. I 

 regard Dr. Cullis as a committed man, pledged to a theory, a man 

 who has spoken and thus bound himself to a system, and therefore 

 no longer free to speak his honest convictions — watched as he -is by 

 the sympathy or hatred of hundreds whose affections he must now 

 take into account. He may have begun with the conviction that faith 



