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Christian Scientist   /krˈɪstʃən sˈaɪəntɪst/   Listen
Christian Scientist

noun
1.
A member of the Protestant church founded in the United States by Mary Baker Eddy.





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"Christian Scientist" Quotes from Famous Books



... The Christian Scientist is sincere in the belief that medicines do not cure diseases. The doctor is equally sincere that ...
— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter
... were a Christian Scientist," said Flossie. "I never saw one before, but people have talked to mother ...
— Jewel's Story Book • Clara Louise Burnham
... 3,000 years ago and still retain the enduring insights of the faith then voiced, but there is no possible accommodation of "Science and Health" to either the science or the philosophy of the twentieth century. It must be left to a consistent Christian Scientist to reconcile his gospel with the freer movements of the world of which he is still a citizen—though perhaps this also might be urged against a deal of contemporaneous Christian faith—but it is all an arresting testimony to the power of the human mind to organize itself in ...
— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins
... a lower to a higher condition of thought and action, Truth is in the minority and error has the majority. It is not otherwise in the field of Mind-healing. The man who calls himself a Christian Scientist, yet is false to God and man, is also uttering falsehood about good. This falsity shuts against him the Truth and the Principle of Science, but opens a way whereby, through will-power, sense may say the ...
— Rudimental Divine Science • Mary Baker Eddy
... and the lights had been lit. The car was in confusion, and as she regained her self-possession she saw that the passengers were gathering up their wraps and bags. The woman with the false braids had brought from the dressing-room a sickly ivy-plant in a bottle, and the Christian Scientist was reversing his cuffs. The porter passed down the aisle with his impartial brush. An impersonal figure with a gold-banded cap asked for her husband's ticket. A voice shouted "Baig- gage express!" and she heard the clicking ...
— The Greater Inclination • Edith Wharton
... doctor," said I, after a pause, "that you are a Christian Scientist. All troubles are fanciful and indicative of ...
— Olympian Nights • John Kendrick Bangs


Words linked to "Christian Scientist" :   protestant, Church of Christ Scientist, Christian Science


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