Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding.

  • Feilding, Alice.
Date:
1899
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    in which to cherish the expectation of healing, in itself so beneficial.1 Evelyn describes the quaint and solemn cere- mony in vogue at his period thus is his diary (July 1660): ‘His Majesty sitting under his state in the Banquetting House, the Chirur- geons cause the sick to be brought or led up to the throne, where, they kneeling, the King strokes their faces or cheeks with both his hands at once, at which instant a Chaplain in his formalities sayd : “ He put his hands on them and healed them.” This is said to every one in particular. When they have all been touched they come up againe in the same order; and the other Chaplaine kneeling, and having angel-gold strung on white ribbon on his arme, delivers them one by one to his Majestie, who puts them about the necks of the touched as they passe, whilst the first Chaplaine repeats: “ That is the true light who came into the world.” Then follows an Epistle (as at first, a Gosple) with the Liturgy, prayers for the sick with some alterations, lastly the blessing, and the Lo. Chamberlain 1 Psycho-Therapeutics, C. Lloyd Tuckey, p. 26.