Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding.

  • Feilding, Alice.
Date:
1899
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    rewards in bodily healing as well as in spiritual grace, in return for their prayers and offerings. Then in our own country we have at Holy- well, in North Wales, the miraculous spring of the martyred Saint Winefred, to which thousands still annually repair in search of health, carnal and spiritual. The origin of this Welsh cult, which is of very ancient date, is lost in unrecorded antiquity. The spring will anyhow have been a pilgrim centre for well over seven hundred years, for it is men- tioned in a charter of 1150 as being granted by Henry 11. to a neighbouring monastery. The cures wrought at Saint Winefred’s have at different times attracted a good deal of attention. They have been discussed in the columns of the press, and many remarkable testimonies have been published in support of the miracle virtue that is claimed for the holy waters, but these cures have proved on some investigation to have been wrought on affec- tions in which the nervous condition of the sufferers was chiefly, if not, as in some cases, wholly, accountable for the trouble, and, in a large percentage of these cases, the improve-