Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding.

  • Feilding, Alice.
Date:
1899
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    the frequent intervention of supernatural agency in the affairs of man. ‘ His journals are full of histories of ghosts, of second-sight, of miracles that had taken place among his disciples.’ He gives an account of ‘how a painful tumour, which had defied the efforts of physicians, disappeared instantly at a prayer ’ ;1 how a poor woman, crippled by a severe fall, heard a voice within her saying : 4 Name the name of Christ, and thou shalt stand,’ and, on complying with the command was at once cured;2 how a man, at the point of death by a violent rupture, was restored by the prayers of the Society, and continued for several years in health and in the love of God till he relapsed into sin, when his disorder at once returned and soon hurried him to the grave.3 Brief mention must now be made of a revival movement in the Lutheran Church somewhat akin to our Methodism, which flourished in Germany and in the neighbouring Scandinavian countries at the beginning of last century, for 1 Journal, 1761. Ibid., 1756. 3 Ibid., 1757. See W. E. H. Lecky’s History oj England in the Eighteenth Century, 1892, vol. iii. p. 89.