Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding.

  • Feilding, Alice.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is noteworthy that the founder of this strange Transatlantic faith, like the 4 discoverer and founder ’ of 4 Christian Science/ claimed to have been specially favoured with divine revela- tions of the 4 path of life ’ and the way of salvation. In the sect commonly known as the 4 Irvingites,’ we find that the heritage of the Apostolic gifts of prophecy, tongues, and heal- ing was believed, in its early days, and some sixty years ago much notice and some ridicule was excited in the outside world at the reputed manifestations of these spiritual powers. The great preacher himself regarded disease as a form of sin, and taught that no one having sufficient faith need, or should, yield to it. Many cases of cures by the laying on of hands and prayer are recorded, a notable one being that of a Miss Fancourt, the daughter of a clergyman, who had been a helpless cripple for over eight years. This sufferer had tried all known remedies, and the doctors had done their utmost for her, but, regarding her troubles as of an organic nature, they considered her case a hopeless one. All efforts, indeed, proved