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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    And now, before closing this brief survey of faith-healing, let us glance at some of the individuals who have claimed to possess this psycho-therapeutic power in an eminent degree —men or women who have been credited by popular belief with a special gift of healing, this gift being generally supposed to be the outcome of a more spiritual understanding with the Almighty. These individuals may be divided into two classes, thus :— (i) Those who practised it in a truly devout, simple, and single-minded spirit; who laboured for love of God and His creatures, and not for gain. (ii) Those, and perhaps the larger number, who practised for greed of what Timothy so justly described as 4 filthy lucre.’ The distinction between these two classes is, however, one not always easy to draw, for it is letters were reprinted in a twopenny pamphlet, entitled Divine Healing, by the City Literature Co., Newington. I have the pamphlet by me, but space prevents more than this brief mention thereof. An interesting chapter dealing with this subject will be found in Dr. A. T. Schofield’s Faith-Healing (see chap. iii.).