ANOINTING THE SICK

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 81, 31 December 1919, Page 4

ANOINTING THE SICK

RBMABKABIE CASES. Every first Friday in each month a service is" held in tin? Church Army chapel for the purpose- of anointing the sick and laying 011 of hand? (stales a London exchange). The oil is kept at the Church of the Annunciation, having-'been blesn'd by. the Hi,shop of London: sufferer is anointed with Ihe sign of the cross nil Iho forehead, and, if desired and convenient, also on the part affected. Prebendary Carlilc presided at a conference in which tlnjse "gifts of healing" were explained by Miss Barber. secretary of (lie Church Army Healing' Guild, ami by (lie Rev. J. Maillanl. secretary of the Christian Healing .Misnon. Miss Barber (old of a young woman ■who had teen a patient for seven years in the Great Northern Hospital as a .cripple. She had hoped to be present 'that afternoon, but. was now a worker, starting at 8.30 a.m. and lenvin.g off at G.-fo p.m., and could not attend. She wrote that she was quite well. The Ticv. J. Maillard explained that the work of healing was not anti-medical, lint extra-medical. He had been asxco where ihey parted company with the Christian Scientists. Their attitude was npt that, of the dog in the manger, but Ihey regarded the work of Christian Scientists as beintr buiit on the gap left Iby Christians. Their desire was to fill that gap. Instances were riven by Mr. Maiilard of succc.-sfui results. During Hie preceding fortnight a clergyman's child, apparently dying from paralysis, had become convalescent. A woman living in | an Oxfordshire village! snffoiing _ from I creeping paralysi-, had obtained '.elief. An attempt is being made by those who believe in spiritual healing to jot the bishops to consider tho subject at j the Lambeth L'onfirenco next year.