FAITH HEALING.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1924, Page 1

FAITH HEALING.

AIM lIIHSIIOP’S AITKAL. I.t )N DON. July All appeal in the council nl the Brilisli Medical As-ociat ion to hold a 101 l and impartial ilujiiirv into .spiritual healing was made by l)r l.ang. the Archhishop of York. at Bradlord Cat liedral yesterday evening at a spe-

cial service tor the association. "We have collie to a time," he said, "when the two viiaiincls el healing l lie prayer ol faith and ill.' skill o! the physician—should lie brought together. There lias I,ecu. or may he soon, a great revival ol healing through the spirit of faith made active in sell-dis-cipline and prayer. "At every stage in history there haf always keen this strangely potent power, and within the last lew montll.t'anada and the I'nitcd Stales have seen on a tcmarUalde scale revelation: of this potency. Explanations may Ik given ol the pheiioliU'iioii. hot the tact: cannot he denied. "I venture 1., -ay tlml they have or cm re(l, are occurring, and in the neai future will occur i.n Mich a scale am over such a wide held lh.it they mils l.e accepted as proving '.lie rcliahilit’ of 111 least line groat ami endurin' power aim ill;.', m m to relievo or renmvi disease. ••Men of religion would not hosilati .• ..... 4 4.. lliaf. linn

•ilso, as through inofliciiio hn<l surgery, tliL* Lord, i’roin whom tho power of healing comos, roveal.s as well tho power to heal. "It would he a great misforluue if the two lines of healing were to he jealously kept apart and one were to look with suspicion oil the other. Such separations must in the long run prove dangerous it not disastrous. He urged physician- and surgeons not to hrusli aside healing through the spirit as a thing which merited their derision or contempt. Might it not be that in a new, wider and deeper scientific scheme spiritual healing .1 1 l.w.eS TKn «nirit WAS

wmilil haw a plar-o? Iho spu n wa* Freaking through the material and we were m” the threshold "of a new epoch.