Article August 10, 1899 Issue

Power of Prayer in Healing

The following communication is submitted on the subject, says the Buffalo Enquirer, and can be amply verified. The name of the writer is withheld at his request, but may be disclosed to any one doubting the story. The writer says :—

How far the Christian Scientists may be able to cure incase of maimed or broken limbs, or other organic diseases, I am unable to say, but in cases where the brain and the will power can be operated upon, I believe the powerful medium of prayer on a mind not altogether callous or unyielding to religious sentiment may cure where the physician would fail. Indeed, for the matter of that, in most all cases of sickness or disease, unless the patient has thorough faith in his physician and believes that his nostrums are going to help him towards recovery, the doctor might as well throw his physic to the dogs. Especially is this the case of women. "It is quite probable." says an eminent writer on this point, "that a female suffering from certain ailments might die at the hands of a physician in whom she had no confidence, while she would completely have recovered under precisely the same treatment under the care of another in whom she had implicit faith." Dr. Wende will hardly dispute this fact.

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