In the face of the numerous cases of healing by the power...

Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald

In the face of the numerous cases of healing by the power of prayer and belief and without the aid of drugs or surgical instruments that are reported in the daily papers with increasing frequency in these latter days, are we stubbornly to cling to nineteenth-century materialism and sit in the seat of the scorner, who says that it is all a fake, that he does not know why it is a fake, but that it must be a fake, and that therefore it is a fake? Whose reasoning runs along the lines followed by the man who had a distaste for Dr. Fell,—

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell;
But this alone I know full well,
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.

If any one went forth among the people of Los Angeles intent upon finding and recording cases of people who asserted' that they had been cured by means outside of those conventionally associated with medical science, and were sure that they had been thus cured, he could soon fill a large volume with specific instances, and, unless the patient did not believe in oaths, the records could be published with the authority of sworn statements.

The New Testament asserts distinctly that the latter days shall be distinguished by an "outpouring of the Spirit," which will cause a return to many of the conditions attending primitive Christianity, among them drugless healing and Woodless surgery. We are not advocating any creed. new or old, or asserting any dogma. We are merely calling attention to the fact that unless thousands of our fellow citizens all over the United States, and many estimable residents of Los Angeles, are testifying falsely or are misled, the number of cures that must be referred to the direct operation of a healing influence which acts independently of material aids and interventions is steadily on the increase.

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