Article November 5, 1910 Issue

The Protestant Episcopal clergy, and laymen as well, are...

Baltimore (Md.) American.

The Protestant Episcopal clergy, and laymen as well, are coming to the view that the healing of the sick is such a palpable duty laid upon the church through the agency of its ministrations, that the church is neglectful in not making this a distinctive part of its practical ministry. A revival of the healing faculty of the Christian church is looked upon as destined by the stage at which Christian faith has advanced.

Whatever may be the outcome of the new interest in the movement toward a revival of faith-healing as an accredited agency of the church, the present interest in the subject is directly due to the advanced position taken by the followers of Mrs. Eddy. Her followers, professing to hold in stewardship for the race the discovery of the exact relation of science to health, take the stand that any limitations upon the efficacy of prayer are human limitations, and through the agency of Mrs. Eddy's contribution to the subject these limitations may be dissipated—not perfectly in every case, but positively and progressively, nevertheless.

"A jewel which the church cast away and a woman picked up," was the concession made by one of the convention delegates to the insight of Mrs. Eddy in perceiving that the church was failing to use one of its most potent instrumentalities, and that it was neglecting one of the finest weapons of warfare, unmindful that it hung in the armory of the church as an obsolete piece of Christian equipment.

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