Article November 19, 1910 Issue

It is a matter of great importance that the Protestant...

Jane M. Lyon

Philadelphia (Pa.) Press

It is a matter of great importance that the Protestant Episcopal convention has taken up faith-healing. It is a part of the Saviour's command which has been neglected. There is but one church, the Church of Christ, Scientist, which advocates this doctrine. Although the youngest church, its members are in every town and hamlet in the United States. Its growth has been phenomenal. Now it is meet and proper, and the bounden duty of the Protestant Episcopal church, the oldest apostolic church, to carry out this neglected command of our Saviour.

We have been preaching the gospel, but that is all—a onesided work. It has been like pulling a pole wagon with only one horse, or rowing a boat with only one oar. Now we shall see what this oldest church can do with a full working force. But we must have faith. "Faith without works is dead." What of works without faith? We must believe in the omnipotent power of God. The God who made the heavens and the earth and all that in them is—cannot such a good God heal the sick? The God that formed the hand that writes, the eye that sees,—is it a greater work for such a God to heal the body? "With God nothing shall be impossible." We do believe, but we are ashamed to acknowledge our beliefs. Women are better Christians than men. They are not hampered as men are. Men hold on with one hand to all their worldly possessions and vices while reaching with the other toward heaven. They are one-sided toward the whole truth.

Now that the Protestant Episcopal church is reviving the belief in prayer, in healing the sick, all churches will follow and all men and women will believe that what they ask for in pureness of heart, in faith believing, will be granted them. "Ask, and it shall be given you" is no idle promise. But we must ask in faith, believing that all things are possible with God, as they are!

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