Article November 11, 1911 Issue

The point most of us overlook in our adverse criticism...

E. B. L.

Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eagle

The point most of us overlook in our adverse criticism of those who resort to prayer to heal disease is that they are for the most part men and women who have looked in vain to the state-favored schools of healing to help them. They agree with Coroner Feinburg that the one remedy for a hole in a dike is to plug it. They are human beings in search of just such a specific remedy. Along comes the practitioner of a cult that declares man's life is not a thing apart from his Maker; that the discords of the flesh are manifestations of failure to rely wholly upon that fact and to trust God without limit, without resort to a material drug,—an inert and non-intelligent thing, as much so as a wooden idol. To this the abandoned man naturally listens, and as he looks deeper into this phase of the problem before him he finds that all literature, sacred and profane, tells of wonders wrought by men of faith in the name of that immanent God. Deep down in his heart is a response to this call which he cannot explain. Very soon he comes to see that there is a power in thought which he had not realized. He believes he has found a specific and a panacea.

Any criticism made against a religionist for his absolute faith in God as the healer of his diseases is superficial if it does not take into account the profundity of this race-old metaphysical phenomenon—no coroner can muster the arsenal of pathology to batter down the fortress of the soul which declares "the flesh profiteth nothing."

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