Article March 14, 1936 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: The Prayer of Faith

with contributions from S. A. Campbell, James Reid, Albert Sidney Lehr, B. Z. Stambaugh, W. C. Hartson, Robert Cummins

[From the Mt. Horeb Mail, Wisconsin]

When an outstanding figure in the field of medical research comes out flatly and declares that prayer has power to heal bodily ills, it is something to pay attention to. Dr. Alexis Carrel, world-famous surgeon of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research and winner of the Nobel prize in medicine, says in his new book, "Man, the Unknown," writing as a medical man: "Our present conception of the influence of prayer upon pathological lesions is based upon the observation of patients who have been cured almost instantly of various afflictions.... The only condition indispensable to the occurrence of the phenomenon is prayer. But there is no need for the patient himself to pray, or even have religious faith. It is sufficient that someone around him be in a state of prayer."

I have been greatly impressed by the growing belief in the power of prayer to heal. Dr. Carrel's words will go far to confirm believers in their faith.

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