The Rev. William Wood in a speech reported in the Bromsgrove Messenger Worcestershire, England

"The things which we speak of as miracles are happening in the world today," declared the Rev. William Wood, Secretary of the Guild of Health, at a meeting under the auspices of the Guild at Holy Trinity Parish Hall. ...

Mr. Wood said that the Church was charged with the commission to heal the sick by the methods bequeathed by Christ—methods which had nothing to do with modem science. The accounts in the Gospels of people being healed through prayer and the authoritative Word were being upheld Inexperiences in the world today.

At the time of the Reformation the ministry of healing was abandoned as being something superstitious—although it had always been retained in the Eastern Orthodox Church—but today that ministry was being revived throughout the whole of Christendom. .... The idea of this ministry of prayer and sacrament was now gaining ground among intelligent people.

Mr. Wood said there might be some who argued that while a case might be made out for spiritual healing in functional diseases, it could not apply to organic trouble —for instance, a cancer. The answer was that as we gained a deeper knowledge and understanding .... the old distinction between diseases that were functional and those that were organic would disappear. There was a link between the physical and the spiritual.

Dr. H. Hard Hyslop and Dr. Thomas R. Humphrey as quoted in the Courier-Express Buffalo, New York

The wide incidence of heart ailments in America would be reduced greatly if more persons strengthened their spiritual health and faith in God, Dr. H. Hard Hyslop said ...at Hedstrom Memorial Baptist Church. Dr. Hyslop and Dr. Thomas R. Humphrey, associate physicians,... spoke.

Declaring a large percentage of heart diseases is caused by "the cares and worries of a workaday world," Dr. Hyslop said worry can be reduced and "the troubled heart set at rest" through a vital faith in God .... "Christ's assuring promises are as effective today in dispelling workaday worries as they were when first spoken to the early disciples." ...

"There is a great difference between knowing about Christ and knowing Christ ...." Dr. Humphrey said. "To know Christ more intimately is to be more Christlike in our lives and in our dealings with our fellow men. It is also to realize the peace of God in these chaotic days in which we are living."

Victor Fiddes in a column in The United Church Observer Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jesus ... spent his days in the service of God and lived in such intimate and personal fellowship with God that the power he received from above inevitably manifested itself at every stage of his ministry. The Jesus of the New Testament is not the Healer and Teacher of unusual spiritual power; he is rather the instrument of perfect obedience to the mind and will of God and therefore the Healer and Teacher —a vastly different thing. Jesus himself was quick to remind his disciples and others who envied him his power that "this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting."

Charles A. Wells in the Youngstown Vindicator, Ohio

One of the chief reasons for universal cynicism and despair today is that we have fallen into the opinion that, since men have always hated and fought, there will always be war —that human nature cannot be changed. But one of the greatest facts of history is that human nature has been changed. The weak have been made strong; the fearful, brave. The illiterate have been given profound wisdom; the bitter and vicious transformed into saintliness. It has happened endlessly through the ages, and it is happening now ....

The world can be made over again whenever enough men follow the teachings of Christ [Jesus] to make his principles the pattern of human relationships so that hatred and selfishness can no longer hold dominion.

The Rev. Ray Charles Jarman in a sermon quoted in the Los Angeles Times, California

The clergy and membership no longer are satisfied with the mere form of religion.

They want something to happen to you when you attend church .... No, the "new religion" is not running away from Christ and the Bible, but is a more practical understanding of Christ and the Bible.

This new religion has a greater concern in establishing divine consciousness in man than it has in any dogmatic or orthodox expression of religion. It is calling for a God-consciousness, a divine Mind to take possession and envelop the whole consciousness of human life. Everywhere ministers of all denominations are talking about the divine inheritance that is ours. They are beginning to see that there is no escape from the presence and the love of God.

There is a radiant light with a magic strength filling our world, and we can live in it and near it and receive benefit and creative strength. It is the power of God. The new religion is taking hold of that power. It is transforming man by tightening and cleaning the connections that have always been there, although we have been foolishly driving ourselves in another direction.

The world is not lost. People can be redeemed and society can be saved.

Archdeacon E. A. North Ash in a sermon quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald New South Wales, Australia

"In the conception of some people, Christianity is a dull, drab, negative abstinence from evil, whereas it should be a positive, enjoyable adventure in the service of all that is good," Archdeacon E. A. North Ash said, ... preaching in St. James' Church, King Street.

"The Church has both a message and a ministry to a world which is literally suffering from disease," he said. "This ministry seeks to restore and maintain a harmonious relationship with God and our fellows —and it begins with ourselves.

"God's will is health and vitality. This may seem revolutionary to those who believe that God sends sickness and ill-health, and that it is a divine visitation to be accepted passively, rather than a condition to be combated actively.

"Jesus came to heal, and he fought and conquered sickness and disease. If sickness is the will of God, doctors and nurses could have no place in a Christian community."

From an editorial in the Rome News-Tribune, Georgia

In the Bible, the word "hand" is used metaphorically to express spiritual power, as in the verses (Ps. 118:16), "The right hand of the Lord is exalted and his (Dan. 4:35), "He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?"

To allow all our activity to be God-controlled, to subjugate our will to the divine, is to align ourselves with power. Jesus did this. It is recorded in Matthew that a leper once said to him, "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." With what compassion and love "Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean." And the man was healed instantly.