Article April 8, 1961 Issue

Signs of the Times

Will Oursler

Christian Herald

Will Oursler in the Christian Herald New York, New York

The tremendous, surging revival of religious therapy in our churches, the development of healing services and healing techniques in even the most conservative congregations, has all but obliterated the concept—held until recently by many religious thinkers—that healings of the miraculous Biblical type do not happen today.

Cases of religious healing— many of them quite extraordinary and fully documented—run into many thousands. They have been reported by the pastors and parishioners of virtually every major denomination. ... Many of them are confirmed by doctors, surgeons, medical records, even X rays and biopsies. They pose a dilemma to materialists and nonbelievers and even some "intellectualized" religionists who shy from all aspects of the miraculous.

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