In an interesting paper entitled "The Relation of Faith and Prayer to Health and Healing," read before the Elkhart Ministerial Association, and printed in your paper at their request, a clergyman said much about faith cure and about cures that have been effected through mere faith in prayer, or mere faith in a drug, or mere faith in a religious ceremony.
Five hundred years and more ago John Wycliffe wrote a famous tract which, in the polite language and after the fashion of the day, he named "De Dominio," which being translated means "Concerning Dominion.
The
beginner in Christian Science, having been healed of some dread disease, or lifted out of the depths of despair through the application of the healing Word, usually finds himself inquiring as to the cause of his changed condition.
From
a block of dry hard wood the Swiss wood carver, with a patience prompted by his great love for the work, fashions a likeness that is almost perfect of some favorite hero or object,—perchance his well-beloved William Tell after the figure of a stalwart mountaineer, or it may be a graceful chamois, a noble St.
There
came recently to the writer, together with a deep sense of gratitude for the spiritual growth of a friend through very trying circumstances, a realization of how great, in human experience, is the need of faithfulness on the part of each individual.
"Please extend our heartfelt thanks to the Board of Directors of The Mother Church for the inspiration which their prompt action affecting the need in Halifax has given us.
A speaker in addressing a conference in Buck's Assembly recently, made, according to report, the following remark on Christian Science: "One bad effect produced by Christian Science was the loss of a sense of reality which left them in a very morbid state, and that condition had a very bad effect upon the health of mind and body.
