Like religious revivals that rise, run their feverish course, and pass over a community, for the most part leaving no trace behind, so at intervals comes a surge of “faith healing.” That is, the cure of bodily disease by powerful mental or religious influence apart from surgical or medical help. Great capital is made by those who promote the proceedings, of the “cures” effected. These are talked of far and wide at the moment, but silence falls on the wonder as a rule in less than nine days.
Such a “mission” was proceeding in South Africa some years ago, as it is now in England, and a brother sent us at the time a contribution to the Cape Argus by a doctor who wrote in quite an unbiased way upon the matter.
First he very rightly said that these alleged cures were no guarantee that those who professed to perform them held the truth of God, for conflicting doctrinaires performed the same marvels.
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Author: C. C. Walker
Keywords: faith healer, faith healing, healing, healer, sickness, healing sickness
Bible reference(s): Matthew 4:23, Matthew 4:24, Matthew 8:8, Matthew 8:13, Matthew 8:16, Matthew 8:17, Matthew 9:35, Matthew 10:1, Matthew 12:15, Matthew 12:22, Matthew 14:14, Matthew 15:30, Mat 17:20, Matthew 19:2, Matthew 21:14, Mat 21:21, Mark 1:34, Mark 3:10, Mark 3:15, Mark 5:23, Mark 5:29, Mark 6:5, Mark 6:13, Luke 4:40, Luke 5:15, Luke 6:17, Luke 6:18, Luke 6:19, Luke 7:7, Luke 8:2, Luke 8:36, Luke 8:43, Luke 8:47, Luke 9:6, Luke 9:11, Luke 9:42, Luke 13:14, Luke 14:4, Luke 17:15, Luke 22:51, John 5:13, John 11:4, Acts 3:11, Acts 4:14, Acts 4:22, Acts 5:16, Acts 8:7, Acts 10:38, Acts 14:9, Acts 28:8, Acts 28:9, 1 Corinthians 12:9, 1 Corinthians 12:30, James 5:16
Source: “Faith Healing,” The Christadelphian, Vol. 67, No. 796, 1930.
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