People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1895 — Faith Healing. [ARTICLE]

Faith Healing.

There seems to be nothing inconsistent with Christian teaching in the claim that the sick may be relieved by prayer. A fundamental command of the great Nazarine to his disciples was that they should heal the sick. There are those who maintain that the great secret which he taught was nothing less than the conquering of dedth itself. During all ages there have been individuals who claimed to relieve the sick without the use of drugs or the knife, and during the last fifty years the number of such “healers” has l’eached hundreds, and the testimony of those believing themselves benefited is voluminous. True it has not all been attributed to prayer, some profess to know nothing of the source of their gift, others call it Mental Science, Christian Science, Magnetism, Spiritualism, Occultism, etc., and among all are conscientious and honorable people. This session of congress will weld the final link in thp chain that unites the two grand old parties and binds their political machines to the undisguisable service of the money power. The union of the Democratic and Republican parties is the positive policy of the high who believe it is the only way that the new party of the people can be held ip cMeck,