Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1883 — Faith Cure. [ARTICLE]

Faith Cure.

The Rev. Dr. Hepworth, says The Truth Seeker, defines the faith care as “that religious.idiosyncrasy,” and says it is “the product of the emotional nature when it is swayed by an inexplicable mysticism and. becomes indifferent to such a low order of materials as facts and law.” He devotes an independent article to a consideration of recent cures claimed as miracles, and concludes: “Supppse my father to be attacked with typhoid fever, shall I resort at once to those means of recovery which have been providentially afforded, and which the educated physician is acquainted with, or shall I send for the officers of the church to make a prayer? I think I ought to do both, but especially to send for the doctor. The messenger who does my errand should go to the .physician first, and to the minister afterward. If either of them is out of town, I earnestly hope it may not be the doctor. If I ignore the agency of God in the cute of disease I am an Infidel; and if I ignore the fact that such an emergency in the skilled physician, I am without that ordinary common sense which the Lord expects me to use.”—Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.