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Abandoning that field abruptly, he said: "What I urge is that you ought not to trust too much to accidental recoveries like that of the Maginnis child. If faith-healing is a mistake it may do a great deal of harm." Phillida's eyes fell to the table, and she fingered a paper-weight with manifest emotion. "What you say in regard to responsibility is true, Philip.
These words were spoken in a relaxed and indifferent tone, as though it was an accidental commonplace of the subject that Mrs. Hilbrough was settling. Phillida said nothing. Here she was face to face with the old agony. If her faith-healing were only a matter of her own suffering she need not hesitate; she would take the cross with all her heart. But Mrs.
We must always go deeper. Don't you think so?" "I don't understand just what you mean," said Phillida. "You see," said Miss Bowyer, "faith-healing is a primitive and apostolic mode of healing the sick." Miss Bowyer paused, and Phillida said, "Yes," in a hesitant way; for even the things she believed seemed false when uttered by Eleanor Bowyer. "Well, ours is a scientific age.
With no fixed standard of reference to distinguish fact from fiction, it was possible to argue that 'whatever suits souls is true. In this atmosphere many old habits of thought reasserted themselves. While we enjoyed peace and prosperity, the credulity of the public found its chief outlet in various systems of faith-healing and in the time-honoured pretensions of priest-craft.
We, too, may believe that people were healed, perhaps by living a healthy life in a quiet place, a life of regimen and diet; and perhaps faith-healing or suggestion played as strong a part as anything else. Even the Christians believed that these gods had a certain power; they were evil spirits. Not only the gods of the temples would manifest themselves of their grace.
For they, too, had their motor-cars from France and England; they, too, had their gambling-dens secreted in private houses of high repute, they, too, had their country-seats specially indicated as free to such house-parties as wished to indulge in low intrigue and unbridled licentiousness; they, too, weary of simple Christianity, had their own special 'religions' of palmistry, crystal-gazing, fortune-telling by cards, and Esoteric 'faith-healing. The days were passing with them as it passes with many of their 'set' in other countries, in complete forgetfulness of all the nobler ambitions and emotions which lift Man above the level of his companion Beast.
That's what I don't see." The priest shook his head, smiling. "I simply don't know what you mean, Monsignor. Give me an example." "Well . . . er . . . what about Faith-healing? The dispute used to be, I think, as to the explanation of certain cures. How have they become reconciled?" Father Jervis considered a moment. "I don't think I've ever thought of it like that," he said.
Hilbrough's words reminded her again that her sense of duty forced her to bind Charley Millard for the torture. A duty so rude to her feelings as the half-publicity of it made faith-healing, ought to be a duty beyond question, but here was the obligation she owed her lover running adverse to her higher aspirations. The questions for decision became complex, and she wavered.
If this faith-healing does not succeed, a stronger wizard than he must have bewitched the patient; he will consult the spirits. To that end he goes to his Minggah, a tree or stone more often a tree, only the very greatest wirreenuns have stones, which are called Goomah where his own and any spirits friendly towards him may dwell.
"Have you heard that Mrs. Frostwinch is on her way home?" Father Frontford went on. "No." "It is said that her faith-healing superstition has failed her, and she is coming home to die." "To die?" echoed Maurice. He recalled Mrs. Frostwinch as he had seen her, gracious, high-bred, apparently brilliantly well; and it appeared monstrously impossible that death should be near her.
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