laying-on-of-hands

Updated: May 2, 2025

This does not involve the practice of any "ism" or "ology," nor does it require the use of medicines, drugs, surgery, hypnotism or the "laying-on-of-hands," but by scientific and natural methods, begins the first step of the work, viz.: Tearing out the improper methods of speech production.

Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue - Stammering, Its Cause and Cure

Hardly have I escaped from that magician, and must another necromancer again run across my path, Some sorcerer with laying-on-of-hands, some sombre wonder-worker by the grace of God, some anointed world-maligner, whom, may the devil take! But the devil is never at the place which would be his right place: he always cometh too late, that cursed dwarf and club-foot!"

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra : A book for all and none

Chapman, Hamlin, Matthews, Colenso, and C. P. Davies all received the laying-on-of-hands; the sermon was preached by Henry Williams, and the church was crammed with a devout and interested congregation. "It was grand," writes Lady Martin, "to hear the people repeat the responses all together in perfect time. It was like the roar of waves on the beach."

H. T. (Henry Thomas) Purchas - A History of the English Church in New Zealand