MINISTRY OF HEALING
NOT ADVERSE TO MINISTRA- ■ TIONS OF MEDICAL MEN. London, May 8. The Archbishop of Canterbury, presiding at the Convocation of Canterbury, during n debate on the ministry of healing, said that the Church ought to remove the misapprehension, which Was considerable, that the ministry of healing was adverse to the normal ministrations of medical men. The use of oil, especiallv if a benediction has been said over it by bishops, was fraught with a danger that might result in usages which would change the attitude of mi>nv half-informed people who were seeking cures for human ailments. The Church might mislead people if it under-rated the weight attaching to new branches of knowledge wh’cli had brought about what seemed miraculous change? but wore really brought about in the providence of God by other forces. Extreme caution was. ronnired, and _it was extraordinarilv difficult to decide how much was physical and how much was spiritual.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 193, 10 May 1924, Page 7
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