SPIRITUAL HEALING

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9800, 9 May 1924, Page 5

SPIRITUAL HEALING

NOT IN OPPOSITION TO MEDICAL MEN. USE OF y'lL AIAY BE MISCONSTRUED. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY’S VIEW.

United Press Association- -Copyright. (Received May 8, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Alay 8. The Archbishop of Canterbury, presiding at a Convocation of Canterbury where the ministry of healing was debated, said they ought to- remove the which was irfi considerable vogue that the ministry of healing was adverse to the normal ministrations of medical men. The use of oil, especially in tho Bishop's Benediction, was fraught with danger that might result in usages which would change the attitude of many 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 which were brought about by what seemed miraculous changes, hut really were brought about in the providence of God by other forces. Extreme caution was required. It was extraordinarily difficult to decide how much was physical and how much spiritual.—A. and N.Z.C.A.

PRESBYTERIAN POLICY

NO SPIRITUAL HEALING MIS-

SION TO F E HELD

(Received Alay 8, 9.40 p.m.) MELBOURNE, May 8. The General Assembly of tlie Presbyterian Church, while agreeing that it is right that any clergyman who felt moved to tlie practice of spiritual healing should do so and definitely decided not to hold a spiritual heating mission in the ' Presbyterian Church. —U .P.A.