SPIRITUAL HEALING.

Wairarapa Age, 9 May 1924, Page 5

SPIRITUAL HEALING.

DISCUSSED BY CONVOCATION. AN ARCHBISHOP’S WARNING. (Press Association—Copyright.) (Received 5.5 p.m.) London, May B.—The Archbishop of Canterbury, presiding at the Convocation of Canterbury where the ministry of healing was. debated, said they ought to remove a misapprehension, which was in considerable vogue; that the ministry of healing was adverse to the normal ministrations of medical men. The use of oil, especially if befiedicted by a bishop, was fraught With daugcr in that it 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 underrated the weight attaching to now branches of knowledge which wore brought about by what seemed miraculous changes, but were really brought about in the providence of God by other forces. Extreme caution was required. It was extraordinarily difficult to decide how much ws physical and how much spiritual.—(A. and N.Z.) NO MISSION. PRACTICE OPTIONAL. (Received 10.20 p.m.) Melbourne, May B.—The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, while agreeing in the right that any clergyman who felt moved to practice spiritual healing sSould do so, definitely decided not to hold a spiritual healing mission in the Presbyterian church.—(P.A.)