Love and tenderness awaken and you are melted and mellowed in the fire of divine love.

You are healed! You are transformed!

The image of his likeness stands forth in your nature and you know for all time that through your awakened soul you have fellowship with Christ and the Father in him, One God, and nothing can cloud your joy as you walk through the pathway of existence hand in hand with the Father.

[Notes from a talk by Walter DeVoe at the Healing Life Center].

The following extracts are taken from the sermons of Rev. George L. Hubbard, an orthodox minister in the East, on the subject, "The Ministry of Healing." He is in sympathy with the Emmanuel movement, and subject to its limitations, but he allows the freedom and understanding of his Higher Self to swing him at times beyond these limitations:

"The faith cure is the pioneer of all modern healing systems. In itself, however, it is not a system, but merely an idea, a single element in the scheme of complete redemption set forth in the gospel. Rightly understood and freed from all fanatical elements, it is the only true representative in modern times of the healing miracles of Jesus. Briefly stated the faith cure is a practical demonstration of the idea that the divine power is just as available for the cure of disease today as ever it was, and that this power is to be appropriated through faith and prayer. This principle is absolutely correct and rational. Whatever apparent failures have revealed themselves in its workings have been due, not to any incorrectness in the principle, but to errors in its application. Could the records of its achievements be tabulated, I doubt not they would quickly put to shame the boastful advertising of less Christly healers.'

"While I believe the principle of the faith cure to be absolutely impregnable, the history of its practice reveals both strength and weakness. Let us study these briefly that we may get a clearer view of the underlying truth.

"One element of strength in the faith cure is its simplicity. Its advocates usually talk plain English. There is no juggling with strange and mysterious terms. This is important. The wise man is suspicious of that which must be expressed in strange or

vague terms. The deepest thought flows easily in monosyllables. Only the quack doctor and the halffledged preacher delight in technical terms and dead languages. Beware of the book that abounds in long words and unfamiliar or novel phrases.

"Again, the faith cure is universal. Another element of strength. True, the idea has its prominent advocates, such as the late Dr. Cullis, Dr. A. B. Simpson and others; but these have no monopoly either of practice or teaching. The whole curriculum of the system is expressed in the threefold promise, 'Ask and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.' Every disciple of Christ is a fully equipped and authorized practitioner of the faith cure.

Finally, an important element of strength is the freeness of the faith cure. Exponents of this faith do not cure for money, although some charlatans, like Alexander Dowie of Chicago, have exploited it for their own profit. In a word, the strength of the faith cure is its exact reproduction of the spirit and work. of Jesus.

"On the other hand, the practice of this idea reveals certain weak features. Note a few points that obtrude:

"Jesus' cures were practically immediate, complete and permanent. Contrast with this the testimony of a deformed believer in the faith cure: The Lord is healing me gloriously! After only six weeks of prayer I can move two fingers of one hand a little!' Or another who had testified that the Lord cured her headaches, but confessed, 'Sometimes the pain remains to test my faith.'

"Again, the rejection of medical aid by these people and their imitators finds no support in the example of Jesus, who twice used medical treatment to help his work, and who never forbade its use. Today when a cure is wrought there is no need of saying anything

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