Faith Cures

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 2, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 34.

WHEN “faith cures” become a matter of business enterprise, and certain people set themselves up as having special privileges with the Lord, who will hear their prayers in preference to others, the whole thing becomes a travesty of the most grotesque proportions. We have seen advertising signs of these faith-healers on conspicuous boards on the front of their houses. They claimed for themselves a sanctity which others could not discover, and pretended to a healing power which they did not and could not verify. They were fakirs, deceivers, religious frauds. Just as soon as a man claims to have a special relation with God by which he proposes to heal the sick that come to him, he proves himself a fraud.— Methodist Protestant.