Word: healer
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Some nine years ago she remonstrated with her third husband for his philandering. He kicked her in the stomach. The kick caused a partial paralysis. She went to a faith-healer for relief. He was "not treating colored folks that day." The injured woman dropped to her knees and shrilled her prayers directly to God. If He would cure her, she would have faith to cure others, and she would cure them black or white. By & by she recovered, ministered to others, amassed "voluntary donations," built a "manger" in the swamps, swore never to leave the place...
Back in New York, contentment finally comes to Delice. She meets interesting people and Time the Great Healer gets in a lot of good work. Dorn, who by this time has attained great clarity and volubility of thought and conversation, begins to feel a need for active work of some kind. The post of U. S. Minister to Italy is open. He accepts it as soon as he sees that Delice will surely marry Graeme Borden...
...Christian Science Mother Church (The First Church of Christ, Scientist) in Boston, last week changed the name of their organization to the Church of Universal Design. More, they renounced Mrs. Eddy as discoverer of their cult. In her place they put Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, Portland (Me.) clockmaker and "mental healer," from whom (they profess) Mrs. Eddy got her ideas. Reason for these shifts of reverence and name was given by John Valentine Dittemore, onetime director of the Christian Science Church, deputy leader of the Church of Universal Design*: "The term Christian Science has been brought into widespread disfavor through...
...took for granted that all knew how his father started the movement. Daniel David Palmer was a "magnetic healer" who "cured" by laying his hands on innocents. One day a deaf Negro janitor came to him. The deafness had developed when "something broke in his back." Healer Palmer found a protuberance on the Negro's spinal column. He placed the man prone on the floor and knuckled the spine. After the "adjustment" the Negro could again hear, whence a new therapeutic...
...have been more delicate. When it was made clear however that the questioner did not share the commonly received opinion of Rasputin, but thought him in some respects admirable, the Grand Duke Alexander perceptibly brightened and said: "He was a great hypnotist-very strong! And he was a great healer. Two, three or four times he saved the life of the Tsarevitch-the little son Alexis. So his mother, my sister-in-law, the Tsaritsa ordered Rasputin to come often to attend the Tsarevitch...