Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-14
Divine POWER
AIDS MEDICINE
SAY PROBERS
Faith Cure" IS Effective in
Functional Disorders. Is the
Report of Committee.
FAMOUS SCIENTISTS GIVE
RESULTS De THEIR STUDY
Clerical and Medical Board, Ap-
pointed in 1911, Give Out
Report of Committee
IBy Latest NALL

4 LONDON.-An important contribu
ltion to one Of the foremost topics Of
1.-THE day is found in the report Of The
iCommittee on Spiritual Healing. or
Faith Cure, appointed by the Con-
ference of the Clerical and Medical
Professions held In October, 1911.
The committee, which Is composed
lof prominent clergymen and doctors.
lin its conclusions, says:
The members of the committee
fully recognize that operations Of d.
vine power Is exercised In conformity
/, with will, and they desire to express
their belief In the efficacy Of prayer
j They reverently believe. however. dI-
vine power Is exercised IN conformity
with and through the operation Of
natural laws.
with advancing knowledge Of these
laws, Increasing benefits are being
secured for mankind through human
instrumentality Especially is this
the case N the healing of disorders
of the body and the mind, and they
consider that spiritual mtnisfratiOn
should be recognized equally with
medical ministration as carrying
Gods blessing to the sick:
Spiritual Healing.
AThe committee Is OF the opinion
that the physical results Of what y
called faith. or spiritual healing does
not prove different from those Of
mental healing OF healing BY suegess
tion.
THE committee recognizes that
suggestion Is more effectively exer-
|cised by some persons than others.
which. would seem TO explain the gifts
claimed by 'healers The use Of re-
|ligi0us influences does not differ ess
sentially from non-feligions appeals
to the mind. yet the former are often
more potent.
Faith or spiritual healing can be
permanently effective only IN funcs
ti0nal disorders as distinguished from
organic disorders, and the COMMITTEES
warns against resorting TO healers and
p0stponing medical treatment
Spiritual ministration may contrib
ute to the success of medical treat.
ment, and we desire to see more im-
portance attached to them. but we
strongly deDrecate the independent
treatment Of disease By Irresponsible
and unqualified persons
Prominent Men on COMMITTEES.
The membership Of the committee
includes Herbert q Ryle dean Of
Westminster H. H. Henson, dean Of
Durham; william r. Inge. dean Of
st. Paul's; Henry Il Paget bishop Of
Stepney, and Archdeacon Sinclair.
Among the medical members are Sir
Dyce DuckWorth, Sir Richard Doug
las Powell, Theodore B. HysIop. and
Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
The Witnesses examined BY the
differed ii their definitions
of spiritual and mental healing Some
regarded the former as divine IN
terposition above the laws of nature,
while most Of them connected spir-
itual healing today with the gifts Of |
healing Of the apostolic church, say
ing they thought these had long been
dormant, although never wholly IN
terrupted
The witnesses differed widely as to |
whether moral excellence In the heal /
ers or the healed was essential for
success.
Most of them gave convincing evil (
dence of beneficial results In func-
tional nervous disorders and cases Of (
alcoholism and drug-taking. but not
one gave satisfactory evidence OF any
case OF organic disease cured by spir- +
itual or faith healing alone.