Religion & insanity / by Charles Williams.

  • Charles Williams
Date:
1909
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Credit: Religion & insanity / by Charles Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    melancholic sufferer.” * And the authors of “ Keligion and Medicine,” in a chapter to which they have given the apt title “ Prayer and its therapeutic value,” have also put the matter very well when they say We know little of the law by which mind acts on mind and of the way in which the mind of man can affect the mind of God, but in view of the fact that telepathy is regarded by many sane and sober men as, if not actually proved, at least exceed- ingly probable, he would be a rash man who would deny that our emotions and desires expressed in prayer can reach and help the souls of others. According to the view we have taken, when we pray long and earnestly for the moral or physical welfare of another, our soul not only acts on that soul, but our prayer arising in the mind of God directs His will more power- fully and more constantly to the soul for • Dr. Hood, “Statiatlcs of Insanity.'*
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