PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
Counterfeit Miracles
B. B. Warfield, 1851–1921 · 119,298 words · 159 reading sections
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34. Germano di Stanislao, Gemma Galgati, German version by P. Leo Schlegel, 1913; W. F. Ludwig, Gemma Galgati, eine Studie aus jiingste Zeit, 1912. The most well-known instance of stigma- tization of the later years of the nineteenth cejitury was probably Louise Lateau. Her case is discussed by William A. Hammond, Spir…
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35. Les Stigmatisees, Louise Lateau, etc., Paris, 1873; La So- matization, Vecstasie divine, et les miracles de Lourdes, Paris, 1894. We are drawing, however, directly from The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. XIV, p. 294. Two American cases are described incidentally in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research…
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scious mental suggestion. Thus a red scar or a painful burn, or even a figure of definite shape, such as a cross or an initial, can be caused to appear on the body of the entranced subject solely through suggesting the idea. By creating some local disturbance of the blood-vessels in the skin, the unconscious self has d…
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64. Harbey, Supplement aux Acta Sanctorum, vol. I, 1899, p. 203 (cited by Gunter). Cf. in general Saintyves, as cited, pp. 44 ff. 65. H. Gunter, Legenden-Studien, 1906, p. 109, note 6, citing the Vita S. Maximini, c. 9 (Scriptores rerum Merov., Ill, 78). ROMAN CATHOLIC MIRACLES 269 66. Pausanias, III, 16, i (Pfister…
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83. J. B. Heinrich, Dogmatische Theologie, vol. X, p. 797, makes much of this: "A miracle which belongs peculiarly to them, wrought not by but on the holy bodies, is their incorruptibility through the centuries. No doubt this incorruptibility can in many cases be explained by purely natural causes; but in many cases th…
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88. Op. cit., vol. X, p. 799. Yet it is not merely God who is venerated in the saints, he says; there is an honor due to the saints in themselves, and accordingly Alexander VIII condemned the proposition: The honor that is offered to Mary as Mary is vain. On the other hand it is said that it is merely the saint and thr…
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97. The recent history of relic-miracles in the United States is chiefly connected with the veneration of relics of St. Ann. Certain relics of St. Anthony venerated in the Troy Hill Church at Allegheny, Pa., have indeed won large fame for the miracles of healing wrought by their means, and doubtless the additional reli…
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some signal proof of her love to her children." Since then a no- vena and an exposition of the relics are held during the latter part of each July, in conjunction with St. Ann's feast-day, and many miracles have been wrought. In 1901 a new marble crypt was completed at the church, and used for the first time for this n…
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99. This string of epithets is taken from the Roman Breviary, Antiphon to the Magnificat. If we wish to know the extravagances to which the prevalent Mariolatry can carry people, we may go to Liguori's Le Glorie di Maria, a book which a J. H. Newman could defend (Letter to Pusey on the Eirenicon, 1866, pp. 105 ff.). "T…
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107. A sufficient outline of these scandals is given in the article on La Salette in The Catholic Encyclopedia, which also mentions the chief literature. It was said that "the beautiful lady" seen by the children was a young woman named Lamerliere; suits for slan- der were brought; and A. D. White is able to say (Warfa…
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120. A. D. White, Warfare, etc.,2 vol. II, p. 24: E. Berdoe, as cited, p. 615. Other estimates of the proportion of the cured to patients may be found in Dearmer, Body and Soul,9 1912, p. 315, and in Rouby, La Verite sur Lourdes, 1910, p. 272. Rouby thinks that about five out of every thousand patients are cured, that …
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occur in the ordinary experience of physicians. Doctor J. Burney Yeo quite incidentally records two such sudden cases, in an article on a subject remote from Lourdes, in The Nineteenth Century for August, 1888, vol. XXIV, pp. 196-197 — one of blindness and the other of lameness. "A gentleman," says he, "the subject of …
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ate improvement in cases where there is no real change of structure, but where the malady is a functional imitation of organic disease. Such cases are frequent and familiar to all medical men, and are the most intractable they have to deal with, the disorder being in the imagination and not in the part. ... It is rathe…
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134. Zola, wishing to express these limitations in a word, said he would not ask very much — only let some one take a knife and cut his finger and immerse it in the water, and if it came out cured he would say nothing more. Charcot puts it in a higher form: "Faith- cure has never availed to restore an amputated limb" (…
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140. W. B. Carpenter, Principles of Mental Physiology, 1824, p. 684, is engaged in pointing out the physical effects which may be wrought by "expectant attention." He says: "That the confident expectation of a cure is the most potent means of bringing it about, doing that which no medical treatment can accomplish, may …
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161. The bibliography at the end of Herbert Thurston's article "Lourdes," in Hastings's ERE, is a model list, and contains all that the student need concern himself about. The English reader has at his disposal: H. Lasserre, Miraculous Episodes of Lourdes, 1884; R. F. Clarke, Lourdes, and its Miracles, 1888; G. Bertrin…
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12. See sub. nom. in the Dictionary of National Biography. 13. From 1829 to 1833 they published a periodical, The Morning Watch, a Journal of Prophecy. 14. J. A. Froude, Life of Carlyle, 1795-1835, vol. II, p. 177. 15. See Mrs. Oliphant's Life, p. 302. 16. Ibid., pp. 312, 362. 17. The writer of the sketch of Scott…
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trating what he saw done at Lourdes. It is recorded by the Messrs. Myers, in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. IX (1893-1894), pp. 191 ff., and we have cited it thence on a previous occasion. See above, pp. 218 ff. Doctor W. B. Carpenter, in an arti- cle in The Quarterly Review, vol. XCIII (18…
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40. The Brazen Serpent, p. 253, quoted in William Hanna, Let- ters of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen from 1S00 till 1840, 1877, p. 183. Compare these passages quoted on the same page from On the Gifts of the Spirit: "Whilst I see nothing in the Scripture against the re- appearance, or rather the continuance of miraculous …
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50. Henderson, as cited, p. 126. "Story concluded by confess- ing," continues Henderson, "that he had greatly sinned in not ex- posing her earlier, but he had been restrained from doing this by feelings of affection. What change this letter might have wrought on Irving had he received it we cannot tell. Probably not ev…
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of an orator addressing his audience. The language which he then, and indeed generally, uttered is very full and harmonious, con- taining many Greek and Latin radicals, and with inflections also much resembling those of the Greek language. I also frequently noticed that he employed the same radical with different infle…
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"Soon after we were seated, the chairs below the pulpit were occupied by several respectable men, one of them quite handsome and well dressed. Another man and a woman took their seats upon the benches behind. While we were gazing at these, we heard a heavy tramp along the aisle, and the next moment Irving walked up to …
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this signal given than the 'tongue' began anew, and for several minutes uttered a flat and silly rhapsody, charging the church with unfaithfulness and rebuking it therefor. The 'tongue' having fin- ished, an elder who sat above him rose, with Bible in hand, and made a dry but sober speech about faith, in which there wa…
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69. The literature on Edward Irving and Irvingism will be found noted with sufficient fulness in The New Schqff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, vol. II, p. 459, and vol. VI, p. 34; and at the head of the article on Irving in Herzog-Hauck. The primary literature on the Scotch movement is given in the footnot…
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be known? . . . My son, in thy sickness be not negligent; but pray unto the Lord and He will make thee whole. Leave off from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all wickedness; give a sweet savor and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, as not being. Then give place to the physician…
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23. Oil was a remedy in constant use, notably for wounds (Isaiah 1:6; Luke 10 : 34), but also for the most extended variety of diseases. Its medicinal qualities are commended by Philo (Somn. M., I, 666), Pliny (N. H., 23 : 34-5°), and Galen (Med. Temp., Bk. II). Compare the note of J. B. Mayor, The Epistle of James,1 1…
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ment is to act as a natural remedy, indirectly restoring health in the way just explained, it must be received in due time, otherwise, like ordinary remedies, it will not produce its effects." In a similar spirit Deharbe's Catechism (4 Full Catechism of the Catholic Re- ligion, translated from the German of the Reveren…
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26. Op. cit., p. 277. This is the way the common sense of Martin Luther met the question of the use of remedies in disease: "Our burgomaster asked me whether it was against God's will to use medicine, for Carlstadt publicly preached tha.t the sick should not use drugs, but should only pray to God that His will be done.…
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38. Here is, however, one illustration. Doctor Alfred T. Scho- field (A Study of Faith-Healing, 1872, p. 38) relates the following incident. "Knowing a Christian doctor, favorable to faith-heal- ing, I asked him if he could tell me any genuine cures of organic disease. But he only shook his head. . . . The principal ca…
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50. Buckley, op. cit., p. 9. Cf. A. T. Schofield, The Force of Mind, 1908, pp. 256 ff. "Phantom Tumors," says Doctor J. R. Gasquet {The Dublin Review, October, 1894, pp. 355, 356), "de- ceive even the elect." See also Doctor Fowler's paper, "Neurotic Tumors of the Breast," read before the New York Neurological Society,…
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among its advocates: George Morris, Our Lord's Permanent Healing Office in His Church; W. E. Boardman, The Great Physician; The Lord That Eealeth Thee, 1881; and Faith Work under Doctor Cullis in Boston; A. B. Simpson, The Gospel of Healing, 1884; The Holy Spirit or Power from on High, 1899; and Discovery of Divine Hea…
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9. McComb says expressly, The Christian Religion as a Healing Power, p. 92: "In many instances it does not matter what the object of the faith may be; it is not the object but the faith that heals." The matter is more fully stated in Religion and Medicine, p. 293: "Faith simply as a psychical process, or mental attitud…
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15. Hastings's Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, vol. V, p. 700b. He has explained himself more at large in his book Spiritual Healing, London, 1914, and quite in this sense. But a certain amount of ambiguity in this matter is not unnatural, and may be met with in many writers. Elwood Worcester, for example, gives e…
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19. Science and Health, 1899, p. xi; cf. p. 5: "Christian Science is natural but not physical. The true Science of God and man is no more supernatural than is the science of numbers"; p. 249: " Mir- acles are impossible in Science." Even the resurrection of Christ was not supernatural: "Can it be called supernatural fo…
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30. The Christian Scientist writer quoted in the American Jour- nal of Psychology, vol. X, p. 436, declares with great emphasis: "The only text-book of genuine, unadulterated Christian Science is Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, by Rev. Mary Baker Eddy." Mr. Bailey, editor of the Christian Science Journa…
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49. It is these "cross currents," we are told, which form the chief difficulty in the way of Christian Science practice. Mrs. Carrie Snider even reports in The Journal of Christian Science (McClure's Magazine, 1907, pp. 692-693) the case of her husband, who, being "under the treatment of two healers, whose minds were n…
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June, 1902 (McClure's Magazine, February, 1908, p. 399), a con- tributor very sensibly writes: "Do not Scientists make a mistake in conveying the impression, or, what is the same thing, letting an impression go uncorrected, that those in Science are never sick, that they never have any ailments or troubles to contend w…
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cerned and the union of male and female apprehended in its soul sense, this rite should continue"; ed. 1899, p. 274: "Until it is learned that generation rests on no sexual basis, let marriage con- tinue." 74. On this whole subject, see especially Powell, op. cit., chap. Vin; Podmore, op. cit., pp. 294 ff.; Paget, op.…
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87. Charlotte Lilias Ramsay, who writes the article "Christian Science," in Hastings's Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, vol. Ill, pp. 576-579, in lieu of adding the ordinary "Literature" to the arti- cle, informs us that "there is no authorized Christian Science liter- ature except that which issues from the Christ…
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