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, Lourdes; a History of its Apparitions and Cures, 1908; R. H. Benson, Lourdes, 1914; together with such illuminating articles as that of Professor George Buchanan in the Lancet of June 25, 1885; of a series of British physicians and surgeons in the British Medical Journal for June 18, 1910; of J. M. Charcot ("The Faith Cure") in The New Review, January, 1893, vol. VIII, pp. 18-31; and of Doctor A. T. Myers, and F. W. H. Myers ("Mind Cure, Faith Cure and the Miracles of Lourdes") in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. IX, 1 893-1 894, pp. 160-209. There are also three excellent articles by Catholic physicians accessible: Doctor E. Mackey, Dublin Review, October, 1880, pp. 386-398; Doctor J. R. Gasquet, Dublin Review, October, 1894, pp. 342-3575 Doctor E. Berdoe, Nineteenth Century, October, 1895, pp. 614-618.
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i. Edinburgh Review, vol. LIII, p. 302.
2. F. J. Snell, Wesley and Methodism, 1900, p. 157.
3. "The Principles of a Methodist Farther Explained," etc., in Works, New York, 1856, vol. V, p. 328.
4. "I acknowledge," he says, "that I have seen with my eyes, and heard with my ears, several things which, to the best of my judg- ment, cannot be accounted for by an ordinary course of natural causes; and which I therefore believe ought to be 'ascribed to the extraordinary interposition of God.' If any man choose to style them miracles, I reclaim not. I have diligently inquired into the
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facts, I have weighed the preceding and following circumstances. I have strove to account for them in a natural way. ... I cannot account for (them) ... in a natural way. Therefore, I believe they were . . . supernatural." (Op. cit., p. 325.) On Wesley's ingrained superstition and wonder-craving proclivities, see the remarks by L. Tyerman, The Life and Times of the Rev. John Wes- ley,b 1880, I, pp. 220 ff.; and Isaac Taylor, there referred to. \
5. "A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Conyers Middleton; occasioned by his late 'Free Inquiry,'" in Works, as cited, vol. V, p. 746.
6. Snell, as cited, pp. 153 f.
7. Works, 1811, vol. VIII, pp. 322, 329. Cf. The Edinburgh Review, January, 1831, p. 272, note. On Wesley's views on extraor- dinary exercises, see Richard Watson, "Life of Rev. John Wesley," in Watson's Works, 1835, pp. 89 ff.; also Watson's observations on Southey's Life, pp. 385 ff., 421 ff.
8. John Lacy's Prophetical Warnings, 1707, pp. 3, 31, 32, as cited by William Goode, The Modem Claims to the Possession of the Extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit, Stated and Examined, etc., second edition, 1834, p. 194. Cf. pp. 188-189. Goode's account of "The French Prophets" and similar phenomena is very instructive.
9. An interesting account of present-day "Irvingism" will be found in an article by Erskine N. White in The Presbyterian and Re- formed Review, October, 1899, vol. X, pp. 624-635; see also the article by Samuel J. Andrews, " Catholic Apostolic Church," in The New Schaf-Eerzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, with its supplement by Th. Kolde, and the added bibliography.
10. The Collected Writings of Edward Irving, edited by his nephew, the Reverend G. Carlyle, M.A. In five volumes, London and New York, 1866, vol. V, pp. 499 ff., 532 ff.
11. Chalmers himself says: "When Irving was associated with me at Glasgow he did not attract a large congregation, but he com- pletely attached to himself and his ministry a limited number of persons with whose minds his own was in affinity. I have often," he adds, "observed this effect produced by men whose habits of thinking and feeling are peculiar or eccentric. They possess a magnetic attraction for minds assimilated to their own." (William Hanna, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, New York, 1855, vol. Ill, pp. 275-276.) C. Kegan Paul {Biographical Sketches, 1883, p. 8) puts it thus: "Though his labors from house to house were unceasing, though all brought face to face with him loved him, in the pulpit he was unrecognized. ... A few looked on him with exceeding admiration, but neither the congregation nor Chalmers himself gave him cordial acceptance." In Glasgow,
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says Mrs. Oliphant {The Life of Edward Irving, New York, 1862, p. 98), "Irving lived in the shade." "It was then a kind of deliver- ance," says Th. Kolde (Herzog-Hauck, vol, IX, 1901, p. 425, lines 14 f), "when by the intermediation of Chalmers, he was chosen in 1822 as minister to the little (it had then about fifty members) Scottish (so-called Caledonian) congregation which was connected with a small Scotch Hospital in Hatton Garden, London."