The " new departure" in medicine which is attracting so much attention from press and pulpit, claiming as it does to be a revival of apostolic healing and the reduction of Christ's miracles to an explicable basis, invites my interest also to the extent that I must know more of the matter.
So, privileged by auld lang syne, I make bold to put to you, E the questions I want answered, believing you will answer conscientiously and truthfully, if not wisely, to each inquiry.
I understand that you do not use drugs in this practice. I can see how the cheery visits of a charming conversationalist, combined with constant good nursing, assisting the omnipresently active vis reparatrix of nature, would be more efficacious in working off chronic ailments than the administration of any druggist's compound known to materia medica; but what can be done in sudden acute attacks like cholera morbus, cramps and sprains? Is there balm in your Gilead for such exigencies? Suppose, for the sake of her children, a mother would like to understand mental healing, could she be certain, till she had studied at the metaphysical school, that she would be one of the few with the gift of healing? Or might she devote the required time and money and then finally find that she had undertaken what but few can accomplish, they nascitur non fit?
