FAITH-HEALING MISSIONS AND THE TEACHING OF SCRIPTURE: A REPLY TO MR HICKSON’S TEACHING, by the Rev. Thomas Houghton. London: Chas. J. Thynne and Jarvis, Ltd., Whitefriars Street, Fleet Street, London, E.C. 4. Price 3d.
This is an excellent pamphlet on the subject of Faith-Healing. The Editor of the Gospel Magazine, in whose pages it first appeared, has conferred a boon on the religious public in reprinting the two articles embraced under the above heading. Faith-healing has a large following in Great Britain, and it is well that its claims should be brought to the touchstone of God’s Word. This Mr Houghton has done, and in an argument which is characterised by a fine sanity of treatment, combined with a lucid presentation of the Scripture testimony bearing on the subject, he does not leave anything for “faith-healing” as understood and taught by its advocates. The latter part of the pamphlet criticises in a fine Christian spirit an article by Mr Hickson, who attained so much notoriety in the Church of England through his so-called Faith-Healing Missions. Any whose minds have been unsettled by such teaching or whose friends have been affected by it cannot do better than procure this pamphlet, and after having read it, pass it on to those who may be in need of it.