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CURED
but is
this proof?
D
URING this inquiry two facts about falth healers have im- pressed me above the rest. The first is the marked reluctance among reputable practitioners to be anything but vague about specific instances of healing.
There appears to exist a kind of ethic of silence about the persons treated. It is in marked contrast to the eagerness I have found in some quarters to pro- pagate belief in faith healing.
KAY.
CROWLESMITH *t aik for evidence,"
by HUGH CLELAND
felt very ill for some me and had lost a lot of weight.
weight. But i am
sure the surgeon was right in his diag- Hosis-my sister had looked just as I had done, and she bad died from the same complaint."
Now Miss Christy is well, she
says,
Exploitable
doubt I do not
that Miss Christy is sincere in this ac- count. But it is a long way from evidence certainly evidence of the sort that would convince a sceptic. Evidence of that kind may
exist; but if it does I have not found any faith heater, or ex-patient elther. who is prepared to provide it.
This put
to
a leading the Rev. Methodist minister,
Cam- John Crowlesmith, of bridge. He (together with the
Lesile Rev.
Weatherhead) re-, presents the Me
Methodists on the Churches Council of Healing.
The Church of England suffered from nausea and sick- The doctor was called. endorses faith healing. So does ness.
and said he approve the Baptist Union, the Church He examined me of Ireland, the Episcopal Church would have
Let me quote Mr Crowlesmith:
"There are too many cases of spiritual healing for it to be dis- But moonshine. дл missed
the whole
do not 1 on
of healing services. to exclude the They are so easily exploitable."
I pressed Mr Crowlesmith of Scotland, the Congregational possibility of my te told me about the evidence for cures by Union, the Methodist Church, a gastric ulcer.
faith healers. -He said very the Presbyterian Church of must see a surgeon.
frankly: "What beats me is "The
examined that there is so often a lack of surgeon England and the Society of
and said there was something Friends.
to absolute medical diagnosis. Yet unpleasant which would have to be taken away. He asked me if I am quite sure the power of I would leave it to him to do God is there, can operate, does and does heal. You what w
He told my operate was best.
ing.
He i
dismiss the over-
All of them are represented on the Churches Council of Heal-
Yet, in spite of this multi- sister that I had an inoperable cannot just plicity of religious bodies which cancer in the stomach, and that whelming number of cases there I am always in trouble accept faith healing as a fact, there was very little he at all are. it is singularly difficult to obtain that much could be done for me. because I ask for evidence." authenticated cases of patients He said they would open me up treated and cured which can be and look to see if anything investigated at first hand.
'I lost weight'
Time and again, in the course of this inquiry, I have encoun- tered either vagueness or a flat refusal to give me detailed cases that I could scrutinise for my- self. The answer frequently is. that a faith heater is
analogous
to a doctor, who does not discuss
his patients.
could
An operation
.
Doctors, too
spiritual
on the
Sitting Fence.... by
Nathaniel Gubbins
An American writer has sug“, Kosted that, after the Bon moon young husband
actually make his bride food- conscious by bringing the subs Ject Into The conversation
every opportunity,
at
-N our own home at last. Don't you like the dark oak panelling in the dining-room, even if it isn't oak?
Perfect. It remindi me of
stewed or fall,
walls
drawing-room,
surs of though
Really? How peculiar, at course, I'm not quite about the off-white
the they do
the goldy- Bot off brown carpet, rather well.
brandy or rum, 'for adults only, was ectured after epppankan by , many clergymen, Including the
who Rev. Thompson,
Fald there was a danger that young people might get a taste for it.
(After the old song)
When we stopped at tho British Museum I offered the Dig a ten-shiling note. As ha had no change ho gave me # piece of toffee instead.
While I was eating the toffee, the pig said: "What is the time of your wedding?" I said: "11,45
said:
That B.m." The day?" I said "I don't know, at the She's been waiting church three weeks as it is."
Then the pig' took the 'ring from his nose and said: "As you won't be able to afford a'.
we only a humble home wedding-ring after the Budget, they had in an old world you had better put this on her village street.
finger. I hope it won't be too Each slick, and stone in that big."
humble home was ever so clean and neut,
I raid: "I will probably be
For love it reigned in that too small; as I em marrying humble home, though it's The Fat Lady from the circus, now but a beautiful dreams, who has hands as big as hling." Since the man
The pig said: "It's not polite.
with the
Ice-
cream barrow 'called
sold our boy ice-cream.
and to mention hams in my
sence." I said: "I beg
pre- your
ed as soon as asked."
Then the pig said: "It marry this fat lady she either amother you or you will
you
whi
When I look at the walls Don't give no ice-cream to our Pardon," The pig said: "Grant- and the carpet together 1 think of sole
mussels When
Jolinny. cooked with It makes him so strange and
19, wild.
bonny,
I look at the
walls alone they remind me We remember the time he was of tripe and onions.
Is this the romantic dreamer
A normal and dutiful child.
Lessons
I married? I suppose the sun- We reinember him saying his shine-yellow wallpaper in our bedroom reminds you omelettest
get three years for bigamy. Which do you prefer?".
I said I would rather
And praying for Daddy and some more toffee. of
Muni,
1
.ų Sometimes omelettes. More' Till they sold him an ico-cream often sweet com with fried cornet chicken.
Full of apricot brandy
and
of food in our bedroom we've only been
I think it's revolting to think
when
rum:
month.
As midnight strikes morrled #
have
*
The pig then drove me from in that London to Manchester, via Car- humble home his anxious lisic and Dublin. parents walt
I can't help it. Even the bathroom sponge reminds me For a boy at an ice-cream par of golden pudding.
Do you remember when my eyes reminded you of dark pools in the starlight?
although he is
lour bar only eight. They weep as they look at the things he loved, the smash- Yes. I remember.
ed and the broken toys.
when What do they remind you of And remember the day
and Ice-cream was cream, now? Mushrooms on toast?
No. Thick brown gravu.
blue-eyed boys were boys. And the pale porcelain checks
Stuffed veal, you loved? suppose?
I
Not stuged, darling. Bolled--leg of pork with mashed turnips, maybe?
No turnips, dear
а Just
plain boiled leg of turnips? Perk without That's me, is it?
even
Well, darling.... Go on. Say it, you pig.
With your pale skin, dark eyes, and golden fringe, I was going to say you remind- ed me more of roast pork with brown
and praty crackling.
Problem child
An application for a Moence to make alcoholic ice-cream con-
part in eight taining one
of Drambule. Benedictine,, apricot
Don't give no ice-cream to our
sonny,
When we arrived ot Minsk, Stalin called out: "Hullo, Gub- bins. How would you like to work for me?"
1 sald: "What at?" Stalin rald: "A dally column for Pray da." I suld: "What about?" Stalin sald: "You only have to keep on saying I'm wonderful." i sald: "My terms are a ten- contract at 50,000,000 special roubles a year, with a
nists."
Don't give no ice-cream to year
our dear,
For after "Ice-cream he goes fax-free Budget for column-
His language is shocking
hear
funny,
to
Then, Stalin said: "Done." looking at the pig, he said: The night he insulted his father, "Who's your friend?" I said: The night he assaulted his "One of our visiting membera
Mum
of Parlament."
was after a lick at an ice-cream
brick
Full of apricot
KULT.
brandy and
Dream encounter
PIG was driving the taxt 10 which was taking me the House of Commons to bear the Budget speech.
90. Stalin said: "I thought
the Why don't you slaughter lot and Increase your bacon - tion?"
As they led the pig away, Stalin said: "This is the first spy we've cought that we can eat, too."
-{London Express Service)
The pale Princess
in the Palace
TTOW has life been for Princess Margaret, since grief and mourning settled upon the Palace? Let her answer that herself:
"Lite
seemed to stand still
to a friend.
his On the evening before death sho played the
plano and sang to him, while he worked out a jigsaw puzzle.
Once she left the piano, moved That, was Berca to help him.
did almost the last thing they
by... ROBERT
GLENTON
Then she goes back to her suite to write or dictate replies to the letters that pour in upon hér.
The Queen Mother is very she of duty With the drill
straightening her affairs, first time in busy dropped for the
her but Margaret is always coaxing a low; graceful curtsy to elder sister when she met her her to walk with her out into
the fresh air, Ds Queen,
be done.
Sho likes to walk round the could
The Methodists set up a com“. not get a hospital
Margaret wept a great deal Palace gardens, exercising the bed for a fortnight. One day mittee in 1937 to Inquies Into the
her father died. For Queen Mother's two Corgies that was meant after Papa died," she wrote after during that time, my vicar, the question of all
many nights she had to take healing. Dr
and her own Sealyham Johnnie, Rev. Dan Pilkington (vicar of by
Her father's sudden death sedatives in order to sleep. St Barnabas, Bexhill), came to Weatherhead was the chairman. Since 1939, Mr Crowlesmith has
unexpected Was a heavy and see me,
been its secretary. The com- blow her, mittce includes ministers, doctors. Out of it psychiatrists, "He talked for half an hour, has grown the Methodist Society
Medical and then said a prayer and gave me for Medic
Pastoral the laying on of hands. As he Psychology. "Our crowd," said
Mr
"are strongly Crowlesmith, However, I have been put went out, he stopped by the door into touch with one woman who and said: 'I don't think you convinced that though there is was prepared to say that she need have that operation now reality in spiritual healing, we
herself been cured
doctors, by
must work with Christy Misa
decided she had
There with
And that is as reasonable a better go through spiritual means.
"At the hospital," view as I can get. After sifting them. Miss Christy (as I shall call operation.
the slender evidence available said, "they did operate. is in her early she this woman)
own view-for what it is middle age. She is a qualified They found inflammation in my my nurse and midwife. This is the stomach which appeared to have worth on the efficacy of faith
healing is: Not Proven. started to heal spontaneously. atory she told me:
"In six months." Miss Christy (World Copyright Reserved--
had bullt up my London Express Serulce), went on, "I
had
"Two years ago Fd bad a frightfully heavy winter. I had
The
together. the
the
RESPECT TO THRONE
was a deep bond of Her sister always hated love and understanding between being
Elizabeth was
King'a pride, but Margaret wAY his hod in her that joy. She galety and easy joy which ho had sought so much in his own youth, and could never attain,
A MURDER'S O.K.-BUT NOT A SLAP!
Now York Goldwyn, Holly. wood's private atom
AM
bomb, was up in front of a battery
From RODNEY CAMPBELL
|
At Royal Lodge, Windsor, they wander round the garden talking about the flowers they hope to plant this year.
Princess called "Liz.”
In the evenings, the Princess her
friends Margaret teased
some sometimes, has, a few times by using the name, in her sitting room. At other She will probably never do it times she and her mother while again, for she hos profound senso of the respect due to the Throne.
Now, when they meet for the first time every day, Princess
the away the hours together, Princess at the piano and the Queen Mother playing Failonce,
The family has never gone
Margaret's brown hair fplls to bed early and the habit has
forward an she curtsles to tho sister who has moved over the not changed, other aldo of an Intangible. barrier.
A
big
the
TALKED TO THE DUKE
When the Duke of Windsor Was over "Princess' Margaret -zow. him several times. She has eater and an affection for him: She-ro-
1
an
The Princess ist
studylog
Margaret Lockwood had to conscious North the Negro wear
For some a higher neck gown for communities banned "Birth of
days after of a versions
which the American
showed Nation,"
death the Princess off Wicked Lady." coloured people to the harmless
dis King's
showed more sign of distress wrong advantage, This is one
of the most Yet there is nothing
than any other member of her Sald Goldwyn: “Our" fear of family, of microphones, narrow-minded pallanes in the with the sweater girl, because
what the censors will do stops playing his favourite role. world. In general the radio, that garment fits to the neck!
Sadistis banned. Conto- 113
Nover from portraying life as it film and television censors re- "We have the right to bo
extremes of this quently Richard Widmark was really is. We wind up with a always fussy about her food, members those days when the tree," he shouted at the Con- fleet
of empty lttlē... airy sho
Blmost stopped eating vention 'of American Theatre parrow-mindedness, with hazy not allowed to alap the face of lot
the girl who betrayed him tales. that op-
altogether. Only her break Prince of Wales he used to Owners, "from the interferenco lapoes of memory
The only comfort Hollywood fact remained unchanged: coffee play with her and her sister. of petty, amall-minded, sings-parently permit the low neck one picture. He therefore kill-.
has, as far as its crazy censors and orange juice. tracked dist-snifters who fect lines of Miss Faye Emerson, ed her instead, in orthodox, un.
daughter-in-lawet sadistic fashion,
arg concerned, is that there are their one-time they have to justify
a lot crazier and nastier-in Until about r week ago she French, for "she Hopes to go official existence by using their President Roosevelt, on TV.
the lands beyond the sen The triumph of wrong over
steadily 'lost' weight, Her for a holiday to the Continent Ecirrors instead of their heads."
of make-up, has General Franco banned, then face, free
when mouming is over. And America's crazy right is banned under America's They are
In this land of many races
the altered, "Gentleman's Agree looked very · palo, almost censors, who have created such national code. "The Bandit,
Now she is get she is making plans for o new a maze of do's and don'ts, on Italian film, was condemned greatest emphasis is placed on meat because it rated the Jew
homo in Clarence, House, which vary from State to State,, because it glorified criminals
The Communists banned from city to city, that American Ministers of the Church any "protection" of minority groups, the equal of a Christian, producers have to cut through Church-must never be villains, here for months, then mitered,
"Oliver Twist" was banned- neatly
a score of Hollywood When she appears in publicShe has long telephone talks or fools.
people again she will certainly. scem
with friends, Among those a maze of prejudice and con- or
"would not be doped on more solemn anid grown-up fusion before they can sell their Cardinal Richelleu ran into because Jewish groups thought Production so their
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side the cinemas, :'
traditicami, India, de that. Americans are free and as such, easy when it comes to matiors Bad langungo is out ("Lost Boundaries film "American imperialism," they
Each day sho has her break bellove that I will grow old that invite ceneurship. The member the fuss the coors about a Negro family in sald vast majority of the Americans, made over the awear words in trouble, was banned in several Hollywood is gull walling to fast alone in her suite on the without ever seeing Papa
exactly
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