The Anatomy of Healing Prayer

Dr. Holmes was founder of the Church of Religious Science, and author of the book, The Science of Mind. He was a brilliant lecturer, a keen student of logic, an avid reader, and a student of Emerson, Plato, Troward, Aurobindo, the Bible, and all other greats of the past and present.

Overlooked in his accomplishments was his extreme dedication to healing including research into, and study of, all areas of healing. He did this by developing mental techniques and exposing principles that were immutable and that could be used. He believed in medicine, although he told me he never took a pill or medication of any kind until his late sixties. I believe he felt that from his understanding of Mary Baker Eddy’s line in Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, to the effect that when all else fails, get what help is necessary and then examine your own consciousness. He expressed to me one evening, out of our many talks together, that we should prove by examination and diagnosis that a healing was taking place or had taken place.

He encouraged practitioners of spiritual mind healing, and some even said he favored them above other people. One incident he shared with me involved the practitioner, Ivy Crane Shellhamer. She lectured in the old meditation chapel in the original Institute building. People would line up in the Street to gain admission to her special hour. Many individuals claimed they had physical, mental, and emotional healings.

The other practitioners complained to Dr. Holmes that her grammar and speech were bad, and that this reflected on the Institute. They urged him to remove her from her lecture time. Ernest in his wisdom said, “When you attract as many people, and heal as many, as she does, then I’ll dismiss her.”

He spoke to me of studying the writings of a medical doctor in England or upstate New York, who was fifty years before his time. Several months ago the writings of a Dr. J. H. Dewey of Buffalo, New York, 1888, came into my possession. On the assumption this is whom he suggested to me, I am including from Dr. Dewey’s text the following writing.

That all manner of disease and all manner of sickness, even in their apparently most hopeless forms and phases, were healed by a purely mental or spiritual influence or action, under the ministry of Christ and his Apostles, is believed by thousands. According to the record, these experiences of healing were not exceptional but were a matter of common and daily occurrence. In the majority, if not all cases, the restoration was immediate; not progressive or gradual.

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Long Preview	Dr. Holmes was founder of the Church of Religious Science, and author of the book, The Science of Mind. He was a brilliant lecturer, a keen student of logic, an avid reader, and a student of Emerson, Plato, Troward, Aurobindo, the Bible, and all other greats of the past and present. Overlooked in his accomplishments was his extreme dedication to healing including research into, and study of, all areas of healing. He did this by developing mental techniques and exposing principles that were immutable and that could be used. He believed in medicine, although he told me he never took a pill or medication of any kind until his late sixties. I believe he felt that from his understanding of Mary Baker Eddy’s line in Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, to the effect that when all else fails, get what help is necessary and then examine your own consciousness. He expressed to me one evening, out of our many talks together, that we should prove by examination and diagnosis that a healing was taking place or had taken place. He encouraged practitioners of spiritual mind healing, and some even said he favored them above other people. One incident he shared with me involved the practitioner, Ivy Crane Shellhamer. She lectured in the old meditation chapel in the original Institute building. People would line up in the Street to gain admission to her special hour. Many individuals claimed they had physical, mental, and emotional healings. The other practitioners complained to Dr. Holmes that her grammar and speech were bad, and that this reflected on the Institute. They urged him to remove her from her lecture time. Ernest in his wisdom said, “When you attract as many people, and heal as many, as she does, then I’ll dismiss her.” He spoke to me of studying the writings of a medical doctor in England or upstate New York, who was fifty years before his time. Several months ago the writings of a Dr. J. H. Dewey of Buffalo, New York, 1888, came into my possession. On the assumption this is whom he suggested to me, I am including from Dr. Dewey’s text the following writing. That all manner of disease and all manner of sickness, even in their apparently most hopeless forms and phases, were healed by a purely mental or spiritual influence or action, under the ministry of Christ and his Apostles, is believed by thousands. According to the record, these experiences of healing were not exceptional but were a matter of common and daily occurrence. In the majority, if not all cases, the restoration was immediate; not progressive or gradual.

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