What About MIRACLE REVIVALS and PSYCHIC HEALINGS? - Clayton D Steep - May 1981

Clayton D Steep

Do miraculous healings really take place during religious revival meetings? What about so-called psychic healing? Does it actually work? What is behind the new surge of interest - even by medical researchers-in what many claim to be "faith healings"? "The blind see, the deaf hear, the lame walk!" announced the hand-painted sign. Inside the "revival" tent, the voice of an itinerant "evangelist" blared through an over-powered loud speaker system. "You are healed!" he said to an elderly woman with a cane. "Amen!" echoed several believers. Many in the audience were involved in the hand clapping, singing and shouting. Some were curious spectators from the street, attracted by all this activity on the usually vacant lot. The smell of stirred-up sawdust filled the air, creating a slight haze in the tent. As a couple of ushers escorted the elderly woman off the stage, the preacher turned his attention to the next person in an irregular line of afflicted and ailing individuals. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library