The Healing Ministry of the Church (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Healing Ministry of the ChurchHE causes for the pitiable commonness of these troubles are manifold and complicated, and form an interrelated network which it is im possible to disentangle. The breakdown of re ligious faith, the growing artificiality of our so cial system, the mad rush for wealth, mental idle ness and frivolity, the use of stimulants and nar coties, the lack of self-control, arising, it may be, from overwork, or from culpable self -indulgence - all these and other factors are producing amongst us a neurotic and disordered tempera ment. Hence the formidable list of psychic ailments. I can name here but a few: hysteria, which mani fests itself in exaggerated emotional displays, such as intense craving for sympathy or admira tion, or in unconscious simulation of various dis eases, the fruit of an ill-balanced though by no means organically diseased brain, hypochondria, or the fixed but groundless belief that the subject [5.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.