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Rh is from the pen of the Rev. John Worcester, in the New Jerusalem Magazine for 1883, in an article full of valuable suggestions on "the use of poisonous drugs," and reads as follows:

"All healing power is from the Lord, just as much now as when He was visibly present, and just as much when medicines are used, as when He employed only the simple means of His touch. In a sense all healing is miraculous, because it is from the influence of the spiritual world into the natural, in the sense in which Swedenborg says: 'The things which appear in the three kingdoms of nature are produced by an influx from the spiritual into the natural world, and, considered in themselves are miracles, although on account of their familiar aspect and their annual recurrence, they do not appear as such.' Cures appear more miraculous when they depend merely upon changes of mental state, than when a medicine also is employed. But in reality one is just as miraculous as the other. The healing life in both cases is the Lord's life; and in both it is increased and preserved by the acknowledgment that it is His." (1883, p. 155.)