Messages spoken at various Camps Farthest Out by Rev. John Maillard.
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John Maillard retells the Canaanite mother who asks Jesus for nothing but the crumbs from the table, then turns to a bedridden artist who paints only pictures that are never less than whole. Real faith in Christ, he argues, is never partial. A feeble faith, he tells campers, is really faith placed in one’s own feelings rather than in Jesus himself.
John Maillard recalls a vision from his English parish days of Christ standing with his hands held behind his back. That sign, he felt, showed the church’s own neglect holding back its healing. He then tells the Indiana CFO in 1957 of a woman given up as incurable who recovered after taking Communion. She returned to testify before the doctors who had treated her.
John Maillard traces how medicine and the church can work together for healing. He moves from a colleague’s chaplaincy in a two-thousand-patient hospital to Jesus healing a leper by laying his hands on the man, not the disease. He tells campers he has addressed several medical societies on faith and healing during his current speaking tour of the movement.
John Maillard describes kneeling at the Indiana CFO in 1957 beside a woman in a home for the mentally ill. She mutters without pause. He prays for her as though she were perfectly well, and she later tells him she had known all along that he was there.
John Maillard tells of a woman bent double for eighteen years, healed by Jesus in the synagogue on the Sabbath. Love always takes the initiative, Maillard argues, rather than waiting to be asked. He gave this talk to the 1957 Indiana CFO.