Word: healers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hair shoulder-length, practices breath control and eats only fruits, nuts and vegetables, shuffled into Los Angeles' Lincoln Theater. He had a manuscript he wanted Cole to see ("I like the gentleness with which he plays"). Then he took off for the desert to commune with Avak the Healer ("Although we needed an interpreter, we spoke the same language inside...
Godfrey Mowatt is a faith healer, but he is no mumbo-jumbo medicine man. He carries credentials: a note on the stationery of Lambeth Palace and signed by the late Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. William Temple: "Mr. Godfrey Mowatt is taking services and speaking at meetings by my wish and authority." Under these words Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, the present Archbishop, has written: "I am glad to add my endorsement and extension to the above...
Something Unusual. At the age of seven, Healer Mowatt accidentally blinded one of his eyes with a knife; he soon lost the sight of the other one as well. For the next decade he struggled with black despair. But gradually his courage and his faith in God won him such independence from his blindness that he was even able to ride to hounds with a friend guiding his horse and calling the jumps. In his twenties he devoted himself to full-time work with the blind. But it was not until about ten years ago that he began to discover...
...just seemed that after I had visited someone and talked to them for a while, they felt better," he says. Doctors began noticing the strangely beneficial effects of Mowatt's bedside visits, and urged him to call on their patients regularly. Today Healer Mowatt refuses to see patients without a doctor's recommendation...
Avak, dark-bearded faith healer who arrived noisily in California from Iran last May, arrived in Florida from California and quickly endeared himself to the Chamber of Commerce. California's wild parties and light-mindedness, announced Avak, were not conducive to faith healing -and neither was the climate...