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More imagesThe Great Physician: A Manual of Devotion for Those Who Care for the Sick
Editors and Compilers-A. J. Banks, W. Sinclair Bowen; Foreword-James E. Freeman
Published by The Macmillan Company, 1927
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition / 1st Printing (Macmillan - 1927), VERY GOOD, No dust jacket. No marks and the binding is tight and square. Gently used. xvi, 196 pages ; 19 cm. . . . . . . . * TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword by the Bishop of Washington (James E. Freeman) ---- * INTRODUCTORY: a.) How to visit the Sick --…b.) Self-sacrifice and Intercession ---- * PART 1: SILENCE AND MEDITATION: 1.1) Suggestions for going into the Silence -- 1.2) Meditations ---- * PART 2: PRAYERS: 2.1) Penitence -- 2.2) Prayers and Intercessions -- 2.3) Prayers for Expectant Mothers ---- * PART 3: OFFICES: 3.1) Office for Guild of St. Luke -- 3.2) Offices for Healing of the Sick -- 3.3) Form for Laying on of Hands -- 3.4) Prayers for the Third Hour -- 3.5) Compline -- 3.6) Family Prayers ---- * PART 4: THE SACRAMENTS: 4.1) The Life more Abundant -- 4.2) Baptism -- 4.3) Confirmation -- 4.4) Holy Communion ---- * PART 5: APT QUOTATIONS ---- * PART 6: BIBLE READINGS ---- * PART 7: SELECTED HYMNS. . . . . . . . . . . . FROM THE PUBLISHER: A useful list of biblical readings arranged under special headings for easy reference to appropriate passages make this volume an indispensable vade mecum for the clergyman patient to a state of mental resilience which will accelerate his cure. the knowledge of our time of the relationships between who credits prayer with the power to restore the It is a reverent study of ways and means to apply body and spirit to the alleviation or banishment of the mental distress which torments almost all of us when sick-a-bed and constitutes one chief obstacle to recovery.
