Post by sparklekaz on Apr 4, 2011 16:27:52 GMT
Harry Edwards
There is probably no spiritual healer who treated a higher number of people than Harry Edwards. Initially a printer with political ambitions, he visited a spiritualist meeting and came across a medium who said he was an excellent instrument for spiritual healing.
He made his first attempts, which were so successful and attracted such a host of visitors that he fully dedicated his life to healing. Thousands of healing stories are reported, and even in hopeless cases, healing or improvements were due to his help, although he did not even meet the majority of his patients personally. An incredible number of letters asking for remote help were sent to him from all over the world.
In more than 40 years of his activity, up to two thousand help-seekers per month visited him at his secluded sanctuary in Shere, South England. He also became famous by his public healing demonstrations, which, like the one at Royal Albert Hall in London, were attended by up to five thousand visitors. His declared task was to propagate and popularize the knowledge about spiritual healing.
For instance, he also recommended the cooperation between classical medicine and spiritual healing, with the effect that there is successful cooperation of the two disciplines in England today.
He set spiritual healing into a spiritualist context, talked about spirit doctors who are a prerequisite for making success possible and considered healing as a medical act.
Frederick Joseph Jones
Frederick Joseph Jones – a man of deep devotion
Jones was the first English spiritual healer with a large clientele. He took up to healing after having visited a spiritual training group, where he heard a voice asking him to agree to being a healing medium.
He started first attempts in a group of six patients in Wimbledon. When he had seen he was successful, he dedicated his full life to healing. One day, a physician sent him 12 patients asking for diagnosis, an ability granted to him by spiritual assistance, 10 of his diagnoses were correct. The physician was disconcerted and, when he examined the two faulty diagnoses, he found out that it was him who made the fault.
During his best times, Jones treated up to 28 000 patients a year, most of them by contact. In 1933, he died at the age of 48 after eleven years of successful healing. Contemporaries say he died so young because he was so devoted and humble that he worked without consideration of his own constitution. Unlike Edwards, Jones was a trance medium and spent several hours a day in trance during healing.
Francis Schlatter
One evening in 1895, when Alderman E.L. Fox, one of the town fathers of Denver, Colorado, opened the local evening newspaper, he saw a headline saying "Miraculous healings by the remarkable French-American Francis Schlatter". He was thrilled and decided to visit Schlatter and to ask him for help for his starting deafness and a painful chronic renal disease.
The next day he traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and found the healer in a small house in the old town. He was so besieged by visitors that there seemed to be a lack of air for breathing. "From the very first moment when I saw the healer I felt that I would be healed and my hopes were confirmed. I stayed there for a week and saw how powerful a healer this man was", Fox said later.
He invited Schlatter to come to Denver and sent him a ticket for the train. Schlatter arrived in Denver in the night of August 23. He started his healing sessions and treated between 700 and 2000 persons a day. His method mainly was to take the help-seeking people’s hands into his and to hold them for a short while. When he did that, the patients felt a slight electric shock and a tickle, followed by heat in one hand and cold in the other one.
He gave healings for all sorts of illnesses. The news about his successes were spread all over the country, the newspapers published lots of articles and help-seekers came in crowds from everywhere in the US. Schlatter held non-stop healing sessions during six hours every day.
This went on till the evening of November 13. He went to bed that night as usual after having read in the bible for a little while. At six o’clock next morning, the time when he used to rise, his room was completely quiet. Fox opened the door of Schlatter’s room. His bed was empty and on his cushion he found a letter with the following text: “Mr Fox, my mission is finished and Father takes me away. Good bye, Francis Schlatter, Nov. 13.“ Schlatter was never seen again.
