Ogden Daily Standard | 1893-03-12 | Page 4 | How the Church Cured Excessive Faith

how the viruch cured haltli besides condemning magic the church further attempted to direct tho excessive asive faith in the supe supernatural rn athral into higher channels instead of invoking juno julio lucina and slid omer onier heathen demons the young mother wits en coura to repeat the eighteenth psalm and to think of the wonderful delly of st margaret when swallowed by satan in the form of a dragon did a man suffer from toothache or colic or pains in the back bet him instead of decking himself with pagan amulets consider how bov much licater pain of those various kinds was endured by st Apoll apollonia onla when nil all her teeth were knocked out by st erasmus when his bowels were torn from his living body or by st lawrence when ho he was roasting on the gridiron and in ili his prayers for health ho he would naturally introduce the names of those holy martyrs martyr or of other saints who were amiul barly connected with other diseases with a firm faith in ili their effectual intercession boudou hospit