Five Great Healers Speak Here

Author(s): Nancy, Esmond Gardner
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House

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BROTHER MANDUS
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Episcopalian Church every evening to pray. In five months, I realized that the business was crashing. All my life's savings had gone to nothing and I would have to close down immediately.
When I set off for home that day of decision, I went into the little church as usual, knelt at the altar and told the Father that the business along with my savings had vanished. What could I do now?
It was at this point that another miracle happened. Somewhere up among the stained glass windows behind the altar I heard three loud "cracks," like a clapping of hands. Startled, aware of some extraordinary event, I heard, subjectively, the "still small voice" which had complete authority. In effect, "Now, my son, your time has come. Now you have no money, nothing to support you. I want you to open a Sanctuary of Divine Healing in the name of Jesus Christ and rely upon me for everything." That was all. Then a wondrous peace and an awareness that entirely new adventures were opening
out.
How to open a Sanctuary of Divine Healing? Without any knowledge or experience, I simply followed through as best I could.
I put an advertisement in the local newspaper: "Wanted, church, hall, room, suitable for conducting a Ministry of Divine Healing in the name of Jesus Christ." I got one reply. It was from an old lady. She had a great story to tell. A few months before my advertisement appeared, a small private hotel came on the market. She felt a strange compulsion to buy it. She did not want to run it as a business but felt a need to be able to visit and sit about in the place where she had lived all of her married life.
One day she was in the long dining room with her niece, and the niece turned to her, apropos of nothing, and said, "Auntie wouldn't this make a lovely healing