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Excerpt from Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Vol. 8: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge; Peasant to Roumelia
Peculiar Peo le, a sect of Faith-healers founded in ondon in 1838. They reject nredical aid in cases of disease, although not in surgi cal cases, and rely on anointing with Oil by the elders, and on unceasing prayer, with atient nursin They have their own collection 0 hymns, usual select their preachers from among the elders, and ba tise their children when they are considered 01 enough to understand the ceremony and to express consent. Their communities are not num creus, and the members are near] all very poor working-folk; brrt they bear a higi character for morality, honesty, and Christian charity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
