Excerpt from The Prayer-Gauge Debate
In the month of July, 1872, "The London Contemporary Review" published a paper, entitled "The Prayer for the Sick: Hints towards a Serious Attempt to estimate its Value." Prof. John Tyndall fathered it with an Introduction, while disavowing the authorship. His name, and not any intrinsic novelty or merit in the thing itself, gave significance and notoriety to it.
The succeeding numbers of The Review contained replies, which were followed by rejoinders from Prof. Tyndall and his disguise. Other magazines entered the lists. Francis Galton marshalled the doughty columns of statistical tables, to support Mr. Tyndall, in "The Fortnightly Review." For weeks the great newspapers of London were loaded with editorials upon the Prayer-Gauge, and with communications prepared by all classes and conditions of men, from a bookseller"s clerk to the highest dignitaries of the English Church and peers of the realm. The Prayer-Gauge Debate was the sensation of the season.
The question in dispute was not the question of a season, however, but of all time. The objections to the efficacy of prayer were none of them new, and never will be old.
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