It used to be easy healing sickness – anything, a man all cut to
pieces. But now we are meeting sin. I would rather have a man with
his head cut off, to heal, than sin. In S. & H. I wrote, ‘Sin will make
deadly thrusts,’ etc., and ‘Christian Scientists will hold crime in
check,’ etc., and I knew no more than a babe what it meant when I
wrote it; now I do. Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.