But over in America, at first in the margins, something unique was stirring. Modernity was influencing the Christians in a way that was wholly characteristic of their more optimistic, I-centred sense of self. In this magical time of invisible forces such as the electric light and the telegraph there developed a craze for faith healing, in which it was thought a believer’s maladies could be cured by the touch of a preacher – as long as they had sufficient
