---
title: 'On Prayer'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'James McCosh'
date: 1876-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Apologetical Method'
- 'Natural Theology'
- 'Providence'
scriptures:
- 'James 5'
- 'Matthew 21'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/mccosh-1876-on-prayer
---

# On Prayer

Collected essays (1872) on the "Prayer-Gauge" debate—Tyndall, Galton, McCosh and others—examining whether prayer affects physical healing and proposing statistical/clinical tests of its efficacy.

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