Prayer was a major part of Dr. Harold Elliott’s life—a fact that drew varied
reactions from his colleagues, from shrugged shoulders to veiled hostility. This
was not due to his critics’ lack of interest in alternative methods of healing. The
hospital, in fact, sponsored seminars in everything from yoga to shamanistic
visualization and was considered to be on the cutting edge of holistic medicine.
The problem with Elliott was his polite but uncompromising insistence that the
God revealed in the Bible was the only true God and that He alone could
intervene miraculously, and then only as He graciously chose—there were no
techniques that could guarantee miracles.