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In this way, Edwards can handle some two dozen people in one afternoon, but he is even more efficient by mail. Each morning an average 2,500 letters arrive, to be opened and acknowledged by a staff of 40 healthful helpers. By the mysterious process of attunement, healing begins at the moment when Edwards or one of his assistants reads the letter. "In absent healing, we touch most of those people when they are asleep," Edwards explains. "We help children who are too young to have faith."
Edwards' following is growing fast, and imitators are setting up shop all over Britain. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York found it necessary to appoint a 23-member committee "to consider the theological, medical, psychological and pastoral aspects of Divine healing." Seventeen members of the committee watched Edwards' demonstration in Albert Hall.
Edwards himself says cockily that he hopes church leaders will be "enlightened enough to reintroduce healing into the church as it was in the early centuries."