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Bible Dictionaries
Anointing the Sick
The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia
or The anointing of the sick with oil as recommended in St. James 5:14 and 15, has generally prevailed in the Universal Church and came to be called "Extreme Unction." There was an office for its use in the Prayer Book of 1549, but it was omitted in subsequent revisions because its use in most parts of the Church had become mechanical and confined to dying persons. The rite has been restored in some places on the authority of individual Bishops as a Scriptural practice. A Scottish Bishop calls it "the lost pleiad of the Anglican firmament," and says, "one must at once confess and deplore that a distinctly Scriptural practice has ceased to be commanded in the Church of England, for no one can doubt that a sacramental use of anointing the sick has been from the beginning."
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Miller, William James. Entry for 'Anointing the Sick'. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/acd/a/anointing-the-sick.html. 1901.
