The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-03-10 00:00:00

FAITH-HEALING IN LONDON.

In the kW* chapel belonging t 3 the Methodist Free
Church Mtssin In Johnistrnt. Edgware-re id. some fifty
or envy persons astembln ffilday stunted by invitation
It her ter Wonkier regarding what was doecribed in the
cireu: as naurd on 'be occasion as Ti vine Munn. The
tv'brsting wee by now ens of • sectarian charact r; nor
had it, as we undsrstonel, any connection with the recent
men hersynnya of the Wyatt n Arm?. Tees Admiral
Pi.lavourne, C. 8., who tat undertaken to deliv.r an
opan• lag ed•llete. le, we bel ere, • :animist' of the Church
of Eneleod. Rome sptakere were understood to be
Wesley an,: wisille other. worsen% were not nabers of the
denonnation who bad given the use of the chap I for
the necasioe. Aecord'ne to the terms of the In•itenon,
not only bed certain p-reins who bed tun heeled um tan-
talum to attend, hot the ink wee. also invited to cow
feel/art Pon totally at the hour of e'eht, the Admiral
—a gentleman with gray hair, and of till and command.
inn ins ince—made his epps aeon In the restruno of the
railed platform wrote the top of the hell. and, after
giving out • •ene or two of • h 5 me from Mr. Banker's
collection. whin were song by the ans iiblager begin ill
a clear sad ew,nant voles tor sketch tho history of bee ng
by faith, suppor log hinaself ty numerous Soriptare
texts, and explaining bow it came to pees that t' • Much
In primitive t s valued to be the inatrunnt of • power
which thenceorth, eart vein t theeo Icy,, be. eon.
tined to manifut Pe.if the outs Inilvldmet. A deep,"
flaunt was indicated by the pr fen I 'lt nee of the
gathering is the tinnier Irene Ic. tot . with great rum...-
nese of manner, or hie own peer a . go- thins*, and to re.
lanshow it happened th•tboing p it into damp eh et. driwa
In Wales some time sine- he wu .0 Mealy stricken down
with rheumatic gook xbibitine Beef In woeful swellings
of the feet and hands. Unwell nut he was neither
able to stand nor to use hi, Angers Frern fr gnat
allusions during the course of the evening It epprared
that there Ic eomewhere in the neighhoorbood e
i.
an institution known as Betb-ehin. Plvediot ovr by Dr.
B Tolman, whose 'name Lai become wi lily eewciatel is
ib
the movemw of which lest metes pro Wine formed
part To Dr. Bordman. Admits' Fiabiourne told um. he
tel. graphed in hie di. trine. A description of the arrl•
and of the ministrations of fl. B rtlnt,o then followed,
which to some may hey. sounded blesphentiout, 'nosh it
was men redly given in • s her and dei out spirit. The
very mit mot nine, according t the Adonis 's stiv•iner t.
his pains had let bin, la that within the nue of Ave
days he was I nabl..l to attend save, ti-n meetimrs in
irelat di bi aid,' othr r work, and to find It enrol ' kosher
tb;4l seta' Sow ether anecdotes of ex•rior linen Ina".
Ines were also ridded by him, upon which the •itra‘rer.
having arnouncid that be wee sentrooned by telegrem to
P. Wing eel. d upon 'our brorhoy h re • to t.k. hi. place.
' o.r Myths, hi r • • was • short mine men, wi ho • .iye,
who, basins been hatrodueeti up, they Coat, b gin at once
by referring t thus infirm tr. and ant inning the grunion
—'
Why, If faith will heal, he hid not got Iwo good eyere.'
The edict of this eorekree du at or.t,ry was somewhat
Woad try his habit of trenstettimt aspirate+ from Oren
In which they wr es weeded to othrrs •here, in nql:2l
society. ttny are not to be heard. Bat lo he ss.t. ho
related with much •op, . if earneetneas the et ire of
how the let .ye ha I been accidentally ricked w th •
mettle just 26 yeare ago so ttatt sight wee thernitY
deurn.d, and so reursin d until het Septeratet, when he ,
!rent through the en remits, 01 ptarvr and twitting. '
And now,' ex slain .sth. young mus. '1 en fe•l an eye
entre : sod, what's more, I ran till d. genet o' jut+
with ibie new eye, and It's growin sad protein every I
deg' Since then, he • Idol, he had bine going al out from
Pau to pho• preening the dela In. cc "seine by fails.' j
and anointing something • many e. II different people
lo on evening. A t nth,* story followed of a youne
lei' at B rkhannetead who was renamed with • foal I
Wit till t • 'posher charged the foul spirit
ti come forth, Mace erten the golf rer tat leen I
restore'. The wife of t'as sulker was Ono di ear. d t
be. Intent and ready to t *tar he she bad ben
annul, u.ly eared of miner in the lip and liter com-
plaint Two other rp-altere followed with moil& nun-
Ileee of raordinery curt, . tided In Vier own nines.
Use of then • lair y e.g moo o' slight build, but of
"tunably Maltby appra-ar mi. gave s sketch of his ail.
Meets, whin enured to hare Fun of • insular,
___,_tark'd awl Wesel,* ammeter. Brother Holvey, as We
niatunr wig e Med, Fat he on with oh inniatie Neer. cone
• to etasumption, with total Ites of thir hit long.
arenoratil.rlll vein's- Aleut • of th. Mart and rot t ire
of tire• blond moire,. ; till ha' log I et the pow., of en
leg nod tonne r.ductd ti goer- sieln and bone, a
gnman had In 9 Istrivb, lett rt. clar.ii that "b
knots's. he must he in his grave.' In this 6.o.liti"n
Brother Hol•ay someho • mia.l. tie way to B ththen,
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there baying 'whinnied In the relate esti one
41 DT. Badman Le laddelly Lead WWI "'Mad

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erect and • sew creator," Drot piss We stick, on whisk
he had till theft been helplessly dependent, he straight-
way, according to his "testimony," walked horns, •
distance of n wit... -at the rats of Ave miles an hour;'
went out the same afternoon with his wife for • walk,
and next day performed sown sueptiting oidestriati f.ats
up hill. Them was • alight interruPlon in Me Prnstiad-
lags when one of the visitors roe, and sake] Brother
thC°Sln fri+ndlT may, whether it wss to be undastosel
ikiet • had regained the nicht of the lost eye mifilliently,
Nay, to read large type, the other eye being covered with
• silk haft tker.Sief. The reply was that he had not ; but
he "could see how man/ fingers were held on by his
wife it she idled between him and the "May
try the experiment r asked the vn•tor ; but we regret to
say that Broths: Cook's answer was angry i tone and
slightly evasive. It wee to the sleet that his new eye
hail been fully tested at public meetings, and that he
"wasted to get on with the bush:sea of the hsvenlng."
All this as will have been observe', Irma purely of • retro.
'pertly* cbastter. Tbe ems remark applies to the
numerous other anecdotes relat,d hy the three speakers,
who, alter the departure of Admiral Fighbourne, bad bons
pract'cally is possession of the hall. A fresh and wore
Isteistkne stage in the prooeslings was reached when
Brother Martin, • stout, short, elderly my., with iron
grey hair, solemnly called nom say sick or si cted p noon
to stand forth. In the Mlle pews ranged on each tide of
the marrow path, there had bees observed one or two
old famous who appeared to be suffering from Pat.
sled shaking of the bands and heed. But net
one of thetas answered to the cell. In their Plant t• young women came forward, one of whom was stated
to ba rear, tbe other describing herself as "weak and
nervous" Approaching the steps of the p`stform the
sufferers war • anointed with ell from • small bottle by
Brother Martin, while this °great r and his two cosdlu-
tors Brothers Cook and Holway, placing their hands
upon the heeds of the patient+, joined with him In tr at er
and exhortations concluding with the words "In the
Name of Jehovah we bid you to free." Beyond this thera
is nothing to record, says the foci thst lb. rit if you's I stly,
of whose previous road tin there hot h«n no means of
judginr, appeared to be now able to hear vary well any'
thing that was sold to her, and that the weak sod literati'
j, Inc lady declared that she " f-it belt. r." After this
and tho raging of snot Cr h•rnet the gathering war die'
salessd with essouneementaol oth rI ai thAessl ins smiting'
gcnterelgatov Lk.", place in various puts of the metro-