The huntsman's echo. [volume] (Wood River, Buffalo County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1860-1861, 1860-09-27
! A ODrious Incident.

I'D ig A Curious tncfdent,
IL would seem from, an occurrence
that has lately been related to US, up.
on perfectly reliable authority, ,that
the age of miracles has not entirely
passed away. The writer is well ac-
quainted with the person who was the
oubiect of the remarkable experience
lgiven below, having known him per.
sopally for the last twelve years and
though he hes not met him since his
singular relief frome congenical de-
feet. has the particulars from persons
lin every way entitled TO credit, who
have seen him amp received the story
from his own lips. aass .laa4e
Leaving our readers to determine for
themselves how far the intervention Of
q miraculous aid may have contribut-
ed in the matter, and how far it was
the result Of mere natural or ordinary
agencies, we give the story as itwas
told to us p, saiiSiags ~ li,se 's5el
1.-THE person in question is a gentle
man residing in Beloit, in This State
From his birth he has suffered from
Ilameness. The difficulty was in his
right hip, the joint seeming 10 be out
Of place. His right leg was, in conse-
quence, shorter than the other. II
was shrunken and very weak; he al
ways wore boot with thick sole up
on it. and limped badly when he walk
ed. In going up stairs be was oblig-
ed to step up one step at time with
his well leg, and bring the other up
to it instead Of putting it forward TO
the next, as persons usnally go up
stairs. When fatigued,l he was ac-
castomed to feel great pain in his hip.
Some two or three months ago he
was in Chicago attending to some bus
iness matters which kept hin for sew
eral weeks" He is a professor OF re-
Ilieion, and while there attended Sc
Iries OF religious meetings, becoming
very deeply interested in the snbject.
One Saturday. suffering from ye.y se-
we're pain in his hip, he called upon
surgeon to have it examined and to
ascertain whether something could
not be done to a2leyiate the pain
Some interruption oecurfed however.
- il,at tile e1faminash5p ep& postpopsa
siII Monday That night sitter going
TO- bed, tlis pain continuing. il ocour.
|red to him whether or not, II he asked
in proper spirit, some Divine assis-
tance might not. be vouchsafed, as in
the old tine, when the prophets and
apostles walked on the earth. He
arose from his bed, procured light,
ard taking his bible. opened by chance
to a chapter in the New Testament,
where the Christ miraculously cures
a lame man.,
After reading il, he proceeded 40
Invoke, by earnest prayer, some SIM
liar Intervention in his own behalf,
and then feeling greatly cheered and
supported by trust in Divine benef-
cence, he. again retired to rest, and
soon fell asleep. During the night
he dreamed that the Savior came to
him accompanied by a surgeon--the
same that he had called upon during
the day. The surgeon examined his
hip, and told him it could be relieved,
but only by sn operation. To this he
objected, desiring that0it should be
postponed: bnt the surgeon seemed
suddenly to seize and overpower him,
and with some instrument. laid open
his hip to the bone, and arranged the
joint in its proper place. During the
operation he had the impression OF
suffering o severe physical pain, as if
really under .he knife OF q surgeon
After it. he had no further remem'
brance of anything until morning
Upon rising. he found, 10 his utter
/ ss. enlistment; J not only that his short
leg wis Heightened out SO as to be ey-
.enwithth other and his hip all righi,
but that he could walk without limp
ing, or inconvenience. He walked
about the room several times, thes
pnt on his clothes aud ran up and
downs stairs to assure himself that he
was awake and no longer lame man
but sound and whole, His Joy and
lgratitude cannot, well be described. -
He immediately discarded the boot
with the false sole, which had nither-
| to been en- q necessity, and put on a pair
tti,at were Mates His leg was vci
weak. though l:naping slightly from
Hong habit. he could walk as straight
as any other man lwhenShe chose q II
hass'nce grown stronger, and his geg'
eral health very NJ Aerially improved
He, Of course, considers the cure a
direct answer TO his suppica1oYs. =
r.ifadison { Wis,) State Journal, s.a,s,
sssE ETaPeople.' sayssa modern phil
esopher. Ego according 2 their hr@ps;
Iifthese lie in. their head they study ;
liz in their belly, they ca: and drink ;
lif in their heels, they dance, apd il
| lhey lie anywhere else other perform
II y.s..,.v he expected-1-hence she