Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-05-04
Peculiar People.


Are there any peculiar people your way2
One Of them was up befotethe Magistrates
yesterday for not calling in doctor-apy
sort will answer the iaw--fof his sick child.
When asked what he had to say to the
charge, he answered.: ..'. 49,.
What j have to say is this (: The Lord
saved me from my sins eleven Years ago,
and / now go according to the Scripture,
and follow Christ. In the days of Christ,
just before he-departed, he said, !. If | de-
| part / Will send the comforter unto you >
and it was that Spirit which L received
eleven years ago that guided me to fulfill
his commands in this case The word of
God tells me to pray. and that if any are
sick let him send for the elders of the
church, to anoint the sick with oil, and
! pray over him. This is what ] believe in,
and what / have done; and if my child
| had not been sick unto death, it would
have recovered, but as it did not recover it
was the Lords win that it should die. In
| the last chapter of st. Mark does il not say
of them that believe, In my name shall
they cast out devils. = \ They shall
lay hands on the sick, and they shall re-
| cover y
| Here number of brethren and sisters
who were in the Court shouted out, Yes,
yes blessed be His name" and other SIM
liar calculations.
The Chairman-Bu there is nothing in
| that to tell you not TO send for doctor.
The Observation-Disclosures is no passage in
the whole book where am told to send
for doctor. The command is, g Send for
the elders of the church, and let him lay
hands on him and anoint him with OIL
| The Chairman--What would YOU do
yourself If you had leg broken? You
would send for a medical man then, would
you not {? .
Witness-If live unto God, shall not
have broken leg. If do not, might be
be liable to such a chastisement. God has
promised TO take care of the righteous,
us. E4ff
The sincerity of these people, and the
Scripture, had such an effect upon the
Magistrates that they We're let off without
punishment, and they went their way re-
joicing over what they regarded as a provi-
Dental interposition in their fayor-Lon-
don Cor, Net0 YORK Times. r.ls LII
THE FIXED STARs,-A very remarkable
circumstance attending the nebulie and
cluster of stars Is, that they are arranged
in strata, which seems to run on to great
length. 1t is considered probable that they
may surround the whole of the apparent
sphere of the heavens, not unlike the milky
way, which is undoubtedly nothing but 0
stratum of fixed stars. AS this latter i'm
mense starry bed is not of equal breadth OF
lustre in every part, nor runs in one straight
direction, but is curved, and even divided
into two streams along very considerable
J portion of it, the greatest variety Is natur
} ally found in the clusters of the stars anc
! nebule. One of these nebular beds is s.
| rich that Herschel, with his telescope, IN
passing through section of it, only in th'
: time of thirty-six minutes, detected no les
than thirty-one nebula, all distinctly visi
t BILE upon blue sky. Their situation anC
: shape, as well as condition, denoted tn,
! greatest variety possible. 1t is very pro
! bable that the great stratum called tn
milky way is that in which the sun j
: placed, though perhaps not in the yer,
t centre of its thickness. This would seen
] to be the case from the appearance of tn
e galaxy, which seems g compass the Who'll
! is within the same,