The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-03

whereat the Doctor kissed him and said: 'Dis-
ease depart from thee, the result being,
on the authority of the Pau Mall Ga
zetto, that the cripple was SO much
better that he went through several
twistings at his benefactor's request. The
next patient was more troublesome. He was
a sturdy-looking man with north country
accent, who rose and said;-'I talk exception
to what you say. Ye say all pain has
left the people in this room. Moo, have
suffered for a lang time and am nae better.
His trouble was rheumatism, and the uncured
one refused with persistent obstinacy to con-
fess that the Doctor had, or, in his belief,
could give him relief. The usual reason was,
however, speedily forthcoming-the reason
that is so very simple and so very unanswer-
able. "This case, the Doctor said, lis one
of very peculiar sort; this person has q very
strong WILL he is very positive in his will
principle" ''My dear friend" he inquired,
'did you believe 1 could cure you before you
came up here ?" Certainly not" replied
the patient, and he was thereupon dismissed,
mae better, and incurred, says the journal
we have named, great disgrace among the
audience.
After the departure of this malcontent,
thirty or forty more amenable sick were
treated, every one of whom professed to be
better for the shock Dr. Newton then
blessed Liverpool with great unction, and
announced his intention of going straightway
to London to heal and restore the unfortu-
mates of that metropolis. In London this
singular practitioner seems to have gone to
still greater lengths We are assured that
there 'the sick, the halt, and the blind are
thronging, not to the hospitals but to a man
who coolly asserts that he is endowed with
power to cure disease" One journal gives
an account that quite goes beyond anything
we have heard of Dr. Newton's proceedings
in this country. When a patient is placed
in his hands, according to this reporter,
he tells him that sit is by love that this
is done, especially female love. You
must love the doctor. You must believe
in him. After calling upon God and the an
gels, he passes his hands over the face and
limbs of his patient, jerks his own limbs
about as if through a shock of electricity,
and then declares him cured Nay, even
'pocket -handkerchiefs, waistcoat, gloves,
etc., presumably of sick persons, were handed
to him. These he would squeeze, and call
ing upon God and the Holy Angels The
Divine Power, or the Holy Ghost" he would
order the disease to leave the persons to whom
the article belonged, and would then declare
them cured or fast recovering" Finally, we
are informed that, as the people left the hall
where he was performing he offered to give
a Divine blessing to all who would pass in
procession by him. and that some eighty or
ninety persons actually accepted his bene-
dition
We are not surprised to learn that the re-
spectacle press of London stigmatizes all this
as blasphemous as well as ridiculous. The
wonder is that the populace continue to flock
in thousands to cape at and be edited by it.
The experience of the audacious DR.. Newton
is, however, but fresh proof to be added to
the myriads already existing, that the plea
sure is as great in being deceived as in de-
ceiving. Doubtless, potent element of his
success is the fact that people out of health,
who, like the drowning, will clutch at a straw,
form so interested part of his followers.
For, on the converse application of the mems
SGnG en- cO7pOr6 sa1O, the sick are always
among the most gullible of mankind.