National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-01-30
Piermont, N. H., Jan. 90, 1874.

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EDITOR OF THE OPINIoN.--Dear
Sir In your issue of Jan. %, !
find IN extract from tho ReligiO' Phil
Osophical Journal, in which my RESI-
tOration to health is claimed as Il
"spiri" cure; and the question is
asked "What does Mrs Sherman
say to this! This Is Mrs. Sherman's
answer: Early in April last, when
my case was considered q very crit
ical one, Mr.. s. reluctantly consent.
ed to lot Mrs. Clark, my brothers
wife, consult Mrs. A. II. Robinson
of Chicago, u spiritual medium.
She sent q diagnosis of my case to.
gether with prescriptions for medi.
cines, rhich trere neper used. She
also sent two small papers which
she called "magnetized, "these were
to be applied to the head ccc,y night
while used her medicine.
She claimed no virtue in the pa>
pers, they were SIMPLY Il magnetic
link or conductor by means of which
Mrs. RS. esprit guides might ap'
proach and operate upon the patient.
''providing conditions were favors
be-" 1t was only when they were
upon the person of the patient that
they were Of any use; and they
were to he renew ed by Mrs. Robin
son every ten days, as in that time
they would lose their magnetic
virtue. These papers were applied
to my head one night near tho mid
die of April. Mr.. Sherman has an
impression that they were used once
afterwards, but of this is not certain.
They were not applied two nights in
succession; I have no recollection
of their being used but once. This
is all that was ever done with the
"masnetized papers," The night
they were used, l was under the in.
tluence of medicine prescribed by
DR.. Carbee, my attending physician,
and his directions were followed,
not Mrs. RS. No "spirit gnides"
pproached to ''impart healing vir-
tue" for l continued desperately i'll
as before.
My case remained in the hands of
Drs. Carbee and Pal mer and their
directions were faithfully observed
up to the night of Aug. q; and if
my restoration is to be attributed to
anything less than Divine power,
they should have the praise !; but in
their honesty they frankly say there
was nothing in their medicine which
would account for such q sudden
radical change.
No facts in the case were suppress
cd" but IN the statement of my
case, did not deem it necessary to
mention all or any of my physicians,
who had been previously employed
and had no more thought of giving
Mrs. Robinson the credit of my cure
than the physician whom my father
desired should be called in consulta.
ton about the same time, and who
pronounced my case swell nigh, if
not quite, hopeless. No "plasters"
were sent by her, her directions
were never followed. No "prOcess
of cure" was ever pointed out, or
even alluded to by Mrs. r., and
nothing in the case goes ''to prove
that it was by her remedies that
Mrs. Sherman was cured, and not
by miracle"
While, during the months past,
there has been so much discussion,
doubt and unbelieve, my faith has
been firm and unwavering,and stead.
lily increasing, that my restored and
continued good health is due to
nothing less than the direct power
of Jesus Christ, who is ''the same
ycrterday, to day and forever" To
Him alone be all the glory !! In re.
gard to it, mine is
"A faith that shines moro bright IN clear,
When tempests rage without
1 ~ III