South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-25
Bishop Simpsons Life Saved by
Prayer.

| 1 remember once when there was
| conference at Mt. Vernon, in this State,
at which was present. Bishop Jayne
was presiding OH one afternoon, and af
ter reading dispatch stating that Bish,
op Simpson was dying in Pittsburgh
asked that the conference unite in pray
or that his life might be saved. We
kneit down, and Mr. Taylor the great
street preacher of California, led in one
of his beautiful prayers, After the first
few sentences, in which joined with nv
whole heart, my mind seemed to be at
ease, and 1 did not pay much attention
to the rest of the prayer only to notice
It's beauty When we arose from our
Knees, turned to brother and said.
"Bishop Simpson will not die, feel it,"
1 then told him how the feeling had
come over me, and he assured me that
he had experienced the same impression.
The word was passed around, and over
thirty ministers who were present said.
they had the same feeling. / took my
book and made a note of the hour and
circumstance. Several months after
ward / met Bishop Simpson and asked
him what he did to recover his health.
He answered that he did not know, but
that the physicians had said it was mir.
acle, lie said that one afternoon, when
at the point of death, the doctor left him.
saying that he should be left alone for
half an hour. At the end of that time
the doctor returned, and immediately
noticed great Change in the patient.
He was startled, and asked the family
wha: they had done for the Bishop, and
they replied nothing at all. That half
hour 1 found, by making allowances for
! difference I'm locations, was inst the time
when we were praying for him at Mt.
Vernon. From that time on he steadi-
ly improved. and has lived to bless the
Church and humanity. If the Lord
could touch the vitality in one direction.
he could in another. Bishop Simpsons
| case, and 10000 others, are living ex-
amples of that day. God does answer
prayer for physical good. / know he
does. On the God who has so often
answered my prayers | will still rely.
scientific men and philosophers to the
contrary, notwithstanding. Amen.-In.
diUndPolis Sentiners Report If Sermon Jg
Bishop Bosrmda,
We are not wanting in compassion for
the man whose appetite for strong drink
overcomes his. resolution but, ut the
same time. we insist that the teaching
which denies or obscures his RESPONSE.
bility, and throws all the blame OF his
inebriety Upon the man who sells him IL
quor, is false and demoralizing.
IL is not wholesome for the drunkard
to he eoddled as a helpless creature.
while the dealer in liquors, whose temp.
tations, though Of another sort. may be
equally overIhastering is unsparingly de.
nounced rs a villain,
The temperance form has been too
deeply saturated withthis mistaken phil.
osophy. DIR. Henry J. Bowditch. chair
man Of the Massachusetts, Board Of
Health, proposes 10 punish the drunk
ard with political disabilities.
For the crime Of being drunk i'm pub.
Tic, he would deprive him OF civil riohts
for six months one such exhibition 20
be construed as proofof habitnal drunk.
enness, OF this the Christian Register
says VERY good Then, no man with
the least selfrespeet would he caught
getting drunk in public"
AS IL is, suffrageis literally dirt cbeap
4" TO every masculine thing ON two legs
" even u the legs are tangled. DIR. BIS.
proposition would operate we'll in two
ways to discredit and discourage in.
temperance, and TO elevate the stand.
+" ard Of acknowledgements.
TVThe Western orator, when tho
spresd-eagle TT is upon him, is immense,
Hear voice from Duluth. There ne
sot like stormy petrol on fence rail
with his face agin the tempest, defyin
of the Of lightnin' and tho grasshopper."
Ev'"The strongest propensity In
woman's nature" says a careful student
Of the sex, us TO want to know what is
going on, and the next TO boss the job"
" Spring brings JOY to the heart Of a
western editor. who sings "Soon the
dusky squaW viii be seen strsining ma
Mo fhrr.rtsrI. - a.