Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-08

revelation that the Lord would enable
her to effect cure, she had ever
failed? After little hesitation, she
replied that she had moi, but when
persons had come to her and asked
her to pray for them, her petition had
not been answered, This said Mr..
Plat, speaking Of the occurrence,
"took hold Of my faith at once, for it
was in accordance with my own be
lief that it was not part of Chris
nan's privilege to pray for the remov-
al of temporal ills, unless with the di-
rect assurance that the petition would
be granted. The lady professed to
have received such assurance, and l
told her | was willing she should pray
for me-" He told Miss Moseman he
"would believe rs best he could, and
she knelt before him and began to
pray. Her petition was very simple,
evidently unstudicd, and seeming to
be addressed rather to Il near personal
protector than to the throne Of the
Most High. 1t lasted about two min
utes, and toward the close the suppl
cant placed her hands upon Mr.. Platl S
knees. 'Rather," said the clergyman,
''because there was no other place TO
rest them on, than with any purpose
of affecting cure by manipulation.
So little vitality or magnetic force did
she seem to possess that | was uncon.
scons of any warmth fom her hands
as they lay on my knees Having
finished ,he PRAYER Miss Moscman
arose. and the conversation was re
sumed.
a MODERN MIRACLE.
Mr.. Platt had not experienced any
unusual sensation in his injured limbs,
but as he was speaking very singu-
lar feeling was perceptible in the joints,
81 never" he said, felt anything like
it before OF since. 1t seemed as
though sort OF condensation Or ton
inc up of the fbres around the knees
was in progress, the sensation appar-
emily spreading upward Very soon
he wa' able to put his feet on the
ground and walk with a somewhat IN
certain step. Miss Moseman expressed
no surprise when she learned the re-
suit of her simple petition. She went
away unassumingly. The clergymans
limbs grew stronger every hour, and
he threw aside one of his canes imme-
diately. Il continued to use the 9th
er,' he said. "not because real y re
quired it, blt / had carried it for
twenty-five years, and did not wish
ago to-day Saturday L went out
without any support, aud walked two
miles; and / could have walked ten,
for did not feel In the least tatlgaed.
Mr.. Patt says thai about three
years ago he spoke to DIR. Culhs, OF
the Consumptives, Home, in Boston,
ABOUT miraculous cures, and the doc
tor induced The clergyman to allow
him to pray tor him. For two days
afterward he felt as though his limbs
were little better, but there was no
material result.
LIVING BY FAITH.
Miss Moscman is quiet Subdued
person, about forty years of age She
has a house. consisting Of a single
room, at Ocean Grove, which it is
supposed was given to her by some
charitable person She has no visible
means Of livelihood, and Mr.. Piatt
SAYS he thinks she olives By faith; )
that is, when she feels that she really
requires any Of the neccessarles of life
she prays Tor them with the assurance
that in some way they will lie sent to
her. She lives at Ocean Grove a great
part Of the summer, and is known to
everybody there, Mr.. Platt, too, Is
very popular, and his miraculous cure
has astonished the residents. In his
own neighborhood in De Kalb avenue
people who have seen him for years
cribble look at him with unbounded
amazament as he walks rapidly along,
erect and without support. lie IS stll
conscious Of Il little stiffness IN his
knee joints, but this, too, is disappear
inc. On Sunday, the Sth inst, he
stood upright in the pulpit without
ary assistance for the first time in
twenty five years, and week later he
told the story of his iojuries and their
cure to an immense audience at the
Merrick camp meeting. H2 will re.
late it again in the De kalb Avenue
NJ. E. Church on Sunday next.