The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-02-07

power that impaired strength and activity to
every organ In my whole system. 1t con-
tinued so, and found could talk as well
rs ever. When felt that the Lord had
heard me, that my message had reached His
heavenly mind, and had brought down the
blessing, laid my head on the bed and
wept for Joy as I thought OF what He had
done for me. Then / arose from my knees
and went across the room, almost to the door
Of the next room, before felt that had
NO cRUTcH OR CANE TO SUPPORT NE.
Finding that I was alone, I stopped, and
T saw that my hand, which had before this
been turned in by the paralysis, as we'll as
nay hand freely, and 1walked right along
into the other room to see the woman that
used to come in ana see me. She had been
in little while before, but had felt so
badly that couldn't talk to her. / now
walked in and called her by name, and as
soon as shesaw me she couldn't walk a step;
she was so overcome with wonder that she
couldn't move or speak. She said to me:
"W hat has happened to you ?" and told
her to come and see what the Lord had
done for me. She came in, and | showed
her my limb, my arm, my teeth, my tongue,
and could talk Just rs we'll as she could.
frightened the woman so much that
she was Just as still as ghost. I then
walked across the street to my neighbors and
told them what had happened, repeating to
them the Lords Prayer They were as much
overcome at hearing me speak as the woman
had been. And they all wept, as did, for
| Joy. / told my relative that II he would get
his buggy and take me to his father and
mother should like to have them hear me
talk before anybody told them OF it. With
in an hour OF the time l talked I was two
miles and hall away,
BEARING THE NEWS,
and the next day was able to clean my
room. I went to church Sunday, and on
Monday I did my washing. felt as il
was perfectly well-that l was new wo-
man. My health continued to grow better
until the present injury, which received
seven weeks ago on returning one night
from the Tabernacle, where I had attended
many of the meetings. I ain just as smart
now on my feet rs I ever was, and would
be up if l hadn't sprained my hip in that
fall on the ice."
EsDo YOU KNOW Mr.. MOoDY?"
"Yes; but am not personally acquainted
with him."
"You never told him of your wonderful
cure, did you, or he would have said some
thing about it in his sermons on 'Faith?'"
81 have seen him often, but [ never had
q chance to tell him Of this"
"To what Church do you belong, Mrs.
Robinson?"
"To the First Presbyterian, and I hope
have been Christian now for thirty-tive
years. Mr.. Humphrey, the former pastor,
came several times to see me during my
paralysis and before, and Mr.. Mitchell and
several others have been to see me. They
used to come and administer communion to
me in my room during the time when was
suffering from paralysis. Among others
who knew me and have been to see me
during nv paralysis and since then are Dir.
and Mrs. D. X. Pearsons, Mr.. Bonfeld, one
of. the elders OF the church, Mrs. Farlan,
and her sister, Mrs. Bisseli, and number
Of others, all OF whom have been so kind
to me.". .'"- ..@,,- -
: "Had you been undergoing ii
ANY UNUSUAL EXCITEMENT
lust before this cure occurred?"
"Not at all. I was doing nothing for
myself atall, because was told that it would
do no good I expected to live on all my
lifetime as paralytic, just as / was. The
only resort had, when all other physicians
gave me up, was to Him who can prescribe
for ills that no other doctor can understand,
and applied to Him, and He heard me-"
"Was this the first impression Of this
kind you had ever had?"
eyes, sir. When I read this passage,
although I had read it hundreds OF times be-
fore, l was impressed at once to pray to
God to heal me. believe God directed me
to that passage, and He heard my petitions.
thought that when Christ performed His
cures He almost always used some means at
hand, and regarded my prayer and the
Word of God as the means"
"You regard your cure, then, as
A DIRECT ANSWER TO PRAYER?"
81 have told you it just as it happened,
and there was no other means used"
"What does DR.. Cotton say about it ?"
"He thinks it is a most wonderful cure
and direct answer to prayer. DR.. Cotton
is a good, Christian man, and believes in
prayer. Oh, feel this moment as l felt
then, but If / should take my pen and use
my mind and my best language they would
ali be Infinitely TOO poor to describe the Joy
I felt. 7 seem to feel this moment that hal
lowed influence, but never could tell you,
il I was to speak from one week to the
other, never could praise God enough for
it, and thank Him for it. 1t is beyond
the power of tongue and pen to de-
scribe I felt, as read that passage, that
God was indeed made manifest in the
fesh-as if the refreshing power Of grace
had come from Heaven. oh, what q friend
we have in Jesus. Him who gives us that
privilege, that He will carry our SORROWS
and will hear and answer our prayers And
vet people are so slow to believe; and when
we pray-I suppose l have done it hum
dred times myself-we hardly believe what
we are praying, and right there's where we
don't get the blessing"
YoUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
CoNFERENcE.-St. Louis, February 3.-A