The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-01-10
Wonderful Cure OF ParaIytic.

The West Union (Iowa) Gazette says /:
1t will be remembered that three weeks
ago we mentioned the sudden and Sc
we're illness of Rev. 4. ID. Mccormick,
who was Frustrated to utter helpless
ness by paralysis He has been in that
condition, apparently failing, until
Tuesday evening, constantly attended
by the best of our physicians, who, in
response to his oft repeated inquiries,
could offer but little encouragement for
a recovery, although never without
hope Both legs and the right arm
seemed entirely void of sensation or mo-
ton, or, as Mr.. Mccormick says, for no
amount of worldly possessions could he
have raised his hand or moved foot.
On Tuesday evening he was visited by
two medical men, who found him suf
fering an intense pain in both legs.
They left q prescription and departed.
A neighbOr was sent to the drugstore
for the medicine, and while waiting his
return the patient was changed from
one chair to another, and back to his
easy chair, in which he sat for a time,
his mind reverting to the Bible and
events recorded there of the blind being
made to see, the lame to walk, lepers
healed, the dead raised, and all the
miracles which Christ and his disciples
wrought, In this state of mind
it occurred to him to pray for his own
recovery, and as ne reclined in his chair
he silently uttered a prayer for restOra-
ton to health. Instantaneously he real
lied the sensation of healing, and felt
able to walk. He called his wife, and to
prepare her mind for the situation, ask
ed her opinion of the possibility of mir
acle such as are related in the Bible.
Then he told her of how ne had prayed
and how his prayer had been answered.
She could not believe. To convince her
he moved his feet and said if she would
bring his cane he would attempt TO walk. |
She undertook to dissuade him, but he
stood up, walked, swung his arms, and
otherwise deported himself as a well |
man might, lifting at arms length a
heavy chair with the hand which few
moments before he could not move.
His recovery seemed instantaneous and |
perfect, and the next day he was on the /
street as well and hearty as ever. He 1
visited us in our Office giving the partic-
ulars of the event, as. recorded above.
Mr.. Mccormick is a minister of the
United Presbyterian denomination, has
lived here many years, is man OF I'M
questioned veracity, and no one doubts
his belief in the supernatural interior
snce in his behalf. He desires us par
sicularly to attribute his relief to direct
of the Great Redeemer,
insisting that his case is as perfect a 4
miracle as any recorded in the Great
Book. I, raa3 ~ lti--
1t is perhaps due our readers that we
rive the theory of the physicians on Mr..
McCormack's cure. They say that il is
10 more remarkable than was his sick
ness, which came as suddenly as it
vent, and was caused by the Judgment. y
If blood clotin an artery Of the brain.
The medicine given was to soften this I;
lot, but whether it did so, or whether
he slight exertion of his change of po- h
ition from one chair to the other. or !.
whatever may have been the cause, that
lot of blood moved, relieved the pres :
ure. and the man felt nearly as well as I
yer. Should this clot have have been
dissolved his cure win be permanent;
nut if it still exists there is a possibility
hat it may return 70 q position where
IS effects wiz be as dangerous as at any {
ime during his sickness. Similar in
tances are reported III books of medi- |
inc, although they are rare. =