, 1879-05-31
MINNIE L0MDARD'S CURE.
Tho oIsf Who aays she Recovered slrhs
TirnuEt, Prayer.
ESn 1snrt Cuo 1f,s. 80

Through prayer. @N s's'
/ Fto lort Sun. Mav ~
On the morning Of Jan. 70, 1s7V .tfs. MINT
s, =. wilmington. ne'., The daughter I
p'ous parents, and herself then QUO Of tho cor
vcrts ut Methodist revival mcct;np, profc,se
| to buye pecn sntdrnIv ro..o-o,I =, III. ...s
to.a, hltr,lro.. ~ 49,. .ssooo W w. eeu. a'tef
aid hnr .sa.s,., =. a.. wv Years shc believed,
u'a nei pafents' mat ber recovery was immcd
ately due to prayer Thu case was doubles
spoken Of in every newspaper 10 the Unite
States, although the discussion concerning
uas sl"cc oeep sonuncd mainly to the ro1lQfou
newspapers. anu II Is said that there aro fc,
persons Ia Wilmington WHO have not rccc.yp
letters Of inquiry regarding tic girl. The let
.otvo. ,ran,s M ss,s, W NV Lo'pn,us Ut, 'hefn
ss'scs "oola III oushe' oasket' They bca
I'VE postmasEs OF almost every city bctuec,
a,aina an! California. Many Of them ura OIL
majority aro from religious pcrsons.
Klclinrd md Riodn Lombard, with their chtf
ureil. Altnn[o a,lu Stella, livc In modest Two
ory sy os1sk oIse ut III Jefferson street, In tic
tncnts on the walls Indicate the atrict religious
atnlosoheEe OF the household. Engraved nor.
traits of Charles and John Wesley. art cngray.
liE p!eturiny TIC "Ihrec Chrst1an tfrnrey, II
from The eoiling, and u,ero arc mottocs Oi
peat The familiar legends: "Gpd Biess nmr
it9pny ll"me," j" After Storm. Sunshine. il
:, Peace Ga Upon this House." and u What Is
n,1l Momo Without q Molllcrl" A great family
dows. Mr. Lombard is perhaps 80 ycars or "r m,.
antl dresses l'lainly. Mrs. Lombard IL a stout,
orseht-eyeu, matronly woman.
MIR. md AIRS. Lombard arc New Bedford.
Mass, people, and in 1852 moved from thrru IL,
Vihcland. In SDutL Jersey. Thclr ltfo to Vim.
,anu vas uneVcntfal. and In time they tiorct to
Ne" BerEen, behind Jcrscy City, where Mr.
Lombard followed his OCCUPATION ns a carnrn,cr
III thu cur works. which were tIcm IN
operation there. Here Minnie I,o,nbor1 ntt oIne1
t!'e nec Of u. and was baptized in the Wcst-
aldo Avenue Church, at which church thu fam
lily wors!!petl Two years later Ninnio waa
stricken with typhus foyer, and tor ,nanv we"is
she lowered uu the edgc oil DEATH She 1te III.
tic or nothing. soverc hcmorrhaVcs Of ti't
nosc added to- her pain and weatnues, a,ld her
p',ys,ea condition was such according her
In bed under the mere e1cri!on Of kceni,'t, Ii'"
awake and airo. She was taken TO Maino ~,
her health; At the end of The summer slo re- re-.
1arnca ,9,1 y, to Wat nergen gna II the spring u
was that her sight begun to fail. After mnm,h
ia Wills Hospital IN Phlladclnhfn aha hnrn,na
totally blind, Shc was blind for two years.
The girls car became SO sensitive Tia, she
or wnlkcd up tho aisle In church, beforS ibesr
steps or voices wcro heard by oti,era, Nh caml,i
her mother says i,cnr kitten wnii m a ~ r,'ot
9he recognized poopIu hy tn,,ehtnc 1i,n IL
worked elaborate vorstcj mottnrs en % h.ni,,s. S"e
and loinrd ingeniousIy cari.receirers M, a H.,
ares in worstcd. These were shown go 20 p,I ;i,r
writer, One ia nartf,miar vac ~ . .he
sentatiou 10 cardboard unu Torste,' oq ISp,e 9ne
house anu yard, about wi,lci, hfrla ainIt.r ~.
ID, children PLAYED, flowers toomca ""..u as"1
.attle rrazcI, Pcrhaps lie t,nss rcn,arts,,,o an
losp productions ia cross. cnnn..s; ~ ill.,
mailer crosses whlei, wis cut n,t ~ ongs onrdE
,oaTd, the Outlines Of tin tesI.,, h.r, ~ ed'a
With mosaic OF very snnii H.,i tn,,ieat niLsu ~
,atterns. Thp arcuracy Of nronoriinn "e"rHu ,nna.
,Temont, and ronroJnc,on rnnscra T. ,,!eis,.
q believe tlIat ttu fantla ~ III" r, hs,i TX
rom ler eycs: int hcr n,n,,"r .S.s ,%t nu .1 au
yerD n,nny witn.ssra m lin a., H.. at nefo
ut ont oysrv ijne nf this ncaia. .,i. .aI ~ Mlnaao
anls md k,,tf.. nnd tint sho S"s ny" ,r,,o sr SMh
b In. ff,nc- s"e VIA" ""o''J oilno
Minis ,o.od ,,.,o,., ,
II wiir wern ,'N1she l.. H.. a''u Sio;es, some
,tv EI,o.e 49,. ntt ~ tLe .astno0at N this
ha,actrrs ~ s,rn,rh, %.ted am urn hatio, the
aSo. ,,n.s,. ~ o. t9.! At4 IsGune lftes.
snva n,tau,., ,si:, a!!,,io ~ Waa Afs; Lon-
r h. s,I,. ,,.t ' ~ ~ .,osL iatat ancctlon
~ eouero o H. aa ,ief hssemas aopcl that sha
a sr snht % shc arsao s,o us f;nn 'Ie'aen.a a h r.