Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-04-23
The Excitement in Southwestern Virginia
Over the Miracle Worker.
HE OPENS A HEADQUARTERS.

HE OPENS A HEADQUARTERS.
Miller. the man who has somehow got
ten the credit Of performing many remark
able cures in Scott county, has established
his headquarters for the coming summer
at the Red Sulphur Springs in Roanoke
county and is now there. His passage
from his home to his new place seems
to have been an ovation. When he ar
rived at Salem on the way the paper there
says:
He was the guest of F. 1. Chapman, at
Lake Spring Hotel. On Saturday. the
people (many of them from distance)
came in crowds, and thronged the hotel by
hundreds; some, prompted simply by Curl
osity to see the miracle WORKER others
seeking to be healed by him. His rooms
at Lake Spring were thrOnged from morn
ing till night with the afflicted-the lame,
the blind, the deaf, the rheumatic, the
scrofulOus, cOnsumptives, paralyticS and
sufferers from divers kinds of diseases.
Craig, Botetourt, Franklin and Montgom-
cry. Never was such sight witnessed in
| this section before, and never was there so
great sensation created in 80 short a
time. 1t is estimated that from sunrise
| to O'Clock in the afternoon upwards OF
two thousand persons visited Lake Spring.
| A letter from salem to the Abingdon
STANDARD" says of his operations there:
He makes no charge and will not accept
more than fifty or Seventy-fve cents, from
any one. although l saw some cast hand
full of silver in his side pockets. He has
relieved some serious cases since he arrived
here, although he has not time to make
any examinations, and does not even ask
the patient how he is afflicted. He is eS-
pecially successful in rheumatism and all
nervous diseases.
1 saw one old man who could not walk
at all when he came here, after treatment
walked very well. saw number OF per.
sons entirely relieved OF all pain, with
which they were suffering severely when
they arrived. | do not say that all Will DC
relieved, but do advise the afflicted to
visit this remarkable man, as he is now SC
accessible. Several hundred persons visit
him daily. but he cannot treat all. He
went to Bristol Saturday evening after his
wife. Many persons followed him there
and returned with him Sunday morning
He will make Roanoke Red Sulphur
Springs his home for the summer. He
} will 20 there Tuesday. 14th inst. There
ample accommodations will be furnished
for all, by Messrs. Chapman, who have al
ready opened that popular watering place.
About one hundred persons will follow
him from this place tomorrow. 60 and
see, for such things were never before wit
messed by Salem.
The Salem "Conservative" interviewed
the ssnealer'' and found out how he came
to be one, and where hegot Biblical authori
ty:
He says he has been healing, in a gener
al way, for three years; that he discovered
his power to heal by first being taught b.
a woman how to elbow out fire. (infam
nation from burns); that he next learned
how to "stop blood' in the same manner
From this he began to search the Scrip
lures very carefully and found that the,
taught the same, and being impressed will
the belief that.he could On the same prin
7 ciple do more than elbow out fire" o
ssstaunch blood he tried his powers IN
secret manner, no one knowing anything
of his action at the time. just what HI
} did was not stated, but he claimed that b.
, was successful, and from that time, he re
solved to do what he could to relieve tn
suffering. He referred to the following
passages of Scripture as his authority, say
} ing that they point out the source of hi
} power and the persons upon whom sucl
power is conferred : Mark XVI-12-15 in
elusive; Corinthians, the whole of tn
XII, chapter.
He referred to the following passages o
Scripture as relating examples of the ex
erciSe of this power, and showing the fear
full manner IN which Gtd will deal witt
those who do not believe in it: Acts II
% and Z; Matthew XII-22-3O, inclusive
He claims that his power to heal is de-
rived solely from God, and says that with
out God he can do nothing Says he is |
minister and that he sometimes breaches
He is Swedenborgian in faith, and &C
certs and endorses the doctrines and inter
probation of the Scriptures as set forth b.
Swedenborg, so far as he understands them
For Information concerning the allege
+ cures he has effected. he simply referre
| us to all reliable persons whom he ha
T treated.