The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-03-05
TIE MIRACULOUS.
Hopeless Paralytic Healed by Prsysr.-A Stiff
and Crooked Neck Strengthened by Lying on O.
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and Crooked Neck Strengthened by Lying on O.
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Tramp.
The Erie Dispatch contains u lengthy nc
count of the marvellous cure OF young lady
from paralysis. Her name Is Ellen McQuin
| ian, and IS aged 20 years. On Sunday, the
10th of January, her friends say, she was
smitten with paralysis, and was IN a most help
less condition. Her natural fair color at once
became very dark, her lips became very pink
and closely compressed her eyes became much
larger and more CLASSY and staring wide open
without the least item Of sight in them and
remained immovable. The whole body be.
came motiouless and as cold rs a corpse
Around the wrist of the left arm was black
circle, and from there to the tips of the fingers
was Ms black AS ink and as cold as ice, with.
out the least particle of life. The fingers were
firmly clutched around the thumb, and 80
tightly compressed or squeezed together that
they appeared to be welded together and form
one solid body, without the least animation.
Several attempts were made by constant rub
blng. bathing and chatting with OIL but all to
no purpose, for 1t was impossible to open or
separate them or cause any circulation what
ever in them. They could not be separated
unless they were torn asunder, and then it was
the opinion Of every one who saw them that If
they were forced they would be sure to break
IN pieces like rotten branches In this deplor-
able condition lay the PROSTATE form of this
young lady, surrounded by her family and
friends, with life scarcely dlscernlble in her
frame, and every one expecting every moment
that death would come to her relief All the
day and night and the next day monday, the
lTth) they watched her closely and not the
least ray of life or hope WAS visible, and some
times they thought that she WAS dead or dying
Seeing that all hopes were gone, the broken
hearted parents sent 10 Father Mallory, the
Catholic priest, to prepare her for death.
He came, and before him upon her he'd lay
the cold, ghastly, parsyzed, and withered form
Of that young lady, and at first sight, he
thought that she was dead, but soon found that
life was still extant. At once he ordered
lighted candle, and, opening his book, com
menced to read. He continued so for about
five minutes then laying down the book on
the table, be went over the bedside on which
the llfeless body lay. At this moment every
eye in the house was instantly fixed on the
priest, and we stood within three feet OF him.
He gazed for moment on that fearful speCta-
Gle before him. Then suddenly, as if under
Divine Inspiration, he raised his hands and
eyes toward heaven and fervently implored
and besOught the Eternal Son of the Living
God and His blessed mother to hear his hum.
Bile prayer. he continued praying in that at
titudc for about three minutes, and then, rails.
ing his right hand, he made the sign Of the
cross three times over that PROSTATE, lieless
form, and at that very instant, oh, my God
could We believe the sight Of our own eyes,
when she resumed her own natural color be.
fore usy The paralysis totally left her whole
body; her eyes and eyelids resumed their nat
ural course, and the sight returned to them
her full and entire senses returned; the dis
ease altogether quilted the head and brain
the wIthered dead hand and fingers were
once more restored to life, and became rs sound
IS fresh and as natural as ever they were. She
extesded 1t forth before Us and that very In
slant sat up in her bed. and in less than two
afterward she walked into the next
room unaided by anyone, and then called tor
To eat,
The priest himself as veil as the rest Of us,
was SO thunderstruck al what he saw before !
his eyes this moment that he shook like an as
pen leaf ana turned the color OF death. All
the adorable presence and majesty |
Of the great Creator. The majesty of the s,er. |
nal God was visibly seen aud felt there IN our
midst, and from every heart and lip burst |
orth thai moment, 20 glory, honor. and ben.
,dicsion, and praise, be 70 You sweet Redeem. \