Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-26
ton of diseases. Miss Buchanan was a

ton of diseases. Miss Buchanan was a
very prominent attendant.
The sister-in.law of Miss Kate Grant, of
South Berwick. told the particulars of her
case. She suffered from a complication of
disorders, including kidney trouble and
liver complaint. She was not able to do
any work of any consequence. She was
prayed with one afternoon in August the
next morning she got up well. She has
been in good health throughout the year.
The mother of Harry Wilbur, of Port.
land, Me-, little boy of 8 years, told your
correspondent that year ago she brought
him to the camp ground after severe
lung fever. The doctors thought his lungs
We're pretty well gone he was then o
weak, sickly child. He was prayed for by
DIR. Cults and improved Immediately.
You see in what condition he is now, I"
and the mother pointed to stout,
RoMPING LAD,
For whom it was q stretch of the imagina-
ton to suppose that lung disorder had any
terror.
A lady, whose word would hardly be
doubted, informed your investigator that
Mrs. E. S. Grindall, of Dover, N. H., was
one of the fortunate patients this season.
She had rheumatism very badly, together
with other troubles. She was almost in
despair as to her condition. Information
OF the work of DIR. Cults reached her only
ten days before the meeting. Sac came on
TO see him as a last resort. After praying
with the doctor she felt a relief, and, hav-
ing since improved, it is thought that her
cure may be permanent.
Captain r. Kelso Carter, of the Military
Academy at Chester, Penn, related to the
writer how he came to be an enthusiastic
convert to the ministry of healing by filth.
For seven years he had disease of the heart.
Death would not have been a surprise at
any moment The doctors were able to
do little for him. In hopes to recover he
went to ranch in California, and lived
there three years His face was bronzed,
but the
DISEASE WAS STILL AT THE VITAL POINT.
After ne came back in the summer of
1879 he broke down utterly. He became
so weak as to be unable to endure even the
exertion of conversation. He finally came
to the conclusion that his medicine was do.
ing him more harm than good. He had
read about DIR. Cults, and finally deter
mined to see him. Three days before his
duties were to begin at the academy he
came to Boston. He was prayed with half
a minute and told to trust the Lord more
fully than he had ever done. The result
was, he says, a complete triumph of Gods
will through faith. To this day he states
he has never experienced further trouble
with his heart.
Captain Carter related the particulars in
the cases of Caroline Talbot, the Quaker
preacher, who, previous to her faith ex.
perience, had not passed day without
sickness in twenty five years also of Mrs.
Emery of Skowhegan, Me-, said to have
been cured of spinal trouble last year, and
of Others equally remarkable.
Miss Elizabeth Pierson, daughter of Ad-
miral Person, of Portsmouth, N. H., has
been at the convention this year. Her case
is classic one in the annals of faith cures.
The particulars which she kindly related to
the writer were that for years she suffered
from 4 inch curvature Of the spine. The
medical profession could do nothing for
her, and finally she sought after healing
by prayer with DIR. Cults. She states that
on her way to her home, in Brooklyn, she
felt peculiar movement CT the vertebra,
accompanied, however, by no pain. Miss
Pierson is
LADY OF CULTURE AND REFINEMENT,
And believes thoroughly in the reality of
her cure by faith.
No attempt is made to give any expla-
nation of the above alleged cures by
prayer. They are reported as accurately
as possible, and the reader may account for
them as he pleases. The literature of this
subject is larger than may be generally
supposed.
There are about eighty people in the
world who are known to devote themselves
to effecting cures by means of prayer and
faith. Not to speak of DR.. Cults, among
the most prominent of these are Otto Stock
mayer, at Hauptweil, Switzerland Karl
Andrews, London William E. Boardman,
London; Lord Radstock, Sweden Ethan
Allen, Springfield, Mass; MIR. Edward
Mix, Torriugton, Conn, and Miss Carrie
Judal, Buffalo, N. Y.