Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-26


camp ground. These summer visitors are
for the most part Christian people, whose
religion is uppermost in their thoughts.
Yet even among such conscientious peo-
pie the Globe representative found in his
investigation that the results of prayer and
faith in healing disease lose nothing of the
in being passed from mouth to
mouth. Yet any one who has been pres.
ent at the meetings could hardly fail to be
by the quantity of obviously
sincere testimony offered by the patients
themselves as to the benefits they were
positive they had derived from perfect
faith In the promise in James, through the
assistance and ministration of DIR. Cults
In the two Tabernacle meetings about 430
candidates for healing were present, and of
these probably $50 publicly testified that
they had already been helped, or that they
felt sure that they would be. Friday noon,
just before the adjournment of the Con.
vention, at the request of DR.. Cults, those
who were healed and the sanguine ones
stood up 60 be counted. There were
ABOUT NINETY.
Very many of the invalids had previously
returned to their homes Immediately after
the Monday healing meeting. To estimate
the number of real cures effected, if any
there are, ID difficult task Dr. Cults, ut
is said, generally reckons on the Lords CIV
ing substantial help to about thirty per
cent. of the applicants. To afford any
convincing cases to the skeptic, it will of
course be necessary to exclude all pros
pective cures, however confidently the sick
-.
this perforce greatly reduces the number
of cases. 1t is then question as to how
many of the remainder are to be accounted
for Oh the ground of imagination or spas
modic excitement. To pass Judgment
worthy of the name, a much more init
mate acquaintance with the peculiarities of
the patients than can be obtained in a few
days would be necessary. The disbeliever,
to be sure,
HAS IT IN HIS POWER
To place them all in their class, and he
generally does so Indeed, wherever within
a stones throw of the Tabernacle every.
body is a disciple of the faith, we have
only to go to the more lively and fashion
able part of the beach to be in perfect
environment of skeptics. Faith may
move mountains" said one somewhat sac
religious old native, proprietor of an all.
sorts counter in this locality; "but l
guess it don't go for as much as medicine. :"
He perhaps took his cue from the talk of
the ladies and gentlemen who throng the
spacious piazzas of the Seashore and other
great hotels they have many pleasantries
at the expense OF the so-called "fanat
ics."
By far the most remarkable case of the
400 with which DIR. Cuilis has prayed this
season, is that of Miss Olive f. Head, of
East Sumner, Oxford county, Me. 1t has
excited much interest and wonder among
the cottsgers, and the successful outcome,
which would seem to attend it, has been
an incontrovertible argument
for questioning skeptics. Your correspond
ent visited the lady at her boarding. house,
near Moody's store, yesterday evening, in
with a gentleman much inter
ested in
THE PATCHWORK.
In appearance Miss Head is so en-
feebled and emaciated that a stranger
might judge her to be anywhere from
80 to 80 years of age. She sat In the rock
ingchair as the visitors entered, and her
excused her from rising, saying
that since the news of her miraculous ex-
perience had gone abroad she had been be-
sieged with callers. In the dusk of the
evening Miss Heads appearance seemed
almost ghostlike. Her grayish hair was
combed straight back over a projecting
forehead her small, snow.white hands
seemed cold, nerveless and sinewless TO the
grasp. As her visitors took seat she
clasped them in her lap with an air of ha-
bitual patience come of long years of suf-
fering She said in low voice that she
was glad to be able to testify to the gra-
cioushess of the Lord. "Before the beal-
ing meeting she could not speak above
Whisper" said her companion. For
twenty-one years, said Miss Head,
81 HAD BEEN A CRIPPLE;
Three of these years l was so helpless that
my friends had to feed me, or should have
starved to death. Not once in the last
nineteen years had been able to 60 up or
down stairs alone. Some one has generally
been obliged to carry me in their arms.
Thank God heard of DIR. Cults and his
work here. l resolved to be brought.
though every one at home said it was at
5he risk of my life to undertake such a
journey. Last Monday was wheeled in
my chair to the Tabernacle. When my
turn came | was borne to DR. Cults at the
end Of the building. He told me to have
perfect faith in the promise of the Lord as
given in Scriptures. He anointcd my head
with oil and called on God to make me
whole, in accordance with His word With
hot
ne. could have walked unaided to this
place, but those about me dissuaded me
from the attempt. The next morning-oh
what new experience it was Il descend
ed the staircase alone and took my seat at
the table. Later in the day / walked to
the grove meeting and sat upon one of the
benches and listened to the blessed word Of
God with thanksgiving in my heart. Since
then have been out TO ride for the first
time in many years. As each day passes |
seem to grow stronger and have a sense of
more control over my muscles and limbs
am now able to dress myself. Before it
was almost agony for me to lift my hand to
my head now l can comb and arrange my
hair with little fatigue. Do / believe in
the efficacy of the cure by faith? How can
| help it! A poor bed-ridden creature
few days ago,
I NOW FEEL NEW LIFE IN NYyEINs,
And if my wonderful improvement con.
tinues / hope before long to be a well
woman. When finite hysicians gave me
up, the Lord heard my prayers and is
giving me strength. How can any doubt
His wondrous power and goodness to
men Praise the Lord o my SOUL"
Then at her request the man of prayer
who was present knelt on the floor be-
side her chair and poured forth thanks
for the deliverance from pain and disease.
II was an affecting scene.
Rev. Israel Downing, of Kennebunk,
favored your correspondent with his ex-
periencs. 81 have twice." he said, "been
Enthusiastically benefited in my physical
condition by prayer and faith. Last year
l suffered acutely from a lame side. In
the Tabernacle, yonder, / prayed with
DIR. Cults, and l was healed, and have
never been seriously troubled in that way
since. Last October I met with an aoc;.