Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-06
MORNING DECEMBER 1887
BY FAITH.

mother addition to the List of alleged MI
r0cles---A Young Lady Who Has Been If
fictedfor Fourteen Years Claim,s to Harc
Been Made Whole by the Prayer Cure.
Iowa CRY, Ia, Nov. 30.-Much interest
is manifested here in a case of prayer cure
which has just come TO light.
The subject of this alleged miracle is a
young lady about twenty years of age.
About fourteen years ago she became af-
fiicted with dangerous spinal complaint,
which gradually grew worse, settling at
last in her hip and one leg. The latter, as
the disease progressed, grew withered and
shrunken, and became about three inches
shorter than the other one. For years she
has been confined to her bed and all the
indications pointed to her sure if slow
death. Medical aid was summoned, and
it was of high order, too, as there are u
number of the professors, of the medical
department of the state university who are
residents here. Apparently there was no
benefit coming from their aid, and death
seemed to be the only escape from her in
cessant and intense pains.
Some time in August, 1881, she was so
low that all hope of her recovery was Civ
en- up, and the day of her expected death
came.
SHE SEEMED ABOUT TO DIE.
and, indeed, the attending physician said
that she was dying, and all her weeping
friends around her bedside were giving her
up with sobs and tears to the cold, cruel
waters of the silent river of death. But she
recovered somewhat from this unusually
severe attack, and upon the succeeding
day she said to her mother that she was
not going to die; that she was going to
ask God to make her we'll. and she knew
he would grant her req uest. She had i'm.
pllclt faith, she said, that God mad the
power to restore her withered limb and
make of equal length with the other, and
that she knew he was going to do it. So
she set about a daily or almost hourly
course OF prayer in place of taking her
customary medicine, protesting that she
would have nothing more to do with the
physicians, as they were dong her no good.
Regularly her mother knelt in prayer with
her, and together they
PRAYED FOR RELIEF.
Slowly and slowly she began to gain
strength. It was scarcely visible at first,
but it soon became noticeable that her
whole system began to improve in tone,
and it was not long before the diseased
member began to show signs of being on
the mend. With complete confidence that
she was being cured by divine interposi-
ton, she kept up the regular praying, and
the leg kept up its regular improvement.
Not only did it begin to assume its nor
NAL size, but it began to grow longer. No
doctor was now in attendance, and
SHE TOOK NO MEDICINE WHATEVER.
At some time in the past she had read
of certain DR.. Cullis, of Boston, who pur-
ported to be faith doctor, and as she was
she would be able to stand journey thers
cure might be more rapidly effected. About
the last of June, 1882, in company with
her sister, she went to Boston. and began a
course of treatment with this "Doctor,"
whose only medicine consisted of regular
prayers for the relief of those who came
for help. She remained with him three
weeks, going to him daily, and having him
pray with her, also attending his prayer
meetings. These prayers we're solely for
the aid of the halt, the lame, the sick and
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help.
sHH IMPROVED VERY RAPIDLY.
under his ministration and at the expira-
ton of the time named returned to her
home in this county, which is about fifteen
miles from this city. At present her leg
has assumed about its normal size, it has
became the same length as the other one,
or so near as to make no appreciate un-
evenness in her gait; she has thrown away
her crutches, walks regularly one mile to
prayer meeting and the same distance to
church: she is able to do homework, and,
in short, is apparently
WE'LL AND HEARTY GIRL.
All the parties connected with this sin
gular affair are of unimpeachable chsrao-
ter, of high standing in this city, and by
no means inclined to belief in the pres.
ence of the supernatural in the realm of
the natural They vouch for the entire
truthfulness of the story, and, while at
loss for satisfactory explanation of the
phenomenon, are yet unable to disassoei-
ate in their minds the thoughts of her for
mer condition, her strange means of OBJ
tanning relief, and her complete recovery.