Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-24
THE FA17HCURE CONVENTION.

The chapel, which holds near one thou
sand persons, was crowded this morning
aisles, galleries and windows. Persons were
even looking through the ioists and loose
sliding of the loft the church being as yet
unplastered. DIR. Cullis, after preliminary
exercises, read the fifth chapter of james
us any man among you afflicted, let him
pray is any merry, lot him sing psalms is
any sick among you, let him call for the cid
ers of the church, and let them pray over
him, amounting him in the name of the
Lord and the prayer of faith shall save the
sick and the Lord shall raise him up, and if
he have committed sins they shall be forgiven
him" etc.
Dr. Cullis said that about twenty years ago
in reading this chapter, he was impressed by
its plain pointing of facts and promises He
argued, however, that it was for the apostles
for the early church, not for us. But, after
much thought, it seeming as il the chapter
would give him no rest, and being unable to
comprehend it, he ono night lifted his testa-
ment in both hands towards heaven and told
the Lord he couldn't understand, he was SO
feeble and so biased, but he pledged God
that if he couldn't understand he would be.
Rece every word in that book, take every
promise, and serve God
About that time he heard of tho little
hunchback woman of Switzerland, who prayed
with the sick and they were healed. He had
promised God to believe all His promises and
to serve Him. He was a young physician,
with little money and no influence. young
man, far gone in consumption, employed
him as doctor. Human power was help
less. He took the case to God. The young
man was cured. Afterward he tried to se.
cure a home for invalids-consumpt he
had only $3.50 of his own. He asked God
for help, and the money came in ; he had re-
ceived over a half million dollars without So
lictaiion Thousands had by faith been re-
stored. He had prayed in Boston with ev-
cry namable disease. He had gone to Eu.
rope to tell of Gods power He had met
with religious people of all nationalities at
the great meeting of Father Zeller in Switz.
erland. The Queen of Sweden, standing
with her Bible in her hand, told him of her
belief and knowledge of faith in healing.
People had called him an impostor had
said that he healed by magnetism. Some
afflicted had written: IF | can only see you;
If could be at this meeting, 1 could be
healed" "The ground don't heal" said the
doctor 'the crowd don't heal. | don't but
it is Jesus. 1t is not my magnetism. 1t is
Gods power" But one thing must be borne
in mind. This healing is not promised to
the ungodly. 1t is a promise only to those
who have accepted Christ as the Saviour of
their souls Now, the next step is for the
man to believe in Gods guidance and help,
spiritually, physically, temporarily trust.
People sometimes come said the doctor.
'for me to pray for their bodies. DO you
trust Christ for your Saviour, l ask No,
they say. Then there is no promise for
you; it is for those who accept Jesus as
Saviour, and who believe. He can save soul
and body Why don't God cure every
case = we are asked. Because all are not
Christians. In healing diseases-cancers for
instance-they don't Jump out of person
but the system is renovated as the heart is
made over when God converts a man. But
now we want testimonies to the power of
Christ continued DIR. Cullis. "Rise, tell
your name, where you live of what disease
you were cured who had been your physicians,
and whether you were cured at once or grad
ually."
very sweet.faced lady rose and stated
that she had boen brought in a chair to Bos.
ton not having walked for seventeen years.
She walked now without crutches or cane.
young mother told of her baby given up
to die by the physicians. She prayed in
faith, and "here," said the mother, "is the
child healed by the Lord" The little girl
had soft and long ringlets and a mischievous
face, and laughed reassuriugly at the great
crowd
An Episcopaliap lady had been stricken
with paralysis in New Orleans she was
stranger, far from home and friends. She
could neither move nor speak. Her face was
drawn her friends hardly knew her. After
several years in this state, there being no
hope a minister, DIR. Sansome, asked her if
she could believe Christ could cure her in
simultaneously. She sighed No" After a
while she had faith to believe that he could
do it gradually, but not at once. She had
been cured in six months, and had been per-
f, city well for several years. Whenever an
ache or a pain came to her, she believed it
was the temptation of the devil mo,
say, this is the Lords body the devil has u o
longer dominion over it,
Mrs. Margaret Clark of Newark, n. j.,
had tumor of the throat she felt the heal
ing power go through her like an electric
shock. When she left the place her feet
hardly touched the ground. 1t was no grad
ual work with her DR.. Cullis here rose and
said smlingly. that this lady was a Metho-
dist, which may have accounted for this.
A very elegantly dressed young woman
said she had consulted physicians in Europe
and America she had Brights disease, an
internal tumor, and such complication of
disorders that no physician gave her the
| slightest hope. She was now perfectly well.
| A Lowell lady had a cancer on her face. 1t
had entirely disappeared. She was a young
woman and wept with emotion when she told
| her story.
Dr. Buckley of the Methodist church, a
minister, had disease of the thigh bone nine
teen years. walked with a crutch and cane
and suffered constantly. Dr. Biglow of Bos
| ton could not cure him. One day calling up
on DIR. Culls he was asked why he did not
have his leg healed "Do you doubt Gods
power ?" he was asked. He answered ''Not
/ Al. iii A., l.
as He promises" replied De. Cullis. DR..
Borden, who was present, said Let us
pray" When he rose DIR. Buckley reached
for his crutches. mo" said DIR. Cullis, "wt
must act. Don't use your crutch." II car
ried away my cane and crutch under my arm
l often, from force of habit pick up my
cans when start out, and often lose it, d" saic
DR.. Buckley laughing, "leaving it where
stop"
A gentleman came to these camp grounds
nearly dying with disease of the throat anc
asthma lie heard the explanation of thii
| doctrine by accident 1t seemed rationa
thing to him. Thursday" said he, 'ii
would have killed me to walk to the top OF
that hill. Saturday | could run up it with
out any difficulty in breathing. l am bub
| bling over with Joy. God has saved me
healed me, sanctihed me. Praise His name.
An Irish Catholic woman said, al she stOOC
here, the Lord had stirred her heart to speak
She knew her people would know our relig
ion, and obtain a knowledge that neither
Peter, the Cardinal nor the Pope was God
but that our God was theirs our powerful
merciful, healing Saviour, who could ssv
both soul and body through faith in him.
man told of ehtire cure of chronic rhe u
matism. Another of organic heart disease
another of consumption. There were s
many who wished to testify and the churo
wa' so densely packed, that it was propose
that the meeting sd iourn to another day, an
that tho exercises be held in the immense an
phitheatre under the pines,
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