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THE FAITH CONVENTION.
Remarkable Testimony 10 Cures
wrought on Those who Believe.

3 excn looking through the joists and loos'
s. sliding of the loft the church being as ye
d upholstered. DIR. Cul. after preliminary
exercises, read the fifth chapter Of James
=, as any among you afflicted let him pray
is any merry let him sing psalms is any
sick among yon, let him call for the Elders
:, 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
aud the Lord shall raise him up, and If he
have committed sins they shall he forgiven
+, him. etc.
Dr. Cults said that'about twenty years ago.
/, in reading this chapter, he was impressed
q by Its PLAN pointing of facts and promises.
i lie argued, however, it was for the Apostles,
= for the early Church, not for us. But, after
much thought, 1t seeming as if the chapter
would give him no rest, and being unable to
comprehend IT, he one night lifted his Iesta-
ment in both hands toward 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-
H,tc every word in that book, take every
promise, and serve God.
About that time he heard of the little
hunChback woman of Switzerland, who
prayed with the sick, and they were heal
ed. He had promised God to believe all
Ills promises and TO serve Him. lie was
young physician, with little money and 10
influence. a young man, far gone in con-
SUMPTION employed HIM as doctor Human
power was helpless. He took the case to
cd. Aftcrward he tried to secure home
Tor invallds-consumpi he had only $3.50
of his own. He asked Il ii Tor help, and
the money came in he had received over
half "A million dollars without solicitation.
| Thousands had by faith been restored. lie
had prayed in Boston with every namabIc
disease. lie had gone To Europe to tell of
GOu's power. lie had met with religious
people OF all naiOnaliles at the great meet
ing of Father Islicr in Switzerland. The
Queen Of Sweden, standing with her Bible
in her hand, told him OF her belief and lnowl-
edge OF faith in healing.
| People had called him an imp0stor had
said that he healed by magnetism. Some
afflicted had written: "lf cin only see
You; ii could be at this meeting, could be
healed the ground don't heal said the
d. ctor; ''thc crowd don't heal. don't but
1t is Jesus. 1t my magnetism 1t is Gods
power But one thing must be borne in
mind. This healing is not promised the un-
cody, 1t is II promise only to those who
have accepted Christ as the Savior of their
souls. NV, tie next step is for the
man to believe in Gods guidance AMI help,
spiritually, physically, temporaly-full
doctor, "lur me to pray for the bodies.
DO you tiu,t thlist for your Savior,
| ask. No. they say. Then there is no
promise for YOU; it is for those who
accept jesus us Il Saviour, and who believe |
lie can save soul and body" "Whv don't |
God cure every - we are asked. Be
cause all are not Christians. In healing dis
cases-canccrs, for iustance-they don't |
jump ont of u person but the system is re-
novalcd as the heart is made over when
God converts a man. But now we want |
testimonies to this power OF Christ con-
tinued DIR. Cults. 'lisc. tell your name,
where you live, OF what disease you were,
who had been your physicians, and whether
you were cured at once or gradually"
A very swcet-face lady rose and stated |
that she had been brought in chair to Bos-
ton not having walked for seventeen years.
She walked now without crutches or cane,
a young mother told Of her baby given up
to die by the physicians. She prayed in
faith, and "hcrc," said the mother, lis the
child, healed by the Lord" The little girl
had soft and long ringlets and a mschiev-
GUS face, and laughed reassuringly nj the
great crowd.
An Epscopalian lady had been stricken
with paralysis in New Orleans she was
stranger, lar from home aud 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, minister DR.. Sansomc, asked her
il she could believe Christ could cure her in
simultaneously. She sighed "No." After
while she had faith to believe He could do it |
gradually, but not at once, She had been
cured in six months and been perfectly well |
Tor several years. Whenever an ache or a
pain came to her, she believed ii was the
t,4r MT tim of hn | GOV 10 10
the LOrd's body; the devil has NJ longer
dominion over it,"
Mrs, Margaret Clark Of Newark, n. j..
had Il tumor of the throat; She felt the heal |
ing power 90 through her like an electric
shock. When She left the place her ioct
hardly touched the ground 1t was no grad
uul work with her" Dr. Cullis here rose
and said, smingly, that this lady was II
Methodist, which may have accounted for
this.
A very elegantly dressed young woman
said she had consulted Physicians in Europe
and America she had Bright's disease, an
internal tumor, and such II complication OF
disorders that no physician gave her the
slightest hope. She was now perfectly well.
a Lowell lady had cancer on the face.
1t had entirely disappeared. She was II
young woman, and wcpt with emotion when
she told her story.
DIR. Buckley of the Methodist church,
minister, had disease of the thigh
bone nineteen years, walked with
crutch and cane, suffered CON
stantly. Dr. Biglow of Boston could not
cure him. One day calling upon DR.. Cults
he was asked why he did not have his leg
healed. DO you doubt Gods power? He
answered: Not the power hut the will.
God wills to do as lie promises, replied Dr. |
Cults. DIR. Borden, who was present, said ;
''Let us pray" When he rose he reached
for his crutchcs NO. said DIR. Cullis 1--WE
must act. Don't use your crulh." carried
away my cane and crulch under my arm. |
often, from force Of habit, pick up my cane
when | start out, and often lose it, he said
laughing, leaving it where l stop.
A gentleman came to these camp grounds
nearly dying with disease of the throat and
asthma. lie heard the explanation of this
doctrine by accident. II seemed rational
thing to bin. Thursday" said he lit
would have killed me to walk to the top of
that hill. Saturday could run up it with
| ont any difficulty in breathing. am bub-
bling over with joy. God has saved me,
healed me, sanctilicd me. Praise Ills name.
An Irish Catholic woman said, rs she stood
here, the Lord had stirred her heart to speak.
She knew her people would know our rcli-
gion, and Obtain knowledge that Peter, the
Cardinal, nor the Pope, was God. But that
our God was theirs; our powerful, merciful,
healing Saviour, who could save both soul
aud body through faith il Him.
A man told of entire cure Of chronic rheu-
maiism. Another of organic heart disease
another of consumption. There were so many
who wished to testify, and the church was
so densey packed, that it was proposed that
the meeting adjourn to another day, and that
the exercises be held in the immense amphi-
theatre under the pines.
She Called the Turn.
From the Island Pond Herald
Some time since the loTs of this VILLAGE