The sun., 1883-12-16
An EXPERIENCE MEETING.
where Not the soui, bat the Rody and spr'nE
Water were the Topics.

where Not che soui, bus the Rody and spring
Water were tho Topics.
EUREKA SPRINGS, Dec. 1O.-A procession OF
invalids toiled up hundred weary steps to the
Baptist church In this new Arkansas city.
Some were from the boarding houses far down
In the gorge that admits the railroad to the
city. and they had made q long journey up tho
acclivities OF the crcuitous streets by which
they had reached the foot OF the steps leading
up to tho house of prayer Others homes were
on the blltops OF this city on tho hillsdes. and
they had both descended and assembled to reach
the church. All leaned heavily upon long staffs
fashioned like drum majors baton. This
stafr is tho correct thing for those who would
be in fashion in this watering place. Thore is
not o rod OF level sidewalk In the city and as
there are no cabs. everybody must walk IL he
would visit his. neghbors., Hence cveryhody's
@ yo"ng NOS Nos, Of them mVss were from % the South Tor
was not yet winter and tho ANNUAL heglra
was in some stage OF invalidism. 1t was TO he
an experience meeting, and 1t was explained
that the pilgrims who were climbing the stairs
NO SoiH e as to t the future Of
tho soul Instead 1t was one OF the fortnEhtly
wsra e the Nne Wn
ters that pour from the shnle rock on which the
city stands.
old man tharkcd God for the waters that are
free to tho poor as well as to the wealthy, and
lady lady Of , over over" 70 years yea who had been cured OF
q nervous disease. And then they sang tho
household hymn:
There precious fountain,
Free to ALA healing strcsm
Flows from Caiy rs s mountain.
But instead Of religious experience a man
began 10 tell the story of the landlord of the
principal hotel q the the city. who. after he had had
bracins % atmo os phers sy Of Colorado. had come to
Eureka Springs either to be cured or to die.
In less than twelyemonth he was "a a new w mnn I
and. determining upon making the city his
home lie blasted out the hillside close BY tho
principal spring and put $40 ooO into what Is.
town to the Post Oillce and the Office Of tho
ry :' From % 'S the ol roar Of tie fourth story :" he
hotol you step out to q sta rcasn un the hillside
to the porch of ono of the landlords neighbors,
bounded by tho cottages on the crests of tho
hills, nowhere more than half milo distant as
the bce flies but at long ana toilsome dis
tance as ypu walk it up and down the streets.
II, man who had been cured of cancer said s9,,!
h thS & medGa i2seies b%i w3nI 3
He knew others who had been given life after
they had been attacked by that almost incura: n.
with no hope, of recovery: indeed he packed
| his grave clothes in his trunk he fancied that
springs. ana for any relief he was willing to
| travel to the end of the earth. But after he
| had drunk the water for nine months and ap-
growth was mnnifestIy Disappearing; aud now,
| after two years he was cured.
\ tall, thin physician, whose chronic dyspepsia
| had ballcd his skill and that of other medical
| practitioners. testified that he set out for Eureka
Srrinss with many msGynss, bu, that he vas vas
| strict attention to the laws Of hygiene, and.
above all. the enforced exercise of climbing the
| marvellous qualities Of the water. and he al-
mitted the probability that exercise in the
| mDuntain air might have been an important
| aux iary in working his cure.
letter from school teacher whose failing
health had forced him to resign. but who WAS
| now new man. was read. He said:
After having travelled great distance the hills
AMI siroush The herse forests; nc driver Informed n'
splendid mounaln hrceze ,aiur US and The pipe trees
VAT scenery Tic northern Arkansas hs Nnd fSrt.'.
sity nntj he silence Of The forest broken by The
the summit Of The mountain just over The city. III,
thought Of having travelled for miles through wilder
ss ifS" @ E sea! SsrSs s The @ hi
sides and in the gnches filled us with admiration
Another speaker told Of IN Indiana attorney
he had necessarily sat up in bed for two OF
three hours every night: but whom the Eureka
4 lady whose red eyelids betokenoa scrofula
the assemblaee of the slow dawnine OF hel
vision and then gentleman who sat near n hel
| and a Missourian arose and said that he wa:
about to start for home. cured Of rheumatism
Other speakers told Of cures OF Bright's dis
| ease and of paralysis.
Such was the remarkable experience mectinl
| that n SUS reporter attended in n city in tn,
wilds OF the White River Mountnins-a meeting
| in which every ono was in full sympathy will
| every other person. and in which the ills tha
flesh is heir to hnd made all. from whateve
cline warm friends at the outset OF their ac
| qunintance-un experience meeting that close
with hymn from DR.. Watts and without tn
| taking up OF q collection.