The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-31
THE LONDON LOURDEs.
The Most Wonderful and Miraculous Cures
Reported.

Letter TO NE Editor OF Pail Mall Gazette.l
Although Jot may, perhaps, think that
am making too great demand upon The
credulity OF yOur readers, permit me to Law
before you some alleged Facts which are
attracting good deA of attention at present
in certain circles. A few days ago I mad an
interview with Rev. ". K. Boardman, who
Is 81 the head of a movement which is at
| tracing large amount o. attention not only
in the metropolis but throughout the coun-
try. The headquarters of this movement is
house in the north of Lordon, which has
| been designated "Beths ham," and the lead
ing doctrine taught there is that Of healing
by faith. In other words, they teach that
miracles may be wrought By means of pray
e.. and the healing virtues which have been
claimed for French and Irish shrines by Ro-
man Catholic devotees can not compare with
the power in which the believers In the new
Gospel put their trust. At time when be-
/ lief in the supernatural is saiG TO be vs0ish-
ing, and when every effect IS scientifically
/ traced to natural cause, 1t H. to say abe
least, remarkable to bear men snd won,en
publicly testify to their recovery from long
standing and apparently incurabse diseases
without medical or surgical aids. i have
been present at mere than one of their meet
ings, and have heard many personal testimo~
MES to q complete cure from almost "all the
ills that flesh is heir TO-" The following
| typical instances were furnished to me by
Mr.. Boazdman:
A lady named Miss Seoons came on a
| Wednesday evening to. ''BethshsnF about
six months ago. AT the meeting that even
ing she bad an epileptic 6t and had to be
carried out of the room. On the Sunday
evening following she rose from the ooucn
on which she was lying PROSTATE and said
II am perfectly we'll" She told those who
surrounded her and had been converting
| with her that she had been for upward of
fourteen years an invalid, having teen
afflicted with complication OF disorders in
| Guiding an internal tumor and epilepsy.
She ha0 been in q number of hospitals and
under many physicians, an3 her case had
been abandoned as hopeless. Her cure was
instantaneous, and she is now the picture of
health. At the present time she is engaged
in religious work among the warehouse girls
in the city. and is known to many.
A second case of different type was that
of q carpenter named Newman, who resides
at Dorking. He suffered from consump-
ton, and so far had the disease run that he
was completely exhausted on arriving at
'Bethshan." He remained for a week and
was completely cured. This is also a case of
six months standing, and since his return
home Newman has followed his occupation
and engaged in religious work.
A workingnlan from Gnmsby, named
4 MOOulc, luIDiSIcu al llluSlEdllOu VI ulleI-
ent kind. For six years ne was lame in one
foot and leg, the ailment taking such curl
Gus form that the limb had to be carried
high in the air. For three years he had not
put his foot on the ground to attempt to do
so having caused the greatest agony. He had
been treated by medical men in Grimsby
and Hull, and by surgeon in London, who
eventually amputated his great toe. This
gave no relief. and he came a second time to
London and had an interview with q cele
| brated surgeon, who remarked upon the pc
| culiarity of the case, and said That nothing
could be d one for II. Moods remained for
| three years in his lame condition, moving
about by means Of erutches A few months
ago he came under Mr.. Boardman's care, and
in a week he could dispense with his arti-
| fetal aids, while after the lapse of a few
more days he left for home with his limb
| compile. ely healed. He is now in business
in Grimsby.
It is asserted that since the beginning of
the movement, now six months ago. there
have been about 100 remarkable cures, in
Guiding every variety of disease-cancer,
paralysis, deafness, consumption, chronic
rheumatism and lameness, many trophies in
the form of crutches being left behind. No
outward means are used indeed. doctors
and medicines must be entirely given up,
and implicit faith is the lone thing need
full" ''Bethshan," its projectors state, lis
no Hospital, but rather a nursery for faith
and many of the cures of which testimony
is given are said to have been effected by
correspondence. The patient is usually an
ointed with oil, and, after prayer, an imme-
date cure is looked for. | may add that the
Institution is above suspicion on pecuniary
grounds.