Connecticut western news., 1884-03-26
A MODERN RESURRECTION.

A Miracle that Took Plnce in our Midst Tn. known to tue Public-Tb c Details iu Full. One of the most renarhable occurrences ever given to the public, which took place here in our midst, has just come to our knowledge aud will undoubtedly awaken as
 much surprise and attract as great attention
 as it has already in newspaper circles. The | facts are, briefly, as follows: Mir. William A. Crombie, a young man formerly residing at Birmingham, a suburb of Detroit, and now living at 2S7 Michigan avenue, in this city, can truthfully say that be has looked into the future world and vet returned to this. representative of this paper has in- | terviewed him upon this important subject and his experiences nre given to the public tor the first time He said:
 ., had been having most peculiar sensa.
 heavy; my eyesight did not seem so clear as formerly; my appetite was uncertain and l
 was nnaccountabiy. tired. It was an effort
 to arise In the morning and yet I could not l sleep at night, My mouth tasted badly, had faint all-gone sensation in the pit of
 my stomach that food did not fatisfy, while l my hands and feet felt cold and clafnmy. | was nervous and irritable, and lost all en.
 thusiasm. At times my head would seem to whtrl and my heart palpitated terribly. 1 had no energy, no ambition, and l seemed indifferent of the present and thoughtless for the future l tried to shake the feeling of
 and persuade myself it was simply a coll or little malaria. But it would not go. Twas
 determined not to glve up, and so time passed | along and all the while 1 was getting worse.
 1t was about this time that I noticed I had be- | gun to bloat fearfully. My limbs were swol- | len so that by pressing my fingers upon them | deep depressions would be made My face
 also began to enlarge, and continued to until
 could scarcely see out of my eyes. One of
 my friends, describing my appearance at
 that time, said It is an animated some.
 thing, but l should like to know what In
 this condition passed several weeks of the ] greatest agony.
 6 Finally, one Saturday night, the misery
 enlminated. Nature could endure no more.
 became irrational and apparently insensible. Ioid sweat gathered on my forehead: my | eyes became glazed and my throat rattled
 l seemed to b. in another sphere and with
 other surroundings. l knew nothing of
 what occurred art und me, although
 have since learned it was Considered as | death by those who stood by. It was to me
 quiet state, and yet one of great agony. | was helpless, hopeless and pain was Tny only companion, remember trying to see what
 was beyond me, but the mist before my eyes | was too great. l tried to reason, but lad
 lost all power. I felt that it was death. and
 realized how terrible it was. At last the | strain upon my mind gave way and all was | plank. how long this continued do not know, but at last realized the presence of l friends and recognized my mother. I then
 thought it was earth, but was not certain. I | gradually regained consciousness, how | ever, and the pain les ened. found that my
 friends had, during my unconsciousness, been | giving me a pre- aration I had never taken | before, and the next day, under the influence
 of this treatment, the boating bepan to dis | appear and from that time on I steadily im- proved, until to-day l am as well as ever be-
 fore in my life, have no traces of the terrible
 acute Brights disease, which SO nearly killed
 me, and all through the wonderful instru- | mentality of Warmers Safe Cure, the rem | edy that brought me to life after was virtu- 1 ally in another world.n
 "H ou have had an unusual experience Mir | Crombie," said the writer, who had been
 breathlesslY listening to the recital.
 Yes, l think l have" was the reply. | and it has been 0 valuable lesson to me. i
 am certain, though, there are thousands of
 men and women at this very moment who
 have the same ailment which came SO near | killing me, and they do not know it. I be. | lieve kidney disease is the most deceptive
 trouble in the world. It comes like a thief fin
 the night 1t has no certain symptoms, but ] seems to attack each one differently. It is | quiet, treacherous, and all the more danger
 ous It is killing more people, to-day, than
 any other one complaint. If had the power | l would warn the entire world against it and
 urge them to remove it from the system be-
 fore it is too late.n
 ! One of the members of the firm of White
 head & Mitchell. proprietors of the Birminv-
 ham Eccentric, Taid O fraternal visit to this | once yesteTuay, ana Tn the course Of c0nver-
 sation, Mir. Crombies name was mentioned. 'I knew about his sickness, said the editor.
 land his remarkable recovery. 1 had his | obituary all in type and announced in the Ec. | centric that he could not live until it's mex,
 issue. It Was certainly a most wonderful | case"
 Rev. A. R. Bartlett, formerly pastor of the | NJ. E. Church, at Birmingham, and now oi
 Schoolcraft, Mich, in response to telegram | replied: 'fMr. W. A. Crombie was member of my l family at the time of his sickness. The pray. | CTS of the church were requested for him on
 two different occasions was with him on
 the day be was reported by his physicians as
 dying, and consider his recovery almost a | miracle
 Not one person in a million ever comes sc
 near death as did Mir Crombie and then re
 cover, but the men and women who arr
 drifting toward the same end, are legion, IT.
 note the slightest symptoms, to realize theii | significance and to meet them in time by th, | remedy which las been shown to be mos
 efficient, is duty from which there can be nc | escape. They are fortunate who do this; they | are on the sure road to death who neglect it | Detroit Free Press.