Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-07-21
CURED BY FAITH.
Woman Who Was Confined to Her Bed for
Seven Years Suddenly Arises and Startles
the NeighbOrs hY Walking i'm the Yard

Inc nome INTO which this ray OF sun
shine has burst is at No. 80 Chester
street. Mrs. Oliver Mansfield. who has
suffered for seven years, and has been
confined to her bed nearly the whole of
that time, and was bent out of her
natural shape by curvature of the
spine, suddenly arose, while the other
members of the household were alb
sent, put on her shoes, and walked out
into the yard without ary assistance
whatever. She not only walked, but
walked erect. which is the strangest
part of the affair. When Mrs. Mans
field reached the yard she threw UP
her hands and exclaimed:
"By faith l am savedn'
"Ny wife had not walked a step
since last May" said Mr.. Mansfield,
in speaking of the affair last evening.
''She has suffered seven years. ever
since our child was born, and | have
spent hundreds and hundreds of dol
lars and had doctor after doctor for
her, but she seemed to get no better.
brought her to this city last April
from Rose township, Carroll county
after doctoring in Wooster, Mansfield,
and other places in that locality. 1
was recommended to DR.. Miller, of
Cleveland, and brought my wife here
upon a bed, as she was unable to sit up
at all. DR.. Miller was taken sick after
we had been here about a month, and
was unable to attend to my wife. We
then called DR. Hunert and finally DR..
Peck, who has been attending her ever
since. He called every Monday, but.
have notified him that he need not call
any more unless we send for him.
know we shall not have to do that, for
my wife is going to get stronger and
better right along now"
''Do you really think that her faith
had this effect upon her?"
"Indeed | do. | know it. Why,
sir, if you had seen her week ago you
would have said she could never sit up,
to say nothing about walking. But
she did walk, and there she sits now,
which she could no more do in her own
strength without the help of the Lord,
than You could fly. There was no one
in the house when she arose, and no
one ever dreamed of such thing.
She didn't herself My little girl ran
to me and said her mother was walk
ing, and sure enough, there she was
in the yard, standing up as straight as
anybody. l was dumfounded for a
moment, but | went to her and she
walked back into the house and around
the room before going back to bed
Since then she has been up and is
growing stronger, and there she sits
now, strong in the Lord"
did any one stay with her before
. this miracle?"
"Yes. DR.. Hickman, of the Wood
land Avenue Methodist Episcopa
church, and Mr.. Waldren, an evan
gelst, of Brooklyn, n. Y, were here
on Saturday, and prayed and talked
about having faith in the Lord. 1t wa
a short time afterward that my wife
got up"
'Do you think it was faith tina
enabled Mrs. Mansfield to do this?"
"They are confident of it, and so ar
all the neighbors. There is no ON
who could help believing it afte
knowing all the facts. Many at frs
thought it was the medicine that die
it; but when they stopped to think tha
a person who has been confined TO he
bed with such complaint for SO man
years they know she could Lot get tn
, strength by medicine to get right u
out of bed and walk down four or fiv
steps into the yard. This shows tina
it was not her own will power, whic
2 some may think, because she neve
could get up before without bein
4 lifted. If there had been number {
t people in the room singing and pray
4 ing we might have thought possibl
= that the excitement of the mOmer
: gave her supernatural strength, br
there was nothing of this kind. Thel