The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-06-06
THE FAITn CURE.
Mrs. Negus Thinks 1t the Only Medlcin
Needed I'm Hor Family.

40 NNN6h u lHt Oniy nleUtelnp
Needed In Hor Family.
The Negus ia mily live IN a cozy dat at
SOB West Twenty second street. Scrip-
tuIal verses in little black walnut frames
adorn the walls of every room. Mrs.
William Negus is believer in cure by
ialth. AS sine vat sewing yesterday Win
u laughing little daughter romping at
nor Knee, she talked 10 a Sun reporter of
her experience.
"rhis little girl, % years old,v she
said, stroking the chiid's hoal, "was
taken quite i'll in March last. On the
loIh she was very sick, and when took
her In my arms u dress her, noticed
that her body was conVered with erup-
tons. A Christian lady who happened
TO call told me that my baby bad small.
pox. She then began 10 advise me what
90 do. | said:
'Hsttie belongs 10 Jesus. He has
healed her several tunes. When she
was but two weeks old H0 cured her ~
Inflammation of tho lungs, and. stll
later, OF cholera inisntum, meas.es,
and whooping cough; and only this
past winter she fell on the no. stove and
was badly burned near the lefGeyo. Tfo
burn was very severe. ] took IL % Jesus,
anu NbV pun vi hlit JUN W as lnkiNIlilN
taken away. IL healed in "A few DAVIS
and left no mark behind. Before IL Was
well she never acted as Il in any pein II
ALL" / said Jesus is able to heal the
smallpox, and ! do not feel Ut all
frightened about Ii.
MY husband came h1me and brought
With Rim the Rev. Mr.. Perry, OF 1871
Tenth gtreet, Brooklyn. l told my hus-
band that baby had the smallpox; in
FACE, ne could see IL for himself, but
believed Jesus would heal her. Cor
GMnlY," the Clergyman replied, "tho
same Lord that healed the lepers
can heal tho smallpox" Tine
baby was then lying upon the
lounge. We all knelt in prayer, and
while the brother was praying he said
to my husband and myself '0li bless
God, this comes TO me Of my Father,
that the promise IL to you and your chill
dren. Can you claim itT We said
Just what tie said He would. lie saws
Ne has borne our sins and our sickness
The pastor thon said, you pray But
tho Lord was 80 wonderfully crescent
that could not pray, / felt like weep
ing, and all could utter was, 'Doar Je
sus--precious Saviorp Just ut that mo
ment Hattie rose up from the lounge
her face all radiant with the Holy
Spirit, saying:
"'Jesus healed mo-
"Less than q week from the first ap
pearanco of the disease Hattie was as
well rs she ever was, and no marks were
lett TO show that she had had disease
of any kind"
Mrs. Negus said that II was through an
eilliction that she came TO believe In the
faith cure. Her health had not been
good, and she was finally persuaded tc
| try salt water bathing. She went with
her Two children, n boy Y years old and
girl IN her 7th year, to Fair Haven
| New Jersey. On August 10, 1880, hel
| little son was drowned. The aillictior
lod to tho sanctihcation of her soul. She
had been subject to malaria in its worst
form, also neuralgia and vertigo. These
were intensified by the shock she re
ceived, so that for s0vera, weeks after
| ner boys death she was nearly crazy
/ God healed all her sickness in The
second week of September, 1880.
HHer Oldest girl, now II years old,
Mrs. Negus said, has been healed OF
chronic bronchitis, with which che had
been afflicted since her birth. The day
before last Thanksgiving Dav she was
herself Frustrated with diphtheria and
typhoid fecer. A friend called upon
her and they prayed together, Three
days afterward she was able 10 leave
her bed and recovered rapidly She
says she healed colorOd man who was
dying from hemorrhages in New Jersey
and l6-months-old baby of Mr.
Martin, at 3lS West Eighteenth street
The baby was very low with inflsma.
tion of the lungs. Mrs. Nogus took the
babe in her arms, aud atyor her prayer
II got well,