Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-30
pnArER rverx. oRAxrs CASE.
what the New York sssun" says
About It EdItOriaIlYs

AuDut ~ EuhtOhthhts
Now that Gen. Grant is 30 greatly i'm
proved, and his entire recovery is not I'M
probable, it ia believed by great numbers
of pious people that he has been snatched
from death by the power of prayer.
Ever since his prostitution, they say,
prayers in his behalf have continually
ascended TO heaven throughout the
Union. The petitions have gone up in
churches, ut prayer meetings, ut domestic
devotions, and at religious conventions,
and many thousands of Christians have
daily retired to their closets TO plead for
his life.
Therefore it is, say these unquestioning
believers in the efficacy of prayer, that
even after the physicians had confessed
that medical science was unable to save
him from speedy death, Gen. Grants case
suddenly took favorable turn. and he
was at once on the high road to recovery.
When man gave him up, God stretched
out His hand TO save him. in answer to
the numberless prayers with which the
faithful had stormed the gates of heaven.
That is, they will regard his recovery
as u miracle worked in answer to prayer
and to prove to all the world the efficacy
of prayer. II is almost as ii the dead
had been raised TO life, they will say, FOR
| Gen, Grant was cured of nh incurablo
| disease, an iinpossibility to man and
according to human logic; mud hence God
alone could restore him as Lazarus was
brought forth from the tomb.
| at is God who has done it in answer
TO the earnest prayers of His people,"
says the Rev. DIR. Talmage; sit is prayer
/ that has done it," And the Rev. DIR.
Newman expresses the same opinion;
while at meeting of Baptist ministers
on Monday Gen. Grants restoration was
referred to as miraculous.
On the assumption that his disease was
incurable and his speedy death certain
under the operation of human laws, his
recovery would, of course, be miracle
which could not be gainsaid II may be
true that Garfield died though great
part of the Christian world was on its
knees pleading for his life, md TINT
thousands of Christians pass uwny daily
despite earnest prayers Tor their resinnl-
, ton of health but the one case of Gen.
Grant would be enough to prove that even
| in these days miracle may he worked by
prayer. Professor Tyndale's prayer test
! would be satisfied, nnd the whole world
/ would be compelled to believe in thu
efficacy of the faith cure. Famous III
Gen Grant may have been before, h,
+ would become fur more famous forever M
! II man who hud been rescued from deatl
by verituble miracle scarcely les
astonishing than the rising of LazaruI
, | after he had been three days buried.
, But SUPPOSE TINT all the praying wa
done on II mistaken assumption; that Coo
WINS asked to save Gen. Grant from
/, danger which did not exist that til
/, physicians were wrong i'll their dingnosi
of his diseases; that his trouble WAS no
cancer, but something which was curiibl
and really never endangered his lite, pro-
I, vided it was properly treated! III
u prayers which have nsccnded for him wcr
accustomed by reports sent out from hi
: sick chamber by his physicians, md the
would not have gone up il the people lnl
generally understood that he was sullerii
y from disease which did not imperil Ii.
y life, but from which he might recover i
" the ordinary course of things.
y II seems probable now that there wa
, no real Justification for alarm at Wmy time
that the physicians merely advertise
L their own mistaken diagnosis, and TIN
:" therefore the cuse of Gen. Grant prove
't nothing in regard to prayer either Oh
II way or the other. II has afforded Ii
10 chance for the prayer test. If he gel
sc we'll, il will be because he was bound
le recover from IL durable disease us soon
Is the physicians recognized it for what
II wns But perhaps it mny be said thu
ii their eyes We're opened innnswertoprnyeI