The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-21
HEALED BY A "MIRACLE.D
A Woman in PlaInHeId. Who Was
Blind, Tells How She
Was Cured.

Pisinfeld, N. j., has a sensat n.
Miss louisa Mann, af.er being totally
| bind for twenty-five years, has eud-
denly regained her sight. The town
is not given to sensations. 1t grows
sitenua'ed along the line Ct the rail-
road to the south until it becomes a
double row of frame houses on each
side OF the railroad track. One of
these is the abode of the Manne,
family which left Virginia not many
years ago. Their faces show the dark
hue and the fervid religious tempera
ment OF the South-the very dark hue
OF the extreme south Of Africa.
Some oil the palings are gone from the
fence about their dooryard. The out
look is upon the romantic expaDss of
the gravel embankment for the rail
road. The numerous children have
worA the paint off the versnda and the
grass off the soil. In the living-room
are cox stove and @ sewing ma
chine. 1t Is to this room that the vie
itor, who wished TO see the subject of
miraculous cure" was shown yes
teiday.
Miss Louisa was summoned from an
upper room and came down slowly and
hesitatingly. Her eyes bIinked aud
rolled, and che rolled her head on one
side in trying to use them. They
seemed TO become weary with little
use. When only seven years old,
Louisa fell downstairs aud ia Two DAYS
went blind" az her old mother ex.
planned. She was in bed for three
months and after getting about again
was subject to occasional very bad
spells" or epileptic Fl g. Her general
health continued to grow worse and
one physician, who examined her
eyes in Virginia, said that she was too
young to have them operated upon
and nothing further has ever been
done TO- them Seven years ago she
joined the Methodist Church and
since coming to Plainfeld has at.
tended the Baptist Church. A year
ago Mics Dunbar of Boston, who was
member of a Faith-Cure Congrega-
ton, went to Plainfeld and became
interested in the sufferer and instruc.
ted her in the tenets of her own faith,
to which she believed her own re.
covery from an ILLNESS to be due.
"She used to come and sit with me-"
said Louisa, ''and resd to me from the
Bible, and told me to trust in the
Lord aud He'd make me well again"
Louisa trusted for eeveral months.
One night last June she had four
spells" in ose day, aud has not had
any since. Her general health has
been much improved since then. Miss
Dunbar told her to go on trusting and
she would get back her eyesight. Her
cure is thus described in her own
words:
Last Tueidly night about 10 o'clock
| was lying on the bed with my
mother beside me praying az hard as
could, when began TO see light.
The room seemed fiji d with it. /
could see my mother, but l wouldn't
have known her il I hadn't heard her
voice. l couldn't say anything for an
hour except just to think, Bless the
Lord I'm cured" On going about !
next Gay things were vihble 10 her,
but in a strange, forgotten way. at
appeared as if there wasn't any top to
some OF toe trees in the yard" she
added.
1t seems that at times duIing The |
last few mo hs she has been able to
distinguish light from darkness, and |
evidently her sight is not in an en-.
tirely normal condition yet. She has
had no medical examination Of her
eyes, so no scientific opinion of the |
cure could be had.