The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-09-29
CURED OT 4 THOUSAND Ills.
The Nnit The Dumb nnd the Dcnf Walk, Talk
Gm, Hear.

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A long line OF people in their second
childhood ana many colorcd folks filed
through the cemetery, at Grecnville, n.
j., yesterday to the "faith cure" camp
meeting. The lame, the deaf and the
blind, chronic paralytics and promiscu-
Gus invalids marched in the grotesoue
procession. The invalids were blithe,
the paralytics capcred nimbly along, gay
enough to dance on the graves, the deaf
thought that thcy,could hear the crickets,
the blind that they could see, and some
Of the moro enthusiastic negroes mag
ined that they could fly. Every one in
the procession believed in miracles. All
had come from various towns in Con-
nccticut, Pennsylvania, New York and
New Jersey, and some had Travelled near
ly 800 miles
Tho camp meeting was held in the
grounds of the "Alount Zion Sanctuary, +"
outer walls are painted with scriptural
quotations and sentences bearing on the
faith cure" it is claimed by the ''faith
cure" people that woman Of the name
OF AntOinetto Jackson had direct reye-
lation from God, and that she is the only
person in modern times and since the
Hebrew prophets who was ever in direct
communication with the Creator
About 900 people were crowded in the
tent yesterday afternoon when Mrs. An
tolncttc Jackson, II very healthy looking
woman, opened the dcvotions by saying
that she had once had curvature of the
spnc and neuralgia of the brain. She
had been healed by faith, which also
cured her of desire to go to the opera.
She said that she had given herself Who'll
~ to the Lord, and it didn't make any
difference to her now whether she had n
new bonnet or not. At this reference n
colorcd man i'll the camp meeting cried:
''Praisc the Lord"
"Bani 10 Bill" arose and declared that
his entire family had been healed bv the
faith cure. One child that had been
helpless with spinal disease for thirteen
years had been annointcd and was now
able to skip the rope. Another had been
cured OF pneumonia and third Of
malaria OF four years standing. As for
himself, he had been cured Of desire
for strong drink of eighteen years stand
ing and OF Il desire for tobacco which had
run for thirty years.
midllc-aged man said that faith had
cured him of playing pool. He used to
drink half II gallon of whiskey day,
and had never opened the covers of a
Bible until he was 81 years old. \ col
orcd man got up and said that he had
been cured OF chicken stealing and of
hanging around Watermelon patches.
Since he had been healed by the "faith
cure" no turkeys had over got tanglc
up in his clothes, and he had never lost
his way and run into smoke house.
Another colorcd man testified that he
couldn't hear q fog horn until he came
to the camp meeting. He had wrestled
with the llmbago for years, and came to
the first meeting full of doubt and Gov
cred with pastcrs. Now he no longer
needed any plastcrs and the lumbago
had gone oil. a fat and Jolly woman
who would probably weigh 800 pounds.
got up and said that she used to he so
fat She couldn't walk. Putting her trust
i'll tho "fnith cure" she asked the Lord
to take away some Of her fat. Since that
time she had lost thirty-fivc pounds.
"iiavcn't We right to jump and hol-
lcr?' said she, bounding up from the
floor; ''if we didn't tell the way we feel
wed bust nsllndcr."
a woman lieutenant of the Salvation
Army said that she had rupturcd lung
While speaking Mt an open air meeting.
That lung had been wholly healed by
the 'faith cure" and she could now
shout rs well us when she was n sergeant.
Many dcvout people testified in simple
and sincere way that had been cured of
grave bodily ills by the faith cure, and
pointed to their friends and kindred
present who had been unable to walk
until they had been healed through
faith.
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