The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-03-13
BF0adbFim'S New York Letter

While we of New York city have been
having lively tussle during the week
with the railroad pirates, the world, the
flesh and the devil, our neighbors over
the river in Brooklyn have been holding
a faith-cure convention, and are deriv-
ing much pleasure and profit thereby.
Give your doctor his niittimus, shut up
the drug stores, no more calomel and
jalap, no more Glauber salts, no more
castor oil or Brandreth's pills, as a
much easier cure-all has been discov-
cred, If discovery it can be called. for
really there is nothing very new about
ii; for almost two thousand years ago
the faithful were told that if they had
faith even as small as grain of mustard
seed one might move a mountain. Out
siders may laugh and infdels may scoff,
but here comes a witness whose testi-
mony stands unimpeached; who de-
clares that she was a chronic invalid for
twenty years--she was bed ridden, she
could not dress herself, she had rheum-
atism, lumbago, erysipelas, paralysis
and complication Of complaints which
no less than fifty physicians had pro-
nounced incurable. According to the
lady's testimony given in open meeting
she was not only given over by the doc
tors, but at least four times she was sure
she was dead herself. IVhen every hope
was gone and every remedy had failed
she bethought herself Of prayer, and the
very next morning she got out of bed,
dressed herself unaided-a thing she
had not done for twenty years before.
She astonShed the household by the
vigorous condition of her appetite; beef
steaks, mutton chops, flapjacks and fried
potatoes and hominy disappeared as if
by magic. She discharged the Irish
servant having no further need Of help.
She tackled the housework with vim
that made the fur fly. 1t was no ln-
common thing, says Mrs. U'illiams, to
have fifteen or sixteen to dinner; but
she did all the cooking, and her appetite
continuing healthy, a good share OF the
eating,an when everything was cleared
off, calipash and calipee, she washed up
the dishes then took little spin on foot
five or six miles just to get the air and
shake the wrinkles out, and then at
tended prayer meeting feeling very
much rcfreshed; came home, made the
hash. ground the coffee, prepared the
| Goldfish cakes for breakfast, darned some
stockings, made piece of crazy quilt.
set pan of bread in sponge, read the
newspapers, said her prayers, jumped
| into bed and slept like top till morn
| ing. Who can resist evidence like this?
But this is not all. She attended a
camp meeting and fell down in a place
some ten or twelve feet deep. 1t was
not quite certain that her leg was not
! broken; however, broken or not, not
withstanding the pleadings of relatives
and the entreaties of friends who eX-
pected to see her next morning the sub
ject of coroner's inquest. she refused
medical assistance of every kind, resort
ed only to prayer, and the very next
morning though her limb was as black
as your hat she got up and walked eight
miles just to gel up an appetite for her
breakfast. / don't wonder that even
the Rev. Mr.. Mcbride, the high priest
of the faith cure, was astonished beyond
expression, and emplatically declared
that he had never heard anything halt
so wonderful before. They had in
Brooklyn sometime ago faith healer
| by the name of Doctor Monek, who
could not only exercise disease and the
deYil by the laying on of hands, but if il
was not convenient for the patient to
come DIR. Monck could send pocket
handkerchief by mail, which, for the
very modest fee of five dollars was good
for anything from tic dOloreuH to a
broken shin. Business was SO good
with Brother Monck that he paid as
high as a thousand dollars in a single
day for advertising. He beat Wisonis
of the magic belt which secures yor
from every i'll; but whether the Lord
deserted him OF he cured all the invalids
business grew bad with Brother MoLck
and the last l heard of this healing
saint he was the defendant in profan(
law court for attempting to swindle &
female convert of several thousand dol
lars, aud suit brought by formel
pa 'tner in the dyeing and securing bust
ne IS, which seems 10 me rather a queel
trade for an evangelist. ] knew the,
ashed sinners clean but had no idei
they went for their old coats and pants
The Brooklyn convention is the lirs
thing in the way of national NANTES
to, and we may reasonably look forward
in the years TO come for conventions il
the different States, and revelations
more wonderful than anything we havj
had at the present convention. A few
years ago and lot of hereto skepIic
were inclined TO make fun of a ship loa,
of davOtees who started from the Unitet
Sta c to visit the shrine of ''our Lad
of Lourdes," and later still they refuse,
TO believe the wonderful cures performer
by piece OF plaster taken from the oil,
chapel at Knock. Why should peopl
doubt? There was a pious man VIII,
kept whisky mill in the Bowery, b,
the name OF O'Shaughnessy. Now Mr.
O'Shaughnessy was game Of his lef
leg, and his right bower was not o
much account in foot race. Whethe
il was bad whisky or dispensation o
Providence, know not; but he tinall,
took to crutches He was in bad wa
and all the neighbors knew ii, and tn
fellows on the corner shook their head
as he passed and said, he'll never agail
go on roller skates. One day some on
told him of the miraculous cures at tn
chapel Of Knock in Ireland, but he wa
so knocked up himself that he could no
so to Knock, but he got one Denni
Ryan to so for him. Dennis went an,
brought away piece Of the plaster frou
the identical spot on the wall where tn,
blessed Virgin disappeared. He brough
ii direct TO New York, and the momen
Dir. O'Shaughnessy put il in his breeche
pocket he threw away his crutches; anC
that very day he wanted to enter him
self for q foot race. lie set up the bee
and whisky for the boys all the after
noon and amused the crowd by jumpin,
oyeF the bar. II is quite imnateria
whether you believe II or anybody be
lieyes u. 'Shaughnessy believes II
and 1t wss O'Sbaughnessy that had tn,
game leg,
The Brooklyn convention vas wei
attended, II was highly respectable in iti