The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-14
FAITH WONDERS IN NORWICH.
An Astonishing Case of Preserved
Water Pipes in the Cold Snap.
From the Mem York Sun

From, the Mem York Sun.
NORWICH, Feb. 1.-THE Norwich Reform
Club has entered the field of faith healing,
and is working miracles. Its meetings are
held in Prohibition Hall, which is under a
LIQUOR saloon, next door to an attorneys
office. and over a shoe store and a Chinese
LAUNDRY Twice weekly at noon square
flag Oh q staff is shored out the street win
dow announcing Holiness meeting to-day.
Citizens from all the walks in life gather in
the little hall, sing stirring songs and reclte
their experiences i'll heavenly healing. The
lame, the stunted, the outcast and those
with darkened minds participate.
A coterie of influential and pious citizens
organized the club several years ago, and
they have been growing better all the time.
After year or two they became "Perfec-
tionists" or Holiness people, declared that
they couldn't sin any more, and held meet
ings in little tent in summer on grassy
lot under the trees on a west side knoll. As
thew grew daily better in this way they
wore an air of sanctified incorruptibllity
into their business and on the street. Next,
in their process of spiritual sublimation,
they became faith healers. Their disciples
followed them at a respectful distance in
the path of spiritual progress, and all have
become expert in healing by the efficacy of
prayer those deluded persons who have the
evil fancy that they are sick.
Their theory is the popular one among
faith heaters: they argue that if pin is
inserted into a man, 1t is not the pm that
hlrts, but the mans corrupted idea of the
pin. Pain is delusion, and it shows that
tie sufferer is away from God. If he were
properly sublimatet, a pin or anything else
could not hurt him. -
The disciples have opportunities to test
their theory almost daily and report to the
next meeting. Robert McMullen, at a
gathering the other night, told how he was
| Cured Of rheumatism. He had it badly,
| but he limped into a meeting where Holt
ness people were praying for dellverance
| from sin and the thought came to him, IF
prayer to God can cure spiritual Ills, why
|. not mental and bodily ones" He arose in
stantly and said to the congregation: "Fve
got a bad case of rheumatism, and | want
YOU to all pray for me that it be taken
| away.n The people all prayed earnestly,
after which Mr. McMullen arose and walked
without limping. The cure was wrought a
year or more ago and the rheumatism has
| not returned.
Another convert, an old lady with fine
face, next told about her steadfast faith IN
its reward, I'm the late cold snap" she
said, all the water pipes in our nelghbor-
hood were freezing up every night and gave
us great deal of trouble. Plumbers had
to be sent for every day. Finally said one
night, I'll have no more trouble with my
pipes. I'll leave them for God to take care
| of, And SO l did. The next morning l
went to them early fully convinced that they
would be found all right. And SO they
were. The water poured right out when
turned the faucets. But all the neigbors
mines were frozen stiff. By and by some OF
| them came to see me, and they said: why,
Mrs. -. how is it you ever manage to
keep your pipes from freezinga Mine and
all the rest in the neighborhood are frozen
| solid Then / told her of my faith and
what had done, and she went home to
| think of it..
Several other members related stories OF
miracles wrought that were barely less
wonderful than the prophylactic treatment
of the water pipes, but the most radical re
cital was by an officer OF the club, who
called attention to the instantaneous cure
of a bed-ridden lady uptown by one prayer
| Tho case was an incident in the persona
healing practice OF the narrator, who hao
| called merely 10 condole with the sufferer
fine invocation TO divine aid for remedial
effect was an after thought. 1t came 70
him as the patient was pouring her mlser-
/ able tale OF decrsptude, helplessness and
| suffering into his ear, aud IN Hash OF M
sniration. the reply leaped from his mind u
| XIX Inns. sWhv not let Jesus cure youi Let
me Dray that YOU may he healed. Inc
oiIic,r Drayed and the woman prayed, anf
at the end OF the cOnjOned prayer tni
, n9tient rot 10 and walked. ''She y well
! fo-day.F added the officer, IN conclusion
! lie viii not eay who the woman Is ontsid'
/ of tie faith-healing circle