The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1888-02-12
FAITH WONDERS IN NORWICH.



NORWICH, Feb. 1.-THE Norwich Reform
Club has entered the fold Of faith healing. and
is working miracles. It's meetings are held in
Prohibition Hall, which is under u LIQUOR
saloon, next door to an attorneys oflce. and
over q shoe store and a Chinese laundry. Twice
weekly at noon a square flag on a stan is shored
out the street window. announcing: Holiness
meeting to-day" Citizens from all tho walks
In lifo gather in the little hall, sing stirring
songs and recite their experiences in 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 aEo, and they
have been growing better all the time. After q
Holiness peopie. declared that they couldn't
sin any more, and held meetings in u little tent
in summer on q grassy lot undor the trees on Il
this way they wore an air OF sanctitled incor-
ruptibility into their business and on the street.
they hSss' became sM amer fa nE9i1 hea Hs sp''Tfih" eir d% HSiimasi FOL.
lowed them at a respectful distance, In the path
OF spiritual r. hn grogEr r ,ss a nfiic al, ha aS become GO ,h sx,
deluded persons who have the evil fancy that
healers they argue that if a pin is inserted into
a man. IT is not the pin that hurts, but the mans
s s0d Y sho idea tS Of The 9sa pin, sGc. rsin Il - q dsi1 i1om;
anything !! else sec could not hurt him. ''n' VI
t msssins almost RoSer ea!Mly s;M snH report ns a to sa III nfn;
ths SahsE misfas, h t Saa Il hoy Sad hs S %s' he su Iimps d
PR! PrSyi i :Af for dteliysrsncs. from sin: sSa shs
cure spiritual ills, why not mental and bodily
ones ?" He arose instantly, and said to the
ifiGnsr ssa / Want r YOU t to- al Z ' pray ya for N me- ,h sSaa It
s ss !sh: sft sT. Which hn &rp. 0S %sMa AL nfa Arose EARN api
a year or more ago. and tho rheumatism has
Another convert, an old lady. with n fine face,
ward. In the late cold snap" she said. all the
water pipes in our ncighborhooi were freezing
trouble. Plumbers had to be sent for every
Fo@ God tr fS tas. w sar. ny ~, R gInSSs So I'll did, Isf axe t hs11
morning l went to them early; fully convinced
that they would be found all right And SO
turned the faucets. But ali the, ~neighbors,
pipes were frozen stin. BY and BY SONS, Of
M Sie% car cam" how W is sit It You ever eua ' manage age to keel;
your pipes from freeing? Mime and all The
done, and she went homs to think Of it."
Several other members related stories OF
dertuI than the prophylactic treatment Of the
water pipes. but the most radical recital was
by an officer of the club. who called attention
to the instantaneous cure of a bed ridden lady
up town by ono prayer. The case was an Incl
dent in the personal healing practice of the
narrator. who had called merely to condole
with tho sufferer: the invocation to divine aid
for II remedial effect was an after thought, II
came to him as the patient was pouring hel
miserable tale OF decrepitude, helplessness. and
suffering into his ear, and. in II flash of inspira.
ton; the reply leaped from his mind to his lips
why not let Jesus. cure you? Let me pray
that you may be healed" The officer prayed
and the woman prayed. and ut the end Of the
conjoined prayer the patient got upand walked
she is we'll to-day" added the officer. In con.
clusiOn.. He will not say who the woman Is out
side Of the faith-healing circle.