The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-20

and agnostic nineteenth century. In the
once m st Christian land of France, athe-
lstic doctrines and anti-Christian sects are
fast leveling all that remains of the social
edlfice reared by so many generations of
tel1evers. Miracles, miracles, public, patent,
OF overwhelming evidence are more needed
10 day than in Egypt in the days of Moses,
than in Judea in the days of Christ, than in
Rome when Nero's brutal ferocity welded
for destruction the force of an empire.
We need a solemn manifestation Of the
hand of God setting anew the seal of his
divinity on the christian faith aud relig
ion.
With this conviction strong in my mind,
let me quote from the correspO ndent already
mentioned. These are facts, to which call
the attention of the American public, and
on which l challenge i'll your columns the
discussion of all serious-ninded and schol-
arly men.
Here is cure effected on aa inmate of
the Hospital de la Salpetrisre in Paris, the
very place of all others where modern
science delights in performing test expert
mentS.
E ght years ago-I quote in substances
poor young dressmaker named Celeste
Genoux, married to man CT the name of
Meriel, was received in this hospital with
the whole left side and both lower limbs ut
terly and hopelessly paralyzed. Four years
later, in 1884, both her ears became SO in
famed that suppuration set in and the
tympanum or drum of the ear was de-
stroyed. Then came another aggravated
attack of paralysis, destroying her sense of
hearing altogether and taxing away the
power of speech.
Everything the admirable corps Of physi-
clans attached to the hospital could do for
the patient was done persistently. and all
N uai,, fTka raIohratad Dir .(NnarCct
vdinly tried the power Of hypnotism. He
could not throw the sufferer into magnetic
sleep.
Thus, in her 30th year. poor Celeste
Genoux- Meriel seemed given up to every
worst infrmity. She was pronounced alb
solutely incurable.
Her only hope, her only prayer, was now
to be taken to Lourdes, whittier they took
her some twelve days ago with tue other
fully during this long railroad journey, so
much that it was feared she could never
reach the goal. She did, however, on Aug
81. Just as her infirmities had come upon
her successfully, even SO in the same order
(says our authority they disappeared one
by one
'"On Tuesday, the 21st, she cast aside her
crutches and walked; on Wednesday, the
22d, she recovered her speech on Thursday,
IUbT Il HlRUb VI OOVi
ears, she recovered the sense of hearing.
Now Celeste Genoux-Meriel walks,
speaks, hears perfectly. l saw her and
questioned her at length yesterday. What
the medical faculty of Salpetriere was pow
erleSs to effect, that has bee done by God
at the instance of Our Lady of Lourdes."
Another miraculous cure, attested and
certified by the medical board of inquiry at
Lourdes, is that of a boy named Louis
Tribout, who, since the age of Is months,
had both hands deformed and bent back
ward and one of his legs drawn up. After
being twice plunged into the spring of the
Grotto, he was completely cured, not a
trace OF his deformity remaining.
These facts, and SUCH as these, are now
moving the wonder of all Paris, of all
France.
They may help to strengthen and console
thousands of your readers.
They will go to show that the hand of
of God is not shortened in our day.
BERNARD U'REILLY,