The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-25

I Spllldl diseases.
The story of Sister Jackson's cures was
eagerly listened to in the pretty farmhouse
As the Smiths had always been strict
Christian people, belief in the efficacy OF
faitn-healing entered their minds the more
easily. Carrie grew confident Of Mrs.
JackSon's power TO heal, and begged her
brother Truman TO send for her. The idea
was opposed by Mr.. LOunsbury and his
family, but finally the brother went tc
Greenville and visited Sister Jackson. She
received him with the announcement that
the Lord had fully explained to her the
object OF his visit. She gave him written
instructions for mis- sister, and advised him
to trust in the Lord for the rest.
Hattie took the paper to Carries sick
chamber, and handing it to her left her
alone. In twenty minutes she returned.
What happened in the meantime no one
has told Hattie found her sister sweeping
the room and singing happily, her face
radiant with JOY. Carries cure caused the
conversion of her sister and mother 70 Mrs.
Jackson's faith. Carrie and Hattie finally
went to Greenville. Mrs. Jackson received
them kindly and induced them to stay at
the home Truman and his mother soon
| followed.
The old lady, who is &C years of age. was
an invalid. On the day Of her arrival in
Jersey City she went 20 the Church of the
! First Born" in Erie street, and was anointed
| by Mrs. jackson. She says she has never
suffered illness since She hired q house in
Fourth street, and, living there with her
son, attended the daily meetings at the
faith curists' tabernacle, and gradually
became as completely infatuated with Mrs.
jackson as her daughte who remained at
the "homen in Greenville.
Carrie drew monthly installments of an
| annual income of $500, and turned nearly
| all of it into the common treasury. Truman
did not relish this new state of affairs. He
was handsome young fellow of % very
ambitious, and greatly attached to the old
country home. When he realized the fact
that his mother and sisters would probably
cling to Mrs. Jackson forever, he exerted
all his influence to bring them home again.
He naturally turned to Mr.. Lounsbury for
assistance
Carries affianced wrote to her. begging
her to return home, and received in answer
refusal and an invitation to come to
Greenville In the meantime Truman
Smith and his mother left the Fourth-street
house and joined the girls at the home in
Greenvllle. For six weeks the young
man endured the life, constantly entreatinp
his sisters TO return home, thereby incur
ring the bitter enmIty of the curists
Sister jackson argued with him daily, and
even induced him to allow her to anoint
him. At the end of six weeks he was
| reminded that unless he contributed more
money TO the support of the sanctuary. he
would be required to leave it. He left. and
returned to Connecticut alone Truman
Smith saw Mr.. Lounsbury at South Nor
walk, and told of the hopalessness of the
situation. MIR. Lounsbury offered to send
him west to cattle ranch of his, but Tru-
man declined the offer and declared his in
tention OF spending the rest of his life in
| efforts to get his sisters away from the in
t1uence of Sister Jackson and Brother Han
Cox.
Mr.. Lounsbury is reputed to be one of
the wealthiest men i'll Connecticut His
home at Ridgefeld is certainly one Of the
finest in the state. He is an Episcopalian
but he rates the idea of faith healing as an
absurdity, and has casually termed Mount
Zion sanctuary '.lunatic asylum
Satisfied OF the futility of further at
tempts to convince his mother and sisters
by argument, Truman decided to learn
something about the people with whom
they were infatuated. He had always
regarded them with suspicion and consid-
cred the example of their lives most
unfortunate one for his sisters. Mrs
jackson, he had been told, entertained
very peculiar ideas concerning the ethics
of marriage. Years before she taught a
class of young girls in the school of the Rev.
A. b. Simpson, the famous faith-healer of
the Gospel Tabernacle, and had been dis
missed for expounding her ideas. Mrs
jackson herself declares that the only pe-
culiarity of her views on the subject lies in
the fact that she believes that marriages
are made in heaven and that these between
persons not equal in faith are inspired bv
the devil
The young man learned that the wife of
Pastor Hancox is living at Seabright N. J..
with her children. He went to see her. and
heard the story of her husbands desertiop
He had left her, she said, because she loved
jewelry and society. From the details of
Mrs. Hancoxs story, Truman concluded
that one of the Greenville band, at least,
was an unfit companion for his sisters.
He then wrote to Dr. Buckley. editor of
the Christian Advocate, whose article on
Faith in Healing and Kindred Phenom-
ena," in the Century for June, 1886, caused
some discussion. Truman shared DR.. Buck
leys belief that the cures referred to faith
healing are attributable to the power OF the
will over nervous diseases. A correspond
ence followed, and in a second article in the
Century of March, 1887, the doctor referred
at length to the wrecked home at Wilton.
without mentioning names or places.
Mrs. Elsey of Duncan avenue, JERSEY
City, became converted and healed by
Sister jackson. Mrs Elsey is wealthy and
proved desirable convert. Her gifts were
| many and her visits to Mount Zion sanct-
uary frequent Her heart was won by the
unaffected simplicity of Carrie and Hattie
Smith. They visited her at her home as
disciples of Mrs. Jackson, and became
greatly attached to her. When John Elsev
built her chapel on Jewett avenue, Brother
Hancox complained because the deed was
not turned over to him, and in the Quarrel
that followed the Elseys cut themselves
away from the Greenville band and hired n
pastor of their own.
Mrs. Elsey soon missed the Smith girls
She tried by every means to induce them To
come to live with her, but failed to Obtain
even an interview with them. Truman
Smith heard of the trouble and wrote to
her, urging her to further efforts to win bis
sisters from Mrs. Jackson. She answered
by assuring him that the Mount Zion neo-
pie were thoroughly bad, and that his
| sisters were in danger as long as thew re-
manned with them. This served to in.
cense the young man even more than he
| fore, and after informing Mr.. Lounsbury
or the news he made another at ennt 70
reason with his sisters But his letters were
| coldly received, and he decided that further
| attempt was useless Mrs. Elsey. foo
abandoned her efforts and for a while the
| sisters were left in peace.
MIR. Lounsbury was the last to give up
| all nope, but he, too, eventually surrendered,
and, after breaking the engagement.
vowed that he would never see Carrie
Smith again.
Truman Smith finally induced his mother
70 return to Connecticut, and old Mrs
Smith transformed the interior of the little
house by hanging notices of her belief