Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-06
THEY ALL-HAD FAITH,
And We're Cured of Disease Without
Medicine and Without Price.
ONE CASE WAS INSTANTANEOUS.
Growth Of Divine Healing Doctrines Among
the Cultured Glasses.
SOME OF THE SUBSTANTIAL RESULTS

j. NJ. Todd, Of No. 16 Boyle street, Alle-
gheny, to reporter of THE DISPATCH,
yesterday afternoon. The lady was speak
ing of her own experience as subject of
Divine healing. 1t was with some reluct-
ance that she related the story for publica-
ton. Only after the writefassured her that
he had other testimonies of recent remarka-
BILE cures which would be incomplete with
out her own, did she consent to talk, and
then it was with the feeling that knowl-
edge of what God had done for her might
benefit mankind. Mrs. Todd belongs to the
best circles of society on the Northside and
has good family connections.
1.-The efficacy of my cure, and many
others, cannot be denied, =" she continued,
"and therefore we have no reason for con-
cealing them or being ashamed of the pub
licity. One difficult thing about describing
my case is that correct diagnosis of my
disease cannot be given. The physicians
were unable to give it name. There evil
IDENTIFY never had been such an af1iction be-
fore. Ny illness eliminated in a complica-
tion that broke me down all over. making
me so weak that seemed to have lost all
pleasure in life 1 had been ailing for most
of last summer, but my real sickness lasted
about three months. Medicine did me no
good whatever. Finally disguised, I
GAVE THEM ALL UP.
''Those who knew me were afraid would
live no longer than spring at the utmost. 1
had been acquainted slightly with some of
the ladies connected with the Bethany
Home, on Center avenue, and had attended
some of their meetings. I accepted the be-
liefs taught there, and tried hard to live a
holy life, which realized was necessary be-
fore could hope for relief physically. L
did feel some better during that period, but
could not say that believed was ap-
preaching cure. Having discarded all
medicines 1 lived entirely on my trust in
God. 1 grew in faith, until at 1918, on the
night of December 10 last, 1 experienced the
most restful and peaceful relief from all my
illness. At that moment 1 was instantly
cured. 1 knew it, and since then 1 have
had the very best of health. Ny old COM
plant has never troubled me since then.
No, was not expecting cure at that par
ticular moment. But few moments later
ascertained that Mrs Sweeney, a milliner,
who knew all about my case, was on her
knees praying for my relief at 1915 on the
night of December 10. 1t appears that she
had been kept up until that hour, and took
that opportunity to remember me to God in
private prayer. And 1 know beyond all
doubt that He heard her petition, and that
instantly, too.
Mrs. Todd looks the picture of health.
She also told the reporter that it was largely
through hearing of the marvellous cure of
Mrs. j. j. Hall, another Allegheny woman,
and becoming acquainted with her that led
to her own interest in, and final relief by,
divine healing. Mrs. Hall and Rev. John
Morrow, Superintendent of the Bethany
Faith Cure Home, both confirm Mrs. Todd s
story. Mrs. Halls own healing has not yet
been printed in the daily papers.
FAITH AND woRKs TOGETHER.
So devout is she in her thanks for her re-
covery from disease that she now devotes all
her time to the work. She is visitor in
the interest Of the Bethany Home, calling
on the sick and poor in every part of the
two cities. In early girlhood her eyes
failed, and until well into middle age she
suffered terribly from that. She also had
organic heart trouble, and the best physi-
clans here and in New York failed to do
anything for her or to give her any hope.
Her life soon became a dreary blank She
frequently gives her friends a graphic &C.
count of the condition of person without
hope either in this or the other world.
Other diseases following, she fell into a
stupor, from which she could scarcely stir
herself.
About year and half ago she gas
mlraculously cuved by following the teach
ings she heard al the Center avenue institu-
ton. OF her visits to that place she says:
"I heard seemingly by accident of Beth
any Home and the circumstances connected
with it. thought what curious, fanatical
people this must be, and because I longed
for anything that might in some way inter-
est me, anything that might for even short
time lift me out of myself, went one day
to this place, went with very much the same
curiosity that might attract one to a spirit
ualistic seance. 1t was quiet little meeting
A few persons had simply gathered there
for the study of the Bible.
On one particular day, Mrs. Hall relates,
she had to dose herself with medicine in
order to be able to walk to the Home. She
was wretchedly i'll. On that day she was
cured while in the meeting.
HER HEALING WAS GRADUAL
but thorough, and now she is one of the
healthiest women apparently who walks the
streets of Pittsburg. She, by her own re-
quest, was anointed finally by Miss Mary
Moorhead, the founder of the Home, and
Superintendent Morrow.
Miss Ella E. Bird, cultured lady living
in Lawrenceville, well known as vocalist
and school teacher, had suffered for many
wears from heart arrangement and catarrh.
She has told her friends that she fairly
lived on medicines because of the necessity
of constantly appearing in society and keep
ing up her mental powers. For a long
time she used the ordinary remedies for
such affections, and in them was the only
hope the medical profession could give her.
But about year ago all medicines lost
their power with her and her condition be-
came deblorable. She was compelled to
give up all use of her voice for singing. In
this spirit of hopelessness she began visit
ing the Bethany Home. Relating her own
experience she shows her complete cure
was accomplished in the course of a
few months BY amounting and ian implicit
trust in God, losing sight of self en-
tirely." She says it was on August, 1888,
that she was entirely and completely
healed. Her wide circle of acquaintance
in Lawrenceville very soon noticed the
vonderfuI change in Miss Bird, Her state