The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-03

word. by sign, by a command We
shall have still loas to deal with historical
! persons. with parayticS, with contracted
and deforined III smbsrs, and ali that long
cortege OF nervous dis rie-s which COM
monty cling to their victims through life
The doctor describes the powerful address
made on the third day TO the assembled
/ SICK. calculated to rouse their faith and
/ enthusiastic hops in the divine power and
| goodness. Then he paints the extraordinary
scenes which took place on the morrow the
fourth and last day of the pilgrimage
From the GrOtto, with its large pasin of
spring water, the great procession of the
blessed sacrament extended all the way up
70 the new basilica of the rosary, pausing
| on It's way. coming and going, at the mid
die church, DR.. Boissarie describes the scene
which Ihen occurred in order to prove one
thing. that suggestion" or the mere and
manifold forces Of religious enthusiasm, ar-
dent faith, and che prayerful applications
OF great multitude, had no seeming effect
IN producing the cures which came uuder
the scrutiny OF the assembled physicians.
when the professions and other services of
the day were over not a single person,
| claiming to have been cured that day, APP
peared before them, The miracles, there
fore, to which these experienced investiga-
lions we're compelled TO set rheseal of their
atteStatlon were not the result of "sugges-
tion," even though the forces Of this moral
agency had been raised to the very highest
pitch of tension
What, then. was tine nature of the diseases
mlraculously cured at Lourdes on the men,
orable pilgrimage of this year, and atlested
by the board of physicians as genuine, un-
Questioned and unquestiOnable miracles?
Let DR.. Boissarie himself answer:
I'VE were waiting to see cures effected on
persons with sores, wounds and external
LESSONS. We only had consumptives, poor
f~r QfIrrp xUhn oh. c.
ing that they were in the third degree of
phthlsls, who now only bore the traces of a
slight congestion of the lungs. To
one or my brother physicians, who insisted
on seeing cured a certain class of diseases
which he had selected, could only say: IF
l could bid, here on the spot, cancer to
disappear, or q wound to close I'D com
petely, | would be happy to comply with
your wishes But am not healing agent
here any more than you are. | am only q
simple witness And YOU must see in Che
very order followed by the facts we attest.
the seal of power superior to us ALL
II say, then, that we saw con umptives
cured; patients who were the bearers of the
most explicit attestations from the medical
men who had attended them On these we
could scarcely discover the traces Of a con-
gestlon all but perfectly obliterated. Lungs
in which tubercles and bacilli had been in
full evolution for months and years we're
not yet quite perfectly permeable to the air
and still gave out now and then a slight
kissing sound. But all morbid action
seemed arrested, and the patients declared
that their organs were as we'll as ever, and
that they felt as they had not felt for a very
long time.
Are these results to be lasting? We can
not reply in the affirmative at present But
such as they are, they are surely most i'm
portant. There can be no illusion in what
ma tn np MIA no
| GUS and too overwhelming. Such profound
notifications as | have described are not
the effect OF nervous c0mmotion or magma
ton.
TRY in a hospital to make fifteen or
twenty such consumptIves get up from
their beds; stop the fever, expectorations,
sweats, and all the phenomena of organic
decomposition; restore to all these sufferers
their strength, their healthy color, their
Joyousness; fill up these cavernous voidS in
their lungs, the progress of which you daily
followed with your ear. Put healthy It's
sues In the place of these ulcers, of these
mortified tissues, just as you close 10 a
wound by covering it over with sound
flesh.
"Do all this in an instant, in a single
second of time, and then tell me if yoC have
in this only done thing of no account ana
undeservlng OF serious attention. There
exists, therefore, on side of us beyond the
sphere of all human resources, an agent
who intervenes aud leaves behird him the
undeuiable impress of his manifestations.
This is what we shall sec with still further
evidence when we,enter on the detail of
the facts submitted to our investiga-
tion."
Assuredly no more important or interest
ing question can be studied by the Ameri-
can public than that partially exposed here
by DR.. Boissarie. BERNARD O'REILLY.