Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-05
SHE TELLS OF HER CURE.
The D0ctor-Minister Talks of His
Own Peculiar Experience.
MISSIONARY WORK IN AUSTRALIA
By Laying on Hands he Called From
Deaths Door a Little Girl.
HIS WIFE CORROBORATES HIS STORY

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John Alexander Dowie, the noted disciple
of faith cure Many fervent amens were
heard as the speaker touched some sympa-
thetic chord of his hearers.
Several things had tendency to bring an
especially large crowd to Carnegie Hall last
night Chief among these was the fact that
public healing had been performed in the
afternoon, the particulars of which were
spread broadcast over the city, and people
who had paid but little attention to Mr..
Dowie's teachings were eager to see and
hear him.
Shortly after the services, or mission, as
Mr.. Dowie terms it, opened in the after
noon, a woman came in, bearing heavily on
pair of crutches She hobbled up to the
front of the hall and took seat to
the left of the speaker, within a
few feet of the platform. There she
sat. an eager, earnest listener to every word,
occasionally uttering a fervent "Amen."
Mr.. Dowie talked at some length, reciting
incidents of the cases which had come under
his treatment. To close these remarks he
made an appeal to his hearers to trust the
Lord and have the cures brought about with
the laying on of hands.
A Public Healing.
With this exhortation the singing of the
do1ology was commenced, but the beauty of
that closing anthem was suddenly hushed
by the fervent expression:
"Praise God, am healed" followed by
the rush of feet and the rattling of pair of
crutches as they fell heavily on the speak
er's desk. These words emanated from the
lips of the woman who an hour before had
hobbled into the auditorium an almost help
less cripple, but was then seemingly well
and healthy.
Great excitement prevailed after this
episode, but by the wonderful controlling
power that Mr.. Dowie possesses he
again started the concluding hymn,
and the audience seemed to catch a new in
spiration from its words, singing it as they
new. ha6 before. As the music died away,
and after the benediction had been pro-
nounced, the crowd surged about the lady,
offering congratulations.
So with such rehearsal of biblical hap
penings going on in the nineteenth century,
it was not to be marveled that so large an
assemblage gathered last night.
Mr. Dowie's talk was along the line of his
own work and how he had early in life been
drawn over to the belief that the power to
cure BY faith had not left this earth with the
ascension of Christ.
He Tells His Own Story.
He told the story about as follows:
early in life was given up by the med
ical fraternity to die, being afflicted with
an incurable malady. NY life was miser-
able but for the fact that had a great love
for the Bible and its teachings. 1t was nv
only solace. I read it through and medi-
tated on its many wise teachings until at
last frmls thought that God could cure
me, as he had healed so many others during
Christ's life on earth. I began to pray,
long and fervently, but my reward did not
come. Ithen concluded, and have since
firmly been caused to believe that long
prayers were not the ones which found |
their way to the heart of God. Then I |
commenced in the new. 1t was night and 1 |
was alone in my bedchamber. Kneeling
down beside my bed offered up supplica- |
cure me, as 1 knew He could, and that my
whole life would be given to His work. |
AS / finished this short prayer |
1 leaped into bed and was |
soon sleeping soundly. something had not |
been used to doing. At early dawn 1 |
wakened, feeling like a different person,
but with a gnawing hunger. quickly dressed |
and went out into the garden. 1t was that !
time of the year when the fruits of all kinds |
were hanging rich and lucious on the |
vines. From here and there 1 plucked and |
ate them, all the time offering up pray
ers for my new found health. 1 went to |
breakfast and ate large meal of good old |
Scottish perridge. When / had finished, I |
told nv father of how God had healed me, |
and great was the thanksgiving in our house |
that day"
He Became a Preacher.
Mr.. Dowie then told of his entrance into |
the ministry and of his work through Aus
tralia, where he was located for % years |
He recited the incident of his first |
healing, which occurred in Australia. |
The case was that of a little girl |
who was dying with malignant type of
fever. He was called to the bedside of the
dying girl to give divine administration,
and as he stood by her he was suddenly in
spired by divine power and feeling that
his hand on her fevered brow and offered
up an appeal to God. Before he had
finished his prayer he said he could feel the
fever leaving her, and she fell into a calm
and peaceful slumber, awaking several
hours later. Her recovery from that time
was rapid. With several other descrip-
tions of cases he had cured, he closed his
remarks and introduced his wife.
Mrs. Dowie followed up her husbands
address by reciting several cases of the many
she said she had been connected with Dur
ing her remarks she referred several times
to the case of the afternoon, and said
the lady was in the house.
Mrs Dowie's talk closed the services.
The Healed One Talks.
The lady who had been healed in the
afternoon was seen by DISPATCH reporter
after the meeting. She told him the fol-
lowing story:
''My name is Mrs. John Dimling,
and L live at No. 16S East street,
For good many wears /
have been sufferer from rheumatism. and |
several years ago I grew so bad that had
to hobble around on those crutches you see
ly ing on the table, where threw them this
afternoon.
'fLast Sunday afternoon 1 first attended
Mr.. Dowie's meeting and was converted. !
Since then / have firmly believed that God
could healm me and in this afternoon's 5 meeting
that fact was demonstrated to me- After the
meeting walked home as easily as did
long years ago and tonight I feel entirely
like different person" She then asked
to be excused from further conversation
and said she would make public state
ment at next Mondays meeting. As she
finished talking she turned and walked
away, leaving her crutches lying on the
table.
Mr.. Dowie was spoken to, but said he
was tired and did not care to talk. He
lenied the report that an effort was being
made to have him stopped from holding
MEETINGS in Carnepie Hall and co;d ~ |