Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-16
THEY WERE NOT CURED.
1nvalids Who Were Disappointed wheI
They Applied to Father Mollinger.

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They Applied to Father Mollinger.
From the New York Times
PITTsBURG. June 15.-The misguided sufferers
who fancied that they had but to be blessed
by Father Mollinger to be relieved of their
Affections are now returning in carloads to their
distant homes Many 60 away crippled in body,
ruined in pocket and in despair instead of hope
The reaction is SO great that the sight the dis
appointed present is most touching
There passed through the Union station to-
day several hundred manned, halt and blind
persons who were returning home after a week
Of prayer at Father Mollingers chapel. None
Of them had been relieved in the slightest
manner, and many were suffering severely in
consequence of the exposure to which thew
had been subject. Several women who live in
the eastern part of the state were brought to
the Union station on litters or stretchers be-
cause they were too ill to sit up. number of
men who had been able to walk with the aid of
crutches when they came to Pittsburg had to
be wheeled through the station to the day ex-
press in arm chairs. They had broken down
under the strain and disappointment
Though Father Mollinger gave his blessing
to about 1000 persons today there was an alb
sence of the stories of remarkable cures. He
absolutely declined today to prescribe or toex-
anime individual cases. Some of the clergy at
tackled him from the pulpit yesterday, while
the doctors wanted to know why he wasn't APP
pretended for practicing medicine without a
license One physician wrote:
THE evidence of Father Mollinger's cures
will not hold water. 1t consists of Mysteries,
ignorance, enthusiasm. hope faith and reporto-
rial enthusiasm. Poor people are induced to
come here at great expense in money and suf-
fering and go home, buoyed up for awhile by
hope, to die. do not believe per cent of the
cases treated are cured. The record of any in
significant physician would show better results
than those Of Troy Hill Father Mollinger is
SO deaf that he has to have an assistant to
shout at him, yet the deaf go to him for a cure.
He is great sufferer from rheumatism, yet the
rheumatic are besieging him for help. He il
said to have nervous prostration, yet the ner-
vous are fawning around him to get relief
James Hanna of 43 Sd street. Trenton, N. j.
said to a reporter: 81 saw two men who it was
said had been cured. Both Of them we're al
most as lame as when they went to Troy Hill.
1t has been bitter disappointment to many of
us. who have exhausted every cent we have in
the world coming here to be cured. II ever a
man had faith it was l. firmly believed that
if Father Mollinger laid his hand on me and
said, Arise and walk, Immediately all the
paralysis Of my legs would leave and should
walk prayed for week, and one day threw
aside my crutches when the priest laid his
hands on my head and blessed me. At that I
fell down and hurt my back. 1t is bitter dis
appointment.
''When 1 was coming over in the car this
morning blind man sitting opposite to me
suddenly began to sob and cried: oh, my
God, l wish were dead He told me that his
anon: He had mortgaged his house to come to
Pittsburg and be cured, but sight is still denied
him. There is a number Of cases similar to
these and l am told that Father Mollinger has
had to furnish a number of people with money
himself so that they could leave Troy Hill"