Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-24
POWER OF THE MIND.
PRESIDENT CURED IN a
MIRACULOUS WAY.

MIRACULOUS WAY.
Seeming Miracles In the Cure Of Most Des-
perate Cases.
On the I'd of last December Prof. Town.
send published in the Boston daily Journal
lengthy article, which has since been
noted by many of our most critical papers,
upon the treatment and cure of chronic dis
eases by Boston physician, which suggests
the miracles of 1,sO0 years ago more than
anything which has ever appeared in modern
print. In this article he said:
"About thirteen years ago the country
was startled by the sudden prostration,
under shock of paralysis, of the Presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Every
thing was done for this great railroad mag
nate. The specialists Of Philadelphia and
New York tried their skill. In despair he
went to Europe, and by the best physicians
| in England and upon the Continent was
treated. He returned to America worse than
when he left, unable to walk, to use his left
hand, or to talk. At the earnest solicita-
tion of a director of his road, John NJ.
Kennedy, he sent for a prominent special
list, young physician who was attracting
great attention, and curing people every
day without medicine, and in a way which
many claimed was miraculous.
After few minutes conversation the
doctor said: "Your hand is better, sir; your
arm is stronger; raise it up" To the sur
prise of everyone this dead, paralyzed arm
was raised with ease. "Now shut your
hand" He did, and for the first time. in
two years. ''You feel better now," said the
doctor, but his patient only pointed to his
mouth, signifying that it was hard to talk.
''Yes, you can talk; speak out, was the
doctors quick reply. When from his lips
the distinct words came, ''Yes, I feel bet
ter" 'tNow walk, said the doctor, and he
did so without any difficulty. This i'm
provement continued, and, though the cure
was made, the doctor would never say how
he did it.
The 10-year-old son of Byron Woodward
Ga prominent Philadelphia lawyer) was
stricken down with spinal meningitis; every
thing was done for him that the hands of
love and wealth could do, but he grew rap
idly worse. After three consultations by
several noted physicians. the family were
advised that nothing could save him, that
he was dying, that he was in deaths stupor,
and would never return to consciousness.
In his desperation, and as last resort, the
father telegraphed for this physician; he
"Don't cry" said the doctor to the mother;
''don't say your boy must die, I will stand
between him and death, and though gasping
in the chill and gloom of the grave, I swear
to you, that for your sake, by the power of
faith, by the power of mind, in the name of
everything that's good, your boy shall live"
Then, placing his hand on the boys head
for few minutes, he turned to the father
and said: ''Your son is
OUT OF DANGER"
In less than 20 minutes the boy was sit
ting up, asking for something to eat, and in
less than one hour the doctor was fastening
to his home. The boy was permanently
cured.
On Saturday, the oath of last October, a
gentleman living few miles out of the
city, a retired Boston business man, called
upon this physician to visit his wife, who
was dying. will let the husband tell his
story: ''There is something very strange
about this Christian or Mental Science, if
that's what it is" said the old man, as his
tall Virginian form stood erect in front of
blazing fire. 'You see, my wife had been
sick the better part Of the time for three
years with nervous prostration. She has
together, it was more than she could stand.
About II weeks before I called this doctor
she was taken down with the fever; our
physician attended her with great care, but
nothing helped her. She was burning, by
day and night, with an intense fire. The
last eight or ten days her stomach gave out;
she could retain nothing that was given her
except cracked ice, and for
ICE! ICE! ICE!
she was calling every few minutes; she
wasted to skeleton, it seemed as if her
bones would come through the flesh. My
wife called me to her side, and said: Illus
band I'm going to die. I have Just heard
the doctor say nothing could save me. be-
lieve he is right; at least, I am sure medi-
cine cannot help me. There is but one doc
tor in the world that can help me, and am
not sure that he can. Will you get him for
me?' Certainly, 1 will, poor wife, I said,
but who is this physician?' Or. r. C.
Flower, of Boston, she said; I have known
him to nearly raise the dead, and 1 believe
he can save me- He is Christian or
Mental Science Healer, said. Il believe
so, was her feeble reply, and that is what
I want
'swell, wasted no time in getting Dr..
Flower. Without any ceremony he took
seat by her bed, placed one hand on her
head and held her pulse with the other.
What do you most want?' he asked. TO
get we'll, she said, for the sake of my little
girls and my husband BE calm,' he said,
don't worry, have faith. I tell you, you
shall get well; in ten minutes you will be in
a perspiration, in half an hour in a sound
Sleep Now, sir, what do you think, she
suddenly stopped calling for ice,
in ten minutes she was wringing
wet with perspirat1on, in % min
utes in sound slumber. As the doc
tor arose, he said to me: Your wife is we'll,
don't talk to her about her sickness, she
will soon recover her strength; let her eat
what she wants. She did rapidly recover
her flesh and strength, and is to-day per-
fectly we'll.
"But this is not ALL" continued the old
man. "My niece had goitre on her neck.
DIR. Flower looked at it, talked to her little
while, and told her it would go away in
eight days. 1t disappeared. Now" said
the old man, "these things look like miracles,
if such things ever were. Dr. Flower says
there is no miracle about them, that it is
science, and one of the highest sciences
known"
DR.. Flower is the doctor who cured the
railroad President, who raised from death
the son of Byron Woodward, and has
startled by his miraculous cures the world
for the last Is years"
I visited DR.. Flower at his beautiful
offices, No $50 Columbus avenue; found
him in the same genial mood everybody
finds him, perfectly we'll, perfectly happy,
and with a faith in the power to heal in
Mental or Christian Science SO strong that
you can feel it when you come into his
presence. "Then you are Mental or
Christian Scientist" said. "Well, you