The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-03
DID PRAYER CAUSE DEATH
4 MOTHER KEPr lS =, UCH Is POS
SINE fROM 4 SICK DAUGHTER.

The Former Relieves IN DIvins Hsai,ss. sud
| tHe Husbands Relatives Thinh Hes
| Prayers aud Those OF sister Jaekson In
| the sick Room Deere Neited the Patient.
ut very sad affair. and II has broken up
one Of the prettiest little homes IN the state OF
| New Jersey"
That Is what Mr. Charles Chamberlain. q
real estate dealer In Bayonne. said yesterday
| OF the death OF his daughter-in-law. Mrs.
| Charles 7. Cham berlalu. which was due. so her
father-in law thinks. TO the zeal other mother,
| Mrs. Conway. to have her treated according to
| Faith euro belief Miss Grace Conway was
married fourteen months ago to Charles +.
| Chamberlain. n salesman for Billings Har-
men. lumber dealers In Dayonnc. They lived
in East Fifty first street In that city. very near
| Mrs. Chamberlain's mothers house. On Fri
| day Dec II, Mrs. Chamberlain gave birth to n
boy The boy died on Jan. 81. when nineteen
days old. and Mrs. Chamberlain's death fol-
lowed on Jan. 25.
Mira Conway Is member OF tho Mount Zion
Snnctuary in Greenvle. Tho elder Mr..
Chamberlain said yesterday:
After the birth OF her child my dauRhter-in-
law was very ~. Mrs. Wooster. a trained
nurse. aud my son we're at her bedside almost
constantly On the following Wednesday.
while my son was asleep in an adj dining room.
Mrs. Conway admitted to the sick room her
son. Charles Conway. another man, and two
or three women. all Faith Curists They
all prayed with the sick woman. and
when thoy had gone she was In highly ex-
cited state OF mind. My son then told Mrs.
Conway that she could not go into his wife'e
promise to cease her praying. After. some
words Mrs Conway left. and for several days
aiter that she did not enter the house. During
day by his sister as to the state OF his wife's
health.
feelings that she began to take notion that
che didn't need any m ediclne. She refused to
TO her former state OF mind and allowed her
physician to treat her as usual Then my son
after thas shc wHs 70 allowed to Vs her
daughter once day but only on the condition
lived up to this promise. and would remain In
the sick room only fifteen, or twenty minutes
with DR.. PocociSthat Mrs. Cham berlaln should
Day Ss T tnS S cats n' 10
pray. -,
sending her to Rochester soon to visit friends.
The next day the fever returned, and her pulse
" Po &c and br tS watson both Of whom
saw her on the day following her change for
Inability to Withstand the e1stement she had
been III ade to undergo. she herself had never
been Faith Curist. though have understood
that even after her marriage she used to 60
occasionally with her m other to the chapel OF
the Faith Curists IN Greenville. II so, this was
done without her husbands knowledge or
consent. Her husband and herself both used
to attend the Calvary Episcopal Church here
My son and used to Joke with her in u mild
way about the Faith Cure and she always took
IL with entire good nature"
Mrs Conway lives In asst Fiftieth street,
near Avenue II. She said yesterday:
The story that | brought in half n dozen
Faith Curists to pray with my daughter Ia
not true. ] brought in only one and that a
lady. and she came at my daughters request.
son. but rs members OF the family suppose
we had that right. Ii was my daughters own
idea to give w medicine. she was overdosed,
think, and It did not agree with her. In fact.
she stopped taking medicine two days before
l know anything about 1t.
The trouble Of the matter IL that DIR.
Pocock lost the case. Roth mother and baby
died. and now the Doctor wants to put tho
blame on somebody else. He gave her strych-
nine morphine qulnlne. and wine Of iron. and
got her into such state that her system
malarial and rheumatic fever
We are not Faith Curists. There are no
such people. Neither are we Christian Scien-
fists. We believe in divine healing. But our
beliefs and practices had nothing TO do with
my daughters death"
The Conwavs attend tho Greenville congre-
cation OF Faith CuTists In the winter. and in
Testimony in Jersey City, The woman who
prayed with Mrs. Chamberlain was Sister
Jackson, one OF the leaders In the Mount Zion
Sanctuary.