The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-20
A NEW MIRACLE.
Sarah Arter, Paralyzed and Suffering
From Cancer, Completely Cured at
Lourdes.
BY THE REV Z. MARTIN.
From the London Tablet.


From the London Tablet.
The following is an account of a won
derful cure of young woman living il
the neighborhood of Ethan, who has
lately been TO Lourdes with the French
National Pilgrimage. The young woman
and her mother came TO live at Ethan
last April. Before they lived in South
Kensington. Since they settled here I
have been constant visitor at their
house, and what 1 shall state I have
either seen or have learned directly from
themselves. I will endeavor 10 tell the
facts without, hope any exaggeration.
Indeed the truth is so wonderful that il
does not need any addition of mine.
Sarah AFTER, aged 30, has been suffer
ing more or less since she was Is with
some disease of the stomach. AS to the
precise nature of the disease the doctors
did not seem 10 agree. Some said it was
cancer in the stomach; others a tumor:
others ulcers. She had been an inmate
OF several hospitals: among others ST
Georges five times, and The Cancer hos
pital once AT the latter they said it
was cancer of the stomach, and treated
her for 1t. The symptoms seemed to IA
vor that opinion. She was habitually in
great pain, and for years had taken no
food without vomiting directly after
ward. She could not even keep down
cup of tea and bread and butter At
times she would vomit blood, which
had fetid odor Besides this dis
ease of the stomach, she was quite
paralyzed from the hips downward
This paralysis came on by degrees.
Ten years ago she began TO lose the use
of her legs, but walked with two crutches
till five years next November. when she
lost the use of her legs entirely. and has
on civ I,aa L. 4.
became contracted. They measured her
at the cancer hospital, and said one leg
was two inches shorter than the other
She also had the last bone of her spine
projecting, and this caused her additional
suffering. The doctors at the hospitals
told her that they could do nothing more
for her, and they seem to have tried al
most everything. Three years ago, DR..
Foulerton put tube down her throat into
the stomach 10 wash it out, and for three
weeks administered her food by means of
injections. Having been told by the doc
tors that she was incurable she sought
for help from him who can give il if he
will. She at length decided to go to
Lourdes and ask the intercession Of our
Blessed Lady, that if it were Gods will
she might be cured. At the same time
she was quite resigned TO suffer and die
If God wllled it. When she told DR..
toulerton, who is a Protestant, that she
was going TO Lourdes, he laughed at
the idea, because he naturally did
not believe in the miracles of Lourdes
He used to say TO her in joke, well
Sarah, ii YOU are cured at Lourdes, I shall
believe in the Catholic church But
what an undertaking this Journey was for
her! She an invalid, who could not even
stand, Door, and her mother who looked
after her, 10 years of age She used to
employ her time while in bed in doing
needlework and sold the work 10 make up
an income. Out of her earnings she tried
10 save up enough TO take herself and her
! mother TO Lourdes, and determined TO 90
this next September. Fortunately. how
ever, she had some kind of friends, and
they arranged for her to 60 with the
| French National Pilgrimage, which
leaves Paris every year about Aug. Is.
| They also paid her fare TO Paris and sent
| Sister Julienne of the Bon Secours. -
| Haverstock Hill, with her TO wait on her.
| Since this sister was French and could
! speak English perfectly she was well
suited in every way for the task. Mis-
| AFTER was accepted by the committee of
| the National Pilgrimage and was told to
| be at Paris by Aug. Is TO travel in the
white train. The white train is one
which takes all the great invalids. 1t is
well described by M. lola in his recent
! novel "Lourdes."
She now began TO prepare for her Jour
| neyi since Sister Julienne was going to
take her, we all thought that there was
no need for her mother or any one else 10
! 60 with her. All we could do was TO help
| her with our prayers. She made a gene
raj confession ana prepared for death if il
should be Gods holy will To take her; for.
humanity speaking, it was madness for
her, in her weak state, to undertake that
! journey. She received holy communion
on the feast Of the Assumption, and the
next day, Aug 10, after the prayers and
blessing given in the ritual started by the
II O'Clock train for Paris myself and
a few other friends saw her and Sister
Julienne of from Cannon street. She had
to be carried IN an invalid chair 10 the
! carriage, and from the train 10 the boat. /