The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-09
A GIRLS LIFE THE STAKE,
The New Church of Christ
Enters the Faith-Healing
War.
A VISIT TO MINNIE SMITH.
Dr.. Truesdell Tells of His Expert.
ence With the Divine
HealerS.
4 VISIT TO MINNIE SMITH.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALL

OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALI
9oS Broadway, Nov 8.
The Church of Christ, of which DR..
Truesdell is the head in Oakland, sat in
committee yesterday to see how far faith
is healing Miss Minnie Smith, whose story
was told in THE CALL of Monday last.
Miss Smith is seriously i'll and has dis
charged all her doctors and is now trusting
in faith to heal her. DR.. TruesdelI is not
at all satisfied with the teachings of Mrs.
Carrie Judd Montgomery, who has charge
of Miss Smiths case, and to-day he ex-
pressed himself very freely.
1--WE sent committee to see Mrs. Smith
and daughter" said he. 81 read In the
ladys statement in The CALL that she was
willing to let her daughters case be made
a public test. Well, she did not make it
public SO far as we were concerned, but
insisted on her own way and held to the
commandments of men and women in
stead of the Word of God. Consequently
we could do nothing with her.
"This very day three members of the
Divine Healing Association came to US for
light concerning their own personal SUI
ferings. The first case had been deaf
long tlme-totally deaf in the right ear.
The old deceiver, through divine healing,
told her to believe that she was now healed
by naked falkland then listen. Of course,
she could not comprehend naked faith
but exactly like the Christian Scientists,
whom the divine healers as class fear
next to the devil, she was told to claim
healing and deny the deafness. But the
devil rejoiced at the vain struggles of this
poor victim when he saw that the deaf ear
was filled with hardened wax.
when we proposed to examine the ear
with the speculum she objected in fear,
saying she had taken the Lord for her
healer and wanted no human means used.
1.-The two other cases that came to US
this afternoon had both refused to repeat
the false statement that they were healed
before they were, but so long as they
pinned their faith in Mrs. Montgomery
teachings, what can God do for them2
Only a short time since, in this city a
minister, who believes in divine healing as
taught by us, broke one of his legs, and
had doctor to set it. One of our believ-
ing divine healers came along and COM
manded him to arise and walk. Being an
intelligent believer in gospel healing and
not in fanaticism, he had more confidence
i'll God, who had taken charge of the heal
ing of the leg. | have been believer in
gospel healing for forty years, and l would
not be doing my duty were not to go into
this work of destroying the hold that faith
healers and Christian scientists have in
Oakland"
The Divine Healing Association is not
paying any attention to DR.. Truesdeu's
Church of Christ Miss Montgomery and
her husband were both healed by faith,
and they declare that their own personal
experience is far more convincing than the
teachings of the new church.
In the meantime Mrs. Minnie Smith is
lying at her home very sick, and Mrs.
Montgomery declares that God will heal
her, while DR.. Truesdeil stands by and
laughs. The outcome is being watched
with much interest.