The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-18
NOVEL QUESTION OF Law
Is Curing by Path IN the Case Of
John A. DOMie Genuine !?
STATEMENTS OF WITNESSES
Many Persons Take Oath That Prayer
Has Completely Healed Them What
the Skcptics Say-lmpOrtant
Law Case In Chicago.


miracle the result OF his prayer fo.
Sadie Cody. She swears that by some
| mysterious power her left leg was
lens ,he'oed three irches. and she was
enabled to walk without limp. Heg
elatives verify her story.
Miss Cody was carried into the home
IN 4 stretch'r. taken from the train .
helpless. doomed woman. The people
| OF her Indiana town told her she would
die among strangers. She came to the
tabernacle In her extremity. She as
serts that all the physicians In the
town had pronounced her marked for
the grave. yrtd swears before a notary
that DIR. c. \, David. in State street
had declared her beyond the assistance
of medical science. Conviction that she
was To be instantly healed. reads the
affidavit. came the moment she became
resident member of the singing. pray
ing band. She SO told Mr.. Dowie. but
he sent her to a room to spend a season
with her Bible. Others were sent to
bolster up her faith. Prayer lasted two
days, and then the preacher concluded
the time had come for the laying on al
hands. Miss Cody was carried to the
healing room and placed upon the sofa.
MIR, Dowie listened to her confession of
faith and then prayed; 50 did Miss
Cody. Mr.. Dowie concluded his mluis-
tratiou by a command to "arise and
walk in the name of the Lord" Miss
Cody describes in her affidavit that she
felt within her some terrific force. She
struggled. and, arising, stood upon her
feet. She walked across the room. the
first time she had stood without assist
ance in a year. Within eight weeks,
she says. she left the home a we'll wo-
man. She came to Chicago from Nor
risslll.. to bear witness to the genuine
ness of the cures of Mr.. Dowe.
SchoOuOVer's Statement Attacked.
William SChoonover is a merchant In
Argus. Ind. The miracle which he says
was worked upon him consisted in the
immediate res toration of che power of
his legs. Dowie's neighbors in Edger-
ton avenue insist that he made his afli-
davit for pay, and charge that the
demonstration was a hippodrome. lie
alleges he was carried from secondary
home to the healing room in the mai =
bGliiii'- OIt cNcliillS. ne dTuSt Ut tIe
conclusion of the first prayer from the
lips of the preacher and was then and
there able to and did rise up without
any assistance at the command of John
Alexdcder Dowie to walk in the name
of the Lord
George w. Riggs, whose house is
across the way, witnessed this so-called
miracle. He boots at its genuineness
declaring that the procession of sug-
ing people which followed Sqhaofiover
We're dupes and parties ts a Scheme to
make an impressioD/ on the maighbor-
hood to the en5|that hostilities might
end. OJafs n the opposition claim
tha- SchoClover was paid to be leading
actor in The drama.
Mrs. Margaret c. Stafford and Miss
BlIck. who live at 4S1 Ogden avenue,
have been listed by Mr.. Dowie's oppo-
sition as people who have Jared ill at
his hands. They were forced to bring
suit in court to get payment on a note
for money loaned. This transaction
cost them time and worry and money,
and upon that score it was insisted
they would decry THE asylum and re-
pudlate the Tabernacle. But they both
uphold Dowie and his methods.
Mrs. john Hayden was brought from
DiXoD by her hus band to be treated for
blindness. O:,a eye was completely
darkened and the other. less than half
useful. MIR. Dowie opened both, ac-
cording to the cloud of witnesses. 1t i.s
recorded under oaths Of the membe
of the congregation that with the fall
irg Of the scales there also came "A visl-
thtior which stripped the body Of To-
comotor ataxia. The chapter dealing
with her case recites that she was car
ried into the healing room by her hus-
band and her maid. People who saw
her believed SHE was truthful in claim
ing to be helpless, and they profess to
have been startled TO see her walking
from the room within a few moments.
She had prayed I'm her faith, the muscu-
lar afiliction passed in an instant ard
the eyes gradually received the light.
The Case of Mrs. Young.
Mrs. Amanda Young has contributed
a cushion and set of braces to the
galaxy of trophies which Mr.. Dowie.
produces as evidence of the success of
his practice. They are nailed to the
wall Of the sanctuary behind his pulpit.
forming a part Of the series of festouBs
which completely hides the plaster In
This end. She refers to these imple-
mer'.s discarded as proof that the pray-
ers were powerful in her cause. She
lives at GGfC Og!eGby avenue and insists
the nelghborhood knew full well she
was helpless four years. The cushion
was for her back and tine braces for her
spine. Physicians, says Mrs. Young In
her enthusiasm, advised an operation
to save her life. She refused TO submit.
She conceived divine healing as a last
resort ard sat a hopeless listener to
Mr.. Dowle In the tabernacle The ap-
pointed moment came. All the surgical
appliances were removed and she has
no doubt her good health and ability
to come from cordlrmed invalid to a
strong womSas was due entirely to
prayer.
Mr.. Dowie has also affidavits from
his pew holders to help him prove to
doubters that It Is not essential that he
be at the side of the afflicted. Thomas
Wanless. Of 6i0O Dickey street, has con-
tributod seveiul pages from the court
on this point. Having learned of tine
modern wonders in The tabernacle from
the lips OF Mr.. Dowle. he proceeded to
have all his family ard relatives
brought to the understanding. Clifford
Fitzpatrick, of Dickinson county, Iowa,
Is his first convert. He Is a brother-in-
law. He was down with heart disease
SO low all business had been aban-
dor,ed. He came to the Edgerton ave-
nue. Mecca to "learn the teaching"
There was one season Of prayer with
the misds tration of the hunds. and both
the. patit1t and his advocate swear he
went back TO his farm without an all
ment. Mr.. Dowie continued to pray for
him across two states and Mr.. Kilpat-
iai< xsrriiaa 10 haa HANNA IA I,