Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-14
From the N. Y. Herald
THE MESSIAHOF new MEXICO
lie Is Looked Upon as a Christ, but
Claims To Be Only The Tool
Of Ills Master.
WORKS MARVELLOUS CURES.

SCRIPTURES DIS To1edrSeu III tue New
Testament is the tale upon every lip in
the central part of New Mexico to- day.
Wonderfully like the scenes of the
Bible, in setting and in some of the
characteristics, have been the scenes
enacted here.
In New Mexico, where the native
population may be seen daily in the
wheat fields cutting grain with q
sickle. where the grain is still separat-
ed from the chaff beneath the feet of
horses, where the mortar and pestle
are still commonly used in the home
manufacture of -four, and, bread is
baked in clay oven resembling dog
kennel (for stoves are very uncommon
in the adobes of the Mexicans outside
the principal towns), there suddenly
burst upon the view of these people,
whence no one seems to know, a man
bearing a striking resemblance to the
pictures of the Christ who looked up
On Just such scenes as these nearly
nineteen hundred years ago; man
who tastes not of food; a man whose
touch brings sight to the blind, hear
ing to the deaf, motion to the halt,
peace unto the suffering. Like the
Christ, he was first doubted by these
people, though he came among them
protesting to be no more than he ap-
peared. Like the Christ, he won his
followers by his kindly deeds, his cures
of the afflicted. his unselfish devotion
to mankind. Like the Christ, he was
prosecuted by the higher class of the
Mexican population, threatening him
as an impostor, a sharper, schemer, a
Iunatic, and his prosecutors he trans
formed into his stanchest friends.
FOLLOWED BY HUNDREDS.
For more than two weeks he has
been followed by hundreds wherever
he has gone. To day, constant
stream of people passes before him
praying that he touch their hands.
Blind, deaf and halt are led or carried
to him; women with tiny babes bring
them to him to be healed of ailments
real or imaginary; old, middle-aged,
young, ignorant and educated Next
cans, Americans of the highest stand
ing in the community visit him at the
lowly homes he most frequents or in
the homes of the rich and prominent,
in which he is a welcome guest. Great
Lines of carriages and wagons and sad
die horses stand before every house he
enters; the owners, drivers or riders
have come for him to take him to the
home of some one who is suffering.
Each and all, high or lowly, he treats
the same, and from no one will he.t take
a cent for the services he has perform
ed, though money is repeatedly press
ed upon him. For all he has the same
kindly greeting, the same kindly treat
ment.
Stories of his cures are beyond be-
lief. Many of them have been investi-
lous is willing to admit the man is do
ing many men good and no man harm
that he is honest in his endeavors to
aid suffering humanity and consistent
in his actions. AS to whence comes
his power opinions differ. Among the
Mexicans few doubt it comes direct
from Heaven; among the Americans it
is attributed to animal magnetism and
the principles upon which the Chris
tian Science doctrine is founded.
| Monday afternoon, July Is, a Next
can attache of the morning newspaper
in Albuquerque rushed breathlessly
into the Office, his face the picture of
amazement. The day previous he had
| been at Peralta, a small town on the
Rio Grande River, about twenty miles
south of that city. There, he said, he
| had seen a man who was the perfect
picture of the prints of the Christ
| which adorn the walls of the ancient
Cath edral of San Felipe, the towers of
which have been outlined in the blue
sky of this Southwest land for more
than three hundred years. This man
had been surrounded all day long by
crowds of people. He had held the
hands of blind man and sight had
been restored to him; he had touched
the hands of woman who had been
paralyzed for years and she left as well
as in the days of her maidenhood; he
had treated many others, and all had
been benefited. Since his advent into
that village, in miraculous manner,
several days before, it was known he
had not tasted food.
APPEARANCE OF THE HEALER.
He is a man of about six feet in
height, and weighs probably 100
pounds. His form is that of the ath-
lete, and, like the athlete, he has all
the supple grace of the man of trained
muscles.
First of all to strike the observer is
the remarkable likeness between the
man and the pictures of the Christ.
The long, flowing brown hair, curling
trifie at the shoulders, over which it
spread, was there parted In the middle
and combed smoothly over the ears.
The brown beard, falling gracefully
upon the breast, was there; the small !
white patches devoid of hair just at
the corners of the mouth, which mark |
the perfect Jewish facial adornment, |
were there. The eyes, blue and clear
as the skies without, beamed with a |
most kindly light upon all who APP
preached. The mouth, firmly and |
delicately cut, was family seen be.
tween beard and mustache. AS long
as the mouth was closed the resem-
blance between the man and a picture
of the Christ, which adorned one of
the walls of the room, was complete;
when the lips parted the illusion was
shattered, for the absence of two te eth
in the upper jaw robbed the face of it's
appearance. For clothing the
man wore simply blue calico shirt, a
blue jeans Jumper" falling over the
hips to meet blue overalls, much too
short for him, and not meeting a pair
Of cheap socks which covered the feet.
No hat, no shoes did the man wear,
ind the sun intensely hot.
First to apply to him for the healing
ouch was a relative of the host, an
I'D man who had totally lost the sight
If one eye. Motioning him to a seat
oy his side, the Healer" took the
hands of his patient in his own. For
i've minutes the two sat there speech
ess. The lips of the Healer" could
)e seen to move from time to time,
md occasionally his big blue eyes
we're directed upward. Now and then,
100, shudder seemed to pass over
lin, his body swaying with the emo
ion. The old mans sightless orb was
Erected toward the face of the man to
whom he appealed for succor and his
,ody swayed with the emotion of an
icipation- They sat there SPECIFICS
until the old man arose and with a :
Ugh departed to the placita. ,,
Men. women and children took the
eat he had vacated and the former
proceeding was repeated. Some left
he chair declaring their pain had van
shed; others said they had noticed no !
BENEFICIAL results. AS the ''Healer''
eld the hands of his patents he talk
d with the people.
Il shall be thirty nine years of age
n a few days.n he said, in answer to q