The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16
SHE WORKS MIRACLES.
Looks at the Patient and He Prompt
Iy Gets Well.
From the New York Press

Eden Vale, seven miles from San Jose,
Cal, IS the appropriate name of the town
in which Mrs. Hayes-Chynoweth lives in
luxury and works miracles like a Bible
saint
Forty years ago, when Mrs. Chynoweth
was school teacher of slender means. liv-
ing somewhere in Wisconsin, she was
stricken with a peculiar trouble that caus-
ed her to lose her memory. at was as if a
great cloud fell on me-" she told a San
Francisco Examiner reporter, and from
that moment she began TO do many WON
derful and inexplicable things. This in
fluence which directs my life, and which
believe to be the Holy Ghost, has been my
constant guide ever since the date I men
toned" said Mrs. Chynoweth. Before
that had been a skeptic, but since then
have been a devout believer and have per-
formed the wonderful things have been
credited with" ., b t,,,4
Mrs. Chynoweth's experience in gaining
her fortune is best told in her own words
i was poor school teacher I'm Wis
consln, as has been said, and had young
family to support, when one day there
came over me a weird feeling that ] can
best call clovd falling about me. From
that moment my previous life became
blank to me, and | rose from my knees,
where l had fallen. speaking in an I'M
known tongue. / not only did that, but
began at once to tell what allied those
around me. and my reputation in that line
spread so soon that I was overrun with
people who wanted ne to take their cases
in hand, always cases that had been given
up by the regular doctors.
Later my sons moved TO Ashland Wis,
where they went to practice law, and be
gan to buy up pine lands with what they
could save out of their then by no means
large income.
Now strange thing happened. which
l do not undertake 10 explain. l only tell
it as II happened. | had a visit from what
/ shall call, for want of a better word, the
power and he told me to proceed at once
to where my sons were, tell them that they
must withdraw their money from the pine
lands and invest 1t at once in mines-iroh
mines that were in the middle of a great
swamp near where they lived l told them
We went 20 the place and began digging
and soon struck a ledge OF rich ore. We
soon had not only one of the best iron
mines in the country, but we had Bessemer
ore in large quantities, and sold one-half of
our interest to a leading firm in Wall street
for a fortune in itself We then came to
California and bought this home. l have
been engaged in healing ever since l have
been here, and have great following. l
say this with all humility for l am moth
ing in myself; it is the power that does
on the grounds where she lives is a large
chapel, where she conducts services and
from which she buries those who die on
Six hundred acres forms the basis of her
immense ranch, where there is grown
every kind of fruit and vegetable capable
of being raised in the upper part of the
state.
The house of the -Chynoweth fam
ily is a curious one. There are over 100
rooms in 1t, they say, and 1t is furnished
with elegance and taste. Rich carvings
adorn the walls. The ceilings are frescoed
in elaborate fashion, while the walls in
the drawing-roOms and parlors are hung
with brocaded blue satin of a pale tint
and heavy enough to stand alone The
furniture is all of the finest quality. satin
upholstered and gold-lacquered, while the
floors are covered with rugs that would
adorn a palace.
In the middle of this many-gabled house
lives Mrs. Chynweth, while in rooms on
either side of her live her sons and their
wives and children, one roof su1lcing for
all and one bank account to their credit
And very well they ought to be able to
live on it. for they are reported to have
100000 apiece, and their surroundings
Certainly bear out this report
When Mrs. Chynoweth is at home she
spends two days in the week receiving
those who call on her for help, and many
who 60 to her say that they have come
away cured. Sometimes hundred people
seek her out in Gay, some coming miles
tell where his pain is, but only to sit still
and be looked at. Mrs. Cynoweth promptly
tells him what ais him, and then he gets
on Sunday Mrs Chynoweth breaches
twice in the big chapel. where she has a
conserva tory back of the pulpit and where
she gives out the lines of her peculiar be-
lief People from San Jose and all around
the country come to hear her and the
choir composed of her family with the
great pipe organ.
Mrs. Chynoweth apparently shrinks from
notoriety. All her words and actions in
dictate that she is actuated only by the
wish to do all the good she can in every
way, and there is a great deal to her credit
in the way of active charity, and some
times more, for she gives of her strength
and means cheerfully and unasked