The Irish standard., 1895-08-17
IN INITIATION OF CHRIST.
Wonderful Cures Wrought by a
Simple Peasant in Mexico
Among All Glasses.
The Blind See, the Lame Walk
and Those Who Are Ill Re-
stored Again to Health.
In Appearance and Gentle DISPOSE
ton He Bears Striking Re-
semblance to Christ.

ton He Bears a Striking Re-
semblance to Christ.
Wonderfully like the story of the Scrip
, lures as rehearsed in the New Testament
is the tale uron every lip in the central
part Of New Mexico today. Wonderfully
like the scenes of the Bible, in setting
and in some of the characteristics, have
been the scenes enacted here, says the
New York Herald. r.
In New Mexico, where the native popu-
lation may be seen daily in the wheat
fields cutting grain with a sickle, where
the grain is still separated 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 a clay oven resembling
dog kennel ffor stoves are very un'com-
mon in the adobes of the Mexicans out
side 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 look
ed upon just such scenes as
these nearly nineteen hundred
years ago; q man who tastes not
of food; man whose touch brings sight
to the blind, hearing 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
appeared Jsike the Christ, he won his
followers b% lis kindly deeds, his cures
of the afflicted, his unselfish devotion to
MANKIND. Like the Christ, he was per-
secuted by the higher class of the Mex
ican population, threatening him as an
imposter, sharper, q schemer, luna
tic, and his prosecutors he transformed
into his staunchest friends.
j, For more than two weeks he has been
followed by hundreds wherever he has
gone, Today constant stream of peo-
pie passes before him praying that he
touch their hands. Blind, deaf, and halt
are led or carried to him; wo-'
men with tiny babes bring
them to him to be healed
Of ailments real or imaginary; old, mid
dle-aged, young, ignorant, and educated
Mexicans, Americans of the highest
standing 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 welcome guest. Great
lines of carriages and wagons and saddle
horses stand before every house he en-
ters; 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 take cent for
the services he has performed, though
money is repeatedly pressed upon him.
For all he has the same kindly greeting
the same kindly treatment.
Stories of his cure are beyond belief.
Many of them have been investigated,
and now even the most incredulous is
willing TO admit the man is doing 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
1t comes direct from heaven; among the
Americans it is attributed to animal
which the Christian Science doctrine is
founded. .
Monday afternoon, July Is, Mexican
attache Of the morning newspaper in Al
buquerque rushed breathlessly into the
Office, his face the picture OF amazement,
The day previous he had been at Peralta.
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 Cathedral of San Felipe, the
towers Of which. have. been outlined in
the blue sky Of this Southwest land for
more than 500 years. This man had been
surrounded all day long by crowds of peo-
pie. He had held the hands of a, blind
man and sight had been restored to him;
he had touched the hands of aswoman
VINO had been paralyzed for years and she
had left as well as in the days of her
maidenhood; he had treated many others,
and all had been benefited Since his
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