Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-02-07
THE VERMONT SOHLATTER
Spends a Sunday in .BrattlebOrO.

t'HRhSS'"s
Bradley G. Newell, the Vermont Schlat-
ter, came to Brattleboro from jacksonville
Saturday, being summoned to treat two
cases in the family of a well-knOwn mer-
chant. The articles which had appeared
in The Phoenix, the Boston Herald and
the Springfield Republican, had aroused
great interest in the healer, and during his
stay here he was beseiged with patients.
1t was his intention to return home Mon
day, but so many cases were brought to
him that he remained until Tuesday, being
influenced in part by an invitation to at
tend the "singing skule."
He treated about 125 people while here,
largely for deafness, rheumatism, and acute
pains. Nearly all of his patients claim to
have experienced benefit from his treat
ment of laying on of hands. Some could
see no effect whatever from the treatment,
but in many instances cures of the "mar-
velous" type are related.
Three or four wel-known men who
have been deaf for years could hear a watch
tick after being treated. Women suffering
with neuralgia pains, toothache, headache,
ETC., found instant relief when the healer
laid his hands upon them. Men who had
walked. People with varicose veins, with
limbs deformed as the result of injuries,
etc, ETC., said that as soon as the healer
touched them they felt better. Some could
feel the "electric shock" as they took hold
of the healer's hands. And so the story
goes.
Maj. Childs, who interviewed the healer
at his home last week, tells the story of
the discovery of his powers in the Spring
field Sunday Republican, "He was stand
ing at the forge one day in August last,
when there came whisper in his ear,
commanding him to go forth and heal. His
first subject was his wife, who had suf-
fered for years with dreadful headaches,
which compelled her to 60 TO bed for sew
eral days at a time. He reasoned that if
he could cure disease, here was the place
to begin. He tried his power, and TO their
great astonishment, she Immediately got
up free her from headache, and they took
a journey together. Since that hour he
has been more deeply impressed with the
feeling that he had been given this power
for some purpose unknown to him, posi-
bly, from God but he resolved to do what
he could TO relieve suffering humanity, and
he has since treated nearly 2OOO cases, all
with more or less success, a fact which is
fully confirmed by scores of people in Whit
| ingham and ad djoining towns. Il can't at
tempt to explain this power he said. i
nave no particular sensation When taxing
hold OF the hand OF a patient, nor 90 |
know why take hold OF the mana slhply,
| suppose, because something tells me to do
it that way, and l do it. l am not a disbe-
| lever, nor am | believer in Spiritual
ism, for know little OF nothing about it.
Some say 1t is mesmerism, others that II is
electricity; perhaps so, but can't explain
| 1t, for know nothing about either l am
not an educated man, and have read very
little, only books that treat on my partlcu-
lar business, that OF a blacksmith. love
my trade and intend to STICK to II, and II
can do anybody any good, II they VIII
come to me, will do 1t. have charged
nothing so far for treating my neighbors,
though some have insisted on paying a
| little. | want TO stay right here in my ma
tive town, which | love, and should be
unwilling to so about healing unless was
commanded to do So.
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