The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-29

that body, to attempt to heal the sick,
the lame and the blind by the laying
on Of her hands. The good churchmen
who gathered in the club rooms in the
Masonic Temple stood a little aghast
when this pretty young woman sud
denly stood before them and vehe-
mently demanded that they pass judg-
ment on her standing in the church.
They were not gathered as a trial tri-
bunal, and they told her unanimously
that they thought she. was all right.
She seemed satisfied with the decision
and passed on upstairs flight, where
she took up her work once more among
heterogeneous gathering Of Christian
Scientists, truth seekers, theosophists
and people representing all the known
orthodox schools Of the Christian world.
Unlike so many Of the alleged faith
heaIers and Christian scientists who
claim the power Of removing disease
by faith alone, Mrs Conner does not
exert her powers for private gain. She
attends all who go to her without COM
pensation Of any kind. She says that
she knows not whence the power comes
but that it is hers for the sole purpose
Of doing good and that money will not
compensate her for it's exercise. She
works absolutely without remunera-
ton.
ONE ALLEGED CURE.
One not being able to doubt the evil
dence of his senses it must be admit
ted that Mrs. Conner has done some
startling things in that little room in
the Masonic Temple. w. D. Avery,
living at 487 State street, hobbled into
the elevator on crutches one day last
week He had been a victim of rheu-
matism for years. The disease had
been succeeded by almost complete
paralysis of the legs. He was not a
believer and made no pretense what
soever of any innate love for religion
He was so weak when he reached the
| floor upon which Mrs. Conner was
holding meetings that he had to be
supported to her presence by two peo-
| pie He talked to her for five minptes
| and then left his crutches alongside
the organ, walked out of the room and
| to his home. He has had no return of
| his paralysis since.
| IT don't know how she did it, said
| Mr. Avery. "She touched me on the
| shoulder, told me to drop my crutches
| and to walk. I was afraid, but made
| a brace as 1T were, and I walked, and
| have been walking most of my time
| ever since, for the experience was a
/ novel one to me, and I would rather
| walk than sleep or eat"
| MRS. COMER'S MISSION.
| Mrs. Conner left Chicago yes
| terday, and is going about the coun-
| try for while trying to get 100, 900
| people to pledge themselves to go to
| Washington next year to attend a
| gathering which she calls an "anti-
/ ism" congress. She had dream that
some day there will be no dividing line
| between churches. Although she is
| staunch Episcopalian, so she says,
| she doesn't care about having the
| new church formed ON the lines of
apostolic succession. All she wants to
| do, she declares, is to get them togeth-
er, to acknowledge the Lord Jesus
| Christ and to think of nothing else.
Mrs. Conner says that her healing pow
er ought to give her some claim on the
consideration of the people.
She has been out of Chicago barely
hirty-six hours, and one of her last
scrks before she left was to talk to a
tile child, named Eleanor LASER
/ eleanor had an affection of the eyes
gnich Chicago oculists had declared
durable. There were external evil
! Gences Of the disease. which made its