Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-18
HEAL Ed BY MIRACLE.
A Wonderful Revival Now
Going on at Parker's Head.
evangelists Purington, Father and
So', Converting the People.
Two Cases Of Healing that Are Said 10 Be
Marvellous.

Phippsburg, Jan. ia -remafkabl,
revival is in progress at Parker's Head
in this town. Not only have the peo
pie become a community of converts
but some of the most respectable peo
pie in the village say they have beer
healed by miracle. and they are willing
and anxious to be published to the
world.
Parker's Head clings to the cragg,
inches of huge bluff that fronts the
reach making up from Popham. The
highway that enters the village from
the north winds around crag tina,
towers straight up, and perched on the
top. at the edge of the precipice, is the
village SchOOlhOuse. If a child should
tumble out Of the window he would
fall to the roadway far below, without
twig or bush to stay his descent.
Here for the past five weeks a revi.
val has been in progress. The even
gelists are Stephen o. and Walter T.
burlington, father and son. Both were
formerly commercial men, and appear
to have a remarkable understandings
OF human nature. AT all events they
commenced the work plainly, without
excitement. and in a short time had
the village on it's knees. There are now
81 new converts, many of them young
fishermen, whose rough life has never
left them much time or inclination for
religious instruction. There are also
some Is or " backsliders who have
come back during the past few weeks,
The most striking monument of all
this religious upheAval is afforded by a
huge uncompleted structure near the
church. A society of the young people
in the place organized and started to
erect this as dance hall, but when il
was partly finished the revival came
along, and nearly all the young people
were converted. So they boarded up
the windows and left the dance hall.
and in the church opposite are passing
the winter evenings in prayer and ex-
hortation.
Men have become ardent converts
and go about the streets greeting each
other with GLORY, hallelujah' and
fraternal whacks on the shoulder.
Nearly every one has cast aside pipes
and tobacco, the mariners dearest
solace, and the people, with what is
sturdy sincerity, are hold
ing daily meetings in the church that
had for some time been without a
pastor.
The case of Mrs. Richard Mann has
most excited the interest of the neigh
bors as well as the enthusiasm of the
Mrs. Mann is pale. Slight
woman on whom household cares have
evidently weighed heavily. She isn't
strong vet. but she resolutely asserts
hat she is healed and that she is
steadily growing better.
The claim in Mrs. Mann's case is that
'he was raised from her death bed. She
says so. All her relatives and neigh
Iors say SO.
Mrs. Mann, a new convert. decided to
all in the elders of the church and i'm
'lore Divine healing. as it had been in
'oked in the case of others in the veil
age. The elders filed into the sick
bedroom. The sick woman lay
sasping and moaning. The elders and
he converts knelt around her bed and
prayed, and the pastor anointed her
oftly smoothing over her brow conse-
rated oil.
Il felt" said Mrs. Mann, "a curious
ingling run all over me. The terrible,
he agonizing pain left instantly-so
that / was half frightened.
ould breathe again, and l said to
hose who knelt around me: L shall
ct WELL -
MY friends shook me by the hand,
nd an hour later I was walking about
he room. Since then have been about
he house as usual"
Mrs. c. b. Harrington was Frustrated
18th strange malady. She was prac-
ically starving. She could retain
othing on her stomach, and was in a
condition, mentally and
physically. Her appetite has now re-
urned, and she is about the house,
pparently in good health. She is
arrest in her statement that God did |
;" She says her recovery commenced
ght after she had been anointed and |
ne elders had prayed for her.
The friends of Mrs. Edward Brad |
haw and Mrs. Bradshaw herself tell |
ow she was saved from madness by |
and prayers. The doctor had |
cared congestion of the brain, but she |
recovered, she says, after |
cling anointed in open meeting.