New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-01
CHAT IN MISSION CIRCLES.

A testimony meeting in the interests Of divine
healing held DR.. Simpsons church.
Forty-fourth-st. and Eighth-ave.. Saturday
afternoon. Mr.. Simpson preached and Mrs. A.
Francis. a Danish missionary. told Of many
wonderful cures effected among the unconverted
natives Of Thibet through the fundamentally of
divine healing DIR. Simpson quoted several pass
ages from Scripture 10 prove that Christ could
heal to-day well He could when earth
and quoted Hebrews xiii, s. Jesus Christ, the same
yesterday, to-day and forever" In support OF this
A woman present testified that she had been cured
OF cancer and heart disease: another that she had
been healed OF nervous prostration. and still
other of Bright's disease Of the kidneys. The most
remarkable cure OF all. however that OF Marie
Gilbert. n young Brooklyn woman. who had been
completely healed OF spinal disease and pulmonary
consumption Her physician was there TO back up
this statement. az alIo young woman who
had nursed her through period of her Illness
For months she had walked crutches and previ-
Gus TO that had been in a hospital cnveloped in plas
ter Of Paris The doctors decided that in her deli
state OF health an operation might prove fatal
so she left the hospital. presumably cripple for
life and accordln,, to the doctor a consumptive.
short time after she had several hemorrhages
and then friend took her TO hear Or. Simpson
who ted her to believe for it, and she would be
cured She was amounted. and had such faith thai
she threw away the clutches, ana says thaf now
she is completely cured.
After the meeting eleven women and two
were anointcd. Belief In divine healing Is one Of
the tencts OF the Christian Alliance, which is now
an organization numbering thousands in all quar-
ters of the world.
Miss vinnc Rockingham. Of Boston. Mass.
cave an illustrated lecture on character Build
Ing" At No. 2l0 East FOurteenth-st.. last Friday
evening About two hundred women were present.
Miss rockingham showed her audience how a
habit grows and made a plea to the mothers pres
ent for a higher standard of purity in boys. as
apl tha nft ha
consistent living of parents She said that more
harm was done by parents preaching things they
themselves failed to do. and pointing their children
10 a standard they themselves did not live up 10.
than by anything else she knew OF. Music was
furnished by Miss Edith King.
At the Doyer street Mission the other night the
Rev Father Montgomery Rich OF the Hol, Cross
Church. gave a midnight stereopticon lecture on
the life Of Christ. AS IL Is very unusual occur
renee for a Roman Catholic clergyman TO lecture
at a Protestant mission. the hall was crowded. not
only with the habtues Of the mission. but with
Christian workers OF all denominations we'll The
tInued until i2:9O Or Post OF Brooklyn led with
lecture A copy OF the famous painting OF the
Sstine Madonna was shown, and then Father
he said, inhdels acknowledged was the best
10 live Father Rich was circuit priest for
years out West, and has frequently given lectures
in the Bowery Mission.
Miss May Agnew led the Gospel meeting which
followed the young peoples meeting AT The Gospel
I'VE young stood up for conservation and holi-
ness An organ recital closed the meeting. Miss
Colonel Paiic Watkins Lindsay. assisted by
headquarters stan. swore In az soldier Com
mandcr Darlington Booth at the Westinghouse
citadel in Newark, y. j.. last evening. a number
OF wcmen Defenders Of this city assisted in the
musical which preceded the affair and standing
room, In the hall NJ premium when Pattie
cot IN 10 sing Saved by Grace"
The soldiers and officers present seemed 10 ENJOY