The Portland daily press., 1897-08-09
MIRACULOUS HEALING.
People Cured by DR.. Simpson at
Old Orchard Saturday.
Many Testify to Wonderful Cures Effected
Number of Patients Amounted With
the healing Oil.
ESPECIAL TO THE IREss.1

ESPECIAL TO THE ERESS.I
Old Orchard, August Next to the
big missionary offering which is the
climax of the convention, the most in
teresting feature of the Christian Ali
ance meetings each year is the demon
stration of the doctrine of divine heal
Fling. Today this feature was taken up,
the afternoon session being devoted to
testimonial Of personal relief from suffer-
ing, through the medium of prayer and
faith. An amounting service from wit
Messing which all spectators were barred
followed the testimonials.
The grounds were crowded at $3.50,
when Rev. DR.. Henry Wilson of New
York opened the meeting and outlined
the programme. "We don't make a
hobby of divine healing" he explained,
tbut we do consider it an important part
of the Alliance four-fold gospel"
Then he asked how many in the audi
ence could stand up as living examples OF
the power, of God to heal the body All
who have tested the power of divine heal
ing and been directly touched by t,elther
with or without Amounting, please rise,
and at the command nearly 100 people in
the audience and on the platform STOOD
up.
Then DR.. Wilson explicitly stated that
there were so many testimonies to be
crowded into the session every one must
necessarily be brief and concise. This
rule was enforced as strictly as DR.. Will
son and DIR. Simpson could do SO without
actually forcing an occasional speaker
to sit down in the midst of testimony.
Many overrun the limit, and in spite Of
oft-repeated caution. "The dear brother
must stop and give somebody else
chance, was DIR. Wilson's warning to
one of the brethren in the audience, but
the response came, 81 hope the leader of
Ghost and the witness for the Divine
Healer kept on talking till he used up
seven minutes and a half.
Many of the testimonials, however, were
concisely worded, and all were listened to
with intense, interest, especially by the
candidates for amounting, who occupied
the forward rows Of settees.
Tho first person to give testimony was
Mrs. s. berry of Alton, Vt, who said
she had been healed by God after four
PHYSICIANS HAD GIVEN HER UP
to die. He had also relieved her of the
trouble of wearing glasses, by fully re-
storing her sight. &C.,
C. A. Jordan of Bowdoinharn, testified
that for II years he was severe sufferer
from rheumatism. The Lord healed him
last February and the disease had not re-
turned
Mrs Mark Fuller, an India missionary,
told of woman in that country who was
dying of dropsy. One night when she
returned, with the flesh hanging from her
bones, the missionaries prayed God to re-
store her to health; she accepted Christ
as her healer, and when she awoke in the
morning her skin was fresh and fair, and
the disease had entirely left her. During
a recent outbreak of cholera in India two
missionaries who did not believe in the
doctrine of divine healing, died, while
two Alliance missionaries, who admins
tered to them, and looked to God to hea
them, recovered from the scourge.
]. nj. Kendall, an aged citizen of Bow
doinham, gave testimony that after
suffering 20 years with bronchitis, which
the doctors could not cure, he was healed
three years ago during "a tidal wave Of
glory" He added that surgical opera
ton was performed by the Lord. "Nol
only, did He heal me, y said the venerable
speaker, but He took away my desire
for tobacco, and I used tobacco nearly
20 years"
Mrs. Lougee said the doctors had been
patching her UP for 16 years, and God
put the patches together and made a
whole woman of her. II have had sun
stroke, fevers, the grip four times and a
shock. I guess I have had all the di-
seases except small pox, cholera and
chicken pox. God has healed me of every
one of them, thank His holy name. y
Mrs. Clark of New York, an aged and
devout assistant Of DIR. Simpson, said she
took Christ for her healer IL years ago
han, chn had han, hon, xtrricf
and He set the bone and took care of the
injury till it was entirely healed. He
had also cured her of an attack CT pneu.
monia and one day this week of an at.
tack of Inflammation of the stomach.
Mrs. H. Ellis of Old Orchard testified
to having been cured of Bright's disease
and dropsy, through the power of the
Holy Ghost.
A. d. Bean of Manchester was cured OF
cold and asthma when he accepted the
Lord as his healer.
Mrs. Howard of Portland said she had
could get no relief She was instantly
healed during an amounting service.
HJust after l was healed" she added,
81 got caught out in drenching rain.
When reached the house
THE DEVIL WANTED ME
to take a little Jamaica ginger or some
other mild medicine, but would have
nothing to do with medicine I placed
myself entirely in the hands of the Lord,
and he did not let me catch cold Some
of my friends set me down as crazy and
they haven't changed their minds, nor
have l." She was also cured of an attack
of influenza last winter. 40
Mrs. H. T. Lord of Cambridge, former
1y of Old Orchard, testified that the Lord
cured her of cancer
A worker on the platform testified that
he was formerly an infdel. He not only