The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-05-26

No event OF recent years has SO aroused
the people of Portland or created so
much excitement as the public healing
of Derr Fritz, who is treating SO many
sick and crippled people by the laying on
of hands at City Hall. The lectures
have been well attended, and it seemed
as if everybody who is fortunate enough
to receive treatment is either entirely
cured or very much benefited; certainly
this man does perform little less than
miracles.
| 1t is astonishing. 1t is remarkable.
People who were suffering from almost
every conceivable disease, some OF them
who had been the rounds of our hos
pitfalls, coming there and finding such
wonderful relief and cure
| Who can explain it? Can anyone ex-
plain it? Yet we see it done, not only
one day, but every day, and still the
mystery deepens and the excitement in
| creases.
1t is true that this man does not claim
to be able to cure everybody and every
disease; but to the closest observer it
seems that every person treated was
cured, and that he is bringing health
and happiness to the homes of thousands
of people.
There was the case of Mrs. Hoffman.
She had been troubled for IL years with
serious spinal ailment. She was run
down, debilitated, worn out and dis
Outraged. She had not been able to
raise her hands as far as her head for
five years. She had not been able to
turn over in bed for ten years. She
could not walk a block. She had so
completely lost dourage that she never
went out Of the house alone. She had
throbbing pains in her head, and any re
lishlof food was thing of the PAST.
Now, what do you think of that for q
cluster of obstacles for one man to over
come?
''Tell me, little woman" said the
healer, kindly, 'do you think l can cure
your She looked up in the good honest.
frank face of the gifted man, and with
a CLEAN in her big brown eyes, she re.
piled: II believe you will Then with
a firm but gentle touch, the healer be-
gan to treat her. For fully 10 minutes the
battle went on: neither spoke not a
sound broke the stiffness that reigned in
the hall. Everybody leaned forward and
watched. Here and there the lips of some
devout man or woman moved in PRAYER
On the stage, half encircling the healer
were score of men and women, the halt
the blind, and the crippled, all sick, all
suffering, all after the same thing-relief
Suddenly, when he knew the successful
moment had come, he said to Mrs. Hoff
man: stand on your feet and throw
your arms above your head" She hest
tated second, just second, for vol
, must remember it had been five wear,
since either hand had touched her head
then, carried along by the power in til,
voice of the great healer, she did throw
her hands above her head. and there
wasn't trace of lameness or stiffness,
left. So it was about her back. She
could move in any direction without pain
or hindrance of any kind. Summing i
up in few words, in 10 minutes the on
orator had eradicated from that body Of
disease and suffering every evil that ex
listed; he had released that woman in l,
minutes and she had been sufferer 10
10 years.
Such work as that is marvellous. sucl
work as that is utterly beyond the feeble
that should be, and no doubt will be
handed down to posterity as one of Tho
marvels of this living age.
And so the marvellous, miraculous worl
went on, till the vast hall rang witt
cheers and shouts and prayers of thank.
from the very hearts of men and wome,
| who felt that they were in the presenc,
OF one diyinely gifted for the benefit o
) suffering humanity.
| Whether sick or we'll. don't fail to &c
to CITY Hall. Go today, go tomorrow
7 go every day, for the treatment is free a
the air. The doors open at o'clock, ant
the exhibition begins at 2.30 daily.
/ Derr Fritz and staff have offices at til,
Chadwick house, where those who arr
able and willing to pay for treatmen
may go and be cured. Hours from o a
| m. until 1.30 p. m. and then to D. m
. A small consultation fee is charged.