Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-07-26
is DIVINELY HEALED
w. II. Trewiif, d Divine Healer.
Takes His Own Treatment.

| He was sick, but now he is well. He
was a healer-a divine healer-but
himself he could not heal and Gods
saving hand was laid upon him and he
is now divinely healed. w. H. Ire
witt had been a we'll known figure in
the sluins for years. Tall and splen-
didly formed, eccentric in appearance
only in the matter of his hair, which,
like Absalom's, was his glory, # not,
like Samson's, his strength, he went
about doing good in his own peculiar
way-a way Stunned by the straight
and strict. way that WIS heterodoX
in the eyes of the denominati0nal but
which. if intention counts for aught,
may after all have been effective. For
all his seeming vigor he was sick in
body, and in these nineteenth century
days his way, like that of the old
prophets, was looked at askance and
there were those who sad he was also
sick in mind He gave it out that The
old lost revelation of healing hands
had been made known to him and in
his poor. cropping effort to do good as
he saw i, he preached his gospel of a
hand that had curing in its touch.
His favorite field of work was in the
slums and no one but he knows how
many kindly helpful words he spoke
to erring ones or how many straying
feet he set in the better p3th-cO one
knows but he. And he cannot tell
now. for the worker has been stricken
in the midst of his almost unsickled
harvest. with a few SheaY6S, perchaDce,
bound. but with the r.pening fields
stretching away IN sad Yistas of IN
done work.
The end came yesterday and il was
~.
and he could cure, for none but God
and he were there Alone as to hu-
man companionship, he breached his
last on a bench in a lirSle tent al First
and Main streets at noon. when N
other fields the tOilers were summoned
for a respite from their labOrs.
Six weeks or two months ago when
the steamer Jacob RichJman came 10
I Kansas City from Omaha he pitched
his ten.e on vacant lot near First and
Main streets and assumed the task OF
trying to save tbs souls of the people
; who INDUCED in what he termed wick
ed worldly pleasures. His little tent
would hold only fifteen or twenty peo-
pie. but il was crowded almost night
ly. Trewitt had Travelled extensively
and he was an Interesting talker-
Three or four days ago he was taken
S4Ch anu Ie ndQ LII &c GOA-SSSsLN : N---4Ao
one after the oihsr. He would not al
low his friend and co-worker TO call a
physician Rev Mr. Hardin had been
/ laboring with him in the slums of the
n0Ith end for several months Ire
witt slept in a wagon which he owned
and always kept backed up against his
tent, but when he was taken sick he
made pallet in the tent and slept on
the damp ground. When Hardin call
ed at IL o'clock yesterday morning to
learn how he was getting along he
found him lying on a rude bench in
the tent He told Hardin in a f5ebla
voice that he was dying and made a
request of him to relieve his pains by
laying on his hands according to the
belief and treatment of the divine
healers." Hardin complied with his
wishes and he said he felt better Then
Hardin went for a pail of ice water
and when he returned the man was
breathing his last.-kansas City Jour
nal