The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-11-24
WAS TIA
]. MIRACLE?
Alfred Buffers Remark.
able Cure From a Sc.
we're Affection.

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Walnut street, a welder at the p.
W. & B. R r. shops in this city,
tells Of 4 remarkable cure which
was effected by some mysterious
power other than physic.
Mr.. Butler is a well built man
80 years old and weighs over 200
pounds.
A representative Of the REPuBLI-
CAN, having heard Of his remark
able cure alter he had been treated
by several physicians in this city,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and then
the faith healers, called upon him
and heard his story.
Said Mr.. Butler, after greeting
the REPUBLICANS representative,
who met him coming home from work
about 5 Clock with his dinner ket-
tie in his hand, "Yes. am Alfred
Butler, won't you come into tile
house?"
Following him into the dining
room, Mr.. Butler said: "You want
to know how l was cured of the af-
Fiction on my right hand?"
Taking off his coat and rolling
up his shirt sleeve on his right arm
he told Of his afiliction.
When was ~ years old, had a.
slight paralytic stroke in both my
legs and my right arm, and ever
since, with the exception of the last
three months, have been troubled
with pains in my right arm and
back Of the hand. The paralysis
seemed to leave me by degrees in
the legs and settled in my right arm
and hand, upon which appeared a
swelling like a ring bone. could
not bend the wrist and an obstruc-
ton grew on the muscles or tissues
at the back Of the hand.
l doctored with several of the
local physicians, but they could do
nothing to give me relief I then
consulted a magic doctress, Mrs.
Farmer, of Philadelphia, and she.
after rubbing the back of the hand
for an hour, succeeded in greatly
reducing the swelling, and in a few
days ] recovered the partial use of
the hand and two weeks later went
to work at my trade of welding
tubes. That is where made my
mistake. A short time afterwards
the hand and arm panied me SO l
had to quit work and got to DOCTOR
ing again. The second time the
hand got better, but never wholly
we'll.
Last July began doctoring with
a local physician. and he gave me
ether and broke the obstruction,
which gave me rather free use Of
the wrist, but not sufficient tor me
to go to work. Ithen consulted the
doctors at the Jefferson Hospital
in Philadelphia and they blistered
the back of the hand and arm, gave
me a lotion to rub it with and medi-
cine to take inv ardly, but met the
same result as when doctoring in
this city. ] then went to the Johns
Hopkins Hospital. Of Baltimore,
where they treated me with cleo.
tricity, and when / came home after
undergoing this tire atment, / was so
exhausted / could hardly sit up.
This treatment / took for several
weeks. with no perceptible dimin-
ishing of the swelling. Then the
doctors told me / could never be
cured. They pronounced it one of
the most remark able cases that had
ever come under their notice.
Twas sitting in the house one day
nursing my sore hand, when a
neighbor suggested that I try the
faith cure. l laughed and said l
had no faith in such doctrines.
But l concluded l would try them
and l visited their headquarters on
Gilpin avenue, some time in Septem-
Der and introduced myself to Mrs.
Baker, of West Chester, Pa, who
was in charge at the time.
She asked my name and occupa-
ton and then said, well you are a
good subject. She told me that l
would get we'll, and to go home and
think no more about it, but to make
up my mind that the obstruction
would be removed. l started for
home and my hand and arm seemed
to get better at once and see now l
have been working for over two
months and extending his hand
said, "Feel my grip. l could not
grip as much as my six year old
child at that time. ! believe | was
cured by Jesus Christ. Idon't be-
lieve in faith cuI es, but this looks
like one"
His recovery Of the use Of his
hand is considered one of the most
remarkable that has ever taken
place in our city and the local ply
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