The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-21
HEALERS FAIL WITH THEIR OWN.

COrns and Ingrowins Toe Nail as IRE
spondve ~ More Serl"nR Ailments.
The greatest disc engagement that the
host Of Elijah has yet confronted in wicked
New York was the result of yesterdays
ID vine healing meeting. Four SIC mem
bers Of the purified Restoration Host asked
In vain for miraculous cure. OF the four
two were little children suffering from
acute bilious attacks. One was a six-year-
old girl. She was in a fever, her
cheeks were crimson and the wide open
brown eyes we're red and nflamed.
She hasn't been able to eat nothing
since she came to this awful town. said
the child's mother, and she murrnured
alternate msledictions on this sink Of cor
ruption' and incoherent prayers as she
stroked back the soft brown ourls,
But wait until the overseer places hands
upon her. Then she will get up acd walk
and be we'll
people at the meeting--less than half
the attendance Of the day before. The
doors were locked and those within were
not allowed to leave. After reporters
and all persons connected with newspaI ers
had been duly condemned acc ordng to
formula, with an additional chapter calling
down the punishment Of God and all the
devils in the lower regions upon TIE Sun
reporter who desc ribed the first So, allied
divine healing meeting. Overseer Specher
announc ed that the healing would begin.
He singled out the members Of Zion for
the first appeal to God.
The little girl with the bilious attack,
a seven year old boy with whooping cough,
q young girl with influenza and an older
member with lumbago were applicant
just as the imposition of the hands of the
healers began, Overseer Mason. WI ose
Zion nose 10 ever on the sc ent for reporters,
and Whose ey es an even deteo t eeniLses IN
discovered in tie reI ortorial world. called
out
-Overseer, ! think l see reporter
Looking at A woman wi o sat in u e ddle
Of the crowd he commanded. Madam, st. nd
up A tall young woman arose. Are
you a reporter? saw you at the reporters
table last night. l know / did. Now
don't deny it,"
YES, overseer," she answered. Il was
there. / am a member OF Zion" And
forthwith she showed her Zion City badge
and was identified by one Of the deacons
Just the same, know there is a reI orter
in here said Brother Mason. But the
culprit was not discovered, SO the meeting
proceeded. Hands were imposed upon the
little girl. but the fever did not abate.
"You can't expect the cure to come right
away" said the mother Of much faith.
Then hands were laid upon the boy with
whooping cough and the magic words WEI g
pronounced. But the child continued to
gasp and strangle. The girl with influenza
and the old man with lumbago were treated
equally to no avail The man with lum-
bago was treated several times and finally
convinced that his back didn't ain him
quite az much as II had in the beginning.
Then the wicked of New York were
treasr1c A young girl with the hectic
! flush burning in her checks, and so weak
that she could not walk unaided, appealed
! for help. With the characteristic optimism
Of the victims of consumption. she was fun
of hope. But the words of the healer and
! the pressure OF his hands did not soothe
! the aching lungs and the pressure only pro-
duced a violent fit OF coughing
| A girl with lawful aching corns" asked
for help and another with an ingrowing toe
| nail wanted to he healed. There was
deaf woman, and one with a black birth
mark, and still another leading a Gloss
eyed child, all seeking the ministrations Of
tho rer utcd divine healers."
All the rathOs and foolishness and fruit
less invocations and intorations which
| marked the first Of the meetings were re-
peated. and with the same Encouraging
result. The afflicted went away again I'M
! comforted. Those who had entered with