The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-04-07
ANDERSON MAN TAKES
THE DIVINE HEALING" c"
WENT TO ATLANTA FOR THE
TREATMENT
BELIEVES in CURE
Suffering From tuberculosis,
Charlie Bowie Had Glands
Laid On" In Atlanta
BELIEVES IN CURE

From Atlanta comes the news that
all Atlanta has been stirred during
the past week on account of the mar
Velous feats performed by Mrs. NJ. B.
Worthington-E -Etter, "tlfe divine heal
err" Such an impression has been
made that people have gone to Allan
ia from ali parts of the country during
the past week. among these being
Charlie Bowie. "a young Anderson man.
Mr.. Bowie returned to the city Sun
day after having .hands laid on" him
by the divine hoalefi Al His faith in the
cure is strons.0mIt 49, said that Mr..
Bowie who is suffering with tubercu-
losis was treated in, the following
manners: 100 tS;J .HiFj .'
The singing grew louder as the
young man seated himself In the chair.
Where the healing waters flow"
shouted the singers Where the heal
ing waters floSv.'.s 4 s3A.}s 4 q - Z.
The young man In the chair leaned
back with his hands raised while Mrs
Etter laid seemingly violent hands or
his shoulder, his throat, his face She
called 90 no him to, believei in the Lord
to have faith, She rbubed his chest
Pretty soon the youngnman arose,
waving his arms. The singing stop
ped as he stumbled off the platform
with tears of joy streaming from his
eyes. A woman advanced half-run-
| ming downtttd the aisle to meet him.
She was crying in long sobs. At the
first row OF benches, the young man
leaped to the top of, them and fell into
her arms. They sobbed and wept
crying, Thanks 10 Jesus. G!ory to
God"
Afterward' reporter asked Bowie
IL he was really healed. He said
that when Mrs. Etter was treating him
he could feel shiver pass through
his lungs. that he believed he was
healed, but time alone would show
The following is the impression
made upon a newspaper reporter by
teh divine healer's'' actions and tre
manner In which the meeting was con-
| Quoted up anddown the rostrumsw
Quoted:
up and down the rostrum strides a
little woman all nj white, white hair
white dress, a white KNIT shawl over
her shoulders
praise the Lord. sisters" she
| shouts, TBeheye in Him and be heal
ed" She is Mrs. NJ. B. Worthington-
| Etter. divine healer"
From the knelinge people all
| around came shouts and amens. But
NEST of them moan in weird swell
| ing sound like some Arabian desert
| sang that rises and falls and swells
| again.
"A woman kneeling in the center of
| the rostrum begins to sway back and
forth and shout. The others cease
| all but the low grooming noise, while
| she cries aloud on the name OF Jesus.
| Gradually she works herself into a
| frenzy of prayer her body rocking to
| and fro to the accompaniment of the
naming all around, her hands raised
to heaven, her face streaked with
| tears
"She breaks of with loud sob and
there is momentary quiet. Mrs. Etter
walks TO the front and tells all who
are in need to come forward.
THE men and wemen crowd around
the platform and kneei, A window is
| raised on a back room. Here wan
faced woman. lies listless in bed! The
| lame, the halt, the blind, struggle to-
about to begin. 5- -
| .On one side of tho platform nuns
ber of converts gather around a piano
| and begin, to sing. on the other a
mothers }Rdyances leading a little girl
by the. hand. The girl is totally blind.
She sits down in a chair Below the
rostrum woman holds q bbay in her
arms, the childs mouth covered with
sores. deaf mute, a crippled boy on
.rutches, crowd together around the
woman of white.
| while the Singing Increased Ia fer
| yor on one side. Mrs. Etser motioned
to the first subject. she was an old
! lady, deaf for Sc years. She sat doWn
in chair.
Mrs. Etter placed her hands on her