The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-02
STRANGE TALES OF MIRACLES RELATED
Episcopal Church Is Investi- gating Reported Remafka-
 ble Cures By Its Priests

NEW FORK, Dec. 1.- strange stories came out of the west of the performance of miracles in effectins cures through the medium of the Episcopal church. Bishop Thomas of Wyoming and other clergymen. ac- coding to the testimony of pr. Wine coff, scientist and mathematician, who was at the cathedral at Laramie when Episcopal clergymen held their first healing mission October IS. The Episcopal church, according to this authority, has been studying the sub ject of miracles for some time and asking three questions. DN Winecoff says:
 "Is it the lack of faith that pre- vents them from happening today! Do they happen? Or did they never l happen? Out of it's speculations have cone these modern miracles through our church-thes most conservative in Christendom.
 The first and one of the two most extraordinary cases of healing at Laramie was that of Father Mckay of Buffalo. Wyo.
 Case Called Hopeless.
 He had been deaf for years, SC deaf that he could only hear when one shouted his Ioudest into an acousticon keyed to it's highest pitch of sound. Bishop Thomas Is very fond of him and although he is 7s years old, has sent him everywhere In the hope of regaining some little of his hearing. The best specialist | in the country told him that the organs were gone, that his case was hopeless and his hearing would be- come worse as tine went by.
 Tt was at the afternoon session when other matters were being dis down at one end of the chancel, an nounced that he wanted to be cured of his deafness.
 There was present clergyman named Bell, from Denver, not at all a brilliant man, Just a good, average intelligence and the same kind of an education, but who has this particu lar gift of power, call it what you will, who has been doing some won derful things in Denver. He mo- tioned Father Mckay to come up to the chancel, which he did, and knelt there.
 'The clergyman touched his ears and said, not in a loud voice, the con- trary. Tn the name of Jesus of Nag areth-hearn
 'oThe old man looked up with a face
 
 "I hear,' he whispered, awe stricken.
 Few Realized Miracle.
 Tt was all done quietly, so free from sensationalism that few who were present quite realized at the time that they had witnessed a mir acle.
 This was late in the afternoon but the story spread so that wher the meeting opened that evening there was line of persons stretched all the way across the chancel.
 Among this number was the wife of 8 newspaper man named Loomis a daughter-in Jaw of Charlzr Battell Loomis, rather we'll known humor. ist and author in his day. Her hand was paralyzed so that it was cur1et under toward her wrist and she was so helpless that she could not dres, herself or do her housework.
 When her turn came, BishoI Thomas and other clergymen placed their hands upon her head while tn, Bishop said, Sister, in the name O. Jesus of Nazareth. be healedl' 'The curved, drawn fingers slowly uncurled like a leaf until they wer, straight. She moved them gradually until they were as flexible and sup pie as they had ever been. I was no close enough to see, but those who were near said afterward that they could see the blood creeping back into the waxen hand. It was no withered as 1t mad not been para lized lone> enough for that.
 Entire Line Healed.
 Those were the two most striking cures, but all that line was healed ot different afflictions and illnesses One case was that of Dean West o1 Sheridan. whose eyes have been mis. shapen from childhood, so that he had to have special glasses. He was healed after the congregation ha6 gone, when the clergymen had taker off part of their vestments. His eyes are still misshapen. but he sees as well as 8 boy of ten, reading the finest print with ease.
 John w. Hay of Rock Springs republican, candidate for governor and a prosaic, matter -of-fact banker and 'stockman, is taking his daugh- ter to Sheridan to see if she can get helped by the Episcopal clergyman at the healing mission which Is be- ing held there this week. The best physicians in the country have been unable to cure her of long illness
 am taking my wife who has so forth ,and so on as the news spreads.
 How do we explain it? We do not explain it, we have no theory ex- cept that it is done through faith. This has been going on quietly for a long time among Episcopal clergy men, who have been feeling their way. avoiding publicity and any thing that smacks of the faker and