Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-21


the intervention OF Mayor Babcock and
lnfluential Pennsylvania politicians
whom he had interested For John
Sprouts case was known to all Pitts
burgh. His disability was such that he
was subject to spells of strangulation
that were likely at any time to over
take him in the street, so that the NAV
or had him provided with a courtesy
card, from the Department of Public
Safety, notifying whoever should pick
him up that t1e was not drunk but i'll
and must be taken either home or to
hospital. From these spells of
strangulation he had suffered so that
he had not been able to sleep whole
night through three years; he had not
spoken ai2"1 stree the Ehautea auth
his throat muscles had been cut away
that he was unable to hold up his head
which fell forward uncontrolled on
breast.
The BosWorth campaign had been
in progress in the city of Pittsburgh in
| 1920. But to his mothers urgings that
he try spiritual healing John Sproul
had always replied that it was fake
stuff" Then Mr.. Bosworth returned
/ for second campaign in 1921. Sunday
, October Is, John Sproul had passed
night of terrible agony. On Monday
he walked into the kitchen. His wife
had just put her weekly wash out on
the line.
Elsie he said in his whisper, =
come, we'll go to that Christian ALL
lance Tabernacle this afternoon" To-
gether they took in the wash, wet as
it was, and started for the meeting
When at the close of the service the
young man leaned over to his wife.
Elsie" he said, "I'm going up to the
platform and something tell me that
I when | come back | shall be we'll"
! While he was being prayed with at
the altor the worker use the phrase,
Praise the Lord" Sproul, thinking it
command addressed to hirI opened
his mouth to whisper the words. And
10, he found himself uttering them out
loud! Then he shouted Praise the
LordH AS he did so there ran through
him like streak of Ne a burning
| cenca+ion And bo a,.oo -.afo..1 Iii
From that moment he could raise his
head and hold it normally, and he had
his perfectly natural voice back again.
His mother fell in faint when he
called her over the telephone. The
mayors secretary to whom he also
telephoned, answered: Quit your kid
ding, This isn't John Sproul, because
John Sproul can't speak out loud. "
But he can, insisted the voice at the
other end of the wire.
A Specialist Becomes A Healer
We'll, the morning newspapers the
next day carried the story with double
headlines to all Pittsburgh. A few days
later the government surgeons at Mt.
Alto Hospital looked John Sproul ov-
er again and certified him perfectly
cured returned his pension to the
government and went back to his old
position in the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company's offices. For the past year
he has been kept busy telling the story
OF his miraculous healing. Now and
again he appears on the platform of
Mr.. Bosworths meetings in different
parts of the country Churches are. fire.
quently asking him to speak from, the
pulpit. And the sick are continually
coming for his prayers, through which
cures are reported. So John Sproul
now is contemplating gliding up his
desk job to devote his life 70 evanpe1-
ical work