Year: 1879

NESS Smith Relates Her Wonderful Re-
covery from Spinal Complaint.


From the Philadelphia Times.l


II had been announced that Miss Jen-
ME Smith would speak at the Green
Street Methodist Church last night.
When the hour came the church was
packed from pulpit to gallery and scores
of people had to stand for want of seats.
The speaker was introduced in brief
address by the pastor, Rev, B. w. Hum
phriss. Miss Smith did not propose to
preach a sermon. but to give an illustra-
ton of the power of faith by relating
her experience. When she was about
16 years old she was seized with pain
full disease of the spine, which confined
her to her bed for six months. At the
end of that time her strength returned,
but she had to be taught to walk before
she had full control of her limbs again.
Not long afterwards she was seized
again with the same disease. For
eighteen months she was in her bed.
When she recovered again she once
more had to be taught the use of her
limbs. She remained in comparative
good health till the year 1862, when for
the third time she was seized with the
maladv and again took to her bed.
For 16 years she was bed-ridden. Dur
ing that time, at regular intervals, par
oxysms would seize her affecting one OF
her limbs. SO terrible would be the et-
feet on these occasions that as many as
six men would be required to hold her
in her bed. On one occasion the
paroxysm was so terrible in her limb
that man weighing at least 200 pounds
sat down upon it in the endeavor to hold
it, and the quivering was such that a
stove in the room was shaken and the
windows ratified as though storm was
blowing against the house. Afterward
box was made in which the limb was
confined, the box being bolted to her
cot. She was brought to the Homeo-
pathic Hospital in this city, where her
recovery took place in March last. Her
deliverance from her long suffering she
was firmly of the conviction was man
Hesitation of the efficacy of prayer and of
faith in Providence.


Here Miss Smith sat down, and Rev.
Mr.. Humphriss read statement from
DR.. John c. Morgan of the Homeo-
pathic Hospital, setting forth the facts
of her recovery. The statement said in
effect that on the 29th of March last he
was aroused by an exclamation from
Miss Smiths cot. "Oh, DOCTOR" she
cried. Then she asked the doctor if he
would pray with her. She felt that she
was going 10 sit up. He did so, and in
few minutes afterward she sat up in
her chair. This was after all trials to
bolster her up by means of pillows and
hands had failed. From this time she
began to have strong belief that she
would be able to walk again. So strong
was it that she wrote home to her moth
er that she would have paroxysms no
more. The Tuesday evening following
her success in sitting up was the time
she had set for the restoration of the use
of her limbs.


Some of her friends were invited. To
others she wrote asking them to offer up
specific prayer on her behalf on that
evening. After waiting till toward IL
O'Clock she asked two persons present
to take her by the arms, as she felt that
the time had come. The brothers
Garrigues, stationers and booksellers OF
this city, complied with her wish, and,
with barely any effort on their part, she
rose to her feet, and walked. Since that
time she has had complete use of her
limbs. Not long afterward she went to
Ocean Grove, where, for some months,
she conducted evangelistic work. The
statement of DR.. Morgan, which closes
with description of her recovery OF the
use of her limbs, is also signed by b.
Garrigues. The point of singularity in
this recovery, aside from her own pre-
monitiOn of it, is that she at once re-
covered the use of her limbs, which had
been entirely helpless for 10 years. On
the occasions of her previous sickness,
first of six months and afterward OF
16 months, it took a good while even
after her recovery to getinto the way OF
walking again. The audience listened
to the narration with great interest.


Criminal prosecutions have been
instituted in Germany against no less
than IS Hanoverian gentlemen, on the
ground Of their having collected money
toward wedding present to be given to
the Duke of Cumberland. In the house
of one Of these gentlemen considers
Bile sum of money was found, which was
seized by the officials. The Cologne
Gazette says that there can be no longer
any idea of the Duke succeeding to the
Brunswick crown. The only question
is whether the difficulty Of succession
shall be settled in Brunswick, as it was
in Eastern Frisia in the time of Fred
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