MR MILNER STEPHEN AT WELLINGTON.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 836, 8 January 1883, Page 2

MR MILNER STEPHEN AT WELLINGTON.

A Press Association telegram from Wellington says—Mr Milner Stephen on Saturday afternoon gave an exhibition here of his power to cure. The Athenseura Hall was lent for the occasion, and was crowded to excess, it being estimated that fully 700 persons were present. Amongst then? were the Hon. Thomas Dick and Drs'Key worth and Hutchison. No charge was made for admission to the Hall or to those who received treatment. On ascending the stage Mr Stephen said this was the first opportunity in New Zealand that he had had of lecturing, and he wished to make a few explanations as to the power with which he had been gifted by the Almighty. He had for a long period earnestly prayed to God to" give him power to do some wonderful or great work before he died, and this wish had been fulfilled. He was formerly a barrister of these colonies, and it was while he was on circuit in New South Wales that he suddenly be came aware of the power that had been bestowed on him. It occurred in this manner: Mr Stephen was at the house of a gentleman in Sydney who had been deaf for ten years, when, acting on a sudden thought as to his ability to cure, he set about to carry out the idea, and was successful in restoring hearing to the patient after the third treatment. He read several extracts from Australian newspapers of cures that he had effected, and also an affidavit of the medical officer of St. George’s Hospital, Melbourne, as to his ability to cure cancer. He mentioned several other wonderful cures he had effected, the principal of which was the total blindness of a woman in Sydney, who had been given up by her medical advisers as incurable, and that of lengthening by seven inches a young lady’s leg. She had suffered from hip disease, and this had drawn up the leg. After passing his hands down the thigh the hip grew two inches on the first application, three on the second, and then to its natural length. The fact of him being endowed with this wonderful power had reached all quarters of the globe, and only a short time back he received a letter from a lady in Germany asking him to send her some of his power to cure her husband. He denied that his cures were only temporary, and contended they were even more permanent than those of doctors. About thirty cases I were treated by Mr Stephen, those suffering pain being the first taken. A lady was first to appear. She was suffering from rheumatic fever, disease of the lungs, and pains in her legs. Mr Stephen made certain passes about the legs, and breathing on a piece of red flannel, placed it on the parts affected, when the sufferer appeared to be considerably relieved. Her husband. Was then treated for epileptic fits. After

having had his head stroked;* .he. was told that hemight haver one more fir, but, that would be the last. Another old lady, who had been suffering from rheumatism, called down the blessing of the Almighty on him for having been relieved from pain. Four or five cases of long standing deafness were "then treated with varying success. The larger number of these cases of deafness were the result of cold after measles. The next case was one that can feftly be said to be wonderful, and-Mr Stephen was loudly cheered, at the result ; this was a young girl named Dora Hathaway, about five years-of age, the daughter of a resident at Masterton, and she had suffered from paralysis, which rendered it necessary for her to be carried about. Mr Stephen took the child on his knees, and after • stroking her legs for a couple of minutes he put her down and she ran across to her father. This was the most successful case during* the day. A case of partial blindness was acted upon, jjut not successfully, although, the patient stated he could see innumeyaple bubbles of light. A woman who had been deaf fot twenty years was treated so that she could hear the tick ,0f a watch, and a lad suffering from asthma was relieved and made to breathe freely. A man named Irmbergej, itrijo had lost the sight of one .eye, had it improved, and a lad about nineteen vears old, named Upham, partially blind, stated after treatment that he could see people around him. Mr Stephen also treated with more or less success a number of other cases, comprising pains in the head and Chest, deafness, rheumatism, injury to the spine,'paralysis, blindness, spinal tortion, bent knee, sciatica, and golit. Mr Stephen in his treatment"uses only a silver tube, through which he breathes on the various parts of the bodjep of the patients, red flannel, wadding and magnetised oil. A bottle of magnetised oil or water Was presented to each patient when leaving the halL Another exhibition of a similar nature given next Saturday, |