EXTRAORDINARY FAITHHEALING CASE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1953, 25 September 1888, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY FAITHHEALING CASE

(" Melbourne Telegraph.") Tho caae of the girl Mulley, who suffired for ten yours with •' Incurable"spinal disease, but who waa oared Instantaneously, and wlthoutdefinablecaue, oortainly di sjrves to have v placo m tho curiosities of medical literature. Dob \ to will, of course, rage as to tho true exp'anatlon of tho facts, bub tho faots thcmaelvrs, whatever their explaoaUon, are beyond doubt. Tho heroine of tho atory haa a local habitation and » name, and at leaat four of oar hospitals can certify to the unfortunate girl's dlseass . and It) hopeloßßueßS, for she oirriod her diseased und crooked spine through them all m tarn, spending twelve months la tho Children's Hospital, soven months lo the Homeopothlo Hospital, thirteen months m the Alfred Hospital, and three years m tho Austin Hospital for incurables. Oa a given day, this jjitl whose life has baon one long disease. ANNOUNCES 7HAT SHE IS AKOUX TO BE BESTOItKD to health, and bids her friends get her olothea roady. At her bidding her elet ;r pucs her hand under her bank and lifts her ap, feeling In tho Act tin diseased vertobuo move under hor haud ; and thi J patient, for the brat time In ten years, walks. The story might vroll be deemed Incredible, bat DR DOBBIN. on Monday, txitnlued hla eratwhlle patient. Th 9 tvrlsted spine was straight, the displaced ankle bones wore m their normal position, and tho long dim eyes oould sao. Tho cure may be ezplimblo by socno obacuro and exceptional function of the imagination, acting on the nervonß system ; but it la much to bo desired that scientific men should Btndy a oaao like tho present, and shed a littlo light ou 00 abnormal a roeult of the Imagination. The "Imagination" thst can straighten with an impulse a spine crooked frum infancy, Is really more remarkable than the imagination which Invented Bamlot.

THK REV DUNCAN FRASER

delivered a lecture on faith healiug, and ia tho course if his remarks said the occasion of the address arose out of a very remarkable oiso brought nndur his notice on Monday laat. A young woman whern he had »een In the Austin Hospital for loonrables, as a bedfast and helpless patient, had been taken to her paronth' humble home In North Brunswick, m a condition so prostrate as to make It improbable that she oould over be taken back ; but this extremity was God's opportunity. Her attention was directed to cases of faith healing. Especially did she ponder the mighty miracles of mercy recorded In the New Teßtamont. She modltated on tho power and goodness of God as unchangeably the same ; ehe trusted her case to the oompaenlon of the Great Healer, and In answer to hor earnest prayer came a fixod aissuraoco that on a certain day ahe would assuredly bo healed of hor infirmity. The day und hour came. No one bat her mo'hor and sister were with her. Margaret Ann Mulley waß indeed healed. With slight aaalatance she sat ap m bed ; her heretofore doubly-carved spine booame straight ; her distorted feet assumed the normal sttte ; her dimmed sight became ole»r. The clothing provided beforehand by her dlrcotlon was now put on hor, and now she can walk. She glveß all the glory to God. folio made hereelf by her aimple, childlike faith, His patient ; and tho Great Physician has oared tho Incurable.