MR. MILNER STEPHEN.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 69, 14 February 1883, Page 3

MR. MILNER STEPHEN.

An immense crowd of persons assem- ; foled an the Drill Hall. Wanganui, en Monday afternoon to witness the exhibi-<tion-o. the " extraordinary" and miraculous'" powers of this great " healer."' M r Stephen kept his audience waiting for more than an honr beyond the advertised time, and apologised on the ground of his > having been detained at his hotel hv a' large number of private patients, who, we need scarcely say, had to pay and that pretty -tifly, for the ■" marvellous cures " they obtained. At eieanly^ every -station on the line the morning train from Feilding picked up persons with some kind of affliction, all tbent on a visit to this "healing medium" or whatever he xnay be called. Amongst rthese, as well as several persons from Pal _ier<-on, were eomewrith whomwetro •personally acquainted, and who afterwards told us that they -did not feel a whit _etier far the " operation " they Biad undergpne. W o are speaking with- ' out the slighest prejudice when we say .hat scarcely o«exm.t<s£ the many afflicted <wo saw Brought before Mr Stephen were ireally-eurod, while * few suffering from slight disorders acknowledged (that they 'were greatly relieved. . Muekof the temporary beneßt he undoubtedly imparts in rsoine cases is due probably to the powerful magnetic appliances wiiich : he weprs on various pants of his body, and not to :any -of "his j supernatural 'or JDivine assistance.