Faith Healing Extraordinary

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 48, 29 September 1888, Page 3

Faith Healing Extraordinary

(Post's Own Correspondent.) Melbourne, September 18. The Telegraph says :— The case of the girl Muhey, who suffered for ten years with "incurable" spinal disease, but which was cured instantaneously and without any definable cause, certainly deserves to have a place in the curiosities of medical literature. Debate will of course rage as to the true explanation of the facts, but the facts themselves, whatever their explanation, are beyond doubt. The heroine of the story has a local habitation aud a name, and at least four of our hospitals can certify to the unfortunate Rirl'a disease and its helpless ness, for she carried her diseased and ■crooked t>pine through them all in turn, spending 12 months in the Children's Hospital, 7 months in the Homoepathic Hospital, 13 months in the Alfred Hospital, and 3 years in the Austin Hospital for incurables. On a given day this .girl, whose life has been one long disease, announces that she is about t» be re" stored to health, and bids her friends to get her clothes ready. At her bidding her sister putt her hand under her back and lifts her up, feeling in the act. the diseased vertebra move under her hand, and the patient for" the first time in ten years walks. The story might well be deemed incredible, but Dr Dobbin on Monday examined the erstwhile patient. The twisted spine was straight, the displaced ankle bones were in their nominal position, and the long dim eyes can see. Tue cure may be explicable by some obscure and exceptional function of the imagination acting on the nervous system Irat it is much to be desired that scientific meir' would study a case like the present and shed a little light on so abnormal a result of the imagination. The imagination that can straighten with an impulse a spine crooked from infancy is really than the imagination which invented Hamlet or produced the Wierus Gallery in Brussels. J>r Duncan Eraser delivered a lecture on Faith-healing, and in the course of his remarks said the occasion of the address arose from the question. of a very remarkable case brought under his notice ■on Monday last. A young woman whom he had seen in the Austin Hospital for Incurables as a bed- fast and helpless patient had teen taken to her parents' humble home, in North Brunswick, in a condition so prostrated to make it im probable that she could ever be taken back. But this extremity was a good ■opportunity. Her attention was directed to cases of faith healing. Especially did she ponder; the mighty miracles of mercy recorded in the New Testament. She meditated on the power and goodness of God as' unchangeable "the same. She trasted her case to the compassion -of the Great Healer, and in "answer to her earnest prayer came a fixed assurance that on a certain day she would assuredly be healed of her infirmity. Th» day and. hour came. No one but her mother and^sipter were with her. Mar* .garet Ann Mulley was indeed healed. With slight assistance she sat up in bed. Her heretofore doubly curved spine be» came straight. Her distorted feet assumed the normal state; Her dimmed sight became clear. Clothing, provided beforehand by her direction^ was now put on, her own feet and ankle bones be* came straight, and now she -can walk. She gives all the v glory to God. She make herself, by her simple, child »like faith. His patient, and the Great Pysi» cian has cured the incurable.