THE "MIRACLE-MONGER."

Globe, Volume II, Issue 193, 21 January 1875, Page 3

THE "MIRACLE-MONGER."

The following paragraph appears in a late Melbourne journal:—" Mrs Truesdell delivered her second lecture on the 19th, at the Athenaeum, on the gift of healing. The lecturess stated that she had prayed fervently to the Almighty for strength to heal, and He in His infinite wisdom had seen fit to answer her prayers, and had, as it were, manifested Himself with coals of fire. She related a number of instances in which her prayers had been answered to the relief of persons suffering from almost every disease. One case the lecturess laid special stress upon. It was that of a lad who had had his arm broken, which had been set by a well-known surgeon, but who, she stated, had given up the case as being a hopelesspne-, the patient being declared by him as maimed for life. Yet she, by prayer, had effected his complete restoration to his normal condition. Mrs Truesdell stated that she was in constant communion with God, and she firmly believed that she had been by Him appointed and set apart, to devote her whole life to the cure of suffering humanity. The power which she possessed could be attained by any one if they but fervently prayed and had faith. At the conclusion of the lecture Mrs Truesdell descended from the platform, and intimated her willingness to auoint any persons who were suffering from bodily affliction. About a dozen persons of both sexes presented themselves for the ' laying on of hands,' including old and young, the lame, halt, and blind. Several blind, or partially blind men, who may any day be seen in the city, were anointed with oil, "Mr Truesdell expressing her conviction that as cure by means of her instrumentality would be effected. The proceedings then terminated."