“A MIRACLE.”
HOW A DEAF AND DUMB MAN WAS CURED. Blackburn is excited over the cure of a deaf and dumb ex-soldier named Cowell by water from St. Winifred’s Well. Cowell is a travelling wireworker, who hawks his own goods and he at once set off for Northumberland to visit his mother, who has not heard his voice for eight years. Mrs McGuill, the wife of a working man, living in Chapel street, is a devout Catholic, and a great believer in Holywell’s efficacy, because of two remarkable cures in her own family. Her sister visits Holywell every year, and brings away a couple of bottles of the water, one tor herself and one for her sister. “I was standing at my door,” she told a Daily Chronicle representative, ‘when Cowell came by. I spoke to him. He motioned that he was deaf and dumb, so, acting on impulse, I gave him a drink out of the bottle. Then I motioned to him to kneel down and say a little prayer. I knelt by him and prayed for him ; then I placed my hand upon his head and said, “God bless you.’’ “Then he went, but he had hardly got outside my door when he began to speak. He cried out aloud, “I feel a new man.’’ The represeutative, noticing that Mrs Guill was deaf, asked if the Holywell water had done her any good. She replied that she had only tried it twice, and was well satisfied with the results. A rather different version is given by the landlady of Cowell’s lodging-house. On Thursday, she says, he seemed to be struggling to speak, and on Saturday night he started us all by crying, “How do you like me now?’’ We nearly dropped with astonishment He told me he had been feeling ill for a month, and that at last a big weight seemed drawing away from his heart. He certainly believes a miracle has been worked, for he went down on his knees in my kitchen find earnestly thanked God for restoring his speech.
Cowell is a pensioner, and after the 13oer War, in which he lost speech and hearing he was for some years an inmate of a deaf and dumb institution.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 925, 1 December 1910, Page 4
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374“A MIRACLE.” Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 925, 1 December 1910, Page 4
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