Mr Milner Stephen.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 52, 25 January 1883, Page 2

Mr Milner Stephen.

• ♦■ ■ Mr Stephen gave the third of his series of free healings m Wellington on Saturday last. At the outset Mr Stephen mide some remarks on correspondence and criticisms which had appeared m the Press of Wellington regarding his healings, and he deprecated the hostile tone displayed towards him by some writers. , He avowed that he had never, either directly or indirectly, laid claim to miraculous powers, and he said that those who argued that he had, argued on an untruth. All that he claimed was that a special power had b3en given him— he knew not what it was — and he exercised such power for the benefit of his . fellow-creatures. After reading the usual brief prayer with which he prefaces operations, he called on patients to come forward. The following were* among the cases dealt with. Beatriqe Dust, the girl who had ; previously kridergohe treatment for paralysis of the face, came on the stage, and, m answer to Mr Stephen, said her face had become almost straight. There was some slight improvement manifest. She also said the headaches had: left her, and ulcers m the head, which used to break and come through the nose m flakes, seemed to have dried up, and an internal complaint from which she Buf« ferred was almost cured. Female child six years old ; had j never walked, and could not speak. Mr Stephen took her on his knee, and after a while assisted her to walk by ■ placing his hands under her armpits, and so crossing the sta#e. The' child was evidently frightened at her strange surroundings, aod cried lustily. At last she sat upright m a chair for a brief interval, and which j as the mother present declared, she had never done before. . Male adult. Severe case of sciatica of seven months' duration. Mr Stephen 'made some rapid passes over the part affectedj and said "I think it's gone.'' The patient said the pain had suddenly left, but a sort of numbness remained, Mr Stephen made some more vigorous passes,, and ac last the patient said the numbness was gone also. Male adult. Severe rheumatiem, from head downward. Mr Stephen ordered the pain away, and bade the man walk across the stage briskly. The man did so, and also essayed to stoop, which he accomplished stiffly, but apparently with comparative ease. The room being less crowded than on previous occasions, Mr Stephen, by dint of frequent expostulation managed to keep patients from crowding around him, ani he assserted that his faculty for healing was thereby improved. Jt may be mentioned that none of the names or residences of the patients were announced on Saturday: Afterwards a case which- appears to be of special interest was presented. A girl eighteen years of age, who liad previously been blind, deat, and dumb, heard Mr Stephen speak m a whisper, was made to utter the words " papa," " mamma," and was so overjoyed at her newly- acquired faculties that she family embraced • her father, and also some young friends . who had ac*. companied her to the hall