MARVELLOUS CURES IN SDYNEY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2320, 24 August 1880, Page 2

MARVELLOUS CURES IN SDYNEY.

The Sydney correspondent of the “ Otago Daily Times ” writes : —“ Mr George Milner Stephen, the well-known barrister who has practised from time to time, in South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales, indeed for the last 40 years, has appeared in quite a new character. For the last three months he has been electrifying sociely by a series of almost miraculous cures on the blind, deaf, paralytic, and bedridden, and hitherto gratuitously, and with scarcely a failure. Mr Stephen

is known to have strong spiritualistic leanings, and that circum.-!.!tie * caused his earliest manifestations to be received with incredulity; but a number of accredited cases treated by him lately have resulted so beneficially I hat even his most prejudiced opponents are com pelled to recognise what they cannot attempt to explain. Clergymen have written to him demanding to be informed from what power he derives his gift, and not a few assert boldly that lie is influenced by the Devil himself. Amongst a number of cases vouched for in writing by colonists of undoubted respectability and credit, I will select one which is certified to by the father of a young lady who has been cured, a gentleman holding a high position in Sydney commercial life, and whose statement may be relied on. He says “ This to certify that ray daughter about nine years ago met with an accident at Mount Victoria from a fall off a horse,injuring the cartilage of her knee. She has been under surgical treatment nearly the whole of this time. For four years she never left the house, and for the last seven months suffered the most excruciating agony, so much so that on Thursday last the pain was so great that my daughter expressed her belief that she would have to submit to have her leg taken off, when I happily suggested to send for Mr George Milner Stephen. He came at once —breathed on the knee, passed his hands several times over the injured place, when all pain from that moment ceased, and has not returned, and she can now walk without limping, having discarded a a bandage six yards long which she has worn, for the first time for years, and on Wednesday she went to Balmain and walked up the steep hill there without inconvenience.”

Tne Daily Telegraph thus writes of a late healing levee held at the Temperance Hall: —“ As on previous occasions there was a gathering of the ‘incurables’of the metropolis and suburbs, including ‘thelame,the halt,and the blind.’ Many suffering pains more or less violent were clamorously invoking Mr Stephen’s power to relieve their agonies. He appeared to be in great force, as lie literally’ ‘ordered’ pains away right and left, and as the various subjects of bis benevolence invoked blessings upon his head, we may rcsonably assume that they experienced relief. The afflicted reached their arms on to the platform, praying him ‘ only to touch them,’ which he did and invariably received the grateful acknowledgements of the sufferers. In most of the cases Mr Stephen simply placed bis bands upon the people’s heads or limbs to drive away rheumatism or rheumatic gout, or the other ills from which they were suffering. Bystanders of all ranks were looking on astonished as people made their way through the crowded hall to the platform, and as they'- left, after being treated by Mr Stephen, many eager questions were asked as to the number of years’ suffering they had endured, whether all their pains bad disappeared, and the like. In all about 50 people were thus sent away, expressing their belief that they were cured and their astonishment at the wonderful power of the healer,”