THE MODERN MIRACLEMONGER

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2565, 10 June 1881, Page 2

THE MODERN MIRACLEMONGER

The Duke’bf Manchester, accompanied by Mr Loftus, and Mr W. Laidley, recently paid a visit to the rooms of Mr Milner Stephen, the Sydney healing medium, and 'sat there an hour watching him healing some ladies and gentlemen of sundry diseases of long standing, and amongst-others deafness. According to the Sydney “ Evening News,” Hia Grace thereupon asked Mr Stephen if he thought he could cure him of deafness in one ear of 12 jmars’ standing, which had been caused by a fall whilst hunting, which had also affected one eye to such an extent that he was obliged to use an eye-glass to bring it to the same strength of vision as the other. Mr Stephen made the reply that, as the Duke had witnessed two persons re ceive their hearing, who by curious coincidence, had both been deaf the same number of years as His Grace, viz., 12 years, he might reasonably expect the same successful result. The Duke accordingly submitted bimself to be “ breathed upon ” and in about three minutes he. put his watch to his car and, with evident delight, exclaimed that “he had not, heard it* tick’ before for 12 —aye, 20 years. In another minute he took up a newspaper, to try his eye, saying that “ he could see much clearer with it.” The Duke pressed Mr Stephen to-accept a fee, which he Je* dined, on the ground that his Grace had come as a visitor, and he must allow himself to be treated as such. The Duke had the opportunity of witnessing the phenomenon of clairvoyance—a little girl of 13 or 14 having examined (with eyes closed) two or three patients, about whose cases the doctors had differed, and the girl’s diagnosis appeared to satisfy each patient’s sensations. :