AN AMAZING STORY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 53, 23 July 1914, Page 8

AN AMAZING STORY.

WHAT A DKKAM JJID I'Olt A (UKL. Ke.u.ukab t s.cncs of revivalist fervor i...:i,;i'ii the opening meetings of the liit.niaiiona] I'eiitecostal Convention .ai. Niiiiid.iiiKl -lust month. This Is mi iiiiniwl Whitsuntide gatherin;,' of believers in faith healing, convened by Ihe Kev. A. A. Boddy, vicar of All .-siiiitt.-.". .-Sunderland. There are delegates thi, year from Holland, (ictmany and America, as we'll as from various parts of t-c United Kingdom. At the opening meeting.-, groups of v.i men rose und prayed together, the rest of the gathering loudlv joinpr: in a. chorus of ■•Amen!" -Hallel'uj;i) The "gift of tongues'' was ;isk.,i i„ and, amid uiiiicli excitement, a woman ejaculated something in an unknown language, which was announced to mean. "Listen and ye -lull. ;.:«■;< r.'' Thi's early manifestation was regarded as u sign of Divine- approva' i f the convention and an augury of its success.

MARVELLOUS IiICALIXC. The thief speaker this year is Mis* Dorothy K-.'i-in. of London, who give., an amazing recital of "iicaiaig by ijivine intervention." Last vein- .Miss Kerin tnM a remark able story of being ,-iiri'il bv a vision when-she v.iis on the point of death after five years' i.lm ss. She lias now another narrative, iio le-s striking, ■which moved her ho"tors lo trkn.-porls of religions emotion. "J was in' a 1). v. n-hiiv lane I.i-t dimmer." mi id Miss Kerin. "when a big. hulking brute i-anie up and dell ended nn big. He attacked me, stole "the hair, ami knocked me down fracturing my skull. I wa-' carried home, and lav for a month between lile <;iid death. "The doctors so'-iiicd to think an operation necessary but 1 had a vision, in which 1 seemed to -see myself with o.ctors and nurses near me and one doctor about to app'v an anaesthetic. Then the Lord appeared, and the operat.'on was abandoned as unmcc-sary. About a loriniglit after this vision a miracle happened to me. AI! Urn fever suddenly left me. the temperrtun; of my body dropped from II).") to !'.•> and I was instantlv and perfoetlv veil.

''l jrot up. and iimi'li to the nurses' dismay, walked two tniic-,. My injuries were healed, the ilesli returned, and J was my did self .owe more.'' ItADJAXT VISIONS. She has liad visions in which there ■vere beautiful lights, crowds of angels, /nil everytliinj! 1-iKiiiint and beaiitii'nl. It was in one of these \isions that sle: states she »aw a deep mauve pink light ali around, and received a message' to teli iieople that "the day is at lisiml." "So strong," she said "was the healin;: itilluenee of one vision that aUlioujrl; pvcii nil as dying by my friends. 1 at onee felt I had a new "body. | ~o n ld hardly touch fooil dining this Mines--. I'iit after the vision 1 rose anil lead , meal of cold beef, pkk'cd walnuts. and cold .apple tart—an enormous una:, such as you would ; i navvy. "Next morion",' 1 had increased ill vciglit and couhl run upstairs. Tlii. in<vea,se of weight was- not due to the navvy's me:i!. but Invalid Christ had tended me and miraculously restored me." The recital of this remarkable -to v ivin received with ioud cries <if "Halleluiah!" "Pr.iisi; llim!" aril "Allien!" fioui tlie Pentecostalists.