MR MILNER STEPHEN AT MASTERTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1285, 24 January 1883, Page 2

MR MILNER STEPHEN AT MASTERTON.

Yesterday Mr. Milhiir; Stephen' coto' menced hie work of healing m.Mastertdn, The lower rooms of the Institute were attended in the morning by a large nambev »eekini! his aid privately, and in the afternoon flhorlly after:- two o'oiook the upper room began to Gil with subjects and spectators for the public treatment..of diseased persons, At ■ about h,alf-paat three Mr Stephen entered the room, He is a pleasant benevolent looking gentleman of (we are informed) 71years of age, He apologised for his late arrival, but stated the reason of.it waß.that>in Mastarton aa elsewhere there were so many patients awaiting his Bervioes. that he found it very difficult to get away from one elan of patients to attend to the wants of the others. He did .got ptopose to make them a long , speech astkeyhad no doubt heard a great deal about him, and read much more. They wero not, however to expect miraculous cures from him, : aa. although sometimes his success even surprised himself, he on other occasions . failed.! The reason was not hard to discover as it must becloar.toall that some bodies would be more susceptible to his influenco than others. He was sometimes as sorry to. make sudden and wonderful cures as he was to fail, as if he did not succeed he was blamed, and if ha was successful he gained more credit than he deserved, and.the people expected more thin he could always perform. Home portion of the people ahd'sobe portion of the press called his power mesmerism and himself .an .imposter; .othefs: again'held that he wasa'trub'man, and doing a great work. Perhaps the same thing would oocur in .Masterton-but he" must go on, They wereiCallins for Him ih?Amerita, in England, in France.- Where -his power o'ame trom; and what it ffas,waß'all guess. He could not inform 5 them'liiniself, but there it was. He then informed' the audience of the positions ha held in Australia, having been Crown W Officer, acting Governor,' a leading lawyer; and a member of Parliament, Mesmerists generally took about two hours at.-first to get a subject under control, he, however, sometimes oured 70 in an- afternoon, It wis, therefore,'not mesmerism,- He did not know what it was, but at any rate tliey bad the benefit of it.' He' would' impress upon , them to regard r themselves; as only convalescents after .his treatment, not to'think theraielvea quite oured on a sudden, hut to tiki cere if themsilves for »ti»# ;jn order to in<Qlr« -a' oemplite re« jovery," already'healer twenty patents pwstslythit'day, and all;with benefit Hi would assert that' all whom he treatedreceived more oK less benefit;, All were better for hia':itfortilV,The. day. before he had cured ft young girl who,was. born deaf and dumb., He taughthe'r her first words, and it moved thoie .ibo witnessed theourt to tears to seethogirl'i delight at having a new life thus opened before her. The. doctors 'might rail; and the press. might doubt,but there vere' the facta before them. He then described his oure : of a lady who was blind, who was :deaf and dumb; and had one leg seven inches shorter than the other, and exhibited the blook boot which she wore , when heirst healed , her. The . truth' of what he. wbb telling them was swirii to before.the papers would publish it. He gave her sight when one eye vai thought to be totally decayed; ; he gave her hearing and speech, and lengthened her leg so thatshe could!wear ordinary boots, which she hid done ever since. He said he found that a Dr Newton waj practioing the same power, in America, he (the speaker) possessed. . He (Mr Stephen) had oured cancers whioh doctors- Would have attempted to out out; he had caused them to pour out of a man's throat into a basin; and, he had them now-in bottles.' He then related, how Dr Newtown had in Amerioa oured a patient at a distance without even seeing her; and stated that he had done the same at 1 'Sydney, where a gentleman had come to him and asked him to go and heal his daughter, who'had the Lithgow disease. Mr Stephen continued: I said to him,"How long will it .take you to . get home!"' i He said, "About haU-anhour,'!;' I shook hands with him and said, f. Go home;. your- , daughter is well I" He.went home, 1 and; found his daughter sitting'up in bed free from pain, and almost well, and'she recovered from'that time,' Mr Stephen, then offered tip ,'a short ptayer,' and called upon alUhose ii'pain to come to , himfirst. *•' \'y r.;-V, !': The first case was a' : iittle..koy. of about seven years, who-was.iub.iect..,to epileptic fits and weakness of mind ;-thia had come on.after whooping cough-,. ';Mr Stephen said lie would ' like., to •make known that he found a ! -very - large number ;of these; epileptic cases that;the cause was worms, arid h 6 hadnbtic'edjthp the prevalence of this complaiiit ; 'iii all parts of the' colony wheroj He stated he had oareiHohe of .epilepsy with- inagnetised water,, whioh ; limply droye ;out a mass/of worms. '; [At : this point a. yonng the',aiidienie was .seized witH'a .het' friendi oaiwed heroiit, * Mr : Stephen! called ;to bringijier.'io hinuj "He then'passed his hands over the ' 'head and neck: of th^ohil^he hadunder tnatniehi,;; and' itiW'ihatKwaii all he' 1 could do'for hfe then, • • ' ! No Jj.-i-SobhV. - had hfi lipoid liinftiolj 7oji^ahocMw'o ; m oi, o W e, ilways hadhiidachel.'ind frequently hleedinz atthi noae. Aftir a fev paiiN jhe

laii&.|eadaolie th'en she did jno'tlnel {'.'orooked,!' ana. 1 she AputtlMeHetter Kill? of&.sudden." ](Applanfle)l recommended by Rev'Fatber'Halbwachs, Buffering from continual bleeding at the none, and heart disease. The poor little fellow Jooked.very. ill indeed.He ,waa told it was impossible to effect an immediate cure in this case, but power had been :Sent~ inithat--woul<ldp Vgoqd. ;r He waa ordered to drink magnetised water. No 4,—Mrs Hounslow, suffering from rheutnatiatQ in her hands ,apd, arms. After a few passes she'eaid the 'pampas' gone v ... r-;,V . : No' 6.'—Mr Toatin -Larsen Baid he"had continual pains in the chest and sometimes spnt blood since 12 years old, He could not hear fithimeiearjrnori see. jfith-fone eye/ After; several passes a'ri d'breath inf;s into hifl ear and eye through a'smalhtube he said the pain was ..gone and; he could hear and see well. (Applause).' J) No 6.—A' little girl, sister to the boy, Gorman,was seized-with .an epihptio fit while patient isas being Operated .upon, and carried to Mr Stephen who soothed, her/- and, alter passing his hands over; her, gave the same order as io jher brother, Mr Stephen remarking . that in ! thi& iogse .the fito :.;Were due ; to . .v. : No 7.—J ohan Peter : Nielßen/. a. little hoy '.about .five years was stated . to he paralysedin the legs.; ; ; Mr : Stephen said , the qhild liadjvidently bad a touch ' pf ai)niVoke. : :''Hc pissed; hii hands over , and 'itoo4;ik:.[i>pi to 1$ somewhat belter. 1 1 ' No 8 vrai in old lady, Mn Nielion, of MiuriuavilleNorthwhohadrheutnatlsmfor IS years, which gave her contjnual Ipaina in her head and chest.' After a few 1 passes she said the pains had all left her, 1 - v , No 9 was Mrs Nielson of Ekotahuna, a. young married woman, who /complained pf n continual pain in her chost,:' : After/a minute or so she said the pairt' bad left her and stepped down' looking muoh better.

Ho 10;~A little girl ; who Buffered from spinal?'disease, and-'waa pairifuUy l de-' formed and continually aufiered from headache. A few passes removed the pain in the head, and the deformity perceptibly lessened 'after'being subjected' to pressure by Mr Stephen's hands. He recommended her to use magnetised oil and water. ... No 11.—Mrs Nelson of Eketahuna'Baid she had suffered from' pains in her chest for about 12 months. After the usual

treatment she said the pain was'gohe. / '■ No 12,—MrB T.'larsen, pkitui in the head and stomach, Pains ordered away,: and sho said they had left her.. No 13.—An old lady, widow of the lata Mr Rasmus Laraen waa suffering from pains l " all over" through rheumatism. The pains were quickly banished. "No U—Mrsßaumb'er, loss of eyesight. Mr Stephan was afraid the cage''would bo a difficult one .as tbodootbra had.been treating it, and t heir remedies generally destroyed what they.oould not cure;. .He relieved lier of pain in the back and chest but after breathing into her eyes without result,saidhe could do no more.

No.'ls.—A young Scandinavian woman with pain in ; the chest. This seemed a rather peculiar case, on the'pain being driven out of her chest flew to another portion of iho bndy, and was chased out of every limb till Bho finally said''it had left her altogether.

No 16. Mr .Blonqvjst, deaf 21 years. Mr Stephen said he was afraid the drum of the ear was gone, and he could do,-no good.; ' No. ;17 was another Mrs Neilson also suffering from rheumatic pains which she soon sjaid had left her. H<B. 18.—A .young girl, daughter ,of Mr> P. Nielsen, was very' dim sighted, and had been born: deaf and could not speak.; After breathing into her ears and ey.ei she 'intimated she could see plainly, and soon' after: ijould hear when addressed in a whisper, and also repeated words aftet Mr Stephens, giving her name to the'reporters. ' No 19.—Mrs Halbert, rheumatic pains. After the. usual treatment, she said she was free from pain." ■ No' 20.—A" .daughter 'of 'Mr.. Hans Neilsen, stated to be deaf. After her eats were, breathed ihto could hear a whisper. ; No2li Mr Thos DaVies, deaf. After about a minutes treatment he expressed himself so far satisfied that he intended "to come again,to-morrow.!! : • a No, 22.—Miss E. Fry, blind of one eye. ; After the first'breathing, she stated ih* could not see any better. She said the had had no dootor, upon which Mr Stephen expressed the opinion that he hadi much bettor chance of restoring her. He breathed into the eye again, when; the said the could see-better, lie then said that vfas all he could-do that evening, but before dismissing her 'again breathed into her eye, when she said she, could see much better, and after a little further treatment said she could see quite well, and placed her hand upon a given' object while keeping the sound eye closed with the other hand.

No, 23,—A little boy with very weak eyes was then operated upon. He had been under the doctors for several years, and 'had had a Baton on the baok of his neck to strengthen his eyes, After a few passes he said his eyes felt easier, No, .24,—Mrs Pickett, a-sufferer from neuralgic pains, removed them from her head by merely plaoing Mr Stephen's ring against her temples, After he laid his hands upon her she said she felt free from pain and very comfortable, She stated she had been under two dootors for four years, and they had done her no good. . Mr Stephen here expressed his great satisfaction with the very orderly manner iirwhioh the audience hod behaved, and , gave the reporters for inspection a testimonial from Mr L. Herbert, of Don Cottage, Newtown, Sydney, concerning his daughter/who had been healed, as related, without Mr Stephen going to : her. The next case, No 26, was Mr B. Rayner who had long been a martyr to rheumatism and could not even put on his clothes, having no use in' his hands and arms. After the usual treatment lie put,'his coat on and could raise hie arms above his head, and expressed great satisfaction at the result, No 27.—A girl of 13, name! Louise' Hauberg had broken her ankle and hip at 9 months old, Aiter treatment she said she felt much better; ' No 28,—Mib Ktistine Asso'senjl-a sufferer from pains in the oheit and baok, and very ill from asthma, This patient looked very wretched and'could not speak above a whisper. She commenced to weep as soon as she went on the platform, After a short time,' however; alia intimated'Bhe felt belter, and Boon spoke pretty strongly and Baid she felt well. Shis Was; advised to übb magnetised, oil, and water. , . No; 29,-Mr F, Peterson, paralysis; of the eye through a blow from the falling limb of a tree. He apparently received nb, relief and left the platform very dejectedly, 'Np::?o,~.Aobby named' Harry;Eeese?< with oxio leg rauon shorter than the. other., A(ter ithe limb was pulled a littjov.and seyeral;passes made along it) an improve--ment.iwas evident,'and-the boy seemed miioh: pleased. Mr Stephen lald'he h«d ; cu|ed;the daughter of (he; Govt. Printer,; '|f;¥iotpm, of a - sitxiilar Y^ad.he' :BU}arty. 7 W ■ ■^Two,other ladies w9re.tre»ted;for b'ron-: ohitls, and given magnetised flannel Both jjudtliey fclf better, Mr Stephen then iiidl he could tijke dq mor» oases that

evening as it was then nearly.ievtn, ftd' he had to come down at eight to give out magnetised water slnd oiV to thois he had treated during the day, There wirt'l large number of cases who had therefore to be left without treatment, Mr Stephen was \ kept busy from; 8 to 10 giving out mag; netued oil and water. . He alio, though very very who were in pawned waitod updu hini betweenthose hoqri;,' : 5 (; *■{ ;•/