Modern Miracles.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2057, 12 September 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Modern Miracles.

People who suffer will fly to anything for remedy— even to patent pills, spiritualism, and pilgrimages. Referring to the methods resorted to for curing the cripple and sick, The Graphic (London) says that at Fecamp 150,000 quart bottles from a so-called holy •priDg are sold yearly ; at Lourdes the retail business in water is twice as large, and the grotto is hung with the oiutches of hundreds of people who are said to have come lame and to nave gone away jumping. In some cases these cures have been quite genuine, for a strong nervous exoitement will unquestionably do wonders. Not long ago, a man who was suddenly seized with delirium in one of the London hospitals leaped up, arid began slashing at the patients in the beds all around him with a knifo. One patient, who had be-en lying helpless for days under a stroke of paralysis, as it was believed, got so frightened that be recovered the use of his legs, and bounded down stairs with most gratifying agility. A man endowed with strong will power may exercise ascendancy over weak willed folk, and cause them very rauidly to shake off a nervous disorder.

Colonel Inoekboli, saya thLt when a [man loves a woman she never grows old to him, but through the wrinkles of age and the mnsk of time he will see the sweet maiden faoe that be wooed and won.