STORY OF SELF-HEALING

Evening Star, Issue 21621, 17 January 1934, Page 10

STORY OF SELF-HEALING

AUTHOR'S REMARKABLE CLAIM CURING HIMSELF BY .WRITING, ■A, remarkable account of a modern miracle—a i famous novelist’s conquest over life-long paralysis through writing a story on healing—was given recently, to the ‘ Sunday, Chronicle.’ - ■The writer, Mr J. D: Beresford, has been’lame all his life, but-now, at he claims that' he has _ achieved what, specialists declare to be impossible. H 0 is slowly healing himself in a manner similar to that of a character in his latest book, and is overcoming the disability that has crippled him from the age of three. , ; This is, how Mr Beresford: told; the story of his victory:—“When I, was three years of age I caught, a-chill at ■Brighton. It was just an ordinary:chi)).'the'.remedy .was ,tp he tucked up in bed.. The next morning, however, when I got out of bed I fell to the floor. My nurse, who was watching me, thought I was shaniining. But I found that I could not stand. The best doctors in London were called in, but the case was pronounced to be hopeless.My/left leg was stricken with infantile paralysis and I have been lame all my, life.' ‘ ’‘ . ' : y . “ For five years now I have believed that the’influence of a man’s mind,over his body "is far greater than we ever dream. And one day just five months ago I sat .down to write a novel which carried out this idea as its central theme.” The heroine of this story, Mr Beresford explained, is Rosemary Henderson, but into her mouth arid mind he has put his own. thoughts and hit own philosophy. ‘ _ ’ Rosemary is paralysed in exactly the same way as her creator, audv the story deals with how she regained the full use of her leg, which had been shrivelled by the dread disease since childhood. “ Every ounce of my being went into the creation of Rosemary, said Mr Beresford. “ Day and night I thought about her. Her spirit was also mine while she was being healed. And then the miracle that came to Her began to come to me. My Teg, which has been useless , and without feeling for fiftyseven years, began to acquire new life.' “I wrote the book becaiise Ibclieve that the age of miracles is not over,, and that if sufferers have faith miracles are possible. I do not mind the fact that I shall .not be completely healed. I have get so used to it now, I am too old to change the habit cf being lame.”