with bread, fruit, vegetable*, and milk only—no meat. The Friday noon meeting of each week is specially devoted to faith cures and the anointing with oil in the name of the Lord, according to the Apostolic direction. Last Friday seven persons presented themselves for anointing. One young woman said she had been an invalid nearly all her life, and for years could not valk across the floor of the room. Through faith and prnyer she had been healed ho that she was well and strong, generally, but she was still troubled with weak eyes. She had not been auointed with oil, and she had faith to believe that if she should her eyes also would be cured, and she had come with that purpose in view. Brother Newton mentioned the case ot a Mrs ftyder in Grass Valley, who had been so distressed with sickness
and pain for two months that she I ionged to die. Eight days ago she j was miraculously healed by faith and prayer, and was now quite well, i Kev. Mr Knight, a Baptist clergymen of this city, said that Christ wap »he great surgeon as well as phvsician. The little daughter of Mrs Maxwell, I residing at 123 Fremont-street, who through an injury to one of her lags,
which caused it to become shorter than the other, so that she had a 'decided limp in her walk, had received surgical treatment from the Lord in answer to prayer, and the injured limb was made as long and strong as the The case of a .Mrs Harrington,
at M Lipidge-street, near Eighteenth, was also spoken of. This was a case of paralysis, and the cure was claimed to be complete. A young lady said her family, mc'uding herself, had been very sickly. One or the other of them, sometimes several of them at a time, would be <ick, and medicines and doctor's bills kept them in poverty. But since they had taken desua Christ as their familv physieiau, now more than a year, they had no sickness of any account. It any of them was taken ill they •/raved, and the sick one was healed
wi'hout any medicine, it was a blessed relief. She was herself now, without a pain or ache, though she had before been quite ailing, and recommended all her friends to engage Jesus .is their family physician, and throw physic to the dogs.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1515, 15 January 1886, Page 3
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