RATANA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18446, 6 January 1922, Page 5

RATANA

A MIRACULOUS *CURE. ‘ , <■' BEDRIDDEN CRIPPLE WALES. od* - ‘5 ■■- . . ; ■ - . THROWS DOWN THE GAGE TO : " ! ’-’ sceptics. • * ' ■ ' . ‘ .* (Fbo u Opb Own Cobekspohbeht.> AUCKLAND, January 5. ‘5 “It is said that the day of miracles i* , ended. Well, in me , you have A.'Uvs^g.'; proof that such is noWtho case.” these ' words, uttered in an intorostmg,ipt^meyf/' Miss F. Lammas, of Nelson, flung', down the gag e to all sceptics, non -believers, ■ and ■ adverse critics of the work of Rataaa, ( Maori healer. - . ’ Eleven months ago Miss Lamnus,lay. the point of death.. “Write to advised her doctor, “it is your 'JJ Medical science has done its utmost : and failed. Nothing but a miracle can-help .( you now.” So in utter feebleness,'’'hardly ’ able to grasp the pen, she wrote just few words at the time seeking help of the ■ j man she had been told had already helped - >\ so many others. ••.' t . ‘ ■; “After a' whole day spent in .prayer,” • said Miss Lammas, ,‘T felt a most• ful sensation of strength and healing rush. through my body, and I knew in an..jnslap| -® that 1 was cured. I, who had lain H utterly helpless for" a year, for five -yqm-y; unable to walk, for nearly 20 years.aH|a ‘ f only to move a, little by moans of a steel frame which enwrapped, my whole■;body,>l ‘S rose to my feet, walked round the. room; and called out to my people to tomoand ■':* see a miracle.” \ Ever since ..this experience last February | Miss Lammas has continued to improve iq - health, ’and is steadily gaining in weight, .' and says she lias never had a * set-back. “Her doctor, ythe lost of 30 medical ad visits.’w£p have treated her case, is thoroughlyfamiliar* > with every detail of her illness,‘arid expresses the opinion that the case is a most remarkable one. For the first time in over nine years Miss Lammas has now undofr'-V, taken a long trip from home.' Her last journey was to Wellington nine years ago, ‘ -.1 whore she was token in an invalid,,chair, wearing her steel frame. The latter was a “ structure whith gripped v her body at* the shoulders and waist with leather supports, and hinged at the hips and knees*., J Lammas left Nelson six, weeks ago, ■ aria H since then has visited Wellingtons $ nui, and Te Aroha. She arrived in -Aack'land on Tuesday, not a whit upset by the long day s travel from the latter district. -, She is at present staying at an hotel,' where V she walks up three flights of stairs to. reads her room. _ / At the request of Eatana, Miss Lamina* spent a day at a great Maori camp at Wanganui, this being the first time, she rhad met the man to whom she consider* that she owes so much. She was given » cordial reception by the Maoris, and hAa a most interesting interview with Rataaiv himself, who regards her case ah one o£ 1„■ the most notable with which he has .been' connected.. When told that many people l V were still sceptical as to the value’ of J.i Katana’s work, and who demanded absolute proof of his cures, MiSs Lammas replied: “I shall be only too willing to talk to any. _ clergyman, or doctor, or anyone else who J, seeks proof. But for Batons I should. now have either been dead or enduring .q what was little better than a living death;’, ,|j the only form of existence X had known *5, for 19 years.”