SPIRITUAL HEALING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19032, 9 June 1924, Page 5

SPIRITUAL HEALING

EXCITEMENT IN NEW YORK DEAF HEAR AND CRIPPLES WALK Received June 8, 5.5 p.m. NEW YORK, June 6. Hundreds of persons afflicted with physical and mental ailments besieged St. Paul’s Chapel, where, during the last twentyifour hours, Rev. Robert Bell, an Episcopalian minister, from Denver, Colorado, effected miraculous cures by the laying on of hands. The crowd, after watching cripples approach for treatment and exultingly throw away crutches, waxed highly emotional and surged forward towards the chancel. Women became hysterical, many fainting at the evidence of miraculous power. Rev. Bell, however, calmly continued the treatments, while the vicar summoned police reserves to prevent a riot. Patients included Catholics, Protestants, Jews and atheists, all of whom exposed afflicted organs, on which Rev. Bell made the sign of the Cross, invoking Divine love to make the body whole. In some cases there’ was no response to treatment, but the awestruck audience noted that deafness was almost unfailingly cured. Several paralytics likewise regained their powers. A most remarkable cure was the case of a girl, four years old, whose weak bones were never able to support her. Rev. Bell placed his hands upon her limbs, after which the child began a trance-like walk down the aisle to the outer steps, where she smilingly posed for photographers. Rev. Bell disclaims all personal attributes, saying, “I have no power whatever. It is simply God, whose love, acts through me.”