Singular Revival Scenes
Those who believe that the age of miracles ia gone might have had their faith reet.ified iL they had attended the Apostoiic Church at the Brooklyn Institute recently. Rev. F. Monck, LL. D., F. A. S., who preached there, professes to heal the sick by the laying on of hands. He took his text from Ephesians, the words being "He i8 the savior of the body." The preacher elahorated the theory that the time would, come when there would be no more sicKness. a milennium wtien the body as well as the mind would attain to a state of perfect ion. He did not flx any particular date for this, any inore tíiaD Darwin did for the time when a new species should or could be evolved from existing species, but like the great evolutionist, simply argued that the possibilitie3 of development were in that direction. "It is absurd," he saiJ, "as well as unciiristian to resist the plain teachlngs of Jesús Christ. They shall íay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. He went on to prove by philosop'iy, reason and Scripture that the lion, the larnb and the bear shoald at some distant date harmonizo cordially. At the close of his sermón he requested all wtio were sick and believed in Jesus Christ to ascend the plaiform. Then he said those who did not believe might also go up, as the Nazarene had sometimes effected great cures upon unbelievers, through which he forctd l-ü rt -- . l nl -■ j-v i A A l-i -v ■ i #- nii% I An til Luoiii LU ucucvc. iiuuut tnu uuioii people went uponthe platform, afflicted with rheutnatism, deafness, chroni catarrh, kidney disease and dimness of aight. When the patients were arranged on the platform, Mr. Monck Qrst entered upon a general prayer, and then took hold of them singly in the name of Jesus Christ, making passes like those of a mesmerizer over the part or parts affected, and authoritively commanding the disease to depart. He took a middle-aged lady who complaiued of dimness of sight, to shut her eyes. He thon made passes over them, then touched the lids gently with his hands, and prayed that clearness of vision might be restored to her. She then open her eyea and declared she could see much better. A young lady who had an affection of chrouic catarrh, complicated with deaf ness of several years' duration, was then taken in hand. The clergyman made passes over head and face, then taring her nose gently between hi3 two hands, gave it a little pull, which caused her to arch her swanlike neck, and commanded the catarrh to depart. Then releasing the young lady's nasal appendage, he asked her if sbe breathed more freely than before. Contracting the humeral muscles, she raised her shoulders, drew a long inspiratien, and answered promptly in the afflrmative. She showed symptoms of being very deaf, however. The tbaumaturgist then proceeded to opérate upon her auricular organs, first by rubbing them with his hand, and thsn blowing intothe intercal ear. He next clasped her forehead with his right hand, while the left was la'd on tbe back of her head, shaking tbe head as if attempting to stir up the brains in some way that might communicate magnetic influence. Whatever may have been the mode of action, the eftect was all that could be desired. The young lady claimed to be so íar restored as to hear. ordinaiy conversation, and after a few more passes and a short prater, she coald distinctly hear a low whisper. The effects .were similar iii most of the other case3, nuinber two dozen in all. That must have been a uniquo and beautiful sight, a few days since, off Sandy Hook, when, at the lifting of the dense fog w'nich had prevailed for thirty-two höurs, twenty-three ocean ateamerb took up again the homeward journey, interiüpted so near its close, sailing up the harbor in stately succession - an argosy of commercial wealth. international peace and glad home coming.
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