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Thin mortticg we made occasion to call on her and asked her the direct question whether her eyesight was restored. Her answer was that she did not desire to talk about the matter at that time, but would write an article for theTlHES which was r.attded m today, and which wo willingly published.It is Hamii t who tolU his compnuion There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philoap iy, Hera* tio,” and it may he that restoring sight to this woman was one of the things that wer® not noted in Hamlet's and btfatio’a philosophy. Sight may bit impure 1 by various causes, and aside from those scientifically taught in anatomy or physics, there arc other reasons that the reflection of the object oa the retina of the eye is not intelligently discerned by tfie hrain. The nerve*, the telegraph lines which eonuecta every bodily function with the mind, may not he in working order, and a agfldon shock or the strain caused by the con centra tion of will power m a certain direction— ax an active faith in the performance of anv aot requires—may replace theae in a normal condition. We are not fully informed if this lady received her sight last night while in the act of proving; but if she did it may be accounted for in a hundred different ways, according to the lawa of physics. It waa not a miracle—in the common meaning of the term that it ia an occurrence contrary to existing phenomena and contradicting the well-establisbed rules of cause and effect. The grotto of Our Lady at Lbunie* in the sooth of Franc* is dited with tey* eral wonderful cure#, and all resulting from the exercise oi faith* but which* minutely analysed by abstract reason, are simply natural results from natural caon s. Faith is yerv curative, for nearly half the ills to which human flesh is heir are earned by a fertile fancy ora diseased i magi mu at ton.
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Dalles Times Mountaineer
Dalles, Oregon, US
Sat, Jul 07, 1894
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