Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1877 — An Alleged Miracle. [ARTICLE]

An Alleged Miracle.

About three years ago, Jennie Gris6in ger, a young, lady of this city, was afflicted with disease of the spine, which gradually became worse, until she was obliged to take to her bed. She was attended by physicians, who resorted to every known medical expedient to relieve her except the application to the spine of a red-hot iron. Two of them held it con. consultation recently, at which it was determined to apply this terrible remedy if she would consent to ( go through tne ordeal. They communicated the result of their deliberations to her, but she protested against anv further experiments and said she had made up her mind to trust her case to a supernatural agency for cure—that something had told her she should rise from her long confinement next day. She rose accordingly and sat in a chair. The 1 following day she ■ walked across the room, arid since she has attended church, walking with perfect ease. Owing to the protracted confinement, she is weak, but her spin 6, which was broken in three places, has been restored to its original firmness. The physicians were called in to see het after she left her bed, and expressed their surprise at the marvelous change. Even her lungs, which had been seriously affected, seemed perfectly sound. Miss Grissinger, who resides on Allison’s Hill, attributes her cure to Divine interposition -in answer to prayer. She had. particularly fixed her mind on certain*, passages in the Bible relating to promises. The young lady is daily growing and expects to be restored to perfect health. — Harmburg (Pa.) Patriot. —Affable young man who is smoking his after-supper cigar op the roof of a Broadway stage asks the driver why the check-strap is like conscience, intending, of course, to amuse him with the time-hOn-ored explanation that it ie an inward chfttk, on the outward man. But the charioteer’s answer, “ Because it stretches," showed a more thorough knowledge of the practical'* workings of both elements of the comparison.—H. Y. World. ‘ —lnundation is causing consternation in many parts of the Nation.