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Show MODERN MIRACLES. "Mr. Matthew Gray of the Seventh ward is perhaps the happiest hap-piest person in Zanesville today; so he seemed, at least, when seen at his pleasent Abington avenue home ly a Signal representee at an early hour this morning. "And, too, there is nothing strange or remarkable about Mr. Gray's happiness, though it was the result of one of the strangest and most remarkable faith tests ever enacted in this city; and the story of Mr. Gray's miraculous cure of a relentless affliction will j bo read with much interst. In October, three years ago, Jlfatthew Gray was stricken with paralysis the terrible disease nf-fecting nf-fecting his entire left side. For a ! lygamy are: Elder Fred J. Wads-worth Wads-worth of Taylor, Idaho; Elder J. E. Wilson Jr. of Logan, Utah, Elder El-der Edward F. Turley of Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, and Elder E. F. Malan, Ogden. "Now for the interesting part of the story, related to a Signal reporter re-porter by Mr. Giay himself, and given rs nenr as possible in his own words.: " 'Last Friday these four 3or-mon 3or-mon Elders called at my home here. They were very genteel in appearance ap-pearance and actions and asked me if I wouldn't like to look over some of their tracts, etc., and also asked me if I would not let them cure me by faith. I consented and they impressed upon me very strongly that I should not have "When seen by a Signal reporter report-er representave this morning, Mr. Gray was sitting in his big arm chair with his left foot in a bucket of hot water a household remedy for sprains. To illustrate the extent ex-tent of his cure the happy gentleman gentle-man shook hands with the writer, using first his right hand and next his left hand, and the latter member, mem-ber, which for three years had remained re-mained dead almost at his side, contained a strong and hearty grip. Many times he raised his left arm above his head and waved it to and fro to illustrate the positive use he had of the member, and while relating re-lating the above experience he gesticulated ges-ticulated as freely with his left arm as with the right, ilany times he lifted the left foot from the water without any apparent effort and accompanied the pleasant pleas-ant movement with a smile almost glorious in its extent and meaning. year to the month Mr. Gray was able to walk with the help of crutches, but during the following Octobr, two years ago, he was the recipient of a second stroke of paralysis, and from that time un- faith in them but should place all my faith in God aa it was through Him and not them that that my cure would be accomplished. accomplish-ed. This liberal statement on their part and their own sincerity aided me materially, for I always knew that God alone could cure i me, and, do you know, I have al- ways thought that God would cure I me. " 'As I said before, I consented and they 86t Sunday afternoon nt 2 o'clock for the time of holding the meeting, and additionally stated stat-ed that from then, Friday morning, morn-ing, until after the faith meeting they would not eat anything, as a period of fasting seemed necces-sary. necces-sary. " 'Sunday afternoon, or yesterday yester-day afternoon, at 2 o'clock the four Elders came here to my hone and after repeatedly instructing "me to put my faith in God they knelt at my bedside in prayer, my wife being be-ing the sixth occupant of the room. " 'Following this prayer, and while I was sitting here in my big arm chair one of the Elders liberally liber-ally anointed my head with oil xuaunew urray is a wen Known citizen of Zanesville. He was born and raised in Juskingum county and he and his good wife have reared a family of ten children, child-ren, all but one whom reside in the county. Mrs. Bert Poe, the estimable estim-able wife of the foreman of the Times Ilecorder press room, is a daughter and their four youngest children are attending the city schools. "Mr. Gray entered the army in 1862 as a member of the New York Reserve artillery, and was later a member of the 159th regi- ' ment. O.V.I. In 1864 he was honorably discharged from the regiment and entered the navy, remaining there a year. In 1866 he was married to Miss Sarah Straub of this city, who is yet. a helpmate and who has cared faithfully faith-fully for him during his three years of affliction. The above is from the Zanesville (O.) Signal, and we wish to add an account of another miraculous case of healing through faith, which occurred oc-curred in this city, on the 7th of October, 1897. For several years, til yesterday Mr. Gray has been deprived of all use of his left side, the entire left portion of his body being apparently dead, his left arm being limp and palsied at his side and his left foot and leg was in the same inanimate condition. "Such, in brief, has been Mat- ' thew Gray's condition for more than three years, and two years of that time he has either set helplessly help-lessly in his large arm chair or has' laid in bed, seemingly waiting for the death angel to relieve him of his suffering. "Last Thursday two visitors peculiarly pe-culiarly clad, knocked at the Gray homestead and were granted admission ad-mission to the afflicted man's chamber. These visitors were two Mnrmon Elders who have been in Joseph H. Randall has been troubled troub-led with a swelling and sore feeling in the glands of his throat which has been increasing in severity each year, and as the cold weather was approaching he began to be afflicted so badly that he felt he could not stand it another winter: so one day he fervently prayed to God that he might be healed, and it was not long after that a calcarious substance about the size of a small peach pit came into his mouth, which astonished aston-ished him. He thought of his throat and found it healed and the swelling entirely gone, and it has 'been well ever since. We can vouch for he truth of this statement and have seen the calcarious substance referred to. Zanesville for the past few weeks, and whose mission to the Clay city has been regarded with only passing interest. They have apparently ap-parently contented themselves with the performance of the simple sim-ple task of distributing tracts and making a house-to-house canvass of the city, in the interest of their peculiar and rather degenerate creed Mormonism. In no instance, in-stance, however, did either of these strange visitors intrude themselves upon any person or make themselves them-selves obnoxious. Be it sr.id to their credit, they visited only where a welcome was extended them and where their earnest efforts bade fair to meet with some sort of success. To many homes they have been admitted out of curiosity; from some, doubtless, they have been barred, and in some instances doubtless they have been treated kindly. They came here for the mere purpose of performing perform-ing a peculiar duty. The names of four of th.'so diciples of po- sacred oil and alter that was done they formed a circle around my chair, each one placeing his right hand on my head and all placed their left hands on each other's shoulders. I had perfect faith in all that they were doing, and, while each of the four Elders earnestly prayed. I, too, bent my head in reverence and appealed with all the faith at my command to God for dt liverance from my affliction. " 'Finally they concluded and one of the Elders commanded me to walk. All at once I became possessed of an almost superhuman superhum-an desire to get up and walk and when I tried to, after my muscles quivered for a brief instant, I raised' rais-ed' my left arm and then stood upJ I took a step and found I cotld move my left leg. I took another step and walked out into the kitchen kitch-en and back. After awhile I made the round trip to the kitchen again and while on the third trip, my left ankle turned slightly and I sat down. "'While I am profusely thankful thank-ful to the four Elders for the interest in-terest that they manifested in my case. I want it distinctly uuder-btood uuder-btood that I look to God as my do-I do-I liverer and not to them. |