Show prayer brayet and healing girr lyd durham siv nov 06 18 ism M dehr dear brother gowans gowan i 1 I write to inform you that thit since you la last saw me I 1 have met with an accident through r a large stone calling on me I 1 iwas was declared by those who waited on me llie at the time of the occurrence to be le dead but hut my brother william prayed to the lord asking him to restore me to life and he heard and answer answered pd 11 my brothers prayer I 1 was restored I 1 to life by the power of bf god I 1 met with the accident on priday friday the dinst I 1 thank theford the lord for his mercy I 1 wish you brother if you can make it convenient to come to this place blace and take down thi items which I 1 would like to havo have published to the tho world through the millennial siar star as a miracle of gods power I 1 remain your broiher brother bro therIn jn the gospe 1 pel pei of or peace pea ce love iove lo 10 e and union un 0 n johs JOHN SIMPSON jun L durnam DURHAM nuni Duni rai rii dec 1 4 1 1873 prest L J deai dear brother according to the request contained contain edin in the enclosed letter letteri I 1 visited brother simpson and learned that while he be was working in the pit at witton gilbert a large stone nearly five feet square and from five to seven soven inches thick fell fel 1 upon him directly across his hig body and crushed him to the ground his brother who was working close by clotild render him no assistance but he dispatched a boy with all haste for help lu in the mean time his brother who was an elder in the tile church laid his hands upon him and prayed that god would preserve his life when help came it required abou about j six men to remove the stone from ont ott ills liis body and when brother john simpson was taken up and examined by one of the of the pit he be said ilfe life was vas was extinct i but the brother again prayed for him kim and he was restored to life and an 4 to his ills friends ho ire is now able to resume his work we acknowledge the hand of the bordin this matter I 1 your brother bio Bic ther H 8 GOWANS miten MIlen millennial niad nial scar star dec 23 forney eorney AND THE government instead of admiring 0 the policy dictated by the idea that thata a country cant bo be governed tod much col forney seems se 0 ms to be of the t h 0 opinion that this country countr yik yih la setting getting along dong tolerably well not so much by the i aid of profuse and meddling government ern ment as in sp spite ito ite of it as asuit wit ness tho the following from from a western paper new york jan it 11 john IV forney in a lecture last night on public life said of grant he takes tabes his own counsel and follows his own counsel and he seems to think that having been called to the presidency as a reward for his great military services he can do precisely as he be pleases and no one doubts that lie ho is doing it applause and laughter the main questions of the day have nearly all been settled both parties partie sare saro are uniting quietly on the same general platform andee are beginning to realize that there is is such a thing as a great people prospering without tia til tho the 1 e government the whole plan of adjustment whether we consider the war itself the subsequent disbandment of the armies of both sections the emancipation of the slaves the suffrage of the colored men the success of our paper currency the settlement of our difficulties with england the manner in chwe have survived the panic all these are unquestionably the product of the admirable workings of our free institutions more than thail the result of any statesmanlike sa sagacity acety 11 |