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Show THEY HELD THEJRUE SPIRIT. (Salt Lake Herald-Republican.) Rather an interesting incident occurred at a Catholic church in San Francisco on a recent occasion. oc-casion. A number of priests conducted what appears ap-pears to have been an open meeting, and it was attendedamong at-tendedamong others by several Christian Scientists. Scien-tists. The priests were arguing for the various tenets of the church, and one of the Scientists, in replying which seems to have been invited conceded con-ceded the power of the church to forgive sins, since that seems to have been established at the beginning, begin-ning, and to have been continued as a function of church power and authority ; but the speaker asked why the power to heal the sick had been forgotten or abandoned? The priest in charge of the meeting declared miracles still occurred; that their number was more necessary in the primitive church, since the need of proofs was greater; but that miraculous cures were still of frequent occurrence. Then he told the case of a man healed of paralysis through the medium me-dium of prayers by and with some Catholic friends, the patient himself being a non-Catholic at the time. The story was impressive. But a more pronounced pro-nounced impression followed when a stranger stood up in the full vigor of manhood, in the body of the house, and declared, "I am the man." . At the conclusion of the meeting the Christian Scientists gathered around the paralytic restored, and questioned him. They accepted his story, rejoiced re-joiced that he had been healed, and gave full credence cre-dence to the claims that had been made. |