Faith Healer Does a Rattling Business in Indiana

Clymer, Indiana, 1911

Faith Healer Does a Rattling Business at Clymer

Hundreds of People Treated on Sunday, Most of Them Professing That They Were Cured. Some of Them Lift Their Crutches.

MANY INDIANA FOLKS TOOK TREATMENT

Miles Wall, a faith healer from Curwensville, is attracting considerable attention in this vicinity. He is said to have cured hundreds of persons at Clymer on Sunday. People who have been suffering from sundry ailments say that they have been relieved by the treatment, if such it can be called, given them.

Wall believes that he is endowed with the power of divine healing. Many instances of remarkable cures are recited by persons who have taken treatment from him. Twelve Indiana people went to Clymer on the 6:45 street car on Sunday morning and others continued to go all day to visit Wall. It is estimated that at least 100 persons from this town visited the man and took treatment from him. His fee is 75 cents per patient, and he claims he can cure any disease except those of heredity and deformities that were born with the patients.

One Indiana man had a child five years of age that would not eat. He took his child to Curwensville where he knew Wall could be found. The child had wasted away and was in a very bad condition. Wall handled the child and asked him if he wanted anything to eat. The little fellow ate enough for two persons and since that time has never uttered a word of complaint and is apparently healthy.

An Indiana woman suffering from rheumatism went to Clymer on Sunday and on Monday was working in her garden, claiming that her rheumatism had left her and that she had no traces of the former pain.

Another local woman suffered from a slight failing in hearing. Wall touched her ear and the woman claims that she never experienced such powers of hearing as she now enjoys.

Several persons from the surrounding country went to Clymer on crutches and after taking treatment from Wall left for their homes leaving their crutches in Clymer.

Wall began treating patients at 4 o'clock on Sunday morning and so numerous were they that he did not finish until about midnight that evening.

This is his second visit to Clymer, he having been there one Sunday previous when it is said that sixty persons were cured of sundry ailments and afflictions.

—Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1911, page 1.