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...this atmosphere arrived an unlikely heroine: a strong-jawed, 26-year-old matron named Anna Cora Mowatt. Anna's lawyer-husband had broken down physically and financially, and Anna blithely set out to recoup by writing a play. Fashion, her maiden effort, ran a respectable string of performances at the Park in 1845, and launched Author Mowatt on a heady career as an actress. It also gave the U.S. its first home-grown play of any success...
...Fisher* blessed Godfrey Mowatt and sent him forth in the name of the Church of England to heal the sick. Since then, hundreds of cures have been credited to him. But he knows better: "You can't say I have cured them. I have been allowed to see people cured through...
Something Unusual. At the age of seven, Healer Mowatt accidentally blinded one of his eyes with a knife; he soon lost the sight of the other one as well. For the next decade he struggled with black despair. But gradually his courage and his faith in God won him such independence from his blindness that he was even able to ride to hounds with a friend guiding his horse and calling the jumps. In his twenties he devoted himself to full-time work with the blind. But it was not until about ten years ago that he began to discover...
...just seemed that after I had visited someone and talked to them for a while, they felt better," he says. Doctors began noticing the strangely beneficial effects of Mowatt's bedside visits, and urged him to call on their patients regularly. Today Healer Mowatt refuses to see patients without a doctor's recommendation...
Some Kind of Power. Mowatt heals, he thinks, by acting as a medium through which the sick person is able to believe in and accept the healing powers of nature, which can then take over and do the job. On his visit to a patient, he generally talks for a while of these powers and of God, then begins to pray. After praying, he says, he feels "vibrations" building up inside him, and when he touches the sick ones the vibrations pass from his "body into theirs, bringing relief. His work seems especially successful with paralytics and victims of nervous...