Healing Springs
dey shall rise to walk,' he say. _Bagosh_, you not t'ink dat true? Den you
go see."

So Jansen turned out to see, and besides the man they found a curious
thing. At the foot of the knoll, in a space which he had cleared, was a
hot spring that bubbled and rose and sank, and drained away into the
thirsty ground. Luck had been with Ingles the Faith Healer. Whether he
knew of the existence of this spring, or whether he chanced upon it, he
did not say; but while he held Jansen in the palm of his hand, in the
feverish days that followed, there were many who attached mysterious
significance to it, who claimed for it supernatural origin. In any case,
the one man who had known of the existence of this spring was far away
from Jansen, and he did not return till a day of reckoning came for the
Faith Healer.

Meanwhile, Jansen made pilgrimage to the Springs of Healing, and at
unexpected times Ingles suddenly appeared in the town, and stood at street
corners; and in his "Patmian voice," as Flood Rawley the lawyer called it,
warned the people to flee their sins, and, purifying their hearts, learn
to cure all ills of mind and body, the weaknesses of the sinful flesh and
the "ancient evil" in their souls, by faith that saves.

"'_Is not the life more than meat?_'" he asked them. "And if,
peradventure, there be those among you who have true belief in hearts all
purged of evil, and yet are maimed, or sick of body, come to me, and I
will lay my hands upon you, and I will heal you." Thus he cried.

There were those so wrought upon by his strange eloquence and spiritual
passion, so hypnotized by his physical and mental exaltation, that they
rose up from the hand-laying and the prayer eased of their ailments.
Others he called upon to lie in the hot spring at the foot of the hill for
varying periods, before the laying-on of hands, and these also, crippled
or rigid with troubles of the bone, announced that they were healed.

People flocked from other towns, and though, to some who had been cured,
their pains and sickness returned, there were a few who bore perfect
evidence to his teaching and healing, and followed him, "converted and
consecrated," as though he were a new Messiah. In this corner of the West
was such a revival as none could remember--not even those who had been to
camp-meetings in the East in their youth, and had seen the Spirit descend
upon hundreds and draw them to the anxious seat.

Then came the great s