ugh he never claimed it, when asked, "Are you the Christ?" he
always replied, "I am." He wore a beard and long hair, and dressed in
the plainest clothes. In appearance he looked not unlike the pictures
of the traditional Christ. Afterward he appeared in different parts of
the United States, but never with the same success in healing as in
Denver.[199]

The once famous Dr. Newton arrived in Boston in 1859 on one of his
visits, and caused an extraordinary sensation. Astonishing results
were reported in the way of cures. The lame, having no further need of
crutches, left them behind; the blind were cured, and several chronic
cases were relieved. He had many followers and disciples among whom
was "Dr." Bryant, who settled in Detroit and healed there. Rev. J. M.
Buckley, D.D., met Dr. Newton on a Mississippi steam-boat, when the
latter was returning from Havana with his daughter who was very low
with consumption, and the father doubted if she would reach home
alive. When asked "Doctor, why could you not heal her?" he replied "It
seems as if we cannot always affect our own kindred." At this time he
denounced his pupil, Dr. Bryant, as an "unmitigated fraud who had no
genuine healing power."

"If Bryant be an unmitigated fraud, how do you account
for the cures which he makes?" asked Dr. Buckley.

"Oh!" said the doctor, "they are caused by the faith of
the people and the concentration of their minds upon his
operations with the expectation of being cured. Now,"
said he, "nobody would go to see Bryant unless they had
some faith that he might cure them, and when he begins
his operations with great positiveness of manner, and
when they see the crutches he has there, and hear the
people testify that they have been cured, it produces a
tremendous influence on them; and then he gets them
started in the way of exercising, and they do a good
many things that they thought they could not do; their
appetites and spirits revive, and if toning them up can
possibly reduce the diseased tendency, many of them will
get well."

Said Dr. Buckley: "Doctor, pardon me, is not that a
correct account of the manner in which you perform your
wonderful works?"

"Oh, no," said he; "the difference between a genuine
healer and a quack like Bryant is as wide as the
poles."[200]

Father John of Cronstadt (1829-1908) was a saintly man, and furnishes
us with an example of the healers among the Orthodox Churc