![]() ![]() As it turns out, many of them have experienced similar side effects, and some have killed themselves and others as a result. ![]() This leads him to start looking into the many others that Jacobs has healed. Jamie, meanwhile, grows up to become a musician and begins using heroin, which stops when he meets Jacobs again – Jacobs' unorthodox electrical treatment successfully cures him of his addiction.Īfter being treated, Jamie experiences strange side effects, including sleepwalking and jabbing himself in the arm with sharp objects while in a fugue state, as if trying to inject heroin. Stricken with grief, the reverend denounces God and religion during a sermon, is banished from the town, and spends many years pursuing a career as a sideshow huckster before pretending to regain his belief in God and becoming a prolific faith healer, fuelled by lifelong experiments with electricity. Jacobs and her child die in a gruesome auto accident. Almost everyone in the tiny Maine hamlet comes to love Jacobs, his beautiful wife, and his young son. When Charles Jacobs, a new minister, comes to town, young Jamie Morton is excited. ![]()
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