“Mrs. Miller is the wife of a Congregational minister, and a lady of unquestionably veracity.  However the fact of her healing is to be accounted for, her story is no doubt worthy of entire confidence, as we have known her for years as a lame, suffering invalid, and now see her in our midst in sound health.  This instantaneous restoration will be accounted for by different persons in different ways.  Mrs. Miller and those who were present regard the healing as supernatural and a direct answer to prayer.  The facts must speak for themselves.  Why should not the sick be healed in answer to the prayer of faith?  Unbelief can discredit them, but faith sees nothing incredible in such facts as are stated by Mrs. Miller.  Mrs. Miller’s own statement is as follows, and it is fully endorsed by the most reliable citizens and members of the First church at Oberlin: 

“From my parents I inherited a constitution subject to a chronic form of rheumatism.  In early life I was attacked with rheumatic weaknesses and pains, which affected my whole system.  For nearly forty years I was subject to more or less suffering from this cause, sometimes unable to attend meeting for months at a time.  For seven years, until the last three months, I have been unable to get about without the aid of crutch or staff, generally both.  I have used many liniments and remedies, but with no permanently good result.  I have been a Christian from early life, but last Spring, in our revival, I received a spiritual refreshing from the Lord, which gave a new impulse to my faith.  Since then my religion has been a new life to me.

“Last Summer, several of us Christian sisters were in the habit of spending short seasons of prayer together, that the Lord would send us a pastor.  Some of our number had read the narrative of Dorothea Trudel, and had spoken to me on the subject of healing in answer to prayer.  My faith had not then risen to this elevation.  I had in fact accepted what I supposed to be the will of God, and made up my mind to be a lame and suffering invalid the rest of my life.  I had long since ceased to use remedies for the restoration of my health, and had not even thought of praying in regard to it, for I regarded it as the will of God that I should suffer in silent submission.

“Notwithstanding what had been said to me, I remained in this opinion and in this attitude until the 26th of September, 1872, when several ladies met at our house, by appointment, for a prayer-meeting.  I had been growing worse for some time, and was at that time unable to get out to attend a meeting.  I was suffering much pain that afternoon; indeed, I was hardly able to be out of my bed.  Up to this time none of the sisters who had conversed with me about the subject of healing by faith, had been able to tell me anything from their own experience.  That afternoon, one lady was present who could speak to me from her own experience of being healed in answer to the prayer of faith.  She related several striking