“Another lady, the same week my wife was healed, a member of the First Congregational Church, confined to her bed with a complicated disease, was prayed for, and restored at once to soundness.”

THE WONDERFUL CURE OF MRS. SHERMAN.

Although there are so many cases of healing in answer to prayer, yet the incident of the healing of Mrs. Sherman is so minute, and resulted in such a radical change of the physical constitution, that it is necessary to relate it in full detail.  It is too well proven to admit the possibility of a doubt.

“Mrs. Ellen Sherman is the wife of Rev. Moses Sherman, and, at the time of this occurrence, in 1873, they were residents of Piermont, N.H.  She had been an invalid for many years.  In the Winter after she was fifteen, she fell on the ice and hurt her left knee, so that it became weak and easy to slip out of joint.  Six years after, she fell again on the same knee, so twisting it and injuring the ligaments that it became partially stiff, and, the physician said, incurable.

“The next Summer, by very fast walking, one day, she brought on special weakness, which no physician was able to cure.  From that moment she was subject to severe neuralgia, sick-headaches, at least monthly, and sometimes even weekly.

“In December, 1859, while stepping out of doors, she slipped, by reason of her stiff joint, and fell, striking near the base of the spine, directly across the sharp edge of the stone step.  This caused such a sickness that she was obliged to leave the school she was attending.

“Three years after (in January, 1862), she fell at the top of a stairway, striking just as before, and sliding all the way down to the foot.  This nearly paralyzed the spinal cord, and caused deep and permanent spinal disease.  After this she was up and down for many years, attended by various physicians, yet nothing bettered, but, rather, growing worse.  It may be said, for short, that every organ of the lower body became chronically diseased, and that the headaches increased in violence.

“In September, 1872, through a severe cold, she took her bed, where she lay, except when lifted from it, till the night of August 27, 1873.  She was unable to walk a step, or even stand.  She could sit up only a short time without great distress.  The best medical skill that could be procured gave only temporary relief.  The spine grew worse in spite of every appliance, and the nervous sensitiveness and prostration were increasing.  During the two or three weeks immediately preceding her cure she was especially helpless, two persons being required to lift her off and on the bed.  On the Monday before, one of her severest neuralgia sick-headaches came on.  During Wednesday she began to be relieved, but was still so sick that when, in the evening, she tried to have her clothes changed, she could only endure the change of her night-dress.”