It will be seen from this her utter physical helplessness, and not the slightest hope of any amelioration.  During the night of August 27th, she enjoyed a blessed time of communion with her Lord, giving herself, in all her helplessness, wholly to Him to do as he wills.

With feelings beyond all expression, she felt the nearness of her mighty Savior, and the sense of receiving a new and most delicious pulsation of new life.  At last, though she had been bed-ridden for twelve months, and incapable of any bodily assistance, she felt an uncontrollable impulse to throw off the clothes of the bed with her left arm, and sprang out of bed upon her feet, and started to walk across the room.

“Her husband’s first thought was that she was crazed, and would fall to the floor, and he sprang towards her to help her.  But she put up her hands against him, saying with great energy, ’Don’t you touch me!  Don’t you touch me!’ and went walking back and forth across the room speaking rapidly, and declaring the work which Jesus had been working upon her.

“Her husband, quickly saw that she was in her right mind, and had been healed by the Lord, and his soul was filled with unutterable emotion.

“One of the women of the household was called, also their son, twelve years old, and together they thanked God for the great and blessed wonder he had wrought.

“In the morning, after a sleep of several hours, she further examined herself to see if entirely healed, and found both knees perfectly well; and though for sixteen years she had not been able to use either, now she lifted the left foot and put it upon the right knee, thus proving the completeness of her restoration.

“At the end of two years from her healing, inquiry having been made as to how thorough had been the work, Mrs. Sherman gave full and abundant evidence.  ’I cannot remember a Summer when I have been so healthy and strong, and able to work hard.  I am a constant wonder to myself, and to others, and have been for the two years past.  The cure exceeded my highest expectations at the time I was cured.  I did not look forward to such a state of vigor and strength.  No words can express my joy and gratitude for all this.’

“The parents of Mrs. Sherman also testify of the wonderful change physically which occurred with the cure.

“Before, her appetite was always disordered, but on the very morning of the healing it was wholly changed, and her food, which distressed her formerly, she ate with a relish and without any pain following; and she so continues.  For years before a natural action of the bowels was rare.  From that day since, an unnatural one is equally rare.

“For fifteen years, with few exceptions, she had had severe neuralgic sick headaches monthly or oftener.  From that time she has been natural and without pain, with no return of the headaches, except a comparatively slight one once, from overdoing and a cold taken through carelessness.