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How I Was Healed

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jan 12, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 2.

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How I Was Healed

By Emily J. Schafer

I FEEL under obligation to make known my brethren, sisters, and readers of the REVIEW how wonderfully the dear Lord healed me, and to ask them to praise the Lord with me.
My health had been failing for a year and six months, when, last June, I again had to take to my bed. I was getting weaker every day, and the doctors were of no avail to me. About two weeks before my healing, James 5:14-16 became very dear to my heart, and these verses stayed with me. I read them again and again, and they became dearer every time I read them. July 17 we sent for an elder. I was then so weak that I could speak but a few words at a time, and could not lift my hands from my sides. Monday night, the eighteenth, I bade all my loved ones good-by. It seemed as if my heart would break when I saw my dear husband and children, sister, and friends stand by my bedside weeping. O, the trial no one knows but those who have gone through the same experience!
Tuesday, July 19, Elder W. J. Boynton came to see me. He read James 5:14-16, and then prayer was offered, and I was anointed with oil in the name of the Lord; and after prayer, praise God, I sat up in bed and sang two stanzas of the hymn, “Nearer, my God, to thee.”
At six o’clock I stood up on my feet, something I had not been able to do for six weeks, and was assured of his blessed promise, and that the heavy burden of disease under which I had struggled so long was all gone. I ate supper with my family, the first nourishment I had taken for over six weeks. I slept all night, something I had not been able to do for months.
The Lord is wonderfully blessing me daily, and strengthening my faith in him, for which I praise him; and I hope that this may be the means in the Lord’s hands of increasing our faith in his precious promises of healing. Why should we doubt his promises?
May each one who reads this have his faith increased, and may we all be enabled to take hold of his strength, is the prayer of your sister in the blessed hope.
EMILY J. SCHAFER.