p. 17 | An Experience in Healing by Mrs. G. W. Rowe

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 30, 1916

An Experience in Healing

By Mrs. G. W. Rowe

BELIEVING it will be a source of encouragement to our people, and that it will be to the glory of God, I wish to relate an experience that came to me last year.

Last spring, in the month of March, I was taken very sick, and suffered excruciating pain. The doctor was called, and after several days decided that I must go to a sanitarium. The physicians there, upon examination, said that only by undergoing a surgical operation could I find relief. The operation was a very serious one, and I was at the sanitarium about six weeks. I hoped to be a well woman in the end, but as the time drew near for me to return home, I found to my bitter disappointment that I was unable to walk. I was carried to and from the train, and then got about on crutches as best I could, hoping against hope all summer long that I should get the use of my limb. September came, however, and found me still on crutches, with increasing pain.

It is impossible for me to tell of my depression of spirit, but suffice it to say that my extreme necessity drove me to the Source of all comfort. September 17 Elders F. I. Richardson and G. A. Snyder were called to anoint me and pray for me. True to the Lord's promise, the prayer of faith saved the sick, and he raised me up. I was healed instantly. A cooling sensation began at the back of my head and passed over my body like electricity. Several minutes passed before I realized that I was healed, so occupied was my mind with my spiritual condition, as the sweet comfort of the knowledge of sins forgiven took possession of my heart. Then I realized that God had done a complete work, and that the part of the promise I had not noticed before, “And if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him,” was also fulfilled to me. I did not realize how complete a work God had done for me until I went to put on my glasses. I had been obliged to wear glasses from the time I was twelve years old, but on this day, as I raised them to my eyes, I found that they were an obstruction to my sight. Then I noticed also that the ulcers had disappeared from my mouth.

Never had I enjoyed such perfect health as I have had since my healing. My heart goes out in praise and thanksgiving to our heavenly Father for his wonderful love to me in granting not only health of body, but also peace of mind. To him be all the glory.

Mrs. G. W. ROWE.