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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 3, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 9.

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To Give God the Glory

In a recent letter, Elder G. M. Brown, of North Carolina, speaks of the healing power of the Lord experienced in the case of his mother, the wife of Elder M. H. Brown. A brief extract will not only gladden the hearts of friends of the family, but will help to increase faith in the power that saves. Elder Brown says his mother suffered from pneumonia, and was given up by the attending physicians, who left saying they could do no more. They were keeping the patient alive only by the use of oxygen, with continually increasing progress of the disease. Elder Brown says:—
“While we had continually made her case a subject of prayer, we felt that the time had come to unite in prayer for her in a more definite way; so the family—father, my sister and her husband, and myself—knelt at her bedside, committing her wholly into the Lord’s hands, and asking for her healing if it would be for his glory and her good.
“The best efforts of our medical advisers had proved unavailing, the physicians had given up the case. The experience of Israel at the Red Sea was brought forcibly to my mind, and it was impressed upon me that as God permitted his people to come into the strait place in order that their deliverance might be wholly a manifestation of his power and love, without opportunity for human boasting, so our Father had permitted this affliction in order that the community might see a manifestation of the power of the living God, and that we his servants might know that he was leading us.
“Mother had expected to die, and had arranged her business and made all preparations; but after our prayer season, although there was no special outward sign of healing, she said that she was going to recover. One time she said to me: ‘There is a power outside of me that is at work in my system, driving out disease. I can feel it.’ Her recovery was slow, but continuous, and she is now again doing the housework for father and herself.”