A Personal Testimony by Mary E. Armstrong

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Aug 4, 1904

A Personal Testimony

By Mary E. Armstrong

I FEEL under obligation to make known to my brethren and sisters the great thing which the Lord has done for me, to ask them to praise the Lord with me, and I also hope that this may be the means in the Lord’s hands of increasing our faith in his precious promises of healing. July 28 of last year the Lord, in answer to prayer, healed me in a most miraculous manner.

I am in my eighty-first year, and had suffered greatly for over a year with cancer on the breast, scrofula, hip disease, chronic heart-disease, and an abscess on my face, caused by having the jaw-bone fractured when having some teeth extracted. For several months I had been confined to my room in the Women’s Annex Soldiers’ Home, suffering intense pain day and night, until it was quite evident that there was no human help for me.

About four weeks previous to the time of my healing, the Lord impressed me to seek him, to know if it was his will that I should be healed. During that time I put away all medicines, and took him alone for my Great Physician. After waiting on the Lord in this manner for three weeks, he gave me evidence that if I carried out the injunction of James 5:14-16, it would please him to heal me for the glory of his name. I then called for the elders of the Grand Rapids church, and Brother and Sister Leland made arrangements to take me to their home, which they did July 27, the day appointed for prayer and anointing by the elders, who were to meet me there.

Circumstances were such that neither of the elders could come, one of them being out of the city. Not knowing this, we waited through the evening, and my faith was somewhat shaken. Next day we waited on the Lord, then before retiring, we wrestled with the Lord in my behalf. After a season of importunate prayer we retired, and I slept all night, and until after seven o’clock next morning, something I had not been able to do for over nine years.

Sister Leland, anxious to know my condition, woke me. I stood on my feet, and realized at once that the heavy burden of disease under which I had struggled so long, was all gone. Praise the Lord! I went out and told the family that the Lord had taken all my diseases away, and made me every whit whole. Then we all praised the Lord together.

After breakfast I returned to the Soldiers’ Home, in order to bear witness to the wonderful things the Lord has done for me. The Lord is wonderfully blessing me daily, for which I praise him. 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 truth.

MARY E. ARMSTRONG.

Soldiers’ Home, Kent Co., Mich.