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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 24, 1885

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 26, No. 21.

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Answer to Prayer.

By James White

Bro. WHITE: The Lord has manifested his loving-kindness in this church by raising up, in answer to prayer, one of his children who was sick and afflicted.
Sister Susan McIntosh, a member of the Hundred Mile Grove church, was taken sick about the 15th of Sept, 1865, with fever and chronic stomach complaint. She was influenced by the advice of her friends to send for a physician. He came and at once commenced administering calomel. The result was, she grew worse, and at the end of nine or ten days her stomach was so deranged that she could not take anything into it, it distressed her so. She had become so reduced in strength that she could not sit up. Her physician told her he did not know when she would be any better. She thought of her condition a few hours, and then decided to carry her case to the Lord, according to the fifth chapter of James. She then sent word to her physician that he need not come any more, and then sent for a few of her brethren and sisters in Christ to come together and pray for her.
We came together on the afternoon of the 28th of September, at her place of residence, and after the sisters had anointed her with oil in the name of the Lord, we all knelt down around her bed asking the Lord in prayer to heal our sick and afflicted sister. Satan tried to tempt us at first to doubt and fear, but we humbly persevered in calling upon the Lord to heal and strengthen her. The good Lord heard us; the fever left her, and the Lord gave her strength so that she arose and dressed herself with a little help, and praised the Lord for what he had done for her. The Lord blessed us all, my heart was overflowing with love and praise to God for what he had done for us. We all wept and confessed our sins, resolving to live more faithfully in the future. It was truly a good time, and one that I shall not soon forget; such love to God and to one another I never witnessed before.
Our sister was healed according to the promise of God, in answer to prayer. She is now able to be about the house and to walk out of doors, and is fast recovering her usual health. "And these signs shall follow them that believe, in my name they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover," &c. Mark xvi, 17, 18.
Yours in hope. Lodi, Wis., Oct. 2, 1865. N. M. Jordon.