The Wonderful Cure Of Mrs. Sherman.

Although there are so many cases of healing in answer to prayer, yet the

incident of the healing of Mrs. Sherman is so minute, and resulted in

such a radical change of the physical constitution, that it is necessary

to relate it in full detail. It is too well proven to admit the

possibility of a doubt.



"Mrs. Ellen Sherman is the wife of Rev. Moses Sherman, and, at the time

of this occurrence, in 1873, the were residents of Piermont, N.H. She

had been an invalid for many years. In the Winter after she was fifteen,

she fell on the ice and hurt her left knee, so that it became weak and

easy to slip out of joint. Six years after, she fell again on the same

knee, so twisting it and injuring the ligaments that it became partially

stiff, and, the physician said, incurable.



"The next Summer, by very fast walking, one day, she brought on special

weakness, which no physician was able to cure. From that moment she was

subject to severe neuralgia, sick-headaches, at least monthly, and

sometimes even weekly.



"In December, 1859, while stepping out of doors, she slipped, by reason

of her stiff joint, and fell, striking near the base of the spine,

directly across the sharp edge of the stone step. This caused such a

sickness that she was obliged to leave the school she was attending.



"Three years after (in January, 1862), she fell at the top of a

stairway, striking just as before, and sliding all the way down to the

foot. This nearly paralyzed the spinal cord, and caused deep and

permanent spinal disease. After this she was up and down for many years,

attended by various physicians, yet nothing bettered, but, rather,

growing worse. It may be said, for short, that every organ of the lower

body became chronically diseased, and that the headaches increased in

violence.



"In September, 1872, through a severe cold, she took her bed, where she

lay, except when lifted from it, till the night of August 27, 1873. She

was unable to walk a step, or even stand. She could sit up only a short

time without great distress. The best medical skill that could be

procured gave only temporary relief. The spine grew worse in spite of

every appliance, and the nervous sensitiveness and prostration were

increasing. During the two or three weeks immediately preceding her cure

she was especially helpless, two persons being required to lift her off

and on the bed. On the Monday before, one of her severest neuralgia

sick-headaches came on. During Wednesday she began to be relieved, but

was still so sick that when, in the evening, she tried to have her

clothes changed, she could only endure the change of her night-dress."



It will be seen from this her utter physical helplessness, and not the

slightest hope of any amelioration. During the night of August 27th, she

enjoyed a blessed time of communion with her Lord, giving herself, in

all her helplessness, wholly to Him to do as he wills.



With feelings beyond all expression, she _felt_ the nearness of her

mighty Savior, and the sense of receiving a new and most delicious

pulsation of new life. At last, though she had been bed-ridden for

twelve months, and incapable of any bodily assistance, she felt an

uncontrollable impulse to throw off the clothes of the bed with her left

arm, and sprang out of bed upon her feet, and started to walk across the

room.



"Her husband's first thought was that she was crazed, and would fall to

the floor, and he sprang towards her to help her. But she put up her

hands against him, saying with great energy, 'Don't you touch me! Don't

you touch me!' and went walking back and forth across the room speaking

rapidly, and declaring the work which Jesus had been working upon her.



"Her husband, quickly saw that she was in her right mind, and had been

healed by the Lord, and his soul was filled with unutterable emotion.



"One of the women of the household was called, also their son, twelve

years old, and together they thanked God for the great and blessed

wonder he had wrought.



"In the morning, after a sleep of several hours, she further examined

herself to see if entirely healed, and found both knees perfectly well;

and though for sixteen years she had not been able to use either, now

she lifted the left _foot_ and _put it upon the right knee_, thus

proving the completeness of her restoration.



"At the end of two years from her healing, inquiry having been made as

to how thorough had been the work, Mrs. Sherman gave full and abundant

evidence. 'I cannot remember a Summer when I have been so healthy and

strong, and able to work hard. I am a constant wonder to myself, and to

others, and have been for the two years past. The cure exceeded my

highest expectations at the time I was cured. I did not look forward to

such a state of vigor and strength. No words can express my joy and

gratitude for all this.'



"The parents of Mrs. Sherman also testify of the wonderful change

physically which occurred with the cure.



"Before, her appetite was always disordered, but on the very morning of

the healing it was wholly changed, and her food, which distressed her

formerly, she ate with a relish and without any pain following; and she

so continues. For years before a natural action of the bowels was rare.

From that day since, an unnatural one is equally rare.



"For fifteen years, with few exceptions, she had had severe neuralgic

sick headaches monthly or oftener. From that time she has been natural

and without pain, with no return of the headaches, except a

comparatively slight one once, from overdoing and a cold taken through

carelessness.



"There was also at that time an immediate and radical change in the

action of the kidneys, which had become a source of great trouble

before. Moreover the knee which had been partially stiff for so many

years was made entirely well. In fine, her body, which had been so full

of pain, became at once free from pain, and full of health.



"The week after she was healed she went fifty miles to attend a

camp-meeting, riding five miles in a carriage, the rest by cars. A near

neighbor said, 'She will come back worse than ever.' Though the weather

was especially bad, she came back better than when she went."



These are but few out of many expressions respecting her extraordinary

recovery, which fully satisfy the believing Christian that _the Great_

Physician is with us now, "_healing the lame_," and curing the sick. It

is faith only, unyielding, which the Lord requires ere he gives his

richest blessing.



The unbelieving one simply sees in it "_something strange_," which he

can not understand, but the faith-keeping Christian knows it is the sign

of his _Precious Lord_, in whom he trusts and abides forever.