A similar case happened at Bruce, South Dakota, while I was pastor at
Brookings and White. The little three year old daughter of Brother and
Sister Hi Tellinghuisen was playing in the yard with an old rusty sewing
machine oil can. She fell on it, the spout striking right into the center
of one eyeball. She was taken at once to a physician who ordered her to be
taken without delay to a specialist to have the eyeball removed. The
parents then called me over the telephone to come at once. When I arrived
and saw the eye, it looked to me like a dried up prune stone. I anointed
the child, but could find no words to utter in prayer. I could only groan,
but the Lord witnessed to the healing. (I think this took place on Saturday
at 11 o'clock a.m. and the next day, Sunday, she was brought to the
services perfectly well.) (At this writing she is teaching school).
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On March the 20th, 1904, wife was taken with quick consumption. Her fever
was so high that she was delirious. As long as I remained beside her
praying, she would be rational but as soon as I ceased praying her mind
would wander. Over a week later, on Saturday, Brothers O. T. Ring and Carl
Forsberg came to visit us. We then had agreement in prayer for the healing
of my wife, and from that time on her mind was clear, yet she continued to
go down. A number prayed for her but she grew weaker and weaker, until in
the month of August. When the neighbors would come in to visit her, they
would say to me on leaving, outside of the house, "We are sorry to say it,
but we do not expect to see your wife alive again."
One day she said to me, "We have done everything we know to do except to
send to Brother E. E. Byrum for an anointed handkerchief." I asked, "Do you
want me to send for one?" to which she assented, and I sent for one. We
received it by mail August the 23rd at 1 o'clock. I placed the handkerchief
upon her and kneeling beside her laid my hands on her and prayed. She was
so weak that it seemd as if she would pass away before I could remove my
hands, so I soon said "Amen." She remarked, "This does not look very
encouraging, does it?" I answered, "No, it does not." Then she drew one of
her hands from under the covers and said, "Do you believe that any flesh is
ever coming to these hands?" "Dear," I answered, "I do not know." Then she
said, "I believe that it will happen." I asked, "Why do you believe it?"
She told me that a scripture had come to her while I was praying. She said
that it was the one about Naaman: "His flesh came again like the flesh of a
little child and he was clean." 2 Kings 5:14.
Two hours later she was perfectly well, but weak, of course.
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