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(From a Norwegian Paper.) |
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CURES BY
PRAYER. |
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A Doctor’s
Personal Experience in the course of his Practice. |
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I can
testify (he writes) that in our own day it is true (Jas. v., 15) “that the
prayer of faith shall save the sick,” and “whatsoever ye shall ask in My
Name, that will I do” (John XIV., 13). |
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This is
true to-day, but believing faith must support the prayer. I can give three
cases of incurable disease who were cured as by a stroke, through believing
in prayer. |
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1. A
woman, 64, had cataracts, an incurable thing without an operation. She had an
assurance she could be healed by God.
She prayed earnestly, and her sight was restored to her. I have seen her
without spectacles thread her needle, sew, and embroider. At her request, I
wrote to two eye specialists, whom she had consulted in Kristiania. The
answer was: “The person you name has consulted me, and was suffering from
Cataract. I advised her to come again and be operated on, for I have never
known a spontaneous cure for cataract.” |
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2. A girl
(12), a hunchback, suffered from tuberculosis in her back, and she had to use
stays and crutches. Her condition became worse. They made up their minds to
go to Arendal and see a minister named Wettergreen. They prayed earnestly and
believingly to God. And now the mother told me, “Elsie was quite well; even
while we were praying she sprang up like a bird. I thought the doctor would
like to have her crutches; here they are.” |
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3. A woman
over 30 was suffering from tuberculosis of the lungs, and had been under my
care and treatment several months. She was very delicate and slender. She got
a presentiment that she could be healed, and she went to Pastor Wettergreen.
After earnest prayer she was cured, and three hours later came running to me,
shouting, “Oh, doctor! doctor! come and examine me now; I feel I am quite
well. Thank God!” (“Doktor!
doktor! kom! undersog mig; jeg er ganske frisk! Gud she lov!”)
And although I made the closest possible examination of her, no sign of lung
disease could I find, though it had been nearly wholly affected before. |
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From: Confidence, Vol. IX, No. 7, July 1916,
pag. 114, 115, |