The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-18
FAITH. 4
How it effected the
cure of a patient.
xs
Miss Goodrich Of Normal
and her recovery. .
One of the most remarka-
BILE cases on record.

| n most remarkable case OF recovery IRON
/ what was thought to be fated illness oc
CURED at Marval, H., last Wednesday
The particulars of the wonderful event as
recorded below:
| About six years ago Miss Goodrich, while
tripping down stairs had the misfortune to
catch the heel of her shoe at the top of the
stairs, and fell the entire flight. She was
severely bruised at the time, but shortly
recovered, SO she supposed. Soon after
she began to experience severe pains in
her right side, and DR.. Wolsey was called
upon. On Saturday evening, May 81, 1877,
as she was then a student of the Normal
she intended to take part in the society ex-
ercises, but was persuaded to remain at
ihome, and the next day she was compelled
to take her bed and has not been able to
leave it since, until last Wednesday.
A PREY TO DEATH.
DR.. Woolsey, after examining her CON
EDITION, pronounced her ailment an abscess
of the liver She continued to grow
worse, and other assesses formed on the
liver and broke through into the stomach
All except the first were by medical opertion
almost entirely removed, but this continued
to grow, and the doctors said all that
human aid could do had been done for her.
During all this time she has been unable
to get out of her bed, and she naturally
became very weak, and her lower limbs be
came so emaciated that it was impossible
for her to stand. During nearly all the
time of her sickness, up to July, her moth
er has been by her side waiting upon her,
and did for her everything possible to give
her relief.
| Several times her father has visited her
during her sickness, and sympathiZed with
her in her affection Since her mother
left, last July, Miss r. E. Gilbert has at
tended upon her. and as she is a consistent
Christian has been the means of inspiring
Miss Goodrich with the hope of
| HELP FROM THE HAND OF GOD.
Miss Goodrich has for many years been a
member of the Methodist faith, and she and
Miss Gilbert have spent great deal of time
in reading the Bible and in prayer. A short
| time since they were reading and examining
the Scriptures together, and they came to
| the third chapter of Mark, where it relates
the facts of the miraculous cure of a man
| with a withered hand where Christ said
unto him: Stretch forth thine hand" and
he did so and was cured. They then prayed
together that Miss Goodrich might be cured
| and she says she had such strange feel
| ings come over her and felt considerably
stronger at once and wanted to get up, but
Miss Gilbert, fearing it would be for the
worse, refused to help her. Since then
she and others have been praying for her,
and on last Tuesday morning, DIR. Woolsey,
who has been attending her all the time,
told her that the next day he wanted her to
PREPARE TO RISE;
that she must pray to that end saying that
God would give her strength to get up
from her bed of sickness. She prayed CON
tinuously for power to rise at that time,
and the next morning CAST Wednesday,
the doctor went to her room, where he and
Miss Gilbert, after reading from the scrip
lures, with Miss Goodrich prayed for some
length of time for the assistance of God, |
and when they arose from their knees, Miss
Goodrich told them that the pain had left
her head and that she felt so much strOn-
ger and wanted to get up. She was dress |
ed, and for the first time in nearly four
years, with little assistance from the two, |
she walked some twelve feet away, to her
chair. While walking, she said:
SAVIOUR GIVE ME- sTENGTK
She sat in the chair for nearly three hours, |
when she got up, and, alone, walked to
the sofa, and there took a quiet sleep.
The pale, sallow color left her face, and
she Immediately grew better. She went
to bed that night and rested comfortably. |
The next morning she arose, sat on the
side of the bed, combed her hair, washed
her teeth, dressed herself, and walked
wherever she wished to go-something she
has not done for nearly four years-and
ever since she rests well at night, sleeps
soundly, and is able to go about the room
at her Will The nervous sick headache
and dull pains in the head she has not had
since, except she said, one morning she
was little dull, the result of sleeping too
soundIy
Those who were with her say that while
she was sitting in the chair after she first
left her bed she offered up
ONE OF THE MOST TOUCHING PRAYERS
of thanbfulness to God for what He had
done for her, ever heard by man Several
of her friends who did not know of her
miraculous blessing, called the next day,
| and were struck with perfect awe at seeing
her up and SO sprightly. Some who knew
her for years, were so astonished on seeing
her that they turned away unable to speak,
while others burst into tears
She says that every time she lifts up her
voice to God she receives strength, and that
she is going to continue until she is entirely
cured. She says that she knows that moth
ing but supernatural power can ever cure
her, and she and DR.. Woolsey and Miss
Gilbert ascribe the cure to nothing but the
Divine arm lifting her from her sick couch
and putting her on her feet. She has taken
no medicine since last Tuesday, and viii
take no more, depending upon Divine
power.
Miss Goodrich is a young lady of %
years of age and was one of the brightest
students at the Normal University. She
would have been graduated in few days
had she not been taken sick. During her
| sickness she has been very hopeful all the
time and has been most encouraged when
| her friends were fearful her death was APP
preaching. Her home was not at Normal
but the physician says that at no time since
taken sick would it have been safe to re
move her 1t is a wonderful story, and is
vouched for by the best citizens of Normal