The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-15
HER HEARING RESTORED.
Mrs. Thompson Claims it Was Through
Sanctifcation and Divine Healing.

Sanctification and Divine Healing.
The gospel meetings, which are being
conducted by Miss Proctor, the woman
evangelist ut the Union Gospel Mission,
on East Salem avenue are not ONLY doing
much good in the way of bringing the
Gospel of Christ before the outcasts and
the class Of sinners who never see the in
side walls s.of a.. church, but shuve, it is
said, .actually restored the sense of hear
ing to IL Roanoke lady, who was almost
totally deaf, at least so in her right eur.
and particularly so in her left
The lady is Mrs. Ella V. Thompson.
wife of Geo. y. Thompson, OF the audi.
tors Office of the Norfolk and Western
kailroad Company, and is II member of
the First baptist Church. A Times re-
porter went to her residence Yesterday.
and upon making known his mission,
asked her if she had any objection TO
talking about her miraculous recovery of
her hearing facilities, to which she re-
piled that She had no objection whatever.
us God i'll His mercy had restored her
hearing, and it was all for His glory. She
was glad it seemed, to talk about the
matter, and she greatly rejoices over
what she calls a great Divine blessing.
She has been deaf from childhood, and
was always much annoyed because she
could not hear She had become so inuch
accustomed to her deafness that she de-
pended in conversation as much ON the
movement of The lips as upon her cas-
She was very sensitive concerning disa-
bllity TO hear good ana would never
allow any one TO speak to her on the
street or in the darkness where she could
not see the movement of the lips She
would never sit on her front porch dur
ing the evening in warm weather as no
one could talk to her without shouting
so loud as to be heard all over the neigh.
borhood. Her children were never allowed
to speak to her on the street as she could
not hear them before everybody else in the
vicinity had heard
She says that she did not at first be-
lleve in sanctification and the power of
Divine healing, and it was not until she
had been anointed for healing the second
time and the Divine blessing invoked
tnat She was enabled to perceive any
difference III her condition. The third
Tune she completely gave up her whole
being into the hands of Goa and the wo-
man evangelist who, in placing her hands
on her head and invoking the power of
GOD to restore her infrmities, she said
seemed to her to be filled with the power
OF God and of the Holy Ghost. When
her nearing was restored she saws her
whole body thrilled with an understandable
feeling.
Mrs. Thompson says she can now hear
the reading of the scriptures in the ser
wees each night, her little children can
talk to her in their ordinary tone of voice
and she can hear them without difficulty.
she Is not at all worried over carrying on
II conversation on the streets. and she
thinks she has been wonderfully blessed
She Is willing, she says. to consecrate her
whole life TO the work of the Master.
When questioned as to Miss Proctor
method of amounting with oil she said
there was no virtue in the oil and was
only Il method of baptism: that the great
power of healing and entire sanctiiica-
ton lay in faith and entire trust in God.
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