Testimony About Stephen Jeffreys

One case which he treated in the ante-room last night was typical of the evangelist's most successful cases. She was a young woman, Miss Evelyn Waddell, of 10 Silver Street, Murton. As a result of a fall in infancy she had suffered all her life from hip disease and had never been able to put the heel of one foot to the floor. The leg was undeveloped and she walked merely on the toe.

Almost immediately Pastor Jeffreys took her head in his hands she appeared to go off in a swoon and lay back in the chair moaning and in a state of, apparently, semi-conscious upheaval. The Pastor repeatedly touched her with his hands, prayed over her and ejaculated expressions of praise and thanks to God. "Hallelujah," "Glorious," he exclaimed, "she's got it." It was a remarkable scene for two or three minutes. "Can you thank Him," he kept asking the patient in his excitement. She, poor girl, was in too disturbed a state to do more than gasp faintly, "Yes."

Gradually, she came round and was able to stand up and put her deformed foot flat to the ground, and thus she walked round the room. It was the first time in her life, declared her sister who was with her, that she had been able to walk with her heel to the ground. The sister was beside herself with joy and the scene was a most touching one as the two sisters and the Missioner spontaneously embraced each other in their joy and gratitude.

Sunderland Daily Echo, Tuesday 6th September 1927 Want to read more? Check out this link.