Mrs. D-, living close to Mr. Zeller’s establishment, fell ill last winter (1870), and
as her husband insisted on consulting a physician, she submitted, though she would rather have applied to one of the “praying sisters,” her neighbors. For six weeks she lingered on, and when they saw that there was no hope of her recovery, another physician was sent for. He, too, said she could not live over night, as mortification had already seized the bowels.
In this last extremity, her sister desired to send for “Netli,” the nurse who had
been trained by Dorothea Trudel. She immediately repaired to the deathbed, laid hands
on the body, and prayed, whilst the members of Mrs. D-‘s family gave way to the deepest affliction, because no one believed that God’s power was unlimited, and that it was possible to revive her. In the morning the patient was well, and continues to be well to this day. She is now at the head of a large business, and when spoken to about this
wonderful healing, she points upwards to heaven, and entreats people to depend more
habitually on the Lord.
Excerpt from “Dorothea Trudel” translated from the German by D.M.P.
The Comment: Patricia Bergford