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The author of this book has the pleasure of a slight acquaintance with Mrs. Miller, and her husband, Rev. Daniel R. Miller, and has heard the facts stated below from their own lips. Rev. Charles G. Finney, ex-President of Oberlin College, furnished to The Advance, then under the writer’s charge, her statement, with these remarks:

“Mrs. Miller is the wife of a Congregational minister, and a lady of unquestionable veracity. However the fact of her healing is to be accounted for, her story is no doubt worthy of entire confidence, as we have known her for years, as a lame, suffering invalid, and now see her in our midst, in sound health. This instantaneous restoration will be
accounted for by different persons in different ways. Mrs. Miller, and those who were present, regard the healing as supernatural, and a direct answer to prayer. The facts must speak for themselves. Why should not the sick be healed in answer to the prayer of faith? Unbelief can discredit them, but faith sees nothing incredible in such facts as
stated by Mrs. Miller.”

Mrs. Miller’s own statement was published in The Advance of Dec. 26, 1872, and is as follows:
“From my parents I inherited a constitution subject to a chronic form of rheumatism, which affected my whole system. For nearly forty years I was subject to more or less suffering from this cause. For seven years, until the last three months, I have been unable to get about without the aid of crutch or staff; generally both. I have used many liniments and remedies, but with no permanently good result. Last summer (1872),
several of us, Christian sisters, were in the habit of spending short seasons of prayer together. Some of our number had read the narrative of Dorothea Trudel, and had spoken to me on the subject of healing in answer to prayer.  My faith had not then risen to this elevation. I had, in fact, accepted what I supposed to be the will of God, and made up my mind to be a lame and suffering invalid, the rest of my life. I had long since ceased to use remedies for the restoration of my health, and had not even thought of praying in regard to it. Notwithstanding what had been said to me, I remained in this opinion and attitude until the 26th of September last when several ladies met at our house, by appointment, for a prayer meeting. I had grown worse for some time, and was then unable to get out to attend a meeting. I was suffering much pain, that afternoon; indeed, I was hardly able to be out of my bed.

One lady was present, who could speak to me, from her own experience, of being healed in answer to the prayer of faith. She related several striking instances in which her prayers had been answered, in removal of divers forms of disease to which she was
subject. She also repeated a number of passages of Scripture, which clearly justified the expectation of being healed, in answer to the prayer of faith. She also said, that Jesus had shown her that he was just as ready to heal diseases now, as he was when on earth; that
such healing was expressly promised in Scripture, in answer to the prayer of faith, and that it was no where taken back.  These facts, reasonings, and passages of Scripture made a deep impression on my mind, and for the first time I found myself able to believe that Jesus would heal me in answer to prayer. She asked me if I could join my faith with hers, and ask for present healing. I told her, I felt that I could. We then knelt, and called upon the Lord. She offered a mighty prayer to God, and I followed. While she was leading in prayer, I felt a quickening in my whole being; whereupon my pain subsided, and when we rose from prayer, I felt that a great change had come over me—that I was cured!  I found that I could walk without my staff or crutch, or any assistance from any one. Since then my pains have never returned. I have more than my youthful vigor. I walk with more ease and rapidity than I ever did in my life; and I never felt so fresh and
young, as I now do, at the age of fifty-two. Now Psalm 8 is my Psalm, and my youth is more than renewed like the eagle’s. I cannot express the constant joy of my heart, for the wonderful healing of my soul and body. I feel as if I was made every whit whole.”

JANE C. MILLER.

Excerpt from “Prayer and Its Remarkable Answers; Being a Statement of Facts in the Light of Reason and Revelation” by William W. Patton.