Six normally intelligent young people in the little town of Rochelle, Illinois sat in a special class in the basement of the Baptist Church there this morning and repeated over and over the simplest words their teacher encouraged them. Soon they will know the whole alphabet, she told them, and will be able to talk.
Nothing is wrong with the minds or the bodies of the two girls and four young men in the class. But a month ago they could not speak and they could not hear. They had been deaf from birth, four in one family.
Last month, and old church member in the town, went to the Houston home and said that God would cure the four deaf children if they had faith. In Chicago is Rev. F. F. Bosworth preaching in the Gospel Tabernacle. Thousands of sick have been made whole after this man had prayed over them, she added. Why not send the children to Chicago?
The four Houston Children and two others were sent to Chicago. In the service in the tabernacle one night they went to the platform when Pastor Bosworth asked if any sick or infirm wished to be prayed for. Healing was instantaneous for all six that night, they testify. The next day their class in the church basement in Rochelle was continued, but teacher and pupils faced and educational revolution.
Excerpt from Los Angeles Times May 6, 1928.
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