People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — IT CURED HER. Five Minutes of Silent Prayer From a Congregation. [ARTICLE]

IT CURED HER.

Five Minutes of Silent Prayer From a Congregation.

A singular case of recovery from hopeless illness through the medium of prayer has excited a large amount of publio interest at Piedmont, W. Va. For many months Miss Alioe B. Schaffer of Mount Storm was in a Philadelphia hospital snffering from almost total paralyse, being unable to rise from bed or talk above a whisper. Oofc 6 she was brought home, as medical relief was hopeless and she had expressed a wish to die at home. After she bad been at home for two weeks Rev. O, H. Kocb, a Methodist evangelist from Ohio, began a series of meetings at Mount Storm, and, hearing of Miss Schaffer’s case, mentioned» it from the pnlpit and asked the silent prayers of the congregation for five minutes for her relief. Miss Sobaffer’s sister was at church, and on going home asked the invalid how she felt She Baid she began to feel better at 9 o’clook and at her own suggestion got out of bed without assistance. She is now in perfect health and does not look to have hod a day’s illness in all her life.-—Cincinnati Enquirer.