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 FAITH CURES; 
 
 OK, 
 
 ANSWERS TO PRAM IN THE HEALING OF THE SICK. 
 
 BY 
 
 Charles Cullis, M. D., 
 
 AUXHOB OF “faith CUKE3.” 
 
 “ The prayer of faith Shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him 
 up.” — James v. 15. 
 
 Beacon Hile Place, Boston. 
 
 239 Fourth Avenue, New York. 
 
 921 Arch St., Philadelphia. 
 
 31 Paternoster Square, London. 
 
Copyright, 1881, 
 
 By CHARLES CULLIS, 
 
 Stereotyped and Printed 
 
 By Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston. 
 
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 PEEFAOE. 
 
 T WO years ago I issued a companion volume to this, 
 containing an account of some seventy “faith 
 cures.” That book, by the blessing of God, has been 
 the means of stimulating the faith of many Christians, 
 so that hundreds have, by simple faith, been enabled 
 to lay hold upon God for the healing of the body as 
 well as the soul. 
 
 Faith cures are multiplying. Signs are not wanting 
 to show that the Lord is once more opening the ears 
 of His people to His voice as the Healer of bodily 
 maladies. Not only is this branch of the Lord’s work 
 growing on my own hands at home, but during my 
 recent visit in England, abundant evidence came to me 
 in various ways, that the Lord is also preparing His 
 way there, for a full restoration of the early faith for 
 healing. Visitors and letters asking prayer for healing 
 came in to me from different parts of London, and 
 from other places far and near. Testimonies were 
 given b}^ many, when in our meetings there was oppor- 
 
4 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 tunity for it, to the fact that the Lord had both healed 
 them in body and blessed them in spirit in answer to 
 the prayer of faith, according to James v. 14, 15. 
 
 Many testimonies were given substantially like this. 
 The words of one, “ I must praise the Lord for His 
 unspeakable blessing to me. He has healed me 
 entirely in body, filled me with His spirit, and made 
 me happy as happy can be all the day long.’’ 
 
 I found also that the gifts of healing are given to 
 several in London, in greater or less measure; and 
 many have been healed through their prayers, with the 
 laying on of hands and anointing in the name of the 
 Lord. 
 
 Another sign of the growing interest in healing 
 through faith is this: that the press is speaking out 
 upon the subject more and more distinctly and fre¬ 
 quently" in books and tracts and periodicals. 
 
 IMay the Lord hasten the time when the Church, the 
 body of Christ, shall no more be of doubtful mind or 
 unbelieving heart in regard to her completeness of 
 supply for all her needs, according to God’s riches in 
 glory by Christ Jesus. 
 
 One of the grand features of this gracious and glori¬ 
 ous work is that healing of the body and of the spirit 
 go hand in hand. This will be observed in both the 
 testimonies given before, and in those presented in this 
 book, in every case in which anything like a full state- 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 5 
 
 ment is made of what the Lord has done for body and 
 soul. 
 
 Would that more of the healed ones might bear 
 witness to the power of Jesus as the Healer; and tell 
 more fully how His wonderful blessings for body and 
 soul have kept pace with each other. 
 
 Nothing helps others to believe on the Lord like 
 the distinct testiniony of those whom He has blessed. 
 The Lord bless to many the testimonies here given, 
 and multiply His witnesses by thousands. He will do 
 it: glory to His holy name! 
 
 Charles Cullis. 
 
 16 Somerset Street, Boston. 
 
MOEB FAITH CURES; 
 
 OB, 
 
 Answers to Prayer in the Healing of the Sick, 
 
 ^ DESIRE to call attention to the fact in the follow- 
 3- iiig letter — and it is only one of many similar 
 instances — where the patient, unable to visit me, 
 wrote requesting prayer for healing. Some have been 
 inclined to rob God of His glory in healing, b}^ attrib¬ 
 uting some power to my personal presence. There is 
 no point that I desire more to impress upon all than 
 this, — that the prayer of faith is only the hand held 
 out to receive what the Father alone has the power to 
 give ; and that when it is saW in James v., “ The prayer 
 of faith shall save the sick,’’ the promise is not com¬ 
 plete until we read and believe that “ The Lord shall 
 
 RAISE HIM UP.” 
 
 Port Jackson, N. Y., June 8, 1878. 
 Dr. Charles Cullis: 
 
 Dear Sir ^—The friend, Mrs. P-, in whose be¬ 
 
 half I wrote 3 ^ou a few weeks since, and for whose 
 
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 recovery from apparently fatal illness you kindly con¬ 
 sented to join in prayer with us, wishes me to write a 
 few lines, supposing it would please you to hear of the 
 marked improvement in her health. I'rom the time 
 when we began to pray in this peculiar way, there has 
 been a decided change in her. She began to eat well 
 and sleep well; her nervous distress abated, and then 
 almost disappeared; the swelling of her limbs began to 
 decrease, and she became decidedly convalescent. Her 
 recovery is quite rapid for one who was in so low a 
 state, and there seems now to be nothing in the way of 
 a complete restoration to health. As soon as she be¬ 
 comes strong enough to bear the excitement of writing, 
 she wishes to communicate with you herself, and speak 
 of what is in her heart. In the mean time, she desired 
 me to write these few lines. 
 
 I trust the time is not far distant when every one of 
 God’s children shall be strong in faith, and able to do 
 all things. 
 
 Yours in Christian bonds, 
 
 Mrs. M. D. M. 
 
 The promise in James, I feel, belongs to the church, 
 the body of Christ, and is thus especially intended for 
 believers. 
 
 Many persons come to me who are unconverted, 
 expecting to claim this promise. I say to them, “ Do 
 you love the Lord Jesus? This promise belongs to 
 such alone.” Often I am enabled to lead these persons 
 at the moment to the feet of Jesus for pardon and 
 immediate acceptance of salvation through His blood ; 
 hen to follow with the truth that salvation covers 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
 9 
 
 healing of body also, and that they are now in a con¬ 
 dition to claim the full blessing. I think this is in 
 accordance with our Saviour’s own example as recorded 
 in Matt. ix. 2-8. 
 
 In other cases conviction is not so immediate, and 
 after recommending these to God in prayer, I suggest 
 that they go to their own privacy, to seek light in 
 God’s Word, with sincere desire for a knowledge of 
 the great salvation, then to return to claim all God 
 has for them. In many of these latter instances God 
 has signally answered prayer. The wandering soul has 
 returned to our Father, put on the “best robe” with 
 joy and rejoicing, and received in the renewed soul and 
 renewed body the abiding Guest, and all unhindered 
 has started out into a new life of service, with Thanks¬ 
 giving. 
 
 Peabody, Mass., Jan. 3, 1879. 
 
 My Dear Dr. Cullis : 
 
 About six weeks ago I called on you, to ask your 
 prayers for a return of health, as I had been unwell for 
 a long time with consumption. You asked me if I thought 
 God had forgiven my sins, and if I was a Christian ; and 
 I told you I never had thought anything about it. You 
 asked if I was 'willing to give myself to Him. I said, 
 “ Yes,” and you praj^ed for me. O doctor, that prayer 
 indeed has been heard; for from that day I have had 
 a different desire, a longing to do Christ’s will, a trust 
 that He has saved me, a love to seek Him in pra 3 mr which 
 never before was mine, “ a new life,” as you might say, 
 and I would like to have you thank God that I was led 
 to turn to Him. My bodily health has not improved 
 
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 much, but God worketh all things together for good 
 to those that love Him. I trust that your good work is 
 prospering as it must. Enclosed find a small sum to 
 be used as you desire ; and praying that God may pros¬ 
 per you in your undertakings, 
 
 I am your brother in Christ, 
 
 C. P. J. 
 
 South Boston, Jan. 13, 1879, 
 
 Dear Dr. Cullis: 
 
 I know it will give you joy and gladness when I tell 
 you how wonderfully God has answered your prayer. 
 
 Three weeks ago I presented a request for pra}^!’ (at 
 the Chapel) for a brother, who had once been a devoted 
 Christian; but trouble had led him away from his 
 Saviour, he had become addicted to taking opium, and 
 was fast going to ruin. Through your earnest, believing 
 prayers, he was brought to review his life, brought to 
 self-condemnation, to repentance, to a renunciation of 
 all that was wrong ; and to the praise and glory of God, 
 he is again “ clothed, and in his right mind.” 
 
 I cannot tell you the joy and peace that fills his soul: 
 he says this is sufficient proof that God answers youi 
 prayers. . . Yours in Christ, 
 
 M. D. B. 
 
 COLEBROOKDALE, Pa., Jan. 19, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Cullis: 
 
 Blessed be the name of Jesus, and thanks for His 
 precious promises. I was a patient for eleven years, 
 with a weakness, and suffered terribly under doctors’ 
 hands, who told me that I was incurable, and should 
 make up my mind to bear my burden, as it was given 
 to me. It seemed hard to think I was to suffer so all 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
 11 
 
 my life. I commenced then to look to Jesus, and 
 prayed often, and thought if I only could touch the 
 hem of His garment, I should be well. One day I got 
 a newspaper into my hand, and read of a sick person 
 who was cured by the prayer of faith. Two weeks 
 later I got hold of another newspaper, which told all 
 about your work of faith in Boston. A few weeks 
 afterwards my brother sent me a book of “Faith 
 Cures,” from which I saw wonderful things done, such 
 as Christ did in His days when here in the flesh. I 
 took my Bible, and searched in the Scripture, and saw 
 that He would do now as He did in old time; and 
 that the rule is, “According to your faith be it unto 
 you.” That conviction never left my mind. I prayed 
 to Jesus, that if it was the will of God I should be 
 healed, to make it known to me. One day as I prayed, 
 I took my Bible and opened it, and my eyes caught 
 this: “ Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, 
 ye shall receive.” That was a joy to my soul: I knew 
 Jesus was speaking. I saw that the Bible was full of 
 such precious promises, and that all who believed were 
 healed. I was afraid my faith was not strong enough, 
 and that I could not go alone. Then the sweet thought 
 was given to me, “Fear not, nor be 3 "e dismayed; I 
 am with you.” I then began to trust in the Lord, 
 that if it was His will, I should be healed. I left for 
 Boston, feeling sure that I was to be healed of the 
 Great Ph^^sician. The first time you prayed with me, 
 I was strengthened in body and soul; and after the 
 second time, I felt like praising the Lord the whole 
 night, because I felt so strong; and the last time, 
 I had to shed tears of joy, for my most merciful 
 
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 Saviour, in a sweet voice, said, “ Go, thy faith hath 
 made thee whole.” I went home rejoicing in the Lord, 
 and I am perfectly healed. I have now better health 
 than I have had for twelve years. But, doctor, when 
 yon read the letter, pray that I may be strengthened 
 more in my faith; because every step I go forward 
 ought to be by faith, that I may come closer to Jesus, 
 and serve and praise Him as long as I breathe. Oh 
 that the love of God may burn in all souls ! May God 
 bless and spare you long yet, in this His good work, 
 that many souls may be brought to Christ. To Him 
 be aU the glory ! Jesus, blessed Jesus! 
 
 Yours in Christ, 
 
 Mrs. O. S. 
 
 Brattleboro’, Dec. 5, 1878, 
 My Dear Friend, — In His own good time, and in 
 His own good way, the dear Lord came and left me, 
 “ even me,” the blessing you and I and some others 
 had been praying for: I am weU. Before I went to 
 sleep on Saturday night, I asked the dear Lord to let 
 it come in any way at all: to let me drink it, let me 
 feel it in my veins, or let me feel it as I did the bap¬ 
 tism of the Spirit, or let it come whilst I slept: I 
 believed it would come, for He had told me that His 
 Word should not pass away. I slept sweetly until four 
 o’clock, and when I awoke I was well! I thanked 
 God, but made no unusual stir until eight o’clock. 
 Then I arose and dressed, and sat up, and walked all 
 about the house, something I had not done for over 
 eighteen months. I do thank you for your prayers, and 
 pray God to abundantly bless you, which is all I can 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
 13 
 
 do. During the past eight years I have spent all my 
 living with physicians, and only grew worse. 
 
 Only He who loves you and me can know how thank¬ 
 ful I feel that the Healer has been here. I have so 
 many to call that my time is all taken up in telling the 
 story. I am not very strong, but I find my strength is 
 coming. Please pray for me that it may increase, and 
 that I may be a power for good. As 1 tell the story, 
 the tears start from all eyes. I feel like saying, ‘‘ Let 
 everything that hath breath praise the Lord! ’ ’ 
 
 Yours in the love of Christ, 
 
 L. H. D. 
 
 Tallahassee, Fla., Dec. 22, 1878. 
 
 Dear Dr. Cullis : 
 
 Please accept this small offering for the Lord. 
 
 Ever since you prayed for my husband to recover 
 his health, last year, his health has continued to improve, 
 and now it is fully established. I thank God every day. 
 
 We ought to be better Christians than we are, the 
 Lord has been so good to us. 
 
 Please ask God, dear friend, to keep us and use us 
 for Himself, in the place He has put us. 
 
 Your friend and sister in the Lord, 
 
 Mrs. M. L. G. 
 
 Ramapo, N. Y., Feb. 9. 
 
 My Dear Doctor : 
 
 I am happy to be able to report the man for whom 
 you prayed, as very much better. He broke out in a 
 very copious sweat about midnight, — time not known 
 to a certainty, might have been near one, but at any 
 rate it was about the time you prayed for him. Praise 
 God. S. G. C. 
 
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 MOEE FAITH CUEES ; 
 
 South Vernon, Vt., Feb. 25. 
 
 Dr. Cullis: 
 
 Dear Sir, — I visited the Home for Consumptives a 
 few weeks since, and now shall feel more interested 
 than ever in the work. I received the Report of last 
 year which you sent, and thank you for it. I am 
 here with my cousin, who was healed in answer to your 
 prayer, and she will add a few words. I will close, 
 praying God will bless you in your great work. 
 
 E. M. D. 
 
 Dear Dr. Cullis: 
 
 I take this opportunity of thanking ou for the Re¬ 
 port I received a few weeks ago. 1 have been blessed 
 and encouraged in reading its pages, and stimulated to 
 more activity, and still greater faith in the Master’s 
 work. I ever hold you in grateful and prayerful re¬ 
 membrance, as being an instrument in God’s hand of my 
 entire and immediate recovery to health. Months ago 
 I should have been in my grave, had not the Great 
 Physician come to my rescue. No words can express 
 my gratitude to you as the instrument, and to Him as 
 the Giver. JNIy life and all I have are all His own, to 
 do with as He pleases. No wiU, but a union with His 
 own, is my earnest prayer, I still am well, with no 
 symptoms of consumption’s hold on my system again. 
 Praise His holy name ! 
 
 I praise the dear Lord for the work He has given me 
 to do. It is very sweet to me. I would be glad to 
 send you some money now, but perhaps I may be able 
 some other time. I know our God will richly supply 
 all your needs, for He is j^our refuge, and His everlast¬ 
 ing arms are beneath. Yours in the love of Christ, 
 
 Mrs. G. E. G. 
 
OK, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 Milford, Mass., March 20. 
 
 Dr. Cullis : 
 
 Dear Sir, — I have long neglected to write you,*but 
 have not forgotten how kind you have been to pray for 
 me. I feel to-day that my arm is cured, which had 
 pained me for six months. I applied to five or six doc¬ 
 tors and found no permanent relief. I decided then to 
 see you and ask 3 ^ou to pra}- for me; and you did so, 
 and that very night the,pain ceased. I was so happy 
 that I could not sleep, and arose from my bed to give 
 thanks unto God for his goodness in healing me ; and I 
 now thank you for j^our prayers and faith. I do wish 
 that everj" one had more faith in praj-er. I hope you 
 will still continue to pray for me that I may be a 
 faithful follower of Jesus. May God bless 3 "OU, is the 
 pra^^er of your friend, 
 
 M. B. B. 
 
 Hallowell, Me., March 22. 
 
 Dear Dr Cullis : 
 
 I know you will be as glad to hear as I am to tell 
 3 'ou that I have steadity gained in health, strength, and 
 courage ever since I left Boston in Januar 3 ^ I breathe 
 as easily and naturally as any one, can walk, ride, go 
 up and down stairs, do light housework, sew, etc., 
 and have strength sufficient to meet all the necessarj^ 
 demands made upon it. I am very careful not to waste 
 any of the strength God gives me by doing unnecessary 
 things. The dear Lord knows I can’t do hard things, 
 and he doesn’t give them to me to do. All the dread¬ 
 ful sick feeling has gone, and I feel well. I wonder at 
 myself sometimes, and lU}^ friends wonder all the time, 
 to see me so well. The Lord blesses me every day 
 
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 more than I can ask or think, and fills me with the 
 “joy of the Lord.” How can I ever be thankful 
 enough for all His mercies to me? Will 3’ou please 
 pray earnestly for my dear mother’s restoration to 
 health, who is suffering from physical prostration, but 
 whose faith is strong in the Lord’s healing power? 
 Don’t forget me in your prayers. God bless you 
 always. Yours in the faith, 
 
 E. F. L. 
 
 Hopkinton, March 24, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Charles Cullis : 
 
 Dear Sir, — My daughter Eunie has been very 
 anxious to make some acknowledgment to 3"ou for 
 the kindness 3"ou showed her when she has been in 
 
 Boston, and sends 5^ou for the Consumptives’ Home-. 
 
 I regret very much it Is not in my power at present 
 to do more. I wish to sa^^ a word in regard to Eunie. 
 She is gradually growing better. Her form has changed, 
 and now her hips are perfectly in line. She steps flat 
 with both feet, something she never did until she saw 
 you. Dr. Lake says, “No human power could effect 
 such a change.” Therefore, to God we give the praise. 
 God speed you in the good work, is the constant 
 prayer of Yours in Christ, 
 
 Wm. Y., Jr. 
 
 Hopkinton, Sept. 7, 1878. 
 
 Dr. Cullis: 
 
 Dear Sir, — Thinking that perhaps you would like 
 to know how m3" lameness is getting along, I will write 
 you a few words. As soon as I got home, my friends 
 noticed immediately how much better I walked. I 
 have been improving ever since I came home, not 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 only in walking but I am not nearly as one-sided as 
 I was when I got home. ’ So 1 am sure, if I only 
 believe in Him, the Lord will cure me entirely. I feel 
 very grateful to you for your help and sympathy. 
 
 Kespectfully yours, 
 
 Eunie Y. 
 
 FREDO^UA, N. Y., March 24. 
 
 Mr. Cullts : 
 
 Dear Friend^ —Your letter was received, and at the 
 appointed time we went to the Lord with our petition, 
 and we do indeed feel we have “ touched the hem of His 
 garment.” Mother felt the magnetic power of Christ, 
 and is very happy in believing He has accepted her, 
 bod}^ and soul, to heal. She is better, being much re¬ 
 lieved of lameness, and we believe we shall continue to 
 receive a blessing, as we have for months past, daily; 
 and that “ He will forgive our sins and heal our dis¬ 
 eases.” 
 
 Will 3^ou still remember our case before the Lord ? 
 
 We are very grateful for your motherly kindness, and 
 prayer in our behalf. 
 
 We enclose a mite for your use for whatever the day’s 
 needs may be, with a prayer for the work. 
 
 With hearts full of thanksgiving to God, and love 
 toward all, we are yours in Christ, 
 
 J. M. S. and Mrs. B. 
 
 Lowell, Mass., Jan. 27, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Cullts: 
 
 “ Eejoice with those that rejoice.” Yes, doctor, I 
 am a great deal better, and my friends are all perfectly 
 astonished and delighted. Three weeks ago to-day, we 
 
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 asked the Lord to cure me of this nervous prostration, 
 and to restore me to perfect health, if it was His will. 
 The excessive nervousness left me, even while we were 
 praying, and has not returned. 
 
 Tuesday, the 14th, we asked Him to grant me quiet 
 sleep through the whole night, and to remove the 
 cough and its cause He granted the sleep at once, 
 and the cough has almost left me. I saw you again 
 on the 20th, and asked the Lord to remove the un¬ 
 natural heat from my head. Before we rose, my head 
 felt cool, and my bowels have been perfectly regular 
 ever since. For two years I have suffered almost in- 
 cessanth^ either from constipation or diarrhoea. 
 
 I wish I could tell you that I am perfectl}^ well, but I 
 am very far from being strong. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 L. C. K. 
 
 Augusta, Me., April 27, 1879. 
 
 Dll. CuLLis: 
 
 Dear Sir^ —According to promise, I will write you, 
 telling you of m^' restored health, and of the test of 
 my faith since 1 saw you, which was nine days ago. I 
 came home believing that I was healed, and that the 
 work was done ; but for days the past week my troubles 
 were even worse than before I went to you. Still, I 
 had the blessed assurance that my health would be 
 restored, and I clung to my faith and trust in Gpd ; and 
 suddenly my distress left me, which was last evening, 
 and such a sweet sleep I have not enjo 3 "ed for four 
 years as last night. To-day I walked to church, and it 
 seemed as though I had a new back. God be praised 
 for the faith and trust I have in Him ! Now, let me ask 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 you to pray for me, that I may ever cling to Jesus, 
 whatever may be my trials or afflictions. 
 
 For four years I have sulfered extremely. The last 
 year every nerve in m}’' spine seemed to be affected ; 
 my arms and my eyes also. Medical treatment did no 
 good ; but reading and hearing of you and the cures by 
 the prayer of faith, and taking God’s word for my 
 guide, I decided to go to you, and God in His wisdom 
 and goodness has abundantly blessed me. To Him is 
 all praise due, and may His great blessings be continu¬ 
 ally poured out upon you, His true servant, and thanks 
 be to you for the assistance you gave me. The words 
 you spoke to me and the blessings you pronounced 
 upon me I hope never to forget 
 
 Please remember me in your prayers. 
 
 Very respectfully yours, 
 
 Mrs. E. R. W. 
 
 Union, Me., May 2, 1879. 
 
 Dear Dr. Cullis : 
 
 The thought comes to me to-da}^, ftiat perhaps I am 
 too long withholding my testimony as to the result of 
 3 ^our prayer of faith, offered in my behalf Feb. 15. I 
 have not intended to rob God of the glory His due, but 
 heart and hands have been full of work for the blessed 
 Master, and I have delayed writing. I hardly know 
 how to express m 3 ^self when I realize what wonderful 
 things God has done for my soul and bodj" since my 
 first visit to you. Previous to that time I had suffered 
 from chronic diseases, and for over five years had many 
 attacks of neuralgia that had baffled the skill of some 
 eminent physicians. For nearly three months before 
 
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 seeing you, I was a continuous sufferer from this dis¬ 
 ease, which the latter part of the time extended to my 
 right arm. God plainly directed me to go to see 3 ^ 011 , 
 and I can sa}^ to the praise of our dear Heavenly 
 Father, that 1 have not had one neuralgia pain since 
 you praj^ed for me, and am well in other respects. Idie 
 healing power came as you talked with God, repeating 
 the passage of Scripture found in James v. 14, 15, and 
 continued with me over a week, and was most precious 
 to my soul; and what can I say in regard to the baptism 
 of the Spirit that came flooding my entire being, as the 
 result of m^’^ new consecration to Him ? I can only refer 
 to this promise, Jer. xxxiii. 3. Glor}^ be to Jesus ! I 
 have never known such days as these, spiritually. God 
 manifests Himself to me as never before, and gives me 
 perfect victory over sin. Nothing seems too great to ask 
 of Him, and I have sweet and signal answers to praj^er. 
 1 am kept in perfect peace, and experience a sacred 
 nearness to God that I would not exchange for the great¬ 
 est honors of this world. My soul sa^'s continually, 
 “ Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me 
 bless His holy name.” Oh that all God’s children could 
 know the fulness of His power, and be saved to the 
 uttermost. My soul is full to overflowing with His 
 divine love. Blessed Jesus ! I hope that you will pray 
 for me that I continue to live near to God and do His 
 whole will. If there is anything in my testimony that 
 3 'ou can use to the glory of God, I am willing, for He 
 has done great things for me. 
 
 Yours in Christ, 
 
 A. M. C. 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
 21 
 
 Litchfield, Conn., May 8, 1879. 
 
 My Dear Dr. Cullis : 
 
 It was three weeks yesterday (April 16) since I 
 called at 3 ’oor office to see you about my health. You 
 desired me to write in a few weeks, so I take this 
 opportunity. I feel I have been greatly helped, and 
 am thankful I went to see you. 
 
 I want to tell you more about my disease, that you 
 may understand my case better. I have had, I think, 
 an unusual form of dyspepsia of about five years’ 
 standing. What has been peculiar about it and given 
 me the most trouble has been a craving appetite, that I 
 could not control or withstand in my own strength. 
 This craving would come on at any time, but oftener an 
 hour or two after eating. Sometimes it would leave 
 me for a week or more, only to return worse than ever. 
 I would become discouraged, and yield to it without 
 restraint, using food I knew to be wrong, till this had 
 become so fixed upon me that I was like a drunkard, 
 and could not help myself. After every excess I would 
 seek pardon of God, and try again, looking to Him for 
 strength to overcome it. I did not ask Him to remove 
 it, for I did not think He would take it all away then. 
 Now, I believe He has done it in answer to the prayer 
 of faith. I believed it when you prayed with me, and 
 I felt it and knew it every day till last Thursday, when 
 I did wrong, and it returned. I am very fond of fruit, 
 and ate raw apples, and think this was the cause. You 
 may remember my asking you if I could use fruit, and 
 your telling me to use fruit and vegetables freely. Now 
 fruit has been, I think, the cause of the sore tongue and 
 the raw places and canker about the mouth. One phy- 
 
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 sician told me that eating fruit to excess had been one 
 cause of my trouble. Nearly every doctor speaks of 
 the healthfulness of fruit, and I thought if God cured 
 me I could use it, but felt willing to give it up entirely. 
 I have never had much pain after eating, but often 
 great nervousness and irritability. This all left me, 
 and my strength improved greatly, and I felt the peace 
 and love of God in my heart constantly, till I yielded, 
 in a measure, to appetite, when I felt condemnation 
 and doubt. Sometimes I think it was a want of faith, 
 and not the food, that caused the trouble. 
 
 Yours in Christ, 
 
 W. B. W. 
 
 West Concord, N. H., May 11, 1879. 
 
 ' Dr. Cullis : 
 
 Dear Sir ^—You will remember my calling on you 
 less than one month ago, and asking if you ever prayed 
 for those who stammered. I must confess I entered 
 your office with wavering faith, not looking upon stam¬ 
 mering as a disease^ although for days previous my 
 constant praj^er had been for an increase of faith. 
 
 After your prayer I had that confidence that I could 
 talk, that I had never before experienced. During 
 my journey homeward my faith grew stronger and 
 stronger, and on my arrival home, the first thing I 
 felt impelled to do was, to fall upon my knees and 
 thank God that the fetters with which I had been 
 bound these man}^ 3 ^ears were loosed. I speak so 
 freely now, that at times I am a wonder to myself. 
 I learn that my ready speaking causes remarks to be 
 made by those who have known me from childhood. 
 All I say is, Give God the glory. Please pray for me 
 still, that it may never return. 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 A few hours since, I came from the sick-bed of' a 
 3 ’ounger sister, a Christian woman, who has for three 
 weeks suffered intensely from pain. She has been in 
 that way for ^^e^rs, neglecting to doctor, until now she 
 is confined to her bed. She knows of my cure, and 
 when 1 asked if I should write to you to pray that the 
 pain might be taken away, she said, “ Oh, yes.” She 
 is suffering so much that perhaps she has n’t the faith 
 that I have for her, and will j^ou ask God to give her 
 faith that she may be healed; also to take awa}^ the 
 
 pain. My sister. Miss H-, wishes me to sa}^ for her 
 
 that she still continues to gain, and her faith is strong. 
 Yours with Christian regard, 
 
 L. F. H. 
 
 RESTORED BY PRAYER. 
 
 THE CASE OP THE BET. W. H. SWARTZ, WHO WAS CUBED OP SEVERE * 
 
 ILLNESS. 
 
 [Frovi the Pittsburg Commercial.'] 
 
 Rev. W. H. Swartz, of Beaver P’alls, Pa., who 
 graduated in the class of ’77, Allegheny College, 
 preached at the State Street Church, Meadville, night 
 before last, when he said it was not his intention to 
 preach a sermon, but to give testimonj^; and he re¬ 
 lated a wonderful story of the efficacy of prayer in 
 restoring him to health, which in brief is as follows: 
 After his graduation he received an appointment from 
 the Erie Conference to preach at Ridgway, Pa. Af¬ 
 ter a few months’ labor he was stricken with disease, 
 and was compelled to resign his charge. After being 
 compelled to leave his work at Ridgway, he went to 
 his father’s home, near Beaver Falls, where he grew 
 
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 rapidly worse; but through the aid of eminent physi¬ 
 cians, he was partially cured several times, but relapsed 
 into a worst condition each time. Two visits were 
 made to Clifton Springs, but finally medicine failed to 
 havm any effect upon his system, and a gradual but 
 sure decline was taking place. He had become so bad 
 that he could not read or converse, when a letter was 
 received from his brother, Clark Swartz, who is now 
 in Boston, Mass., stating that Rev. Dr. Cullis, of 
 that city, had performed many wonderful cures by 
 prayer, if it was the Lord’s will that the patient should 
 be cured. Accordingly a letter was written and de¬ 
 livered to Dr. Cullis by the brother. Upon receiving 
 the letter he knelt in prayer, and upon arising, said, 
 “Tell your brother he will be well.” The word reached 
 the invalid on the seventh day of April, when he also 
 knelt in fervent prayer. On the 8th he was much 
 better, and on the 9th arose from his bed in perfect 
 health, both physically and mentally, and has been so 
 ever since, able to work on his father’s farm during 
 the week and to preach every Sunday. After deliver¬ 
 ing the above testimony, demonstrating that miracles 
 are performed in this age, Rev. Swartz made an ear¬ 
 nest plea, telling the lessons to be learned from his 
 experience, and impressing the audience with the power 
 of faith and the efficacy of pra^mr. 
 
 We now present a letter received from Brother 
 Swartz : — 
 
 Beaver Falls, Pa., May 19, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Cullis : 
 
 Dear Brother in Christy — I received a card from 
 my brother, bearing your request that I communicate 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 to you the facts of my recovery at the hand of the Lord. 
 I had purposed writing to you within a few days. 
 Ever since the Lord healed me, I have been telling to 
 public assemblies, to individuals, and to distant friends 
 through correspondence, this wondrous work which the 
 Lord hath wrought for me. Cheerfully do I acquaint 
 you with the facts connected with my recovery, for m 3 ’ 
 heart is full of joy and gratitude to m}^ blessed Master 
 for His wondrous love and power as manifested unto me. 
 
 In October, 1877, engaged in the ministry at Ridg- 
 way, Pa., I felt the first indications of disease. I 
 continued my work, hoping that time would restore me. 
 But I grew worse, and six months after the first evi¬ 
 dences of disease, my nervous S 3 ’stem was completely 
 prostrated. I gave up m 3 ’ work and returned to my 
 present home, Beaver Falls, Pa. From April 23, 1878, 
 the time of m 3 " return, until Sept. 18, the record of my 
 sickness was one of progress toward health ; and then, 
 through over-exertion, my condition was reversed. 
 I then. Sept. 18, went to Clifton Springs, N. Y., 
 for treatment, remaining there twelve weeks. I re¬ 
 turned to m 3 ’ home much improved in health; but 
 through over-exertion, b 3 ’ Jan. 1 , 1879, I found myself 
 as poorl 3 " as ever. From that time until Feb. 20, by 
 great care and the taking of medicine, I made some 
 little improvement. Then, without any cause, I began 
 to grow worse, in spite of the greatest care and the 
 taking of various medicines. A medicine that prior 
 to this time had always relieved my condition and 
 built up my system, now availed not. Some of tl;ie 
 members of my home and other friends grew alarmed 
 about me, and^predicted that I would not recover. 
 
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 But, dear brother, in December, 1872, in answer to 
 the prayer of faith, the Lord healed me of the disease 
 of sin. And now, when bodily disease came upon me, 
 I prayed earnestly unto the Lord that He would restore 
 me to health, so that I might accomplish the work He 
 had given me to do. There never came to me a doubt 
 during m};^ eighteen months of sickness but that I would 
 be well again. 
 
 On the evening of the sixteenth da}^^ of March last 
 my thoughts were directed to the passage of Scripture, 
 James v. 14, 15. As I studied God’s positive promise, 
 “The prayer of faith shall save the sick,” I came to 
 the conclusion that through lack of faith I did not know 
 the Lord’s will concerning me, and that through lack 
 of faith I prevented His healing me, if such was His 
 will. My brother had sent me your “ Work of Faith,” 
 which I read with much interest, and believed it. That 
 evening the thought came into my mind: ‘ ‘ Why not 
 write to Dr. Cullis, and request him to pray for me?” 
 The next morning that thought was still with me. I 
 believed it to be the spirit of God directing me, and I 
 sat down and wrote you the request. This was part 
 of the answer you sent me through my brother: “ Tell 
 your brother he will be well.” I praised the Lord for 
 this answer ; and then I reasoned that, since means had 
 failed to restore me., and since it teas the Lord's will that 
 I should be well., there must be some hindering cause 
 within myself, or He would note heal me. I turned to 
 the Lord in very earnest prayer, until, through grace 
 given, I was perfectly submitted unto Him., and praised 
 Him continually. Also I prayed more earnestly for the 
 salvation of others than for my own recovery. I con- 
 
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 tinned thus for ten days, holding right on to the Lord, 
 and praising Him. Then the Lord healed me. On the 
 evening of April 7, instantly there came over me a 
 marked change for the better. I believed the Lord 
 was healing me, and I praised Him. Upon April 8 the 
 change was still more marked, and on the morning of 
 April 9 X rose from sleep entirely recovered. Ever 
 since that morning I have been engaged in the activ¬ 
 ities of life, studying the Word, and preaching, and 
 doing manual labor; and though I engage in these with 
 much vigor, 1 have experienced not the slightest detri¬ 
 ment. The cure U perfect. 
 
 But I have something more wonderful still to relate. 
 I have had upon my person for more than twelve 
 years a defect pronounced incurable by physicians. 
 The Lord heeded this also. I have tested this fully, 
 and it is a fact. How true is His word ! (Eph. iii. 20). 
 
 The healing of this body has been a great thing, but 
 it is only a part of that which the Lord hath done for 
 me. Through affliction and His healing power He has 
 taught me very precious lessons. He has shown me 
 that I am nothing, except as He doth fill me. He has 
 shown unto me the emptiness of this world. He has 
 taught me a wondrous lesson of faith through His heal¬ 
 ing power. Now I know that “all things work to¬ 
 gether for good to them that love God” (Rom. viii 
 28). 
 
 I am praising the Lord continually. I send this out 
 with the prayer that God will bless from this testimony 
 in strengthening the faith of those who read. I do 
 remember you daily in prayer. 
 
 Your brother in Christ, 
 
 W. H. Swartz. 
 
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 Ocean Grove, N. J., May 27, 1879. 
 
 Dr. C. Cuijas: 
 
 Dear Brother^ — I am glad of the opportunity to fur¬ 
 nish you and the public, over my own signature, the fol¬ 
 lowing facts, to be used as you may deem best for the 
 glory of God. Prior to the time referred to, my mind 
 had been strongly prejudiced against certain views of 
 the question of healing in answer to prayer, which had 
 been avowed by some excellent and wise brethren of 
 my acquaintance. The facts they asserted I could not 
 dispute; yet, for what reason I cannot say, I was 
 unfavorably impressed in regard to the general subject, 
 and up to the time of the occurrences of which I now 
 speak, I was not a little troubled in regard to the effect 
 likely to be produced by the prominence given to this 
 question. In company with Rev. W. Macdonald, in 
 the winter of 1871, I was engaged in special religious 
 services in the Bromfield Street Methodist Episcopal 
 Church of Boston. Prior to this meeting, in conse¬ 
 quence of the lingering effects of a sunstroke at Ur- 
 bana, O., I had suspended all ministerial labor, and 
 for several weeks had been resting, hoping to regain 
 my usual strength. Contrary to the advice of m}'^ phy¬ 
 sicians and friends, I accepted, with Brother Macdon¬ 
 ald, the invitation to hold the meeting referred to. 
 
 The meeting had been in progress some days, when 
 the difficulty in my head returned with gi’eat force. 
 The unfavorable reaction occurred in the pulpit, and 
 for the moment the impression came upon me that my 
 work was done. My sensations at^ the time were such 
 as I had never known before. It seemed to me I must 
 fall upon the pulpit floor. Yet I had the presence of 
 
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 mind to resist the singular influence, and did so, and 
 rallied. Brother Macdonald noticed the difficulty, and 
 advised an immediate abandonment of all attempt to 
 do any further work for the present. Various plans 
 were suggested, and were under prayerful consideration 
 throughout the ensuing day. 
 
 An engagement to take tea with you brought us to 
 3 'our house that evening. After tea you spoke more 
 directly of my illness and disability, and asked me the 
 question, “ Why don’t you get cured?” My response 
 was, ‘‘ I am doing all that I can to that end.” You 
 added, “ Why don’t you get the people to help you, 
 and pray for you?” I answered, “There are thou¬ 
 sands of God’s chosen ones who are praying for me.” 
 You then said, “ Yes, but they ought to pray in faith; 
 and if they do, you will be healed.” You had the Bible 
 in your hand, and read the celebrated passage from St. 
 James: “Is any sick among you? let him call for the 
 elders of the church, and let them pray over him, 
 anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and 
 the prayer of faith shall save the sick,” etc. You laid 
 great emphasis on the words “ shall save the sick.” I 
 responded that we need not understand this to mean 
 that the sick would be restored^ urging that they might 
 be saved, though not healed. Your reply was, “ Very 
 good, but what does this mean: and the Lord shall 
 raise him up’^'i For the moment this sentence in the 
 passage had entirely gone out of memory, and I asked 
 if you were using an ordinary or an interpolated copy 
 of the Scriptures. You assured me it was the ordi¬ 
 nary version, and handing it to me, remarked, “You 
 can read it for yourself.” I read it with adoring confi- 
 
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 dence and joy, and repeated the sentence, “ The Lord 
 shall raise him up.” 
 
 You then asked me, “Do you believe this?” I 
 answered, “ I do with all my heart.” The solemnity 
 of the moment was truly wonderful. You proposed we 
 should pray; and we all knelt and called upon the 
 Lord to help. During this season of prayer, there 
 arose in my own thoughts several test questions. 
 Among them, I call to mind the following: Firsts 
 “ Will 3 ’ou acknowledge this healing to be of God?” 
 The prompt response was, “/ willF Secondly^ “ Will 
 you, if restored, devote all your energies to the work 
 of an evangelist?” The answer was at once given, 
 “7 will.’’ Thirdly “Will you make a prudent use 
 of 3 ’our time and strength, and not needlessly waste 
 }"Our energies ? ” The same repl^^ was made. By this 
 time 3^011 had come to the point in 3 ’our prayer, in 
 which 3 ^ou said something like this: “O Lord, here 
 is th 3 ^ servant, in great bodil 3 ^ ailment, in consequence 
 of which he is unable to do the work to which Thou 
 hast called him.” Then turning toward me, and after 
 you had put 3 "our fingers in the oil on the table, 3 "Ou 
 laid your hand upon my head, and said, “Let Th 3 ^ 
 servant be healed in the name of the Father, the Son, 
 and the Holy Ghost. Amen.” There seemed to come 
 down upon all an awful sense of the presence and 
 power of God. The sensation I experienced was simpl 3 ^ 
 wonderful. As we arose, 3^011 asked me how I felt; 
 and I said in reply, “I have either been healed or 
 converted over again. Glory be to God.” Brother 
 Macdonald and I went to meeting, and I conducted the 
 services without the least embarrassment. Frequently 
 
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 during that night Hrother Macdonald asked the ques¬ 
 tion, “How do you feel now?” and I answered, 
 “ Glory to God, I am healed or converted over again.’’ 
 So oil it continued all through the Sabbath. I spoke 
 of the matter in the public congregation, and narrated 
 the occurrence in the Boston Preachers’ Meeting on 
 Monday. I was perfectly healed, and went through 
 with a most exhaustive week’s service with as much 
 ease as I had ever known or experienced in all my life. 
 The difficulty in my head entirely disappeared, and 
 has never since returned, except in some instances, 
 when I have lost sight of the tests to which I have 
 alluded. I am fully assured that I was healed in 
 answer to prayer, and have frequently so stated to my 
 friends and the public. 
 
 I make this open statement because of your kind 
 request to furnish you an account of the matter. * Eight 
 years have elapsed since this occurrence, and the Lord 
 has enabled me to do as much work as a well man 
 could be expected to do. Sometimes I have feared 
 that it was a mistake for me to allow m 3 'Self to be 
 burdened with duties of agent and editor, in addition 
 to those of an evangelist. Nevertheless, grace has 
 been given me to pei'form this extra service. But 
 that my present position gave me opportunities for a 
 wider range of evangelistic service than I otherwise 
 could have, frequently I would have been led to yield 
 it to an}'^ who might be read}" to take it. The Lord is 
 graciously helping me to do my duty, and meet all the 
 responsibilities of my position. 1 was never in better 
 condition for work : and with God’s blessing, before I 
 go hence I hope to have some good chance to do a 
 
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 little more in the Lord’s vineyard. I am glad of this 
 chance to take rank with the fanatics who believe in 
 God’s method of curing people, and who think that 
 the Scriptures mean just what they say, in declaring 
 that ‘^the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the 
 Lord will raise him up.” 
 
 Yours fraternally, 
 
 J. S. Inskip. 
 
 St. Louis, May 28, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Cullis : 
 
 Dear Brother in Christy — This morning my soul 
 woke with these beautiful words : “I know, what- 
 e’er befalls me, Jesus doeth all things well.” Then 
 the Psalmist’s song is burning in my soul: “O sing 
 unto the Lord a new song, for He hath done marvellous 
 things: His right hand and His holy arm hath gotten 
 Him the victory.” Blessed victory! Thou hast deliv¬ 
 ered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and 
 my feet from falling. The dear Lord in answer to our 
 prayers, on the 10th of April, 1879, heard the prayer 
 of faith, and granted it, giving strength of spirit and 
 strength of body in a most wonderful way. First I 
 was enabled to joyfully say, “Father, Thy will be 
 done”; then, secondly, enabled by the grace of God 
 to trust Jesus as my Saviour for full salvation. Being 
 a perfect Saviour, I knew I stood complete in Him. 
 Then I was able to claim Him as my Physician for the 
 healing of body, and praise His name. He has been 
 and is to-day all sufficient. I have been an invalid 
 for sixteen months, sirffering with an inward tumor. 
 Having at all times strictly adhered to the advice of 
 the most skilful physicians, who attended me during the 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 time mentioned with but little improvement, my case 
 was to me a hopeless one, unless some power was 
 brought to bear more than that of earthly help. After 
 having had pra 3 ^ers offered in various churches for three 
 or four weeks, I was led to address you, my brother, 
 and asked your prayer on the 10th of April. “The 
 Lord is good ; He hath done exceedingly abundant, more 
 than I could think or ask.” Since that hour I have 
 believed, I have trusted, and I am trusting, and not in 
 vain ! My soul is filled continually with praise. I am 
 all the Lord’s, and He has accepted me and made me 
 strong, all for his glory. strength is so wonderful! 
 I have not taken one grain of medicine, have not been 
 treated once. I had an examination eight days after I 
 claimed the faith, and my physician in astonishment 
 exclaimed, “ I see no sign of disease ! You are well! 
 What has done this?” I exclaimed, “Praise the 
 Lord! ” and forgetting all else but my Saviour, I told 
 him of the wondrous love ; and when I told the sweet 
 story, tears fiowed from his eyes, and this was the 
 means of leading him to trust Jesus, and ask for pra^^er 
 for his healing. Oh, magnify the Lord with me ! Let 
 us, dear brother, ask God that m 3 " ph 3 'sician may claim 
 the faith and be healed. May the Father’s love be 
 always with and around you. LoM, remember the 
 faith homes, and let Thy name be glorified through 
 them! Your sister in Christ, 
 
 Mrs. W. B. McE. 
 
 Felton, Del., May 29, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Cullis : 
 
 Dear Sir^ — You may have forgotten the fact that 
 more than two 3 "ears ago, I wrote you, asking 3 "our 
 
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 prayers in my behalf. I was troubled lest a decided 
 curvature in my spine should become so bad as to inter¬ 
 fere with the performance of my daily household duties. 
 You wrote me you had prayed for me ; but I do not 
 know whether it was before your letter came, but I 
 think it was, that I was strangely handled after I had 
 retired at night, and twisted and turned, until I was 
 laid upon my back. I thought, “ This is the process I 
 have read of, and my back is being healed.” But it 
 continued weak and painful, and I thought I must have 
 been mistaken ; it must have been a severe nervous affec¬ 
 tion, though entirely different from anything I ever knew 
 before. My brother grew worse and died, and my 
 household duties forbade the rest I needed. My back 
 grew better, but from some (as it seems to me 7iow) un¬ 
 accountable cause, the whole matter passed from my 
 thoughts. But a few weeks ago, in rubbing my back, 
 I was startled to find it perfectly straight. How long 
 it has been so I cannot tell, but it is now perfectly 
 straight. The curve was to the right, in the lower part 
 of the spine, commencing about the waist. I am still 
 weak, though leading a very active life, and am exceed¬ 
 ingly nervous ; a touch startles me, and often painfully. 
 My hearing is still bad. I am thinking now it is partly 
 in consequence of my nervous condition, and partly the 
 result of long-seated catarrh. My physician used to 
 call it a chronic bronchial affection, but the last two 
 years my nose has been sore nearly all the time This 
 deafness has been a source of sorrow to my friends, 
 perhaps even more than to myself. In prayer some 
 years ago, when I was pleading that it be removed, the 
 answer came sweetly, ‘‘ My grace is sufficient for thee,” 
 and it has been. 
 
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 Since about the 1st of December last, we have been 
 holding a ladies’ meeting in the interest of holiness, and 
 they call me the leader. Here my deafness is perhaps 
 more felt than anywhere else, and the dear sisters often 
 plead for a healing if it is the Lord’s will. We want 
 His will should be done ; but you know the promise is 
 “Whatsoever,” and t\\Q persovs^ “Whosoever.” So 
 for even me He may exercise his healing power a 
 second time. The ladies join me in requesting you will 
 please meet us at a Throne of Grace on next Wednes¬ 
 day afternoon at three o’clock, June 4. If the notice is 
 too short, or you are from home, and we fail on the 
 day, we will renew the request on the week following ; 
 but my faith claims it for June 4. I shall not be 
 with them, being summoned to visit a sick and perhaps 
 dying sister. To God be all the glory; and He shall 
 have it. He has honored our faith on many occasions, 
 and is still continually opening the way for us out of 
 very depressing circumstances. We trust in Him, and 
 look to Him in every trial. We are giving our petition 
 this form: “that the Lord will strengthen m}^ nervous 
 system, remove the cause of the deafness, and restore 
 my hearing.” 
 
 Yours in Christ Jesus, 
 
 Mrs. H. a. 
 
 \ 
 
 Beloit, Mahoning Co., O. 
 
 Du. Chas. Cut.lis: 
 
 Dear Friend^ — Through the mercy of God I am 
 able to tell you our prayers have been heard and an¬ 
 swered, and I am almost entirely restored. It is won¬ 
 derful what I am able to endure ! I feel as strong as 
 
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 at any time for years, but cannot as yet say my heart 
 is healed ; yet 1 am sure it will be. It is so mut h better 
 that I dare not entertain a doubt. Praise and thanks¬ 
 giving belong to our God. My healing is to the glory 
 of God; for people have to acknowledge it is through 
 a higher power than man’s that I have been made so 
 well as to be able to attend meeting, etc. ‘‘My cup 
 of joy runneth over,” and my greatest desire is to live 
 every day to the glory of God. 
 
 May the blessings of Heaven continue to rest upon 
 you and yours. 
 
 Truly your friend, 
 
 H. E. C. 
 
 Brockton, Mass. 
 
 Dear Dr. Cullis: 
 
 You asked me to write to you if I found that I was 
 wellj when I got home. When I went to Old Orchard 
 I had n’t a thought of going to see you on account of 
 my liealth, although I had not been well for a long time. 
 The ph 3 'sician that I consulted here is one of our old¬ 
 est and most skilful, and while taking his medicine I 
 always felt better; but as soon as I was out of medi¬ 
 cine 1 felt worse than ever, so that I began to think I 
 should never be permanently well and strong. Miss 
 
 P-, from Augusta, was at the house where I stopped, 
 
 and she questioned me very closely as to what ailed 
 me, and I told her. She said that she would go to see 
 Ur. Cullis if she was in m}^ place. “Well,” I said, 
 “ I would, if I had a cancer or spinal disease, or some 
 dreadful disease ; but for this I do not want to go.” 
 Besides, I did not want to go and take your time and 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 strength unless it was really necessary. 'She said, 
 “ This disease is bad enough, and it is sure to grow 
 worse and worse, and you do not know the misery you 
 are likely to suffer if j^ou neglect it. Do go and ask 
 the Lord what 3 ^ou shall do about it.” The next da}" 
 she said, “You must go ; I am sure you will be healed 
 if you do. The Lord has given me this word, ‘ Heal 
 her, and she shall be healed.’ ” “ / believe that T shall 
 
 be, too, if I go; but I don’t know whether I shall go 
 or not,” I said. Then I heard how tired you were, and 
 how many came to see you, and I said to myself, “ I 
 declare, it is too bad ; it is outrageous : I will rtot go. 
 The Lord can hear me pray as well as Dr. Cullis, and 
 I will just go now and pray that he may have strength 
 
 to meet the others ; but /will not go.” 1 told Miss P-, 
 
 “ I think I will not go ; there are so many who need to 
 more than I do, and the doctor is mortal, I suppose, 
 — he cannot endure everything.” “Ah,” she said, 
 “ you must go ; it is the Lord’s will.” I laughed to see 
 her so positive about it, but said, “ Then I ’ll go.” I 
 do not know what to make of it, but truly, as soon as 
 I stepped upon the piazza I felt all through me that [ 
 was being healed. Is this not strange? I am entirely 
 healed of the disease for which I had faith at that time. 
 But I have another disease that I did not include at 
 that time. May I hope that I may be free from that ? 
 
 I am writing a long letter, but I want to tell you what 
 a test I had a day or two after I saw you. 
 
 I had been in such a condition that to stand long 
 upon my feet, or to walk far, put me in misery. 1 have 
 sometimes felt, when I have been to Boston, and been 
 about on my feet for some time, and then had to ride 
 
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 horae in the cars, as though my brain fairly reeled. I 
 could hardly answer anybody civilly, T was in such dis¬ 
 tress ; and the weight of my hands across me was too 
 
 much ; and when R-would come and throw himself 
 
 down upon my lap, it hurt me severely. 
 
 Well, a day or two after I came to see you, I took 
 
 R-to meeting in the evening, and he got to sleep, 
 
 and I took him up in my lap and held him all the time 
 I sta^^ed, and the seats are not quite like easy-chairs, 
 3 ^ou know ; but it did not hurt me one bit. Then I 
 could not wake him up, and I stood him down upon 
 his feet, and lifted him silong a step at a time. Then 
 I took him up in my arms and carried him up to the 
 back of the grove, and it happened to be that roughest 
 path of all, where those great stones are, but it was so 
 dark I could not see them, so I went stumbling up over 
 them, and that did not hurt me ; and yesterday I rode 
 all that distance home in the cars, and I never felt 
 better than I do to-day. 
 
 I am going to write you again some time, but not 
 such a long letter as this. 
 
 Mrs. J. a. P. 
 
 Clifton Springs, N. Y., Aug. 12, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Cullis: 
 
 Dear Sir, — When you left me you desired me to 
 write out for you a short account of my cure of spinal 
 irritation, in answer to the prayer of faith which you 
 offered at my bedside, on Friday evening, June 27. 
 
 It was a disease from which I had suffered for thirty 
 years, many times being confined to my bed for months 
 at a time ; and the last winter, particularly, not having 
 
OK, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
 39 
 
 been able to sit up the entire winter. I came to 
 Clifton against the advice of friends and physicians, 
 who felt that I would not be able to bear the journey. 
 After being here four weeks, my physician, Dr. Foster, 
 said, “Why not apply quietly to the Lord for heal¬ 
 ing?” and added, “ I would like to bring in Dr. Cullis 
 to pray with you.” Not being the least bit of “a 
 fanatic,” I at first repelled the thought; but as I 
 studied my Bible with reference to it, and as I firmly 
 believe, submitted myself to the guidance of the Holy 
 Spirit, I felt more and more convinced that this healing 
 was possible, and that it was for me, if 1 would claim 
 it; and in less than twelve hours from the first sug¬ 
 gestion, I asked that you should come to my room. 
 
 After a few questions, the anointing oil was applied 
 to the forehead, and God was asked to cure the disease. 
 
 After you had left the room, I lay under the power of 
 God for half an hour. An attending physician came in, 
 and prepared medicine for the night, but I was firmly 
 resolved not to take it. At this time' I had not the 
 slightest evidence that a cure was effected; on the 
 contrary, I was suffering intensely, and in the night the 
 thought would come, “Perhaps God intends to heal 
 3 ^ou by this medicine.” But I said resolutely, “ Never, 
 Lord ; it must be by a clean hand.” In the morning it 
 seemed a hand-to-hand conflict with the powers of dark¬ 
 ness ; but I kept trusting and waiting. In the early 
 morning of the 29th, Sabbath, I awoke suffering in¬ 
 tensely. I arose and committed it again to God, lay 
 down again, and when I awoke, two hours after, the 
 sense of healing was complete, and for a half-hour my 
 voice was filled with praise. I seemed to have no con- 
 
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 trol over my lips, but would keep saying, “ I thank 
 thee, O Lord, I thank thee ! ” 
 
 Since then, with many things conspiring to produce 
 a recurrence of the disease, I am free At times the 
 pain would return, but a renewed application to the 
 Great Physician has entirely conquered, and I am 
 going to my home in the West, with the knowledge 
 that the disease which I had always supposed incurable 
 was removed by the power of God. “With Him all 
 things are possible.” Let me say, too, that with the 
 physical has come the spiritual healing, and I have 
 such an appreciation of the presence of God in my 
 heart and life as I had never dreamed of. I give this 
 as a simple recital of what God has done for me. 
 Unto His dear name be all the praise. 
 
 “ Soul and body, all exultant, 
 
 Shall the glorious truth reveal; 
 
 Ever telling 
 
 There’s a God in Israel.” 
 
 Ever yours, 
 
 A. G. B. 
 
 f 
 
 New Hampton, N. H., Aug. 21, 1879 
 Dit. Charles Cullis : 
 
 Dear Brother in Christy —Two years ago I asked 
 the prayers of your meeting for a lady, broken in 
 health and in insane despair. Two days ago we had a 
 visit from her, in good health and spirits. The strug¬ 
 gle has been long, and the victory is of the Lord, and 
 we wish to give thanks to His name. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 R. S. L. 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
 41 
 
 “ The prayer of faith shall save the sick.’* 
 
 “ Whatever ye shall ask in faith, believing, it shall be done unto 
 you.” 
 
 In the autumn of 1875, I suffered from a profuse 
 hemorrhage, which left my lungs in such a weak state 
 that every few months I was obliged to make a change 
 of climate. A damp atmosphere and rainy days were 
 particularly trying, causing a weakness and painfulness 
 in the left lung, accompanied with a hacking cough, 
 from which I have never entirely recovered. 
 
 While travelling in New Hampshire this summer, I 
 met at Newport a dear sister from Boston, — one whom 
 the Lord has led in the green pastures of His love. 
 We enjoyed some precious seasons together, talking of 
 the precious goodness of God, and of the power of 
 Christ to fully save the soul. In one of these conver¬ 
 sations the sister asked me if I had read “Faith 
 Cures,” by Dr. Cullis. I replied in the negative. 
 She handed me a little book, the reading of which was 
 to be so greatly blessed to me. I took it to my room 
 and carefully perused it; and knowing that our God 
 is no respecter of persons, that if He would heal 
 others He would heal me, I at once sought the aid of 
 the Spirit to guide me, and received in reply, “ If ye 
 abide in me, and my words abide in j^ou, ye shall ask 
 what ye will, and it shall be done unto 3 ^ou.” For the 
 past ten j^ears I have been reading the Word by the 
 illumination of the Spirit, and have learned that God’s 
 “ shall” does not mean “ perhaps.” It is “ Thus saith 
 the Lord.” 
 
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 After a praj^erful consideration of the matter, T 
 decided to write to Dr. Ciillis, asking him to appoint 
 some time when he would make my case a special sub¬ 
 ject of prayer, that 1 also might be waiting before the 
 Lord. Me replied, naming Ang. 12, at three o’clock p. m. 
 
 How prayerfull}^ I waited for the day ! and when the 
 hour came, and 1 knelt in my room alone, Lwas awed 
 into silence. It was holy ground. I could" not pray, 
 but with bowed head waited for the ..fulfilment of the 
 promise; and He who is ever faithful, who never yet 
 disappointed one of the least of His children, then and 
 there healed me. 1 did not feel any instantaneous 
 improvement. 1 was so lost to self, and so filled with 
 the Spirit, that 1 scarcely realized that 1 was in the 
 flesh; but after 1 stood up 1 knew I was healed. 
 
 1 thought it best to let some weeks elapse before 
 making this known to my many friends, through the 
 medium of your paper, fearing some one might be 
 sceptical on the subject, and say that the first rain, 
 storm would prove it. And it has proved it; for a few 
 days after w.e had a continuation of five rainy days, 
 and through that and subsequent storms I have felt 
 no inconvenience whatever from the weak lung. To¬ 
 day my faith is greater than ever before, for God’s 
 word is yea and amen to them that believe. — L. M, 
 B.^ in Zion’s Herald. 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 A TESTIMONY. 
 
 [The following statement is given on the credit of the writer, for the con¬ 
 sideration of students of the Bible.] 
 
 “ The prayer of faith shall save the sick.” 
 
 To THE Editor of the Watchman: 
 
 For several years I was afflicted with neuralgia, and 
 during the summer of 1879 the attacks Were so frequent 
 and so violent that my life was despaired of. I lost all 
 confidence in medicine, and in September visited Dr. 
 C. Cullis, of Boston. He made a short, simple prayer 
 'to the dear Father above for my restoration, and I 
 recovered. Kearly six months have elapsed since, and 
 there has been no recurrence of neuralgic pain. My 
 health is better than it has been for ten years. My 
 eyes, which had caused me great trouble, are improv¬ 
 ing wonderfully, and I have abandoned the use of 
 glasses altogether. The spiritual blessing which at¬ 
 tended my cure was even greater than the physical. 
 
 Eliza J. Robertson. 
 
 Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Newtonville, Sept. 10, 1878. 
 
 L)u. Cullis : 
 
 We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to God, that 
 while we united to pray for the raising up of our mother 
 to health, from a sick-bed, when physicians had given 
 her up, she was wonderfully restored to us. 
 
 Yours in Christ, 
 
 L. and S. M. H. 
 
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 Pennsylvania Military Academy, 
 Chester, Pa., Sept. 21, 1875. 
 
 Dr. Charles Cullis : 
 
 Dear Friend^ — On IMonda}^, the 8 th inst., I left Balti¬ 
 more for Boston, to ask 3 ’our prayer for my recovery. 
 The previous evening I had started to walk to church, 
 but felt my heart to be too weak, and turned back. My 
 friends were wondering how 1 would stand the journey 
 but I had no doubts about that. I went straight 
 through in the palace car, — getting very little sleep that 
 night, of course, —and reached Boston at 8 a. m. Tues¬ 
 day 1 walked to the Adams House, got breakfast, and 
 then walked to 3 ^our office in Somerset Street. The State 
 House hill tired me severel 3 ^ but I prayed constantly 
 and tried to trust. I was told you would not be there 
 till two o’clock, so I returned to the Adams House and 
 took a room. I consider this very providential, for it 
 gave me several hours for pra 3 ^er and meditation on the 
 promises. As I was about to lie down for a little rest, 
 the promise about proving the Lord came very vividly 
 to my mind. As I turned the leaves to find it. Matt, 
 ix. 6 and then the thirteenth verse caught my eye, and 
 as you may imagine, comforted me greatly; and when 
 1 found Malachi iii. 10, it filled me with new hope. Ps. 
 ciii. 3 also came to me, and I la 3 ^down exclaiming, “ I 
 am going to be well.” When I walked to 3 'our office 
 the second time it seemed easier; and I really believe 
 I expected to be healed when 3 ^ou prayed with me. I 
 left you and went to the meeting at Faith Chapel, tiying 
 to trust the Lord for all the strength I needed ; and cer¬ 
 tainly I was stronger. The meeting cheered me greatly, 
 especially the testimony of the colored woman who 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 spoke of her recovery from heart disease ; but a severe 
 neuralgic headache came on, and remained with me a 
 long time. I went from there to the cars, and took the 
 steamer “ Providence ” for New York. Before I went 
 to you, I had thrown away one bottle of medicine ; and 
 before going to bed on the steamer, I dropped into 
 Narragansett Bay my digitalis and iron, committing m}^- 
 self to the Lord. Reached New York at seven a. m. on 
 Wednesday, and left for Chester, reaching there at noon. 
 When I left the cars, I debated whether I should ride 
 to the Academy (a mile), or essay to walk. Asking the 
 Lord about it, I felt strongly inclined to the latter, and 
 according!}^ did so, walking the entire distance, with 
 only a little of the old symptom in the left side of my 
 neck. Remember here, that m}^ friends in Baltimore 
 were wondering how I would stand the ride over the 
 rough streets of Chester. 
 
 Well, my friends met me and asked how I felt. I 
 somehow answered, “ Pretty well,” although I was tired 
 and weak. ISchool began, and my duties with it that 
 evening, and the large number we have (one hundred 
 cadets) coming in, many with their parents, necessitated 
 a great deal of work. Suffice it to say, that I have 
 gradually improved dui'ing the days that have passed. 
 The building is high, and my class-rooms are in the top 
 of the house, requiring me to ascend the stairs several 
 times a day. I have, from the first, started resolutely, 
 and gone steadily up without rest, and have felt much 
 less quickening of the heart than formerly when I was 
 relatively in fair health ; and 1 have not taken a drop of 
 any medicine since I saw you ten days ago. 
 
 My affection was a weakness of the heart, affecting 
 
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 principally the mitral valve, which under any pressure 
 would fail to act, and the heart would intermit. It was 
 brought on in 1872, by over-exertion, when weakened by 
 powerful medicines, taken for settled cold ; my fondness 
 for gymnastic exercises, in which I excelled, leading me 
 to make the indiscretion. At the time, it became very 
 bad, intermitting constantly, and preventing any strong 
 effort. In 1873 I went to California and engaged in the 
 sheep business, and for nearly three 3 ^ears lived the rough 
 open-air life of a ranchman, on the plains and in the moun¬ 
 tains. The glorious climate, the exercise, and absence 
 of mental work did their work, and in six months I had 
 gained thirty-five pounds ; and thereafter, during m}^ stay 
 in the Golden State, I looked the picture of health. But 
 even that life could not restore the vital strength of my 
 heart: it still prevented me from any violent exercise, 
 such as running, etc., and some days I could not ride my 
 horse out of a walk. I had become convinced, then, 
 that no medicine of drugs or climate could ever make 
 me entirely well; and as you know, the profession do 
 not pretend to remove — or rather restore the lost vital 
 element in such affections. They only profess to do 
 what California did for me, — build up what is left. 
 
 Realizing my dependence upon God, many a night I 
 have stood in those great plains and gazed at those stars 
 which there shine as they never do on the Atlantic coast, 
 and cried to God in prayer to save me entirely from my 
 disease. I had long trusted Him for m}^ soul; and all 
 m}" meditations, all my reading, which has been exten¬ 
 sive, all m 3 ’ scientific studies as Professor of Natural 
 Science and Chemistry in this institution, only served 
 to ground me deeper in the belief that God is over all, 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO RRAYERS. 
 
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 aiul that His power will reach and does reach to every¬ 
 thing, no matter how small. Many a time have my 
 tongue and pen been used to testify to this publicly, 
 and yet 1 felt that my faith was weak. I returned to 
 my post here in 1876. My health had of course suf¬ 
 fered, since I was shut up in the house again ; and for 
 two 3 xars I have been unable to ride a horse even, ex¬ 
 cept at a walk. Last June I seemed much stronger, 
 and I pra 3 md a great deal; but in July I suddenl 3 ^ broke 
 down, and for six weeks before coming to see 3 ^ou, I 
 was so ill that I could not walk any distance, could not 
 read, nor even talk with a stranger more than five min¬ 
 utes at a time. Those six weeks were wonderfully blest 
 to m 3 ^ soul, however, and I prayed constantly. I felt 
 the inabilit 3 " of medicine to cu7'e me, and did not want 
 to take an 3 ^; but when 1 was very near death I was 
 
 persuaded to call my friend. Dr. D-a Christian 
 
 man, to m 3 ' aid. He thoroughl 3 ^ diagnosed my case, and 
 decided that with the use of digitalis and iron, to 
 correct the decided anaemia under which I suffered, 
 there was no reason why 1 should not recover the 
 health 1 had enjoyed in June. I am well posted in 
 medieval matters myself, and the personal observation 
 of my own case for seven 3 'ears gave me assurance 
 that he was entirety correct in his diagnosis, and prob¬ 
 ably so in his hopes ; but I told him, “You can only 
 build me up a little, — 3 ’ou cannot cure me, and that 
 is what 1 want.” To this he frankly assented. I then 
 came to 3 'ou, and the rest I have written. I do not 
 tliink I have felt a single intermission these ten da 3 ^s, 
 but 1 must say that under the digitalis my heart iiad 
 not actualty intermitted much before. It would, how- 
 
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 ever, beat very variously before and after meals, etc., 
 and that has almost entirely ceased. I endeavor to 
 leave all symptoms to the Lord. I could tell of num¬ 
 bers of precious texts that He has given me from His 
 word, when I felt troubled, the book opening to them 
 in answer to my request; but time and space and your 
 patience forbid. 
 
 Gratefully and faithful!}" yours, 
 
 R. K. Carter. 
 
 Brattleboro, VT., Sept. 26, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Cullis: 
 
 Dear Sir^ — You may not remember the writer, who 
 called on 5 ^ou 13th and 14th inst., and in answer to 
 your prayer was cured. I am as well as before the 
 sickness, resulting in nervous prostration, and I hope 
 the Lord will heal all my diseases, and give me more 
 robust health than 1 have enjoyed of late years, and 
 show me His way. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 A. A. C. 
 
 West Brattleboro, Vt , Oct. 4, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Cullis: 
 
 i 
 
 Dear Sir, — Thanks for your continued interest and 
 prayers. After a sufficient time had elapsed for my 
 fonner letter to reach you, I did feel stronger, and 
 have since felt no pain in the back, nor any dyspepsia. 
 
 Considerable interest is manifested in regard to my 
 cure; but Christians are slow to give-.- God the glory. 
 An unconverted man, severely afflicted with disease, 
 was much interested. 
 
OU, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
 49 
 
 Is it too much to ask you to remember the writer in 
 prayer, that he may be wholly consecrated and wholly 
 led by the Spirit? 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 A. A. C. 
 
 Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 8, 1879. 
 
 Dear Dr. Cullis : 
 
 It is due you that I should tell what great things 
 God has done for me through your instrumentality. 
 
 For twenty-nine years previous to May, 1878, I had 
 been afflicted with severe nervous headaches, the attacks 
 averaging twenty-four hours every two weeks. Even in 
 a dark room I suffered extremely. Sometimes in the 
 early years, before I knew how much I could bear, I 
 used to ask my mother to examine my temple to see if 
 it was not bursting with pain. Eight years of this 
 time I had been engaged in public work connected with 
 the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Meth¬ 
 odist Episcopal Church. This affliction had oftentimes 
 been a hindrance in accomplishing what I thought 
 would be for God’s glory. Many times when laid 
 aside, it would occur to me, “ Why have these head¬ 
 aches when you have the Great Physician ? ” Once a 
 deep impression was made upon my mind by an old 
 lady whom I had never seen before, one who walked 
 very closely with God, saying abruptly to me, “It is 
 your own fault if 3’ou have headaches. Ood does not 
 want 3 ^ou to have them.” 
 
 I had read the reports of your work for years, and 
 was deeply interested. About this time I searched the 
 Scriptures to see if there was an instance on record 
 
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 where Jesus refused to heal when on earth. On the 
 contrary, I found it written that “ He went about heal¬ 
 ing all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease 
 among the people.” Then I inquired of Him whether 
 it was not His will to cure me, and became convinced 
 that He would; but when I could not tell. I found 
 myself asking Him to open the way for me to see you. 
 
 On the 8th of May, 1878, I went into Boston. On 
 the 9th had one of the most severe headaches I ever 
 had ; sent for you, but you were out of the city. On 
 the 23d 1 called to see you. My thought was that all 
 I had to do was to let you pray with me, and I should 
 be well. I cannot describe the utter discouragement 
 that possessed me when you quoted James v. 14, 15, 
 and directed me at once away from yourself to Christ, 
 and waited for my faith to claim the promise. 1 had 
 often tried to do that, and the headache still came. 
 The impulse was to retreat, and dismiss all thought of 
 healing. It was a moment of agony. God had spoken 
 to me. He had led me to see you, in answer to my 
 own prayer, that I might be more efficient in His ser¬ 
 vice. I dared not go back; the command was “ For¬ 
 ward ! ” Indeed, I believed this act of disobedience 
 would bring me into darkness ; and with all the effort 
 of my will, as when I believed definitely for a clean 
 heart, I said, “ I take God at His word.” You then 
 prayed with me, and asked God to “ remove all cause 
 of nervous headache” from me, that I might “ never 
 
 have another,” and anointed me with oil in the name of 
 
 ✓ 
 
 the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. As 3 "ou bade me 
 good by, you said, “ When threatened with headache, 
 tell the Lord He is 3 "our Healer.” For several months 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 I would occasionally have symptoms; but from the 23d 
 of May, 1878, to the present time, I have not been in 
 bed a moment with headache. 
 
 Immediately after leaving your office I announced 
 my faith to a friend, and since that I have told it a 
 great many times. It seems that every time I tell it or 
 write it, a new thrill of health goes through my being. 
 Others have been led to the great Healer. I have 
 heard that a blind lady in St. Louis (my former home) 
 listened to the story, as I related God’s goodness to me 
 at a ladies’ prayer meeting in that city, and went home 
 telling the Lord her great need of her sight for her 
 children’s sake, and pleading with Him to touch her 
 blind eyes. He did so, and she has been praising Him 
 ever since for sight. 
 
 All of the added days and strength have been gladly 
 used for my wonderful Deliverer. Your prayer that I 
 might be “ more abundantly useful ” has been answered ; 
 and I ask that you will still pray for me, for there is 
 much to do, and “ no chance in heaven to save souls.” 
 
 With earnest prayer for you and your work, I remain 
 very sincerely 
 
 Your friend in Jesus, 
 
 Mrs. L. E. P. 
 
 Stoneham, Mass., Oct. 14, 1879. 
 
 Brother Cullis: 
 
 Two weeks ago to-day, I called at your office, desir¬ 
 ing the pra 5 ’er of faith to be offered on my behalf, that 
 I might be healed of “neuralgic headache” of long 
 standing. 
 
 I Avish to return thanks through you, in the meeting 
 
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 this afternoon, that God has heard and answered, and 
 I am healed. Praise the Lord ! 
 
 Your sister in Christ, 
 
 Mrs. R. V. A. 
 
 Atlantic City, N. J., Oct. 15, 1879. 
 
 Dear Dr. Cullis; 
 
 Some months ago I wrote you, asldng your prayers 
 in my behalf, who was prostrated at the time by nervous 
 weakness. I am marvellously better, and can endure 
 what, awhile ago, would have been utterly impossible. 
 Now, my dear friend in Christ, I come to you again, 
 in behalf of my little boy (an only son), who has been 
 stricken with typhoid fever, which has gone to ^his 
 brain. Our physician seems to have failed in reaching, 
 with remedies, a cure. My boy has been one of the 
 healthiest of children, and one of the loveliest disposi¬ 
 tions, so full of promise that the affliction of his sudden 
 cut-down is especially heavy. 
 
 Now, my dear friend, as you sympathize with torn 
 hearts, pray for his restoration to health and strength. 
 I feel that God is willing to hear, and that infinite 
 wisdom is exerted in this blow of His chastening hand, 
 but with the prayer of faith He is willing to heal the 
 sick. Withhold not your prayer, then, my dear friend, 
 in my precious boy’s behalf. My prayer accompanies 
 this letter for your still richer blessing and extended 
 usefulness. 
 
 Truly yours in a common faith, 
 
 J. B. H. J. 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 Clean, N. Y., Oct. 17, 1879. 
 
 Dear Brother Cullis : 
 
 I can but continually praise my Heavenly Father for 
 what He has and is perpetually doing for me. Since 
 the day we met in your office I have been perfectly 
 strong in body as well as soul, and feel like singing 
 constantl}^, “ Praise God from whom all blessings flow;.” 
 And I thank Him that He has raised up such servants in 
 His vineyard as yourself and many others. The Lord 
 bless and strengthen you each day in your mission of 
 love and mercy. Praise the Lord for all His wonderful 
 works to the children of men. 
 
 Very kindly yours, 
 
 I. H. 
 
 Savannah, Ga., Nov. 11, 1879, 
 
 My* Dear Brother Cullis : 
 
 A year ago I was so low (cough for two years), I 
 gave up hope that I could live longer than April, 1879. 
 Your praj^ers and those of your people at your Tuesday 
 prayer meeting moved the hand of God to touch me, 
 — heal me so that new life is imparted. Since then, T 
 had my lungs tried by a doctor. He says bronchial 
 tube leading to right lung is at fault, and my voice has 
 not the proper sound. I gave up all work (pastoral), 
 and even could not ask a blessing, or pray in the 
 family. But last month I was able to preach in the 
 open air to a large congregation, for forty-five minutes, 
 and no ill effects. Since that day, three weeks ago, I 
 have gained nine pounds in flesh, which to me is simply 
 amazing. Now I desire the baptism of the Holy Ghost 
 for work. Pray for me again, please, that I may be 
 
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 filled with the Holy Ghost for any work the blessed 
 Saviour may wish me to do. 
 
 Yours in Christ, 
 
 L. C. T. 
 
 44 Concord Street, Lawrence, Nov. 14, J879. 
 Dear Dr. Cullis : ' 
 
 I wrote to 3 ^ou the first of last September, requesting 
 3 ’ou to pray for me. I had then been out of health for 
 a long time; had been taking medicine for four long 
 months, which was a great injury to me, although the 
 doctor told me that I should soon be well and strong. 
 Instead of that I grew weaker, and in July I had a 
 shock, which greatly affected both body and mind, and 
 my friends feared 1 never should recover. But still I 
 put great confidence in my doctor, and kept on taking 
 his medicine. At last your “Faith Cures” fell into 
 my hands, and I read it with great and deep interest. 
 What a desire I had to see you! But my friends 
 thought it would not be best for me to go, as I was so 
 weak, and said I had better write to you ; and some¬ 
 thing seemed to sa}^ to me, “If you want to live, leave 
 off taking medicine, and trust in the great Ph^’sician of 
 soul and body, for healing, who forgiveth all thine in¬ 
 iquities, who healeth all thy diseases.” This was the 
 precious promise that was given me, and many others 
 claimed. Well, you answered my letter the next day, 
 saying that 3 " 0 u would pray for me. When I arose 
 the next morning and was dressing, a voice seemed to 
 say, “ You are healed.” How happy I was ! and my 
 heart said, “Praise the Lord,” My room seemed to 
 be full of the presence of Jesus. 1 went out into an- 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 other room where my friends were, and as soon as they 
 saw me, they exclaimed, “ Yon are better ! Why, how 
 differently you look !” I told them that I was healed ; 
 and we shed tears of joy together. Surely the effectual, 
 fervent prayer of the righteous man availeth much in my 
 case, to both soul and body. I never can tell you how 
 thankful I feel for your kindness to me. It is through 
 your prayers, and the great goodness of my Heavenly 
 Father, that I am spared to see this day. “ Bless the 
 Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His 
 holy name ! ” Oh, how I want an abiding faith and trust 
 in my blessed Saviour ; how precious he is to me ! 
 
 You remember I went to Boston three weeks ago, 
 with two friends ; but I thought you was in a hurry, so 
 I did not tell you what a great blessing I had obtained 
 through your prayers. 
 
 Truly yours, 
 
 L. S. G. 
 
 Lawrence, Mass., Nov. 15, 1879. 
 
 Dear Dr. Cullis: 
 
 I want to make a little thank-offering to God for my 
 health and increased strength. Use it where it seems 
 most needed ; my prayers go with it. 
 
 You prayed for me at Old Orchard, and again in 
 Boston three weeks ago. The local congestion is all 
 gone, I think, and I am stronger, and trusting Jesus 
 for full strength. Please pray for my mother, who is 
 physically prostrated, and feels burdened in spirit; 
 also for our pastor, who has had poor health a long 
 time, and been unable t)o fill his pulpit much of the 
 time. We have been praying for him, but he does not 
 
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 believe in “Faith Cures.” Pray that the baptism of 
 the Spirit may rest on him. 
 
 Thank you for your prayers, and I give God the 
 glory of the cure. His blessing rest upon your labors. 
 
 Yours, 
 
 Nellie F. R. 
 
 t 
 
 Cornish Centre, N. H., Nov. 19, 1879. 
 
 Dear Brother: 
 
 I wrote you a few weeks ago, asking you to make 
 my case a subject of prayer, and I feel that I have been 
 healed in answer to prayer. Though I have not the 
 strength that I had before my sickness, I am trusting 
 for it when He sees best. I have also received rich 
 spiritual blessings. To His name be all the praise! 
 
 May God bless and richly reward you in your glorious 
 work. 
 
 Yours in Christ, 
 
 E. L. H. 
 
 Purchase, Nov. 19, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Charles Cullis : 
 
 Dear Friend, — My health is good, and I send the 
 account of my healing by faith, with desires that the 
 Lord may continue His blessing upon thee, and the 
 work He hath enabled thee to carry on. 
 
 R S. C. 
 
 When studying the Holy Scriptures, I had often read 
 in the Epistle of James the words, “ Is any sick among 
 you? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let 
 them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name 
 of the Lord ; and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
 57 
 
 audthe Lord shall raise him up, and if he have committed 
 sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one 
 to another, and pray one for another, that ye may. be 
 healed. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man 
 availeth much.” James v 14-16. While I believed 
 them to be true, I had not known of their being fulfilled 
 in the experience of any one until I heard S. H S. give 
 an account of his being cured by the prayer of faith. I 
 had suffered from a catarrhal affection of the throat for 
 several years, and the disease seemed to be increasing, 
 and my hearing was impaired. Medical treatment 
 seemed to be of no avail, and I felt it would be right 
 to go to Boston and see thee. My wife uniting with 
 me, we went on the 26th of June, 1878. The inter¬ 
 view was satisfactory, and on leaving the house, I 
 “ I'eckoned ” I was healed The next day I told thee 
 how I had been blessed, and that my heart was filled 
 with love, thanksgiving, and praise. Thou said, “ I 
 am inclined to think the work is done, and for this rea¬ 
 son : He never heals the body without a baptism of the 
 spirit.” For days the language of my heart was, 
 “ Blessed Jesus, Thine the glorj'^! Thou hast made me 
 well! Thine the glory ! Thine the glory ! ” 
 
 New York, Nov. 24, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Cullis: 
 
 Dear Friend^ — God has greatly blessed our prayers, 
 and we must give Him the glory for so graciously and 
 speedily answering our request. On the strength of 
 receiving your letter, I immediately set about writing 
 to different friends, requesting their prayers for mj^ 
 speedy recovery at the hour mentioned in your letter, 
 
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 namely, three o’clock, p. m., on Tuesday, Nov. 18. I 
 had been praying earnestly for myself, and my faith 
 in and love for God have been greatly increased. On 
 Tuesday last, about a little after three p. m., I felt a 
 thrill pass all through my body, and since then my pains 
 have very much lessened. I believe it was about twenty 
 or twenty-five minutes after three, that I got out of bed 
 myself and stood upright on my feet, and then took two 
 steps. It seems in one sense but little, and in another 
 light it appears a good deal. As I said to my mother, 
 words seem too tame and meaningless to describe the 
 acute sufierings I have undergone; neither can I ex¬ 
 press my present feelings. Whereas in former times 
 I cried but seldom for physical pain, I now cry a good 
 deal. It seems as if this stress of joy was too great 
 to be borne ! I feel full and running over with love 
 and gratitude towards my dear Heavenly Father, 
 
 Although I am not fully restored, yet 1 trust that 
 God will soon perfect the cure which He has already 
 begun. I know He will in time. My feet and lower 
 limbs are very crooked, one in particular. I have feet 
 shaped (as near as I can describe it) ver}’’ much like 
 those called “ club-footed.” I trust you will remember 
 me in your prayers, that I may be more like Jesus eveiy 
 day. You will probably hear from me again before 
 long. May God bless your prayers for others, as He 
 has those that have been raised for me. 
 
 Your sincere friend and sister in Christ, 
 
 Miss E. A. R. 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 Newton viLLE, Mass., Thanksgiving Morning. 
 Dr. Collis: 
 
 Dear Sir^ — Some time ago I sent you a request for 
 your prayers for my wife, who was suffering from con¬ 
 gestion of the brain. We desire to acknowledge to-day 
 tiiat these prajxrs have been answered, and God has 
 bjen merciful to us. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 J. P. R. 
 
 Chester, Pa., Nov. 30, 1879. 
 
 Dear Brother: 
 
 What a Thanksgiving day we have had ! Praise the 
 Lord for His wonderful works ! You will remember I 
 wrote to 3 "ou a little more than two weeks ago, asking 
 you to pray for my sister, who for over three years has 
 been so utterly weak and suffered constantly with her 
 e 3 "es, the best oculists of Baltimore pronouncing them 
 about hopeless. You wrote on Monday (two weeks 
 ago) that 3 ’ou would indeed pray for her. On the pre¬ 
 vious Thursday she attended a reception, and was 
 dreadfully fatigued in consequence ; she had been pray¬ 
 ing about herself ever since I was so wonderful^ 
 restored from my heart disease and eye trouble, and 
 she had endeavored to lay aside her glasses and trust 
 to God’s power. Friday she would not hang them 
 round her neck for fear she would use them, and she 
 suffered a great deal. On Saturday I remarked to two 
 friends here at the P. M. A. that I expected soon to 
 hear from m}^ sister, telling them that I had written to 
 3 'ou to ask your prayers ; and that day I claimed Matt. 
 
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 xviii. 19. On Monday evening, when your answer came, 
 I sat down and wrote to my sister, telling her what you 
 said, assuring her of my belief that she would be healed, 
 and adding, “ I am expecting to hear great things from 
 you.” Tuesday I mailed it, and received, a few min¬ 
 utes afterwards, a letter from her saying that on Sat¬ 
 urday her eyes had been healed. I did not know how 
 to praise enough, but I kept trying, and expect to 
 keep on. Truly, “ Before they call I will answer, and 
 while they are yet speaking I will hear.” 
 
 She says she sat down Saturday morning and took 
 up ‘‘Faith Cures.” She noticed the time, 11.30, and 
 began to read, and forgot about her eyes, until she came 
 to page 103. The case was similar to hers, and as she 
 read the words, “ I opened and read page after page, 
 and said, I am healed,” it suddenly occurred to her that 
 she had been reading a long time without the least pain ; 
 and looking up, she saw the time, — quarter past one, — 
 and she exclaimed, “ I must be healed also.” For two 
 weeks now she has not touched her glasses, and has 
 used her e 3 ^es a great deal, and .grows stronger in body 
 daily; while the Lord has also blessed her soul with a 
 new light, as He only can. 
 
 I ran down to Baltimore for Thanksgiving day, for 
 we felt that if ever a family ought to be together on that 
 day, ours should be, with two such wonderful blessings 
 in three months. The Lord sent me to a good Chidstian 
 man in Baltimore, who is djung with consumption. He 
 is ver 3 ’ useful, talks to children especialljq nearly equal 
 to Dr. Newton, and is in middle life. He believed all I 
 told him, and promised to pra^^erfully consider my re¬ 
 quest that he should come to 3 "ou for prayer. 1 believe 
 
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 he will come if the Lord draws him. Do ask for it with 
 me. Please ask God to gWe my sister abundant grace, 
 and me also. How much I need and thirst for, every 
 day and hour. 
 
 Yours in Him, 
 
 R. K. Carter, 
 Rockport, Me., Dec. 5. 
 
 Dr Cullis: 
 
 Dear Sir^ — I am very happy to say to you that my 
 health is greatly improved. I saw 3 "OU at your office 
 last September. You prayed with me twice before I 
 left for home, and I feel that your prayers have been 
 answered in my behalf. I have been able to do more 
 than I have for years before, and I want to give the 
 Lord all the glory. I still desire your prayers that I 
 may continue to improve, and ever be an earnest, faith¬ 
 ful Christian. And may the Lord bless and strengthen 
 you in all your good work, is the prayer of one that 
 never will forget you. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 Mrs. a. C. C. 
 
 Springfield, Mass , Dec. 8, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Cullis: 
 
 Last Febiniary I called at your office. I had long 
 been impressed with the magnitude of your work. I 
 went with a request of my daughter, Mrs. S. T. 
 M-. I had not thought much of my own com¬ 
 
 plaints, so filled was my heart with gratitude and 
 praise that I was saved from the use of an ear-trumpet 
 or a crutch. But I had been a lifelong sufferer from 
 dyspepsia, with all its attendant consequences. When 
 
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 MORE FAITH CURES ; 
 
 I found myself in your office, and realized God’s read¬ 
 iness to cleanse our bodies from disease as well as our 
 hearts from sin, I asked j^our prayers with no wavering 
 faith, claiming God’s precious promise, “I will: be 
 thou clean.” I am now freer from disease than ever 
 before in my long life. Hallelujah ! Why not tell me 
 this before ? you are ready to say. 
 
 I read jlour “ Faith Cures ” and reports with thrill¬ 
 ing interest. I am asking day by day what I can do 
 for faith cure. If you see fit to make any use of this, 
 you will please withhold the name. 
 
 Yours in Christ, 
 
 Mrs. M. H. 
 
 Vacaville, Cal., Dec. 24, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Charles Cullis : 
 
 Dear Brother^ — I have been reading your fourteenth 
 annual report of your work of faith, and labor of love, 
 sent me by my aged mother, living in Springfield, Mass. ; 
 and although in straitened circumstances, I felt I could 
 not be denied the privilege of sending you the enclosed 
 amount, to be used as you think best. An aged mother 
 and sister have visited you and been cured, and are 
 now sound and well, after years of suffering, and the 
 unworthy writer of this has been prayed for by you at 
 their request, and I can testify that my health has since 
 that time been such as I had not known for years 
 before. Pray for me, my dear brother, that God’s 
 will concerning me may be made clear, and that I may 
 have grace to walk therein. 
 
 Your brother in Christ, 
 
 W. F. H. 
 
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 Marion, Ia., Dec. 29, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Charles Cullis: 
 
 Dear Brother^ — Before the year is gone I must 
 write to tell you that my faith still holds for complete 
 healing, and in many directions I am seeing the answer 
 more and more clearly as the weeks go by I expect 
 this work to go on until I shall know myself well. If 
 I could see you I could more easily tell you of the 
 directions in which already the change is so .marked. 
 For a time, even after the prayer of faith you offered 
 for me, I trusted for help for the indigestion, and yet 
 at the same time carried a bottle of nux vomica in my 
 pocket, so if anything doubtful were eaten I might 
 have the help near by. After coming West, I suddenly 
 felt, for two days about Nov. 1, that I must give up the 
 “nux” and trust God alone, and the result is almost 
 marvellous. 1 scarcely know any trouble in that direc¬ 
 tion. I have eaten in the last weeks some articles I 
 have not eaten before, I think, in ten yeare, and still 
 have been as well as usual. It is wonderful. And so, 
 in many other directions, the change is as marked 
 My friends have, many of them, never seen me looking 
 so well. I thank God for all this help, and go on 
 expecting even greater things. 
 
 You are well and happy as usual, I trust, and find- 
 ing jo}^ in “ casting all your care upon Him who carelh 
 for you.” I trust that your work is being remembered, 
 and that you are saved from any anxiety about it. 
 
 I am going steadily on in my work for the salvation 
 of souls, and am content and happy in all that God 
 puts into my hands to do. 
 
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 MORE FAITH CURES ; 
 
 Your “ Faith Work” I keep near me, so as often to 
 take it and read a little portion, always to find my 
 faith greatly strengthened thereby. I am thinking to 
 know more and more of faith myself, and thus, as 
 never before, to “ inherit the promises.” Believe me, 
 most sincerely, 
 
 Yours in Jesus, 
 
 1. S. L. 
 
 Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Cullis: 
 
 Dear Brother^ — Since I met you at Clifton Springs, 
 in June, and you prayed that 1 might have no more 
 rheumatism, I have had no real attack of it. 
 
 I enclose, as a thank-offering, $5.00 ; please use as 
 the Lord directs your mind. Please send me a report 
 of your faith cures, as I am particularly interested 
 in that department. With prayers and thanks for the 
 work the Lord has put in yours and Mrs. CuUis’s 
 hands, and a personal regard for you both, I am 
 
 Yours, 
 
 Mrs. S. H. S. 
 
 Augusta, Me., Dec. 31. 
 
 Dji. Cullis: 
 
 I send this money as a thank-offering, for the benefit 
 I have received in answer to your prayers. I have 
 been greatly blessed. Please pray that I may receive 
 a full baptism of the love of God. 
 
 Mrs. L. T. 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 Lynn, Mass., Dec. 31, 1879. 
 My Dear Physician in the Lord : 
 
 Please accept my mite as a thank-offering for the 
 marvellous work of the Spirit, wrought in me, through 
 your faith. The dear Lord must love you very much 
 for your willingness to receive so largel}^ of His grace. 
 May you receive yet more abundantly, and may we 
 who follow obtain like precious faith. 
 
 Yours in the blessed fellowship, 
 
 H. J. M. 
 
 Augusta, Me., Jan. 6, 1880. 
 
 Dr. Cullis : 
 
 Dear Sir, — I called upon you the last of October, 
 to ask your prayers that I might be made well of a 
 lame knee, a fresh injury after three years of lameness 
 from a sprain of the knee. I was discouraged after I 
 returned home to find myself worse than before. I see 
 now, God was trying my faith, though I did not realize 
 it at the time.' I had hoped I should be restored 
 instantly, but that was my way, and God’s was to give 
 strength gradually. I am now able to take a long walk 
 with perfect ease, no pain or inflammation following. 
 Best of all, I am able to rest in Jesus, as never before. 
 I feel to praise Him continually. I enclose a small 
 sum to be used as you think best. 
 
 Your sister in Christ, 
 
 F. P. McC. 
 
 Brattleboro’, Vt., Jan. 7, 1880. 
 To THE Editors of the Phcenix: 
 
 Dear Sirs, ■— Kindly allow me to call the attention 
 of your readers to the availability of God’s promises. 
 
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 MORE FAITH CURES ; 
 
 In the spring of 1878 a severe attack of inflammation 
 of the bowels, preceded by gradually failing health, left 
 me with nervous prostration and dj^spepsia, from which 
 I did not recover sufficiently to engage in any occupa¬ 
 tion of mind or body. At a visit to Dr. Charles Cul- 
 lis, founder of the Consumptives’ Home in Boston, on 
 Sept. 13, 1879, he offered for me the prayer of faith, 
 claiming the promise in James v. 14, 15. The prayer 
 was answered, and since then my health has been per¬ 
 fect. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 Albert A. Cheney. 
 
 Lowell, Mass., Jan. 12, 1880. 
 
 Dr Cullis : 
 
 Sir^ —I promised to write to you when I was satis¬ 
 fied that I was healed. I have suffered from severe 
 headache ever since I was a child, the attacks increas¬ 
 ing in violence and frequency as I grew older, until the 
 last 3 ^ear I have had them two or three times a week, 
 alwa}^s lasting one day and night, often two daj^s. I 
 would be completely" prostrated, could not endui’e the 
 least jar or motion, sometimes unable to speak. The 
 cause 1 do not know, as physicians disagreed, some 
 saying one thing and some another, but all alike failing 
 to render any help, though each in turn was sure he 
 could cure me. 
 
 Last July I was at Old Orchard, at the convention, 
 ^and made up my mind to consult y"ou, intending to have 
 you prescribe for me. Before the opportunity to see 
 you arrived, I had heard so much of healing by faith 
 that my^ mind was led to the subject in reference to my 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 own case. I thought of it several days, and when I 
 stood before you, and you asked if I believed the Lord 
 would do it, I looked in my heart for the answer, and it 
 came promptly, “ Yes, I do.” You prayed, and as I 
 arose to go, you said, “ Reckon yourself healed, and 
 you are.” I said in my heart, “ It is done.” My head 
 ached terribly, but I felt sure the blessing was mine. 
 It continued to ache two or three hours, and then grew 
 easy. That was nearly six months ago. I have had 
 but one severe attack since, and that, I think, was per¬ 
 mitted to try my faith The next Sunday it began to 
 feel badly (I had in years past been very sceptical, and 
 had been a Christian only a few months), and Satan 
 said, “ See there, 3^ou are not cured, and you were so 
 sure of it, —just as sure as 3^ou were that you were 
 converted, and now j^ou see it is all a humbug to¬ 
 gether ; one is as false as the other; you have been 
 fooled and self-deceived. I told 3"ou so long ago, but 
 3^ou would not believe it; now see what a fool you have 
 been ! ” I felt m^^self sinking, as surely as Peter sank 
 when he began to doubt, and I cried in his language, 
 “ Lord, save, or I perish.” I cannot tell you the agony 
 of that moment. Just then, these words were thrown 
 into my mind, “ Though He slay me, ^^et will I trust 
 Him.” I said, “ Yes, if my head aches all the rest of 
 my life, I will trust Him.” I arose and prepared for 
 church, my head perfectly easy The next Sunday it 
 commenced again. I sat thinking the ground all over, 
 the promise and the conditions, etc., and could not see 
 any possible way out but that I must be right in the 
 stand I had taken, and that the symptoms to the con¬ 
 trary were a temptation ; and I cried in m3' heart, 
 
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 “ Yes,” and cried aloud, Lord, Thou hast promised 
 that we should not be tempted above what we are able 
 to bear. 1 cannot bear much more of this ; send the 
 devil awaj' from me.” In twenty minutes m3" head 
 was as eas3^ as ever once more. I came down to break¬ 
 fast with that terrible pressure on m3" brain that foretold 
 one of my worst atta'Cks, and the first thought was, 
 “You must not eat; if 3^ou do, 3"our head will ache.’’ 
 Then it fiashed over my mind, “ Put your faith to the 
 test, and see if your healing depends on what you eat.” 
 I did so, and in two or three hours I started up with 
 the thought, “ Where is your headache ? ” I had for¬ 
 gotten all about it. For a long time no s3^mptom of it 
 has troubled me, so I consider my health perfect. 
 
 The dear Lord seems very near to-day. 
 
 Yours, 
 
 Mrs. G. F. H. 
 
 PiiiLADFXPHiA, Pa., Jan. 28 , 1880 . 
 
 Dear Dr. Cullis : 
 
 Since you prayed with me for healing, March, 1877 , T 
 have been trusting Jesus entirely as m3^ ph3"sician, using 
 no medicines, and have been better than for twenty 
 years. A disease of that long standing has been cured, 
 and my general health greatly improved, so I am a won¬ 
 der to myself and others. I have dela3^ed writing 3^ou, 
 because I cannot say I am a perfectly well person ; but 
 so much has been done for me, I can no longer dela3^ to 
 thus give God the praise for His great goodness in 
 teaching me to trust Him for my body as well as soul. 
 
 Very sincerel3" yours, 
 
 S. M. L. 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 Campello, Jan. 29, 1980. 
 
 Dear Dr. Cullis: 
 
 I thinli it is three weeks to-day since I wrote to you 
 with regard to the trouble in my eyes. I am happy to 
 be able to say that the second day after I mailed my 
 letter, there was a marked change for the better; and 
 with but little variation, they have been steadily im¬ 
 proving, but still are weak, and affected by slight 
 colds. I Imve great reason to praise God for His 
 goodness to me. Don’t forget to pray for me. 
 
 Yours in Christ, 
 
 E. W. L. 
 
 Feb. 6, 1880. 
 
 Dr. Cullis : 
 
 Last summer, at Old Orchard, I asked your pra 5 'ers 
 for a lady in ill health. She has been slowly and 
 gradually growing better ever since. A few weeks ago, 
 I sent in a request one Tuesday that a person might 
 be spared severe physical suffering. God has heard 
 both prayers, and abundantly answered. I would re¬ 
 turn thanks. Were we not very poor in this world’s 
 goods, I would render more substantial thanks ; but 
 God knows. 
 
 H. 
 
 Creston, III., Feb. 9, 1880. 
 
 Dr. Cullis: 
 
 Dear Sir, — Of you I think with deep gratitude, for 
 your kindly interest and earnest prayers. 'It is with a 
 thankful heart to God, that I write of my much im¬ 
 proved health. Of course the change is not so marked 
 as in the case of Miss Judd; for I have been able to 
 
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 go about, and to enjoy many things, most of tho time 
 for nearly two years. Yet I can see that T am de¬ 
 cidedly better ; the old pains are lessening all the time, 
 and I trust I shall soon be well. But if it please God 
 to order it otherwise, I will try and be content Our 
 pastor. Rev. Mr G-, has given me great encour¬ 
 
 agement, and his perfect trust has strengthened my 
 faith wonderfully. Again let me express to you my 
 sincere thanks. I shall always remember you and 
 your work in m^ prayers. 
 
 Very gratefully yours, 
 
 C. F. C. 
 
 Fall River, March 4, 1880. 
 
 Dr. Cullis: 
 
 Dear Brother^ — My wife goes to Boston, and I 
 desire her to see thee. In case she does not, she will 
 leave this to say that the Lord has healed me, and I 
 now feel as well as I ever did, so far as freedom from 
 my disease is concerned. I am not the man I was, as 
 to strength, but I am growing stronger. I sleep natu¬ 
 rally, and in all respects enjoy life fully. 1 praise 
 the Lord for all, and ask His blessing upon thee as an 
 instrument to help me take the step of faith. I want, 
 as I am able, to give thee tangible proof of what I feel 
 for thy work. 
 
 Thy brother in Christ, 
 
 Henry C. A. 
 
 ' Philadelphia, March 4, 1880. 
 
 Dr. Cullis : 
 
 Dear Sir and Brother^ — We beg pardon for not 
 writing you sooner; it is something to which we must 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
 71 
 
 plead guilty of neglect. Now, then, we will try and tell 
 you who we are, for you come in contact with a number of 
 persons throughout the year, and may not remember us, 
 as you saw us only a few minutes, I think, — perhaps ten 
 or fifteen minutes at the longest. My wife and I were 
 at your office to consult you, the latter part of last 
 August. My wife had been subject to nervous spasms 
 and a complication of diseases. She had not enjoyed 
 good health for six years, and was subject to the spasms 
 four years. She would sometimes lie as long as four 
 hours in the spasms, getting one after another. Her 
 body would be prostrated, and she was subject to short¬ 
 ness of breath. She was not able to do any work We 
 were encouraged to visit 5 mu by reading a report by 
 Rev. Brother Davies, in the ‘^Home Journal,” of an 
 experience meeting held during the faith convention at 
 Orchard Beach, at which only those that were healed by 
 faith in God were requested to speak. After reading 
 this report, we talked the matter over of going on .to 
 Boston. My wife believed God could cure her, if it 
 was His will, and if you remember, she told you so; 
 but she was under the impression that it was the Lord’s 
 will for her to suffer. You said it was not the Lord’s 
 will she should suffer; and that there was no “if” 
 about it. You read from St. James, fifth chapter, 
 fourteenth and fifteenth verses. In the fifteenth verse 
 it reads, “ And the prayer of faith shall save the sick.” 
 You said, if she would believe, God would cure her 
 then and there. She did believe. You anointed her 
 with oil, and prayed for her, and God answered the 
 prayer of faith. She has not had a spasm since that 
 time. Before this, she has been taken with spasms in 
 
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 different churches, also at camp meetings, as well as at 
 other places. She has been carried from church for 
 several squares. I could relate more, but to God be 
 all the glory, for what He has done for her. She has 
 been able to do her work about the house, with the 
 exception of washing and ironing. 
 
 I remain yours in Christ, I trust, 
 
 W. A. B. 
 
 Evansville, Ind., March 18, 1880. 
 
 Dear Brother: 
 
 On the 9th of this month, you were to offer up prayer 
 in my behalf. At the hour appointed, I prostrated my¬ 
 self before God, with my open Bible, and spent that 
 whole hour (and longer) in pleadings and prayer and 
 supplications to Him in Jesus’ name, “ for healing.” 
 From that time I have felt a relief in my breathing, 
 and there is less soreness in my lungs or bronchial tubes. 
 1 cough and expectorate much less than formerl}^, and 
 my sleep is sweeter, sounder, and more refreshing than 
 it has been for many years past. My dyspepsia seems 
 to be leaving me. For these blessings I give God “ loud 
 praise.” I feel like holding to the hem of Jesus’ gar¬ 
 ment until he makes me whole, for 1 want to work for 
 Jesus. Oh that He would speedily restore my hearing, 
 and remove this black cloud from my eye! Dear 
 brother, still pray that I may be made whole. I am 
 trusting wholly to God; I have taken no medicine since 
 the 8th of this month. Since I have been asking the 
 Lord to heal my bodjq such a sense of unworthiness 
 comes over me at times I can do nothing but weep; 
 and then He comforts me with his '•‘blessed promises.” 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
 73 
 
 As I fear I am making my note too lengthy, thereby 
 consuming too much of your precious time, I will 
 close by giving my “mite” into the treasury of the 
 Lord, believing that “ your work” is “ His work,” and 
 you are His servant doing His bidding. Use it in your 
 work as you please. 
 
 May the dear Lord bless you, and long keep you in 
 His work, is the prayer of 
 
 Your sister in Him, 
 
 Mrs. Jas. G. 
 
 P. S. —'I have not written of my soul’s enjoyment; 
 it is a long story. I have reserved that part for another 
 time. 
 
 Brooklyn, E. D., L. I., N. Y., March 6, 1880. 
 Dr. Cullis: 
 
 Dear Brother^ — I feel I must begin this letter with 
 praise, and end it with praise, to the dear Lord for 
 sending me to Boston. When I accepted the gift of 
 healing by faith in th}^ office, I felt nothing but a 
 detennined effort of Satan to deter me. I knew I did 
 receive it, though, and when on my return to New Y'ork 
 that night, I experienced a delightful sensation of rest 
 of soul, and faith claimed the boon. The next even¬ 
 ing I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost as never 
 before, in answer to thy prayer. 1 received that also 
 by faith, without feeling that night; but the next day 
 the blessed Comforter sensibly welled up in my soul, 
 filling my whole being, and before night I was fairly 
 intoxicated with joy. It was almost too much for 
 nature to bear. In the evening I went to Dr. Peck’s 
 class meeting (of St. John’s Methodist Episcopal 
 
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 Church), and declared what the Lord had done for 
 me, and he gave me work immediately. I was asked 
 to visit a sick man, who is a moralist, cannot see the 
 justice of God’s dealings with him, murmurs at his 
 trials, and will not see any minister. I pray God to 
 give me ability to show him that he is a sinner. Last 
 evening I proclaimed my healing before a Baptist cove¬ 
 nant meeting here, and was wonderfully blessed. I 
 cannot help it, I must tell it; I am compelled. But 
 while my spirit has been so blessed, the actual con¬ 
 dition of my physical frame is not much changed, 
 although a change has commenced. 
 
 Thine in Christ, 
 
 H. M. U. 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., March 25, 1880. 
 
 Dear Pr. Cullis : 
 
 Thy very welcome letter was duly received, and I 
 have hoped ere this to be able to inform thee of the 
 completion of the work in me I so much desire. But 
 it seems delayed. I confidently believe that my heal¬ 
 ing took place the day I saw thee in Boston. At times 
 I have the assurance of faith that it is done. And there 
 I rest^ and will rest, and the dear Lord gives me great 
 peace in doing so, and therefore I know that there is 
 some purpose in this long-continued trial of my faith ; 
 for the desired boon of perfect health and perfect 
 cleansing does not come. 
 
 I find, however, that every day my faith increases, 
 not without struggles sometimes, conflicts with doubt; 
 but still my faith life rises higher and higher, and I 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
 75 
 
 wonder at times, when I am so sure^ that I do not see 
 more results. 
 
 But I shall continue to trust, if I die in the process. 
 I Iznow it is not in vain. My God “ will come, and 
 will not tarry.’" But though He tarry I will wait for 
 Him. I know I shall receive the desires of my heart. 
 1 believe He is educating my faith up to the point of 
 grasping the whole. 
 
 But please, dear doctor, as thou hast time, continue 
 to pray for me. I feel it is a life-and-death struggle. 
 It is Satan’s last hold, and he is fierce. I know 1 shall 
 win through m}^ “unconquered Captain.” “The battle 
 is the Lor-d’s.” But the battle-ground is my heart., and 
 it is torn in the strife. 
 
 I am devoting my life now to the attainment of this 
 object. But in the mean time the dear Lord deigns to 
 use me : praise His name ! 
 
 I shall stay here until I receive it all. Then I will 
 inform thee of it. 
 
 Thine in Christ, 
 
 H. M. U. 
 
 Howard City, Montcalm Co., Mich., April 5, 1880. 
 Dr. C. Cullis: 
 
 Dear Brother., — Please call to mind that on the 14th 
 of April, 1879, I sent you a request (from Watkins, 
 my home), having just then a strong desire for some 
 one to unite with me in my petitions to God. On the 
 16th, I received a line from you that on the 22d, 
 thi'ee p. M., my request would be remembered in the 
 meeting. That day and hour, the Spirit led me to a 
 more full consecration' of myself to the Lord, calliug 
 
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 to mind an unprofitable life of weakness and imperfec¬ 
 tions, God’s mercies, and the Spirit’s oft refreshing 
 visits to my soul, and I was led to repentance (such as 
 the Spirit gives) for the former, and praise and thanks¬ 
 giving for the latter. After the hour thus spent alone 
 with God, I was walking out, and suddenly, like a 
 flash, came light, and a lifting up of the dark cloud so 
 long resting down upon the brain. I began to praise 
 God for the hand of His presence, who alone could 
 give rehef to my weary head, and to all His suffering 
 children. I was reminded of Psalms hi. 3. I am 3 "et 
 mentally sick ; able, with the weakness in my head, to do 
 only a little personal work for Christ in every-day life. 
 It is often said to me, “ How much I miss your visits ! ” 
 and again, “ I am so sorry 3 "ou are laid up from attend¬ 
 ing meetings!” “We miss 3 "ou in our session meet¬ 
 ings ! ” I thank God I am remembered and missed. I 
 long to be made whole, endued with more power from 
 on high, more fitness for the blessed work. morn¬ 
 
 ing verse, Isaiah xxx. 15.) I thank the Lord. My faith 
 is being severely tried, at times ; but through the VV^ord 
 and the Spirit helping my infirmities, I gain the vic¬ 
 tor}^. I trust the Lord is preparing me for greater 
 usefulness in future. 
 
 Yours in love of God, 
 
 A. F. S. 
 
 Johnson, April 19, 1880. 
 
 Dr. Cullis : 
 
 Dear Friend^ — I said if there was any change in my 
 spiritual or bodily health I would write again. I feel 
 that God has heiird and answered prayer according to 
 
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 my faith I am better, both body and mind ; and some¬ 
 times 1 almost feel that He will make me every whit 
 whole I want to be sanctified, soul and body, and 
 prepared for the Master’s use, and spend the remainder 
 of my days in God’s glorious work. Please continue 
 your prayers daily for me. If there are others with 
 strong faith like your own, please ask them to pray for 
 me. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 s. s. c. 
 
 Hopkinton, April 21, 1880. 
 
 Dr Cullis : 
 
 Gratefully would I testify to God’s goodness in im¬ 
 proved health Nearly a year ago, I called to see you. 
 During your prayer with and for me, I experienced no 
 such change as some speak of, but felt that my desire 
 would be granted. I am very much improved, though 
 not entirely cured. My eyes were very weak, so could 
 use them but very little, not at all some days ; suffered 
 also ver}^ much with my head, and had difficulty in 
 using my arms. 
 
 Great as is the temporal blessing, the spiritual good 
 that has come with it is greater. 
 
 Yours in Christ, 
 
 J. C. P. 
 
 Erie, April 23, 1880. 
 
 Dr. Charles Cullis, Boston: 
 
 Dear Sir^ — Some weeks since T addressed you from 
 this city, making request for united prayer in behalf of 
 l^he case of a dear friend, to which 3 ^ou kindly and 
 promptly responded, appointing Feb. 17. To us has 
 
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 been verified the promise, “ Where two or thrqe,” etc. 
 The dear sister’s written testimony please find enclosed. 
 
 Sister in Christ, 
 
 E. H. Stone. 
 
 Erie, Pa., April 25, 1880. 
 
 According to previous arrangement, I was made a 
 subject of prayer, Feb. 17, 1880. The three days 
 preceding this memorable date, I was very ill; also the 
 early part of the* day, 17th. Between the hours of 
 three and four o’clock (the hour appointed for prayer) 
 I commenced feeling better. Since that date have dis¬ 
 carded all remedies. Have steadily improved, until 
 now I am perfectly well. Praise is due the Divine 
 Healer. 
 
 Mrs. Rev. J. A. K. 
 
 Holliston, April 27, 1880. 
 
 Dr. Cullis : 
 
 Dear Sir, — I know 3 '^ou will rejoice with me that at 
 length our praj-ers have prevailed to a considerable 
 extent. I trusted the Lord for strength to go to 
 Boston, and He gave it, with this marked change : Be¬ 
 fore, I could sit up but an hour, and not often that, 
 on account of a local weakness which, although a new 
 trouble, has kept me in bed because I could not have 
 mj" feet lowered without very much suffering. I shrank 
 from the pain it would bring bn, but thought God 
 would take care of me, and He did. I have been out 
 to every meal since I came home, have been able to 
 walk out doors a little (which I have not done before 
 for three months), and have ridden out once. Isn’t 
 
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 that a great change ? I cannot sit up all the forenoon, 
 and I cannot stand many minutes. My hands feel 
 much more natural than for a long time. Although 
 the cords of my right arm are still somewhat stiff and 
 lame, as I have for so long raised upon my elbow in 
 bed to favor my spine, yet that and many other symp¬ 
 toms are better. 
 
 The soreness of the spine still continues, and the 
 jarring of the floor near me causes pain. When my 
 Father takes the extreme sensitiveness to a jar away, 
 I shall gain rapidly; and I believe He will do it, for 
 He says, “Behold I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: 
 is there anything too hard for me ? ” I regret I cannot 
 be under 3 'our care for several daj^s, believing I should 
 be much benefited thereb}''; but since it is impossible 
 for me to be in Boston, and it will take no more of 
 3 ’our time for me to write you than to talk with 3 ’ou, 
 will you not pray for me again (giving thanks for 
 benefits alread 3 ^ received), that I ma 3 " immediatel 3 " be 
 able to bear the jarring and noise of ordinaiy house¬ 
 work, in the room where 1 may be sitting, and that my 
 strength ma 3 ^ come more rapidty ? 1 ask with reverence, 
 believing He is not only able but willing to grant this 
 request. I assure you, however weak my faith ma 3 " 
 have seemed^ it is within, and I do believe will triumph 
 sooner or later. 1 thank 3 ^ou very much for 3 "onr 
 kindness, and only regret I am unable to show it in 
 a tangible form. 
 
 Very truly 3 ^ours, 
 
 L. E. A. 
 
 P. S. — Couldn’t have written m 3 "self any time pre- 
 viousl3^ 
 
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 Wheeling, W. Va., May 3, 1880. 
 
 Dr. Cullis : 
 
 Dear Brother^ — You remember I visited you when 
 in Boston in regard to my health, and my faith ap¬ 
 propriated the promise for healing. I went out that 
 evening reckoning it done, and the Lord made it afact. 
 1 have been steadily at work in the vine 3 "ard ever since, 
 and have not known such days of health for five years. 
 It seems like being in heaven to be well again. 
 
 Yours in our Lord Jesus, 
 
 L. M. B. 
 
 New York, Saturday Morning. 
 
 Dr. Cullis : 
 
 I have just heard that you are in town. You will 
 perhaps remember my name. I visited you a few 
 weeks since for cure through faith of nervous dyspep¬ 
 sia. I am much improved, and have felt so peaceful 
 and trusting ever since ! 1 should be so glad to welcome 
 
 you here ; cannot you give me a few moments at least 
 this eve? Please accept the enclosed for Jesus’ sake, 
 and many, many thanks for jour pra^^ers for me. 
 Should I not see you, may 1 ask that you pray for me 
 at next Tuesday’s meeting, that I may be strengthened 
 in faith and entirely healed, so that I may work for 
 Jesus in any way that He may see fit to call me? 
 
 Very hastily, your friend, 
 
 C. W. F. 
 Dighton, May 19, 1880. 
 
 Dr. Cullis: 
 
 You wanted me to write the particulars of the healing 
 of my little boy’s eye. I am glad to do so ; I have 
 
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 told a few friends, yet have said little here, for it 
 would not be appreciated, — faith is so weak ! 
 
 He received a blow on one eye, which caused the 
 lid to swell; and it was so much inflamed that he 
 could scarcely open it at first, and when he did he 
 could not bear the light at all. He was obliged to 
 keep it bandaged or shaded for, 1 think, nearly two 
 months. We supposed the eye would be all well as 
 soon as the inflammation was gone, so used to bathe 
 it in cold water, and thought it would soon be all well. 
 
 But as the weeks passed on, and it pained him at 
 intervals very much, I felt very anxious. Friends ad¬ 
 vised me to see a physician. I felt sure the Great 
 Healer was willing to heal, if I would only trust. I 
 used to talk with Emmons (the little boy’s name), and 
 ask him what he thought. He had faith that Jesus 
 would make it well in his own time, without medicine. 
 As it grew more painful, I wrote 3 ’ou, requesting 
 prayer, yet it did not get well at once; and then a 
 snow-ball was thrown by another bo}^ striking it again. 
 
 About three weeks after I wrote you it was a very 
 dark da 3 ^ Never had the eye been more painful, and 
 how earnest!}^ I besought the Lord that it might be 
 shown that it was healed, as I believed it was, in answer 
 to 3 ’our praj’ers ! 1 felt a measure of faith that it was 
 really healed, even though I saw no sign: a test of 
 faith, it seemed to me, for the Lord often keeps me 
 waiting long after I think I have asked in faith. 
 
 This day I spoke of was the Sabbath. Emmons 
 retired, and slept as he usually did, quite well; and 
 in the morning, when he awoke, I expected to find him 
 ciying with pain as usual: but hearing him move, I 
 
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 spoke and asked him if his eye ached. He said, “ No ; 
 it is all well. It does not ache at all. It itches.” 
 From that time, it has been just as well as the other. 
 His eyes are rather weak. 
 
 He did seem so happy and full of joy, I could not 
 help feeling it was the Lord’s own blessing. He was 
 sure it was an answer to prayer, and my heart praises 
 God that He does hear His children’s cry. 
 
 Yours in Christ, 
 
 S. J. B. 
 
 \ 
 
 South Royalston, Mass., May 31. 
 
 Dr. Cullis : 
 
 Dear Sir, — I have been thinking for a long time of 
 writing to you. You may remember my writing to you 
 about three years ago, requesting your prayers, that I 
 might be restored to health. The dear Father has 
 granted that request, after thirty years of suffering. 
 
 From your sister in Christ, 
 
 A. B. 
 
 New York, Feb. 18, 1880. 
 
 Dear Brother : 
 
 I sincerely beg your pardon for not communicating 
 with you before. But the fact is, I did n’t want to write 
 while I was in a state of despondency, which state lasted 
 till the new year set in. Just before the first day of 
 January, I purchased an almanac at the Willard Tract 
 Repository (New Y^ork Branch), and commenced to 
 read the little passages. I would get them by heart 
 the night beforehand: I thought as they were God’s 
 words they must be important; and though I could not 
 
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 at first understand how or when they were to be used 
 by me, yet I clung to them. About the thirteenth day 
 I began to get strength, so I was encouraged to keep 
 on, which I did ; and my desire began to grow for the 
 Word, until I could scarcely wait for one day to be ended 
 before I wanted to see what the Lord would say to me 
 on the next day. The prophet expresses it exactly, 
 when he says, “ Thy words were found, and I did eat 
 them^ and they were the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.” 
 
 Well, this state of things kept up until Jan. 21, when 
 the message was, “Casting all your care on Him, for 
 He careth for you.” At first it did not strike me very 
 forcibly, but later in the day I saw the power in that 
 voice of the living God as I had never seen it before. 
 It was in this wise : — 
 
 I have been troubled with a headache since I was six 
 years of age. My head would ache violently for three 
 or four hours, then I would become sick at my stomach, 
 and throw off everything I had eaten. I had tried every 
 remedy I knew of, until I was discouraged, and con¬ 
 cluded that perhaps this was my “ thorn in the flesh,’’ 
 and it was not God’s will that I should be cured of 
 it. Yet I could not rest in that thought; and want to 
 say; just here, that I believe this is one of the devil’s 
 best arguments to keep souls from finding out God’s 
 power and love to us poor mortals. But on the 21st of 
 January, Satan had God’s own voice to set at naught, 
 and He was, bless the Lord, unable to do it! 
 
 In my attacks of headache I was totally unfitted for 
 duties of any kind ; and the day following, I would be 
 so weakened that I was almost useless. Well, this day 
 I speak of, I felt my old complaint coming on, and I 
 
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 had a good many other ills pressing me besides. 
 Then God spoke to me by His word, saying, “Cast 
 your care on Me ; /care for you.” I did so. I cast 
 everything; unbelief, doubt, headache, “perhaps it is 
 not God’s will,” and all, all on the Lord. In less time 
 than it takes me to write it, my headache was gone. 
 I went about my work glorifying God, and telling those 
 to whom the Spirit seemed to lead me. I tell you 1 was 
 happy! I could say, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, 
 who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy dis¬ 
 eases.” 
 
 But the fight was not over yet. The next day I 
 caught a severe cold, which with me is always followed 
 by a raging headache. I awoke the next morning with a 
 very severe one. I asked the Lord what that meant. 
 I had my message the night before ; it was this : ‘ ‘ The 
 Lord shall be seen over them” (Zech. ix. 14). The 
 Spirit showed me that the Lord would be seen over that 
 headache. So I pra 3 ^ed God to cure me of it. After I 
 had praj^ed, this came to me, “ Do you believe it will be 
 done?” I said, “Yes.” Then the suggestion came, 
 “ If you believe the Lord will do it, 3 "Ou will go about 
 3 ^our work, just as though it was 4one.” It had not 
 stopped; but I got up and went to m 3 " work, my head 
 aching violently all the time. Satan was as busy as a 
 bee, asking why my head did not stop aching: I had 
 asked and believed, and yet it had not stopped I But 
 God’s word rose above him : “ The Lord shall he seen 
 ocer them” So I fought the devil with these words till 
 near noon, when my faith began to stagger. The devil 
 very cunningly suggested that God would not do it for 
 me, and I began to think so ; when these words came 
 
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 with powerful weight, “ It is impossible for God to lie!'' 
 1 did not remember at the time to have seen these 
 words anywhere, but I felt sure they were God’s words, 
 because the devil fled in an instant. 
 
 I went home and ate dinner, a thing I never before 
 attempted to do when in such a condition, because I 
 could not keep food on my stomach. But I sat down 
 by faith, and ate, and God rewarded me. But I had a 
 hal’d flght all the afternoon ; and when I went home to 
 supper I felt as though I could not eat a mouthful, I 
 was so sick. Yet I believed God would cure me, and I 
 sat down and ate, and then went out to my duties as 
 usual. 
 
 Finally, when I was all alone, and my faith nearlj^ 
 gone, and when I felt I could not hold out any longer, 
 these words came with strength to my soul: ‘ ‘ Thy word 
 is settled in heaven." I thought, “ But not on earth” ; 
 when a rebuke — kind and gentle, but oh, how power¬ 
 ful ! — came to me : “If we believe not, yet He abideth 
 faithful." It was enough; it settled me. I stopped 
 doubting, and trusted; yes, rested in the belief that 
 God would cure me. It did not make any difference if 
 it was not done till the next year ; an 3 ^way I would be¬ 
 lieve, and God would give me the victory. And in the 
 twinkling of an eye the pain left me, and I am cured, 
 bless the Lord ! I have not had a headache since, but 
 only little trials, which have left me as soon as my soul 
 returned to its rest. I am growing stronger every day. 
 My friends say I never looked better. 
 
 I write this for the honor and glory of God, who 
 kept me from fainting by the way. 
 
 Your brother in the Lord, 
 
 W. M. H. 
 
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 Dorchester, Mass., Aug. 25 , 1880. 
 
 In July of 1879, I badly sprained my ankle, causing 
 intense pain. With the first sensation of the injury, 
 there seemed to settle down over me a cloud of grace, 
 and the words came : “ This sickness is for the glory of 
 God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.” 
 With much difficulty and assistance I arrived at my 
 home. The limb began at once to swell, and became 
 badly infiamed. I was unable to bear the least weight 
 on it. The day following, could only get down stairs 
 to my meals by crawling on my knees. The bandage 
 and soothing lotion applied seemed to have no effect 
 whatever. Friends said, “You will have a long time 
 with such an ankle as that.” This same evening. Dr. 
 Peck came in to see me, and remarked, “ Dr. Cullis 
 says you need not be laid by with this: the Lord can 
 heal it 7iow.” And he added, “We have prayed to¬ 
 gether about it.” I fully believed the promise (James 
 V. 14, 15), as we claimed it together in prayer; and 
 strength was instantlj^ given to walk, which I did, mov¬ 
 ing quickly across the room several times, without any 
 inconvenience. Bandages were taken off, and applica¬ 
 tion stopped, and I moved about as before the sprain, 
 stepping by faith. The day following the healing, it 
 seemed as if the pain was returning; but faith kept 
 saying, “ I am healed. The promise is fulfilled,” and 
 more strength seemed thus to accrue. And although 
 the inflammation did not fully subside for nearly a 
 week, and all the swelling for a month, still the Lord 
 in answer to the prayer of faith healed instantly my 
 sprained limb, so far as anyj)am was concerned. To 
 llis dear name, “ The Saviour of the body,” be all the 
 glory! , F. D. S. 
 
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 Dorchester, Mass., Jan. 8, 1880. 
 
 I HAVE been an invalid for years ; indeed, I never was 
 well. Oct. 1, 1879, I called on Dr. Ciillis, hoping and 
 expecting to receive benefit from his prayers. After 
 hearing my story, he asked me if I belie'^ed the prom¬ 
 ise recorded in James v. 14 and 15. I replied I was 
 endeavoring to rest on the promise. He then prayed 
 for me, and I felt an increase of faith, yes, an assur¬ 
 ance that God healed my diseases ; and the power of 
 God so rested upon me that I was unable immediately 
 to go home. Wave after wave of divine power swept 
 over me, accompanied with such a heaven of sweetness 
 as I cannot find words to express. After a few days, 
 finding I had not the full consciousness that all disease 
 was removed, 1 called on Dr. Cullis again, and he said 
 that also could be received by the prayer of faith. He 
 prayed for me ; and while I was returning home, I felt 
 a strength and soundness come into me. And now I 
 can say, to the glory and honor of God, I am healed of 
 all my diseases. 
 
 H. M. R. 
 
 Detroit, Mich., Ang. 26, 1880. 
 
 About the middle of last winter, I found myself 
 losing strength, in spite of all tonics, and soon after 
 found a bunch in my right breast which struck terror to 
 my heart, for my grandmother died with cancer, after 
 once having her entire breast removed. I have from 
 early childhood been subject to taint in my blood, 
 always showing itself in one form or other. I at once 
 associated this bunch with the sensations I had been 
 experiencing from that centre, like the instantaneous 
 
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 shootings of numerous fine cambric needles, outward 
 towards the surface of the breast. I sent to our family 
 physician, a Christian man, and took his medicine 
 faithfull}^ night and morning, and night and morning 
 used the application as directed, never failing except 
 when getting out of the medicine. At all these times, 
 occasional!}", I had to wait two daj^s before I could be 
 supplied, and the result was such as to alarm me. My 
 hope and fear alternated until about the first of June, 
 1880, nearly six months from the discovery. I saw 
 plainly that we were fast losing control of the disease. 
 It was rapidly gaining the ascendency. The medicine 
 was scarcely holding it in check any longer. The breast 
 was very much swollen, and very sore. Every move¬ 
 ment of my right arm pained me, and the pains had 
 deepened, and took such hold of me that I was often 
 sick and faint during the intervals of pain. I even 
 had to put extra covering over this breast, to protect it 
 from the summer evening breeze. About this time my 
 husband asked me if I would like to go to the ‘ ‘ Believ¬ 
 ers’ Conference,” which was to be held at Clifton 
 Springs, N. Y. I thought I was hardly able to enjoy 
 it; but the subject kept reverting to my mind, till I 
 asked the Lord if He had a special blessing for me there. 
 It seemed laid on my heart to go, and 1 went, praying 
 the Lord to meet me there, and bless my soul, feeling 
 also that He had something preparing for me there 
 with reference to my disease. The conference opened 
 on the morning of June 24 1880, and continued 
 
 through six days. Up to the morning of the last day, 
 I had received no new views of my Lord, and nothing 
 about my sickness. I had desired to consult with sev- 
 
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 eral physicians, but my husband objected until this 
 morning, when he said, “ Dr. Peck is here; he is an 
 associate with Dr. Cullis, of Boston. He will be hon¬ 
 est with you and tell you the whole truth, and I shall 
 have confidence in what he will say.” God knows 
 how my heart seized upon that, and responded, “ This 
 is what I came here for. I did not know it before, but 
 this is it.” The interview was held, and Dr. Peck told 
 me I had a cancer, and that there was no earthly help 
 for me ; but almost immediately added, ‘ ‘ The Lord can 
 cure you.” After some further conversation, an ap¬ 
 pointment was arranged to be held at our rooms for 
 prayer, and then we all went to the tent to the meet¬ 
 ing. I could scarcely refrain from asking all I knew to 
 praise the Lord with me, for it seemed 1 almost heard 
 a voice repeating over and over, “ Before they call will 
 I answer.” This was all I heard in that meeting. At 
 the appointed time, Dr. Peck came to our room, and 
 prayed the Lord to let “ His power rest on me for 
 healing, and for service,” pleading James v. 14, 15 ; 
 using the oil as there directed. During the prayer the 
 pain and the soreness left the breast, and were sup¬ 
 planted by a warm, vigorous feeling of health, a de¬ 
 light to me, for the finger of God had been doing its 
 work. Had I not experienced a sensation I should 
 have felt as safe, for I had the word of Christ, “ It shall 
 be done.” “ The prayer of faith shall.^ etc.” What 
 shall I say of the blessed '-'‘Presence” in my soul? 
 Even sins ‘ ‘ shall be forgiven ” when this promise is 
 applied ! I went about like k new being, although the 
 breast had changed only in being free from soreness 
 and pain. It looked the same as before the prayer. 
 
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 The next day, June 30, I made the journey from Clif¬ 
 ton to Detroit, reaching the house a little before ten 
 o’clock, P. M. 
 
 Immediately my daughter, aged fourteen years, ex¬ 
 claimed, “ Wliy^ mamma^ are you cured? Mamma^ 
 mamma^ are you cured?” She would not be pacified 
 when I told her, “ The Lord has blessed m 3 ' soul,” but 
 repeated, Are you cured?” No one had known the 
 thought in my heart with reference to m 3 ' going to Clif¬ 
 ton, and I was touched by this testimonial from my 
 3 'oung daughter ; for when I asked her what made her 
 think of such a thing, she replied, “ You look so well 
 and so fresh. I hardly expected you could get into the 
 house alone, after 3 'our journey.” The Lord Himself 
 had been with me all the da 3 ', and His company kept 
 me fresh. On the morning of July 2, “ Satan came 
 also,” and tried to torment me with the fact that my 
 breast looked, and appeared to the touch, as bad as 
 ever. I tried to put him to flight, but had not strength 
 for that. I besought God to direct me to some word 
 of His to hold on by. I opened the Bible at the ac¬ 
 count of Nebuchadnezzar’s vision, and read that Daniel 
 asked God to reveal to him the secret of another man’s 
 heart, and the Lord revealed it and Daniel told the 
 king it was not because he was any different from other 
 men, but because his God was different from other 
 gods. So also the three men threatened with the fiery 
 furnace replied, ‘■‘Our God is able. He will deliver 
 us.” Their God, I thought, is my God, “the same 
 yesterday, to-day, and forever.” I had my word.. The 
 next morning I awakened with the same conflict, and 
 this time I opened the Bible to Col. iii 16. Every word 
 
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 of that sentence was opened to me with emphasis. 
 “ Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly.” I 
 dropped my hands with “ Glory to God! I will” ; 
 and all that day 1 hung on the Word of Christ, and 
 it sounded in my ears, ^'‘It shall he (Matt, xviii. 
 
 19.) I went to bed that night so fatigued I could not 
 think at all. My head ached, and I should not have 
 slept, but I said, “Dear Lord, please help me to sleep, 
 1 am so tired. I am going to stop holding on to God, 
 and let Him hold on to me.” 1 slept all night, and on 
 the next morning told my two children we would give 
 the Lord a psalm of praise this time ; and veril}^ before 
 the psalm was finished we read, “The Lord will per¬ 
 fect that which concerneth me.” This was Sunday, 
 July 4, and on Monday I got another as signal 
 and unasked token. The Word was dwelling in me 
 richly, and I was at rest. Tuesda}" afternoon, July 6, 
 just one week from the prayer at Clifton, my breast 
 went down in size, and was like the other, and so 
 remains to-day, Aug. 26. In this connection it is 
 proper to add that Dr. Peck prayed that the Lord 
 would remove the cancer and all tendency to cancer, 
 and purify the blood wholly. I am now just as well as 
 before any symptoms of cancer showed themselves, 
 and in many respects feel better. 
 
 The Lord has since answered other prayers for me 
 and my family, and I trust we shall all be “ kept for 
 the Master's use." L. E. W. 
 
 Bridgeville, Del., Sept. 17, 1880. 
 
 Dear Dr. Cullis : 
 
 In order to redeem my promise, I write to let you 
 know how I am getting along. Perhaps you expected 
 
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 to have heard from me earlier, but I stayed with friends 
 ill Philadelphia until Tuesday. 
 
 While you were praying for me I felt a warmth go all 
 through me, and when you asked me if it were done, 
 had I answered according to my feelings I should have 
 said yes ; but you told me that I must not go by feel¬ 
 ings, but believe it done. 1 believed that the work 
 was begun, but not finished, so that I hesitated about 
 saying that it was done when I only thought it begun. 
 I went to m}" boarding place, and got ready and went 
 to the boat. It rocked considerably, and my sleep was 
 disturbed, but I have been improving since. I am 
 stronger in bod}^ my appetite is better, and I can move 
 my head and neck in certain directions that I could not 
 previous to m 3 ' visit to 3 'ou. I have used no application 
 excepting a cloth moistened with water. I am holding 
 on to God, and believe that He will do what He has 
 promised 
 
 Pray for me, and please let me hear from you. 
 
 Yours in the Lord, 
 
 N. W. McM. 
 
 Hinsdale, N. H , Sept. 8, 1880. 
 Dear Brother in Christ: 
 
 Yours of the 7th is received. You would lil^e to 
 know how long it was after my husband requested 
 prayers for me, before I began to recover. He sa 3 ^s 
 I knew him the second day, which was April 8 , 1878, 
 and the third da}^ 1 talked, and was rational for three 
 hours, and then m 3 " mind was wandering for one week. 
 After that I talked three or four hours, and was rational, 
 and knew people, and so on for a few weeks, gradually 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
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 gaining. The 26th of July I wrote a letter to my 
 brother and sister in New Haven, which they were 
 surprised to receive from me : for all which I give G od 
 the glory. May the Lord bless you, Dr. CuUis, in 
 your labors of love. 
 
 E. E. H. 
 
 Fall River, Mass., Sept. 28, 1880. 
 
 Charles Cullis: 
 
 My Dear Brother^ — Thinking that all evidence such 
 as I am called upon to give is like wine, all the better 
 for having age upon it, I have not been in much haste 
 to supply my testimony. Meeting with Brother G-. B. 
 Peck the other day, at Northfield, he spoke of thy in¬ 
 tention of soon publishing a book on healing by the 
 power of faith, and mentioned the desirableness of 
 securing suitable matter at an early day. I have im- 
 . proved the first opportunity to write the enclosed state¬ 
 ment, which is at thy service. I could have greatly 
 extended it, but the main facts are stated simply that 
 the faith of other sufferers may be strengthened, and 
 that God may be glorified. The blessing of the Lord 
 rest upon thee. 
 
 In the love of Christ, 
 
 Henry C. Aydelott. 
 
 Fall River, Mass., Sept. 28, 1880. 
 
 The history of my disease is simply the old story of 
 nervous prostration, superinduced by loss of sleep, hard 
 study, and overwork. The decline began in 1873. 
 For two years subsequently there was no strength for 
 either physical or mental effort. The most skilful phy- 
 
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 sicians treated the case with no satisfactory results. 
 Two ladies during this time joined together for united 
 prayer that my health might be restored. This was 
 answered in a partial return of strength, insomuch that 
 I could walk, read some, and write a little, and occa¬ 
 sionally engage in my ministerial work ; but each effort 
 of body or mind would always be followed by exhaus¬ 
 tion, requiring two and sometimes six to ten days for 
 recovery. Gradually the disease located itself in the 
 upper portion of the spine, the nerve centre between 
 the (r boulders becoming the seat of constant pain and 
 suffering, often in a state of inflammation or congestion, 
 involving the brain, as well as the whole spinal column. 
 No remedies were of any avail. Some experiments 
 were of great injury. Finally, by the middle of the sum¬ 
 mer of 1879, the nerves of the stomach, from sympathy, 
 were implicated; digestion became so much impaired 
 that my strength began rapidly to fail. I saw my 
 former state of helplessness returning with the addition 
 of new complications. I knew what had been, and 
 could calculate pretty surely what was before me: a 
 season of helpless languishing, with no human prospect 
 of release but in death. Friends spoke of Dr. Cullis 
 and his work. I wrote him as best I could an account 
 of the case, thinking, or even hoping, this would be 
 sufficient. He never received the letter. As the days 
 and weeks wore on, the future grew more dark, the last 
 ra}^ of earthly hope was gone, and a firm faith in the 
 power of prayer took its place. With much difficulty 
 and great suffering, I reached the rooms of Dr. Cullis, 
 Jan. 15, 1880, at 2 p. m. A brief account of my 
 trouble was given. A few preliminary but pointed 
 
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 questions were asked me, and we knelt in prayer. It 
 was simple but fervent. The power was so manifest that 
 on rising from our knees, I as sensibly felt the disease 
 separated from me, as light is separated from darkness. 
 We were no longer a unity. I could think of my dis¬ 
 ease as one thing, and myself another, and that as a 
 thing that was gone. But I was disappointed. 1 ex¬ 
 pected to feel the return of strength as well as the 
 departure of the malady. I was not strong ; m}^ faith 
 was to be tested. I looked for all to be done by one 
 act of faith. Days passed, and still I had no strength. 
 At times I was sorely tempted, but I said, “ Though He 
 slay me, yet will I trust in him.” This state of things 
 continued until the night of Feb. 6, 1880. As usual, a 
 Bible class, which my wife had organized and conducted, 
 met in our room. On that evening it was opened by 
 the superintendent of our Sabbath school. In his 
 praj’^er, special request was made for the restoration of 
 my strength. I not only felt a special power in it, but 
 I also felt that the entire company were joined in it as 
 with one heart. Before the prayer was ended, I felt my 
 strength return. It was a sensation unmistakable as 
 the warmth of a summer sun at noonday. Since that 
 night to the date of this, I have been as well as in any 
 former period of my life. Instead of wakeful nights of 
 pain and restlessness, it is now sweet rest, and slum¬ 
 bers gentle as those of a babe. Severe tests of my 
 strength unavoidably, not purposely, have demonstrated 
 the genuineness of the cure. “ But thanks be unto God, 
 which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus 
 Christ.” 
 
 H. C. A. 
 
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 Purchase, N. Y., Aug. 16, 1880. 
 
 Dr. Charles Cullis : 
 
 Dear Friend^ — Thou may remember that my wife 
 and I called at thy office with Louisa Painter, who was 
 at that time in poor health. She believed she was re¬ 
 stored in answer to the prayer of faith, and has been 
 laboring in our dear Master’s service since that time in 
 North Carolina. We thought the enclosed card from 
 her might interest thee. We send a check for $5.00, to 
 use for whatever purpose seems most to require aid. 
 
 In Christian love, thy friend, 
 
 R. S. Collins. 
 
 Brush Hill, N. C., July 29, 1880. 
 
 Dear Friends^ — I’m home at last, and very busy 
 trying to get into my new house, which.is nearly com¬ 
 pleted ; want to rest there two or three weeks before I 
 begin work again, but it takes time and much effort. I 
 closed for my promised rest with nearly 1,100 profes¬ 
 sions of faith in Christ as result of year’s work. All 
 praise to Him who hath wrought the work ! I wanted 
 to attend Ohio Y. M., but have about concluded to 
 labor on here, there are so many cries for help. Will 
 probably go back toward the mountains. It is remark¬ 
 able how my health has kept up to work during the hot 
 weather. How thankful I ought to be ! My house is 
 very handsome; a nice present indeed. The books 
 thou spake of in thy kind favor, I fear are lost in the 
 mail, as I find them not here. I was pleased at the 
 thought of having some report of Dr. Cullis’s work, it 
 would be of interest to so many people. I received by 
 
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 kindness of friends three copies of “ Christian’s Secret 
 of Happy Life,” and have ordered others rQ 3 ’self. 
 
 Love to th}" dear family and other friends. 
 
 Very truly, 
 
 L. Painter. 
 
 Chalybeate Springs, Aug. 9, 1880. 
 
 Dr Cullis : 
 
 Dear Sir, — I wrote to 3 ^ou some weeks since, telling 
 you of the great interest an old gentleman in Louis¬ 
 ville, Ky., felt in your work, and the great desire he 
 felt to be present at 3 "our prayer meetings, also asking 
 3 "Ou to pray for him. Upon the receipt of your letter 
 stating what time 3^11 would unite in pra 3 ^er for him, I 
 sent him word. His feelings of gratitude and thanks¬ 
 giving were such that he was completely overcome witli 
 emotion for a while, and unable to speak. It was on 
 Tuesday that prayer was offered for him, and I did not 
 go down to see him until the next Thursda 3 ^ week. 
 The last time I had seen him he was in bed from 
 paralysis, unable to do but very little for himself, and 
 only able to sit up when assisted into the chair. But 
 when I drove up to his door, there he was down stairs 
 and read 3 ^ to meet me, standing on the pavement. He 
 is able to go up and down stairs, carrying anything up 
 he may want, and is well. Lie said when we first re¬ 
 ceived 3 ’'our message a thrill of hope seemed to go all 
 through him. On Wednesda 3 ^ morning as he awoke, a 
 thrill of something like electricity seemed to go through 
 and through his body, and he felt he was well; and 
 ever since he has been a difterent person. I thought 
 you might like to know of the speedy answer to your 
 
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 pra 3 ’ers. Mr. Anderson desired me to express to you 
 his gratitude for your interest in him. I would have 
 written to you ere this, but have been here from home at 
 the springs, and have not found it convenient. May 
 His promise, “ I am continually with thee,” be more 
 and more realized by you. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 Miss M. L. G. 
 
 354 Third St., Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Newport, R. I., Aug. 25, 1880. 
 
 Du. CuLLis: 
 
 hear Sir ,— In my last letter to 57 ^ou, you will re¬ 
 member that I asked 3 'ou to pray for a dear friend of 
 mine that was afflicted with insanity. I now write to 
 let you know that j’our prayers for her have been an¬ 
 swered, and that she is now well both in body and 
 mind ; and will 3 "OU now pray that she may have rich 
 spiritual blessings, that she may have that perfect love 
 that casteth out fear? And I too thank 3 ^ou for 3 ^our 
 pra 3 ^ers for me: the 3 ^ have been answered, and never 
 was I so happ 3 % and never was Jesus so precious to my 
 soul. 1 feel all the day long to praise m 3 ' God and 
 Saviour for His rich grace to ihe, a poor sinner ; and I 
 praise God for His love to 3 ^ou, — He has given to 3 'ou 
 the rich gift of faith, and endued 3 'ou with power from 
 on high, — and that He has made you the honored instru¬ 
 ment of doing so much for the honor and glory of His 
 name, and for the comfort of His sick and suffering 
 poor. Oh, continually pray for me and my friend ! We 
 need 3 'our prayers, forthe 3 ' avail with God. 
 
 P. T. S. 
 
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 Bowdoinham, Me., Dec. 2, 1880. 
 
 Dear Brother^ — Enclosed you will find a report of 
 Sister Lucy Powers’s testimony, given in a meeting held 
 in my church. It is a genuine cure, praise the Lord ! 
 She walked three miles to church last Sabbath. 
 
 Yours in Christ, 
 
 W. S. McIntire, 
 Pastor M. E. Church. 
 
 A PECULIAR meeting was held in our church last Sab¬ 
 bath evening. It was devoted to the testimony of those 
 that had been healed in answer to prayer. The meet¬ 
 ing was opened by the pastor, by reading several selec¬ 
 tions of Scripture illustrating the power of Christ to 
 heal the sick, when He was upon earth. After prayer, 
 selections were read ’from the experience of several that 
 had been cured in answer to prayer. Sister Powers 
 then took the platform, and was questioned by the 
 pastor in relation to her disease, her experience with 
 doctors and medicine, and her cure in answer to prayer. 
 In substance her testimony was as follows : — 
 
 I have been troubled for the last five years with a 
 cancer in my left side. In the early part of my suffer¬ 
 ing I consulted a doctor, and he told me that it was 
 scrofula. My suffering increased, and I consulted 
 other physicians, and they told me it was taking the 
 form of a cancer. I have taken medicine all the time 
 for three years. My last physician has attended me for 
 two years. I have been relieved b}^ the use of the med¬ 
 icine, but have been assured by him that I could not get 
 well. I took the matter to the Lord in prayer, and had 
 the assurance that I should be cured. Four we(;ks ago 
 
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 I went to Boston and saw Dr. Cullis. I had two sea¬ 
 sons of prayer with him, and he told me he had the 
 assurance that 1 was cured. Before going to Boston I 
 could not sleep at all on my left side ; I had no appetite, 
 could not do any work without suffering great pain. 
 The cancer discharged quantities of blood. I was so 
 feeble that I suffered from fainting and heart trouble. 
 I would have sometimes two faintings a week ; in these 
 I suffered everything but death. Since my return from 
 Boston I have been able to sleep on my left side as well 
 as my right; my appetite is as good as it was ten years 
 ago; the cancer has not discharged any blood, and is 
 healing. I can now do my work without au}^ trouble. 
 I have not had an attack of fainting or trouble with my 
 heart. The following is a copy of her physician’s let¬ 
 ter to her pastor : — 
 
 Fkeeport, Me., Nov. 5, 1880. 
 
 Rev. W. S. McIntirb ; 
 
 Dear Sir^ — Yours of to-day is at hand, and in an¬ 
 swering I will say: Mrs. Lucy Powers has had for a 
 number of years a cancer of the left breast; it is (or 
 was) called a scirrhus cancer. It has been kept meas¬ 
 urably from growing for the last two years by almost 
 constantly taking and applying medicine, etc., etc. 
 
 Very respectfully j^ours, 
 
 O. W. Norton. 
 
 Rev. J. C. Welcome, an Advent preacher, was pres- . 
 ent, and testified that he had been cured of a spinal 
 disease in answer to the prayers of his friends. An¬ 
 other man testified that he knew a man that was cured 
 
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 of a fever, and another of a bad sore on his leg. The 
 pastor requested all that believed that God would do 
 what he had agreed to, when all the conditions were 
 met, to rise; and more than half of the great congre¬ 
 gation rose. Two requested prayers. 
 
 The above is a true report of a meeting held Nov. 
 14, 1880. 
 
 W. S. McIntire, 
 
 Pastor M. E. Church, 
 
 Mattapan, Mass., Jan. 7, 1881. 
 
 Dr. Cullis : 
 
 Dear Sir^ — I came to you the first of last June foi 
 you to pray for me that God would give me health, say¬ 
 ing that I believed that God was willing if I were willing 
 and obedient; and 3^011 said, just to trust Him, and you 
 prayed with me, — claiming that promisein James v. 14, 
 15,—that I might be healed, and that 1 might know it 
 before I left the house. I can’t sa^^ that 1 did know it 
 at the time, but believed that I was made very much 
 better, and came to see you twice afterwards. Once 
 you were not at home, and Dr. Peck praj^ed with me, 
 and the other time 3 ^ou were at home, and 3 "ou pra 3 "ed 
 with me again that God would finish the‘healing and 
 baptize me with the Holy Ghost. 
 
 1 have had constipation for twent 3 "-five years, and 
 female weakness for the past eight or nine 3 ^ears, so that 
 I could not do my work, had to keep help, part of the 
 time was confined to my bed,—with the exception of 
 being made'well once before through the pra 3 "er of faith, 
 but it did not last long, as I did not understand it. I 
 should have written to you before, but 1 have been wait- 
 
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 ing to see how I got along; and I feel truly grateful to 
 the dear Saviour that I have not been on my bed sick 
 since I came to you, but have been able to do my work. 
 I am still trusting for more strength, and for the bap¬ 
 tism of the Holy Ghost. I thank j^ou for your kind¬ 
 ness, and may the l ord spare 3 ’ou many years as an 
 instrument in His hand of benefiting mankind. 
 
 Yours in Christian love, 
 
 Mrs. a. a. B. 
 
 Lawrence, Jan. 17, 1881. 
 
 Dr. Cdllis : 
 
 Dear Brother in Christy — I received your sixteenth 
 Annual Report, a few daj^s ago ; thank you very kindly 
 for sending it. I have been thinking for some time 
 past of sending a thank-offering to you, just as soon as 
 the dear Lord would furnish me with means, so now 
 here it is. I came to you for prayer and faith cure 
 last March ; the Lord has blessed me in body and soul. 
 I do not have those terrible sick-headache spells which 
 I had been subject to nearl}^ all my life. I cannot be 
 thankful enough for the blessings received. I will 
 praise His dear name forever. Enclosed please find 
 ten dollars. Mrs. D. A. 
 
 Springdale Road, London, 
 
 Stoke Newington, N., April 18, 1881. 
 
 My Dear Brother : 
 
 I rejoice to learn that you have returned to London. 
 Let me say that after you prayed over me, I accepted 
 the fact of healing. Until Monday following, no im¬ 
 portant change was manifest, when my system seemed to 
 experience an immediate renovation, and I have since 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 
 
 103 
 
 then been more free from cough than I have been for 
 years at this season of the 3 ’ear. My general health 
 also has wonderfully improved. Last week I delivered 
 four full addresses, and suffer no inconvenience from 
 the repeated efforts. Since I saw 3 "Ou, I have experi¬ 
 enced an immediate recover}^ from the effects of a fall, 
 a recoveiy which astonishes all who hear of it. For- 
 merl}", I should no doubt have been nearly or quite 
 laid up for weeks. 
 
 A Rev. - Moore, a missionary from China, 
 
 / 
 
 brought home a paralytic wife, who, as he stated to me, 
 had not been able even to stand upon her feet for quite 
 two years. When about to send her to a hjMropathic 
 
 hospital, he was persuaded by Miss G-and m^’self 
 
 to depend wholly upon God in her behalf. She is now 
 able, as he informed me last week, to walk up and 
 down stairs, and is rapidly gaining full strength. He 
 is a most happy man, and is expecting to return to 
 China, and proclaim salvation there as he never did 
 before. He has verj^ great influence among missiona¬ 
 ries in China. I hope you may find time to read this 
 long epistle without weariness. With kindest regards 
 to yourself and famil}", 
 
 I remain yours in the Lord, 
 
 A. M. 
 
 Somerville, Mass. 
 
 Last January, my daughter had suffered from spinal 
 disease for most seven years. Her spine was very 
 much curved, and her left side grown out a great deal. 
 She had had five plaster-paris jackets put on her by 
 Dr. Marcy, of Cambridgeport, as he said there was an 
 
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 abscess forming by the side of her spine, and the only 
 hope was that the jackets would keep the bones whore 
 they were until the disease was arrested. When one 
 was taken off, he charged her not to walk, or bear any 
 weight on her feet, as it would cause her back to grow 
 out more. !She had five put on in less than six months, 
 and the doctor said if she did not continue to have them 
 on, she would not live six months. When they were 
 taken olf, she felt that all support was gone, but she 
 suffered a great deal in having them put on, and while 
 they were on. When the last one was put on, she lost 
 the use of her lower limbs eight days and could not eat 
 anything, and she said if she did not live she would not 
 have another one on. A lady who believed in the 
 power of Jesus to heal the body now, the same as He 
 did when He was here on earth, if we could only come 
 to Him by faith, taking his promise in James v., was 
 very much interested for her, and was impressed, she 
 believed, that she might be healed by the prayer of 
 faith. She sent her a report of Dr. Cullis’s, as she be¬ 
 lieved he had the gift of healing ; but my daughter hesi¬ 
 tated about going in to see him, as she thought she had 
 not the required faith. Dr. Cullis sent word to come 
 with what faith she had. The 27th of last January, we 
 started from Somerville, Union Square. There were 
 seven Christians pra 3 fing for her that afternoon. Her 
 back pained her very much while going in, and when 
 we got to the office she was so exhausted I thought 
 she would not live to get home unless the Lord did help 
 her. While the doctor was talking to her, her faith 
 seemed to take hold of the promise ; and while he 
 pra^^ed with her, she felt strengthened. He told her 
 
OR, ANSWERS TO PRAYERS. 105 
 
 when she got faith enough, to have that jacket taken 
 off. When she rode out in the cars, her back did not 
 pain her, and she said she felt a great deal better. The 
 next day she said she would have the jacket taken off; 
 for if the Lord healed her, she should be just as strong 
 without it, and if it was not His will, the jacket would 
 do no good. In about half an hour after she had it 
 taken off, she walked one third of a mile to meeting, 
 and after meeting walked home again, saying she did 
 not feel any pain in her back, and there was such a 
 change in her countenance that a great many spoke 
 about it. She was weighed soon after, and in two 
 weeks more was weighed again, and had gained five 
 pounds. The swelling on her side in twenty-four hours 
 after she had the jacket off had gone down more than 
 half, and the bones on her back had gone more than 
 half-way back in place. She gradually gained, and 
 averaged going to meeting three or four times a week, 
 one third of a mile from home, without hurting her. 
 
 Mrs. E. Sarah Tuttle. 
 

 
 
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