Healing / Medical Reversal & Remission

John Good's Healing of Chronic Head Pain

Published October 13, 2026 at 6:05 AM

1870s · 1877
Elyria, Ohio

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John Good, a non-religious man, visited the Frink farm while traveling to consult a physician for a severe, worsening pain in his head. At the urging of Sister Frink, he allowed Elder Orson F. Whitney to administer to him. The pain stopped the moment the Elder's hands touched him, and he returned home without the pain.

In Their Own Words

“Not long after my return, a man named John Good called at the Frink farm; on his way to Elyria to consult a physician and if possible get relief for a terrible pain in his head, from which he had suffered a long time, and which was rapidly growing worse. Sister Frink, with her usual zeal, spoke to him of the gift of healing, and advised him to have me administer to him. Not being a religious man, he at first demurred, but finally allowed her to send for me. I came down from upstairs, where I was studying, was introduced to him, and after a few minutes conversation, administered to him for the pain. When I was through, he arose without a word, left the house, got into his buggy, and drove back home. Subsequently he told Sister Frink that the pain had stopped the moment my hands touched him.”

— Orson F. Whitney, Through Memory's Halls

Sources & References

The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 2 March 1905 (Vol. 67, No. 9). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1905-03-02_67_9 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Full first-person account: Orson F. Whitney, Through Memory's Halls: The Life Story of Orson F. Whitney As Told by Himself (Independence, MO: Zion's Printing and Publishing, 1930), 105-106. https://archive.org/details/throughmemorysha00whit

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