John V. Wadsworth's Miraculous Survival and Healing After Ax Accident

“I say fell. He says that it seemed to him he was picked up and dropped upon that ax. He sat down on it with all his weight. His first thought was ‘well now I am ready to go home, if I can get home.’ He called to the other men who were not far off, and while they were coming he put his hand back to feel if he had any place left to sit down on, and thrust his hand through the flesh to the bone. ‘Boys,’ he said, ‘I want you to lay hands on me.’ ... ‘I want you to ask that I shall not suffer any pain.’ Some weeks after that incident I visited him at his home, and in his relating the whole event to me he said, ‘As sure as I live I have not suffered one hour of pain from the mere wound itself.’ — The Young Woman's Journal 4:10”