Miraculous healing of Maria Colebrook’s spasms through administration

Maria Colebrook, daughter of Mrs. Purce, was vehemently protesting against a friend’s conversion to Mormonism when she was suddenly seized with severe spasms. She initially refused administration from the Mormon elders present, but as the symptoms worsened, she consented. She was instantly healed and never suffered from them again.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 2 no. 7 (April 1891), page 325):

While at the house earnestly and vehemently protesting against what she chose to consider a useless sacrifice of her friend’s life to a fancy, she was seized with the symptoms of spasms. Her friend proposed that she should be administered to, but she scornfully refused, saying, ‘‘I would not permit such low creatures to touch me!’’ However, on the symptoms becoming more pronounced, she consented to the administration and was instantly healed, and although she had suffered all her life with these spasms, she never had a recurrence.