Orson F. Whitney's Healing of a Woman with Neuralgia

“My first experience of the kind was in the year 1S77, when I was a missionary in the State of Ohio. I had been preaching in the fanning districts near the town of Elyria, testiyiug that the miraculous "signs" promised by the Saviour were in the Church of Christ to-day, the same as in days of old. A sick woman took me at my word and sent for me. She had been suffering for six weeks with neuralgia, and was almost maddened by the incessant pain. She asked me to administer for her relief . Up to that time I had never performed the healing ordinance, and felt very timorous over the outcome, fearing that if she were not healed I would be deemed an impostor and perhaps driven out of the neighbourhood. Moreover, her husband threatened to kill any "Mormon" missionary who crossed his threshold. But I went—and was not molested. No sooner had I laid my hands upon that woman's head than a power came upon me that I had never felt before, nor have I ever felt it since, in the same degree. It was a burning in my bosom, so powerful as to almost deprive me of speech, and it went like fire to the very tips of my fingers. I rebuked the pain in the name of Jesus Christ, and the woman was instantly healed. "Thank God!" she said, "the pain has gone." I sank into a chair and burst into tears, overcome by this manifestation of the goodness and power of God. — Millennial Star 87:27”