Extraordinary deliverance of Elizabeth Shaw/Account of the Miraculous Growth of a Woman's Hair

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Extraordinary deliverance of Elizabeth Shaw (1850–1860)
Account of the Miraculous Growth of a Woman's Hair
3212009Extraordinary deliverance of Elizabeth Shaw — Account of the Miraculous Growth of a Woman's Hair1850-1860

ACCOUNT OF THE MIRACULOUS
GROWTH OF A WOMAN'S HAIR.

Margaret Horne, an inhabitant of St, Peter du Port in the Isle of Guernsey (a woman of unblemished character, about 70 years of age,) came to me to Les Torres, to be electrified, hoping it would cure her of a settled deafness by which she had been long afflicted. I gave her a few gentle shocks through the head which were followed by such a severe headache as deterred her from making a second trial. This continued nearly a month when in a very singular manner she was cured of that, together with a severe pain in her stomach and bowels, by which she had been long much distressed.

One evening having combed out her gray hair, and according to her custom tied it on the top of her head, (which it would barely do, being very short,) she went to bed and the next morning was astonished to find that her hair had in the night increased eight or ten inches in length. She immediately called Mrs Johnson, with whom she lodges, who on viewing it was equally astonished, being perfectly acquainted with its former shortness. Her hair was so much increased beyond its former bulk that she could not conveniently put on her cap, which induced her to cut off six or eight inches of the miraculous lock.

The same day she was seized with a severe sickness, which constrained her to take to her bed and induced her to to exclaim thus to Mrs Johnson and some of her neighbours, “The Lord wrought a miracle for me in causing my hair to grow so suddenly; but I have cut it off and regarded not the operation of his hands and now he has visited and in judgment afflicted me. O Lord! if thou wilt once more cause it to grow I will keep it as a token of thy mercy as long as I live!” The next morning she found the pain in her head entirely gone, together with that in her stomach and bowels before mentioned. On examining her hair, she found it had once more grown eight or ten inches! Since that time her bodily strength had been so amazingly increased, that she solemnly assured me, “She found her health and vigour nearly equal to what she possessed in the prime of life!" Indeed I have been surprised to see her strength and activity evidenced in walking sometimes before me up the hill from Les Terres being before well acquainted with the poor state of her health.

This miraculous lock (for so I must term it) is of a colour different from the rest of her hair. The other part is entirely white but this is of a very fine brown, only a little mottled with gray. This is the real fact, of which there may be every attestation which the nature of the thing is capable of. The circumstances as above, I have taken from the conjoint testimony of Mrs Horne and Mrs Johnson, who are both members of our society in St. Peter’s, and who walk in the light, love, and liberty of the Gospel of Christ.

THE END.


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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