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A Williamsburg physician was astonished that a man who had been sewn up and sent home to die of cancer was at the ball game months later. He asked Ruth Robison how he could have that in his office, and she answered that he already had it in himself. At the 1957 Indiana CFO she tells the story as the second work of the Holy Spirit, and she advises the doctor to keep a picture of Jesus and a lighted candle in a prayer room for his patients.
John Maillard recalls a vision from his English parish days of Christ standing with his hands held behind his back. That sign, he felt, showed the church’s own neglect holding back its healing. He then tells the Indiana CFO in 1957 of a woman given up as incurable who recovered after taking Communion. She returned to testify before the doctors who had treated her.
John Maillard describes kneeling at the Indiana CFO in 1957 beside a woman in a home for the mentally ill. She mutters without pause. He prays for her as though she were perfectly well, and she later tells him she had known all along that he was there.
A dying baby with water on the brain was carried in on a pillow and left in Ruth Robison’s hands for two days. The Holy Spirit directed her to feed the child six drops of warm oatmeal at a time, until strength returned. Speaking to the 1957 Indiana CFO, she makes that the picture of the Spirit’s first work: going back to the foundation God laid in every soul and rebuilding on it.
John Maillard tells of a woman bent double for eighteen years, healed by Jesus in the synagogue on the Sabbath. Love always takes the initiative, Maillard argues, rather than waiting to be asked. He gave this talk to the 1957 Indiana CFO.