wherever we are
afflicted God stands by wringing His hands, and saying, '... Return to
me, O backsliding children. Come back to me, and I will keep the devil
off of you.'"[192] I take also some extracts from his daily record.

"July 19 [1881]. John and I took a long walk.... I shall
not repeat the experiment, for I got many chiggers on
me, which are tormenting me from head to foot while I
write, I think because I trusted the pennyroyal to keep
them off me instead of the Lord. It was not wilful, but
a slip of forgetfulness, yet a door wide enough for
Satan to enter a little bit. Now, instead of trying
pennyroyal to get me rid of them, I will trust the Lord
only.

"July 20. The chiggers gave exquisite torment. I shall
never trust in pennyroyal again.

"July 21. Satan tried to get me wavering on the eye
question, but the dear Lord set me up more firmly than
ever.

"July 24. We have gotten into a little trouble by
carelessly trying to help the dear Lord take care of his
little organ. A key was silent, and yesterday Marie
tried to remedy it. There was a good deal of taking out
of keys, and dusting--result, two keys silent now, and
one that won't be silent, but goes on in a bass wail
through every song. So much for meddling with the dear
Lord's work. We trust Him, when the lesson is learned,
to set the little machine all right again.... The dear
Lord cured the little organ this afternoon while we were
at dinner; at least it was all right, as Marie with a
happy smile informed me before she began to sing the
first song. I gave thanks for it in the opening prayer,
and then told the people all about it.

"July 27. Satan is not a little busy with me, injecting
doubts as to the right to trust for eyes. Faith still
quenches all his fiery darts, although it sorely tries
me to be thus inactive in these long summer days,
without reading my beautiful edition of Young's
Concordance, useless at the bottom of my trunk. My
Revised New Testament I can only get at through
others."[193]

Leaving now the revivalists, let us take up the cases of others not
revivalists who used anointing for healing. In her native hamlet of
Maennedorf, Switzerland, Dorothea Trudel (1813-1862), the descendant
of some generations of faith healers, cured many. Soon people began to
come to her from near and far and, finally, at the solicitation of a
"patient" of rank, she purchased