A String of Pearls: Second Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day SaintsVarious
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A String of Pearls: Second Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
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Lest I should weary your patience, I will relate but one more instance.
On August 11, 1875, the soldiers had, through the instigation of the
people of Corinne, come up to Corinne, to drive the Indians from the
farm where they made their first start, in the spring of that year, to
cultivate the earth and settle themselves.
When the officers and I had got through with our talk, and were getting
ready to return, an Indian by the name of Tattoosh, came for me to go
and administer to his child, telling me to hurry or it would be dead.
I took some Indians with me and went. When I got to his place, I found
the child's mother sitting out in the sun, trying to warm it in that
way. The child seemed to be dying; its flesh was cold and clammy, and a
death sweat was upon it.
We anointed it, and while administering to it I seemed to see the child
at different stages until it was grown. I blessed it, accordingly, to
live, and told its mother it would get well.
The child seemed to remain in the same condition until the next day
about three o'clock.
The major had come up and changed the orders of the previous evening,
which were for me to tell the Indians to go on with their harvesting,
as he would not disturb them. Now the orders were if the Indians had
not broken camp by 12 o'clock the next day, and started for some
reservation, he should use force and drive them to one.
As I was going to the camp to get the Indians to leave, I met
Tat-toosh, who told me that the child was dead. I said, "No, I cannot
believe it!" He repeated that it was, and that its mother and friends
were crying about it.
I had no time to go and see it, as I had to hurry to the camp. They had
no opportunity to bury the child there, consequently, they wrapped it
up in its blankets, and packed it upon a horse, intending to carry it
until they could find time to bury it.
It took some three hours to get the camp on the move, and after
carrying the child in that way some ten miles, they discovered that it
was alive. This was on Thursday, and on the Sunday following I saw its
father in Cache Valley. He said he never saw a child get well so fast
in his life; and it is now quite fat and hearty.
ANSWER TO PRAYER.
EARLY EXPERIENCE IN CALLING UPON THE LORD--PRAYERS ANSWERED--FAITH
DEVELOPED--A POCKET-BOOK LOST--FOUND IN ANSWER TO PRAYER.
In proof of the fact that the Lord hears and answers "the prayer of
faith," the writer has had abundant evidence.
Not only has he known the sick to be healed in almost numberless
instances, when anointed and prayed for by the Elders of the Church,
but he has had his own prayers answered in regard to other things very
many times.
These answers have sometimes come, too, in such a signal manner as to
leave no room for supposing that they were the result of chance.
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