Gems of Reminiscence: Seventeenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
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Gems of Reminiscence: Seventeenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Missions
As a boy, I once took hold of the ends of an electric battery. They
had some handles for me to take hold of. I was a child at that time.
I had never had any shock of electricity; and the teacher who was
manipulating it was not very well posted, and he turned on altogether
too strong a current, and I could not let go. I hopped around there and
yelled "Turn it off, turn it off!" Well, somebody who did not see, or
feel, or know anything about electricity would say, "What is the matter
with that fool, with a couple of pieces of tin in his hand, yelling
'Turn it off?'"
Could anybody tell me that I did not know, as a boy in old Brother
Doremus's school, that I got a solid shock of electricity? Not a bit
of it. I know that I received the electric shock; there is no doubt
of it in my mind. Likewise, I know that the gift of tongues is in
this church. Why? Because when I was ruined financially, working
till midnight, every night, struggling to maintain my honor and my
credit, when I came home one morning--between 1 and 2 o'clock in the
morning--my wife, whose body now lies in the tomb, was sitting up
waiting for me, and I chided her for it; she turned and by the gift
of tongues, and having the interpretation thereof herself, she gave
me a wonderful and marvelous blessing, every word of which has been
fulfilled. I knew well that she was giving me a blessing, as I sat
there and wept like a child, while she was addressing me, without
understanding a single word that she said, I know that God testified
to me that she was giving me a blessing just as well as I know that I
received the electric shock.
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