The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry, and TravelsPratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker)
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The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry, and Travels
Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Apostles -- Biography; Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker), 1807-1857
I went home with a friend who invited me to partake of his
hospitality for the night. As we entered his house, we found one of
his children very sick with a violent pain in the head, to which it
had been subject from its birth, and which came at regular periods,
and was never relieved till it gathered and broke at his ear--so
said his parents. The little fellow was rolling from side to side
in his bed, an screeching and screaming with pain. I stepped to the
bedside, and laid my hands upon his head in the name of Jesus
Christ; he was instantly made whole and went to sleep. Next morning
he got up well, and continued so; he said that the pain all left
him as soon as my hands touched his head.
In the morning, before I arose, I had a vision, as follows: I
saw a log house, and entered it through a door at the northwest
corner; in the northeast corner lay a woman sick in bed; in the
southeast corner was a small door opening into an adjoining room,
and near it a stairway, where stood a ladder; the fireplace being
in the south end. As I entered the house and laid my hands on the
woman, she rose up and was made whole; the house being crowded, she
took her seat near the fire and under the ladder, or near by it,
and she praised God with a shout of glory, clapping her hands for
joy and exclaimed: "Thank God, I'm every whit whole." I awoke from
my vision and related the same to the family where I stayed.
The man harnessed his horses, and with seven or eight persons in
the wagon, including myself, we started for meeting, intending to
call and see Mrs. Cory on our way, as I had appointed the previous
evening. On alighting at her house I saw it was the same that I had
seen in the vision; there were the doors, the stairway, ladder,
fireplace, bed, and sick woman, just as I had seen and described.
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