| 180 legislation, even though it be so solemnly enacted as by an amendment to the Constitution, can make it such.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 24, p. 201.
Elder J. W. Briggs arrived in Fremont County, Iowa, from Utah, July 2.
Some remarkable manifestations were experienced in London, Canada, of which the following statement will give an idea:
Sister Cambridge, of this city, from her infancy up, has had fits severely, until she united with the church in 1875. She had them as often as twice a day at times, and occasionally but once in three months. Since her baptism she has not had any, or even the symptoms of any.
The little child of Bro. and Sr. Cambridge took poison, by accident, and was restored by prayers and the ordinances.
Bro. J. Harvey had his fingers cut off. He was working up-stairs in the shop of Messrs. Perrin and Keenleyside in this city. I was running the engine, and he was working at sawing box stuff. He cut off the two middle fingers on the right hand, also broke the bone of the little finger and sawed the flesh off his fore finger to the bone. He came down to me, holding his right hand with his left hand, and said, "I have cut my hand." I turned around and looked, and of course it startled me for the time and I said, "What will I do?" We paused for a minute, then he said, "Unite your faith." Immediately (seeing that the blood was flowing very freely) I laid my left hand on his head, and raised my right hand, and said, "O God, in the name of Jesus Christ, I pray thee to stop the blood." Immediately the blood stopped; and I then wound up the cut with cloths, and he went home, and at noon, about two hours afterwards, I put oil on it and prayed God to heal it in his own due time. That day passed, and for the next two days it pained him very much, and at night we administered for the Lord to stop the pain. It stopped immediately, and one week from the day it was cut he went up and sawed lumber, using the same hand and the same saw, and has been working ever since.
I was once called to the house of Bro. Parker to administer to a brother that was sick. While administering to him there was present the daughter of Bro. Parker (a sister in the church), who had been having fits, almost every week, more or less, and, while in this state, if she was sitting on a chair, she would fall and remain in an insensible condition for two or three hours. On this occasion she was in the act of falling off her chair, and her father sprang and caught her. I went over to her, and, whilst I was walking across the room, I prayed God to give me his Spirit; then I laid my hands on her, and was led by the Spirit of God to pray him to rebuke the evil spirit, and, in about five or six minutes, she looked around and began to smile, and I said,
(page 180) |
