My Sister's Hip Broken—No Hopes of Ever Being Able to Walk—Our Family Embrace the Gospel—Scoffers Demand as a Sign that my Sister be Healed—Elder Brackinbury's Designs—Caught in the Act of Robbing the Grave—My Brother's Death—My Sister Healed-The Healing Fails to Convince the Unbelievers.

CONTEST WITH EVIL SPIRITS.

The Savior's Promise—Sent on a Mission When a Boy—Conference in Burke's Garden—A Girl Apparently Stricken With Death—My Fright at Being Asked to Administer to Her—Prompted by the Spirit to Cast the Devil Out of Her—The Evil Spirit Leaves Her and Enters Two Others—Six Elders Contend With the Evil Spirit for Thirty-Six Hours—Its Final Banishment.

EARLY EXPERIENCE OF A. O. SMOOT.

CHAPTER I.

Sickly Condition when Young—Healed According to Elder Patten's Prediction—Labor as a Missionary with Elder Woodruff—Severe Sickness—Healed Under the Administration of my Brethren—A Mission to the Southern States—Removal to Far West—Mission to Missouri and Arkansas—Opposed by a Baptist Deacon—Terrible Judgment upon Himself and Family—John Houston, the Infidel—Far West Besieged—Taken Prisoner.

CHAPTER II.

Married while a Prisoner of War—Property Confiscated—Removal to Quincy—First Hard Work—Removal to Montrose—Mission to Tennessee—Shot at—Camp, my Champion—A Lawyer and his Mob—Appeal to Masons for Help—Ready Response—Camp's Vengeance on the Lawyer—News of Martyrdom—Return to Nauvoo—Brigham Young Inspired—Another Mission South—Blessings in the Temple—Journey to Salt Lake Valley.

CHAPTER III.

Almost Lost in the Atlantic—Narrowly Escape the Saluda Disaster—Nearly Dead with the Cholera—Healed in Answer to Prayer—Blown up with a Keg of Powder—A Sick Woman Healed—Elder Patten's Remarkable Prediction Fulfilled—A Man Almost Dead Recovers on Being Baptized.

SCENES IN THE BRITISH MISSION.

CHAPTER I.

Elder Halliday Applied to for Help By a Sister whose Son is Dying—Not Able to go, he Gives the Lady his Handkerchief and Promised her the Child Shall Live—The Child Revives from Apparent Death by the Woman's Faith and Prayer—Preaching in Penzance—Discouragement and Want—Strange Conduct of a Lady Attending the Meeting—Invitation to go to St. Just—Gift of Tongues and Interpretation Given to Elder Halliday, Through which he Receives a Revelation—Revelation Literally Fulfilled.

CHAPTER II.

Elder Elias Morris Falls with a Scaffold a Distance of Thirty Feet Without Being Hurt—Gift of Healing Possessed by Elder Abel Evans—A Woman Healed who had Her Face Eaten Away by a Cancer—Storm at Sea Rebuked—A Broken Leg Cured—A Broken Skull Mended—Fever on Shipboard Stopped by the Prayer of Faith.

CHAPTER III.

Elder John Parry's Statement—His Brother's Testimony and Death—His Sister's Reproof and Death—Embrace the Gospel—His Sleep Troubled—A Remedy and Lesson—Orson Spencer Healed—Providential Help—Escape from a Mob—Cancer in a Man's Face Cured by Laying on of Hands—Preserved from Mobs.

CHAPTER IV.

John T. Evans' Statement—A Sick and Helpless Woman Healed on Being Baptized—Relapse and Death after Apostasy—Saints Required to Renounce their Religion or Lose their Situations—Cholera Epidemic—Healed According to Faith—Private Discussion with a Malignant Preacher, who Takes the Cholera and Begs the Elders to Cure Him—Healed and then Baptized—Curious Manner in which Food and Lodging were Provided.

CHAPTER V.

Judgment Upon Opposers—Two Men Killed by their Horses—Horrible Death of Another—Eight Preachers go Down After Opposing Elder Evans—A Man Saved from Bleeding to Death by the Prayer of Faith—A Sister Healed—Woman Cured of a Bloody Issue on Being Baptized—Escape the Fury of a Mob by the Spirit's Warning—A Warning Through the Gift of Tongues.

CHAPTER VI.

Thomas D. Giles' Experience—His Head Crushed and Split Open by a Ton of Coal Falling Upon It—Healed by the Power of God—A Deaf and Dumb Man Receives His Hearing and Speech on Being Baptized, etc.

CHAPTER VII.

Scene in the Experience of Wm. J. Smith—A Strange Prophecy and Its Wonderful Fulfillment.

REMARKABLE HEALINGS.

Martin H. Peck's Testimony of a Number of Remarkable Cases of Healing—A Broken Arm, a Crushed Leg, etc., Healed Immediately.

PHILO DIBBLE'S NARRATIVE.

CHAPTER I.

His Early Life—Conversion—Curious Signs—Joseph Removes to Kirtland—Wonderful Manifestations—A Miraculous Case of Healing—Sidney Rigdon in Darkness—Joseph Predicts that the Evil One will Handle Him, and the Prediction is Fulfilled.

CHAPTER II.

Removal to Missouri—The Saints' Guns Purchased for Mobocrats by a Sectarian Preacher—Attack of the Mob on the Whitmer Settlement—The Writer Shot—Subsequent Exposure and Suffering—Critical Condition—Healed Miraculously—How Zion's Camp was preserved on Fishing River—A Vision.

CHAPTER III.

Militia Organized at Far West—Liberty Pole Struck by Lightning—General Atchison Defends the Prophet in a Lawsuit—Atchison Removed from Office for being Friendly to the Saints—Far West Beseiged—Leaders of the Saints Betrayed for a Price—Escape to Quincy.

CHAPTER IV.

Rent a Farm—Sickness—Providential Recovery—Inspired to Preach—Removal to Nauvoo—Death of my Wife—Second Marriage—Premonition of Death—Warning from the Prophet—A Dream and its Fulfillment—A Prophecy and its Fulfillment—Evil Spirits Cast out of a Man—Joseph Smith's Trust in the Lord.