Spiritual Conversion

Nancy Tracy's Faith in Gospel Confirmed Through Powerful Preaching of David Patten

1830s · 1834
New York
Nancy Tracy, Apostle David Patten

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Nancy Tracy documented her conversion through the powerful preaching of Apostle David Patten. She recorded: 'So I got two other woman to go with me and repaired to the place appointed. The house was filled, waiting to see this wonderful man. My astonishment was better felt than described when he appeared tall and st with piercing black eyes filled with the spirit of God... Then he prayed and such a prayer! He was full to the brim... He took his text from the Bible, but I have forgotten it. However, I well remember his powerful sermon on the first principles of the Gospel as taught by the Savior and his apostles. O how plain and beautiful and easy to understand. I believed with my whole soul and I could see that I had been preserved from uniting with other creeds and was waiting to here.' This powerful testimony to the truth of the Gospel came through the Spirit-filled preaching of the Apostle, and Nancy's heart was forever changed toward the truth.

Sources & References

Nancy Naomi Alexander Tracy, Autobiography (1816-1902), HBLL and Bancroft Library

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