Elias Morris — Preservation from a Thirty-Foot Fall

While working as a local Elder in Wales, Elias Morris fell from a scaffold a distance of thirty feet. Despite the height and the nature of the fall, he was not hurt, an event he attributed to the Lord's power in preserving the lives of His servants.

Fuller account of this event (in the witness’s own words):

In illustration of the manner in which the Lord's power was often manifested in preserving the lives of His servants, he relates an instance from his experience: While acring as a local Elder in his native place, laboring at his trade during the week and preaching in the surrounding villages on Sundays, he once had occasion to speak of the signs which the Savior had promised should follow believers: 'In my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly, thing [sic] it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.' He argued that the enjoyment of those promised blessings was not limited to the believers who lived when the Savior was upon the earth, but that the faithful Latter-day Saints also shared the same. The sectarian preachers of the neighborhood who listened to or heard of Elder Morris' remarks on that... In repeating those remarks and commenting on them to others, he also exaggera'ted what had been said, even asserting falsely that Elder Morris had claimed that if he were to fall from the top of a [scaffold]... Elias Morris falls with a scaffold a distance of thirty feet without being hurt.