Brother Perin, Given Up by His Doctor, Walks Again the Morning After Administration (1848)
Published October 4, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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Brother Perin, a member in the forest of Dean, was reduced to a skeleton and given up by his doctor. Upon visiting him, John Albiston and others prayed and administered to him. After the anointing, the man was able to walk about the house the next morning and soon fully recovered.
In Their Own Words
“The next that I shall lay before you is in the forest of Dean, Little Deans’ Hill, and Woodside. I went to give them a blessing; there was one Brother Perin, nearly a skeleton—given up by the doctor, and spitting himself away, sent his two daughters for me to come and visit him. The family were in the church. We all went up to the bedside; I encouraged him as a witness to God’s power in healing, and quoted the ancient promise, namely, “whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name, it shall be given you;” we went down on our knees, and I made known his case before the Lord; when we rose I anointed him in bed, for he was not able to stand. He tried to sing that afternoon, and next morning he was able to walk about the house,—in a short time he was entirely well.”
— John Albiston, The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 15 May 1848 (Vol. 10, No. 10). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1848-05-15_10_10 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Full first-person account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 10, No. 10, 15 May 1848, p. 156 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1848-05-15_10_10
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