Casting out an evil spirit from John Smith's daughter

“His daughter, a young girl of about sixteen years, was sorely afflicted with an evil spirit, and had been in convulsions for a number of days. It required the strength of several men to keep her in bed. Mr. Smith asked if we could do anything for the girl. Elder H asked me what I thought of it. I remarked that there was something that needed rebuking; this feeling seemed mutual between us. We placed our hands on her head and commanded the power which had possession of her in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. But it had no sooner left the girl than it seized hold of us, seeming to clutch us by the breast and throat. For a time it seemed that it would overcome us. We retired again to the woods, and there we labored with the fiend, and it was several hours before we were fully relieved of it.”

— Anonymous Elder, The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star