Catharine Kidd, at the Point of Death With Fever and Already Measured for Burial Clothes, Recovers From the Hour of Administration at Borland (1849)

Catharine Kidd was at the point of death with fever, and family members had already prepared her burial clothes. William Athole MacMaster and Elder M'Farland anointed and administered to her; she recovered from that hour.

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

This is to certify, that I was in Borland on the 8th of January, 1849, and there was a girl by the name of Catharine Kidd, lying very bad with a fever, and was at the point of death, and there was part of her dead clothes made, waiting every moment when the breath would leave her; so I was called to see her, and I went; and they asked me if I would attend to the ordinance of the Church with her, and I said that I would: so in company with Elder M‘Farland, I anointed her with oil, and laid hands on her, in the name of Jesus Christ; and when I had done, I told them that she would get better, for the Lord had heard our prayers, and would restore her; so from that hour, she did get better, and the dead clothes were laid aside. I am, yours in the gospel, William Athole MacMaster.