A Dying Woman in Clitheroe Restored After Believing the Elder's Covenant of Baptism (1842)

“The individual being afflicted with an illness that exhibited every appearance of terminating fatally, and her medical attendant having little or no hope of his patient, she sent for an elder of the church to visit her... The elder therefore proceeded to address her in the following manner : “ that if she believed with her heart, in the Lord Jesus Christ —in his willingness and ability to save —and did truly repent of her sins, and purpose fully (if the Lord should, in his mercy, restore her to health) to go forth in the obedience of faith and be baptized in the name of Jesus, for the remission of sins; that if this was her sincere intention, then, on the other hand, if it were His will that she should fall asleep in Jesus, her name should be recorded in the “book of the names of the righteous,” and another should be baptized for her, in her room and stead, in order that she might come forth in the first resurrection. ... Our beloved sister, however, recovered in the providence of God, and during her convalescence she was visited by both the clergymen of the town; by the Methodist minister, his lady, and others, as well as several of their local preachers... Suffice it to say, that all the efforts employed utterly failed to eradicate from her mind, the sublime, but simple principles of the gospel which she had embraced; and the elder who proclaimed the gospel unto her at first, had the unspeakable satisfaction of baptizing and confirming her a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. — Millennial Star 3:1”