Elder Hugh J. Cannon and the Saints' Protection from Cholera in Hamburg

“Elder Hugh J. Cannon, who recently returned from a mission to Germany, relates that during the cholera scourge which afflicted the city of Hamburg so terribly, he frequently saw the dead wagons carrying out those who had died with this disease. A panic seized many people, and they were in constant fear for their lives. He tells a peculiar instance of how people not of our Church had faith in the protecting influence which surrounds our people: An old lady who had joined the Church was living with a family, who had not received the Gospel, in a part of the city which was most afflicted with the cholera. The family frequently heard her praying to the Lord to protect that house and its inmates from the effects of this scourge, and they all seemed to have faith that her prayers would be answered. One day the lady of the house and this Sister had a little dispute about some trivial matter, and the Sister decided to leave that house the next day and find another boarding place. Immediately on the family hearing of her determination they resolved that she should not go, and said they would rather keep her for nothing than to have her leave their house while the cholera was raging. They seemed to feel that God would favor her and them through her if she would remain in their home. She remained and the destroyer did not enter the home. During the prevalence of this disease it so happened that some of the Saints were under the necessity of waiting upon those who were afflicted, and it occurred several times that while our brethren and sisters were working with those who were attacked, that those who did not belong to the Church would fall down dead while at their work from the effects of this disease ; but, remarkable to relate, there is not a single instance of our people in that city, though they were often exposed to the disease, who succumbed to it. — Millennial Star 55:10”