Ephraim K. Hanks's healing of the sick and power to rebuke disease

Ephraim K. Hanks, a Mormon Battalion veteran, possessed the spiritual gift of healing the sick. He could rebuke sickness and disease through silent prayer without physical touch. People, including indigenous peoples who traveled hundreds of miles, sought his ministrations and were healed. In February 1893, he gathered about thirty people who were fasting and administered to them, and they were healed.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, 3 September 1896 (Vol. 58, No. 36)):

Like the Prophet Joseph and others he had remarkable faith and power in healing the sick. He would rebuke sickness and disease without ever touching the afflicted; a silent prayer to the Father, and he could accomplish almost anything he desired for the benefit of others. The sick all over the country had so much faith in him that if he could only administer to them, they were healed; even the Indians would bring their sick for a hundred miles for Brother Hanks to administer to them and they were invariably made whole. On one occasion about thirty came to be healed. It was fast day in February, 1893. He had them all fast and come to meeting. Quite a number of them spoke, desiring him to be their father, as they didn’t have any now that Brother Thurber was dead. He told them that he would, and then he and his sons administered to them and they were healed.