Healing of Gentile teamsters by administration
Published October 5, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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Millennial Star Research
During a cross-country journey from Salt Lake City in 1867, a company of Latter-day Saint missionaries held daily meetings. Their spiritual influence led several Gentile teamsters to attend these services. When two of these teamsters fell ill, they requested to be administered to by the missionaries and were subsequently restored to health.
Fuller account of this event (the complete account as preserved in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 29, No. 32, 10 August 1867, p. 507):
Two of the teamsters, who were Gentiles, were taken sick, and requested to be administered to by the brethren, which was done, and they were restored to health.
In Their Own Words
“We had organized ourselves into a kind of little travelling Branch of the Church, held our evening and morning devotions, together with singing and prayer, and had besides that, as often as circumstances permitted, testimony meetings, which gave us an excellent opportunity to practice in public speaking; and that the Lord was satisfied with this movement, appeared by the power of the Holy Spirit which increasingly manifested itself on these occasions, and by the influence we gradually began to enjoy over the whole train, so that many of the Gentile teamsters used to attend our meetings, swearing and bad language among them decreasing considerably, and finally two of them, when sick, asked to be administered to, and were restored to health. — Millennial Star 29:32”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 10 August 1867 (Vol. 29, No. 32). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1867-08-10_29_32 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Complete account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 29, No. 32, 10 August 1867, p. 507 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1867-08-10_29_32
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