Healing of James Page in Neath
Published October 4, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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Millennial Star Research
On December 12, 1863, Elders Francis D. Hughes and Samuel Hornsby visited James Page in Neath, who was expected to die. Elder Hughes prophesied he would recover and live to do a good work. By December 17, 1863, Page was able to sit up in a chair, and Elder Thomas E. Jeremy repeated the administration, after which Page continued to recover.
In Their Own Words
“On Saturday, December 12th, I was at Neath, in company with Elder Samuel Hornsby, and visited brother James Page, who was supposed, by almost every body, to be on his death-bed ; he himself believed that he would not recover. When we laid our hands upon his head I prophesied, in the name of the Lord, that he would recover, and live to do a good work, notwithstanding his being old. On Thursday, the 17th of the same month, I returned to Neath, in company with Elder Thomas E. Jeremy, and found brother Page able to sit up in a chair. He requested brother Jeremy to repeat the ordinance to him, and he pronounced nearly the same words upon his head as I did. Brother Page is now fast recovering. — Millennial Star 26:12”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 19 March 1864 (Vol. 26, No. 12). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1864-03-19_26_12 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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