Healing of a woman in Canterbury suffering from acute inflammation
Published October 5, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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Millennial Star Research
In Canterbury in 1875, M. H. Hardy and other Elders administered to a woman who was very low with bronchitis and a combination of diseases, including acute inflammation that doctors had pronounced hopeless. After the administration she recovered, later returned to service, and publicly witnessed her joy in the Gospel; she was subsequently baptized.
Fuller account of this event (in the witness’s own words):
A woman in this town, who had been suffering for some time from acute inflammation, and who had been pronounced by the doctors as hopeless, sent for us. We administered to her in the name of the Lord, and she almost immediately recovered, and was able to go to service. I shortly afterwards baptized her. I met her again yesterday, at our public meeting, and she stood up and witnessed to those present what I am now recording.
In Their Own Words
“A woman suffering from acute inflammation, pronounced hopeless. She sent for us, we administered to her in the name of the Lord: she almost immediately recovered and went to service. I shortly afterward baptized her. I met her again yesterday, at public meeting, — she witnessed to those present what I am now re-cording. — Millennial Star 37:16”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 19 April 1875 (Vol. 37, No. 16). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1875-04-19_37_16 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Fuller account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 37, No. 16 (19 April 1875), p. 251 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1875-04-19_37_16
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