James L. McMurrin's Fulfilled Prophecy Regarding a Watch

“In Edinburgh on the 26th of May last, I spent a very pleasant day with Elder Wm. Sterling. I had never met this brother before, but was soon able to detect that he was one of the true fold, for I found that he possessed that good spirit into which all true followers of Christ have been baptized, and which “floweth from heart to heart as oil from vessel to vessel.” In the course of conversation a question was asked regarding the time of day. On my remarking that I could not tell as 1 had no watch, Brother Sterling at once replied, Well Brother McMurrin you will get one. III prophesy that you will get a watch.” That's good” I said, “may your words come to pass!” “They will,” said he, with much earnestness, and I looked at the man wondering what he had in his mind, he being an utter stranger to me... The next day at table, I remarked that Brother Sterling had prophesied that I would be provided with a watch, and I was living in hopes of its fulfillment. “Well,” said Brother McFarlane, “it has come to pass, the watch is here,” when he produced a little box containing a timepiece sent from Nailsworth, Stroud, Gloucester, on May 26, and accompanied by the following note without signature: “I have sent you a watch for the Elder of your Church that has not got a good watch, it is a splendid time keeper.”... On the very day that watch was sent from Nailsworth, Brother Sterling, over three hundred miles away, predicted, most positively, that I would get a watch. Since receiving it I have been very much interested in trying to find out who sent it, so, while attending meetings in Bristol, in which conference Nailsworth is situated, I made inquiries regarding it, and found that there were no members of the Church in that town, the Elders knew nothing about it, and the question as to who sent it is still a mystery. — Millennial Star 61:29”