Manifestations of Power and Speaking in Tongues During Missionary Visit

When Elisha Graves and Isaac Higbee came to preach in Hamilton County, Illinois around April 1835, they baptized approximately 30-40 persons. The power of the Lord was made manifest to all the believers. Mostly they spoke with new tongues and gave the interpretation of the same. The sick were healed, and the hearts of all the believers had cause to rejoice in the goodness of God. George Washington Gill Averett's entire family—his father, mother, and three sisters and two brothers—were baptized during this miraculous visitation, and all witnessed the genuine gifts of the Holy Ghost being poured out.

Fuller account of this event (in the witness’s own words):

Situated in Hamilton County, Illinois about 30 miles from Shownestown on the Ohio River and about nine miles from the county seat of Hamilton County, Illinois, south of the county seat in what was then known as the Mayberry Settlement. Elisha Graves and Isaac Higbee Latter- day Saints come through our parts of the country and stopped at my father’s house and preached to me and to my father’s family all of them that was at home at that time, baptizing some of them; my father and mother and three sisters and two brothers during the time of the sojourn of graves, and Higbee. During the sojourn in that part of the country they baptized some 30 or 40 persons, male and female, and the power of the Lord was made manifest to the believers. Mostly they spoke with new tongues and gave the interpretation of the same. The sick was healed and the hearts of all the believers had cause to rejoice in the goodness of God.