Miraculous Healing of the Child of Sister Childs

“Sister Zina D. Young, “Aunt Zina,” as she is familiarly called by young people, and some women old enough to be her mother call her the same, was at my house a day or two in the last week, and related a miracle that took place about the year 1835, at or near Sackett’s Harbor, New York, near our home at that time, under the administration of David Patten, the martyred Apostle, one of the first Twelve that was chosen by the Prophet Joseph Smith. A sister in the Church by the name of Childs went to hear the Apostle preach, and while at meeting a little girl, about five years old, at home, by some accident had her clothing take fire, and burned her body so badly that it was feared she might die. Some of the neighbors thought it served the parents right if she did get burned, for they had no business at a Mormon meeting. Such was the unpopularity of Mormonism then, and such the bitter feeling against a gospel that held that miracles could be performed now as in the days of Jesus and His Apostles. The parents of the girl understood Mormonism and believed it to be the same gospel that Jesus preached, and accordingly sent for the Mormon Elder to come and administer to their child. The Elder, or Apostle that he was, came and anointed the child with oil, laid his hands upon its head, prayed for the little sufferer, and promised that as a testimony that the gift of healing had been restored to the earth, promised that that child should get well, and that the burned place should always be of another color from the rest of the body. This promise was verified, and Sister Zina afterwards saw the burned place upon the girl’s body, which was of a bright pink color, and the skin was raised a little above the other skin. There had been no sore place to leave a scar, but the skin dried and healed over without more pain. — The Young Woman's Journal 4:9”