Mr. Reader's Answered Prayer and the Healing of His Daughter

“For some time past Mr. Reader has been wondering in his own mind whether or not the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the true Chureh, and if baptism is really essential to salvation, making the ques- tion a matter of prayer. One Sunday he and his family, also his mother, went to chapel. All during the service he was thinking about the 'Mormons,' and of baptism for the remission of sins: At the close of the service, while coming out, he noticed a small piece of paper on the floor. He was impressed to pick it up, but thinking it of no use, he passed it by. Still the feeling did not leave him. His mother, on seeing the paper, asked him to pick it up, and on doing so he found the contents to read as follows: 'Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins,' Hb considered this an answer to his prayer in that regard. Some few weeks after, on questioning us he learned that the blessings of the Gospel of Christ were enjoyed by our people the same as in former days. His infant daughter was taken ill. They had the doctor, but it seemed of no avail. The father of the child hardly knew whether to come to our lodgings after us or not. Just before leaving his home he went upstairs and asked the Lord that if it were His will for the Elders to administer to his child, he might be led to meet us on thestreet. It was not our usual custom to take walks at this time of the day, it being about 6 o’clock p.m., but this evening we decided te go out for awhile. Before we had walked five minutes the first man of our acquaintances that we met was Mr. Reader. He asked us if we would come down and administer to his child, When we arrived there, the child looked bad and very delicate: After the administration and a chat on the Gospel we left. Upon seeing the father a few days after he said the child slept better that night than it ever had before. He then narrated the foregoing circumstance to us. Since then the child has had no serious illness. This instance is but one of many in which the blessings of the Lord has been made manifest in the healing of the sick in answer to our prayers. — Millennial Star 67:11”