A Non-Member Woman Given Up by Doctors for Lost Sight Has It Perfectly Restored After the Elders Lay Hands on Her at Newbury (1848)

A woman who was not a member of the Church and had nearly lost her sight was given up by physicians. She requested administration from the elders, and after they laid hands upon her, she was able to work the next day. Her sight was perfectly restored, and she testified of this to her neighbors for a time.

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

First, one woman, not in the Church, who had nearly lost her sight, and was given up by the doctors, came some months ago to our meetings, and desired the elders to lay hands upon her, for she believed that if they did so her sight would be restored. We laid hands upon her, and the next day she was able to go out to work, to the astonishment of her neighbours, and her sight was perfectly restored. She came to our meetings for some time afterwards, and told all with whom she conversed how her sight had been restored; but after a time she left the meetings, and then began to oppose the Saints. She never was baptized, and a few weeks ago died.