Sister Yandle, Given Up for Dead With Lung Sickness, Recovers to Testify in Church After Administration at London (1849)
Published October 4, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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Sister Yandle was given up for dead by medical attendants due to severe lung sickness. After receiving administration from an elder, she recovered and was able to attend church to testify.
Fuller account of this event (in the witness’s own words):
Another case is of a Sister Yandle, who had been taken with a very severe sickness, so much so that all her medical attendants gave her up for dead; but I had faith in the power of God, although they said her lungs were gone, and that it would be impossible for her to live over a few hours. I ministered to her in the name of the Lord, and the pain left her: from that time she has recovered, and has since been to the church to bear her testimony to the healing power of God.
In Their Own Words
“Another case is of a Sister Yandle, who had been taken with a very severe sickness, so much so that all her medical attendants gave her up for dead; but I had faith in the power of God, although they said her lungs were gone, and that it would be impossible for her to live over a few hours. I ministered to her in the name of the Lord, and the pain left her: from that time she has recovered, and has since been to the church to bear her testimony to the healing power of God. — Millennial Star 11:13”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 1 July 1849 (Vol. 11, No. 13). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1849-07-01_11_13 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Fuller account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 11, No. 13 (1 July 1849), p. 203 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1849-07-01_11_13
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