Stephen Hales's spiritual experience at his baptism

“I had been all my life a believer in the New Testament doctrine, but could not find a people living up to it. One would say one principle was done away, and another would say that was not needed in this enlightened age, until among them they destroyed the most precious parts of the Gospel, and thereby made it of none effect. My mind could not be brought to harmonize with this state of things; however, I managed to keep my head above water, in trying to do good to my fellow man, until the year 1849, when I had the pleasing satisfaction to hear the Gospel preached in purity by Elder Lewis Robbins, from America, when a feeling like an electric shock passed through my whole frame, and I felt for the first time that I heard the Gospel of salvation. I received it in, I trust, an honest heart, and have felt to be on hand for this work ever since that time, and continue to feel so. — Millennial Star 29:26”