Thomas Bailey, Afflicted From Infancy With a Disorder Doctors Called Incurable, Healed by Anointing and Laying On of Hands at Salford (1849)
Published October 4, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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Thomas Bailey, who had been cut off from the church for transgression, had been afflicted from infancy with a disorder that physicians in Carlisle and Manchester pronounced incurable. He was healed by attending to the ordinance (anointing and laying on of hands) and has not been troubled with it since. He has borne frequent testimony to this healing.
In Their Own Words
“Thomas Bailey, of Shaw Brow, Salford, (cut off from the church, on Friday ae at the Council meeting for transgression) had been afflicted from his infancy with a disorder which the physicians both of Carlisle and Manchester, pronounced incurable, (he was in the infirmary at Carlisle, ) was healed by attending to the ordinance, and has not since been troubled with it. To this he has borne frequent testimony, and I am sure he will not now deny the truth of this statement.”
— Millennial Star 11:12
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 15 June 1849 (Vol. 11, No. 12). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1849-06-15_11_12 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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