December 2004 Ensign - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...
December 2004 Ensign - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...
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HEALING IN NAUVOO, BY GARY SMITH<br />
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Top: “Nearly everyone was sick with intermittent or other fevers, <strong>of</strong><br />
which many died,” wrote Brother Benjamin F. Johnson, <strong>of</strong> the<br />
malaria that struck the Saints in Nauvoo in 1839. “<strong>The</strong> Prophet,<br />
too, had a violent sickness. . . . A great fear began to prevail. . . .<br />
<strong>The</strong> Prophet now arose in great power, like a lion, . . . [and] shook<br />
<strong>of</strong>f his own sickness. . . . Those being sick he commanded to be<br />
healed, which they were” (in Andrus, 91).<br />
Right: “In the evening a few <strong>of</strong> the brethren came in, and we conversed<br />
together upon the things <strong>of</strong> the kingdom,” wrote Brigham<br />
Young <strong>of</strong> his first <strong>day</strong> with the Prophet in the fall <strong>of</strong> 1832. “Joseph<br />
called upon me to pray. . . . [<strong>The</strong>n he said] the time will come<br />
when Brother Brigham Young will preside over this <strong>Church</strong>’ ”<br />
(in Andrus, 34).<br />
BRIGHAM YOUNG LISTENING TO JOSEPH SMITH JR., BY PAUL MANN