December 2004 Ensign - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

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