on of Hands—Preserved from Mobs.

CHAPTER IV.

John T. Evans' Statement—A Sick and Helpless Woman Healed on Being Baptized—Relapse and Death after Apostasy—Saints Required to Renounce their Religion or Lose their Situations—Cholera Epidemic—Healed According to Faith—Private Discussion with a Malignant Preacher, who Takes the Cholera and Begs the Elders to Cure Him—Healed and then Baptized—Curious Manner in which Food and Lodging were Provided.

CHAPTER V.

Judgment Upon Opposers—Two Men Killed by their Horses—Horrible Death of Another—Eight Preachers go Down After Opposing Elder Evans—A Man Saved from Bleeding to Death by the Prayer of Faith—A Sister Healed—Woman Cured of a Bloody Issue on Being Baptized—Escape the Fury of a Mob by the Spirit's Warning—A Warning Through the Gift of Tongues.

CHAPTER VI.

Thomas D. Giles' Experience—His Head Crushed and Split Open by a Ton of Coal Falling Upon It—Healed by the Power of God—A Deaf and Dumb Man Receives His Hearing and Speech on Being Baptized, etc.

CHAPTER VII.

Scene in the Experience of Wm. J. Smith—A Strange Prophecy and Its Wonderful Fulfillment.

REMARKABLE HEALINGS.

Martin H. Peck's Testimony of a Number of Remarkable Cases of Healing—A Broken Arm, a Crushed Leg, etc., Healed Immediately.

PHILO DIBBLE'S NARRATIVE.

CHAPTER I.

His Early Life—Conversion—Curious Signs—Joseph Removes to Kirtland—Wonderful Manifestations—A Miraculous Case of Healing—Sidney Rigdon in Darkness—Joseph Predicts that the Evil One will Handle Him, and the Prediction is Fulfilled.

CHAPTER II.

Removal to Missouri—The Saints' Guns Purchased for Mobocrats by a Sectarian Preacher—Attack of the Mob on the Whitmer Settlement—The Writer Shot—Subsequent Exposure and Suffering—Critical Condition—Healed Miraculously—How Zion's Camp was preserved on Fishing River—A Vision.

CHAPTER III.

Militia Organized at Far West—Liberty Pole Struck by Lightning—General Atchison Defends the Prophet in a Lawsuit—Atchison Removed from Office for being Friendly to the Saints—Far West Beseiged—Leaders of the Saints Betrayed for a Price—Escape to Quincy.

CHAPTER IV.

Rent a Farm—Sickness—Providential Recovery—Inspired to Preach—Removal to Nauvoo—Death of my Wife—Second Marriage—Premonition of Death—Warning from the Prophet—A Dream and its Fulfillment—A Prophecy and its Fulfillment—Evil Spirits Cast out of a Man—Joseph Smith's Trust in the Lord.

"SHOW US A SIGN."

MY SISTER'S HIP BROKEN—NO HOPES OF EVER BEING ABLE TO WALK—OUR FAMILY EMBRACE THE GOSPEL—SCOFFERS DEMAND AS A SIGN THAT MY SISTER BE HEALED—ELDER BRACKINBURY'S DEATH—WARNED BY THE SPIRIT OF THE BODY-SNATCHERS' DESIGNS—CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF ROBBING THE GRAVE—MY BROTHER'S DEATH—MY SISTER HEALED—THE HEALING FAILS TO CONVINCE THE UNBELIEVERS.

About the year 1830, when I was twelve years of age, Nancy, my eldest sister, was thrown from a horse, and had her hip broken.

The bone was broken so near the socket that it could not be set, and physicians all agreed that it would be impossible for her ever again to walk upon that leg, or in any degree to recover its use, as ossification had taken place without a connection of the bones and they had slipped past each other, making the broken limb nearly an inch shorter than the other. She walked upon two crutches, and for years was not able to bring upon the broken limb weight sufficient to hurt the finger of a small child, if placed under her foot.

In the year 1831, my brothers Joel H. and David received the gospel in Amherst, Ohio, and in the fall of the same year my brother David brought to us the Book of Mormon, near Fredonia, State of New York.

Soon afterwards my brother Joel, with A. W. Babbitt—then only a boy, came also, and was followed by Elders Brackinbury and Durfee. Elder Brackinbury was an earnest and powerful preacher, and all the Elders seemed filled with the spirit of the Lord. Many received their testimony, and my mother and Lyman R. Shearman, a brother-in-law, were the first to be baptized.

Priest and people came out to oppose the work, and would scoffingly ask, "Why, if miracles can be performed, do you not heal Sister Nancy?" Many would also say: "If they would only heal Sister Nancy we would all believe!"

My sister was a young woman of excellent mind and character. Having a good common education, she had for some years taught our district summer school, and, being religiously inclined, had joined the Freewill Baptist church. Like my mother, who was also a religious woman, she was not only respected, but was beloved by all who knew her. But, although she had obeyed the gospel, the time had not come for her release from her crutches by the healing power of God. The wicked were seeking it for a sign, as in the days of our Savior, when they followed Him even to His crucifixion, demanding that He come down from the cross, as a sign, to prove to them that He was the Son of God; yet no sign was given except that of their overthrow and destruction.

After a few weeks of successful preaching and baptizing, Elder Brackinbury was taken violently sick, and, within a few days, died of the bilious cholic.

To us, then young and inexperienced members of the Church, his death came as a trial to our faith, as well as a very great grief. To think that so good a man, in such a field of useful labor, and far away from his home and family, should be permitted to die, and that too so suddenly, was naturally a test to the faith and integrity of so young a branch.

Although the grave had closed over his body and we were in deep sorrow, our enemies were not satisfied, for while we were assembled in the evening after his burial, to talk and pray and mourn together, the spirit of revelation said to my brother David that they were then digging up the body of Brother Brackinbury for dissection.

My brothers with others quickly started, and proceeding rapidly to the grave about one mile away, found three men there who had unearthed the coffin and were just dragging the corpse from under its lid. As our party approached they sprang out of the grave and fled.

David, then a stripling of about twenty years, pursued them, and like a young lion, grappled with, captured and