Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine
after this event I visited Mr.
Carver at his house, and found his wife
confined to her bed with a fever, and
she requested me to administer to her. I
placed my hands upon her head, the
power of God rested upon me, and I
commanded her in the name of Jesus
Christ to arise and walk.
She arose and was healed from that
instant, and she walked down to the sea
and I baptized her in the same place
where the fish visited her husband. I
confirmed her there, and she was filled
with the Holy Ghost, and returned to
her home rejoicing.
I now called the people together and
exhorted them to sell their property and
prepare to accompany me to the land of
Zion. I had labored hard for many days
for the temporal and spiritual welfare of
the inhabitants of those islands, and the
Lord had blessed my labors and given
me many souls as seals of my ministry,
for which I felt to praise Him; and now
I felt to labor quite as zealously to gather
out those who had embraced the gospel,
and lead them to Zion.
The worst difficulty which the Saints
had to contend with in that day was
from false brethren. Warren Parrish,
who had been a prominent elder in the
Church, and had labored with me as a
missionary, had apostatized and been cut
off from the Church. Learning that I
was building up branches of the Church
upon the island, he and other apostates
conspired to block up my way by writing
lies to the people and stirring up a spirit
of mobocracy upon the islands.
They succeeded in exerting a strong
influence with the wicked, but I knew
they could not hinder the work of God.
