Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal
found my wife very low. I spent the day in
taking care of her, and the following day I returned to Eaton
to get some things for her. She seemed to be gradually sink-
ing and in the evening her spirit apparently left her body, and
she was dead.
The sisters gathered around her body, weeping, while I
stood looking at her in sorrow. The spirit and power of God
began to rest upon me until, for the first time during her sick-
ness faith filled my soul, although she lay before me as one dead.
I had some oil that was consecrated for my anointing while
in Kirtland. I took it and consecrated it again before the
Lord for anointing the sick. I then bowed down before the
Lord and prayed for the life of my companion, and I anointed
her body with the oil in the name of the Lord. I laid my
hands upon her, and in the name of Jesus Christ I rebuked
the power of death and the destroyer, and commanded the
