Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Mary Adaline Dunn Ensign (1833-1920) Providing a Reminiscence of Baptism by Healing by Joseph Smith

  

At another time, the baby was very sick with black canker. Mother took him to the Prophet Joseph who went with us to a stream of water. When the Prophet Joseph took the baby, he laid him across his hand face down and immersed it in the water. The baby recovered and is now living. (Mary D. Ensign autobiography, circa 1914, MS 10810, Church History Library; the term “black canker” at this time referred to gangrene or mouth ulcers)