"In my name they shall heal the sick;
"In my name they shall open the eyes of the blind, and unstop the ears of the deaf;
"And the tongue of the dumb shall speak;
"And if any man shall administer poison unto them it shall not hurt them;
"And the poison of a serpent shall not have power to hurt them."[D]
[Footnote D: Doc. and Cov. 84:63-72.]
Thus wonderfully did the Lord repeat the promise made to the apostles of old;[E] and the promise has been fulfilled in an equally wonderful manner. The number of miraculous healings since 1832 is far too large to bear detailing here. But from that day to the present, there have been wonderful healings, wherever the Church has been established. And hundreds of thousands testify that the gift of healing is indeed operative among the Latter-day Saints.
[Footnote E: See Mark 16:16-18.]
The gift of healing is not the only divine gift, however, that has been restored in latter days: "About the 8th of November," writes Joseph Smith, "I received a visit from Elders Joseph Young, Brigham Young, and Heber C. Kimball of Mendon, Monroe county, New York. They spent four or five days in Kirtland, during which we had many interesting moments. At one of our interviews, Brother Brigham Young and John P. Greene spoke in tongues, which was the first time I had heard this gift among the brethren: others also spoke, and I received the gift myself."[F]
[Footnote F: "History of the Church," Vol. I, pp. 296, 97.]