Twelve Mormon Homes : Twelve Mormon homes visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona.

Twelve Mormon Homes, page 038

I asked my informant if he was satisfied of the genuineness of the cure. He insisted that there could be no doubt of it. "The Indians," he said, "are very superstitious, and help the efforts of their medicine-man by implicit faith in his power. But they have still more faith for our real miracles. Even those who have not embraced the faith, think that our `medicine,' as they call `the gifts,' is more powerful than theirs." While I was at Nephi, I saw a Mormon "sister" who had just returned from Tab-i-yuna's camp, where she had spent several days and nights, nursing a sick squaw of his band. She was quite ill herself, from having been so long in the close air and dirt of a little skin-lodge; but her countenance lit up, and she raised her voice loud and high in announcing the creature's perfect cure to the members of the Female Relief Society. She seemed to me unreasonably elated over it. I found that it was on account of the moral effect her recovery was expected to produce on the "Lamanites." Hitherto, Tab-i-yuna had been a most "stubborn J ew " and now, for the first time, and when they were in dread of him, he had sent, of his own accord, for the brethren, desiring them to "lay hands upon" the squaw and "minister to her." They had gladly complied, carrying the good sister with them, and leaving her with the squaw, who took a turn for the better, they said, from the time the brethren laid hands upon her. The effect of superstitious credulity upon her mind did some- thing, I suppose, and kind nursing did something; and I pre- sume the Mormons were not altogether wrong in thinking that God's blessing did most of all. Even I felt free to admit that Mormon Christianity would be