While at family prayers one morning, the power of God began to rest upon me, and the thought rushed into my mind that it was mesmerism, and I resisted it. Immediately I was struck dumb, and for a few moments was lost to everything around me. I then saw my sin in doubting the power of God, and that for so doing I was struck dumb, but that my tongue should be loosed in less than twenty-four hours. A card was held up before me, on which were written in letters of gold the chapter and verse of fifty texts of Scripture. {LS 89.3}

Ved familiebønnen en morgen, begyndte Guds kraft at hvile over mig, og tanken jog ind i mit sind at det var mesmerisme, og jeg modstod det. Jeg blev straks helt stum, og mistede alt omkring mig for nogle få øjeblikke, men at min tunge ville løsnes igen om mindre end femogtyve timer. Et kort blev holdt op foran mig, hvorpå stod halvtreds skriftsteder og hele kapitler stod skrevet med guldbogstaver.