Bartlett and the others had to carry him to the Jesse Lee Home Hospital. He had started feeling ill on October 1, 1914, and a day or so later his face and neck were badly swollen into blistering red patches. He had a high fever and headaches and he couldn’t move. But the doctors knew instantly what it was—erysipelas, an acute, inflammatory skin disease, caused by a bacteria. For three days, he slept. When he awoke, McKinlay looked into the eyes of a little Aleutian boy, who was sitting cross-legged in the chair beside his bed. “Do you have 1Jesus in Scotland?” the boy said. McKinlay was disoriented and confused. He couldn’t remember being taken to this hospital and he did not recognize this boy. “Do you have Jesus in Scotland?” he repeated, staring at McKinlay, frank and open, waiting. “Yes,” he finally answered. His voice was weak and sounded strange. But he could speak. “We have Jesus in Scotland.” After returning home in 1914, McKinlay spent the first months recuperating.
