Lucy Grant Cannon's Deliverance from Diphtheria and the Spiritualist's Prophecy

While living in Washington as a child, Lucy Grant Cannon and her sister Rachel were stricken with diphtheria. Doctors and nurses believed Lucy would die. George Q. Cannon administered to her, rebuking the decree of death in the name of Jesus Christ. The miracle was later confirmed by the fact that the woman in whose house they were staying had visited a spiritualist medium who predicted the younger girl (Lucy) would die and be carried in a coffin back across the mountains to be buried, but the Priesthood blessing successfully rebuked this death.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 34 no. 9 (September 1923)):

One striking illustration of this occurred when, as a child Lucy and two sisters were taken by their father to Washington. While there Rachel and Lucy were stricken with diphtheria. The nurses and doctors in attendance thought it was impossible for Lucy to live. Brother George Q. Cannon came to administer to her and said: “The adversary has publicly decreed your death, but by the authority of the Priesthood of God and in the name of Jesus Christ we rebuke the decree and say you shall live.” The significance of this statement was made clear when Lucy was well enough to leave. The husband of the woman in whose house she had been, told her father, that he had a good joke on his wife who was a spiritualist. When the children were taken ill she had gone to her medium who told her that she could see two little girls sick at her home. She said that the older one would get better but the younger one would die. She said that she could see her body put into a coffin, carried to the train and then carried for days through large cities and over great prairies, up into the tops of the mountains and stop in a valley in the mountains where the coffin was removed and carried up to the side hill and buried.