Healing of a Crippled Child in Sacramento through the prayer of Elder W. V. Lay

“Just then a little child that was sitting upon the floor, began to slide itself across the room to where Elder Lay stood, and put up its little hands, as if it wanted him to take it up. Elder Lay saw that the child was a cripple, and the lady explained that it had a stiff knee, and that she supposed that it would be a cripple all it’s life; that it had been lame for a long time. Its little leg was doubled right back. She said she bad examined it that morning and tried to pull it straight but the attempt caused the child intense pain. It screamed so hard that she feared it would go into fits. Elder Lay stooped down and took hold of the little one’s hands, and offered up a prayer, pouring out his whole soul to God in behalf of the child. He then raised it up and it stood upon its feet. Its leg immediately became straight like the other, and Elder Lay walking around the room backward, led the child, who walked after him, three times around the room. The mother, filled with astonishment and delight exclaimed, “My God, is it possible that my child is walking!” She then took the child by the hand to see if it could walk for her, which it did as readily, and then walked around the room alone without the aid of either, and then as if fully realizing what a blessing it had received, went and leaned upon its mother’s lap, its leg being straight, and a heavenly smile overspreading its countenance as it looked lovingly up into its mother’s face. The lady shed tears of j joy as she witnessed the manifestation of the power of God upon her child, in making it whole and well. — Millennial Star 61:36”