Healing of the daughter of Brother Wheeler in Reading
Published October 5, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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The daughter of Brother Wheeler of Reading had been suffering from consumption for years and was not expected to live. Elders C. F. Wilcox and Moroni F. Brown visited the home and, after praying and administering to her by the laying on of hands, she rose up in bed instantly, freed from pain, and walked down stairs to join the company in the parlor.
In Their Own Words
“The brethren called on Brother Wheeler of Reading, and, to use their own language, 'found him very low in spirits, as his daughter who had been suffering for years with consumption was not expected to live longer than a day or two. She had been given up by the doctors, and was so weak as to be unable to move her head from the pillow. We felt to ask the Lord to be merciful to her, and to heal her. She was glad to see us, and expressed a strong desire to be administered to. We felt impressed with the promise that she should be thus privileged, and accordingly administered to her in the name of Jesus Christ. She immediately rose up in bed and felt that every particle of pain had left her. She then went down stairs telling her to follow. She actually dressed herself and walked without assistance down a flight of stairs, and entered the room where her father and three or four others were sitting. They were utterly astonished, for they never expected to see her come out of her room alive.'”
— C. F. Wilcox and Moroni F. Brown, as reported in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 43, No. 1
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 3 January 1881 (Vol. 43, No. 1). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1881-01-03_43_1 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Full first-person account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, 3 January 1881 (Vol. 43, No. 1), page 14 https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/MStar/id/4736
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