Healing of Elder Leo Clawson through the prayers of the Elders
Published October 5, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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Millennial Star Research
Elder Leo Clawson, while serving a mission in London, became severely ill. He was cared for by Sister Cross, visited by Elder Atkin, and administered to repeatedly by the Elders, who prayed for his recovery. He subsequently experienced relief, improved, and eventually recovered his health.
In Their Own Words
“Elder Leo Clawson has been very sick, and is still far from being well. At Pimlico he seemed somewhat under the weather when leaving here on his way to Whitechapel. He called at Brother Cross’, and had to stay there and go to bed. During the evening Brother Atkin called, found him very sick, and stayed with him all night. Leo had no rest during the night. In the morning and during the day Sister Cross did all she could for him. Brother Atkin came over and told me of Leo's condition, and I went to him, found him very sick indeed, and remained with him during the night. He rested some during the fore part of the night, but in the morning was a very sick man. Sister Cross continued doing all that could be done to ease his pain and give him relief. Repeatedly he was administered to by the Elders, calling upon the Lord to raise him up. During the day he became easier, and at night was so much better that he sat up by the fire, muffled up, in the big arm chair. From then till now he has slowly improved, remaining at Brother Cross’ till yesterday, when he came over here. Last night he spent very restlessly, but is up this morning and feels cheerful. — Millennial Star 46:5”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 4 February 1884 (Vol. 46, No. 5). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1884-02-04_46_5 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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