Healing of Royal B. Young’s daughter in Brighton Ward

“Some years ago, I went as a home missionary to Brighton Ward in Salt Lake Stake of Zion, being accompanied by Elder Royal B. Young. When the services were closed, one of the brethren asked us to administer to his seventeen-year-old daughter, who was unable to talk. Brother Young anointed her with oil, and we unitedly laid our hands upon her head and importuned the Lord in her behalf. When the anointing had been sealed upon her head, and the administration was finished, she was able to talk and was completely healed by the power of God. I was smiling and took him up stairs where the child was sitting up in bed. He was very much astonished and expressed himself as not understanding it, and said he had never seen such a case in all his experience. I well remember the expression of my wife before I went to the meeting house to get the Elders; she said, ‘I believe if we could get the Elders to administer to her that she would live.’ She is to day in Salt Lake City, a living testimony of the great ordinance of healing the sick. My faith and belief is, and I hope always will be, that if we were to live nearer to our professions, we would have a great deal less need of doctors than we have at present.”

— Patriarch William J. Smith, The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star