Healing of an unnamed girl through the administration of Elders
Published October 5, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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An unnamed young girl in Switzerland, who had been given up by doctors as a hopeless case, suffered from limbs that were nearly dried up and shrunk, and her body was covered with maturated sores. She could not use her hands, and the joints of her right hand were entirely without strength. She expressed prophetic faith that the Lord would send someone to heal her. Elder John Huber and another native Elder administered to her, and she subsequently recovered, regaining the ability to run and attend school.
In Their Own Words
“I had two more cases of the miraculous healing of the sick in one place to another; her limbs were nearly dried up and shrunk to a fearful degree; all over her body she was covered with maturated sores; she could not use her hands, and the joints of her right hand were entirely without strength. After I had baptized the parents of this girl, I began to look after their children, of whom there were three little girls; the one mentioned above had long been given up by the doctors as a hopeless case, but the girl is remarkable for her intelligence and great faith in the Lord. When her mother wished to go to the doctor with her, she told her mother, that is useless, and spend money to no purpose, and with prophetic words she added, 'It is but a short time until the Lord will send somebody to heal me, then we shall all rejoice.' In company with another native Elder we administered to this young believer, and now she is running round with the rest of the children, going to school regularly, and telling everybody who made her well.”
— John Huber, in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 8 October 1872 (Vol. 34, No. 41). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1872-10-08_34_41 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Full first-person account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 34, No. 41, 8 October 1872, p. 654 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1872-10-08_34_41
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