Lily Thurston's healing from tubercular hip and spine

“I had been afflicted for fifteen years with tubercular trouble, and had eleven or twelve operations on account of a diseased hip, which caused me to be lame. I was at different periods in hospital for eight years. I grew worse as time went on, and my spine became also affected. I then had to lie on my back for eighteen months, and was wheeled about in a spinal chair. I had also lost practically all power of speech. The doctors did not give any hope of my recovery. A friend came to visit me one day, as she was always very kind to wheel me out in my chair. While conversing with her about the Latter-day Saints, I said I should like to meet them out of curiosity. I was then very much prejudiced against them. She consented to take me on a Sunday to one of their meetings, which I attended, that being the first time I had ever met any "Mormon" missionaries. I became interested in the principles they taught, and asked her to take me again, which she kindly did. It was there I heard them speak of the power of healing through faith and prayer in accordance with what we read in the epistle of James: "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him" (James 5: 14, 15). I then asked to be administered to. After this, I began to regain my power of speech, while many prayed in my behalf. I gradually improved in health, and was strong enough to travel to Norwich in my spinal chair to attend conference on November 2nd, 1913. I there asked to be administered to again by the elders. This was done, and I felt that I could walk immediately. Afterwards, when I got to my room, I took the splints off my leg, and the next morning when my sister came to attend to me, to her great surprise I was dressed and walking, and I have been improving since. My hip is quite healed up, and I can walk now without any discomfort or lameness. — Millennial Star 76:38”