Healing / Medical Reversal & Remission

Teenie Smoot Taylor's Healing of Daughter Elmina

Published October 16, 2026 at 11:07 PM

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When Teenie Smoot Taylor's daughter Elmina was stricken with diphtheria, Karl G. Maeser visited, spoke with the Lord on her behalf, and promised she would be all right. The parents were comforted and the child recovered.

In Their Own Words

“When our little Elmina was stricken with diphtheria, my greatest desire was to have Brother Maeser come and talk with the Lord in her behalf. He came, and I felt that the strength of my own faith depended on the words he spake. When leaving the room, he warmly grasped our hands, saying:—"Dear Brother and Sister Taylor, trust in the Lord, your little one will be all right." At times we greatly feared; but when almost in despair, we would recall his prophetic words, spoken as they were, with a spirit of humility and faith, and we would again be comforted. — The Young Woman's Journal 12:4”

Sources & References

The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 12 no. 4 (April 1901). L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University digital collections. https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/10245 (account extracted verbatim from the collection's page-level OCR; research confidence: high)

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