Prayers Save Life of
Child. . . Believed that Supplications of Seven Towns Wrought Miraculous Cure
of Little Frank Williams
Prayers from the pulpits of seven towns are believed to have
saved the life of Frank Lennox Williams, the little 15 months old son of Mrs.
Fannie Lamb Horton-Williams of this city.
Little Frank Lennox Williams was taken ill with membranous
croup Wednesday, Jan. 28. Double pneumonia developed and the child was
threatened with spinal meningitis. Its fever rose beyond 106 and three
physicians said the child could not live.
It was then that the frantic mother made an appeal to the
churches in every town in which she had friends, for prayers for the recovery
of her child. In the churches of Elizabeth City, Edenton, Plymouth, Washington,
Williamston, Asheville and elsewhere solemn prayers were offered up for the
recovery of this child. Doctors despairingly shook their heads. And then the
child recovered.
The skeptical will say that prayer had nothing to do with
it, but those familiar with the case, members of the family and intimate
friends, believe that prayer alone saved the child’s life.
The illness of little Frank Lennox Williams was peculiarly
tragic because of his history. His father, Frank Lennox Williams, was called to
the colors shortly after his marriage to Miss Fannie Lamb Horton of this city
early in 1918. He was killed in France about a month before the signing of the
armistice and his child was born on the morning of Armistice Day, Nov. 11,
1918, just when the whistles and bells were proclaiming the glad tidings.
Mrs. Williams is a sister of Mrs. J.C.B. Ehringhaus of this
city. The prayers of the seven cities and the astounding recovery of the child
against all odds is the talk of the town.
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