On Her Knees

Walking on bared and bended kneea for a quarter of a mlle along a dusty and stony road may seem a queer way to show one's appreciation of the gifts of God, but that is the way in which Mrs. Loulsa Williams of San Leandro, Cal., annually pays a debt of gratitude to her maker. She recently acoomplished the feat for the sixteenth time. Mrs. Williams is the wife of J. P. Williams, who owns a large fruit farm near San Leandro. Seventeen years ago her husband lost his sight. Eminent ocullsts examlned his eyes and all agreed that he would never see again. Then the wife turned to God. She prayed on her bended knees that He restore her hU3band to sight. She vowed that if her prayer was gr&nted she would walk on her bared knees rom her home to the church in the annual procession of the holy ghost, nat she would feed the poor and care or the distres8ed. Whether or not her jrayers were heard and answered or whether or not visión returned to the linded eyes through some natural cause, the unusual happened. The eyesight of Williams was restored wlthin a few weeks afterward, and today the rulterer sees as well as any man. irs. Williams, her husband, her relaives and all her neighbors believe that ïer prayers and the performance of he vow caused the mlracle to be done. In that belief she has taken her painful journey each year to the church and wlll doubtless continue to take it while the power to travel remaina. It took her over an hour to complete the Journey, the people along the route standing prayerfully by as she slowly passed along. Once in the church the woman, jümost overeóme from exhaustion, prayed for the continuad favor of her Creator.