Christ had healed in Jerusalem. He had also said, on one occasion: “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me.” He then “laid his hands on them” (Matthew 19:14–15).
The risen Christ is even more dramatic in Bountiful. He has all the children in the congregation brought to him, and he stands in the midst of them as they sit on the ground around him. As this was a request for the children, the adults back away to see what will transpire.