Among the homes that I visited during my service in the Senate of the United States was the home of President Coolidge, where I was invited several times. I never ate a mouthful of food at his home without a blessing upon it. Prayer was the practice of President Coolidge. The last time I visited him was shortly before his death. I sat by his bedside. We talked over conditions existing in our country, and when I was about to leave, the President said to me: “Senator, there is some plan in your Church, isn’t there, where men administer to the sick and pray for them?” I said, “Yes, Mr. President. We call that administering to the sick.” He said, “Can anyone in the Church administer to anyone outside of the Church?” I told him “Yes.” He said, “Reed, I wish you would administer to me.” I did so, and I want to say to you, my brothers and sisters, I never felt happier in my life than when I laid my hands upon him and asked God to bless him. He was a wonderful man, as nearly all of the American people knew him to be. – Reed Smoot, “Conference Report,” April 1939, Afternoon Meeting, p.56