Donny Morton
The attached article, taken from Reader Digest November 1952 (Condensed from Chatelaine, and written by Alma Edwards Smith), tells of the miracle, then heartbreaking passing, of little Donny Morton. It reminds us that God's ways are not our ways, and in everything - good and bad - He has a plan for our lives. This is also a reminder that Donny Morton, like all the other testimonies on this website, was a real person.
 Summary of Testimony
Donny Morton developed a rare brain disease while living on a farm in Saskatchewan. The doctors told his parents that the brain tissue was deteriorating, and he only had six months to live. Donny's father, Arthur, had heard of William Branham through two deaf friend who had been healed during his services, and boarded a bus for California with his ailing child. The author of the Reader's Digest Article records the following about Donny Morton's meeting with William Branham:
William Branham recalls the following about his meeting with Arthur Morton, who had no prayer card:
Arthur Morton did find the doctor who could perform the operation. Donny Morton then survived a series of four brain operations, and was declared by the doctors to be on the sure road to recovery. It was at this time that William Branham was interviewed by doctors from Mayo clinic, who wanted to know what he had done for the child that they couldn't do. William Branham responded "Nothing, I never touched the boy. I only told what God told me to tell him. The man obeyed it." By mid-September Donny Morton was sitting up, and was able to stretch out his arms towards his parents - something he had not been able to do for months. Sadly, Donny contacted pneumonia in October, and passed away on November 2 in his sleep from a combination of pneumonia and meningitis. One of the articles closing comments in the Readers Digest article states: "Skeptics will say, “You see? Miracles don’t happen in the 20th century,” But they are wrong." We agree with the author.
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