Healing / Medical Reversal & Remission

Healing of John Morris from Kidney Pain and Vomiting

Published October 18, 2026 at 10:13 AM

1840s · 1849
Stepaside, Pembrokeshire

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John Morris, while traveling in Pembrokeshire, was struck with severe kidney pain, contraction of the bowels, and vomiting after previously rebuking an evil spirit. Despite being in 'frightful tortures' and appearing as if he were going to die, he was healed after elders anointed him with oil and prayed for him. He recovered sufficiently to travel eleven miles home the following morning.

In Their Own Words

“Brother John Morris, of Pembrokeshire, has sent several accounts to us from those parts, from which we quote what follows about himself: — 'Having been in Stepaside Branch, and rebuking an evil spirit out of someone there, I continued on my journey; but before I had gone about one mile, I was taken by terrible pain in my kidneys, and then by a contraction in my bowels and vomiting. I struggled to go on, but I did not think I could reach home like that; and then I decided to turn back to the house of one of the elders, which I reached not without considerable effort. A woman of the world said of me that she thought I was going to die. I looked so bad. The elders were sent for straight away, and until they came I was in frightful tortures, and still vomiting. Then when they had served oil to me, and laid hands on me, and prayed, I came to myself: and the following morning, I journeyed home the distance of eleven miles. I can say boldly, that had I not met with the elders, I would have gone to another world.' — Udgorn Seion (Zion's Trumpet), No. 8 (August 1849) (English translation by Ronald D. Dennis)”

Sources & References

Ronald D. Dennis, trans. and ed., Zion's Trumpet: 1849 Welsh Mormon Periodical (Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University), No. 8 (August 1849). Internet Archive scan: https://archive.org/details/ZionsTrumpet1849WelshMormonPeriodical (account extracted verbatim from the Internet Archive OCR of the published English translation; research confidence: high)

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