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ive hardened scientists sat didn't believe that God was any also put a very small microphone,
weeping in a room adjacent more than a conglomeration of about the size of a quarter, in her
Fto that of a patient they were everyone's mind put together, room so that they could hear
testing. They were oblivious to and the good that was there - that anything she might say after
the registrations of the trembling was God, as far as I was con- learning of her impending death.
needle on their instrument dial, cerned. As for the real, all-
spellbound by the flow of prayer powerful God existing and loving "Five of us, hardened scientists -
coming from the tiny microphone us all, with power over every- perhaps I was the hardest of the
in the patient's room. Rather, they thing - I didn't believe that." group and the most atheistic -
were oblivious to the surging were in the adjoining room with
needle until it began to strike the But in the large pathological our instruments," Dr Stowell
post at the far right and to bounce laboratory that day he had an details the experiment, "pre-
repeatedly against it, trying to go experience that gave a jolt to his paring to register and record what room spellbound. They heard her
past it. The clicking sound religious tenets. transpired." ask the Lord God to be merciful to
aroused their attention. those who had spite-fully used
"We chose a lady whose family "Our device had a needle pointing her.
This was not the unknown which had sent her to a mental to zero at the centre of a scale. To
they had set out to discover. But institution, but who had been the right, the scale was calibrated "Then she reaffirmed her faith in
something infinitely more discharged. The doctor could find to 500 points positive. To the left, God," Dr Stowell continued,
exciting and significant. This nothing wrong with her other than the scale was calibrated to 500 "telling Him she knew He was the
experiment was to change the that she had cancer of the brain. points negative. We had only Power and that He was the
entire direction of one scientist's This affected the balance of her previously registered on this living Power. She told God He
life - that of Dr N Jerome Stowell, body only. As far as her alertness identical instrument the electro- always had been and would be
whose account of the experiment of mind was concerned and in magnetic power used by a 50 GOD. She told Him how much she
follows: every other way, she was excep- kilowatt broadcasting-station in loved Him."
tionally brilliant. But we knew she sending a message around the
Engrossed in the beautiful torrent
"We wanted to perform an experi- was on the verge of death, and world. The needle registered
ment to discover what took place she was informed in this research 9 points on the positive side." of prayers escaping the dying
in the brain at the moment of hospital that she was going to woman's lips, the scientists
transition from life to death," Dr die." As the last moments of the completely forgot about their
Stowell recounts. They set up woman patient's life arrived, she experiment.
their experiment in a large patho- Before informing her of this, the began to pray and to praise the
logical laboratory with infinite scientists had attached a tiny Lord. Her prayers were so beau- "We looked at each other and saw
care, using precision instru- pick-up to her brain to ascertain tiful as they came through on the tears streaming down scientific
ments. "I was almost a devout what would take place there in the small microphone that they held faces," Dr Stowell relates. "I had
atheist," Dr Stowell recalls. "I transition from life to death. They the five listening men in the next Continued on p. 9