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brought a cry of defense from 500,000 citizens who acclaimed him a man of God. President's Secretary, far left, was converted. In the middle are Evang. Erickson and Rev. John C. Jackson, missionary. Right: In spite of heavy persecution, Osborn'r campaigns in Venezuela were a great victory. ~ad!!!a~- New Site Of TVH Headquarters

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HE VOICE OF HEALING announces that it will soon move its head- T quarters to Dallas, Texas. The move seems to be advisable for several reasons. Shreveport printers are unable to handle the growing volume of Below: TVH circulation. Each month the magazine goes into well over a hundred thousand homes, and if we estimate five persons to a family, it means that view; Of bzcilding site ilz Dallas, the magazine directly influences over half a million people. Texas, where work jl15t

The cost of the freight alone, in shipping We regret to announce that our highly magazines from the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, efficient assistant editor, Miss Anna Jeanne Moore, who has been with us since our be- is nearly one half our entire postage charg- ginning, will be learing us in a couple of es. Taxes and other charges are also con- months. She glans to engage in evangelistic siderably higher here than in Dallas. work for several months on the continent of Europe before returning to America. The new offices are to be located at 1600 Bonnie View, which is in the South part of IS the city, just three and a half miles from WHO ELIGIBLE TO BECOME the heart of the business district. As the ASSOCIATED WITH THE picture shows, the property lies in a set- VOICE OF HEALING? ting of trees. At the time of writing, the We get many inquiries from time to time foundation has been laid, and during the as to the qualifications of those who desire coming week, the walls will be in the proc- to become associated with THE VOICE OF ess of erection. The plans envisage a modern HEALING. Briefly we may say that they office building, with approximately 6500 should: (1) Have a mature'healing ministry. square feet of floor space. (2) Be willing to accept and abide by the articles of the constitution. (3) Have a On April 1, the associate editors met at character that is without reproach. (4) St. Louis, Missouri, for the purpose of rati- Be willing to practice the ideals of THE fying our new constitution. After two days VOICE OF HEALING fellowship. (5) La- of prayerful consideration, the constitution, bor for the unity of God's people. (6) Be with certain amendments, was passed unani- willing to help to the best of their ability mously. Besides the two original directors, in increasing the circulation of the maga- five new directors have been added, which zine. (7) Be an evangelist and not a pastor. include Gayle Jackson, Raymond T. Richey, Velmer Gardner, Jack Coe and L. D. Hall. Brother William Branham has graciously OUR BUILDING PROGRAM IN DALLAS accepted the position of honorary director. This gives the directors the benefit of his The new building in Dallas will be a- advice without necessitating his presence at modern office building in every respect and all the business sessions, which he would be , when finished will perhaps have a value of unable to attend, because he is out of the over $30,000.00. Brother Jack Moore is country much of the time. superintending the building, and the editor is giving much his time with the The constitution of TVH provides assur- of job. ance that the unique policies of TVH will Nevertheless, the financial burden of this be nernetuated. No funds from the cor- move is extremely heavy, and we shall ap- pora'tid may go to an individual (except preciate the Prayers and interest of 01.11 in the payment of salaries) but must be readers in this undertaking. We are cer- Plan Now to Attend used in the promotion of the Gospel. tain God will see us through. 4fh Annual I t S t Voice of Healing C INDEX ic IS VOL. IV WHOLE NO. 51 Convention Articles Page Articles Page

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PHE VOICE OF HEALING June, 195 THE BRANHAM STORY TESTED BY C. P. A. INVESTIGATOR The following remarkable letter tells the interesting story of J. H. Buzzell, a C.P.A. Specialist who decided to launch an impartial investigation into the authenticity of the Branham story. This unsolicited account of Mr. Buzzell’s findings will open the eyes of many doubters.

The Voice of Healing of August 27th with these words, ‘The ex- his condition, the uselessness of one of his Shreveport, Louisiana planation of the actiom of the ‘demon possess- legs, the left as I recall it. Gentlemen: ed’ man, and his quotations from the Bible An eye-witness told me of his having at- While I have always believed that the prom- explaining it, was most interesting to me?’ tended the Kansas City meetings. He told how ise of Christ should be fulfilled, that “These In appreciation of this reporter’s work I a woman near death from tuberculosis was i I brought by stretcher a distance of one hundred signs shall follow those that believe-they forwarded him a copy of the book. mention shall lay hands on the sick and they shall re- this because it had a bearing on future ac- and fifty miles to attend the meetings. She cover”, I felt that due to man’s failure to avail tions on my part, upon which I shall touch was placed in a wheel chair and when after himself of this gift through the centuries it a little further along. two days her case had not been reached, her had perhaps become lost. husband, with the aid of some of the men, I confirmed the healing of Mr. Daugherty’s lifted her bodily, chair and all. on to the Of course, from time to time I had heard daughter in St. Louis, as described on pages platform. Upon seeing her, Mr. Branham of “cures” but when an attempt to trace them 86 and 87; I confirmed the healing of Miss wheeled and said something like this, “Wom- down was made, it developed that the person Carter, as told on page! 200, and have Miss an, your faith has healed you,” and he turned who had reported them had not personally Carter’s letter stating that she is now “well and to the husband and said, “Sir, your faith has seen them, that it was a friend, and when that happy today”. healed your wife”, and then, turning back to lead was followed it was found to have been The Waukegan News-Sun, of Waukegan, the woman he commanded in the name of a friend of a friend who had seen it, until the Michigan, sent me clippings from their paper Christ that the illness leave her. The eye-wit- evidence became so far removed ,,that it telling of Mr. Branham’s visit to that town, dropped into the category of mere rumor”. ness told me that the woman jumped from the Jelfersonville Post, of Jeffersonville, In- her chair and walked two or three times With this background, when my wife se- diana, sent me a copy of their publication of across the platform, with her arms in the air, cured a copy of the book “William Branham, November 3, 1949, telling of Mr. Branham’s doubtless in a gesture of thanksgiving. This A Man Sent from God,” I read it, and as we visit there. man tells me that from all over the auditorium were scheduled to be at our summer home in Another case which I investigated was that one could see the flesh reappear on her arms, New Hampshire for the next two weeks I of a man in Calgary, Alfa., Canada, who had limbs and cheeks, and see the clothes swell decided to check the accuracy of the reports. an injured vertebrae disk. The incident is de- out as the body regained its weight. The next While I little like the needless display of scribed on page 162. I checked with a sur- day she appeared before the meeting and an- titles, yet it perhaps is not out of place for geon that only surgery could help such a nounced that within the past twenty-four me to call attention to the fact that one of case. I wrote the “Albertan”, one of Calgary’s hours she had gained twenty-eight pounds. my profession has to be accurate in the ex- newspapers, and received a reply from Mr. One branch of my business is that of busi- treme and must be well versed in making S. McClelland, Assistant Circulation Manager, ness counselor and in that capacity I naturally checks of facts and figures, rather than take in which he told me that their supply of the have to get into the labor situation. I observed some one else’s “say-so”. This education and particular edition I desired had become ex- a newspaper article by a New Hampshire man training stood me in good stead in such an hausted, but he had his stenographer give me which I thought to be erroneous and I wrote investigation as I was about to undertake. an excerpt of the case of Mr. John Andre, him correcting it. He received the correction forty-six years of age, an excerpt which covered I started my quest in utmost good faith. I very graciously and from that sprang a cor- about an entire page of single space typing. respondence which branched out into other purposely kept my mind “open”, ready to ac- I must say that the response of the newspapers knowledge the accuracy of the events narrated matters. in the west and northwest was amazing to me. Earlier in this letter I have said that send- or face refutation of the incidents. I picked Furthermore it indicates to me that no one had what I considered a reasonable ‘*cross section” ing the book to the reporter gave me an idea. previously been sufficiently interested to check That idea was to prepare a short foreword of the events and started my work. any of the events as I was doing. Numbered among what I considered a fair for the book, reproduce it on one of my I have also read Mr. Upshaw’s statement machines and place a copy in the front of each ‘kross section” was the incident recounted on in which he tells of his miraculous cure. I page 21. I wrote to the Chief of Police in book that I loaned, and I had decided that heard Mr. Upshaw many years ago and recall the loan of this book was perhaps the best Portland, Ore.,.inasmuch as it mentioned two him distinctly because of the pitifulness of police officers as having been at the meeting. method of home missionary work that I could I was told by the chief that he was forbidden do. Up to date I have purchased fifty of the books for this purpose. Some are returned, by law to exchange information on any other The book spoken of than criminal work, and then only with other some are not. properly accredited law enforcement agencies. In the course of events I supplied one such in this article is book to the newspaper correspondent to I felt, for some reason, that this was an whom I made reference just above, and evi- event that I wished to investigate. It repre- advertised on page 23. dently he, in turn, mentioned the case to an- sented two possible extremes. If it were un- other newspaper correspondent, and you can true it offered what one would term a “ridi- (Continued on page 21) culous’’ narrative. On the other hand, if it could be substantiated it would be an out- standing factor. Therefore I tried another ap- proach. I wrote to one of the Bostdn papers for the name of Portland’s newspapers and received a reply stating that there were but two, one a weekly, the other an evening paper. I wrote to both, outlining enough of the re- port to identify it and the Oregon Journal as- signed a reporter to the case that I might be given an accurate, first hand report. This, it seemed to me, was an unusual procedure, and one which I appreciated. That reporter con- tacted various people until he found an eye witness, and that witness recounted to the reporter what he had seen, a recital which in all important details coincided with the book‘s outline. That reporter ended his letter Pictured behind their wives in a scene taken dur- ing a recent 3-day Branham Meeting in the Life Tabernacle in Shreveport are Bro. Branham, Editor Gordon Lindsay, and Pastor Jack Moore; at right is the Assistant Editor, Miss Moore. , THE VOICE OF HEALING June, 1952 1 SOMEis SAY THAT THE BAPTISM OF TH€ HOLY GHOST RECEIVEDBY THE LAYING ON OF HANDS, BUT OTHERS SAY WE SHOULD STICK BY ”THE GOOD OLD WAY“ OF “TARRYING“ UNTIL WE RECEIVE. IS THE CORRECT METHOD? mswm age of one hundred and twenty, “his eye was Receiving The HoEy Ghost not dim, nor his natural force abated.” (Deut. One of the great distinctions between man’s of PeBtecost 34:7). The richest experiences with God come ways and God’s is that if man had his way, on The Day to those who set apart time to wait upon he would have everybody go through the On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit Him. same cookie-cutter. On’the other hand, God, was given without any laying on of hands, 3. What we have said, however, is some- while holding to basic principles, has a cer- but the Spirit came “as a sound from heaven thing entirely different than the so-called end- - tain variation in the manner in which He as of a rushing mighty wind.” (Acts 2:2). less begging for the Holy Spirit. Man can- deals with different individuals. There is also Likewise at the House of Cornelius the Spirit not earn the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. He a difference of ministries. This is brought out was given without any human ’instrumentality cannot make himself more holy. The Holy by Paul who says in 1 Cor. 12:4; “Nqw there being used, other than the preaching Df Ghost is already on earth and does not have are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. Peter. (Acts 1044-45). to be prayed down out of heaven. If the And there are differences of administrations, However, in several other distinct pJaces, individuai has truly reFnted and made a full but the same Lord. And there are diversities of the Holy Spirit was given by the ministry of consecration to God, he is ready to receive operations, but it is the same God which laying on of hands. This -was true in Samaria the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. There is worketh all in all.” We shall, therefore, find (Acts 8:14-17). This was the case with Paul no need for a long waiting period. He is to that the Holy Spirit is not always ministered receiving his baptism. (Acts 9:ll-17). Again, understand that the Holy Ghost is ready to to the people in exactly the same way. hands were laid upon certain men in Ephesus, come into his heart the moment that he is It has been said that “the Old Testament by the Apostle Paul, and they received the ready to receive Him. is the New concealed, while the New Testa- Holy Ghost. (Acts 19:6). One of the gravest mistakes that people ment is the Old revealed.” It is generally un- IS THERE ANY PREFERENCE IN THE make is the idea that God will hear them for derstood among Bible students that the pattern TWO METHODS WHICH ARE ESPECIAL- their long prayers, or much repetition. One of many things in the New Testament is found LY MENTIONED IN THE NEW TESTA- of the hst things that Jesus said about praye: in the Old. Favored individuals in Old Testa- MBNT. BY WHICH PEOPLE RECEIVED was, “But when ye pray, use not vain repeti- ment days received the Holy Spirit, although THE HOLY GHOST? THE ANSWER IS tions, as the heathen do; for they think that it is evident that they received it not in the POUND IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF they shall be heard for their much speak- same degree as it has been given since the THE CASE: ing.” (Matt. 6:7). It is wonderful to see a Ascension of Christ. (John 7:37-39). 1. Whether hands are laid upon people to sinner thoroughly repent even as the publican, receive the Holy Ghost or otherwise, it is es- who beat upon his breast, saying, “God, be HOW DID PEOPLE RECEIVE THE HOLY sential that they prepare their hearts for the merciful to me a sinner.” (Luke 18:13). But SPIRIT IN OLD TESTAMENT DAYS? Moses experience. The Holy Ghost is given to those there came a time when the publican had to went up into the Mount and tarried before that obey Him. (Acta 532). A careless Christian do something else. He had to.go down to his the Lord forty days, and when he came down needs to do some deep searching of heart, house believing he was justi6ed. Long ag- his face shone with the glory of God, so if he is to bring his life into an attitude of onizing prayers, begging for salvation, once great was the power of the Spirit upon him. full obedience to God. Paul enjoins to “lay repentence has had opportunity to it- (Bxod. 34:29). God then used him to minister express In hands suddenly on no man.” (1 Tim. 5:22). The self, only discredits the grace of God which the Spirit to others. the case of the Seventy hundred and twenty received the Holy Ghost is given freely to whosoever will. Likewise in Elders, God took of the Spirit that was upon after they had spent days in prayer and wait- the matter of healing, people who go about Moses and gave to the Seventy. (Numbers 11: ing upon God. (Acts 1:14), The Lord allowed day by day, begging God to heal them, and at 16-17). But on Joshua, Moses laid his hands Paul to wait in prayer and fasting three days the same time refusing to believe God’s word and the Spirit of wisdom came upon him. before He sent Ananias to lay hands upon that He meets them then and there, usually (Deut 34:9). , him. (Acts 99-11). Cornelius was in prayer and don’t get healed. Healing is a gift; it must Saul received the Holy Spirit as a band of fasting at three o’clock in the afternoon, when be taken and appropriated. I prophets prophesied. (I Sam. 1054). Samuel the angel appeared directing him to Peter, Likewise is it in the matter of the Bsp- ’ took a horn of oil and anointed David and through whose ministry he received the Holy tism of the HoIy Ghost. When the heart is the Spirit came upon him. (1 Sam. 16:13). Ghost. The angel said, “Thy prayers and Thine ready, God is ready. No long, agonizing sea- A double portion of the Spirit came upon alms are come up for a memorial before God.” sons of waiting for the blessing to come are Elijah as tbe latter saw Eliiah being caught (Acts 10:4). The disciples at Ephesus had re- necessary. The Holy Ghost is ready to come up to heaven. (I1 Kings 29-14), ceived the searching teaching of John the in without further delay. Baptist before Paul laid hands upon them and Naturally God has His times and places. , Variozcs Ways in Which ministered to them. the Holy Ghost. (Acts One is not apt to receive the Holy Ghost in 19~3-4). an atmosphere of doubt and unbelief. He needs God Heals People 2. There needs to be a complete surrender to be with those that have faith. God ha5 of the life to the Lord, if one is to receive His spetial ministries also. Though mighty Notice, by way of illustration, the various a satisfying experience with God. Saul re- miracles took place under tbe ministry of ways in which the healing virtue of the Spirit ceived the Holy Spirit without any real Philip, yet apparently he did not have the of God is administered, First, by the laying prepf:ation in spiritual things. With him it ministry of the Spirit. When Peter and John on of bands. (Mark 1618) Secod, by the was easy come”, and, alas, later it turned came down they laid hands upon the people anointing with oil and the prayer of faith. out to be “easy go.” (I Sam. 16:14). The and they received the Baptism. Where the (James 5:13-15) Third, by the spoken Word Spirit of the Lord left him and an evil spirit heart is hungry, and such a ministry is present, of God. (Psa 107:20) (Matt. 8:s-10) PouHfi, took the place. the Scriptures teach that the normal way to by means of cloths which have touched the On the other hand, when Elisha desired receive the Holy Ghost is through the laying bodies of those who have special faith for a double portion of the Spirit, bliiah told on of hands. The fact is that many thousands healing. (Acts 19:ll-12) (Matt. 9:21) Fifth, him he had asked a hard thing. (I1 Kings these days are receiving the Holy Ghost by by some special point of faith contact, as the 210). He knew that there were great de- the laying on-of hands. Where sound Scrip- shadow of Peter. (Acts 5:12-16) Six& by a cisions of soul that needed to be made, and tural teaching goes with it, there can be no look, as the children of Israel who were healed not every one was prepared to make them. objection to this Biblical method. However, by looking at the Brazen serpent. (Numbers However, Elisha was prepared-whatever the neither should we in any way deprecate the 21:s) Seventh, by command, as Peter’s com cost, he must have the Blessing. The double Baptism of the Holy Ghost received without mand to the lame man to “rise up and walk. portion came, and the blessing remained, the laying on of hands. Either way it is God glory. (Acts 3:6). There are other means by which without interruption, during a long life, which who gets all the (Tbe laying on of hunh is God has healed people, but enough has been was marked by unique blessing and power. for Gifts an entirely diffemnt matter rrnd mentioned to show the diversity of methods Moses’ forty days before God on the Mount was discussed in Questions ad Ansums in by which God works. lifted him into a realm of faith that, at the the February issue.)

4 THE VOICE OF HEALING June, 1952 In the seated crowd before him, squeez- ed into the benches where the legislators used to sit, were many camouflaged hel- mets or caps, and most were keeping them on their heads because of the occasional showers of broken glass. When MacArthur said, “In humble and devout manifestation of gratitude to Al- migdty God for bringing this decisive (Brother Raymond T.I Richey did chap- victory to our arms, I ask that all present filain work in World and beld special rise and join me in reciting the meetings in World War I1 visiting 256 Lord‘s is Prayer,” he signalled with his hands for training centers and still carrying on the crowd to stand. this work. He is now placing one million mind of God in prayer, for guidance, to avert this slaughter of American boys. There was the rumbling shuffle of copies of a little booklet, “What Must By what is regarded as one of the wisest many getting to their feet such as you 1 Do To Be Saved” into the hands of the strokes in military history, he led forces might hear in church. Off came the cam- service men and ivomen to be carried by water above the Communist hordes, ouflaged helmets, the canvas caps, the with a’New Testament. His article on attacked, divided them and cut their snappy blue Air Force hats, the Navy General MacArthur’s *aye reflects his caps. Every head was bowed. interest in the boys of the awned services. armies to pieces. -Editor‘s Note) Then a few days later, heading a cav- MacArthur’s voice uttered the words alcade of American and Korean officials, which have come down the ages, slowly by Rev. Raymond T. Rir&ey newspapermen and photographers, he en- and with great feeling. The crowd went The Lord’s Prayer has been repeated tered Seoul for the purpose of turning along with him in a low murmur. At under many strange and varied circum- the.city back to its rightful owners. the conclusion, “For Thine is the king- stances, but never in more grim and dra- He began his address by a reference to dom, the power and the glory, for ever ’. . I matic surroundings than at Seoul, Korea, the mercies of God and concluded with and ever. Amen”, MacArthur’s voice be- after General MacArthur’s victory at Pu- the Lord’s Prayer. came strained with emotion. san. General George Kenney, who was pres- There was another pause and”Mac- ’ . The date was September 29, 1950. The ent, says: “You are impressed when you Arthur motioned for the men to be seated.. , ’. is hour, shortly before noon. The place, the hear MacArthur mention God. He On went ,the helmets and caps again,,, , :; war-torn, half demolished Capitol build- deeply religious and his sincerity is so as there was another tinkle of fhling ”.’’ 7 , ...... ! . ing at Seoul. Fires were still burning in evident that you realize at once that here glass. . ,’. .. ,..die LA ‘I the city. Fighting was going on ten miles is no pose. The reverence is not there I like to feel that despite the. awfyli -- f’ away. as a matter of form. It is there because times in which we live, that thtie” Hrg ‘‘ Only a few days earlier, “the red armies General MacArthur believes in* God.” . still leaders on the histori~al~:scene.’~vB~.“.~! were pressing for a Dunkirk that threat- Coming to that part of his address believe in God, the Word of God and ened to drive our out-numbered forces . where he was about to lead in prayer, really pray. This fact is a ray of hope, . into the sea. the General hesitated for a long, solemn a bright light in an otherwise clouded-- General MacArthur had sought the moment. sky. . _.

you really think, speaking man to man, about this know my own heart. “I myself also am a man” business of death?’ He was an utterly honest ag- (Am !0:26) said, in conversation, the first of all nolac. I will not repeat my reply, except to say dynamic Pentecostal preachers. Let us cherish our Donald Gee Co/umn that in tryin to meet sincerity with sincerity I mental, moral and spiritual manhood, lest profea- was left wit% plenty of material for searchina sionalism in the pulpit ruins our souls. of heart. ‘God is merciful. If He demanded the full meas- The pulpit has shocking dangers. The preacher ure of consistency with our own messages from knows what the eople WANT him to say:, he gets those of us who preach then who could stand? swept along by $e excitement of the occasion, and The Holy Spirit does a pear to bless most gra- even by the glory of the intrinsic truth of the word. ciously in s ite of our taility. Our hearts know Almost certainly it was my uneasy conscience He dare preach no other faith. But what the min- their own kttdness in this matter. What shall that impressed upon me a passap I read the other ,ister REALLY believes in his own heart stands we do about this awful gap between our best day in a asmrs frank confessions-There is a revealed when he finds himself in precisely the sermons and our best living? “Seek to live up to world of &Terence between preaching to a crowd same sition as those to whom he has preached. our preaching”-assuredly, by Gods grace. But and talking to an individual. I brought Jimmy Let alrpreachers of divine healing take note! meanwhile, are we to quit preaching? Or are we Lake home’to su per after the evening service We talk of “dynamic” reaching .as something to ,drag our preaching down m fhe level of our and he took up tge subject of my sermon. And oratorically. or emotionalg. or even ohvsicallv livinx? Not. as I think. necessardy. Let us con- immediately I caught myself toning down my powerful. rs it? Are not thd ‘truly dynamrc preach- tinu< to prekch the truth as God Sves us to see own bold pulpit utterance. Up on the rosuum.it is ers and teachers the rather that choice company of the truth, even though the vision soars far beyond so easy to contrast things in black and white and God-anointed men who so thoroughly believe their our present atmnment. to thunder *no corn romise!’ But face to face with‘ own message that it is absolutely a part of them- But let OUT pulpit utterances continually be an individual cau$ up in the strains and ten- selves? With vem few. if any. of the tricks of checked, and corrected, and purified, and fortified sions of daily life one sees so clearly the difficul- oratory, there is in what they-day a sqlid, mighty by what we have to sap on the same themes in ‘ties he is UD apat’nst that one is temDted to SUP- impact of living truth that changes lives all the ordinary conversation with ordinary people (NOT gest an easier course than the one Offered from time. It is the force of deep sincerity. Truly dp with other preachers). We need not aim at speak- the ulpit.” namic preaching of the word, as distinct from ing from our pul its as we would from our hearth- Tiat, 1 confess, is exanly my own experience as mere pulpit theatricals, leaves behind it ao im- rugs, any more tfan we want a man to speak on a preacher. On several occasions it has occurred pressive record of lasting work accomplished in bis hearthrug as he will from his ulpit. What we with res ect tn people’s marriage tangIes. It was the hearts and lives of those who hear it. But this DO desire is always a passionate Besire to be true. brought tome to me in a humiliating way not long genuinely Pentecostal power of the Spirit of truth The Spjrit of truth will most certainly be our ! ago after I had preached a bold sermon on the never remains with a man who is not prepared to Helper in ths. and thereby lead us to that promis- “Life that is to come.” A businessman called to. be truthful with himself. .My private conversations, ed Power which to many is,still a pulpit illusion see me and suddenly said quite frankly, “What to rather than my pulpit utterances, will help me to rather than a saving fact. Below: Rev. Jack Coe stands beneath the large neon sign in front of the elevated acreage south of Dallas where his Children‘s Home Is located. Ofece building shown at right houses facilities for handling of radio programs. mail, etc. Radio schedules on page 6. ADDRESS DIRECTORY We list in this directory the names of those The Jack Coe Herald Of Healing Broadcast Schedules who we believe have a proven Divine Healing ministry, and who are laboring in harmony with the policy of THE VOICE OF HEALING to 1 unite in spirit the members of the body of Christ,. I City Station KC and whose lives are above reproach. Carthage, Mo. KDMO; 1490 Monday-Friday 1O:OO AM A. A. Allen, 1004 S. 14th St., Lamar, Colo. Monett, Mo. KRMO 990 Monday-Friday 10:15 AM G. 0. Baker, Box 386, Medford, Ore. Springfield, Mo. KICK 1340 Monday-Friday 8:30 AM William Branham, Box 325, Jeffersonville, Ind. F. F. Boswortb, Box 678, Miami Beach, 39, Fla. Oklahoma City, Okla. KBYE 890 Monday-F rida y 1O:OO AM Paul Cain, 516 Park Avenue, Garland, Texas. TuIsa, Okla. KOME 1300 Monday-Friday 6:15 AM Oscar Capers, 709 Hood St., Waco, Texas. Rudy Cerdlo, 1848 E. Orleans, Philadelphia, Pa. Lufkin, Texas ~ KRBA. 1340 Monday -Friday 10:15 AM Jack Coe, Box 8596, Dallas, Texas. 8:30 McKinney, Texas KMAE 1600 Monday-Friday AM David du Plessis, Box 342, Glenbrook, Conn. Clifton Erickson, Rt. 8, Box 598B, Springfield, Floydada, Texas KFLD 900 Monda y-Frida y 8:45 AM 9:45 Mo. . Biloxi, Mississippi WVMI 810 Morida y-Friday AM Velmer Gardner, Route 3, Box 272E, Springfield, Miami, Florida WMBM 800 Monday -Friday 6:41 AM MO. Magnolia, Ark. KVMA 630 Monday-Friday 8:11 AM W. V. Grant, 711 N. Main, Malvern, Ark. Philip N. Green, Box 471, Port Tampa City, Fla. Osceola, Ark. KOSE 860 Monday- Friday 8:45 AM Vernon Griggs, Box 205, Hamilton, Mont. West Memphis, Tenn. KWEM 990 Monday-Friday 8:11 AM L. D. Hall, Box 697, Grants Pass, Oregon. Dale Hanson, Box 795, Tacoma, Washington. Ft. Smith, Ark. KFSA 950 Sunday Only 9:45 PM H. E. Hardt, 467 Penn Ave., York, Penna. Little Rock, Ark. , KGHI 1210 Sunday Only 10:11 PM Wilbur A. Henry, 1905 Welta Water Rd., Med- 4:30 ford, Oregon. Lodi, Calif. KtC V R 1570 Sunday Only PM - Tommy Hicks, Lancaster, Calif. Hutchinson, Kansas KWBW Sunday Only 8:OO AM R. W. Holmes, Box 3213, Temple, Texas, Tyler, Texas KTBB 600 Sunday Only 7:45 AM Harold Horton, 18910 Wormer, Detroit, Micb. Fern Huffstutler, 1151 No. Cheyenne, Tulsa, Okla. Beaumont, Texas KPBX 1380 .Sunday Only 7:30 AM Gavle Jackson. 46 Lark St., New Orleans. La. U.'S. Jaeger, Box 511, Mirror Lake, Wash. 0. L. Jaggers, Dexter, Mo. Eerdie C. Jay, Route 4, Wenatchee, Wash. Richard Jeff ery, 6590 Hessel Road, Sebastopal,, -OLD TIM€ 1 1 Calif. CAMP MELTING SPECIAL NOTICE! Thea F. Jones, Box 451, Cleveland, Tenn. to be held at I I S. W. Karol, Box 61, Linden, N. J. HERALD OF HEALING Orrin Kingsriter, Paynesville, Minn. THE VOICE OF HEALING off i- Herbert H. Leonard, Box 1372, Warn, Texas. CHILDREN'S HOME ces are soon to be moved to Dallas, Gordon Lindsay, c/o Voice of Healing, Shreve- DALLAS, TEXAS port, La. SEPT. 8-22 Texas. Persons interested in mak- $1,000 Warren L. 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\ ASSOCIATE EDITORS THE VOICE OF HEALING Calif. A. A. Allen Gayle Jackson Shreveport, Louisiana A. C. Valdez, Jr., 3817 No. Central, Phoenix, Ariz. Richard R. Vinyard, 7817 W. 81st St., Overland F .F. Bosworth 0. L. Jaggers William Branham Harvey McAlister Park, Kansas. Jack Coe Louise Nankivell EVANGELISTS' EXCHANGE William A. Ward, Box 6i5, Tulsa, Okla. hlijdred Wicks, Box 7334, Dallas, Texas. Clifton Erickson Wilbur Ogilvie FOR SALE: A. A. Allen's 100' tent. C. Velmer Gardner T. L. Osborn x 200' Doyle Zachary, Box 333, Greenville. S. Less than 2 years old. Fireproof, canvas in Clair M. Brooks, Box 213, Springfield, Mo. W. V. Grant A. C. Valdez, Jr. good condition, but has a number of patches. Dale Hanson Richard Vinyard Picture of this tent can be seen on page 11 Alton L. Hayes, 11699 Denton Dr., Dallas, Texas. H. E. Hardt Mildred Wicks of April TVH. Price $2,500.00. Write A. A. Fern Huffstutler Doyle Zachary . Allen, 1104 14th, Lamar, Colo. ATTENTION,. BRITISH SUBJECTS! Raymond T. Richey S. FOR SALE: 1946 Chevrolet truck. Has a- We have arranged for those living in countriu SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS special insulated plyboard lined steel furni- where English money is used to obtain our magazine8 ture van type body. 10 wheels with tag- and Gordon Lindsay books from the following: Donald Gee David du Plessis alongs. Tires good. Cost $7,000 new. Will BIBLE TRACT DEPOT Howard Rusthoi sell for $1995. Has new 1951 motor. Guar- 219 MARY ST. Due to a mistake, Rev. 0. L. Jaggers' name did anteed. Write A. A. Allen, 1004' s. 14th, BALSALL HEALTH, not appear with the associate editors last month. Lamar, Colo. BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND I 8 THE VOICE OF HEALING June, 19521 , HEALING CAMPAIGN SCHEDULES OF ASSOCIATE EDITORS AND EVANGELISTS USING SPECIE1 EDITIONS A. A. ALLEN W. V. GRANT LOUISE NANKIVELL Greenville, Mississippi ______May 16-June 1 Rlalvern, Arkansas ...... June 15 Dayton, Ohio ...... May 26-June 8 Area-Wide Tent Meeting, Located at Chairman: Rev. David Perice Memorial Hall, Contact Rev. I. Phillips, highway intersection # 82 & # 1. 1420 E. Fourth Street. Louisville, Ky...... June 6-30 H. E. HARDT Contact W. G. Hinecker, 2115 Garland Chatham, Ontario, Can..... May -15-June 1 WILBUR OGILVIE Tent at Algonquin Parkway & Wilson Evangel Tabernacle, Victoria & Barthe Indianapolis, Ind...... July 29-Aug. 3 Contact: Rev. Don A. Emmons, Rome, Georgia ...... May 24-June 15 Contact: Wm. Totman, 6562 Carrolton 38 Victoria. Tent Meeting, Pastor Verna Flanders, Chairman Woodriver, Illinois ...... Aug. 8-Sept. 31 Auburn, New York ...... :....June 5-June 22 Contact M. M. Brewer, 76 Jennings Ave. Indiana Dist. Camp Meeting Tent located at Grant and Lansing June 27-July 6 RUDY CERULLO Contact: Rev. Leon Miles, 101 N. St. Assembly of God Camp Meeting, Near Bridgewater, Maine _._____.July13-27 Hartford City, Rev. Roy Weed, Aroostic Co. Camp Meeting Geneva, New York ...... June 26-July 20 Chairman Contact Rev. Harold Bither Tent located on Circus Grounds 10 Park Ave., Houlton, Maine. Contac;: Rev. G. L. Hubbard,, T. L; OSBORN 5 Genesee Park JACK COE’ San Antonio, Texas’...... May 22 Winston Salem, N. C...... )...... June 2 Under Big Tent (“For Spanish Only”) Rev. Salter, 3306 Thomasville St., FERN HUFFSTUTLEQ Chairman Petersborough, Ontario, Canada, Tulsa, Okla...... July 7-Aug. 1 , Kow in Progress A. C. VALDEZ, JR. Rev. J. R. Keith, Chairman London, England ...... June & July Springfield, Mo. .___I...... Aug. 11-Sept. 6 GAYLE JACKSON Rev. J. L. Schaffer, Chairman RICHARD VINYARD New Orleans, La..... Currently in progress CLIFTON ERICKSON Large auditorium on Airline Highway Bloomsburg, Penn...... June 8-July Topeka, Kansas ...... June right behind Alamo Plaza Courts. Con- Bloomsburg Airport, 11 Churches coop- Contact: Rev. Claude J. Utley tinuing for several weeks. People coming erating Contact: Rev. Kenneth C. Clark 426 Scotland Avenue from a distance can be sure of being N.Y.-N.J. Dist. Assembly of God Lakeview Camp Meeting..July 26-Aug. 10 ministered to. Camp Meeting ...... July 17-Aug. 3 Contact: Rev. Paul R. Buckwalter, 688-Tonawanda, Buffalo 7, N. Y. STANLEY W. KAROL Sherbourn, N.Y., Mountain View Gospel Camp. Contact: Olof Olsen, 97 Silver, .VELMER GARDNER Chelsea, Mass...... June 10th Norwich, N.Y. First Pentecostal Church, 113 Hawthorn Mansfield, Ohio ...... May 23-June 13 Binghamton, N. Y ...... Aug. IO-Sept. Tent Meeting: Richland Co. Fairgrounds Pastor Levi Storms on Springmill Road. Hazelton, Penn...... July 8 DOYLE ZACHARY Ft. Wayne, Indiana...... _...... July 30 Contact: Rev. W. Caldwell, 5 Park Circle, Omaha, Nebraska ...... October Conyngham, Penn. Greer, S. C...... June

~~ ~ OTHER HEALING CAMPAIGN SCHEDULES ORRIN KINGSRITER Mishawaka. Indiana July 6-21 G. 0. BAKER In Tent, Rev. F. L. Deckard, Chairman Waynesboro. Miss ...... Currently in progress Menomonie, Wis...... CanceIled Mercersburg. Penna. Aug. 8-24 Union Tent Meeting, HWY. 63 Glen Ullin. N. D...... :..May 29-June 8 In Tent Pastor Arthur Klaus, Box 538 Chirlotte, N. C. - Sept 2-21 PHILIP N. GREEN , St. Paul. Minn...... June 12-22 Dorant, Florida Oct. 9 Full Gospel Assembly, 734 Edgarton Overseas MayJuly Rawlins. Wyoming ...... June 29-July 13 RUSSELL PARK England, Wales. Scotland, Ireland. France Enumdaw. Washington ...... July 20-Aug. 10 B. Grant’s Pass, Oregon Aug. 10 Montrase. Colorado June 26 VERNON GRIGGS HERBERT LEONARD Tent Revival, Contact: Ralph A. Durham. BOX 22 Hartshornc, Oklahoma ...... June 1 Cando, N. D...... Aug. 3 Tent Meeting, Cont. Geo. MeGee HOMER PETERSON Tent. Contact: Rev. L. I. Lahlance Rev. North Tonaaanda, N. Y...... July Portsmouth. Virginia May 2-81 ALTON L. HAYES Union Tent Meeting, Rev. €I.C. Cooper, chairman Tent Meeting, Gosport Road & Airline Turnpike, Pastor Homer Peterson. Jr. Salinas. Calif. 18-June 1 WARREN L. LITZWAN Arroyo Grande, Calif...... San Angelo. Teras ...... June 6 ORAL ROBERTS Assembly of Cod Tent Campaign, sponsored by Full Gospel Churches Rev. W. M. Dunn. Chairman Toronto, Canada June 13-29 WILBUR A. HENRY I Waeo Texas...... July 2 Des Moinea. lows July 11-27 Sueanville. CdE...... Now in progreass Tent ’Campaign, sponsored by Assembly of God. Seattle. Wmhington Aug. 16-31 High School Auditorium 18th & Pine Street, Pastor H. G. Weathers L. C. ROBIE U. S. JAEGER S. K. MABRY Olean. XU. Y. June 16 Helsinki, Finland June 10 Earriaon, Arkansas Now in progress Rev. Roy Nylin. Pastor Norway, Sweden ...... July Tent meeting Springville. N. Y ...- __...____.,..Aun. 17 Springfield, Mo...... June 8 Poughkeepsie, N. Y .______. Sept. 16 FERDIE JAY Tent meeting. Pastor Earl Sage c. . ’ HOWARD RUSTHOI Tenino. Washington June &June 29 ...... MICHAEL MASTRO South Bend, Indiana June 1-22 Pastor John Stavros Monroeville, Ala...... July 13 Renton, Washington ...... July 22-Aug. 10 J. South Bend Goepel Tabernacle, ’ Union tent meeting. Rev. 1.Johnson, Chairman 2315 S. Michigan. Pastor Nelson Hinman ’ Lincoln D. Wyman, Pastor Walthill, Nebraska ...... AUK. 13-31 HARVEY &IC ALISTER - Centralis; Wash. - July 20-Aug. 10 Minneapolis, Minnesota ...... Sept. 3-28 Rochester, N. T...... June 29-July 6 A. M. SELNESS Full Gospel Temple Rev. Benjamin Baur, 34 Lawn Street Milwaukee, Wise. ... 2...... June 4-22 THEA F. JONES W. B. MC .KA4Y Glad Tidings Gospel Center, 2710 N. 4th St. Big Stone Gap. Va...... May 24-June 9 Erie, Penna ...... June 6-29 Stafford Anderson, Pastor Williamson, W. Va...... June 14-19 Big Tent on US. Hwy. 20. Chairman: Rev. John WM. D. UPSHAW Bluefield, W. Va...... July 6-20 T. Reed. TeleDhDne Gir. 355. 13 Churches monsor- Sweden Yay 16-June 16 SpringBeld, Ohio ...... July 26-Aug. 10 ...in=- meetines-.~~- .- TVH lists all information available concerning meeting schedules. If we show only one date regarding a campaign, that is the beginning date - most campaigns run at least two weeks, or longer. Further information concerning date and location should be secured by writing local pastors, or evangelists listed in our directory. NOTICE! TVH cannot assume the full responsibility of directing people to these campaigns. Sometimes a meeting is cancelled or postponed ’after our magazine has gone to press.

THE VOICE OF HEALING June, 1952 7 MINISTER MIRACULOUSLY HEALED OF TUBERCULOSIS IN WICKS MEETING f I STA RTLI G’ N Ab I AND AMAZING

CELESTIAL BEING NOTICE - TO READERS RESCUES ENGINEER FROM HOTEL FIRE I. Send us your account of an out- standing answer to prayer. These (Editor‘s mote: The LosM. Angeles Examiner, March 25, 1952 {9 A. edition) headlined the story of a hotel fire which took eight liues shall not necessarily be about heal- and from which the engineer and his wife in ing, but along lines of startling inci- the incident below were saved by a celestial ’ being; uccording to his testimony). dents involving unusual answers to .Rev. and Mrs. L. V. Peterson ENGINEER SAVED FROM HOTEL FIRE BY prayer. Historical incidents of Di- 0 CELESTIAL BEING “I vine providence involving noted was awakened about 2:30 A.I M. in the hotel room where my wife and were stop c ha r a ct e rs of history we Ic ome d. ping for the night A fire had broken out on TWOyears ago last winter be doctor the third floor and was racing upward at a Give source of information of such called me aside in the General Hospital and terrific rate. I got up and closed the door advised me to send my husband to the Glen and opened the window to the street. My incidents. wife fainted. She regained consciousness for a Lake Sanitorium. Tuberculosis! moment and I told her that we could not go 2. Articles should not exceed 600 When I returned to my husband‘s bedside, out.the door for the hallway was full of fire. he, who had used his voice for 20 years preach- I felt that the end had come for both of us, words. but I prayed and asked the Lord to deliver us. ing and singing the gospel story, could but Then, turning to the door of the room, I saw 3. Must be typewritten double whisper in weakness, “Take me home!” a celestial being and a voice came’to me say- spaced. How could I take him home? 1 must sep- ing, “the Angel of the Lord encampeth around arate him from our two small children. about those that fear Him and delivereth No them,” then I heard again, “you can touch 4. Manuscripts cannot be re- income to care for us! A bed-ridden husband. his body but you can not take his life,’;andI turned. This! AfterI twenty years of working for Jesus? again, “the Lord is a consuming fire”. picked All Right battled in prayer as the demons up my wife and opening the door, stepped of doubt, fear, and discouragement danced out into the corridor and started down the 5. We reserve right to publish or with fiendish glee in diabolical darkness. In hall. As I went, the flumes receded und the not to publish. terrible smoke seemed to roll back, until we the morning God put a peace in my heart with reached the lobby. 6. Upon publication, we will give the promise, ‘TI1 raise him t@! 1’11 honor him Surely, “The eyes of the Lord run to and and show him my saluation!” fro throughout the whole earth to show Him- writer a choice of any book we have self strong in the behalf of those whose heart A few days after taking my husband home in stock as a gift. Writer should noti- from the hospital, against medical advice, Rev. is perfect toward Him.” * Russell H. Olson, pastor of Freemont Taber- Sent in by: Rev. L. D. Johnson fy us AFTER PUBLICATION, of book nacle, called to invite us to a healing campaign 420 No. Curtis conducted by Evangelist Mildred Wicks. My Alhambra, Calif. desired. faith was weak and I doubted the wisdom of taking my husband to the meetings, for he was very ill, with constant fever and chills. The pastor encouraged-me with the assurance Divine Judgment Saves “our whole church is praying during the com- munion service and God is able if you bring Christians From Drunken Mob him tonight.” This minist+ was new to me. I had termed By James Willis Archer In the zocalo they encountered a mob of several hundred Indians, men, women and it mass psychology, auto-suggestion, hypnotism! (This incident was taken from the booklet 3 But we didn’t need heding then. Now it W~S childen, milling about, and listening to the MIRACLES IN MEXiCO by James Willis haranguing of a man on an improvised plat- diflerert. Our all depended on a touch from Archer. Book &e obtained from THE Him. may form. They had been to the church, but the VOICE.-, . OF HEALING. Price 75 cents.) Christians had barricaded themselves in- My husband was taken to the Tabernacle side, where they remained in fervent pray- with a temperature of 102’. Our confidence - er, while the mob cried angry orders for and faith were strengthened during the ser- wire reached us one morning at’our them to come forth, beat on the wooden vice. The pastor, with divine authority, chal- office in Mexico City. It was a frantic ap- door and windows with machetes and cIubs, lenged, “Devil, take your hands off this COU- peal from the Christians in a mountain but all to no avail. ple!” Sister Wicks turned from the healing village some one hundred miles distant. We The Governor ordered the car driven Line, saying, “I perceive you have faith for were told that a persecution was breaking through the mob into the center of the 20- your heding. Arise! Jesus Christ maketh thee out, ,and to send help at once. calo. The mob formed a close circle about whole!” With a thousand people praising God, Any mob is dangerous. A drunken mob the car but stood back some ten feet, out my husband arose, the power of God vibrating is more dangerous. A drunken, religious respect for the rifles and fixed bayonets in him like waves of electricity. In praise and of Jesus mob, set on defending their religion, is most of the soldiers. adoration to he walked off the platform dangerous all. The leaders well know instantly healed. of Standing in the open car, the Governor that once incited they will not only burn lectured the drunken Indians. He reminded Six weeks later an x-ray revealed that God‘s and destroy, but they will kill! them of the laws of the land, which permit miracle had been complete. The Governor said that not only would religious liberty to all native-born Mexicans, .Mrs. L. Victor Peterson, he send soldiers, but he would go personally. to worship God according to the dictates of Driving in an open car with two soldiers, their hearts. He also rkminded. them that The Upper Room Mission the Governor and our lawyer drove the the rioting would bring punishment upon 1305 E. Franklin two-hour journey over dirt roads to the the heads of the leaders if the mob did not Minneapolis, Minnesota ’ rebelling village. disperse.

8 THE VOICE OF HE4LING June, 1952 a word. I just looked at him and kept my 1 eyes on his dear face trying ta tell him how much I needed him. He leaned down and looked up in my face and spoke softly. I can hear every word right now because it is written in my heart. He said very INCIDENTS softly, “Betty, you have been patient, kind and loving.” As he spoke those words I thought I could suffer 15 more years if I could see Jesus SWERS TO PRAYER and hear him speak to me again. “I ~ He said, am going to promise you Christ appears-to CrippJed Girl health, joy and happiness.” I saw him reach out his hand and I waited. Then 1 felt and Brings Healing at Given Hour his hand go over the knots on my spine. (In this 20th. Centuw miracle, God per- Suddenly I heard a great noise as if a People say, ‘lDon’t you ever get tired of fomted a healing that has defied the,sk.eptic. storm were comingI up. I heard the wind telling of your healing?” No, because every The Faimunt (Minnesota) Daily Smtksl as* it roared. tried to speak above the time I tell it I can feel his hand again. Newspaper, carried the fdl.detaila in the noise. “He’s coming. Don’t you hear Him? September 9, 1941, edition. The Lord had He has come at last.” Then all at once the He placed his hand on the very center .of my spine on one of the large knota. All at shown Betty Baxte+, desperately afflicted, Inoise subsided. All was calm and quiet and that she would be heated at 3 o’ciock on knew in this quietness Jesus would come. once a hot feeling as hot as lire surged August 24, 1911. 2:45 P. M. of that day E sat in the big chair, a hopeless cripple. through my body. Two hot-hands took my came and-) 1 was so hungry to see him. All et once heart and squeezed it andI when those hot I saw a great white fleecy cloud form. It hands let my heart go, could breathe -Mother came ‘to my bedside. 5 Said, wasn’t the cloud 1 was waiting for. Then normal and I knew my heart was normal “Mom, what time is it?” out of the cloud stepped Jesus. It wasn’t a for the first time in my life. Two hot hands I rubbed over the organs of my stomach and She said, “Just 15 minutes before Jesus vision, it wasn’t a dream. saw Jesus.I I I is coming ta heal you.” As he came walking slowly toward me knew my organic trouble was healed,I I said, om, take me in and place me looked on his face. The most striking’thing would not need a new kidney and would in the big chair.” she carried me in and about Jesus is his eyes. He was tall and be able to digest my food because He had healed me. The hot feeling ran on tbrough set my twisted body in the -chair and prop- broad and WBg dressed in robes of glisten- I ped me up eth pillows. I saw the people ing white. His hair was brown and parted in my body. Then looked at Jesus to see if as they knelt on the floor around the chair.. the middle* It fell Over his shoulders in He would leave me just healed inside. Jesus I saw my baby brother, four years old, and soft Waves. I Will Hever forget his eyes. smiled and I felt the pressure of His hande on the knots and as His hands pressed in I realized I was so bent that I only lhny times When my body is worn and I’m as high as he did. He knelt don by me, asked to do something for I Jesus I wodd the middle of my I spine there was a ting- looked up and said, “Sis, it’s not ver7,long like to say, “NO.*’When remember his ling sensation like had touched a live wire. now until you will’be taller than me. eyes they compel me to go out into the, har- I felt thisI sensation like an electrical cur- vest Gelds to win more souls. rent and stood on my feet just as straight At 10 minutesI of three my mother asked as L am on this platform speaking to you me what wanted them to do. I~said,“Mom, Jesus came slowly toward me with his tonight, f was healed inside and outside. stal.t praying, r want to be praying when arms outstretched toward me. I noticed the In ten seconds Jesus had healed me and Jesus comes.” I heard her sobbing and ugly prints of the nails in his hands. The made me every whit whole. He did for me praying for Jesus to keep his promise and closer he got to meI the better I felt. When in a few moments what the dodors on this come and heal my body. he came real close began to feel very small earth could not do. The Great Physician did and unworthy. I wasn’t anything but a . HOW JESUS CAME littIe forgotten girl who was deformed and it and he did it perfectly. I I didn’t lose consciousness but became crippled.-ThenI 611 at once be smiled at me lost in the Spirit of God. I saw before me and wasn’t afraid anymore. He wasI my two rows of trees, standing tall and straight. Jesus. His eyes held mine and if ever “THE BETTY BAXTER STORY” Foreword Oral Roberta As I watched, I saw one of them in the looked inta eyes filled with beauty and By center begin to bend until the tip of it compassion, they were the eyes of Jesus, touched the ground. I wondered why this There aren’t many people I’ve seen who one tree was all bent over. Then down the have eyes like Jesus. When I see one who road I saw Jesus. He came walking through has thatI love and compassion in their eyes the trees and my heart thrilled as it always I wish couldI just stay close toI them. That does when I see Jesus. He came and stood is the way fed about Jesus; want to live as close to him as I can. by the bent tree.I He stood andhoked at it a moment and wondered what he would do. Jesus came and stood at the side of my Then looking at me he smiled and ’placed chair. One part of his garment was loose his hand on the bent tree. With a loud and it fell inside my chair and if my arms crack and pop it straightened up like the had not been paralyzed I could have touched other. I said, “That’s me all right. He will touch my body and the bones will crack his garment. I had thought when he came and pop and I will.stand up straight and to heal me 1 would start talking to him be well.” and ask him to heal me. But I couldn’t say

He would no doubt have been ,successful which Mexico City is located. They are lightning raced to tbe ground. The villagers in disbanding the crowd had not some one called the wet season and the dry season. looked on in frightened astonishment. cried out, “This man is a friend of the In the wet season, or “times of water”, it It did not rain. It began to hail! Not the Evangelicos! Let’s kill him, too!” rains every afternoon on the plateau. In usual stlnglng stones of ice of raindrop The mob broke into a frenzy .of yelling. the dfy season it does not rain. size, but large, peltenng stones as large a8 Those behind began to push toward the This was the middle of the dry season. hen eggs, which struck. the rioters with the car, while those facing the rifles and bay- A clear, warm, tropic sun shone -upon the force of rocks. Throwing their arms over onets tried to hold back the pressing mass mob scene. As the lawyer prayed he thought their heads for protection, ‘some curmug, of humanity. Like “Horatio at the Bridge”, he heard above the angry roar of the incit- and some crying out in fear of an avenging those behind cried Yore’ and those before ed Indians, a sound as of exploding cannon. God, they Red to the nearest shelters. cried ’back.’ The noisy mob suddenly quieted down. This Out of the jabbering confusion of voices . Our lawyer was aware that the frenzied time the lawyer heard a clear., loud un- and opinions, it was agreed that the God of rebellious Indians would soon be upon them. amistakable cIap of thunder. The mob grew the Evangelicos was angry with them, and The pressure from behind would bring the silent. The lawyer, hearing again the loud that this was His judgment upon them. mob swarming over the car like a- moving peals of thunder, opened his eyes. Every mass of ants. Only a few of the rioters eye of the large gathering Gas fixed on a The result of God’s miraculous interven- wAould be kilIed. ,The rest would overwhelm high mountain peak, which reared high into tion in behalf of the Christians in the them, tearing them almost limb from limb. the heavens directly behind the village. village of this account, was a sweeping He said he ducked his head oyer the car While the sun shone brightly on the rest revival, in which the large majority of the steering wheel, and if ever a man prayed, he prayed then! of the scene, a black cloud rolled over the, village was saved. To which we odd, “Have Mexico has two distinct seasons. This is top of the mountain, and out aver the vil- faith in God!” “All things are possible to particuIarly true on the high plateau on’ slage. Thunder roared and sharp chains of him that bdiereth!”

THE VOrCE OF HEALING June, 19.52 . e “Greatest Four Weeks in Our History”

gentleman that was practically blind, deaf, and. suffered an affliction of the back, testified of his healing after prayer was offered. A 4-year- The W. V. Grant Revival, which just closed old boy, born a deaf mute, showed evidence of in the Oakland Revival Tabernacle, created goiters, stiff necks, backs and knees, weak eyes, hearing a watch tick after prayer. a wider interest than paralysis, ruptures, lameness, tumors, and others. any four week revival One gentleman left his back-brace at the in the Tabernacle’s church. A man with one blind eye and the history. People from other with 5 percent vision, which necessitated Brother Granf has jutt purchased a large new the various surround- a white cane .for walking, came‘to church and tent an8 thousands new chairs to ing churches drove was saved. He left his white cane at the of focilitafe long distances nightly church. A week after his healing, he read his large compaigns. He will open ihe fen# . season with a revival in his home town, Mal- to .the revival to re- coarse print before the audience. Another old. ceive deliverance for vem, Ark. June 15. soul and body. *The great prayer room, “Divine ’Healing Answers” which accommodates 250 persons adequate- ly, was crowded with B? W. V. Grant Dr. Lowry hungry souls, some of which remained until after the midnight hour. Ona of the cleareat mop of aniwera ever compiled In each of tkie 30 services, souls were saved on why everyone doesn’t and iilled with the Spirit. It was impossible to reeeive henling. Written make an accurate record of the number con- in an intereating yet stm- verted and filled, although 300 was estimated ‘ple &-le which even a as the probable number of those receiving the child could. underatand, Baptism of the Holy Spirit. but an adult would find In one service alone, 57 testified that they intriguing. were healed while sitting in the audience. In $1.09 Postpaid the dosing service, 120 stood up as a testi- mony that they were healed during the Grant Order from The Voice Healing revival. Of course, many that received their of heal!ng were not present at that particular service. Some of the diseases and dlictions men- Right: Bro. Clod holds some of fhe many braces, tioned in the testimonies as being healed, were: crotcber and trusses which have been discarded- by I virus, deafness, blindness, growths, arthritis, persons healed in his meetings. 10 THE VOICE OF HEALING June, 1952 ~ondforSaidComty.StateofT~,onthisdsy~ap~MrS. Pearl Crorder ' SIGNED AFFIDAVITS to me,well hown, and who, after baing by me duly worn, CONFIRM HEALINGS in ]aft I +,he ?be coulrl not exercise at all becai:se of her IN GRANT REVIVALS

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W itnese a -- Right: Picture taken during Vinyard Campaign in Broadway Theatre shows cooperating pas- tors Storm-s and Nelson standing in the left aisle with their wives, and at right are Rev. and Mrs. Vinyard with Harold Johansen, party ,manager.

Evang. Richard Vinyard, Overland Park, Kans.

Vin ya rd Sa Iv-a tion- Rev. Zevi L. Storms i HeaI ng Cam pa ign- ON February loth, Brother Richard Vin- In Chelsea, Mass., yard began meetings with us in Chelsea, Mas- sachusetts. These meetings lasted five full VINYARD STI weeks. In spite of many blizzards, rain storms A Great Success and sleet storms our crowds held steady. One of the snow storms was the worst we have had in New England in fifty years. Yet, God kept THEVinyard Salvation-Healing Campaign moving in blessing, healing, saving, and which was recently held in the Broadway The- working mighty wonders in our midst. atre, Chelsea, Massachusetts, was a real suc- cess. Although very stormy weather prevailed The vigorous Bible-preaching of Brother throughout the whole five weeks, yet it didn't Vinyard has left a sure .foundation for t4e hinder the people from coming to the ser- faith of the people as well as something real vices. The power and presence of God was upon which we pastors can build. This fear- manifested in a very marked way in the sav- less preacher of the Word has left an indelible ing of souls, baptising of believers and heal- imprint upon the hearts of many in the com- ing of the sick. The Greater-Boston area has munity. His straightforward declaration of the marvelously felt the spiritual impact of this Gospel has shaken manx complacent individ- revival. Brother Vinyard's dynamic Holy uals to the very foundation of their being; Ghost preaching was very convincing along causing them earnestly to seek God for deliver- the' lines of Divine Healing and the Baptism ance from sin. Praise God for such men as of the Holy Ghost. During the last week of Brother Vinyard. the campaign my whole being was stirred as Many testimonies of healing are being sent never before as my spiritual senses perceived to us; some from patients thought hopeless the great potentialities in this wonderful Holy by physicians and some from patients with Ghost ministry. I thank God for bringing the minor illnesses. The meetings are subjects for Vinyard Party to Boston. They will always conversatio; among men of business, shop and find a hearty welcome whenever they ,come mill. This area will never be the same, for we this way. believe this is the beginning of a new awaken- A. Chesley Snow, Pastor, ing in New England. Pentecostal Assembly of God, Brother Vinyard has proven himself to be Malden, Mass. the most unselfish minister that I have worked with in my 15 years of pastoral work. He is unselfish in his finances, his strength and his time. He is surely a mighty man of God and Pastor W. C. Nelson, Glad Tidings Tabernacle, Healed of Deaf ness is a fine example of those associated with Everetf, Mass., writes . . . THE VOICE OF HEALING. At the Age of 72 God blessed the fearless and instructive min- Two Holy Ghost rallies were held and istry Brother Vinyard, and we know this As a child I suffered an illness which left about fifty received the Baptism of the Holy of me hard-of-hearing. As the years passed by, Ghost the first night and about forty the time of planting will bear i& good fruits in it became increasingly difficult for me to second night. We enjoyed another upper-room the days head. Night after night and week hear. Finally, I suffered with an abscess which experience. after week precious souls found Jesus as their left me totally deaf. The Lord healed me of tbe abscess but my deafness remained. This revival has been so wonderful that no Saviour, Healer and Baptizer. Over 5,000 writer could ever describe it. The two spon- My pastor informed me of the Vinyard VOICE OF HEALING magazines were given soring churches are moved upon by the Holy out during-the campaign. Also several hun- Salvation-Healing meetings being held in Chel- Ghost until there are services with no preach- sea, Massachusetts. He took me to the ser- ing; just Holy Ghost demonstration. dred books of instruction were sold among vices and when Bro. Vinyard prayed for me, the people. I feel confident this sowing of I felt the mighty power of God pass through Brother Vinyard was invited to speak in me. I knew I was healed. Praise the Name of three Eastern Seaboard Bible Institutes while such fine literature will bear its harvest of , &e Lord!-I Eaven't worn P hearing aid since. here. They were willing to dose all classes good fruits for the glory of God. I now can-hear perfectly. to learn of the doctrine of Divine Healing and .. the movings of the Holy Spirit. Those of us who worked with Brother Vin- 'i--.- .: t( .,: :Mrs,-R.ose Slate, yard in the services found him to be a tire- Box 216, Pastor Levi L. Storms fearless Servant of Christ, a Mow-minis- ' . - Id. Rd.. First Pentecostal Church, -less, i Phistow, New 'Hnplpshire .. Chelsea, Mass. ter with fine principles. ; j ;.':.ill. :.. . . . - .- /I le j, THE VOICE OF HEALING June, 1952 1. .I sick. The morning after I was saved I awakened with terrific pains. I was accustomed to hav- ing to take morphine or other pain-killers, IS CONSERVATIVE BOSTON but this day I believed God was going to heal me. I read the book, “Bible Days Are Here Again”, and faith filled my heart as it re- Healed of Neuritis vealed to me that I could be healed. I had been a heavy smoker for 12 years and had tried to And,Partial Deafness’ quit but could-not. That morning God de- In 1949 I was afflicted with neuritis in livered me from that awful habit so that for my back and shoulders. After many treatments days afterward I could not stand to be in the room where -there was cigarette smoke. Within two weeks after my salvation, many healings and miracles took place in my body. Fever left my lungs, a rib which was rubbing against my heart was moved; a serious rheu- matic heart condition which I suffered from childhood was healed! Praise the Lord, all pain and symptoms are gone. My heart is normal today. I was totally deaf in the left ear for 23 my Saviour, I entered years, and hearing in the right ear was only the prayer line. God restored my hearing and about fifty per cent. Two doctors -said that healed me that night of neuritis. All pain and I would never hear ’again. After prayer my soreness is gone! Praise the Name of our hearing was immediately restored. Lord! I also had a nervous stomach and colitis, Arthur Fortuna for which I was in the hospital four times. 805 West 8th Street, - Apparently nothing could be done for me. W. Wyoming, Penna. But praise God, Jesus healed me of all these afflictions. with a vision for the lost in the entire north Curvature and ankylosis of the spine caused eastern territory and with a desire to pioneer my back to ache terribly. Just two years ago, new works with signs following their min- after examining X-rays, doctors told me there istry, to New England Bible Institute at Fram- was no help for me. After prayer, I felt the ingham. warm hand of Jesus on my back, and, Glory Pres. Nicholm Nikoloff, New England Bible to God! .the soreness and pain left me and Znstitute, writes. , . Your fearless and uncompromising Biblical has never come back. preaching at Chelsea and your strong emphasis Serious trouble in the rectum, necessitating on the Spirit-filled life have made a profound May I take this opportunity to thank you hospitalization thirteen times and two opera- for your recent visit to New England Bible impression on-many of our students. It is my tions, caused me much pain and misery. How- sincere hope that your ministry and simplicity Institute at Framingham, Massachusetts, and of faith in God for the healing of the body ever, on September 25, 1951, I realized that for your inspiring ministry to the Institute God had healed me and restored those portions will produce lasting results in the lives and of my rectum which had been removed during family, both here and at the Broadway Thea- work of our entire student body. I the operation. Praise His Name! tre in Chelsea. My only regret is that, due to must not forget to inform you that while Later I attended another of Brother Vin- lack of proper transportation facilities, we our students observed healings and miracles yards meetings in Moosic, Pennsylvania. At were not able to bring over more students. take place before their eyes during ywr min- this time, God healed me immediately of weep- We are praying that the Lord will provide istry to the sick at Chelsea, a number of them, ing eczema of both ears. who needed a touch in their own bodies, went a bus for us to use to transport large groups I thank God that He took a sinner like forward and you prayed for them. The other me, saved me and made me whole. I have of students to your meetings in this territory day some of them reported to me that they gained 24 pounds and have never felt better next fall. were either completely delivered from &eir in my life. afflictions or were in the process of recovery. i New England, in fact the entire northeast Signed: section of the United States, is long overdue ’ When you return to New England next fall for a mighty revival accompanied by a fresh I assure you that I shall be more than glad Mrs. Bertha Evans outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We are praying to cooperate with you in your &on to rescue 1301 Murray Street 1 that God will send young men and women the lost and bring deliverance to the sick. Forty-Fort, Penn. ,B I THE VOICE OF HEALING June, 1952 13 I ,

call was given. Only a small portion is visible IDOL GODS THROWN AWAY AS CUBANS inof thethe exampleinterpreters, above. is atsupt, the Hughmicrophone Jeter, onein- WITNESS WORKS OF CHRIST structing the penitents. affliction had come upon him suddenly while Story Of The Pictures Above committing sin, and he was constantly in such (Top Left) paralyzing pain that he could not even move. -BLIND MAN Ada Martinez was paralyzed. Her right leg After months of wasting away, being given SEES INSTANTLY was stiff and helpless. She worshipped many up by doctors and sent home from the hos- idols who, in turn, were supposed to heal her pital to die, someone told him about the Allen ailments and protect her from harm. The image meeting. Friends improvised a bed in the rear (Cover Picture) of Saint Lazarus, the “healing saint” was kept of their car to take him. His agonizing screams before her constantly, but he didn’t seem to see of pain brought a policeman from his beat Thirty years ago, while fighting in her needs. When Bro. Allen prayed under the who thought he was being murdered. the war of Independence in Cuba, one big tent in Havana, she saw cripples walk away He writes, “I cried to God in desperation of my eyes was shot out. Then four without crutches, blind people crying, “I can and He saved my soul. When Allen finally see,” and a big man leaping and shouting, “My came to the car to pray for me, he looked at years ago I lost the sight of the other ears are open.” All her images and idols had the medal of Saint Cristopher, which was sup- eye, leaving me totally blind. never been able to do this. posed to protect me from harm, sickness and When Bro. Allen prayed for her, life came accideat and asked: ‘If this medal is supposed back into that numb limb and she was im- A congressman’s son advised me to toI protect you from all these things, why do mediately able to walk normally. She took read on the back side IN CASE OF ACCI- go to the Allen Tent Revival, as it had all her idols and images (see picture) to add to DENT OR SICKNESS CALL A PRIEST?’ been reported to him that God gave Bro. Allen’s “collection,” and she is now happy Then I realized that all the years I had worn in serving a LIVING God. Pastor Howard S. the medal it had never brought the protec- ‘people new eye sight and performed Coffey confirmed this miracle. tion it was supposed to. I told Allen to take many other great miracles of healing f f-r the medal off. He did. He then said, ‘NOW (Top Center) we are going to call on One who KEEPS His there. A smile of elation breaks out of the face of promises!’ He prayed in the Name of Jesus Mario Chau when he discovers he is able to Iand the pain left so suddenly I was amazed. I went to the tent and Rev. Allen hear after 14 years of deafness. Said he, “The sat up and got out of the car without any prayed for me at the close of the serv- I assistance, praising the living God, and have first night attended I saw immediately it was ice. After he pra ed, he took his hands different than anything I had ever seen, but been well ever since.” from my eyes. W en he did, the power I liked what the man said from the Bible, and rfr tl when I saw so many being healed, I went up. of God went all over me, and instantly, Now I can hear everything.” 4 (Lower Center) GOD RESTORED SIGHT TO BOTH frf When a small child, Hilario Gonzala was EYES. I was so overjoyed at this great injured .by a fall which retarded his growth (Top Right) and left him totally deaf. For 22 years he miracle that all I could do was just The Allen Party (Rev. and Mrs. Allen and suffered continual pain in the neck and head. iump up and down and shout and tell Rev. and Mrs. Gordon Kampfer) with some of Many doctors had been consulted, but could the cooperating pastors display some of the everyone what God had done for me. idols which converts were happy to give up not help. His mother went with him to be since they found the true God. Bro. Allen prayed for, and like many others, his ears Manual Avila Peter, were opened and the pain left his neck and holds an image of “Saint Lazarus,” the healing head. Calle 3ra and A, saint. rrr rrr Guanabacoa, Habana, Cuba (Lower Left) (Lower Right) Allen Hurdle, 807 Agado, Havana, had been A thrilling sight in the Allen meetings was absolutely helpless for months. The strange the throng that responded each time the altar 9 14 THE VOICE OF HEALING June, 1952 Left: First service im National Stadium, Sonti- ago, Chile -35,000 fwesent. Above: Psrtirrl view of crowd mtswering salvation cat2 in city park (Valparaiso). “ERICKSOIY .MOT SPIRITUAL IS^ rs A CNARLATA~Y,A HEALER OR WITH.DOCTOR; HE IS MAN OF FAITH” (Aflicle Appearihg In Popular ChiIeun New spaper)

In a brief, but concrete and objective public declaration, all the evangelical organizations This is exactly what Rev. Erickson is do- of Chile in the Evangelical Council, expressed their loyalty to Clifton Erickson and toak ing, taking hold of divine resources to heal upon themselves his defense against all the unjustified attacks of which he has been a vic- the sick according to the Scriptures. tim. “Rev. Erickson,” declare the evangelicals, ‘‘is not a charlatan, spritualist, healer or a 4. Because in Chile there is religious lib- witch doctor, as some people would like to call him, but he is a great man of faith.” This erty. is the definite expression of the evangelicals, which completely destroys all the absurd In conclusion, we, the evangelicals, are fables knit around the activities of the Northamerican pastor. backing Mr. Erickson because he is making The following is the main text of the 1. Because he preaches and teaches ac- legitimate use of Religious Liberty granted declaration made public by the Evangelical cording to the Bible. us in Article 10, Number 2, of the Political Council, representing 600 thousand evan- Evangelicals in all the world recognize Construction of the Government, of which gelicals in Chile: and accept the Bible as the,inspired Word we,,as Chilean citizens, are very proud. “The Chilean evangelical people, grouped of God and as a standard of Christianity, In view of the above reasons, we belied together in the Evangelical Council and recognizing its teachings as the Voice of and uphold that Rev. Erickson deserves the other evangelical organizations of Chile, God to a world of sinners. Reverend Erick- respect of all and he is worthy of enjoying backs and supports unconditionally Rev. son, in his campaign, has as his text, the the prerogatives which our Constitution Clifton Erickson in his campaign in our BIBLE and all of his teachings are in ac- gives to all men who respect our laws. country for the following reasons: cord with what it teaches. Therefore, Rev. Erickson is not a charlatan, a spiritualist, Thirty-nine dignitaries, representing all a healer or witch doctor as many people the evangelical churches in Chile, signed the would like to call him, but he is a great man declaration which opposes the questioning of faith, and a talented and inspired exposi- machinations of the Catholics in their blind tor of the Holy Scriptures. opposition to Rev. ,Erickson. The list of 2. Because Miracles are Biblical. churches backing this campaign is as fol- The act of performing miracles is clearly lows: Evangelical Brethen . and explicitly shoin in the Bible. The Lord of Jesus performed miracles when He walked Swedish Branch Assemblies of God this earth. The Apostles and disciples bf Apostolic Christian Mission our Lord Jesus performed miracles and Pentecostal Christian Mission moreover, He Himself said that those that . Christian and Missionary Alliance believed in Him, would do even mightier Presbyterian Church things than He did in His Name. Seventh Day Adventist 3. Because the Bible establishes the Doc- Methodist Pentecostal Churches trine of Healing. Methodist Episcopal Church Healing of the sick through faith in God Baptist Churches (Southerg Baptists) is a teaching shown very clearly in the Bible Several Independent Churches and is established in the four square doc- Assemblies of God trine of the Scriptures: Christ, the Saviour; Christ the Sanctifier; Christ, the Healer; Picture on couer shows Bro. Erickson with and Christ, the Soon-coming King. groufi coming out of Presidential Palace. Sec- We find the doctrine of healinn bv faith retary to the @&dent (left)-was converted in and prayer given in Mark 16:18: where it reviud and obtained the National Stadium for says: THEY SHALL’ LAY HANDS ON the meeting. Rev. John Jackson, int&[peter, is THE ‘SICK AND THEY SHALL RECOV- at rigbt of Bro. Erickson, and a reporter from ER. In James 5:14, it says also, “Is any Notzcias Graficas (newspaper) walks on f# sick among you? let him call for the elders right. This picture afipeared, among many of the church; and let theF pray over him.” others, in this newspaaper, with stories of the meetiings and testimonies of those hedd. The Left: Antonio Leiua, healed of paralysis. Friend Erickson meetings claimed most prominent of Oscas Lands, director of “Noticias Graficas” space in the newspapersl coqering frofit-page (wspaper).Director stands a# right. headlines, and several inside articles. 1 SPECIAL MISSIONARY SECTION OSBORN TRIUMPHS IN VENEZUELA I

Despite Persecution, Arrest, Interference m MISSIONARY W. C. STEPP WRITES

’ CONCERNING PUNTO FIJO CAMPAIGN: “More than 5,000 in one service asked to be savedJJ

he second Osborn Campaign in Venezuela the agency office where for over an hour it grounds, several squads of police, detectives, opened in Punto Pijo, in the State of was necessary to answer their questions and radio patrols, etc., came aad with long drawn Falcon. The 6rst night there were about 5,000 refute their charges that witchcraft and de- “machete” swords, dubs, and badges, brutally people present to witness the miradGworking ception were being practiced. Having con- ordered us all into the patrol wagons under power of God. The second aight doubled the vinced the authorities that the people were arrest, and took us to the police station to attendance with an estimated crowd of 10,OOO. being healed by the obtaining of faith through answer charges before the authorities. What It was at this service that more.than 5,000 the preaching of the Bible, they then tried to charges?-PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF people siacerely and earnestly manifested their prohibit the meetings saying we did not re- JESUS CHRIST WITH SIGNS FOLLOWING! desire to be saved. They prayed the prayer of ceive a permit for the open air meeting. This repentance, and expressed their desire to we quickly handled by presenting the permit After an hour of questioning the mayor attend the local Peptecostal church and serve that the city mayor had granted us. Upon ar- spoke of having dug up some old law stating the Lord faithfully. riving at the meeting site about 600 p. m., that it was prohibited to conduct religious services, outside the church. Thus, the mayor To our further amazement, the third night we were told by police that the meeting had himself, who had originally issued the permit was even larger. An estimated 12,oOO to to stop, even though several thousand people to us, revoked it, and demanded the meetings 15,000 people attended, and again over lialf were present already. The police {eft when stop, and gave us less than 15 hours to dear out of the crowd prayed for salvation. The fourth we showed them the permit from the mayor, the field, platform, lighting, etc day the priests and doctors worked hard to but an hour later two more police walked up oppose and dose the meeting. In fact, the on the platform and told us to dismiss the Realizing that it would be impossibfe !o whole town seemed to have vacated the shows, meeting at once. Again we showed our permit conduct great open air campaigns in Vene- dances, bars, poolrooms, etc., to attend the and again the police left. zuela, Rev. Osborn left for Costa Rica where campaign. The authorities called us all into About 1O:OO PiM., after all had left .the a large stadium was awaiting him. We who remain in Venezuela are determined to continue this great work of Christ that Bro. BLIND MEN SEE: Osborn was privileged to begin for us. To God be all the glory! These two men give glowing testimonies of being healed of blind- ness as Bro. Osborn Cde Trinidad, on the left. asked \ prayed. friends to lead him to the meeting. The first night, after the evangelist prayed for all the sick people at one time, Calle took his hands off his eyes and could see light1 He was happy for he knew he was being healed. He went home rejoicing over all he had heard, cmd the next morning he could see objects1 Cleurer and clearer becgrme his sight until he could see everything! Punta Cardon, right, laid his hands on his eyes when Bro- Osborn told all those with eye trouble to do so while he prayed, and when the prayer was finished, he could see hundreds*of little black spots. He kept believing, and in a few moments those spots began to fade away and everything was clear. Now he claims good eyesight. Below: On the night thii picture was taken in Punto Fiio. police broke up the meeting and arrested the evangelist. (Story above.) Picture below left shows how the cars and busses were jammed. bumper to bumper, all the way to town (almost half a mile.) Interpreter silences crowd while one of the golicemen .conuerted in the campaign gives his testimony.

Cover Picture HospitaC Personnel Bring CROSS-EYED FOR SEVEN YEARS M little daughter, seven years old, Patients to Branham Services in Africa was )born with eyes extremely crossed snd very weak. 1 took her to Evangelist I Evidence of ihe faith of the medical profession in Brother Branham's midis- L. Osborn's Healing Campaign in r. try is shown in the picture above. The hospital nurses on the front row brought Punto Fijo. There must have been at heir patients to be prayed for. A British doctor was converted as a result of least 12,000 people there that night seing the works of God. bags on the platform contain requests. [the second night of the campaign) and The prayer we were a long way back in the crowd. I knew it would never be possible to Ministers in British Isles reach the evangelist with her, but. I Blessed by NH uERoy JOR MIVERYI was made happy when I heard him Dear Brother Lindsay: say we could be healed where we were, Hearty Greetings in the Lord Jesus! Be,i?utifu.& Bound Voltme of and then instructed us before he pra - I ed en masse for all of us. My litte I felt must drop you these few lines to let I you know that I have had some of your books Fbe Voice. of HeaIing girl had listened to all of this and fol- and, also The Voice of Healing,, through a lowed his instructions. When Bro. Os- friend of mine, Pastor W. A. Everitt, Bible from April, 1951 to March, 1952 born told all those with blind eyes, or and Tract Depot, Birmingham, England. Your eye trouble of any kind, to. place their books on Healing are some of the dearest I b An ideal book to keep in your reading hands on +heir eyes and he would pray have ever read and The Voice of Healing is a table for guests. for ell of them, she did this. When he red faith-stimulant. Our hearts have been finished the prayer, she looked up at gladdened by news of the great revivals which Only a limited supply. me. I can't explain the emotion +hat are sweeping over America, and the desire has overwhelmed me when I saw her eyes, been kindled that we may see .similar visita- Cannot be duplicated; one edition only. tions of the Spirit over here and right through for the first time in her life, PERFECT- the world. Large, clothbound volume Praise Godl LY STRAIGHT1 Oh, May God richly bless you, $2.50 Postpaid Edui Zavarce, Yours in His happy service, Order from: THE VOICE OF HEALING 70 Calle Rafael' Gonzalez Gordon Cove, SHREVEPORT, LA. Punia Fijo, Falcon, Venezuela, S.A. YMinister of the Assemblies of God in Gt. Britain and Ir,dand) SUNDAY, April 13th, marked the closipg of what one of my deacons described as the greatest and most blessed revival in the en- tire history of Evangel Temple. Sister Fern Huffstutler commenced ’her second campaign with us Sunday, February 24, and from the very first service God met with us in a very special way. The first service closed with the reconsecration of many lives to God. The UPPER LEFT: Miss Fern Huffstutler, outstanding lady evangelist whose ministry of evangelistic weeks that followed brought many hundreds preaching and Divine Heallng ls blessing thousands in her -1onqterm revivals. to the altar. I fully appreciated the sane, sound, scrip- ABOVE: Evangel Temple in Toronto was packed nightly for five weeks as many miraculous tural sermons that Sister Fern delivered under healings were witnessed and hundreds found God. Only half the audience is shown. a rich anointing of the Holy Ghost. It is my INSET: Pastor W. G. McPherson whose report appears a1 left. opinion that she is one of the greatest lady evangelists in the world today. Eternity alone will reveal the great good that has been done for the people of Toronto. PI Each night we witnessed souls coming from 1 all parts of our great church auditorium to the altar as Sister Fern extended the call for sin- ners to get right with God. One lady stood to her feet toward the close of the campaign and with her voice filled with emotion told how God had saved her husband, her dau-gh- ter and herself since the meeting began. Many others experienced His marvelous grace, both 11 one of Toronto’s Greatest Revivals for the saving of their souls and the healing II of their bodies. Broken homes were reunited, habits of sin broken and the tormented de- r- livered. Several hundred people who had never been in our church before, attended the meet- ings regularly, and many of them accepted Zedtimonies Gleaned .%om Campaign3 ...... Christ as Saviour. Approximately twenty-five For five years I have been doctoring for Dear Sister Fern: or thirty thousand ‘people heard Sister Fern inward cancer. I have been operated on 8 Just a note.of thanks and appreciation for during the seven weeks she was with us. Dur- times, have taken shots, tablets, radium, elec- the great work you have done in Toronto ing the Holy Ghost rallies scores of believers tric needles, etc. I had all the treatment allow- during the past six weeks. .You may know received the baptism of the Holy Ghost and ed by the state of California. Finally, I went the number that came to the altar but I am spoke with other tongues according to Acts across the border to a famous Mexican doctor, sure that many hundreds have been helped 2:4. Many healings were witnessed. Mrs. Dr. Diaz Montez, who operated on me. I was that you may never know about. Thelma Tabakas of GOO Church Street, Tor- given two gallons of blood to sustain me In my humble opinion, you are without a onto, who was suffering ,from nephritis and through the surgery, and many godly people kidney stones (proven by x-ray), was healed. doubt one of the most outstanding evangel- prayed. When the incision was made, Dr. Mon- ists to visit our city in recent years. I, per- She was re-examined and found to be in good tez found that God had already performed health. (We have the doctor’s written state- sonally, have been helped, along with many, the work, and had tied the muscles to muscles many others. ment that the above is correct.) and nerves to nerves. But I still suffered with A lady who had suffered for over 20 years May the Lord continue to bless your min- the cancer. It was moving toward my heart istry. with curvature of the spine testified that God and I was told it would be only a matter of had straightened her back while Sister Fern time. I took 12 shots of narcotics a week for Yours very truly, prayed for her. Another lady had a cancer the pain and then lapsed into comas and Jesse Weller, Inspector of Police, . creeping over the back of her eyes; after would’spend days in unconsciousness. The can- No. 1 Division, Toronto, Canada. prayer she was examined by a specialist who cer drainage was profuse. After being examined by an eye specialist told her the cancer was now receding. If space and a medical doctor, I was I permitted hundreds more testimonies could When Sister Huffstutler came to Imperial told that had Valley for a great healing campaign, God cancer creeping over my eyes. 1 was dso told be written of the marvelous healing power of that I would lose my sight within a year. our Saviour. We give all the glory and spoke to me and told me that when she laid praise to God for what has been accomplished. hands on me, He would fill me with the Spirit While Sister Fern was in Toronto, I had Without Him we are as sounding brass and and heal -my body completely. This He did! her pray for me. After prayer, I felt a sensa- tinkling cymbal; as wells without water; as Instantly the drainage and all pain stopped. tion in the back of my eyes, and I could see broken cisterns; as branches separated from 1 received new strength and returned to the better immediately. Two days later I went the vine. Our hearts have been made glad by doctor. He wus amazed. He made an examina- back to the specialist and an examination the moving of the Holy Spirit and His quick- tion and found no trace of cancer. I praise revealed thatthe growth was receding. I did ening touch. God for His goodness. not need new glasses. Praise God. Pastor W. G. McPherson Mrs. Arthur W. Smith Madge Wilkes The Evangel Temple Box 722 139 Lyttan Blvd. Toronto 2, Ontario, Canada Seeley, California Toronto, Canada

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Ray ia able to help with the moving of the chairs V after his healing. I thank God for sending Brother Hardt to Wildwood, Florida, just when he did. I walked on crutches into his tent. I carried the crutches WEwere privileged to witness the mighty on my shoulder when I walked out of his prevailing power pf the Word of God in the tent. I give the Glory to Jesus. recent Hardt Healing Revival in Lake Wales, My knee was first injured in January. The Florida. February 14th was the date of the ligaments were-torn from the knee at that opening service in the large tent cathedral, time. Dr. R Wiley, our Athletic physician and also our family physician, put my leg in which had been erected on a very desirable a cast for two weeks. My knee was weak and lor in the heart of the city. Interest grew very painful after that. nightly, and the tent was packed before the I liked sports, especially football, and hope first week was over. Souls responded to the to receive a scholarship in football. My coaches altar call each night throughout the ,revival. were greatly concerned, and-] was very much Brother Hardt's remarkable ministry of the discouraged after this knee injury. I was Word inspires people to use their own faith to receive deliverance from God. A business doing my best to get back in shape and was man who had smoked cigarettes for many years practicing baseball when I injured the same told the Lord if He would heal his eye, he knee the second time. This second injury was would never smoke again. His eye was in- more severe, and Dr. Wiley told my mother stantly healed, and he has kept his promise to God. that my leg would be in a cast for four to six weeks. Also, he said that the knee would al- One man wko hp not attended churcb for a number of years was saved and delivered ways be giving me trouble. from habits. His wife was saved also, and to- On March 9th, God spoke to my hearc to ex- gether they are attending the services of the ercise faith in believing Him for a miracle. church. There were some who were saved in Three years ago, when God healed my mother, their'homes. This, no doubt, was a result of I the prayer services each morning. was made to realize that nothing is impossible 79 Florida pastors report of great successes in H. E. A lady, years of age, who broke her hip Hardt Salratlon-Healing meetings. with God. He gave me faith to believe for 4 years ago, was assisted to the platform for healing, but the devil tried to cheat me out of prayer, but walked away unaided! She walked this miracle, the same as he had tried to keep all the way to her home six or eight blocks me from going to the altar for salvation. It away. She continued walking to Ithe services On Monday, March 3rd, the huge silver took a certain amount of courage to get up and after that, without her crutches. have been trailer carrying the beautiful steel-clad tent make the start, but Jesus never fails! He went in her home since the revival, and the healing and equipment belonging to the Hardt Evan- with me and healed my knee as Brother Hardt is still good. Praise the Lord! Greater even gelistic parry rolled into Wildwood, Florida. laid his hand on me and prayed. My coach and than this, however, was the salvation of a Pastors and congregations had been canvassed Ifriends rejoiced with me the following day as lady 85 years old, who had never been saved in an effort to solicit and conscript every bit entered the school, walking normally, after before. She received a glorious experience. of religious energy for this great campaign. discarding both cast and crutches, and testified There are many other wonderful incidents From the first night the attendance was good. to what'God had done for me. My knee is I Brother Hardt's Bible messages stirred every stronger than it has ever been. I appreciate His which occurred during the revival and know I we shall continue to reap its benefits. one and laid a most wonderful foundation for great mercy and love Him with all my heart. 'deliverance for both body ,and spirit. Mirades Emory L. wine, Pastor began to take place. Hopeless heart conditions, Ray Mathews Apostolic Gospel Church Wildwood, Florida NmOrS and cancers were healed. The lame Lake Wales, Fla. walked,. leaving their crutcbes behind. One of Two week after this miracle i @emon&y the star football players of the local high saw Ray carrying a htrge pile of chairs QS the school came up in the healing line on crutches, tent was being dismaded. his knee in a cast. He had received a very.se- Below ia piciured a typical golherinq under the vere knee injury a few days before, tearing H. E. Hardt. tent as Evangelist Hmdt preached In FIorida citles. loose the ligaments in his leg. God healed him instantly. He threw down his crutches, and

I went home and broke off the cast. The entire high school was stirred by chis miracle. "he soul-stirring messages in the morning meetings, brought by Mrs. Blackwell of the Hardt parry, contributed greatly to the success of the meetings. The faith of the people mount- ed high, and the Spirit is still working among us. The Spirit moved in a special way in each of the services last Sunday. Sinners spontane-. ously moved toward the altar to seek God. Numbers were healed as the Spirit of the Lord moved upon the audience. , Thank God for this mighty ministry of faith based upon the WORD OF GOD. Edna Koonce and Pansy Sample, co-pastors.

19 Time Measure / HE number 666 is the number of man. It has been supposed that this T number * refers only to the Antichrist and the false prophet, but actually by Gordon Lindsay it is also the number of man and his ways, opposed to God and His ways. THE SINISTER SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NUMBER 666 IS REVEALED IN THE BOQK OF‘ REVELATION: THE NRA-JUNE 13-20, 1933 . “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the (8 x 666 days from the Armistice) beast; for it is the number of a man; and his numberis Six hundred The Stock Market Crash brought on the threescore and six.” (Rey. 13 :18) Great Depression. Things went from bad to worse and the .people clamored for a The number 666 startlingly identifies the be elected president in the coming Novem- change. The elections of November, 1932, direction that America has been drifting in ber election. swept Mr. Roosevelt and the New Deal into recent years. It must not be supposed that The competition was intense between rival ‘power. He became president at a time when the number 666 is connected entirely with the wheels of industry and business had candidates. Breathlessly the convention at almost stopped. developments that have been taking place Chicago watched the tallying of the votes in one particular political party, but in fact of the delegates on the first ballot. It was Of the many laws that were hurriedly is sinisterly involved in the whole stream soon clear that Roosevelt was in the lead. passed, there was one that was to revolu- of events of recent years. Presently the tellers had the answer of the tionize, for the period of its existence, the total-it was 666 for RooseveEt! Thg, rest economic system of the nation. It was the of the balloting was a matter of routine. NRA, or the National Industrial Recovery THE PLAN OF WASHINGTON. Roosevelt became the presidential candidate Act. Under its banner, swift regimentation D. C. WAS DESIGNED FOR of the Democratic party. His election the of industry began. Every business received 666 DOLLARS following November was a foregone conclu- its code; upon each window went the sion: sign of the Blue Eagle. Any manufacturer Not long ago’an article syndicated by the who failed to line up was to be blacklisted. NANA appeared under the dateline of April THE NUMBER 666 IN U.S. Some thought that the Blue Eagle of the NRA was the Mark of the Beast. It was 18, 1951, which tells an interesting story of ’ HISTORY not. But it was marked by the number of the founding of Washington, D. C. It de- While the number 666 appears most sig- clared that one Pie’rre Charles L’Enfant, 666-the NRA was enacted law on June 13, interest- nificantly, in the nation’s history since the 1933, just 8 x 666 days after the Armistice! conceived the nlan of the city. The inauguration of Roosevelt. it must not be ing point was that his price for designing thou& that this number is unique only to $he city of Washington w$ $666.66! 1% the his administration. This Sinister number PLAN TO CHANGE THE year 1810, Congress passed a bill apProPrb . originated its cycles lon’g before he became ating that amount with interest. SUPREME COURT- president. FEBRUARY 4-11, 1937 On NovemberI 11, 1918, the Armistice ‘ of World War occurred. Hostilities ceased (10 x 666 days from the Armistice) ROOSEVELT AND THE and the news was flashed to all parts of the As the passage of the NRA was the NUMBER 666 ’ earth. Church bells rang, whistles blew, distinguishing event of the first administra- sirens screamed. People gathered in great tion of Roosevelt, so his attempt to change No one may deny that in the last genera- throngs and abandoned themselves to the the Supreme Court was the outstanding tion, tremendous changes have been taking hysteria of that hour. The :war to end’war” event of the second term. The Supreme place in the political structure of the United was over. Statesmen proclaimed that a new Court had outlawed the NRA, as well as States. Have they been for better or for era in the history of the world had dawned. many similar laws, declaring them uncon- worse? Many people are apprehensive over Modernist preachers, blind leaders of the stitutional. Therefore a few days after the the changes that are being wrought. Our blind, proclaimed that a Millenium of peace New Deal Administration was returned to recent trip to Washington confirmed the was at hand. Business boomed and economic office, the president presented the country conviction that many of our leaders in prophets proclaimed “good times” ahead. with a plan to change the Supreme Court! Washington feel the same way. Only one Stocks and bonds soared to dizzy heights, This was the so-called plan to “pack the congressman we met felt that all was well. and the country settled down to an orgy of supreme court” with New Deal justices. He indeed thought the world was getting Wall Street gambling and “get rich” quick The startled country, however, swiftly re- better, day by day, in every way, but few schemes. acted against the president’s proposal and of his colleagues shared his optimism. Congress refused to make it law. STOCK MARKET CRASH. The profound ‘ change, of course, came What was the significance and character during the New Deal administration of OCTOBER 20-27, 1929 of this unprecedented attempt to control the Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Great War fol- (6 x 666 dugs from the Armistice) ’ Supreme Court, thus centralizing power in lowed by the Great Depression left the na- Then came Black Friday during the week an unprecedented way in the hands of the tion in a precarious condition, economically of October 20-27, 1929. It was a historic president? The time-measures tell the story. and spiritually. The collapse of the Stock day. On that day the prosperity bubble The Supreme Court bill was introduced on Market and the panic that followed rendered had burst and the bottom fell out of the February 4-11, 1937, just 10 times 666 days insolvent a large fraction of the nation’s Stock Market. Billions of dollars were lost from the Armistice! businesses, The time was ripe for a great in hours. It was God’s Handwriting on the Though the bill was defeated and the change. Roosevelt offered the nation the wall. The Great Stock Market Crash had integrity of the Constitution remained in- so-called New Deal, and sought nomination come exactly 6 x 666 days from the Annis- tact, the full objective of it was shortly as a Democratic candidate for the presi- tice? (Note that I Kings 10:14 associates attained. Several of the justices died, and dency of the United States, realizing that the number 666 with gold, the basis of another resigned! The vacancies, of course, whoever won at the convention would surely world finance.) were filled with New Deal appointees. 666 DAY CYCLES SHOW DRIFT OF EVENTS. IN AMERICA . t 6x666 Days I 2x666 Days 1 2x666 Days 1 2x666 Days I 2x666 Days

Nov. 11,1918 Oct. 20-27,1929 June 13-29,1933 Feb. 4-11,1937 Sept. 27,1940 June 6,1944 Armistice Stock Market NRA becomes law Plan to change The Rome-Berlin- D-Day Invasion of Signed Crashes, Great the Supreme Tokyo Axis formed Europe begins Depression begins Court against the U.S. THE ROME-BERLIN-TOKYO born on January 10, 1920, thus marking it American election ! This coming election is AXIS, SEPTEMBER 27, 1940 with th.e number 666-for that date was apparently fateful in the history of the 3 x 666 days from the beginning of World United States. Watch November! Prophecy (12 x 666 days from the Armistice) War If marches on. The United States having failed In the meantime the Great Depression in China, having failed Chiang-Kai-shek, must Europe spawned Hitler who plunged that U. S. ATTACKED AT PEARL now face great odds in Europe. Whoever is continent into a fearful war. In Se tember HARBOR DECEMBER 7-8, 1941 elected President of the United States must 1940, for the first time in American Ristory, face the terrible problem of Communism, came peace-time conscription. But the great (15 x 666 days from theI) beginning of which is poised to tear at the throat of event of this time took place on September World War humanity. Will Eisenhower become presi- 27, 1940-the formation of the Rome-Berlin- On December 7-8, 1941, Japan brought dent next November, and assume a leading Tokyo Axis-a development that destined America into the War by her sneak attack role in the European drama? The facts are America to become involved in World War at Pearl Harbor. What was the prophetic before the reader, let him interpret them. 11. significance of that date? On January 10, The 21 cycles of 666 days end in the early This historic and sinister event of the 1920, the League of Nations was created part of November 1952-the time of the formation of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis to prevent war. Just 12 x 666 days later election!-thus evidently ending one era and occurred on September 27, 1940, just 12 x America was forced into a second great beginning a new one. 666 days after the Armistice! world conflict. The infidel denies that there is a design or order in world events, but Who can see this fateful march of events these time-measures show how utterly he toward Armageddon and not walk softly D-DAY-INVASION OF THE is wrong. Any man who refuses to believe before God. He who continues in sin adds IRON FORTRESS that God overrules the events of this world his part to the cumulative guilt that now JUNE 6, 1944 is indeed blind. God makes even “the wrath weighs upon America. He that repents does of man to praise Him.” (Note that Pearl that much to shield America from the ter- (D-Day occurs lli x 666 days from the Harbor came 15 x 666 days after the be- rible hour of reckoning which lies ahead. Armistice) ginning of World War I). Let us face the grim facts. The flower of These particular time-measures were not- American manhood is destined soon to per- ed by the writer in the year 1940. Seeing THE ATOMIC BOMB AND END ish on a foreign battlefield, unless America how remarkably they were being fulfilled, OF WORLD WAR I1 repents. Whoever is elected president can- early in 1944, he published an article ven- AUGUST 1-14, 1945 not save America from the irresistible tide turing to remark that D-day “might come I) of events. Only the individual citizens, by ‘(17 x 666 days from end of World War repentance, can do that. 14 x 666 days from the Armistice, that is, ’ at the end of May or the first few days of America was in the war just 2 x 666 June, 1944.” Of course, he had no way of days. During the first week of August, 1945, being sure of this, except that such an atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Naga- event would be in line with the significance saki, bringing a swift conclusion. to the BRANHAM STORY TESTED of these time-measures. But even he was conflict. The revelation of the Atomic bomb (From Page 3) startled to learn that D-Day not only took and the end of World War I1 came there- place at this time, but it was on June 6, fore 17 x 666 days from the beginning of well imagine my surprise to have that second 1944-at the 6th hour of the 6th day of the World War I! correspondent write back in the language that 6th month! The three sixes again! I shall quote, and with which quotation I shall draw my comments to a close:- Fourteen is one of the numbers of com- THE NORTH ATLANTIC PACT pleteness, and apparently this series of ANNOUNCED MARCH 18-24 “I saw Mr. Branham in Seattle heal time-measures has now been completed. It, every disease and affliction. The blind however, has told its. significant story. The (19 21 666 days‘from theI) beginning of saw and the deaf and dumb heard and series came to a conclusion with America World War spake. Men given up to die were brought on the continent of Europe, where accord- Despite the protests of every wide awake in on stretchers and we, the audience of ing to prophecy the Beast Power in all its minister of the Gospel, American statesmen 6000, saw them walk down the aisle with fury, shall one day rage. (See Rev. 13 and believed Russia, when she said she wanted their cots on their backs. Take up thy 17). peace. Any student of prophecy knew that bed and walk.’ This evening was, without Russia lied. Now everybody knows she lied. exception, the most soul-stirring experi- SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ELEC- Shortly after the end of the war, Russia ence in my life.” TION NEXT NOVEMBER began to systematically gobble up one coun- This correspondent is not a Christian so I try after another, by the process of infiltra- think we may believe that she was tremend- What is the significance of the coming tion, treachery and intrigue. Only at last ously impressed to cause her to write such election next November? In answer to this did our government realize the significance a letter. question, let us notice another significant of Russia’s actions. Out of this awakening series of 666 day cycles. These time-meas- came the announcement of the North At- I am enclosing a copy of the brief fore- ures originate with the beginning of World lantic Pact, March 18-24,1949. A significant word with which each book is accompanied War I, or during the week of July 28- thing about the Pact is that at the present as it is distributed. I undertook this distribu- August 4, 1914, during which week most time just 10 European countries are includ- tion solely in the interest of inspiring greater of the nations of Europe were drawn into ed in the Pact-the identical number re- faith among humans and a comfort and as- the First Great War. vealed by prophecy to be in the confederacy surance to those who may at times have had of the Beast Power. (Rev. 17:12). (It must doubts. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS not be assumed that these are the identical I have been glad to supply these books free nations in the final lineup.) Another signi- of charge wherever there has been any ex- BORN JANUARY 10-16, 1920 ficant thing about the Pact is that as a re- pression of a desire or willingness to read it, sult of it, Eisenhower has been sent to and I shall be glad to continue this program (9 x 666 days from the beginning of Europe to build an army from the various World War I) so long as there seems to be interest in the I nations’ of Europe to resist Communism. matter, an interest which in many instances After World War had’ ended it was, But the most significant thing of all, is the hope of statesmen that with the crea- I have been able to arouse. I tell all ministers, that this Pact was announced 19 x 666 days it is a challenge that they will have to face, tion of a League of Nations, the world from’the beginning of World War I! would be ushered into an era of peace. Men now or in the future and will have the same sort of question to decide that Pilate pre- unacquainted with the prophecies (which THE COMING PRESIDENTIAL showed that the age would end in ,the sented to the accusers of Jesus,-“What will frightfulness of Armageddon), v’ainly ELECTION NOVEMBER 1952! ye do with this gift”? dreamed that by this League of Nations, (21 x 666 days from the beginning of Very truly yours, the world would avert war in the future. ,World War I) J. H. Buzzell Significantly the nature of that now defunct Thb series of time measures come8 to 258 Elm Street, League of Nations is revealed in that it waa an end November 1958f-the time of the West Somerville 44, Mass.

666 DAY CYCLES SHOW SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COMING ELECT1ION IN NOVEMBER, 1952

3x666 Days ‘ I 12 s 666 Days I 2x666 Days 1 2x666 Days’ 1 2x666 Days

July 28-A~g.I 4,1914 Jan. 16,1920 Dec. 7-8,1941 Aug. 1-14,1945 Mar. 18-24,1949 Nov., 1962 World War begins League of Nations Pearl Harbor Atomic bomb falls, , North Atlantic Fateful election Born Attack, U.S. World War I1 ends Pact Announced ?? Enters the war End of 21st cycle

THE VOICE OF HEALING June, 1952 21 Prince of peace returns, and surely He must be coming soon. ****

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PROPERTY damage estimated at $1,OOO,OOO was done in Phoenix, Arizona, recently during a hail storm. “About 40 small frame houses were destroyed, and more than 40 airplanes Chaplain Howard !&,% :!fir were damaged at the airport.” Several persons Rusthoi, renowned were injured by the hail stones about the .+ I P evangelist, Army size of eggs. Chaplain and Pro- A barrage of large hailstones caused an . phetic anal~vt,con- estimated $1,500,000 damage recently in ‘Jop- tributes the “Pro- lin, Missouri. The storm lasted only about phecy Marches 10 minutes, hitting the city in two waves witb On” column reg- a loud roar which awakened most of the ularly in TVH. city’s 40,000 inhabitants. Many thought a tor- nado was sweeping the city. Roofs of nearly WORLDWlDE PERPLEXZTZES German police and 8,000 buildings were wrecked or damaged by the midst of a deadly serious campaign to the hail, some as big as nine and one-half . knock the very heart out of European defense. inches in circumference. REPLYING to questions posed b a group The prophecies of Daniel and Revelation The day is coming when there will “fall of American newspaper and radio edIItors who seem to indicate that all of Germany, East upon men a great hail out of heaven, every recently toured Europe, Joe Stalin said, “A of the Rhine, is destined to come under RUS- stone akout the weight of a talent (90 third world war is no yarer now than it was sian control and domination in the end time pounds). Rev. 1621. two or three years ago. However, the record when the antichrist shall step forth into his e*** of his statements in the past indicates that appointed place of authority. The present NUMBERS what he says has never seemed 10 have much trend in Central Europe is following the pat- bearing on what he does. There also seems to tern of prophetic revelation and reveals how be a disagreement on the issue of a third worId near we must now be to the coming again of IT is reported that national and local pubiik- war between Stalin and his deputy foreign Christ. health officials are urging that all babies,be ministry, Jacob A. Malik. A few months ago, ****I assigned serial numbers to be carried by them in Unired Natioos debate, Malik said: “The from the cradle to the grave. The numbers third World War has in fact commenced- MORE PERPLEXITIES would be used on all occasions-going to a in Korea, Indo-China, Tunis and Morocco.” hospital, getting married, anything involving The, main issue of Stalin’s reply is focused records. If this should be carried out it could at present upon Germany. The Soviet Prime FIRST we gave Russia $11,000,000,000 to mean a definite step toward the final f

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