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-GIGANTIC TENT CAMPAIGNS CENTER OF ATTRACTIONFROM COAST’TO COAST PASTOR GIVES REPORT OF undeveloped was prayed for, and is now doing This girl is a faithful member of my Sunday STANLEY KAROL MEETING things and saying things which the doctors School and I knew her condition. I tested her By A. Sarbo, Pastor said was not possible. eye in the darkness and am completely satis- First Pentecosial Church The VOICE OF HEALING magazine proved fied she has been Bangor, Pennsylvania . a blessing to many. We distributed it in the . Rev. A. Sarbo ' community and through it, many were brought First Pentecostal Church We have just concluded one of the greatest Bangor, Pa. revival meetings ever held in the Blue Valley to the meeting, and in turn were saved and of Western Pennsylvania. Truly we can say healed. Dear Brother Karol: I want to give my testimony in praise to that God is Jehovah-Rapha. Not only did God Dear Brother Karol: meet us in healing power, but many also wept I the Lord for what He has done for me. their way to salvation. wantI to thank Jesus for what he has done I suffered almost five years with heart This territory has been considered a very for me. am a little trouble untii you prayed for me. I am thank- difficult place to work, and many efforts to girl eight years of age. ing God for His mighty heaiing power. do something for God had failed. From the My eyes were very weak and all I could On Thursday, March 15, I went to a doctor first of this meeting we were gratified to see for a heart checkup. He told me that my the response of nominal Christians to the see from my right eye I was just a spot. After heart was now perfect. jwt shouted, "Praise moving of the Spirit. I the Lord, Jesus healed me. One night a four year old boy who walked you prayed for me paddy foot was prayed for and at once his was able to see the S. Malewiu legs were straightened. A boy who could not dock in the back of 2031A S. 33rd St. the building. I can Milwaukee, Wisconsin. , distinguish Brother Karol with his left eye was prayed for and was then able to read a now play like other This woman had many heart attacks and sign with three inch letters at a distance of children. I want to was given little hope of living. She used oxy- fifteen feet: Another boy whose eyelid had live for Jesus and gen at times (a total of.24 bottles). Today she been bit off by a dog was.prayed for, and praise Him forever. is perfectly well and strong. two nights later the lid had grown more than Pauline Searfoss A. Jashinsky, Pastor . an eighth of an inch. A fifteen year old girl 420 S. Main St. 2405 S. 12th St. who could not talk and whose mind was Bangor, Pa. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. OUR COVER This month's cover represents a cross section of the activities of the great tent meetings of TVH Associates. By.no means does this repre- sent ALL TVH tent campaigns, but rather INDEX gives an overall picture of the many phases , VOL. IV WHOLE NO. 43 concerned in such meetings. Other photos A which we would like to have sho,wn were not Articles Page rtic Ies Page available as we went to press. News and Notes.. , , , . , . , . , 3 World-Wide Revival , . 9 PHOTO Do We Need a New Church I Featured Evangelists , . , , , . 10-1b 1. T. L. Oshorn meeting in Scranton, Pa Organization? (Editorial) . 4 2. A portion of the vast throng at the A. C. Signs-Wonders-Miracles . , . I 7 Valdet, Jr. meeting in Monroe, La. International Fellowship Column, 3. One of the trucks used by Gayle Jack- Donald Gee Column. .1..., . , , .I8 son. This is one of a score or more used Devid J. du Plessis.. 5 by TVH evangelists in transporting Richey Life Story by tents and equipment. , , Evangelists' Address Directory. 6 Eloise May Richey . , . , . I9 4. A typical scene at W. B. McKay tent Questions and Answers. , . , . , meetings. The McKay tent has been . 6 Schedules of TVH Evangelisfs. , .2O used extensively in campaigns in'Florida and on the East Coast. Divine Healing Revivals Televi'sion in Prophecy by 5. A scene showing necessity for providing Within the Local Churches. 7 Gordon Lindsay . :. , , . .22 accommodations for those who travel many miles to attend these meetings. .23-24 (Note buses used in carrying some of Interview with William Branham. 8 Our Book' Selection . , the crowds to Dale Hanson meeting.) 6. This photo shows cooperating ministers gathered on platform during Vinyard campaign. Note placards in foreground which show the names of many churches. cooperating in the meeting. THREE GREAT SERVICES DAILY 7. Tent used hy Velmer Gardner in cam- paigns th:oughout the midwest. The 8. Many of the large campaigns include a At Fellowship breakfast or dinner where all coopernting ministers gather to dis- DIV€NE EEALXNG CONVENT€ON cuss the meeting. This photo was taken in connection with Branham campaign Sponsored By in Kansas City. 9. This scene is typical of the large crowds The Voice Of Healing which attend the Sunday afternoon serv- ices usually held during Union Tent, To be held December 11-12-1 3 Meetings. This photo was taken at A. A. Allen meeting in Yakima, Washington. Convention Hall- Tulsa, Okhhoma 10. For such large tents as the one used by OOTSTANDING EVANGELISTS TO SPEAK Jack Coe, it is often necessary to find commercial locations to accommodate YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR MEN GOD IS USZNG ZN TNZS the tent, equipment and crowds which attend. l'his photo shows Coe tent while . WORLD-WIDE REVIVAL it was at Livestock Show Grounds, Little If you have not already done so, write for reservations to Rock. Ark. Picture was taken while it was light, long before full number of REV. J. R. KEITH, 707 N. Wheeling Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma cars had gathered. e THE VOICE OF HEALING October, 1951 GREENVILLE, VIRGINIA HAS GOOD REVIVAL WITH CONGRESSMAN UPSHAW Ne ws an d NOtes FullByWOODROW Gospel Church, Greenville, Vrr. We- have just been blessed by some very gracious meetings--conducted by former Con- BRANHAMS ERIE MEETING REPORT FROM OSBORN gressman, Wm. D. Upshaw, assisted by his, MEETING IN PANAMA wife. BY JOHN T. REED Our boy, Edward, was born cross-eyed. Then, -Brother Upshaw came to us, after making CHAIRMAN, SPONSORING COMMITTEE after the big fire which swept over most of some brief stops in South Dakota, and other the City of Colon, we had to live out in a places en route, all the way across from his Since the days of Billy Sunday, Erie has little- tent, as so many others had to do, home in California-and spoke 8 nights at the Full Gospel Church here at Greenville, never been so stirred as it was by the Bran- because our living quarters were destroyed. During this time, the boy caught cold and Virginia. After’leaving here, he was to go to ham-Baxter Revival. The services seemed to in- became very sick. We finally had to take him Washington, to give his testimony to high crease with power and glory until, by the to the hospital where he remained for 14 days government officials. last day, the very air seemed charged with -almost dead. He finally got better, and we It is difficult to think of this fighting cru- took him home, but he just wasn’t right. sader, with his youthful vim and vision and spiritual electricity. burden, as being a man 84 years old! His We were glad message on “Home-the Foundation of Civili- Waves’of glory swept back and forth over when we heard Bro- the congregation from time to time. Bekeen zation”, brought a throng forward who ther Osborn was com- pledged to build family altars in their homes. services several were filled with the Holy ing to Colon for a. Spirit. God was glorified as diseases were Other messages such as,.“Old Time Religion- revival. We attended the Hope of the World,” proved very stirring supernaturally discerned, all types of sickness from the first night, and infirmity healed, demons cast out, and also. People came to the altar seeking God believing that God from the first night the lawmaker-preacher visions received by many. Noticeable judg- would favor us by ment was outpoured on certain blasphemers. spoke. healing the boy. The It is true that many people should come to Expressions like these were heard here and boy also believed he there:-“I’ve never before heard a sermon like hear and see a man that was Divinely healed- could be healed. One after 66 years afflicted with such a condition- that!”--“Bible Days are here again.”-“I of his ears had some- thought I was going up”--“I saw it for my- and they did. But many, when they came, were thing wrong with it, deeply impressed not only “Beholding the self!”-“It’s real.”--“It’s God.”-“I can’t be causing it to swell satisfied with anything less now.” man which was healed standing with them.. .”, badly, and when Bro- but without gray hair and with fighting cour- As a result of this campaign, there has ther Osborn prayed age, and a message that stirred his audiences- been a noticeable deepening and quickening for all the sick at reminding us of the same Congressman-Evan- of the saints, a closer bond among the minis- once, Edward put his gelist who about 32 years ago startled the ters, a fear upon the ungodly, wonder amongst hand on his ear-like City of Washington, D.