This examines William Branham's series of "healing campaigns" that began in the fall of 1946 and lasted through 1948 throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
Names discussed in this video:
• W. E. Kidson
• Roy E. Davis
• William D. Upshaw
• Jack Moore
• Walker Beck
• James Randi
• Rev. Mark Borror
• Rev. L. R. Mitchell
• Mary Bruce
• Mrs. Clyde Kidd
• Helen Gledhill
Topics discussed in this video:
• William Branham's highly publicized 1946 "Healing Campaign" before he later started claiming an "angel" gave him the "gift of healing" in May 1947
• Only six recordings from 1947 available, though over a hundred meetings took place
• Newspaper reporters actively following the meetings, unable to find any "miracles"
• Many people pronounced "healed" arriving in ambulances and stretchers, and leaving in ambulances and stretchers
• Blind people "healed" still blind
• Only minor afflictions, such as stomach troubles healed
• Crippled people falling to the ground after being "healed", carried away
• Pentecostalism claiming "spiritual significance" on the revival, due to its birth 40 years after the 1907 Azusa Street Revival
• Interesting case of Walker Beck, well-known healing failure in Vandalia, IL
• Branham pronouncing healing on Walker Beck, and claiming success because the boy was both mute and deaf and could say "da da"
• Walker Beck leaving the meeting, unhealed
• Branham claiming that because the boy smoked a cigarette, his healing was not successful
• James Randi, former magician, noticing similarities between the "Prophet's" strategies and stage magicians
• James Randi's book, "The Faith Healers"
• People returning home, testifying of "healing", though reporters were not able to identify any healed
• Rev. Mark Borror returning with stories conflicting with newspaper reporters
• Reporters watching 1100 of 2500 people enter the prayer line without a single miracle
• Rev. L. R. Mitchell claiming his wife, Valra, healed of epilepsy
• Mary Bruce claiming healing, speaking and hearing better
• William Branham's Canadian tour
• Branham's revival filling all hotels in Calgary
• Mrs Clyde Kidd dying after claiming to be healed in Branham's Calgary meetings
• William Branham using words like "en masse" when denying having claimed Mrs. Kidd was healed, contrary to his later "Kentucky English"
• William Branham teaming up with "Little" David Walker, 13-yr-old preacher
• William Branham's marketing, advertising "signs and wonders"
• Majority of "healed" leave to be "healed later"
• William Branham telling reporters that healings were mostly of the "gradual type"
• Reporters learning that people were being "healed" in Branham's healing revivals multiple times for the same disease or affliction
• Helen Gledhill, crippled, healed twice of the same affliction
• Over 70 sermons examined, almost all of which no longer for sale
https://william-branham.org/site/overview/the_message_part_25
Names discussed in this video:
• W. E. Kidson
• Roy E. Davis
• William D. Upshaw
• Jack Moore
• Walker Beck
• James Randi
• Rev. Mark Borror
• Rev. L. R. Mitchell
• Mary Bruce
• Mrs. Clyde Kidd
• Helen Gledhill
Topics discussed in this video:
• William Branham's highly publicized 1946 "Healing Campaign" before he later started claiming an "angel" gave him the "gift of healing" in May 1947
• Only six recordings from 1947 available, though over a hundred meetings took place
• Newspaper reporters actively following the meetings, unable to find any "miracles"
• Many people pronounced "healed" arriving in ambulances and stretchers, and leaving in ambulances and stretchers
• Blind people "healed" still blind
• Only minor afflictions, such as stomach troubles healed
• Crippled people falling to the ground after being "healed", carried away
• Pentecostalism claiming "spiritual significance" on the revival, due to its birth 40 years after the 1907 Azusa Street Revival
• Interesting case of Walker Beck, well-known healing failure in Vandalia, IL
• Branham pronouncing healing on Walker Beck, and claiming success because the boy was both mute and deaf and could say "da da"
• Walker Beck leaving the meeting, unhealed
• Branham claiming that because the boy smoked a cigarette, his healing was not successful
• James Randi, former magician, noticing similarities between the "Prophet's" strategies and stage magicians
• James Randi's book, "The Faith Healers"
• People returning home, testifying of "healing", though reporters were not able to identify any healed
• Rev. Mark Borror returning with stories conflicting with newspaper reporters
• Reporters watching 1100 of 2500 people enter the prayer line without a single miracle
• Rev. L. R. Mitchell claiming his wife, Valra, healed of epilepsy
• Mary Bruce claiming healing, speaking and hearing better
• William Branham's Canadian tour
• Branham's revival filling all hotels in Calgary
• Mrs Clyde Kidd dying after claiming to be healed in Branham's Calgary meetings
• William Branham using words like "en masse" when denying having claimed Mrs. Kidd was healed, contrary to his later "Kentucky English"
• William Branham teaming up with "Little" David Walker, 13-yr-old preacher
• William Branham's marketing, advertising "signs and wonders"
• Majority of "healed" leave to be "healed later"
• William Branham telling reporters that healings were mostly of the "gradual type"
• Reporters learning that people were being "healed" in Branham's healing revivals multiple times for the same disease or affliction
• Helen Gledhill, crippled, healed twice of the same affliction
• Over 70 sermons examined, almost all of which no longer for sale
https://william-branham.org/site/overview/the_message_part_25
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