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Evan Roberts
Welsh Revival
Charles Parham, William J. Seymour, Smith Wigglesworth
John G. Lake, Demos Shakarian, Kathryn Kuhlman
R. W. Schambach, William Branham
Oral Roberts, A. A. Allen, Jack Coe
Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland
Creflow Dollar, Rodney HowardBrown,
Randy Clark, John Arnott,
Steve Hill, John
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hen I was a little hope. If you finished these who saw two large angels at ors radiating out from them.
2006 boy I used to sit pages and read everything the back of a church in Co- I can remember Mahesh
in front of my that there is in these pages lumbus, Georgia. I will al- Chavda telling me about the
The television set and watch a then you would understand ways remember the day that Lord Jesus appearing at the
Remnant strange man from Tulsa, one thing. God always uses John Kilpatrick drove to foot of his bed when he was
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Editor, Rev. Jerrell H. Miller
Photographer, Cathy Wood I thought he was a rather des- upon the face of the earth. rayed in rainbow colors and
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These men of God repre- cial purpose but he had to minister’s meeting in 1991. Holy Land. I don’t know
sented in this paper were all trust God to walk away from Our newspaper had not even what God is up to these days
the people who took God one his security one day. He was been founded yet but after but I do know we will very
step further to advance the a meter reader in Southern hearing what he saw I never soon experience the Knowl-
Kingdom of God. If you Indiana -- when he decided forgot it. The testimony of edge of the Glory of God
asked me who my favorites to follow Jesus he was led by the supernatural is just some- over the earth as the waters
were I would tell you in a and angel. This angel stayed thing you don’t forget. I of the seas Hab . What ever
minute William J. Branham with him all through his min- wanted to start a paper since the bible says, it will come
and Kathryn Kulhman. Why istry. He was there to coun- I was baptised in the Holy to pass. Please seek God’s
History Edition do I like these more than the cil the great man of God dur- Ghost in 1977 but the right face right now for my fam-
Editor’s Column - Page 2 others, its because they re- ing his toughest days. His moment had to come when ily we really pay a price for
Azusa Foundation - Page 3 vealed more of God and what son Billy saw the angel one it was time to do it. It was me traveling at times. It is
Aimee Simple McPherson - Page 5
he could do when a man is night and was afraid of what John Kilpatrick’s powerful even more difficult as I write
Evangelist Evan Roberts - Page 7
The Healers - Page 9 raised up to bear witness of he saw. I bet the memory of testimony that birthed this this to you. I can see the
The Charismatics - Page 11 the power of God. that perfect being was never paper. I never forget asking cloths in the laundry room
The Faith Movement - 12
R. W. Schambach Radio - 12 These pages represent a forgot by young Billy him after the meeting, “What that she cannot get to. Pray
River Move of God - Page 13 lot of prayer and a lot of hope. Branaham that night. did they look like.” I remem- for Vivian she has really paid
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Azusa Foundation
locked at church where he early days Those who had
taught this new vision. Vision of been built around
can only come through where traditions for
revelation is free. It was on years could
Bonnie Brae Street where a not understand
L women had opened her house this modern
OS ANGELES, CA -- I people of California with the now Mobile Bay the Bay of
up for the new teaching. The day Pentecost.
drove down the street gospel and while it did, God the Holy Spirit. Many believe
Spirit did fall on that Many minis-
in Los Angeles to try had other plans through this that the name the Bay of the
September day in 1906 and ters heard
and find the location of 312 area to reach and entire world Holy Spirit is a call toward a
Seymour saw his work just about the
Azusa Street, but it’s not with signs and wonders. He future purpose named by a
begin in a small room with outpouring and
there anymore, but God’s would reach the world with prophet of the Christian
only a piano. A few people they came from
blessing wasn’t initially the experience of Pentecost in faith. William Seymour
helped establish God's ladder their denomina-
poured out at the spot where would be the last one you
like Bethel in Southern, tions from all
a parking lot is today, it was would ever had thought to
California. The ladder would around the
poured out on another street. bring a new move of
just not reach to Los Angeles world.
Bonnie Brae was where the Pentecost upon the world
but it would go around the When
power of God was poured stage. He knew about
world before it would be they
out, but they call it today the prejudice as in Houston he
over. Charles were
Azusa Street Revival and worked as a waiter and heard
Parham
every modern work of the teachings of the Baptism
experienced
Pentecost can be traced to in the Holy Spirit through a
the first
Los Angeles, California. prejudice Methodist Preacher
touch of this
When God spoke to Charles Parham. He was more
vision but
interested in the teaching
God gave
than the prejudice
the
because God was
increase
establishing a
to a
new vision
humble
inside of his
servant of
heart.
God who
Seymour
had a hunger
wasn't
to see God
wor-
move. Through
ried
all the rejected prejudice the early
that even happened, today, church.
William J. Seymour was more If you
than conquer as God chose would
this vessel of honor to bless have
the world. been a Christian in baptized in the Holy
What was the 1906 and would have Ghost they began to
thing that brought read the Los Angeles speak with an
unknown tongue.
people from all Times you would
That was the hard-
around the world to have been turned off
Jacob, He opened up Heaven a city named for the angels. about how people treated him est thing for the
experience. Los by the events of
on a rock that was named What’s in a name -- the but he was hungry for the fundamental
Angeles had become Azusa St. God was
Bethel. Scriptures says that churches to accept.
angels went up and down A Many including D.
waiter, A plumber and a banker helped
that ladder and God was at L. Moody called it a
the top of the ladder in that spread Pentecost in the early 1900’s, vomit from Hell but
whether you ac-
place. The city where the
cepted it or not it
initial thrust of Pentecost In the Days of Jusus it was a tent
would be a standard
was a place named for the
by what people
Angels of God by Catholic maker, a fisherman and a tax collector who
would measure this
missionaries as they planted
new group of
helped spread Christianity to the new world,
missions up and down the people. They were
coast of California. The called Pentecostals
God has always used those elements of society
name was spoken like a and with the
prophet through their own infilling, religion
who were not raised in religion
visions of the area. The had to get out of the
Fathers established the San way for a new breed
Gabriel Mission in the Los Spanish were consecrated to experience and he believed in the Bethel and the changing the atmo- of people who
haven't been seen
Angeles area and named it God to spread the Catholic it so much he paid the price great outpouring of sphere of religion and
since the day of
for one of the most powerful faith and many names along for it when he came to Los God's love in Califor- what was accepted by
Pentecost.
messengers of God. The our coasts dot that intention. Angeles, California. Rejec- nia was just the the masses was not
original hope was that the In Mobile, Alabama the initial tion built the man of God and beginning of a move going to be accepted continued on
mission would reach the Spanish settlers named what is the move of God in Los of God that hadn't by normal denomina- next page
contiued from the evidence of in the Holy Ghost in "Only believe!" To try, begged others to
page 3 speaking in tongues. Sunderland, England Wigglesworth, simple preach in his place
During this He was a seeker at at the rectory from obedience to what one because of shyness. He
period of time two the early part of the the wife of Alexander believed was not an was so hungry to speak
great men of faith Azusa Street Revival Boddy He had extraordinary feat, but in other tongues, that he
were being raised up. and from that revival sought the filling of the fruit of that disrupted a service and
The first person was he was led as a God for almost two expericne was. His the minister three times
a wealthy business- missionary to Africa weeks at the revival own faith was said to and was escorted out by
man from Chicago, where he established in Sunderland. Frus- be unflinching and the ushers. When he
Illinois. John G. Lake the foundations of trated he stopped by sometimes ruthless. did speak in other
had been very suc- Pentecost in South have to include the the rectory to say But he was also said to tongues, he interrupted
cessful in the banking African. His wife work of Smith good-bye when he was possess an unusual the minister again, took
business but the died while he was Wigglesworth. He is touched in a powerful teaching anointing and over the pulpit, and 50
people of a classic example of way after Boddy’s a keen sense of com- people were baptized in
his faith who did more wife ministered to the Holy Spirit as he
family for Pentecost in the him. He had a preached. The next day,
were early days than any hunger for the the newspapers wrote a
being other building block. power of God and front page account of the
touched He had always been a had saw many story! He died at age 86
by sick- soul winner one on healings in the in 1947 but the truth of
ness and one but he was afraid small house who he was and what he
death. of people when he meetings he was represented was an
Lake got up to preach. holding in Leeds, example for those who
searched Revival broke out in England but the would follow in his
the Sunderland, England powerful infilling footsteps. Wigglesworth
scriptures after Father put him in an- introduced the Baptism in
about Alexander Boddy of other realm as a the Holy Ghost to New
healing the Episcopal Church minister. Zealand and his legend
and was read about the ac- He had several grows greater as the days
led to the counts of revival in recordings of go on..
Zion Los Angeles through raising the dead The greatest failure of
Movement the small Pentecostal in his 40 years of The Azusa Street Revival
just above Newspaper The ministry. Raising was that it did not change
Chicago. He was raising funds in the Apostolic Faith that the dead was only one passionate fruit of the racial situation in the
amazed at the healing United States but his was sent around the amazing facet of the which produced church. God used a one
coming from this early works would be world. He traveled to ministry of Smith countless salvations eyed black evangelist to
place led by a man of the foundational Los Angeles by going Wigglesworth. This and miracles in his change the church through
God named works of several around South great apostle of faith ministry every day. the power of God but the
Alexander Dowie. major evangelists to America in a ship and walked in such an The same power church remained in its
Dowie believed in come out of that returned to break astounding measure of Wigglesworth walked racial makeup and is still
healing power of God region. John G. Lake Pentecostal Revival God's anointing that in is here for us today! that way today. The
but did not believe in moved to the North in England. It would the miraculous follow- (All the pictures you greatest failure of the
the Baptism in the West of the United be at this revival that ing his ministry was see were taken by Azusa Street Revival was
Holy Ghost States and established a legend of Pentecost only secondary to it. In Editor Jerrell Miller in that it did not join the
expedrience. While a work called the would be birthed. He his lifetime, this one his 1997 trip to England races in common belief, it
Lake was a believer healing rooms. was a plumber but at time plumber would with Cleddie Keith) remained segregated the
he received the When you say 46 years of age he give new meaning to Wigglesworth at the next move will be with the
fullness of God with foundational you received the Baptism the word "adventure." beginning of his minis- segregated heart.
Kingsport, Tennessee was spoken of by Rodney Howard-Browne as a
place where great revival will happen. The people at Restoration
Church in Downtown Kingsport are sensing the presence of God ever
since the Fire on the Mountain Conference. God has been touching
those who are seeking His face and the glory hasn’t gone away.
L
OS ANGE by Pastor David Littlewood
LES, CA -- Swallownest, England
With a flair for
the dramatic which
appealed to the
movie capital of
America in the
glamorous ‘roaring
twenties’, Aimee
Semple McPherson
provided the best
show in town. And
with her emphasis on
divine healing —
many outstanding
miracles were
reported under her
ministry — it wasn’t
surprising that she
drew the crowds.
People stood in
line for hours hoping times, controversial Christian faith by her the shock, she re- strained her marriage clubs, theatres, dance
for admission to the figure who won the mother Minnie (at turned to New York beyond redemption. halls, jails and even
5,300-seater Angeles hearts of a whole that time a Salvation- where she met and Harold seemed brothels — to tell
Temple where her generation of Ameri- ist) and came to a married aspiring unable to accept the people of the Savior.
illustrated sermons can Christians. personal knowledge evangelist Harold fact that his wife’s There was no pleading,
held audiences Essentially of Christ at 18 McPherson. They ministry far exceeded no fire and brimstone,
spellbound. From Pentecostal, preach- through Pentecostal toured together in his own and left no criticizing — just a
relatively simple ing the ‘Four Square evangelist Robert their ‘Gospel Car’ Aimee to pursue an warmhearted welcome
beginnings, such as Gospel’ of Jesus as Semple. After receiv- holding evangelistic (unsuccessful) evan- from a woman who
when she dressed as Savior, gelistic cared. Believing that
Little Bo Peep Healer, She became the first woman to receive career people who most
(seeking lost sheep), Baptize, of his needed the gospel were
they grew to spec- and Com- a license to operate a radio station, and own. not likely to be found in
tacular productions ing King, For her church, she visited red-
involving the use of she never- programmers from the Temple brought part it light districts where she
elaborate sets and theless appears hugged, cried and
full orchestras. appealed to the gospel to thousands.(On a visit to Brit- that prayed with the women.
Having once been Christians Aimee Settling in Los
stopped by the across the ain in 1928 she met the inventor Marconi put her Angeles, Aimee
police for speeding, board. At a own call founded the Interna-
and told him that God had raised him up
she appeared in the time when well tional Church of the
Temple on a motor- Pentecostalism to enable the masses to hear the gospel.) before Foursquare Gospel and
bike dressed in a was in her the Angeles Temple was
police uniform, danger of duties dedicated in 1923. She
warning her hearers becoming as a became the first woman
to stop speeding narrow and separatist, ing the baptism in the campaigns. Harold wife and the couple to receive a license to
down the road to Aimee used the Spirit, Aimee married acted as the advance were divorced in operate a radio station,
hell! And on a night popular idioms of the Robert and the young man while Aimee 1921. and programmers from
she announced a new day to communicate couple set about followed him up with Dedicated, the Temple brought the
illustrated sermon, the gospel and, in an pioneering in Canada her preaching — and talented and ener- gospel to thousands.
the city provided era devoted to vaude- and the USA. her striking presence, getic, and with a (On a visit to Britain in
additional trolley ville, caught the Determined to wonderful powers of burning desire to see 1928 she met the
cars and police to public imagination. serve as ‘faith’ communication and the lost won for inventor Marconi and
control traffic. She was way ahead missionaries in emphasis on healing Christ, Aimee toured told him that God had
Aimee Semple of her time and also China, the Semples drew the crowds. In America. Known raised him up to enable
McPherson was made extensive use reached Hong Kong 1917 she launched simply as ‘Sister’ to the masses to hear the
undoubtedly the of writing and broad- in June 1910 but ‘The Bridal Call’, a her many followers, gospel.) Seeing the
most prominent casting. within a few weeks monthly magazine in she showed not only need for training, she
woman leader Born Aimee Robert died of ma- which she wrote formidable oratory in established the Light-
Pentecostalism has Elizabeth Kennedy laria, leaving Aimee many articles ex- the pulpit but a deep house for International
produced. A strik- on a small farm near widowed with a pounding the essence compassion for Foursquare
ingly beautiful Ingersoll, Ontario, newborn baby at the of her teaching. people in all walks of
woman, she was a Canada, in 1890, she age of 20. Unfortunately life. She would go
continued on
colorful and, at was nurtured in the Recovering from Aimee’s success anywhere — night-
next page
contiued from
pulpit to press. Ultimately the amidst much corruption among 1944, Angeles Temple had over
page 5
charges were dropped and the charitable organizations, Aimee’s 400 branch churches (with some
Evangelism (LIFE) Bible district attorney who instigated compassion for the needy: “I saw 22,000 members) and 200
College and also invested in the case was himself sent to her feeding, encouraging and mission stations abroad. Her
foreign missions. But her later prison for corruption. giving hope, faith and strength to son Rolf McPherson took over
years were dogged by contro- A nervous breakdown in 1930 the poor as they jammed the the leadership of ICFG and
versy. Her mysterious disap- may have precipitated a disas- Temple...and I saw her insulting today the denomination has
pearance, believed drowned, in trous marriage to David L. Hutton those who had folding money into over 25,000 churches in 74
1926, gave rise to speculation in 1931 which alienated some of parting with it for their destitute countries with a total of
of an affair with a former her contemporaries. But her brothers. She had sick women on 1,700,000 members. Such is the
employee. But in fact she had tremendous resilience prevailed the floor of her home and old men legacy of this remarkable
been kidnapped in Mexico and and during the depression she met in her garage.” woman who liked to be known
such was the relief at having her the physical needs of over 1.5 By the time of her death in as ‘Everybody’s Sister’.
back that 50,000 people lined million people
the streets to welcome her on regardless of race,
her return to Los Angeles. creed or color. A
Nevertheless Aimee and her journalist sent to
mother were charged with investigate relief
perjury and ridiculed from efforts reported,
Pastor Mike Cody
Oklahoma Salvation
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Pastor Paulette Blaylock
Senior Pastor
2300 Olive Ave (Corner of Westwood &
Olive) 559 784-2827
C
ARDIFF, “Bread of Heaven Fall On Us”
WALES The
last time I
went to England I
looked out my
window to right side
of cabin to notice
to the feet of Christ. The title of National godly man. During accepted the call of of these meetings that a
the mouth of the
Everyone one in Anthem of Wales is, Evan’s teens years his God to full time work man of God encour-
Severn River near
“Bread of Heaven Fall father had an accident would be in the early aged Evan to go full
Cardiff, on the other
on Us.” In the year of in the mine and Evan hours of the morning time into the ministry.
side of that inlet was
1905 that is exactly felt it was God’s will and then after he fell This was just before the
the small Nation of
what happened. for him to go to work back to sleep he would great awakening in
Wales. It was here that
From one end of in the mines. With his awaken once again to 1903.
history was made by a
the country to other heart fixed on Jesus, pray for five more Seth Joshua was a well
man with a passion for
a great revival led Evan went to work hours at a time. The known preacher of
his countrymen to find
by a young man each day with his Bible strength of Roberts was Evans days. It during a
Jesus. Never in the
who knew that it under his arm. He took his relationship with meeting that Joshua
modern history of
preached a sermon on
revival would an
E bending to the will of
entire country bend veryone one in
God. This sermon
there knee and surren-
der to the will of Roberts family had a touched Roberts deeply
an moved him toward a
God. Not even
reverence for the word deeper commitment to
the people of
God. Joshua had
God known as
of God. The title of longed prayed for a
the Jews ever
man of God to come to
surrendered
National Anthem of Wales lead a great revival in
to their
Evangelist England, little did he
maker like
is, “Bread of Heaven Fall know the man he had
these people
prayed for had made a
in the year Evans Roberts on Us.” In the year of commitment in one of
of 1905.
his services. After
A young
1905 that is exactly what
surrendering his life to
man named
the will of God Roberts
Evan happened.
began to feel a power
Roberts,
sensation of love go
who came
through him. He felt
from a family of
was his destiny to lead his Bible and hid it in God and when he went
Roberts family had a the touch of God from
Calvinistic Methodist
it. A year before the the mine only to go to the pulpit the display
reverence for the word that date on.
would shake his entire
great revival young back and read it on his of the Holy Spirit
of God. Evan Roberts
country and lead them
Evan Roberts saw the break time. Robert’s would fall on the chased the Devil from
vision of a great arm knew the power of the people leaving them
coming out of heaven Holy Spirit but he also with a mark of God’s
to come down to touch knew the power of the servant on them. contiued on the
next page
his country. It was a word of God. Evan It was at one
once in a lifetime event was a praying warrior
that the world has not and had a fire and a
ever witnessed since. purpose deep down
inside. Very
often people
Believe it or not the thought he
same buildings are in was a little
the same places as it strange but in
was more than 101 those days
years ago. The only going to
thing that has changed church was a
in Wales are the hearts moral obliga-
of the people that live tion. It would
there. It’s hard to be Evan who
believe that a country would awaken
who once loved Jesus the people to
has only a shadow of how much their
that belief in place need for God
today. would be.
Prayer times
Robert’s father was
for Evan as he
a coal miner and a
at age 72
contiued from was unheard of for a Frank Bartleman wrote to
in 1951
page 7 preacher to do that but Roberts. Bartleman asked
and was
under the presence of the how to bring revival to the
one end of Wales to the buried at
Holy Spirit, Roberts United States. It was next
other and then disap- Moriah
brought greatness into year in 1906 that
peared. Roberts knew that Chapel in
church meetings. God’s Bartleman would begin to
the actions that were North
presence and the power of report on the move of God
happening at the time of Wales.
the Holy Spirit began to at Azusa Street.
the greater events in Wales What
the meetings as he became Newspapers pumped
were those of the Holy were the
one of the most influential the message of Roberts to
Spirit but what he didn’t lessons
men of his time. Church the public. Bars and
know were the time limits learned in
was no longer an obliga- sporting events began to
of his body after the the
tion but it became an close down as the fire got
anointing would leave at shadow of
experience, much like larger. It seemed as if the
times. These were times this great
what has been experienced young Evangelist Evan
when he withdrew and figure. We
in meetings in the river Roberts could do no
like many evangelist to must
move of God today. As wrong as the entire coun-
proceed him they would realize that
Evan came to different try of Wales was on fire.
also find out that the God
meetings the people of What caused the flame
release of the Spirit supplies
Wales would follow him of revival to return to ash
through them would not the power
and some small communi- in Wales. The power of
be the power they would and we
ties would see their God was real and the man
find in the quite times must guard
churches unusually over- with the mantle stirred the
away from the pulpit. ourselves
flowing with people. The people but the one thing
But let us look at what with rest.
call to the nations began Evan Roberts forgot to do
happened during the time It is during
as the witness of what had was rest. Roberts would
of the great event of that the times
happened in Wales began preach for long periods of
revival. Under the preach- to go out. People began to time but depression began of tired-
ing of Evan Roberts the come to Wales from South to set in during his periods ness that Satan moves in great man and today the
awareness and the pres- Africa, India, The United of time. His anointing was his best troops. Evan only thing people remem-
ence of the Holy Spirit States and Canada to see a full blessing and his Roberts had led an entire ber about his ministry, is
became evident. God the great work of God in intercessors backed him nation to Jesus but fell to that he led an entire nation
moved through him as he progress. It was all an up during this time, but his own tireness and the to Christ, and no one in
came out from behind the education that would soon what was needed most lies of religion. He was a the history of the Christian
pulpit and walked up in
open a larger door to during these times was faith has ever did this
down in the aisles preach-
Pentecost. California rest. Evan Roberts died before.
ing a sinners conviction. It
Evangelist and Journalist,
Oral Roberts Richard Roberts
Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne
He was strange and
the people who had visited
he was brought forth The Healers
Branham in the late forties
in a season and a time
began to come upon the
to stir a fire in Pente-
scene and one of those
costal circles that
was Jack Coe. Coe was a
hadn’t been seen
controversial healer that
since Amiee Simple
used a tent to go around
McPhereson’s Ange-
the country for his
les Temple days. published a journal of the fact he had an on a stage was
crusades. He had great
God was going to William J. Branhams angel visit him at visible to all who
success in what he was
use this man of God events until the night to bring council saw it. He was
doing.
to open a door to the evangelist became from God. The angel not an educated
supernatural that had sick after returning was seen by his son man and spoke in
never been seen
T
before. He was a he Voice of Healing
poor boy born in a
Magazine, estab
Kentucky log cabin
like Abe Lincoln, and lished
from the moment he
was born supernatu- Gordon Lindsey as a
ral signs and wonders
written record and account
surrounded him.
William J. Branham’s of the Branham ministry.
EEvvaannggeelliisstt WWiilllliiaamm BBrraannhhaamm
parents were so poor
The reason Branaham was
that they couldn’t
even afford to buy so facinating was that he
him a shirt to go to
was the first of his kind in
school in. His
mother had to alter
this type of ministry and he
the dresses that his
sisters wore to ac- displayed so many
commodate his cloths
supernatural signs that his
for a shirt to wear. At
his birth a supernatu- ministry was more power-
ral light appeared
ful than any of the others
over his crib, and to
look at his back- who followed him.
ground and surround- a broken Kentucky healing ministry since He often inflamed the
ings you would of hill billy accent but his his death. There are voices of religion and
said he never do from Africa on a Billy one night and ministry was the most those who came after him spoke to the General
anything in his life mission. The Voice the sight of that unusual out of all the such as Kathryn Council of the Assemblies
for God. William J. of Healing Magazine, divine figure caused healers. He died in a Kulhman, Oral Roberts, of God and told them that
Branham would open established by Gor- him to faint. During head on collision in the Jack Coe, and A.A. Allen they needed to get back to
the door to the super- don Lindsey was a several of his meet- desert of the southwest. but Branham had the the founda
natural that many written record and ings he would lay a He was involved in the special gifts of healing that
faith healers would account of Branham’s hand upon an indi- darkest part of him no other person had in the continued on
go through in the ministry. The reason vidual with cancer or ministry at the time. 20th Century had. next page
early 1950’s. Branham was so some other illness Many could not under- Gordon Lindsey was a
The founder of facinating was that he and his hand would stand why Branham in pioneer in Christian
Christ For The was the first of his turn red with a the later days of his Journalism and his
Nations kind in this type of coarseness, when the ministry began to move written word came
School ministry and he hand returned to away from the call of from the exploits of
in displayed so many normal the person healing on his life. He William Branham but
Dallas, supernatural signs was completely began to teach many when Branham
Texas that his ministry was healed. Many doctrinal errors outside almost died after
more powerful than charged him as being of the bible. Gordon coming back from
any of the others who a fake in what he was Lindsey remarked that Africa. Lindsey had to
followed him. Oral doing but the day of God took William keep his publica-
Roberts, A. A. one challenge in Branham before his tion, The
Allen and Jack Houston, Texas time because of the Voice of
Coe would would reveal the errors he was teaching Healing
follow in the supernatural nature of before the body of going by
traditions of this man. A ball of Christ. Branham was covering
Evangelist Jack
Coe this healer in fire that moved from unique in signs and other
the 1950’s the top of an audito- wonders and healings evange- EEvvaannggeelliisstt AA.. AA.. AAlllleenn
Branham rium and hovered and there hasn’t been lists.
was unusual in over Branham’s head anything like him in the Many of
place. God transformed the coroner ruled that he
contiued from this small boy who could died from acute alcoholism. time of ministry.
page 9 not walk back into a normal While the evidence might Roberts was
tional calling of what they child. More than 26 ill- have been to validate his much like Jack
were called to do and that nesses were healed right disease the evidence was Coe and A. A.
was the supernatural. before the people’s eyes. also there that this man Allen but
Springfield would never The power of this miracle had many signs and Roberts’ minis-
again endorse his ministry was go great that it ignited a wonders of divine try stretched into
while he was alive. Even fire in that tent where healing in his testi- the 60s, 70’s and
though he spoke the truth several people came to mony that was into the new
it was a door that the Christ and several attributed to the century. He
Assemblies of God chose terminal illnesses were powerful ministry started like the
not to go through. healed that week. he had while he others did as an off
Another man called by One thing was alive. spring of Branham
God in the healing minis- about One but he had a per-
try was A. A. Allen.
sonal knowledge
Some of the things that
that the
came through the
hands of this
healing evange-
lists are still
talked about
today. R. W.
Schambach
told the story
of a little boy
that was others didn’t outside the Timko-Barton
brought by his have. He was building and Billy Graham
mother from Chatta- healed in a tent meet- stepped up to the micro-
nooga to be healed in a ing of tuberculosis and phone and said, ‘Good
tent meeting in Birming- these of felt the call to deliver the afternoon,’ and commented
ham, Alabama. He was so healers that the last healing power of God to that it looked as if it was
deformed and unable to God had called healer we will this generation. He was so going to rain. Just then
walk or see. His mother forth in this age, speak about is moved by the healing someone said, ‘You know,
layed him out for the they were not Oral Roberts. ministry that he established the Lord wouldn’t dare let it
evangelist to pray for him. perfect. Religion Roberts grew a university in Tulsa, rain with Oral Roberts and
When Allen began his attacked A. A. up in this time Oklahoma and name it Oral Billy Graham on the
prayer over this child his Allen several period also Robert’s University. This platform at the same time.’”
tongue which was hang- times. Allen grew and was a University was built around This was door opened that
ing out of his head imme- up in a house of contemporary the healing power of God would never close as people
diately went inside. Two alcoholics and of these men and was built to take that like Benny Hinn took the
eyes were created in his many people knew but Roberts power around the world. mantle up long after these
head that where not there Allen had a prob- was called to Billy Graham dedicated were no longer involved.
before. People in in the lem with alcohol- several Oral Robert’s University, on
quietness of the large tent ism. When he died ministries the day they dedicated the
could hear the bones in San Francisco during his school a man heard some-
cracking and popping into
one say this, “We were
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