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Paul Rader was probably the first national radio preacher in the United Stats. He died in 1938 at the age of 59 and was America's first nationwide radio preacher. He was senior pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago from 1915 to 1921. | |||
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A couple of months later he repeated this story: | A couple of months later he repeated this story: | ||
:''And I'm hearing that glorious old song "Only Believe," and of Paul Rader, the writer of that song. And I was a little boy setting at his feet when he was writing that song. Guess, little did he know then that would be my theme song around the world. <ref>51-0729A</ref> | :''And I'm hearing that glorious old song "Only Believe," and of Paul Rader, the writer of that song. And '''I was a little boy setting at his feet when he was writing that song.''' Guess, little did he know then that would be my theme song around the world. <ref>51-0729A</ref> | ||
And again he repeated it in 1956 and was even specific about the church he attended (which appears to have been in Fort Wayne, Indiana: | And again he repeated it in 1956 and was even specific about the church he attended (which appears to have been in Fort Wayne, Indiana: | ||
:''...when I was a little old boy, setting up there at the Rediger Tabernacle, listened to Paul Rader preach, that I'd ever pack his song around the world. How many knows the Rediger Tabernacle, would you hold hand up? Sure.<ref>William Branham, 56-0615 - An Exodus, para. 62</ref> | :''...'''when I was a little old boy, setting up there at the Rediger Tabernacle, listened to Paul Rader preach''', that I'd ever pack his song around the world. How many knows the Rediger Tabernacle, would you hold hand up? Sure.<ref>William Branham, 56-0615 - An Exodus, para. 62</ref> | ||
So he was "'''never'''" in church as a child? Really??? | |||
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:''I remember my first experience '''I was at Rediger Tabernacle in Fort Wayne, Indiana. And I was speaking''', having a healing service, after the death of—of Brother B. E. Rediger. And Brother Bosworth had been there, Paul Rader. And many of you older men, like me, you remember Paul Rader; and he was a Baptist, and we was, so '''we were great friends'''. And so while speaking there, was going to pray for the sick. It was a strange thing to them then. But a lady brought a little boy down, that was crippled, and, as he come across the platform, the vision of the Lord appeared and told him all about what was the matter with the little lad. And I asked the girl to hand—to hand me the little boy.<ref>William Branham, 65-0206 - Doors In Door, para. 47</ref> | :''I remember my first experience '''I was at Rediger Tabernacle in Fort Wayne, Indiana. And I was speaking''', having a healing service, after the death of—of Brother B. E. Rediger. And Brother Bosworth had been there, Paul Rader. And many of you older men, like me, you remember Paul Rader; and he was a Baptist, and we was, so '''we were great friends'''. And so while speaking there, was going to pray for the sick. It was a strange thing to them then. But a lady brought a little boy down, that was crippled, and, as he come across the platform, the vision of the Lord appeared and told him all about what was the matter with the little lad. And I asked the girl to hand—to hand me the little boy.<ref>William Branham, 65-0206 - Doors In Door, para. 47</ref> | ||
When was William Branham friends with Paul Rader? It would have to have been before Rader's death in 1938, when William Branham was still less than 30 years old. | When was William Branham friends with Paul Rader? It would have to have been before Rader's death in 1938, when William Branham was still less than 30 years old. And how could F.F. Bosworth have known William Branham prior to 1938? | ||
It seems highly improbable that this was the case. | It seems highly improbable that this was the case. | ||