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:''One man had enough—enough good common sense up here. That said he was going to be a preacher, he'd get on Sunday morning and preach, and then he'd go down there on… and get on the radio broadcast and sing rock-and-roll songs and everything like that, so '''he finally took a pistol and blowed his brains out. I respect the man for doing it.''' That's right. That's right. He—he had more… He had as much sense as them hogs did, anyhow, when they got the devil in them they run down to the water and choked. Some people don't even have that much.<ref>William Branham, 60-1211E - The Laodicean Church Age, para. 156</ref> | :''One man had enough—enough good common sense up here. That said he was going to be a preacher, he'd get on Sunday morning and preach, and then he'd go down there on… and get on the radio broadcast and sing rock-and-roll songs and everything like that, so '''he finally took a pistol and blowed his brains out. I respect the man for doing it.''' That's right. That's right. He—he had more… He had as much sense as them hogs did, anyhow, when they got the devil in them they run down to the water and choked. Some people don't even have that much.<ref>William Branham, 60-1211E - The Laodicean Church Age, para. 156</ref> | ||
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William Branham claimed that the composer of the great hymn "There is a fountain, filled with blood" committed suicide just after he wrote the song. | William Branham claimed that the composer of the great hymn "There is a fountain, filled with blood" committed suicide just after he wrote the song. | ||
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Why would William Branham make up such a convincing story about something that was completely untrue? | Why would William Branham make up such a convincing story about something that was completely untrue? | ||
=Stephen Foster= | |||
William Branham claimed that the great American songwriter, Stephen Foster, died of a self-inflicted wound to the neck: | |||
In fact, Foster became ill with a fever in January 1864. Weakened, he fell in his hotel, cutting his neck. His writing partner, George Cooper, found him lying in a pool of blood. He died in hospital three days later, at age 37. | |||
Here is William Branham's version of the story: | |||
:''How many every heard of Stephen Foster, give America its best folk songs? He had it in the head but not the heart. Every time inspiration would hit him, he would write the song. Then when the inspiration left him, he didn't know what to do with himself, and he was lost. He—he—he had been on a drunk. And finally when he started to come out of that inspiration, he called a servant, and took a razor and committed suicide. That's right.<ref>William Branham, 64-0321E - The Voice Of The Sign, para. 288</ref> | |||
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