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<div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; font-size:125%; padding:1px; margin:1px; text-align:center;">'''William Branham's version of the healing'''</div> | <div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; font-size:125%; padding:1px; margin:1px; text-align:center;">'''William Branham's version of the healing'''</div> | ||
William Branham retold the story of Congressman Upshaw's healing many times. However, over time the story changed | William Branham retold the story of Congressman Upshaw's healing many times. However, over time the story changed considerably so that by 1954 it included a vision of a brown suit, and a "Thus Saith The Lord" statement spoken by Brother Branham to William Upshaw directly over the pulpit, and not as communicated by Brother LeRoy Kopp. | ||
'''Initially the story that William Branham tells is very close to the testimony of Congressman Upshaw.''' | |||
MY.COMMISSION_ LA.CA SATURDAY_ 51-0505 | |||
:''And one night, I walked into the platform here. Mr. Baxter had just left the platform. I looked, hanging right out here, and I seen the White House, seen all about it. Begin to speak, and I couldn't tell. And I told Mr. Baxter. In a few moments, It fell and I seen where the man was setting. I seen it was him, seen him get hurt when he was just a little boy. And he'd been a crippled for all...'' | |||
:''And I started to leave and the Spirit of God begin to fall. And a woman had raised out of a wheelchair, and some more things had taken place where the Holy Spirit revealing to them.'' | |||
:''And as I started, Mr. Kopp here, the... Brother Kopp, the pastor run up there. And I said, "Go tell the congressman that God has healed him. I seen him, going walking away."'' | |||
'''But three years later, it had already changed considerably.''' | |||
JESUS ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORD WOOD RIVER, IL 54-0217 | JESUS ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORD WOOD RIVER, IL 54-0217 | ||
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:''And I said, "Right now, Congressman." And up he jumped from that chair, threw aside... He had big crutches that went up over his shoulders, when they'd stand him up; it was like Mister Roosevelt, I... like that, in his back. | :''And I said, "Right now, Congressman." And up he jumped from that chair, threw aside... He had big crutches that went up over his shoulders, when they'd stand him up; it was like Mister Roosevelt, I... like that, in his back. | ||
<div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; font-size:125%; padding:1px; margin:1px; text-align:center;">''' | THE.QUEEN.OF.THE.SOUTH_ SOUTH.BEND.IN SATURDAY_ 58-0208 | ||
:''How many remembers the healing of Congressman Upshaw? I was just standing there talking like this when there's thousands of people standing there, and they was fixing to line up, and I looked out. I'd seen an old man, and they'd been a many a wheelchair, oh, there was just wheelchairs all over the places in California. And I looked across, and I seen a little boy playing on a haystack, and he fell and hit his back across a--the edge of a frame. And it must've broke his back. I seen a doctor with little glasses hanging low on his nose, white mustache and white hair, a working on him but it was no good, too far gone. And I seen them boring holes in the house so that the people walking in, it wouldn't vibrate on the floor. He was so bad. And that's the only thing I can say is what I'm looking at. | |||
:''And just then, I seen there come a great man, a famous speaker, and the vision left. And I looked around; I couldn't find him. And they'd just brought him in, I think, by a plane. And I said, "There's the old man setting right there now." And his wife was down with him. He's eighty-six years old, been in a wheelchair for sixty-six years. And there he was, and bowing down. And to you Baptist tonight, you surely ought to know him. He was the Vice President of Southern Baptist Convention. | |||
:''So when he a... And he said, "My son, how did you ever know that I fell on a hay frame?" | |||
:''I said, "Sir, I didn't know." | |||
:''He said, "It has to come from God, for that is the same type of doctor that operated on me which has been gone for years." He said, "And no minister anywhere..." Said, and they told me, said, "It's Congressman Upshaw." | |||
:''Well, I didn't... He might've said somebody from India. I wouldn't knowed any different 'cause I didn't know no Congressman. And so Mr. Baxter said, "That's Congressman Willie D. Upshaw." | |||
:''I said, "I never heard of him." | |||
:''So he said, "Will I be healed, my son?" | |||
:''I said, "Sir, I don't know. The only thing I can say is what I see." | |||
:''And I said, "Have you got the prayer line ready?" | |||
:''And the boys down there said, "Just about." They started a woman up. | |||
:''...And just as I turned, I seen the old Congressman with a brown pin striped suit on. He wore a blue suit with a red tie at the time. He was going right over the tops of the heads of the people. He was very southern hospitality, going along, going like this. | |||
:''I said, "Congressman," (they run the address system to him quickly). And I said, "Haven't you got a brown pin striped suit?" He said, "My son, I just bought one yesterday." | |||
I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD. It looks like that God would've healed you when you were about seventeen years old and your bones all young to wait till you're eighty-six and then heal you." But I said, "He's healed you, Congressman." | |||
:''He said, "Do you mean to say, my son, that I can rise from this chair?" | |||
:''I said, "In Jesus' Name, come here." And that man, being bound to his... When they raised him up like President Roosevelt, with those great, big things over him (braces) and he walked. You know how he walked, if you knew him. And he threw those down, raised from his wheelchair, run to the platform and touched his toes like that, and stand up as a real man. And it's...?... the nation. | |||
<div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; font-size:125%; padding:1px; margin:1px; text-align:center;">'''A Brief Biography of William Upshaw'''</div> | |||
At the age of 18, William Upshaw lost the use of his legs as the result of a farming accident, and spent the next seven years in bed. Shortly before his accident, he had given his heart to the Lord Jesus. From his bed, William began to write a column of poems and inspirational letters for a local newspaper called Sunny South, using the pen name `Earnest Willie.' His calm manner and gifted style of writing soon endeared him to the hearts of his readers. He was encouraged to publish his writings in a book, which he did, titling it "Earnest Willie, or, Echoes From A Recluse." | At the age of 18, William Upshaw lost the use of his legs as the result of a farming accident, and spent the next seven years in bed. Shortly before his accident, he had given his heart to the Lord Jesus. From his bed, William began to write a column of poems and inspirational letters for a local newspaper called Sunny South, using the pen name `Earnest Willie.' His calm manner and gifted style of writing soon endeared him to the hearts of his readers. He was encouraged to publish his writings in a book, which he did, titling it "Earnest Willie, or, Echoes From A Recluse." | ||