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==Did the boy immediately come back to life?== | ==Did the boy immediately come back to life?== | ||
The ONLY third party | The ONLY third party relating of the story is from a Finnish pastor, Vilho Soininen: | ||
#the | #There were three carloads of people traveling with William Branham. | ||
# | #William Branham was in the back seat of one of the cars. | ||
# | #These cars were the first on the scene after 2 boys were struck by a car. | ||
#Because of the serious nature of the accident, the boys were placed into 2 of the cars and rushed two the hospital. | |||
#Kari Holma was brought to the car that William Branham was in and placed in the back seat. | |||
#There was no indication that William Branham got out of the car. | |||
#William Branham was the one that said that the boy was dead. | |||
#The prayer for the boy took place in the car. | |||
#The boy opened his eyes 5-6 minutes after William Branham prayed for him | |||
#As he was being carried into the hospital, the boy started to cry. | |||
#The boy was released from the hospital 3 days later. | |||
William Branham tells a story that is significantly different from that told by Soininen: | |||
#The boy had died and was laying on the street for half an hour before William Branham's vehicle arrived on the scene. | |||
It is also interesting to note that Gordon Lindsay, who was in the front seat of the car never told his version of the story in either the Voice of Healing Magazine or in his book. | |||
=The Story According to William Branham in 1950= | =The Story According to William Branham in 1950= | ||
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=William Branham relates the story on many occasions= | =William Branham relates the story on many occasions= | ||
But there laid about a 1925, '30 model Ford, or maybe a little later model than that, American made Ford wrecked, about five hundred people standing around, and two little boys had been coming from school holding each other's hand. And this car, about sixty miles per hour, whirled around the bend, and the little boys didn't know which way to go. One started one way, and one the other, the driver trying to dodge them, hit one little fellow under the chin with his bumper or his fender and threw him about thirty yards and smashed him against a tree. The other little boy rolled right over him like that, and the wheels kicked his little body about twenty feet across the road in a grass flat. The car run over the hill and wrecked. Brother Lindsay and them got out; they looked at it. They come back weeping. Sister Isaacson got out, my interpreter. | |||
She come back weeping, said, "Brother Branham, you ought to go look at it." | |||
I said, "Oh, no, I can't." I said, "You remember my wife died when I was just a young preacher about twenty-four years old. I buried her and my baby. We only had one little fellow left, and that was Billy. I walked around with his little bottle in my pocket at night. We didn't have enough money to get fire to keep his bottle warm, so I put it under my head. That's the reason he's with me today. I--I've been papa and mama, both, to him. That's what I promised her, when she was dying. And I kept his little body warm, and his little bottle by my own body." And then he was about ten years old, and I said, "I got my own little boy over in America. I--I just can't go look at him. I ain't seen Billy now for about three months; I just can't look at him." | |||
And something said, "Go look." | |||
I walked over, and had his little coat laying over his face, and they pulled it down. Oh, my, I turned around and started walking away. I don't know whether you're going to believe this or not. That's between you and God. | |||
Something put Their hand on my shoulder; I thought it was Brother Moore. | |||
I said, "What, why, there's nobody around me, and the hand was still on my shoulder." I thought, "What is this?" And Someone's hand laying on my shoulder, and I turned to the child. I happened to notice that little foot, legs all broke up, his little foot running through his big old, ribbed black stockings. That looked familiar. | |||
I said to the chief man, which was the mayor of the city, "Could..." They was waiting for the father and mother to come up. I thought, "Oh, my, what will that little papa and mama think when they come and see this baby laying here mashed up." The other little boy, he was alive, so they rushed him to the hospital in a car. | |||
So this little boy had been dead about thirty minutes. They was waiting to get his father and mother before the undertaker moved him. | |||
I said, "Can I look at that boy again?" They raised up his little coat, and I looked, them little brown eyes turned back, that kind of dark brown hair, little pantywaist, his feet through his socks. I looked around, there come a hill, coming down from Kuopio Mountain, evergreens, wrap locked, I looked back, and I thought, "That's him." | |||
Oh, brother, I may never meet you people no more till glory, but I wished I had the strength, this afternoon, to explain to you what a feeling that is. All devils out of hell couldn't stop it. It's not, if you believe, or this, or that, or the other, it's already done. God said so. | |||
I looked and I said, "That's him." I said, "Brother Moore, Brother Lindsay, come quickly." I said, "Get the flyleaf from your Bible...?..." | |||
"What's the matter, Brother Branham?" | |||
I said, "Read the flyleaf." | |||
'''"THUS SAITH THE LORD, it shall come to pass, that a little boy, between eight and ten years old, his description, be laying on a place where rocks are wrapped together with cedars and evergreens."''' | |||
"What," said, "what's that, Brother Branham?" | |||
I said, "Look at the child. Look at there at the rocks." | |||
He said, "Is that him?" | |||
I said, "That's him." | |||
Oh, my. Oh, God, get the church in that state. Let me stay in that place. | |||
I said, "You speak right quick, Sister Isaac, interpret for me." I said, "If the Lord God in a land of America, two years ago, here it is wrote on these brothers' Bible leaf, see '''if that little boy isn't on his feet alive in five minutes, I'll leave Finland with a sign on my back, 'False Prophet.''''" | |||
Oh, it's such a wonderful thing when you know what God's going to to do. I had them to gather; I knelt down and said, "Lord God..." If you would like to get the details of this from the mayor, I'll give you his address. I said, "Lord God, in the homeland You did speak of this vision. And I know in Your great predestinated will, it's already finished. So death give back this boy's life." And God Who's my solemn Judge, before this Bible this afternoon, the little fellow jumped to his feet just as normal as he was, hour before he got hit."<ref>A.MISSIONARY.TALK MIDDLETOWN.OH 58-0330A</ref> | |||
I said, "Brother Moore, get your Bible." He had it wrote. I said, "That's the little lad. Look at the description. There he is just exactly. He's going to live again." Oh, my. I knelt down according to the way that I seen the vision and laid hands upon the little fellow. | I said, "Brother Moore, get your Bible." He had it wrote. I said, "That's the little lad. Look at the description. There he is just exactly. He's going to live again." Oh, my. I knelt down according to the way that I seen the vision and laid hands upon the little fellow. | ||
He let out a scream, and there he was, back to himself. The people didn't know what to do. Normal, not a broken bone in his body, nor nothing, just as normal as he could be, went on home.<ref>IT.SHALL.BE.EVEN.AS.IT.WAS.TOLD.ME_ CLEVELAND.OH FRIDAY_ 50-0818</ref> | '''He let out a scream, and there he was, back to himself.''' The people didn't know what to do. Normal, not a broken bone in his body, nor nothing, just as normal as he could be, went on home.<ref>IT.SHALL.BE.EVEN.AS.IT.WAS.TOLD.ME_ CLEVELAND.OH FRIDAY_ 50-0818</ref> | ||
And usually, when God's fixing to do something, the whole audience just seems to be spellbound. I remember, over in Finland that when two years before, a vision (many of you still have it wrote in your Bible) that was telling about a little boy was going to be raised from the dead. And we was up at Kuopio looking over at the iron curtain. And when we come down, about thirty missionaries, I said, "I feel real strange; something's fixing to happen." | And usually, when God's fixing to do something, the whole audience just seems to be spellbound. I remember, over in Finland that when two years before, a vision (many of you still have it wrote in your Bible) that was telling about a little boy was going to be raised from the dead. And we was up at Kuopio looking over at the iron curtain. And when we come down, about thirty missionaries, I said, "I feel real strange; something's fixing to happen." | ||