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-|'''[[Upshaw tract|Click here to view a copy of the tract written by Congessman William D. Upshaw.]]'''
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+<div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; font-size:125%; padding:1px; margin:1px; text-align:center;">'''Extracts from the tract written by Congressman William D. Upshaw'''</div>
+:''I walked into that Branham-Baxter meeting in Calvary Temple, Los Angeles, loving God and His blessed Word, leaning on my crutches that had been my “buddies”-my helpful comrades for 59 of my 66 years as a cripple-7 of those years spend on bed; I walked out that night of February 8th, leaving my crutches on the platform – the song of deliverance ringing in my heart in happy consonance with the should sof victory from those who thronged about me – their tears of rejoicing crystal with the light of the skies’ chief among them was my blessed wife whose dear face, glowing amid her joyous exclamations: “Praise the Lord” and “Glory to God,” was beaming like a patch of Heaven.
+:''…Then came God’s humble Bible Prophet, William Branham – and that “Boanerges Son of Thunger” (who can out-“Hollywood” Hollywood, and never get away from Calvary) Ern Baxter – making one of the greatest evangelistic Bible teams that has ever blessed the world since Paul and Barnabas laid the pillars of God’s Kingdom on the shores of Tiberius and the Mediterranean.  We had looked forward to hearing “Billy” Branham – knowing that his ministry to be mightily blessed of the Lord-; but we were not prepared for Baxter – that indescribable combustion of wit and wisdom, and enriching Bible interpretation, who is an imperative John the Baptist, preparing the way for Branham.  I sat entranced, still praying for “appropriating faith,” but holden, somehow, of that contact – and that contract with the Lord sixty odd years ago.  Others were being healed all around me.  Then Brother Branham lifted his hands saying: “Everyone lay your hands on your loved one as we pray.” A great volume of prayer ascended throughout the audience of more than three thousand.  Angels were hovering near! I knew my blessed wife and her “prayer warriors” were wrapping me in prayer.  I remembered how she said, “When you are trying to lead a sinner to accept Christ you say; “Accept – confess Christ and step out – He will do the rest and bring the joy of answered prayer’.”  It was the touchstone.  Just hen Brother Branham, exhausted, was carried from the platform.  Brother LeRoy Kopp, Calvary Temple’s golden-hearted pastor, came back to the pulpit and said: “Brother Branham says ‘The Congressman is healed’.” My heart leaped. I stepped out and accepted the Lord as my Healer.  I laid aside my crutches and started toward the startled Pastor and my happy, shouting wife – and the bottom of Heaven fell out!
+:''...Now at eighty-four, plus, with no gray hairs, without my boon companions, my helpful crutches of fifty-nine years, I begin a new life, joyously testifying that the Saviour, Jesus Christ, the Great Physician Who said: “I am the resurrection and the l-i-f-e,” can not only save the souls of wicked men and women, but heal the sick, the maimed, the deaf, the dumb and blind (March 9:27-29)…
+:''A few days after my wonderful deliverance, dear Brother Branham said to me: “Brother Upshaw, I feel like the best part of your life is before you – fortified and stimulated by this new evangel of your Divine healing, and I hope you will cover the nation.”
+<div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; font-size:125%; padding:1px; margin:1px; text-align:center;">'''Congressman Upshaw relates his testimony in Los Angeles, California'''</div>
+:<mp3player>File:Upshaw-Testimony.mp3</mp3player>
+''Just eighty-four. And I'm eighty-four years young, speak three and four times a day, preach the Gospel of the Christ Who saved me, stood by me on bed seven years, and made me happy, and then took me off of the crutches that I have used for fifty-nine years and now, glory to God I'm walking! [clapping]
+''Remember, I'm sending this folder to every congressman, and senator, the president, and his wife, and now sending this week to the King of England for whom he prayed, and Winston Churchill. And I'm going to send one to Joseph Stalin. God have mercy on his soul!
+:Sermon: Testimony: Los Angeles, California, May 9, 1951
 <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>
-What is difficult to understand is why William Branham's testimony of the healing bore no resemblance to the story told by Congressman Upshaw.
+William Branham retold the story of Congressman Upshaw's healing many times.  However, over time the story changed slightly 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.
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 Using the funds from his writing, William Upshaw entered Mercer University in 1895.  In 1918, he was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives as a Democrat. He was re-elected in 1920, 1922, and 1924.  William Upshaw ran for President of the United States for the Prohibition party in 1932, but returned to lecturing after his defeat.
-<div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; font-size:125%; padding:1px; margin:1px; text-align:center;">'''Congressman Upshaw relates his testimony in Los Angeles, California'''</div>
-:<mp3player>File:Upshaw-Testimony.mp3</mp3player>
-''Just eighty-four. And I'm eighty-four years young, speak three and four times a day, preach the Gospel of the Christ Who saved me, stood by me on bed seven years, and made me happy, and then took me off of the crutches that I have used for fifty-nine years and now, glory to God I'm walking! [clapping]
-''Remember, I'm sending this folder to every congressman, and senator, the president, and his wife, and now sending this week to the King of England for whom he prayed, and Winston Churchill. And I'm going to send one to Joseph Stalin. God have mercy on his soul!
-:Sermon: Testimony: Los Angeles, California, May 9, 1951
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