<TITLE>16. Par 55-58</TITLE>L-55 And the--the meeting went on; in a few minutes I said, "I see the Congressman. He's got a pinstripe suit on. He's healed." And he was bowing hisself like this, after being a cripple for sixty-six years. Congressman Willie D. Upshaw, former Congressman. I think it was Senator of Georgia, run for President, because of his religious righteousness about believing in whiskey, he was defeated in the race. And God honored his faith. And tonight, setting on the platform is Congressman Willie D. Upshaw, that was a cripple for sixty-six years, perfectly whole here before us.
Come here, Mr. Upshaw, my brother. Here's a man that was a cripple for sixty-six years. God bless you, Brother Willie. [The congregation applauds--Ed.] ... Say anything you wish to say to the people.

L-56 [Brother Upshaw begins to speak and Brother Branham speaks to him during the testimony:
You don't how happy I am to put my arms of fellowship around this dear man of God, and what he means--has meant to me. I know he doesn't mind if I say this word to you. The night the meeting closed, in which my healing came, he authorized, he knew that I wanted to cover the six states that I have not yet covered since I got off the bed where I stayed seven years. He authorized and offered me to buy a car, and he knew I had given away all that I'd ever made, helping people in distress. I think he'd be happy now, as he started it, to know that that car just lacks two hundred and twenty dollars of having enough to complete it, and start out on our--some of these trips. And that everybody that shakes hands with Mrs. Upshaw and me tonight, will have a dollar in it, or something else, and...?... and you far more than covered, 'cause you put gasoline money besides; or if you can't do that, send it to a--a Hotel Times Square, New York, we...
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Remember this, you who are stretched out here and want to be healed; step out as God helped me to do. I said, "God voice has spoke with me, though I asked Brother...] "Branham" [Branham said, "The Congressman is healed." I said, "It's the voice of God." And I've been the happiest man since I threw away my crutches and started out to witness to His healing as well as His saving power. The happiest man that's ever been in Jeffersonville since Columbus discovered America--Ed.]

L-57 Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," for the old brother. He's just eighty-five years young. Look. Looks like if he'd have got healed, that he would've got healed back there when he was about seventeen, doesn't it? But God, down through the age, held it back. And now, he testified there and in--in Congress, and different buildings, going up there to meetings, don't you see how God's got His body work in this day? Can't you see it? Then you see the supernatural with a man laid there and was a wheelchair patient, on crutches for all those times, and now, a well, sound man, eighty--to be eighty-five.
Abraham was a hundred and twenty-five years old. Before Isaac was born to him, God gave him a promise and Abraham testified of it for twenty-five years before Isaac ever come on earth. Is that right? He's the same God yesterday, today, and forever. His promises are still true.

L-58 Now, here sets two people. I feel that I'll be back to this city here again shortly for a meeting that'll last for several weeks--or several days, I should say, God being willing. So hot, and you can't hold the attention of people when it's so awfully hot and crowded and jammed. I tried that sometimes in meetings where many, many thousands was standing in a tent. Pray for me. I love you with a Christian love, burns down in my soul.
And the things that I have said to you tonight, concerning Divine healing and His power, they are true. They are true with my Bible here at my heart. They're the truth. I can make no one well.


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