<TITLE>15. Par 56-59</TITLE>L-56 He said, "I will go pray for your sinful soul." And he went out, the one Reform minister, Dutch Reform, and knelt down under a peach tree. And the man had never heard my story. He'd only heard me stand there about ten minutes time that night, and what the Lord had done. He never heard nothing about the Angel of the Lord. And while he was praying, well, here come a Pillar of Fire, whirling down, stood before him. And It parted from one side to the other, and he described that Angel to a perfect. And said, "It walked it over, and he laid down. And the Angel laid his left hand upon his back," and he run back in to tell his friend.
He said, "I tell you, that He stood there." And his friend looked like that, and here was a scorched place, just the size of a man's hand, all five fingers laying right on his white shirt. They wear a white shirt and white tie, across his shirt. And the next day, a picture that big, on the front page, and the minister with his eyes like that, at that the Angel of the Lord. They sent and got me. It made my--just exactly my hand like that, across his shirt. And there it went throughout all South Africa, the Angel of the Lord. Oh, my.

L-57 Here come a witch doctor up with all of his enchantments, and the Holy Spirit stopped him dead in his tracks like that. And he wilted down before the power of the Lord.
I tell you; we serve the living God. Yes, sir. It come the challenge and moved back.
Then when He stood there at Durban, and I heard this doctor raging. He was a young fellow about thirty-five years old. And he said, "I want to see him out here."
Brother Baxter lead this way, and go back this way, and said, "You will have to get off the platform, Doctor."
And I turned around, I said, "What's the matter, Doctor?"
He said, "Rev. Branham, I want to speak a word to you."
I said, "What is it?"
He said, "What'd you do to that boy?"
I said, "Nothing, sir. I never touched him."

L-58 He said, "I want to ask you something. Did you hypnotize that boy? I..." He said, "I let that kid through the gates down here," the iron gates to keep them around this pen, where I was at, said, "I led him through the gates. And I seen him stand there. And he raised his head; his eyes was stilled crossed, and now his eyes are straight." Said, "He is standing right there, yet." He'd examined him. He said, "His eyes are straight." Said, "What happened?" You'll see the boy's picture in there. He said, "What happened?" He said, "You hypnotized that boy!"
I said, "Doctor, they give you license to practice medicine, and don't know no more about hypnotism than that?" And he... I said, "I'm astonished at you."

L-59 He said, "Rev. Branham..." There was a big bunch of calla lilies setting there. He said, "I know God's in them lilies, but I can see where your talk could have a philosophical effect upon the people out there, which is all right." He said, "But I can't see where there'd be anything that life is in that lily, could be out here to make that boy's eyes straight."
I said, "Doctor, the only thing you know, his eyes was crossed, and now they're straight. You've only got my word to believe." That's all I could say.
And Brother Baxter started to pull him off the platform, said, "Just a minute." And before a hundred thousand people, that man walked out there, and said, "Then I want to receive Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour." And when I met him out at the gates at Durban, or at Johannesburg, when I left, the man put his arms around me and spoke in other tongues. That's the truth. I believe God's going to call him to the ministry: a doctor, a noted English doctor.


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