<TITLE>06. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 So after a while he kept saying... And the moderators called him down. He didn't answer one question or nothing. And he call--and he got real angry. And he turned around and--and slapped another preacher in the face. And when he--he did that... And he had hired the Douglas Studios of Houston to come out and take six eight-by-ten glossy pictures of him. Now, here's the remark. Said, "I'm going to skin that old man. Take his hide off of him and hang him up on--his skin onto my study door, rub some salt in it for a memorial on divine healing." Sounds like a Christian, doesn't it? So then he said that about Brother Bosworth. But the skinning had went the other way. So then when, the...

L-18 He said, "Nobody believes in that but a bunch of fanatics; bunch of holy rollers."
And Raymond T. Richey, I don't know whether you know him or not; many of you do. He said to moderator, "Could I have a word?"
Said, "Yes."
He said, "This bunch of Baptist clergymen here... Did the Southern Baptist Convention send this man over here? Yes or no?" Nobody say nothing. Thirty thousand people setting there. Said, "Did he--did you all sent him?"
So one spokesman raised up and said, "He come on his own."
But said, "That's different."
Mr. Best said, "Baptists don't believe in such nonsense." Said, "Nothing but a bunch of holy rollers."
Brother Bosworth said, "Just a moment." He said, "Now, anybody here these two weeks that Brother Branham's been here, that could show a statement that they've been healed by God since Brother Branham's been here, and can prove that they're healed, and has membership in these Baptist churches in good standing, will you stand up?" Three hundred stood up. "What about them?"
Mr. Best said, "Anybody can testify of anything; that still don't make it right."
So he said now, "The other words, you can't support it by the Word, you can't support it by your test... from others--by the testimony, now what you going to do?"

L-19 So he said, "Bring forth that Divine healer and let me see him do something. Let me see him perform a miracle."
Brother Bosworth said, "Now, I'd be ashamed of that, Brother Be--Best." He said, "Brother Branham don't claim to be no Divine healer. If preaching Divine healing makes him a Divine healer, preaching salvation makes you a Divine Saviour. And would you want to be called a Divine Saviour?"
Said, "Certainly not."
"And neither does Brother Branham want to be called a Divine healer. He is not, don't claim to be. He just preaches Divine healing because it's in the Word. And you can't support nothing else, but what it is in the Word." See?
And so then he--he said, "I'd like to see him perform a miracle."
He said, "He's here every night." Said, "He never performed a miracle yet." Said, "He just prays for the sick." And said, "God performs the miracles."

L-20 So then he kept getting real rough and--and after a while they started to dismiss the audience, and Brother--Brother Bosworth said... I--Now, my brother had told me that... I said first I wasn't going down. But my wife and I, and my brother, and three or four police... And I had my coat pulled up, and I went up in balcony thirty and set up there. And I was watching, and I watched those photographers. He--he's... First he put his finger under Brother Bosworth's nose and had the photographer take his picture like that. And then this way pointing towards him, and he'd a take his picture, of six glossies. And he took all six of them. And then they had the--a lot of the reporters setting around. So they don't let pictures taken as you see here in the meeting because of the commercial of the picture.
So then Mr. Bosworth said, "Now, Brother Branham, I know is the meeting. If he wants to come and dismiss the audience, all right."


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