<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 Well, Mr. Best said, "Well, that was ridiculous, and there was no such a thing as Divine healing," and he put--and he put a challenge in the paper. Instead of coming to us, he put a challenge in the paper and said, "William Branham is a--a religious impostor," and said, "that he should be run out of the city, and I should be the man to do it."
So I didn't think it sound very Christian in my brother, but that was all right. And Mr. Bosworth came and he said, "Brother Branham, look at this." And he--he challenged me to debate the subject of Divine healing with him openly before the people. Well, I'm not a debater. I don't believe in fussing. I--I preach the Gospel. If the people believe it, why, all right. If they don't, that's all I can do about it. And...

L-10 Now, you never make anything by fussing and debating. Don't never do it, 'cause you just make enemies. That's all. I've seen too much of it. So Mr. Bosworth, he came and he said, "Brother Branham, look at this."
I said, "Brother Bosworth, just let it alone." I said, "We got thousands of people to be prayed for, and why would we fool with one person who doesn't believe, when there's thousands waiting to be prayed for who does believe?" I said, "Why fool with it?"
Well, the next day the minister put in the paper, a great headline in Houston Chronicle, and he said, "It goes to show what they're made out of. They're ashamed and afraid when the real Gospel is laid out before them, to debate the subject." Says, "It shows what they're made out of."
Well, here come Brother Bosworth to my room again. He said, "Looky here, Brother Branham. Are you going to take that?"

L-11 And I said, "Why, Brother Bosworth, it won't do any good." I said, "I... The Holy Spirit is with me. He promised me He would do, and I--I'm--I have the anointing to pray for sick people, and I just won't fool with it."
He said, "Let me do it." And said, "Let me..." said, "It's a shame." Said, "The public will think that we're just a bunch of people that just--just flying about." Says, "There's no Scripture to it or nothing." Said, "We owe it to the public."
I said, "I--I only owe the public what God told me to do."
And he said, "Well, Brother Branham," he said, "it's not right." Said, "Them men hasn't got..." Said, "I can produce hundreds of Scriptures and I... and they haven't even got... That man hasn't got one--one Scripture in the Bible to stand on," and said, "let me prove it."

L-12 Well, I thought of Caleb, you know, when he--that old fellow that had the sword and said, "Joshua put this in my hand when I was forty years old," and said, "I'm eighty today. I'm just as good a man today as I was when Joshua give me the sword." Well, I thought, "That was pretty gallant of him being in his seventies and Mr. Best in his thirties," I thought, "just fresh out of the seminary."
I looked at him and I said, "Brother Bosworth, I don't want you to go down there and fuss with that man."
He said, "Brother Branham, I wouldn't fuss with nobody." He said, "I wouldn't do it, but I know one thing: I know what the Word of God teaches." He said, "Now, I think you owe it to say something about it."
I said, "All right. You go do it then, but you promise me you won't fuss."
He said, "I promise."


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